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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
3
In Middlebourne, a bright outlook for elderberries and pennyroyal, a shift in Children's Day services to June 8, and Miss Marie Boyd joining Cambridge printing. Local visits, church events, a railway project, and a range of social updates fill the page, including a dog poisoner report, Memorial Day plans, and a local legal case involving Clyde Boniphant and O. D. Scott.
On Friday at 7 a.m. the Sons of Veterans meet at the town hall to dispatch committees for decorating graves in Bell's, South, and Guernsey cemeteries. They form a line by 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m. gather at the school hall with veterans and Sunday School to march to the hall for addresses by Revs. Campbell, Cunningham, Hawk, Kennedy and others. Ice cream, gun drill, and martial music follow.
Antrim Mrs. Mary Hope visits her three sons in Dayton. Miss Ethel English travels to Bedford to see her brother Dr Lee English. Barney Hostetler of Lorain stayed with H. M. Dean family. Bertha Steffy and son Arthur of Zanesville visit G. W. Morrison family. Mrs. Clinton Temple and daughter visit Plainfield, and Mrs. James Hayat and daughter visit Cambridge. Mrs. Samuel Henderson of New Concord guests of Florence Stevens. Miss Birdie Bell goes to Cambridge for work. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Tribby of Steubenville visit Thomas Boyd family. Marie English and Kate English compete in Campbell contest at Middlesborne, winning first and second prizes totaling $8. Merrald. McBride recently worked in Alli machine shops.
Local residents note Decoration day exercises to be held in the forenoon with a good program. C Ellis Moore of Cambridge will attend and give an address. Rev A B Dennison returns from Atlanta after attending a general assembly meeting of the U P church. Mrs Mary Cunningham and daughter Elsie visit Ettie Harding in Freeport. C H Growdon of Bornville Ohio visited C English and family. A group of young people from the area toured Norwich and stayed with Roy Blackwood. An accident left a youth with a broken arm at his parents home.
Local notes report mild warmth aiding plant growth and a week of genteel activity. Mrs Pearl Collison of Pittsburg visited Mrs Lee Dugan, an Epworth League ice cream social raised fifty dollars toward the parsonage debt, and F R Creighton headed toward Cambridge to bring a Studebaker home. Train schedules list arrival and departure times for several lines through Lore City and the Eastern Ohio branch, with a note that some non stopping night trains are not listed. Miss Lelia Sproat’s instrumental class now numbers over fifty.
Local items report civil service exam takers for postmaster vacancy in Cambridge including G E Oldham C H Robinson Rufus Fogle Roger Kerrigan and W S Moore Four will wait for the next chance Mrs W Dunn of Bellaire visits Rev W W Carhart plans a baptism at the Presbyterian church June 1 A smallpox case prompts quarantine Health Officer Davis oversees the response Ozias Kuhn travels to Mannington WV Frame families shop in Cambridge Cun ningham farm oil well shows promise and may yield a good product once shot
Shoppers from Senecaville Cambridge on Saturday included Mrs. Joe Potts Bessie Catlett Lewis Holman Ruth Leeper and Gertrude Lowry. Guests visiting present week include Mrs Clara Blaney Roseville and Miss Katherine English Antrim with other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Margaret Ellen Hinchcliffe wife of Arthur Hinchcliffe died at Mill Street home after a stomach cancer illness. funeral held at Presbyterian church with Rev J W Rich. Interment in Senecaville cemetery. Survived by husband, aged father two adopted sons four sisters and three brothers. Community mourns loss of a noble woman.
A public notice states the examination for city teachers will be held on the first Saturday of June. The event is formalized in local education regulations and invites eligible applicants to participate.
Frank Bender of Zanesville and Anthony Bender of Easter attended the Knights of Columbus initiation and banquet in Cambridge. They were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Kierman on South 12th Street.
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