No Hope for Recovery of Griffin at Mercy Hospital
Nelsonville July 17 Joseph Griffin injured Wednesday afternoon when he dove from a springboard into the Hocking River. at Mercy Hospital Columbus his condition is unchanged and no hopes for recovery are entertained though he may linger for days. Both shoulders crushed and vertebrae crushed causing complete paralysis from the neck down. he has been able to talk. His mother Mrs Ord Griffin Bruning and his brother Charles are with him.
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Nelsonville
Joseph Griffin
Hocking
Mercy Hospital
Columbus
Ord Griffin Bruning
Lemoyne
Toledo
Charles
Nelsonville High Band to Perform Lawn Concert Saturday
Nelsonville High School Band will give a varied program on the lawn of the Ira School Building Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The concert will feature selections by last year’s high school quartet.
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Nelsonville
Ira
Reds climb to top in Twilight League
Reds edge Buchtel Blues 6 to 5 to seize first place in the Twilight League. Hartley sparked a late rally with a triple and a run scored on Howell’s single as the Reds held off the Blues in the seventh. Joe Collins and Ed Denny were the lone hitters without a hit.
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Nelsonville
Stratton Motor Reds
Buchtel Blues
Hartley
Howell
W. Phillips
Smathers
Byron
Barstow
Sayre Specials
Reds
Woodson
Bails
Longley
Buchtel
Krotche
G. Kimble
Mators
Lewis Clad
Evans
Freeman
Joe Collins
Ed Denny
Deanville
Mrs. Theresa Emery Dies at 72 in Murray City
Mrs Theresa Emery, 72, died Thursday at her home in Murray City. She is survived by her husband James Emery two sons A A Emery and Stanley Emery and a daughter Mrs C C Hill. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
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Nelsonville
Theresa Emery
Murray City
James Emery
A. A
Stanley Emery
C. C. Hill
York Grange to hear Canaville team at Oak Grove meeting
Officers of the newly organized Juvenile Grange led by Ed 4d Cagg Jr and Mir Mildred end will be challenged by a team from Canaville Juvenile Grange at the regular York Grange meeting this evening at Oak Grove.
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Ed 4d Cagg, Jr
Mir
Mildred End
Canaanville
Thirty-Three Girl Scouts Swim at Crystal Pool Athens
Nelsonville Girl Scouts ages around ten to twelve, guided by Helen Shaw and Margaret Shafer, held a Thursday afternoon swimming party at Crystal Pool in Athens. Names of attendees include Anita Hall Virginia Green Elizabeth Backus Clara Galvin June Powell Barbara Steenrod and many others with chaperones Mrs L W Wright Mrs W W Latch and Roy Tomlinson among the adults.
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Nelsonville
Thirtythree
Helen Shaw
Margaret Shafter
Crystal Pool
Athens
Anita Hall
Virginia Green
Elizabeth Backus
Clara Galvin
June Powell
Barbara Steenrod
Dorothy Howe
Elaine Wright
Joanna Cooke
Alberta Shafer
Margaret Gandee
Vesper Coakley
Elizabeth Evans
Mildred Tomlinson
Eloise Badger
Margie Rosser
Grace Mitchell
Marie Hall
Margaret Connor
Bessie Shafer
Birchie Shafer
Eleanor Ray
Kathryn Lee
Lois Bateman
Mary Shelton
Faye Shelton
Irma Adkins
Kathleen Ennis
Doris Frank
Florence Easterling
Anna Bunthoff
L. W. Wright
W. W. Whitlatch
Warren Badger
Spencer Steenrod
Roy Tomlinson
Robert Green
Harry Wilson dies at 47 in Murray City
Harry Wilson aged 47 died at his Murray City home on Thursday. Funeral services are set for Sunday at 1 PM at the M E Church in Murray City with burial at Greenlawn. He is survived by his wife Helen Wilson, three sons, three daughters, seven brothers and two sisters.
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Nelsonville
Harry Wilson
Murray City
M. E. Church
Greenlawn
Helen Wilson
Engagement of Howard Longstaff and Marian Jaehning
Nelsonville announces the engagement of Dr. Howard Porter Longstaff of Minneapolis to Miss Marian Jaehning of Marshall. Longstaff, a Nelsonville High School graduate, studies at the University of Minnesota and works as a research psychologist in Duluth. The couple plans to wed in early August and reside in Minneapolis after September 25.
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Nelsonville
Thomas Longstaff
South Sixth Avenue
Middleport
Howard Porter Longstaff
Minneapolis
Minn
Marian Jaehning
Marshal
Longstaff
Jaehning
University of Minnesota
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
Duluth
Christian Sunday School class social at Dowler home
Mrs. Tom Bush Jr and Miss Vivian Dowler hosted the Business Girls Class of the Christian Sunday School and their teacher Mrs Charlies O Grammer at the Dowler home on High Street Thursday evening. Miss Margaret Johnson led the devotional, Frances Bennett read scripture, and prayer followed. Adeline Ray presented contests with prizes awarded to Mrs Grammer, Mrs Paul Allen, Miss Johnson, and Miss Esther Verity. A two course luncheon was served on white and yellow tables with garden centerpieces and miniature Japanese parasols as favors. Guests included Mrs. Ervin Pritchard and Miss Geneva Geers.
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Tom Bush Jr
Vivian Dowler
The
Christian Sunday School
Charlies O' Grammer
Dowler
High Street
Margaret Johnson
Frances Bennett
Adeline Ray
Grammer
Paul Allen
Funeral Date Set for James Mason in Nelsonville
Funeral services for James Mason 53 of Murray City killed in a mine accident Thursday will be held at the residence Saturday at 3 p.m. in charge of Reverend Householder. Burial will be at Greenlawn. Ash Cave steak fry hosted by M F C Club with Verna Hand Clara Key Ann Poppesy among nine members.
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Nelsonville
James Mason
Murray City
Greenlawn
Ash Cave
Verna Hand
Clara Key
M. F.C
Ann Poppesy
Society News Highlights In Ohio Travel Visits
Miss Golda and Eleanor Barrows of Marietta spent days with Mr and Mrs Henry Lancaster before returning home Miss Garnet Sedwick went home to Amesville after visiting Miss Esthel Jones and Mrs D F Shafer Columbus Mrs Marion Coakley visited her parents Dr Evans Hudson of Vernon Ohio, en route from Caldwell attended a clinic and stayed Tuesday with his parents Mr and Mrs W L Hudson.
Farmer Decrees Death of Grasshoppers in Bloomfield
In Bloomfield Nebraska on July 17 Raymond Johnson rigs an electric device on his car to electrocute grasshoppers swarming his grain. Riding through fields he intends wholesale destruction as hundreds are killed by the charged screen.
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Bloomfield
Neb
Raymond Johnson
Widow of U S Senator Henderson Dies at 62
BAR HARBOR Me July 17 The body of Mrs John B Henderson a Washington society woman aged 62 died at her summer home Glenyrie here last night She will be taken to the capital for funeral services at BoundaryCathedral Then to Brooklyn to lie beside her husband United States Senator from Missouri Mrs Henderson died after an apoplectic attack ten days earlier She despised fig and tobacco wrote books against overeating and was a vegetarian She opposed fashionable femnine attire and insisted on modest dress with no maid servants allowed to wear what she deemed scant or indecent clothes
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Bar Harbor
John B. Henderson
Washington Society
Glenyrie
Brooklyn
N. Y
United States
Missouri
Henderson
Traffic Delay Costs Billion Dollars Yearly
The Erekine Traffic Bureau of Harvard estimates national traffic delays cost the American public about one billion dollars each year.
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Erekine Traffic Bureau
Harvard
Appointment of Examiners to Vote Machine Board
Columbus July 17. Secretary of State Clarence J. Brown announced the appointment of Daniel C. Brower Dayton George Trundie Jr Cleveland and Erle Forster Toledo as members of the board of voting machine examiners. The group will serve until January 2 1883 or end of Brown’s term.
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Columbus
Daniel C. Brower
Dayton
George Trundie, Jr
Cleveland
Erle Forster
Toledo
Asl
Board of
Voting Machine Examiners
Clarence J. Brown
Brown
Athens Youths Arraigned Over Nocturnal Pool Visit
Four Athens youths faced arraignment in city court on Thursday after a Crystal Pool official alleged they entered the premises for a nocturnal swim. Mayor Robert B Wood presided as authorities warned prosecutions will proceed.
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Robert 8. Wood
Athens
A. K E. Whaley
Crystal Pool
Wednes- Thomas
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General Foods Corporation
George O'Brien
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