Meigs County Women Republican Club Maps Rally Dates
At a Meigs County Women’s Republican Club meeting the board planned a Republican Rally to be announced. Women are asked to meet at the Knights of Pythias Hall next Saturday at 1 30 and every Saturday after until the November election, with smaller community meetings to form local units. Nationally known speakers will attend and tea and cake will be served.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Women's Republican Club
Knights of Pythias Hall
Local News Briefs From Meigs And Nearby Areas
A mix of short notes reports and notices covers visitors from near Cleveland streetcar era connections sheep losses in Rutland Township a court hold for a dog owner in Meigs County car advertising scheme in Pom eroy tax budget status in Meigs County farmers fall plowing works and obituaries including Miss Henrietta Turnbull and Mrs Katherine Armstrong with burial in Morgantown church confirmations ordinations and conference assignments for several ministers and conservation efforts against game law violators in Athens County
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Amos Junod
Cleveland
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Henrietta Turnbull
Thomas Turnbull
New Haven
W. Va
Katherine Armstrong
West Columbia
Morgan
Bethany Methodist Church
W. R. Sellers
Fourth District
Ohio
E. J. Clark
Meigs
J. HB. Harrison
Gallia
B. T. LeFever
Athens County
Middleport social notes feature Essex new science teacher
Mr. Essex of Coalton arrives as Middleport High School’s new science teacher and stays with Mrs. D. H. Daniels. Local families from Columbus, Rutland, Athens, Nitro, and Parkersburg visit, travel, or host relatives, with several taking weekend trips and attending events.
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Middleport
Essex
Coalton
Middleport High School
D. H. Daniels
O. L. Bradford
Columbus
Ben Powell
Rutland
R. B. Laughead
Will
Lilly Hysell
Sells
Mr. Nelson
Pittsburgh
O. L. Roush
Lois
Parkersburg
Mae Roush
E. H. Zuspan
Funeral of Miss Louise Stanbery Set Private
The funeral for Miss Louise Stanbery, who died Sunday night, will be private at 3 oclock Wednesday from her residence with Rev. L O Forquearan of Grace Episcopal Church officiating. Miss Jessie Hart, the Stanbery family nurse visiting in Kansas City, Kansas, will arrive tonight.
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Pomeroy
Louise Stanbery
L. O. Forquearan
Grace Episcopal Church
Jessie Hart
Stanbery
Kansas City
Kansas
Civic leader exposes fruit and veg fraud in New York stores
Mrs Edmund W Kingsland formerly Amy Whaley of Pomeroy leads a New York civic group to stop short weight by push cart dealers. She observed old vegetables mixed with fresh and tipped scales to cheat customers. Her reports have prompted authorities action and earned her citywide newspaper notice.
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Pomeroy
Edmund W. Kingsland
Amy Whaley
New York City
Daughter Dies After Infection From Baseball Injury
In Pomeroy, Sept 9, May Morris aged 19, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ira Morris of Bailey Run, died Monday night from a cancerous infection traced to injuries from a baseball accident last year. A brother used 700 dollars of his savings and the father spent all he had in a bid to save her, but the efforts failed.
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Pomeroy
Ira Morris
Bailey Run
Dillard Sisters Start Lake Erie Motor Trip to Falls
Misses Kathryn and Rosamond Dillard and mother Mrs Ora Dillard along with Mr and Mrs Walter Owens depart Middleport for Niagara Falls and Lake Erie destinations. The group plans a ten day tour by car with a boat trip and a possible Canadian excursion.
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Middleport
Kathryn
Rosamond Dillard
Ora Dillard
Walter Owens
Dillard
Niagara Falls
Lake Erie
Canada
Falls
Divorces Granted in Pomeroy Court
Judge F W Crow grants two divorces after 30 days advisement. Ella Ashley versus Claude Ashley and Bessie White versus Fred White are the decrees issued in Pomeroy on September 9.
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F. W., Crow
Ella Ashley
Claude Ashley
Bessie White
Fred White
Visitors Share Weekend Calls Across Town
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter McFarline visited Mrs. Oscar Klein and Mrs. C. P. Brad bury while Carl Francis and two children, returning from Niagara Falls and Lake Erie trips, stayed with Mr. and Mrs. John Gillilan before heading to Zanesville. Lewis Triplet and children returned from a Dayton visit. Mrs. Edward Lewis and two Chicago children visited Mrs. Fred Gardner. Mrs. T. F. Lewis and son Thomas Jr. of Columbus, with Mrs. Alfred Wester velvet and son from Coolville, visited D. H. Daniels family this week.
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Carl Francis
Niagara Falls
Lake Erie
John Gillilan
Zanesville
Lewis
Dayton
Edward Lewis
Chicago
Fred Gardner
T. F. Lewis
Thomas, Jr
Columbus
Alfred Westervelt
Coolville
D. H. Daniels
Boulder Dam project to begin with ceremony on Sept 17
Los Angeles September 9. The $165 million Boulder Dam power and irrigation project will start officially September 17 with a ceremony attended by Interior Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur. U S Senator Key Pittman of Nevada announced after word from Wilbur confirming his presence at the dam site and at the 22 mile Union Pacific Branch Line Railroad start to the project.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Boulder Dam
Secretary of the Interior
Ray Lyman
Wilbur
U.S
Key Pittman
Nevada
Pittman
Union Pacific
Bar Association Hears Johnson on Probate Practice
Athens Bar Association members listened to 8. M. Johnson Athens County probate judge discuss Probate Practice and the Duty of Administrator and Executor in Filing Accounts. The talk followed a luncheon at Hotel Berry attended by fourteen members.
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Athens Bar Association
M. Johnson
Athens County
Berry
Association
Produce Prices in Pomeroy Markets
Produce in Pomeroy markets is reasonably priced with watermelons from 25 to 60 cents, green beans 10 to 12.5 cents per pound, roasting ears 30 to 35 cents per dozen, homegrown potatoes at 1 dollar per bushel, and choice tomatoes at 1 dollar per bushel. Many other food items priced accordingly.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Plans Gum Factory to Supply World
Chemists at Cincinnati meeting discuss making synthetic chewing gum by adding chlorine to benzine-derived substance. Pomeroy declares openness to a world supplying factory with abundant chlorine locally available. A resident urges a large gum factory to set the jaws of the world wagging.
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Pomeroy
Cincinnati
Wessa Family Heads to California For New Start
Middleport residents Mr and Mrs Edward Wessa and five children drive to California to join three sons scattered across the state. Edward Wessa, a stationary engineer, must wait a year to obtain a license after relocation.
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Middleport
Edward Wessa
California
Wessas
Wessa
Fultz to Attend New York Central Painters Convention in Chicago
B F Fultz Sr. leaves Middleport for Chicago to attend a three day New York Central Painters Convention. He plans a week to ten days away and will visit his son Allen and daughter Mrs. Paul Hoffman and sister Mrs. Edward Gibbons and brother George Fultz in Chicago.
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Middleport
B. F. Fultz
Chicago
New York Central Painters Convention
Fultz
Allen
Paul Hoffman
Edward Gibbons
George Fultz
Funeral for F. W. Schreiner in Heath M. E. Church
Funeral services for F. W. Schreiner will be held Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock at Heath Memorial Church, conducted by Rev. Hichinger, with burial to follow in Middleport Hill Cemetery.
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Middleport
F. W. Schreiner
Heath M. Ky
H. Hichinger
Middleport Hill Cemetery
Kindergarten Opens In Middleport At Mrs Klein Home
Mrs Oscar Klein announces opening of a kindergarten at her residence South Third Avenue Middleport beginning next Monday at 9 o clock Enrollment will be completed this week Parents must provide transport to and from the school for their children.
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Middleport
Oscar Klein
South Third Avenue
Thomas Young Goes to Chicago for Business Course
Thomas Young of Pomeroy travels to Chicago to undertake a business course in his line of work aimed at advancing his professional skills.
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Thomas Young
Pomeroy
Chicago
Boy Builds Rig For Oil Drilling
Julian Hathaway a 16 year old from Norwalk California amazed veteran oil men by sinking a 96 foot well on his father's ranch with a miniature oil rig he built. He cut bored and bolted all parts in his own workshop and posed beside the model.
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Julian Hathaway
Norwalk
Calif
Young Hathaway
Birth control cut from Methodist report in Ohio conference
The Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church dropped sanction of birth control from the reform committee report before adoption. The conference also backed the London Naval Treaty and public schools plus weekday religious instruction while condemning tobacco ads, gambling, rising lynchings, and perceived medicine bias toward the rich and gang warfare.
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Oxford
U.R
Reform Committee
Ohio Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Athens City Schools anticipate pupil rise for 1930-31 year
Superintendent W. W. Ankenbrand says enrollment will edge up from 1929-30 as Athens City Schools reopen Monday. Already 1,451 students are registered for 1930-31, down from 1,466 last year, with totals to grow after roll is completed. The district will employ 57 teachers, two fewer than last year, due to eliminating a music teacher and a home economics teacher.
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Athens City
W. W. Ankenbrand
School board adds crippled children's school with 14 enrolled
Athens schools progress includes a new school for crippled children alongside regular grade and high schools. Superintendent Ankenbrand receives a life teaching and supervision certificate from State Board Examiners, the second such life credential after a May Illinois supervisory certificate.
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Ankenbrand
Athens Schools
J. L. Clifton
Lilinois
Coal Rate Request Aims at Eastern Destinations
The Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers Association asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish reasonable bituminous coal rates to eastern destinations. They charged railroads have maintained excessive rates since 1920 for shipments from Pennsylvania Maryland and Northern West Virginia to eastern points.
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Washington
U.P
Interstate Commerce Commission
Central Pennsylvania Coal Producers Association
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Driver Indicted for Failing to Stop for School Bus
Benjamin Woodward state highway department employee was indicted by a grand jury in Columbus on September 9 for failing to stop as a school bus unloaded pupils. Stableman John Guy of Granview arrested Woodward May 9 after a prior report of the incident. Guy said Woodward again passed the bus the following day without stopping.
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Columbus
U.P
Benjamin Woodward
State Highway Department
Woodward
John Guy
Granview
Guy
Bombing Trial Set for Nine Men in Webster County Case
Louisville authorities announced trial for nine men connected to the Webster County mines bombing during labor unrest. They face charges of violating U S aviation laws and conspiring to intimidate witnesses.
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Louisville
Webster County
U. S
States employment improves slightly in August data
Columbus reports August results show a small uptick in Ohio employment conditions. Fred Croxton of the Department of Industrial Relations notes July and August had similar placements with about four applicants per job in July and eleven per job in August. The final week of August mirrored improved placements.
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Columbus
Fred Croxton
Department of Industrial Relations
Croxton
Tax Refunds Totalling Over One Million Weighed by IRS
The Internal Revenue Service announced refunds totaling more than $1.06 million to individuals and corporations with Sharp Benefits Co and C Sharp of Nelsonville receiving a $420,000 share.
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Washington
U.P
Co. C
Sharp
Nelsonville
Bureau of Internal Revenue
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Women’s Club
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Bar Association Hears Johnson
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Messenger
Norman Durst
FOX
Boy
Methodist Reform Committee
Oca Ingreags
Kentucky
Ohi
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Prick
Andise
Agencie
Sussex St
Ablenemia
I Eric
Pall
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Sussex Strect
Jersey City
Tas Lets
Athens
Lawrence Cook Co
Cook Organization
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