Six Jurors Placed on Pomeroy Petit Jury Plan
Pomeroy court adopts economy plan to use six jurors per case instead of twelve. Judge C E Poppies explains costs halve with ten to twelve called, jurors paid three dollars daily plus travel at ten cents a mile. The jury wheel draws names each term with 15 grand jurors and remaining as petit jurors.
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Pomeroy
Common Pleas Court
C. E. Pep
Judge Peoples
County Furdrs
Peoples
Bengel
Early Birds Lose In Legion Contest In Middleport
In Middleport on April 29 members of the Feenay-Bennett Post of the American Legion report a membership drive contest between the Mugwumps and the Early Birds. The Mugwumps won and the Early Birds became the Late Birds. The losers entertained Wednesday night at Rock Springs Fairgrounds with Crim Schmitz, state chairman, as principal speaker to applause.
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Middleport
Feenay-Bennett Post
America Legion
Mugwumps
Early Birds
Rocksprings Fairgrounds
American Legion
Eighth District
Crim Schmitz
Boy Scouts Start Troop Organized in Middleport
In Middleport April 29 district Boy Scout commissioner Whellehell from Parkersburg West Virginia organized a new troop. L D McMaster elected scout master and patrol leader William Anderson assistant patrol leader Willard McMaster junior assistant scoutmaster Robert McMaster. Weekly meetings set for Wednesday evenings in the public library basement. McMaster and son Robert bring extensive Scout experience from Cleveland.
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Middleport
Boy Scout Organization
Whellehell
Parkersburg
L. D. McMaster
William Anderson
Willard McMaster
Robert McMaster
Seymour Will Struck Crossing Road in Pomeroy
Seymour Will of Peach Fork was injured Thursday when struck by an automobile on the Pomeroy Athens Road. He suffered a fractured leg and minor cuts and bruises after stepping from behind a parked car into the path of the approaching vehicle. He was taken home for treatment.
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Pomeroy
Seymour Will
Peach Fork
Pomeroy-Athens
Will
Steamer To Pass Carnegie Line Near Pomeroy
The A. O. Ackard of the Carnegie Line is due to pass Pomeroy this week with a tow of empty barges and four loaded with sulphur bound for Pittsburgh from New Orleans. On its prior voyage to New Orleans it covered 1,939 miles with a heavy steel products tow from Pittsburgh to the southern terminal in 10 days and 20 hours.
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Carnegie Line
Pomeroy
A. O. Ackard
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Ackard
Infant Champ Plans Comeback After Injury
David Baby Barber of Cincinnati plans a boxing comeback with a goal of 25000 dollars in cash to aid his return. He trained since infancy under his father a former boxer and seeks to resume his career after an arm injury from a pavement fall that interrupted his earnings for the family.
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Jack Dempsey
Bennie Leonard
David
Baby) Barber
Cincinnati
Babe
Raub in Hawaii Massie case notes and local visits
Nicholas Raub son of Hobart Raub of Sugar Run serves in Battery B at Schofield Barracks Hawaii and may reenlist after six years in the U S Army. He expects a pay raise and possible promotion amid widespread Massie murder trial interest. The page also lists multiple local visits and travel for area residents including church officials, families, and estate matters.
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Pomeroy
Massie
Hawaii
Nicholas Raub
Raub
Hobart Raub
Peacock Avenue
Sugar Run
United States Army
8Th Field Artillery
Schofield Barracks
Local Residents Return to Work and Home
Mr and Mrs Robert Mason recently left Hamilton Street for Maysville Kentucky where he will work three days a week. Mrs Homer Jones and daughter Evelyn return home after a Toledo visit. Mr and Mrs Mark Jones and daughter of Rochelle Illinois visited. all formerly lived here with ties to the area.
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W. B. Patterson
Treath M. E
M. Grogan
F. C. Kreager
The
Baptist Church
Waverly
Portsmouth
W. J. Root
Frank Hamilton
Wellston
E. F. Maag
Lincoln Street
Boyd Dilgard
Minersville
Columbus
W.S. Hart
Jacqueline
Lucy Gardner
East
Hardin Gardner
Atlantic City
Larry Gardner
Beach Street
J. H. Grate
M. J. McCarty
Cleveland
Paul McClure
Pomeroy
Nat Skiles
Grant Street
Addie Branch
C. E. Erwin
Toledo
L. A. Thomas
Warner
Savannah
John Brown
Arthur Covert
Mayme Elizabeth
Charles Keesey
Hermon Lohse
Hamilton Street
Robert Mason
Frank McElhinney
Maysville
Homer Jones
Evelyn
Mark Jones
Rochelle
IIL
Joneses
Opening Big Bend Baseball League Game May 1
The Stars of Rutland meet the Dyesville nine at Braily's Park Rutland on May 1 in the league opener. Pomeroy High plays Middleport Yellow Jackets at Syracuse ball park this afternoon. Crow's pitching boosts Pomeroy while Middleport backers claim the team is stronger than its record.
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Pomeroy
Stars of Rutland
Dyesville
Braily’s Park
Rutland
Pomeroy High School
Middleport Yellow Jackets
Syracuse
Racine
Middleport
Gallipolis
Crow
Yellow Jacket
Middleport Nine
Middleport Taxi Driver Shoots Self in Apparent Suicide
Middleport reports 49 year old taxi driver Benjamin Charles Gabbs shot himself in the stomach with a shotgun at his home last night. He left a note of ill health as a possible motive. his wife and a houseguest were away when he died. Coroner confirmed death about an hour earlier. He left a wife and no children.
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Benjamin Charles Gabbs
Middleport
Gabbs
Adolph Wandell
Florence Rowe
Ewing
Is Not Cured Zanesville Boy Declares He Will Run Away Again
Bernard Thacher a 14 year old runaway from Zanesville was held in the county jail for two days before being released. His mother retrieved him and he said he will run away again at the first chance.
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Zanesville
Pomeroy
Bernard Thacher
Teen Caddy Sues For $20000 Over Growth Injury
Bernard Bang a 14 year old caddy from Cleveland filed a $20,000 damage suit alleging a golf ball injury to the head altered his growth. Lowell E. Southern of Lakewood is named defendant. The pineal gland injury is cited by Dr A H Brueninsti fied.
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Cleveland
Bernard Bang
Lowell E. Southern
Lakewood
D. C. Pierce Company
A. H
Two Men Held in Canton Shooting Inquiry
Police detain Jack Bommarito and Victor Poro on suspicion in a Canton shooting case. Special investigator Harry Bouklias of the Ohio Examiner, a Columbus weekly, is connected to the case.
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Canton
Jack Bommarito
Victor Poro
Harry Bouklias
Ohio Examiner
Columbus
Two Die After Lima Filling Station Robbery
Lima report states two men died from police gunfire after a filling station robbery. Herbert L. Franks 23 and Carl Comstock 22 of Kenton were fatally wounded by three officers early Wednesday. Police continue search for a third man linked to the crime.
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Lima
Herbert L. Franks
Carl Comstock
Kenton
Los Angeles Woman Kills Officer Then Is Slain
Ella May Thompson 26 engages in a siege at her home after firing on neighbor over lawn care. Policeman Paul Donath is mortally wounded before she is killed by police with shotguns and revolvers after tear gas and a clash on the porch. A photograph of J W Baldwin is found with her as she dies.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Ella May Thompson
Paul Donath
J. W. Baldwin
Luther Alger
Government Sues Youngstown Mayor for Taxes Owed
The government filed suit in Cleveland to collect 18299 dollars in taxes from Mayor Mark Moore of Youngstown. The income is alleged from the estate of his father the late Edmond H. Moore for the years 1920 through 1925.
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Cleveland
Mark Moore
Youngstown
Edmond H. Moore
Smith 90, last survivor of 74th Ohio dies at home
Charles Nelson Smith aged 90 and last survivor of the 74th Ohio Volunteer Infantry died at his Jamestown home on Thursday. He served in the Civil War era unit and lived a long life in Springfield.
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Nelson Smith
74Th Ohio Voluinteer Infantry
Jamestown
All Bran Health Benefits Highlighted In Kellogg Ad
An old Kellogg advertisement touts All Bran as a health cereal rich in bulk to aid bowel regularity and Vitamin B to tone the intestinal tract. It claims relief from constipation with two tablespoons daily, notes iron content twice that of beef liver, and promotes serving ideas with recipes on the package. Sold by grocers. Kellogg’s Battle Creek.
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Kellogg
Battle Creek
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