Social Notes Highlight Ohio Entries and Local Guests
Miss Valerie Armstrong visits in Athens with Millikan family while Leah Beverage travels to Cleveland and Fairport Harbor. W C Nicoll becomes News Eagle superintendent in Enid Oklahoma. Local society hosts picnics and birthday events as Ohio University staff changes occur. families journey between Athens Rogers and Youngstown for visits and duties.
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Leah Beverage
Cleveland
Fairport Harbor
Ohio
Nye Family Plans to Organize State Nye Association
L C Nye of Athens Ohio announces a Sept 1 reunion at Knights of Pythias Hall to form a state Nye association. About 1000 Nyes in Ohio invited. events include 10 am 2 pm and 7:30 pm sessions with Mayor Woodworth to speak. The effort follows a national Nye organization based in Sandwich Massachusetts with 1000 members.
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Nyes of
Ohio
Athens
Knights of Pythias
L. C. Nye
Nye
E. C. Woodworth
Woodworth
Nyes
Jr. Nye
Hotel Berry
Sandwich
Mass
Union
Lave Nye
Denmark
Randolph Nye
Sussex
England
Benjamin Nye
Bidlenden Kent
Lynn
America
Death Toll Rises From South Street Car Strike Assaults
In New Orleans on August 15 a three year old boy died when struck by a street car during the six week old strike. A strike breaker and two more dynamite blasts added to the crisis as windows were broken and cars damaged last night. A second bomb hit another street car, damaging a side and shattering nearby home windows.
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New Orleans
U.2
Debate on Roads at Troy Grange Meeting
COOLVILLE Aug 15 A debate on roads will feature the Troy Grange meeting Saturday at 1 39 PM The topic argues that a good main highway is more essential than back country roads Affimative speakers are W E Bingman and Edgar Dixon Negative speakers are L Owens and A E Keller Miss Blanche Murrey 4 H Club girl will discuss her Jackson County club camp experiences The roll call honors May June July August birthdays with each member recounting a notable event of their birth month Carrie Baker will sing solo and other music rounds out the program
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Coolville
Troy Grange
Eadt
W. E. Bingman
Edgar Dixon
L. Owens
A. E. Keller
Blanche Murrey
Jackson County
Carrie Baker
Motor Burns Out In Gibson's Store
The Gibson Pharmacy at 7 North Court Street suffered smoke and minor damage when a motor attached to a basement refrigerator burned out at 11 o'clock Wednesday night. Passersby alerted Thomas Gibson as Fire Chief Edward Laughtin and Fireman C J Ailstock arrived with extinguishers. There was no blaze.
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Gibson Pharmacy
North Court Street
Thomas Gibson
Court Street
Charles Maple
Edward Laughtin
C. J. Ailstock
Festival of Fire to headline Athens County Fair display
The Athens County Fair will feature The Festival of Fire, a major open-air fireworks show from a Chicago company, marking one of the state's largest displays. The event will include quadruple rockets, battle shells, dazzle pieces, and live flame tableaux, plus classics like Niagara Falls and the Fountain of Jewels, staged by a special fireworks crew with tons of materials.
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Athens County
Frank Biddle
Chicago
Biddle
Niagara Falls
Athens Man Named Officer At Seaman Family Gathering
Second annual reunion of Jessie and Artalissa Buckley Seaman descendants was held August 11 in Athens Chillicothe city park. D. O. Seaman Springfield was reappointed president and Frances Seaman Bobo Athens secretary as many relatives attended the dinner and program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jessie
Artalissa
Buckley Seaman
Chillicothe
D. O. Seaman
Springfield
J. ©. Seaman
New Vienna
Frances Seaman Bobo
Athens
W. FE. Seaman
Virginia
Burch
J. B. Seaman
Edith
Robert
John Steel
Carl Deck
Flora Boring
Angie
Flora Vearl Ivans
Marion
Guy Vaughn
Gladys
Harrold
Lancaster
Will Eliiott
Raymond
Ida Alice Brown
Floyd
Cline Jones
Phil
Columbus
Mia
Will Robo
Roy Haddox
Marjorie and
Junior
Irene Bobo
Arbitration agreed to end Lancashire cotton deadlock
In Manchester on August 15 representatives of employers and workers agreed to arbitration to resolve the Lancashire cotton stalemate that has tied up 1,800 mills and left 500,000 workers idle.
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Manchester
England
Lancashire
Man Held on Bad Check Charge in Athens
A. L. Kelly 50 Wilkesville was held for the grand jury after arraignment before Mayor E. C. Woodworth on a charge of issuing fraudulent checks. He allegedly passed several worthless checks to business concerns in Athens and is held in the Athens County Jail in default of bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. F. Jones
Jones’ Novelty
A. L. Kelly
Wilkesville
E. C
Woodworth
Kelly
Athens
Express Agent Killed Near Coshocton
W D Calihan a 65 year old employee of the Railway Express Agency at Newark was killed when his automobile plunged into a ditch and overturned near Coshocton.
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Coshocton
W. D. Calihan
Railway Express
Newark
Here
Picnic Games At Church Outing In Pennsville Ohio
Chauncey August 15 The Sunday School of Greens Run and Taylor Ridge Churches of Christ held a joint picnic at Embree Park Pennsville Ohio. Park amusements games and a basket dinner brought enjoyment to both old and young.
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Chauncey
Greens Run
Taylor Ridge
Flag Pole Painted at Athens County Courthouse
A tall flag pole atop the Athens County Courthouse received a fresh coat of paint. Painter John Trogdon, known for climbing tall structures, swung on a rope high above spectators to apply silver paint with bright red finishing touches on the pole tip.
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Athens County
Athens
John Trogdon
Drowning Tragedy Prompts Coast Guard Search
The body of Ralph Aquish 10 who drowned late yesterday while swimming in Lake Erie was the subject of a Coast Guard search today.
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Cleveland
Ralph Aquish
Lake Erie
Coast Guards
Church of the Plains Homecoming Scheduled for August
Flavia M. E. Church in Chauncey announces a full day of events on Sunday August 18 including former ministers on the program. Music directed by M Bryan. Pastor Rev Cowan and A McCullough arrange the day. Basket dinner to be served at noon.
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Chauncey
Flavia M. E
Cowan
M. ©. Bryan
Abdellas Move into New Storefront Apartment
Mr and Mrs T Abdella and family have moved into a new nine room living apartment above their store on Converse Street. The building will soon house a store and confectionery and replaces the one destroyed by fire two years ago.
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Chauncey
Mra
T. Abdella
Converse Street
Millfield and Bremen Play Sunday at Millfield Grounds
Millfield Independent baseball team will meet Bremen Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Millfield grounds. Large attendance reported at Free Will Baptist Church meeting at Zion Church in Lower Plains with many district ministers present.
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Feld
Bremen
Millfeld
Chauncey
The
Free Will Baptist Church
Zion Church
Lower Plains
Chauncey Prisonets Visit Narrowly Visible
Mr and Mrs Jacob Mehl and two daughters Lemogene and Mare Lou of Yellow Springs Ohio visit Mrs Diehts Sister Mrs Mitchell LeMastes Chauncey and Mrs FE Bricker Beaumont Mrs Owen Morrison and family
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Cyrus Gilmore
Richard
Shirley
Cincinnati
Wayne Kenney
Gilmore
Ohio University
Jacob Mehl
Lmogene
Mare Lou
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Have Dinner Birthday Anniversary of Mrs Flora McHarg
Chauncey August 15 honoring the birthday anniversary of Mrs Flora McHarg. The Lower Plains gathering included her daughter-in-law and sister in law along with many relatives and friends for a Tuesday dinner. Attendees listed span several families from Lower Plains and Charleston W Va with others visiting Dayton.
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Floyd Bolinger
Marjorie
Gladiolus
Betty Fink
Juanita McGrath
Flora Jane Slaughter
Phyllis Fink
Shirley Pennybacker
Robby McGrath
Robby Hedges
Ray Jr. Slaughter
Paul Slaughter
Russell
Howard Rolinger
C. D. Grauque
May Avenue
David Vincent
Miriam
J. H. Haigh
Jane
New York City
Cleveland
Flora McHarg
Chauncey
Lower Plains
Russell McHarg
J. J. Ferguson
F. M. McHarg
Arthur. Burchfield and
Kenneth
Harry Moore
Wendell and
Melvin Moore
Lois Stage
Lowell Stage
Russel McHarg
Mra
J. L. Ferguson
Charlestogg W. Va
Arthur Burchfield
Ralph McCathran
Melvin
John Shaner
Dayton
Darrell Moore
Eva Smith
Carbon Hill
Mia
Worth Dicken
Ferguson
Fathien
Charleston
W. Va
Objection to Poypier's Father in Chauncey Mentioned
A fragment notes Shelby Ohio residents opposing the father C. W. Ferre and his Chauncey family in a local dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby
Ohio
Foypier
C. W. Ferre
Chauncey
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Valerie Armstrong
Elza "Aine Strong
Aire
Millikan
W. C. Nicoll
Athens Messenger
News Eagle
Enid
Okla
C. Millikan
W. F. Copeland
Detroit, Mich
Robert Williamson
I. N. McHarg
New Marshfield Road
Christian Church
Frank Ayers
Maplewood Drive
Robert Coates
Prudence Stevens
Syracuse University
Syracuse
N. Y
Miss Stevens
Ohio State University
Iowa State
Eda Way
Art
Geneva
New Hampshire
Vermont
Miss Way
Arene
Anne Pickering
Helen Leech
Anna K. Price
Merle Danford
Trimble
Youngstown
Price
Akron
John Price
Danford
Marian Wilcox
Pickering
Miss Leech
Kenneth Pickering
Roger J. Jones
New York
J. M. Higgins
General Motors Company
K. of P. Hall
South
Gibson’s
Seaman Family Gathering
Wrecking Service Road Service
Goodyear
Double Eagle
Pathfinder Speedway
Hobinson Bros
N. Court St
Goss
Dial
Sommer’s Store
Style Shop
Church OF the Plains
M. E
Abdellas
Converse
Victoria
Victoria Group
Os Sls
Millfield
Chauncey Prisonets
Challies
Big Daylight
Paris
the Mills
Woodworths
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