Nelsonville Faces River Flood With Roads Under Water
Nelsonville sees rising Hocking River with lowland flooding and submerged roads. Route 31 remains open between Nelsonville and Logan while trains and branch lines halt due to water. River water surpasses 1913 levels but is not yet threatening. schools close and miners cannot reach mines as streets flood.
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Usonville
Nelsonville
Hocking
Logan
Myers and
Jackson Sts
Watkins St
Floodwood
Lick Run
Carbondale
Kimberly
Chesapeake and Ohio
Sugar Grove
Athens
Straitsville
Pacifist Talk Draws 2500 to Memorial Hall Columbus
Nelsonville group including Robert Leland Goodman Rev H A Rothrock Miss Louise Rothrock Miss Arlene Betts Rex Dilcher Paul Courtney Miss Mildred Bussy Robert Rothrock and Miss Helen Shaw heard Dr A Maud Royden, English minister and pacificist, speak at Memorial Hall in Columbus yesterday before about 2500 attendees.
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Nelsonville
Robert Leland Goodman
H. A. Rothrock
Louise Rothrock
Arlene Betts
Rex Dilcher
Paul Courtney
Mildred Bussy
Robert Rothrock
Helen Shaw
Columbus
A. Maud Royden
Memorial Hall
Heart Purity Sermon Set at Nelsonville Nazarene Church
Rev Dwight G Pigmire will deliver Heart Purity as the Sunday sermon at the Nelsonville Church of the Nazarene at 10 30 a m after opening prayer and song Sunday School begins at 9 30 a m NYPS meets at 6 p m followed by an evangelistic service at 7 p m The pastor will preach Two prayer services are planned Cottage prayer meeting Tuesday 7 p m Regular mid week service Thursday 7 p m Friday Young People's Society meets for business and social hour.
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Nelsonville
Dwight G. Pigmire
Young People’s Society
Reading eyes help student obtain education at St Lawrence
Charles Heltman of Cleveland provides textbooks so David Williams, son of a Rochester minister, can study at St. Lawrence University. Williams is visually impaired and follows along as Heltman reads aloud, enabling his education.
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Canton
WN. Y
U.P
Charles Heltman
Cleveland
David Williams
Rochester
Thousands Homeless in Great Ohio River Flood Area
Flood waters threaten Louisville Paducah and nearby towns as rains continue across the Ohio Valley. Red Cross tents shelter flood refugees while Coast Guard boats and army tugs evacuate families and livestock. Health risks rise from polluted supplies and crowded shelters. Elsewhere Cleveland weighs abandoning its rotary turn amid traffic concerns.
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Louisville
Shepherdsville
Taylorsville
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Ind
Ohio Valley
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
Illinois
Mississippi River
Cairo
Ill
Newport
Nashville
Tennessee River
Paducah
Red Cross
Evansville
Coast Guard
Ohio River
Buffalo
N. Y
Grand Haven
Mich
Mary Selby Dies in Columbus Hospital
Mrs Mary E Selby died Thursday at St Anthony s Hospital Columbus Relatives recall her Nelsonville residence most of life She was active at St Andrew s Church and is survived by son Garrett E Selby Columbus and brother James Coleman Nelsonville Funeral and burial planned in Columbus The report ends with an unrelated note about a heron s diet of frogs and fish.
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Mary Selby
Columbus Hospital
Nelsonville
Mary E. Selby
St. Anthony's Hospital
Columbus
Garrett E. Selby
High St
James Coleman
Veteran of Former Floods Not Worried
Mrs. Adelia Swander, 77, from Portsmouth Ohio, moved furniture to the second floor before the city’s Ohio River flood. She and her son prepared sandwiches, sat to wait, and recalled teaching floods of the past while viewing rising waters near Fourth and Market Streets.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Adelia Swander
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China
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