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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1949
Page
3
In Bristow Oklahoma an elderly couple, Barkeley Burris aged 72 and Ella Mershon aged 65, remarried yesterday at Mrs Mershon's home. Burris, a Plainview Texas pensioner, had separated from his wife in 1906 when he left to seek work, ending years of estrangement and loss of contact.
Mrs. Mershon remarried Burris after a chance meeting in Plainview led to a Bristow visit. She initially rebuffed him but soon asked him to return. Neighbors who funded the wedding congratulated the couple and then left, with Mrs. Burris stating they want to be left alone.
James Robinson and Bruce Peters of Armco's Art Department at the Armco General Office won Dayton Art Institute honors for entries in an advertising art exhibition at the Dayton Art Center. Robinson took first prize in Magazine advertisement layout and earned honorable mention for a black and white illustration used in an Armco ad. Peters earned second prize in two color illustration with a large certificate motif presented to Armco employees reaching 20 years of safety.
Sam Bridge a Wabash railroad fireman has recovered his false teeth lost about three months ago while riding locomotive 2719 near Decatur. A machinist found them at the bottom of the coal pits in the roundhouse. The teeth, undamaged, likely lay under 200 or 300 tons of coal that passed over them into the firebox.
Mid dletown High School principal D R Baker supports Clyde Hissong of the State Department of Education on improving library service. He cites a good book collection but calls for a workroom, more seating, and better funding. Hissong notes statewide uneven facilities and urges boards to fund librarians with training and adequate rooms.
Col. Alfred J. de Lorimer 55 and Countess Elisabeth L. Jaun ez des Mares wed at St Andrews Church Windsor after 30 years and two wars. Met in Paris in 1918, she previously widow of her first husband killed in action in World War II era. They plan a California honeymoon.
City briefs list nightly meetings across local groups including Moose Club Fraternal Order of Police Associates Knights of St Johns House committee Blghte-Williams post 231 Sherman School mothers and husbands Dixie Heights Improvement League Middletown Lodge Elks Trades and Labor Kiwanis Manchester Hotel Blythe Williams Post Auxiliary Armco Federation VFW Dance Club Children's Farm Alpha Council Odd Fellows Board of Education Lions Club and more.
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