Chester Township Teachers Packed for the Year
The Chester township board of education announces its teaching corps for the coming year naming J. M. Pullins Flatwoods Texas Edna Windon Pine Grove Ina Stobart Eagle Ridge Ida Warner and Fred Rice Oak Hill. Hartford City endured a severe electrical storm with lightning and thunder over the river causing property damage including M R Chapman's residence where a chimney shattered and a wall was breached leaving him temporarily blind and deaf.
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Chester
Chester Township Board of Education
Texas
J. M. Pullins
Flatwoods
Edna Windon
Pine Grove
Ina Stobart
Eagle Ridge
Ida Warner
Oak Hill
Fred Rice
Hartford City
M. R. Chapman
Mr. Chapman
Middleport News Highlights Deaths and Certifications
Marvin DeMaine, village undertaker, travels to Alexandria for his mother’s death. Miss Susie Taylor earns a life certificate for grammar school work. Word arrives of Mrs. Alice Cluse’s death in Proctorsville from mercury tablet effects, grief over her husband’s January passing noted. Cluse was widow of Dr. George Cluse of Columbus.
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Middleport
Marvin DeMaine
Alexandria
Russell Crowell
Herkeley
Calif
J. F. Downing
Alpha Somerville
Susie Taylor
State
Alice Cluse
George Cluse
Columbus
Robert Atkinson
Proctorsville
Porter
Gallia County
Incorporation Hearing for Syracuse Postponed by Commissioners
The hearing on incorporating the village of Syracuse before the county commissioners was postponed to next Monday. Opponents want more time to prepare and argue that the proposed town would include too much farming territory.
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Syracuse
Drowning of 13-Year-Old Boy Scout Earnest Baker
Earnest Baker drowned at Minersville while swimming on Saturday. The body was recovered Sunday after Otto Hartenbach spotted it. The river was dragged both days and dynamite blasting occurred nearby. Burial at the Evangelical church with Rev Webber officiating.
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Earnest Baker
Minersville
Otto Hartenbach
Evangelical Church
Webber
John A. Franz Dead at 72 in Columbus
John A. Franz, 72, longtime Pomeroy merchant, died in Columbus. He retired years ago to aid his sons Joe and d in running the business here. Remains to be brought back to Pomeroy for burial beside his wife in Beech Grove cemetery.
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John A. Franz
Columbus
Pomeroy
Joe
Beech Grove
Rain lifesaving Meigs County potato crop report
Rain from Saturday night and Sunday saved the early potato crop in Meigs County. The wet weather arrived just in time to prevent losses and boost growing results. Thomas Leversedge appears in the Pomeroy Bend briefs.
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Meigs County
Pomeroy Bend Briefs
Thomas Leversedge
Resignation At Salt and By-Products Works
Hartford from Charleston has resigned as manager of the salt and by-products works of M. & Company and returned home. Mrs. Ray Clifton nee Helen Geyer lies near death at Butter nut Avenue after childbirth. A Marietta specialist and two trained nurses attend. Mrs. Frank Jacobs, wife of a returning soldier, was rushed to Gallipolis for appendicitis surgery in a severely dire condition.
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Hartford
Charleston
M. ©. &. Company
Ray Clifton
Helen Geyer
Butternut Avenue
Marietta
Frank Jacobs
Gallipolis
Verdict in Smoot case finds second degree murder
Jury convicts in Point Pleasant matter with second degree murder verdict and ten year sentence to Moundsville penitentiary. Some doubt remains on first degree charges as defendant’s testimony suggests Ben Martin provoked alleged relationship with his wife.
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Moundsville
Smoot
Point Pleasant
Ben Martin
Brackets for Window Shades Patented
The notice reports that brackets for window shades with adjustable horizontal movement have been patented. No other reliable details are provided about the inventor or patent number.
Allies Plot Envelopment From Multiple Fronts In Europe
The article outlines a bold Allied strategy enveloping Germany from Coblenz to Mannheim with forces aimed at key routes to capture the Rhine fortress network. It notes German disarray, lack of fleet and artillery, and a plan to overwhelm maximum resistance in a sweeping campaign.
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Wetzlar
Coblenz
Hanau
Mayence
Warzburg
Mannheim
Thurinde
Erfurt
Saxony
President Wilson to tour to rally support for treaty
Wilson plans Brussels departure tonight and aims to return by July 1. He will address Congress on the peace treaty then tour the country to advocate ratification with stops likely in Chicago St Louis Kansas City and west coast cities. He also sent messages to Senators Walsh Robinson and Montana praising their league speeches.
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Washington
Wilson
Brussels
Paris
Congress
White House
St. Louis
Virginia
Richmond
Chicago
Kansas City
Coast Points
Los Angeles
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League
Covenant
Senate
Walsh
Montana
Robinson
Arkansas
America
Local Family Visited Selby Heights Farm Sunday Audience
The Cunningham family from Glouster and Miss Esta Cunningham visited Selby Heights Farm Sunday as guests of the Glovers. Neighbors report several new machines in the area and note roads are good with a machine visible nearly every time.
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Zern Cunningham
Mildred
Raymond
Esta Cunningham
Glouster
Selby Heights Farm
Glover
George Brooks
Henry Burns
Farmers plow and wheat growth noted in Bern area
Local farm news reports busy plowing corn and fast growing wheat near Bern. Mentions small but quality fields, recent gasser discovery in Wesley Township, and expected development. Social notes include visits by Bardin Edgerton Strode Dillie Dillie, cherry picking at Selby Heights, and travel updates from Rome and Floyd Grimes.
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Bern
Frank Bardin
Wayne Edgerton
Marietta
Gradford
Columbus
B. E. McGrew
Wesley Township
George
Dillie
Ada Dille
E. E. Dillie
Selby Heights
Howard Dickson
Rome
Food Commission
Floyd Grimes
GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules Promoted as Kidney Remedy
An advertisement extols GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cure for kidney disease and related pains. It claims two centuries of trust, imports from Holland, and availability at many stores with a money back promise.
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Nature
Haarlem
Holland
Fire brick manufacture begins in Uruguay
In an experimental effort a plant in Uruguay has started producing fire bricks. The project aims to test methods and materials for brick making in the local industry and gauge potential growth.
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Uruguay
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