Red Cross of Peace Pageant a Success at Pomeroy
The Red Cross of Peace pageant directed by Mise Vestage and Mrs. J A Miller drew large, appreciative audiences at Pomeroy Opera House. The show featured Miss Orleta Hoover and a strong quartet, with the National Red Cross loaning the book for the Roll Call program.
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RED Cross OF Peace
Red Cross of Peace UN
Mise Vestage
J. A. Miller
Miriam
Mae Hartinger
Henry
Pomeroy Opera
Iow
Opera House
Ednesday
National Red Cross
American Red Cross
Orleta Hoover
Fourth Red Cross Roll Call Pageant Impresses Audience
The pageant features a large cast including Frank Merrers Will Fred Voss Homer Cook and Harry Barnes with roles spanning Bugler Spirit of Humanity Civil War nurses and Junior Red Cross. Public Health nurse Miss Ella Fisher and many Red Cross workers appear in nursing and disaster scenes. The event drew praise for inspiring support and the Rutland pageant will be repeated Friday.
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Carlysle Wadsworth
David Darst
Red Cross
Motor Corps
Marietta Cross
Virginia Dillard
Lawrence
Wyllis Russell
Raymond Zeiher
France
Mary Willock
Elsie Entsminger
Bing
Lydia Powell
Jno. Chase
Home Service Dept
Marcus Chambers
Kathryn Ebersbach
Jas, Hannas
Elsie Durst
Marie Miller
Anna Ebersbach
Jed Hartinger
Matilda Fultz
Irene Anderson
Populace
Jim Hannas
Phyllis King
Francis Hunker
Bertha Miller
Freda Miller
Elizabeth Davis
Josephine Williams
Audrey Fults
Edna Fisher
Little Bearers
Frederick Coates
Donald Turnbull
Allen Chase
Pomeroy Machine Company
Rutland
Armistice Day Observed with Local School Decorations
Armistice Day passed without a citywide program though the day was discussed at public schools. Pomeroy and Middleport schools displayed heavy red white and blue banners and flags, with decorations more profuse than on many holidays.
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Pomeroy
Middleport
Two of Trio of Hunters Out of Luck
The trio Doc Bribble Skip Keehoe and H C Price aimed for a Canadian big game hunt. Doc Gribble fell ill before departure and Skip Keehoe was hospitalized in Sault Ste Marie for rupture surgery. Gribble is recovered and Keehoe is improving. a collection is started for druggist Smith to buy Tanlac.
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Doc Bribble
Keehoe
H. C. Price
Canadian Woods
Doc Gribble
Canada
Sault Ste. Marie
Gribble
Pomeroy
Sault Ste Marie
Smith
Nightmarish ride spans twelve miles on local line
A bare fragment reports a dramatic journey along the K and Ry line from Hobson station to Racine. Details are sparse but the incident appears to depict a troubling sequence on the railway with wide public interest.
Night Car Hold Up Rumor Relegated to Nightmare
A local tale claimed an all night street car on the Middleport to Hobson line was robbed near Grave Hill at 2 A M. Motorman Eddie Romine and conductor George Sauvage reportedly fled the scene and did not file a report. The front gunmen were not proven, and the car was brought to a stop safely at Hobson Station according to the account.
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Pomeroy Bend
Hobson Station
Racine
Middleport
Hobson
Eddie Romine
George
Bruiser) Sauvage
Rumor
Sauvage
Romine
Grave Hill
Fritzie
Telephone Service Outage Continues in Pomeroy Area
Telecommunication service for the Pomeroy and Middleport Telephone Company remained down at last report. The switchboard operators were still out of service as evening fell, leaving callers unable to complete lines.
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Pomeroy and Middleport Telephone Company
Walkout continues as talks fail to materialize
A conference between operators and company officials hoped for Thursday afternoon failed to occur. Long distance phone service was down, hindering communication with the Messenger office in Athens. Superintendent Kessel said a Friday 10 o clock meeting was planned, and no change in the standstill was noted. In a separate matter, the divorce case of Charles Roupe v Maude Roupe proceeded in common pleas court with a decision pending a 30 day waiting period.
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Athens
Kessel
Hhe
Charles Roupe
Maude Roupe
Common Pleas Court
Mills Seeks Divorce From Cora B Mills
The only new case in common pleas court on Thursday was William Mills versus his wife Cora B Mills he seeks a divorce on the grounds of adultery. The couple have lived in Pomeroy since their marriage and have no children.
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Common Pleas Court
William Mills
Cora B. Mills
Pomeroy
Miss Maggie Bohn Resigns After Twenty Years with Phone Company
Miss Maggie Bohn resigns as toll clerk and general bookkeeper after twenty years of continuous service with the Pomeroy and Middleport Telephone Company. She began with the old Bell Telephone Company and stayed through the merger, earning popularity for her accommodating and painstaking work.
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Maggie Bohn
Pomeroy
Pomeroy and Middleportelephone Company
Miss Bohn
Old Bell Telephone Company
Pomeroy and
Spirits Avoid Ouija Boards Says Theo sophical Leader
Chicago November reports Miss Gail Wilson a trustee of the American section of the Theosophical Society warns that only low type spirits use ouija boards. She says highly evolved souls avoid such crude methods and that living people provide better guidance. She notes few high class spirits have spoken through the board and those cases are very rare.
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Chicago
Gail Wilson
Theosophical Society
Wilson
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