Columbus Picnic Draws 700 From Nearby Communities
The Columbus town picnic at Mather Park drew more than seven hundred residents and former residents, with visitors from Corry Warren Ohio and Pa Erie Sherman Bear Lake. A large local dinner, sports for children, a recital by Robert Trisket, and choir numbers followed a business meeting naming officers for the 1930 reunion. Bracken Brothers provided coffee, the Coleman band supplied music, and organizers hailed the event as one of the finest yet.
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Columbus
Mather Park
Younng
Old
Corry
Bear Lake
Robert Trisket
Frank Dodd
Arthur Hil
Eimma Dutton
Carlton Curtis
Bracken Brothers
Coleman Band
Union City
Fire Menace Grows With Long Dry Spell
Aug 14 Bradford report details widespread brush fires near Bear Creek and Collins woods as drought strains water supply. Firefighters used long hoses and a water stream to halt flames spreading toward Conewango Creek area. Scouts helped save Jamestown Boy Scout camp while Bradford warns only three weeks of water remain with boiled-water order after reservoir contamination.
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Third Ward
Jamestown
Bradford
Collins’ Woods
Bear Creek
Wayne Street
Graas
Woods Fives
Amestown
Conewango Creek
Stillwater -Falconer
Brewsburg-Falconer
Carroll
Poland
Malone Denies Role in Kentucky Coal Bombing
Paul Malone the Duquoin aviator denied involvement in a recent air raid on Kentucky coal fields after a night of questioning by Sheriff Flanigan and officials in Murphysboro Illinois. The case grew as Paul Montgomery 26 Murphysboro confessed to dropping nine bombs near Providence Kentucky alleging Malone hired him. Flanigan said Montgomery’s signed confession implicates Malone and will be held despite Malone’s denials.
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Murphysboro
Ill
Sherif Wm
Flanigan
Paul Malone
Duquoin
Kentucky
Malone
Paul Montgomery
Providence
Montgomery
Flannigan
The
United Press
Girl Dies Instantly When Gun Explodes in Car
Lucille Heckathorne, 16, of Salina, was killed at 12 30 a m Thursday when a .22 revolver she was examining with boyfriend Emmet Blauser discharged in a car. Blauser admitted ownership, coroner Steffee indicated no charges likely, and the Salina community mourns a popular local student.
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Lucille Heckathorne
Mix
W. S. Heckathorne
Safina
Emmet Blausler
Blauser
W. R. Jobson
Lake D. Steffee
Steffee
Salina
Fail to Locate Kin of Victim in Pittsburgh Yard Death
Aug 19. Ignatz Mitchel switch engine accident victim. relatives unlocated in McKees Rocks and now no definite kin found. Body to be interred at St. Joseph's cemetery after services at Osenider Chapel at 10 o clock. Attempts to locate parents or relatives failed. further information awaited.
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Dil Oxty
Ignatz Mitchel
North Side
Pennsylvania Railroad
New St. Joseph's
Osenider Chapel
Mitchel
McKees Rocks
Young arson suspect held for grand jury in Maedonia
Irvin coup man a 16 year old is taken to Mayville for grand jury action after a preliminary exam before Justice Nelson A Baxter in Maedonia. Chapman was arrested by state troopers over the arson of the C Collins farm barn in Sheridan last week. He allegedly confessed the fire came from a cigarette match tossed down in the barn and said he started four fires around the Collins home the following day. The fires were put out by the Collins family or Sheridan Fire Department which made three runs to the west of Sheridan center.
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Maedonia
Irvin
Mayville
Justice of the Peace
Nelson A. Baxter
Chapman
Most C. Collins
Sheridan
Collins
Shee
Sheridan Fire Department
Sheridan Center
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Corry’s Factory Shoe Stove
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Rset
Saal
Kaye
Meath Supply
Four Square Gospel Meeting
West Main ST
H Caswell
Istry
Pennsylvania Telephone Corporation
Mutual Telephone Company
Pennsylvia Company
Pennsylvania
Mutual Telephone Co
Coray, PA
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