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Newspaper
Marysville Republican
Location
Marysville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
3
Four petitions for divorce were filed in the common pleas court last week an unusually high count. Other items note a John R. Taylor buying a Reo runabout from Frank Turner, Mrs. Lucy McAllister returning from Cleveland, and various local movements and visits by residents including trips to Cuba and to Lima Ohio.
The annual High school Alumni banquet will be held tomorrow evening at Gray Court hall with about 600 graduates invited. Miss Cornelia Sellers vice president will give the welcome due to George Sheridan’s absence, and Miss Ruth Wilber will deliver the class of 1908 response. The program includes music by Miss Blanch Seigman and Miss Helen Robinson, toasts by Mrs. Will Kennedy and John Plate, and Walter A. Sawyer as toastmaster.
A pretty home wedding was held Wednesday at 6 o clock in West Fifth street home of Mr. and Mrs. T C Tracy. Miss Berna B Tracy wed Mr Guy C Lockwood of Columbus in a ceremony by Rev A Harford before sixty guests with Ivan Southard as best man.
Following the ceremony the bride and groom received many presents at a bounteous supper. They left on the 7 49 Ohio Central train for Columbus to occupy their newly furnished home at 1229 Forsythe avenue. Mr Lockwood, a pattern maker in the Capital city, is mentioned.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cashell of Marysville sues William Cashell now in Baltimore for divorce on grounds of habitual drunkenness gross neglect of duty and abandonment. Married March 25 1896 they have one child Hugh 11. She seeks custody and education of the child with Hoopes and Robinson as her attorneys.
The Board of Education employs Mack Carmean to conduct Marysville’s school enumeration. He is now doing the work to measure the city’s growth or decline, with expectations the report will show a population increase over last year.
R H Mathew of Bucyrus named to lead Union County Telephone Co succeeding N E Liggett who resigns but remains president and major stockholder. Mathew formerly managed Sabina exchange and Bucyrus duties and plans improvements including replacing old return cables with full metallic cables and expanding farmer lines to reduce subscribers per line. He will move his family soon.
Charles E. Wharton of Kenton ex Marysville plans vigorous outreach for the Eighth district race. John and Valerus Merritt distribute 1000 copies of Men and Mules in Marysville homes as the first tranche of 35,000 books to be circulated. The book costs ten cents and Merritt Brothers hold a distribution contract in Marysville and vicinity.
Judge Thornton received a letter from Edm Luthy Swiss consul in Cincinnati asking if Union County ever had a resident named Fred Waechter a 76 year old Swiss native. He died about two years ago leaving a large estate his relatives in Switzerland want to locate. Waechter is known only to have died somewhere in Ohio and Thornton states he has never been a resident of Union county. A two dollar reward is offered for information that leads to discovering the estate.
The Marysville Lumber Company won the lumber contract for Tracey Hicks new Byhalia store, beating a Bellefontaine firm by 75 cents. Mt. Victory will supply cement blocks while R A Barrett and A L Peters will handle carpenter work, starting soon. Estimated total cost about 3000 dollars.
Charles England sold a 14 acre farm near the county fair grounds on Friday to Mrs Belle Ullon of Cameron West Virginia. She plans to move to Union County and will pay $2700. Ulion is an aunt of Mrs John Campbell who lives a few miles north of Marysville. Sale conducted through Bown Bros agency.
John Myers sold 624 acres on the Collins pike on Friday to John Snitzler. Snitzler recently bought Harrison McVay's adjoining farm, expanding holdings in the same area.
Four Marysville High School teachers Miss Miekey Nellie Roney Christine Houston Nellie and Phyllis Pearse plan a summer voyage to Europe. They will sail from Boston on June 19 to Glasgow and tour England Wales Scotland Ireland Belgium and Holland. They expect to return mid August visiting relatives and the American consul at Belfast.
Mrs Charles Moran aged 34, wife of a noted farmer and sheep breeder near Woodstock, died after a long illness from peritonitis. A Marysville native, she was the daughter of LeRoy Decker of Cleveland. The death followed an operation on May 16 by Dr Baldwin. Survived by husband and three children Roy 12 Marie 9 and John 3. Funeral held Saturday at two at the family home with burial in Milford Center Cemetery.
Marshal Murphy served notice on property owners along the alley between Seventh and Eighth streets to clean up the rear of their premises. Officers will review other alleys in town and urge cleanup now.
Captain Jonas Cline aged 82 father of Lester Cline Union county commissioner is seriously ill with little hope of recovery. He served in Civil War companies C and K and was an officer in the latter. A pioneer of Allen township.
Pearl Bonnette, a street car conductor at Cleveland, was a guest a few days last week of his uncle, Chas. Bonnette.
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