Tragic Accident Claims 11 Year Old John Werz
John Werz aged 11 was killed instantly when he jumped from a moving truck and was struck by another vehicle at Poplar and Charles streets. He leaves parents Pete Werz and seven sisters and three brothers. Funeral services set for Friday at two. Vaughn Cox suffered severe burns while working on a slack pile and was treated at home by Stout's ambulance.
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John Werz
Poplar
Charles
Lee Cox
John
Pete Werz
Vaughn Cox
Jobs
Stout
Nelsonville Gun Club to hold first tournament next Tuesday
The Nelsonville Gun Club announces its inaugural trap shooting tournament on Tuesday September 21 at the Harry Jackson farm. The event is conducted under the auspices of the American Trap.
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Nelsonville
Nelsonville Gun Club
Harry Jackson
Nelsonville Classifieds For Sale And Notices
Local Nelsonville listings show multiple for sale items including a brick business building owner H W Stiers and contact John Zellar, various vehicles and real estate parcels, several farm and horse notices, an oil lease lead offer from Equitable Lesse Syndicate Fort Worth, and a large array of miscellaneous notices and event ads with phone contacts and dates in September.
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Nelsonville
H. W. Stiers
Haydenville
John Zellar
Equitable Lesse Syndicate
Fort Worth
Texas
First Nel sonville Shooters Association Event Held
The first of its kind trap shooting meet in Nelsonville attracts shooters from across the state, welcoming both pros and amateurs. Visitors get chairs shelter and grounds refreshments. non club members may shoot with a gun and obey the American Trap Shooting Association rules.
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Shooters’ Association
End
Nelsonville
American Trap Shooting Association
Missionary Society and WCTU Meetings Reported
The Methodist church ladies host a Friday afternoon missionary society event led by Mrs Francis Socie and remind dues. The WCTU session chaired by Mrs L A Whitmore names new officers including Mrs A G Meechem and Mrs Laura Spencer presiding, followed by a luncheon.
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L. A. Whitmore
M. EF. Stratton
Nelle
C. L. Stout
Pierce Stratton
Chas. Green
Backus
C. L. Poston
A. G. Meechem
Anna Allen
8. L. Poston
A. G. Hamm
Laura Spencer
L. D. Lidlie
Retta Howe
Sam Starkey
Surprise Party Honors Mrs. Earl Weiss at West Columbus
Friends and neighbors surprised Mrs. Earl Weiss at her West Columbus home Saturday night. A social evening and lunch followed with ivory and linen gifts for the honoree. Attendees included Mesdames Barrows Dresher Mellinger Bayless Anderson Kontner Fisher Robertson Lancaster Butterworth Coleman Briggs Young Shockley Bland Springer and Mr Earl Weiss.
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Earl Weiss
West Columbus Street
Mesdames
Peter Barrows
Charles Dresher
Eugene Mellinger
Milton Bayless
Alice L. Anderson
Jane Kontner
Jno. Fisher
Mary Robertson
Nelle Lancaster
Lew Butterworth
Anna Coleman
John Briggs
Esther Young
Clarence Shockley
James Bland
Charley Springer
Nelsonville War Savings stamps sale hits high note
Nelsonville officials report rapid progress toward the city quota for War Savings securities. Since January local residents sold $89,829.76 in stamps and certificates, with monthly figures showing strong uptake through September.
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Nelsonville
War Savings Securities
Ieee Wecesceens
Directors and Financial Totals From a Historic Ledger
A ledger fragment shows various monetary figures including 6,000.00 106,597.18 72,240.00 19,950.00 170,097.18 and 130,610.00 6,750. 62 24,309.32 107/059. 3 190,806.57 987.80 with a note Total and ending balance of -$1,792,075.50. The word Directors appears at the end.
Leviathan Sinks Into Hoboken Dock After War Seizure
The Leviathan once the Vaterland, seized by the U S government at America's entry into World War I, lies sunken in the Hoboken dock mud. The immense trans Atlantic liner has deteriorated beyond salvage and may never sail again.
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Hoboken
Leviathan
Vaterland
U. S
America
Social Evening Hosts Guests With Dainty Luncheon
Howe Mollie Six Mary Owens Almira Byron Blanche Brooks Will Young Ed Mills Carl Coakley Henry Lancaster Chas Kontner Forest Kontner Almeda Dempster Blanche Lee Earl Snake Winnie Owens Clint Anderson John Murphy Clayton Murphy Ivan Kinney Lena Haines Rebecca Nutter Jim Bland Ava Pritts Walter Green Ed Dugan Ida Green Misses Iva Murphy Alice Green Pearl Green Ruth Murphy Rachel Catherine Coakley Margie Dempster Master Lawrence Dempster Frank Haines Vernon Delph hosted a social evening with a sequence of games and a dainty luncheon.
Gas Shutdown Protests Over West Virginia Gas Export Ban
Hearings before U S supreme court commissioner Levi Cooke focus on the Steptoe act barring gas exports from West Virginia until local needs are met. Union Natural Gas Company chief Eugene Whitcomb warns Pennsylvania Ohio cities would suffer and gas firms face large losses. Pittsburgh could lose over half its supply. Proceedings expected to last several days.
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Pittsburgh
Steptoe
West Virginia
United States Supreme Court
Levi Cooke
Eugene Whitcomb
Union Natural Gas Company
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Glouster Switches Baseball Game To Home Ground
Glouster will host Millfield next Sunday at Glouster grounds due to poor roads to Millfield. Millfield’s Earich Simpson and Whitlatch will be the battery with Gatchel and Bullaford for Glouster. Glouster plans a football team with 16 candidates and Julius Pico is president of the high school athletic association.
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Glouster
Millfield
Bills
Earich
Simpson
Whitlatch
Millfield Battery
Gatchel
Bullaford
Glouter
Murray
Glouster High School Athletic Association
Julius Pico
Paul Smith
Clergy Changes At Gloutier And Nearby Churches
Rev J W Orr leaves Gloutier M E church to take post at West Jefferson where a new 50000 dollar church is being built He moves with family late this week and will assist in completing the project Rev J L Landsitter Groveport will succeed him here and preach next Sunday He is highly recommended by Orr and will be welcomed by his new congregation Rev H L Sheldon becomes the new Methodist pastor for the Trimb le Jacksonville charge.
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J. W. Orr
Gloutier M. E
West Jefferson
Orr
J. L. Landsitter
Groveport
Rev. Orr
H. L. Sheldon
Trimble-Jacksonville
Pleasanton Visitors and Local Movements Noted
Pleasanton residents greet visitors including Mrs Henry Bobo of New York and Misses Villa Eva Tippie Florence and Fannie Brown. Ed Brown and Mr Ed Brown call on Mabel and Lara Kenney. Gussie Arnett travels to Athens for work. Dana Arnold and wife move to Buffalo New York. Mabel and Lurne Kenney depart for Lisbon to teach. School opens September 20. Local attendees joined the party at C S Tipple’s last Friday evening.
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Henry Bobo
New York
Villa
Eva Tippie
Florence
Fannie Brown
Ed Brown
Mabel
Lara Kenney
Sheldon Parker
Gussie Arnett
Athens
Dana Arnold
Buffalo
N. Y
Lurne Kenney
Lisbon
Tipple
Two Cases Heard in Common Pleas Court
The Court of Common Pleas sat Thursday morning with two cases on the docket. The Ohio Consolidated Coal Company seeks an injunction against Joseph Isselstein, while Olive North sues John North for divorce alleging extreme cruelty. The defendant crosses with adultery. counsel are W. B. Bartels for the plaintiff and Woolley and Rowland for the defendant.
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Court of Common Pleas
Ohio Consolidated Coal Company
Joseph Isselstein
Olive North
John North
W. B. Bartels
Woolley and
Rowland
Knights of Columbus Present Lafayette Statue in Metz
The photograph captures the Lafayette statue unveiling in Metz France with Knights of Columbus leaders present. Supreme Commander Flaherty and Marshal Foch delivered speeches as they stood at the statue base.
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Lafayette
France
Metz
Knights of Columbus
Flaherty
Knights
Marshal Foch
World Dry Forces Forecast Global Prohibition Spread
Dr. Robert Hercod, arriving from Switzerland, cites an army of 5 million fighting for a worldwide dry era and predicts full prohibition in every country within 60 years. England, Scandinavia, and France are named as likely future dry nations as Europe eyes U.S. prohibition as a model.
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Ralph F. Couch
United Press
Washington
Robert Hercod
Switzerland
Hercod
World Dry Forces
United States
France
Europe
C. W. Salesby
England
Saleeby
Lord Leverhulme
America
Dr. Hercod
Suspect Held in South America Arrives in Montevideo
Eugene Le Roy, sought as the wife killer who moved a victim's remains from Detroit to New York in a trunk, arrived in Montevideo aboard the Dryden. Uruguayan police found a photo and a card identifying a man and a woman in his trunk. The prisoner claimed the man was named Woods, whom detectives suspect could be the Woods linked to the trunk case in New York.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Eugene Leroy
Detroit
New York
Dryden
Woods
Soldier Is Fined in Assault Case
John Sidders of New Marshfield aged 30 pleaded guilty to a wife filed assault and battery charge before Justice Helwig on Wednesday afternoon and was fined ten dollars plus costs.
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John Sidders
New Marshfield
Helwig
Scarlet Fever Feared In Meigs County Town
In Rutland Meigs County fear rises of an outbreak as eight year old Woodrow Swearingen dies from scarlet fever after illness began Friday. Schools closed and Dr Clark of Wilkesville inspected pupils. Despite fumigation the disease lingers in the community and continues to worry residents.
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Rutland
Dyesville
Meigs County
Woodrow Swearingen
William Swearingen
Clark
Wilkesville
Woodrow
Man survives hay baler shaft accident on Wil lam Austin farm
Charles Dailey was pulled into the clutch shaft of a gas powered hay baler on the Baker Settlement John Wil lam Aust in farm. He was stripped of clothing except shirt back and wristbands with lacerations to abdomen and head. Dr Biddle treated him and he is recovering. Roy Radford shut off power and fellow workers saved him. Two weeks earlier Don Baker lost two fingers to the same baler.
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Charles Dailey
Willam Austin
Baker Settlement
Dailey
Dolph Barker
Biddle
Roy Radford
Verne Robinett
Cecil Bolin
Don Baker
Invited Irish Question Probe Plans Reported
Mrs Muriel MacSwiney wife of the hunger striker may be invited to testify in the United States on conditions in Ireland as part of plans for a 100 member committee to investigate the Irish situation by The Nation weekly publication.
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New York
Muriel MacSwiney
United States
Ireland
Nation
Delegates Attend Ball Game in Cleveland
Delegates to the Northeast Ohio Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church took an afternoon off to attend a baseball game at the American League Park in Cleveland, invited by James Dunn, owner of the Cleveland Indians.
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Cleveland
Northeast Ohio
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
James Dunn
Cleveland Indians
Contest of Will Is Anticipated
The will of the late John Hixson of Ames township was offered for probate Wednesday afternoon and accepted by Judge Phillips. Wm J Warrener wrote the will and Dr J D Haskins witnessed signing. contest likely over unsound mind or memory. Daughters Ethel and Emmie Hixson receive $500 each. son-in-law William Mingus and granddaughter Julie Mingus also $500 or value. Real estate divided among nine heirs with options for purchase by Ethel Emma and Mingus within five years. Executors named: John G Hixson George W Hixson and Peter E Hixson without bond.
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John Hixson
Ames Township
Phillips
Wm. J. Warrener
J. D. Haskins
Ethel Hixson
Emmie Hixson
William C. Mingus
Granddaghter
Julie Hixson Mingus
Alpha Wemmer
Minnie Morris
John G.hixson
George W. Hixson
Elizabeth M. Phillips
Carrie Kelley
Peter E. Hixson
Emma Hixson
John G. Hixson
Russia says disarmament blocked by enemies at Riga talks
Riga dispatches report Russian and Polish peace negotiations at Riga may collapse over disarmament. Commissioner Joffe, head of the Russian delegation, says Poland must disarm to deter future aggression, while Russia cannot demobilize due to numerous enemies.
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London
Riga
Pissiang
Joffe
Poland
Russia
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Nelsonville News
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Bell Phone
Harley-Davianon
A. D. Farrow
Call Bell
Fred Scott
Columbus St
Geo. Affman
Parkdale
P. Hall
Good Mule
Deanville
D. W. Harper
Bell
Mason City Hill
Charles Bruce
Bates Abe Gees
Bens c . Sony NG
OB Co
SR Becent
Ccs Cdeccpanecetmcrnes
Hocking Oe Fire Clay Co
Helene
Nelle Bashore
Charleston
William Barker
Jesse Beverage
George Mace
Frank Smit
the Plains
Emma Linton
Columbus
John Charlton
Mag Htic Springs
Ben Raybone
Logan
Lulu Poston
Hattie Baird
Jim Delph
Margaret Sikles
Mesdames Hi Johnson
Rolla
Bank OF Athens National Banking Association
Federal Reserve Bank
Corereten
U. Gammiuue
Safleres
State of
D. Forsyth
Cashi
Brown
Ore Davis
Hoboken Dock
Sam Sorrell Jr
L. W. Richardson
Chesterhill
Moses
Richardson
Sorell
John Baird of
Trimble
Miss Grace
Grant Hospital
Pleasanton
Common Pleas Court
South America
Meigs
Argentine Republic
Quietus
Ead
O. U
Chas. Mills
P. O
Nature
Athens, Ohio
the Kimber Oil & Gas CO
Public Square
Moorhead
Cline
Kimber Ol! and Gas Co
Mechem Dry Goods Co
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