Strike at Children's Home 9 Cut Work for Better Conditions
A fragment from a local page notes a strike at a children’s home aimed at improved conditions and reduced workloads. It mentions the Eastman era, initial 25 acre site, and efforts toward public school mingling and a school term. It also references a three day convention of the Ohio Department and attendance by Mrs. Fowler and Mrs. Bennett of the American Legion Auxiliary in Lima.
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Eastman
Laurel
J. H. Eastgat
Ohio Department
Lima
America
Fowler
Planing Mill Revival Under Pfarr Genheimer in Pomeroy
A late 19th century planing mill, established by Pfarr and Genheimer, resumes operations in Pomeroy. The mill, handling all classes of milling, contributed to local housing and public works including the city hall, churches, and numerous residences, signaling a return to prosperity after earlier contractions.
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Alfred Genheimer
Pfarr
Mill
Pomeroy
Ohio student Mia shines in national music event
A brief program note reports Mia from Ohio receiving praise at the National Music event in Portland Oregon. Her performance on August 14 drew attention as part of the opening on the program.
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Music Ohio
National
Portland
Ore
Upen
Family Scattered Cc Reed Clan Vacations Far Afield
In Middleport on August 14, members of the C F Reed family are vacationing in different locations. Mrs. C F Reed and daughter Oliva left for Charleston to visit her mother Mrs. Mary Keesey. Betty Reed is at Rye Beach on Lake Erie for an indefinite stay. Jean Reed is in Columbus for a week or ten days with her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Walter Reed. C F Reed Jr. is visiting Mammoth, West Virginia at the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr and Mrs Edgar Keesey.
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Cc. F. Reed
Middleport
C. F. Reed
Oliva
Charleston
Mary Keesey
Betty Reed
Rye Beach
Lake Erie
Jean Reed
Columbus
Walter Reed
Berkley Road
C. F. Reed, Jr
Mammoth
W. Va
Edgar Keesey
George Hartinger
Cleveland
Cordelia Murphy
Pomeroy Foundry
Edward Parsons
Hooker Street
Mollie Harrington
Nellie Kaiser
Harbor Hill
Buckeye Lake
Howard Williams
Pearl Street
T. C. Wilson
H. E. Thomas
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Pt. Pleasant
Harry Lang
Edward Tuckerman
Chicago
W. A. Giles
Root Funeral To Be Conducted Tuesday
Miss Mary Root, longtime Middleport resident, learned of her brother Raymond Root's death in Pittsburgh where he had been critically ill for weeks. The 50 year old leaves a wife, two daughters, two sisters and a brother. The body will be brought to Middleport for a Wednesday funeral at Ewing Funeral Home with Beech Grove Cemetery burial.
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Middleport
Pittsburgh
Mary Root
Brownell Avenue
Raymond Root
Root
C. T. Jackson
Wheeling
W. Va
Elizabeth Root
Verna Foster
Boston
Harold Root
Ewing
Pomeroy
Beech Grove Cemetery
Hold Check Writer From Oak Hill Brought to Pomeroy Jail
John H. Crase 26 of Oak Hill was arrested Sunday and jailed on a bad check charge after a warrant sworn by Roy Tillis. Leonard Icenower of Portland was busted Saturday at the Rocksprings Fairgrounds for intoxication, with Phillip Pickens of Antiquity and Richard Coe of Racine facing the same charge.
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Oak Hill
Pomeroy Pomeroy
John H. Crase
Roy Tillis
Leonard Icenower
Portland
Rocksprings Fairgrounds
Phillip Pickens
Antiquity
Richard Coe
Racine
Hartingers Return From Weekend Visit To Cleveland
Middleport notes include Mr and Mrs George Hartinger traveling by auto to Cleveland after a weekend with Mrs Hartingers mother Mrs Cordelia Murphy. Murphy will visit Detroit to see her son Lawrence Murphy and family briefly.
Oklahoma Girls Travel Frugally to Shenandoah Springs Visit
Two Oklahoma girls Mattie Landrun of Terrion and Viola Clintworth of Manford visited Shenandoah Springs with C. W. Jones and his wife. They spent 75 cents on travel, were aided by a policeman who suspected a runaway, and rode a truck to Cincinnati before continuing home. They traveled from Tulsa to Pomeroy in under four days.
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Cincinnati
Tulsa
Pomeroy
Peculiar Accident Involves Pomeroyans
A local incident from Mansfield involved former Pomeroy residents when Dr. Merlin Smith left his car running long enough for his young son to start it in reverse. The car rolled about 100 feet damaging a second vehicle and injuring Frank Scott with a broken collarbone and two leg fractures. Dr. Smith leads Free Methodist church schools in Michigan and New York. Frank Scott is the son of a former church minister.
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Pomeroy
Mansfield
P. L. Peoples
Laurel Cliff
Merlin Smith
Frank Scott
Charles Smith
Free Methodist Church
Smith
Free Methodist Church School of Michigan
The
Church School of
New York
Rev. T. B. Ours Reappointed at Laurel Cliff Free Methodist
Rev. T. B. Ours was returned as pastor of the Laurel Cliff Free Methodist Church for another year at the Free Methodist Conference in Mansfield last week. Rev. D. W. Wesley was named presiding elder of the district, moving from Galion. the post had been held by Rev. J. A. Hopkins.
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Pomeroy
T. B. Ours
Laurel Cliff Free Methodist Church
Free Methodist
Mansfield
D. W. Wesley
Galion
J. A. Hopkins
Dorothy Coates Weds Paul Dillard in Quiet Midport Ceremony
Miss Dorothy Coates of Sycamore Street married Paul Dillard son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Dillard in a small Middleport Heath M E Parsonage ceremony conducted by Rev. W B Patterson. The couple, graduates of local high schools, planned a Middleport housekeeping start after a brief honeymoon.
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Pomeroy
Dorothy Coates
H. H. Coates
Sycamore Street
Paul Dillard
A. A. Dillard
Gravel Hill
Middleport
Middleport Heath
M. E. Parsonage
W. B. Patterson
United States Intervention in Cuba Platt Amendment Debate
Ohio University history professor T N Hoover says it is a pivotal choice whether the U S should intervene in Cuba under the Platt Amendment. He notes the provision grants armed intervention to uphold life property and liberty, referencing 1906 actions and current awaiting developments.
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T. N. Hoover
Ohio University
United States
Cuba
Hoover
Millfield Edges Chauncey In Ninth Inning Thriller
Chauncey hosts Millfield as the visitors win 6-5 in the ninth. Millfield builds lead with two early errors scoring in innings one and two, Chauncey ties with a big third and seventh, then Millfield delivers the winning run on a ninth inning error. Theisen logs the win as Haddox and Kollister split time on the mound.
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Chauncey
Millfield
Millfeld
Eollister
L. Sanders
P. Theisen
B. Theisen
Lahagh
Theisen
Haddox
Kollister
Simpson
Sisson
Smith
W. Theisen
Hadden
C.ccc
Hillgar
H. Theisen
Lahagh Russell Chauncey
Abaho Smith
E. Kollister
Daugherty
Rankin
Twins Named Nira Jean and Norma June After NRA
In Mansfield on August M4 twins born to Mr and Mrs Major Robinson were named Nira Jean and Norma June to honor the National Recovery Act.
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Mansfield
Major Robinson
Nira Jean
Norma June
NRA
Buzz Arlett Faces Seven-Game Ejection Mount This Season
Baltimore slugger Buzz Arlett has been ordered out for seven games this season by umpires. The season pace flags concerns over discipline as Arlett contends with umpire warnings and delayed returns to the lineup.
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Buzz Arlett
Baltimore
Friendship Bible Class event in Chauncey marks birthday
Friendship Bible Class of the Church of Christ Chauncey will meet Wednesday night at Miss Alice Dew’s Jacobs Avenue home to celebrate Miss Dew’s birthday anniversary.
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Chauncey
Church of Christ
Alice Dew
Jacobs Avenue
Injured Miner Lingy Morrison Struck by Cutter Bar at Millfield
Lingy Morrison of Jacksonville, a machine man at Poston Mine No 6 Millfield, was struck by a cutter bar when the machine jumped Saturday at noon. He was taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens by Dr C N Saunders for treatment.
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Chauncey
Mingus Family Reunion Planned at Chauncey Home
Chauncey Aug 4 Mingus family reunion set for Sunday Aug 20 at the country home of Mr and Mrs Dan T Johnson near Chauncey.
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Chauncey
Mingus
Dan T. Johnson
Bible School Attendance Tops at Chauncey Church
Chauncey Aug 14 A good attendance is reported at Chauncey Church of Christ Bible School Sunday. Miss Elizabeth Close notes red division lead in the attendance contest. Alice Dew and Neil Tippett sang solos with Mrs. Ralph Brown at the piano. Rev J A Long of Dayton preached in the morning and at Trimble Church in the evening, a former minister at both churches.
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Chauncey
Chauncey Church of Christ Bible School
Elizabeth Close
Bible School
Alice Dew
Neil Tippett
Ralph Brown
J. A. Long
Dayton
George Harvey Nye
Trimble Church
Chauncey Personal Notes Highlight Local Visits
Chauncey residents share summer travel and family visits across Millfield Athens Haydenville Trimble Heights and Columbus. Donna Blower visits Athens relatives while others host relatives and attend gatherings including Mt Hermon homecoming.
Sixteenth Child Born to Williard Guess Family
Chauncey reports Williard Guess and wife welcomed a daughter at their Millfield home on Sunday. The Guess family now includes sixteen children comprising eleven daughters and five sons. Mr Guess serves as a Dover Township constable. In Chauncey Leonard Ball and Mabel Rogers announce twin daughters Wanda Mae and Donna Fay in Zanesville. Grandparents Ollie Rogers of West Batley and Ben Ball of Caldwell Ohio.
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Williard Guess
Chauncey
Millfield
Plymouth
Fifteen Mines Active in Chauncey District Report
Fifteen mines are working in the Chauncey district today. The working mines listed include No. 255, No. 207, No. 9, No. 119, No. 107, No. 28, No. 24, No. 1, No. 49, Poston No. 6, Chauncey No. 25, Carbondale, Kimberly, Lick Run, and Black Diamond, per work reports.
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Chauncey
Poston
Carbondale
Kimberly
Lick Run
Black Diamond
Faithful Circle Bible Class Moves to Wednesday
Faithful Circle Bible Class of Millfield Church of Christ will meet Wednesday night at the home of Mrs. Ervin Stauffer Lower Plains instead of Tuesday as previously announced.
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Chauncey
Faithful Circle Bible Class
Millfield
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