Rotarians Give Doty House 1500 Donation for Expansion
Jim Guyler, president of the Rotary Club, presented a 1500 check to Doty House today to fund dividing the general purpose room and create a fourth class for sixth to eighth graders at the center for handicapped children. The club has donated 2500 this year. Thornberry and Mrs. Tom Moon attended the noon luncheon as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doty House
Jim Guyler
Rotary Club
Center For
John Thornberry
Thornberry
Tom Moon
Doty House Board of Trustees
Lincoln Held Liquor License in 1833
A Lincoln museum display in Coles County shows an 1833 liquor license issued to Abraham Lincoln for a New Salem tavern. The document cost $6 with a $1 surcharge for selling drinks at posted prices, reflecting Lincoln's early legal career and local commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston, Fil
Abraham Lincoln
Coles County Court House
Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln
New Salem
Dodds DeathEnds Middletown Businessman Life in Phoenix
A. Hale Dodds, 66, Middletown native and former Germantown Chamber of Commerce president, died in Phoenix after moving there in 1962. He owned a Nermantown furniture store, was active in Republican politics, Rotarian and member of Knights of Pythias and Masonic Lodge. Survived by wife Peggy, son A Hale Jr. in Kettering, daughter Verda Gilbert of Dayton, son Robert Goodner of Dayton, sister Hazel Brewer, brother Edward Rosell, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Graveside services to be held in Middletown's Woodside Cemetery with memorials suggested to the Middletown Butler County Unit American Cancer Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Hale Dodds
Russell Weatherwax
Middletown
Phoenix
Ariz
Masonic Lodge
Peggy
A. Hale Jr
Kettering
Woodside Cemetery
Butler County
American Cancer Society
Verda Gilbert
Dayton
Robert Goodner
Hazel Brewer
Edward Rosell
Sabina
Marker & Heller Funeral Home
Memorial Park
Mrs Elsie Buhrman Dies At Carlisle Care Center
Mrs Elsie M Buhrman died Monday at the Carlisle Care Center after years in Dayton and Middletown. She was the wife of Grant Buhrman and sister of Mrs Anna Woods of Middletown. The obituary notes her former Dayton residence and family links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie M. Buhrman
Anna Woods
Middletown
Dayton
Carlisle
Grant
R W Ellis longtime Middletown machinist dies at 58
R W Ellis 58 of 2821 Plymouth St died at 5 20 am at Middletown Hospital after 12 hours illness. World War II Army Air Corps veteran. Employed since 1961 as a machinist by Mokry Tesmer Inc. Born in Gadsden Alabama. Survived by wife Iona a son Gerald at home five stepchildren Virginia Stone Warren Michigan Naomi Stone Utica Michigan Pauli and David Mann serving in the Air Force three sisters Lillie Cochran Gadsden Ruby Sherbert Jacksonville Fla and Mary New Mexico five brothers James Gadsden Roy Rialto Calif Bufford Biggs Calif Rones Warren Mich LC Ellis Jacksonville Fla and 15 grandchildren. Arrangements incomplete McCoy Leffler Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.W. Ellis
Plymouth St
Middletown Hospital
Mr. Ellis
Army Air Corps
Mokry- Tesmer, Inc
Gadsden
Ala
Iona
Gerald
William Mann
Middletown
Pauli
David Mann
Air Force
Virginia Stone
Warren
Mich
Naomi Stone
Utica
Lillie Cochran
Ruby Sherbert
Jacksonville
Fla
Mary
New Mexico
James
Roy
Rialto
Calif
Bufford
Biggs
Rones
Land LC
Ellis
McCoy-Leffler Funeral Home
Obituaries and notices from Kentucky and Ohio locals
Services for Mrs Mollie Holbrook 69 mother of Bessie Fletcher Laither Holbrook and Fern Martin and Norman Holbrook will be at Breakhirt Funeral Home Jackson Ky.She died Sunday at her home in Jackson Also surviving is daughter Lou Hall of Xenia. Mrs Bessie Meadows 63 of Covington sister of Tony Hammond died 8 30 am Monday at St Elizabeth Hospital Covington Also surviving are two sons Raymond Florence Ky and William Columbus Ky a brother Lorenzo Hammond Covington and five grandchildren Services at 2 pm Thursday Linnemann Funeral Home Erlanger Ky Burial Highland Cemetery Covington PW P COPPER Nancy Spence hosts informal coffee Wednesday 200 S Main St beginning a m For Middletown Parents Without Partners members and prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret
Maggie) Carberry
Blue Ball
Thompson
Mt. Crab
Carberry
Williamsburg
Ohio
Lewis and
Raymond
Middletown
Icie McAffee
Batavia
Eva Rutherford
Rosie Rutherford
Mt. Orab
Mollie Holbrook
Bessie Fletcher
Laither Holbrook
Fern Martin
Norman Holbrook
Franklin
Jackson
Bessie Meadows
Covington
Tony Hammond
Monroe
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Florence
William
Columbus
Lorenzo Hammond
Linnemann Funeral
Erlanger
Highland Cemetery
Nancy Spence
Main St
Parents Without Partners
British Lady Flier Risks All For NASA
British air ace Sheila Scott, 43, begins a 34,000 mile world record attempt as a human guinea pig for NASA. She departs London in a Piper Aztec, linked to Nimbus satellite for live data, and plans equator to equator North Pole flight with stops including Benghazi, Nairobi, Tromsoe, and Fairbanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Sheila Scott
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Tropics
Miss Scott
Equator
North Pole
NASA
Benghazi
Nairobi
Nimbus
Fairbanks
Alaska
Maryland
Scott
Sheila
Myth
Tromsoe
Norway
Pollar
Jail escapee flees dentist appointment in Hamilton
Sheriff reports Donald D. Crosswaite, 25, of Cincinnati, escaped during a dental visit at Dr. L. L. Hunter’s office in Hamilton while en route from London Correctional Institution. Police seek the inmate who had been jailed on a motor vehicle theft charge from April 26, 1969 in Middletown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Harold J. Carpenter
Donald D. Crosswaite
Cincinnati
Middletown
Crosswaite
London Correctional Institution
Carpenter
L. L. Hunter
S. Front St
Area Soldier Wounded in Vietnam Battlefield Action
Private First Class Douglas A. Reedy, a 19 year old Middletown area soldier, was slightly wounded by shell fragments during a combat operation in Vietnam. He serves in the 173rd Airborne Brigade after paratroop training at Fort Benning and graduated Middletown High in June 1970.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown-area
Vietnam
Douglas A. Reedy
William Reedy
S. Dixie Highway
Franklin
Verne L. Bowers
Army Adjutant-General
Reedy
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Ft. Benning
Middletown
Co. A
W3rd Airborne Infantry
APO
San Francisco
Calif
Steelworkers reach six year pact raising aluminum pay
United Steelworkers union and four major aluminum companies announce a six year contract. The agreement raises wages by about thirty percent and includes additional benefits. Details specify wage scales, overtime rules, and health coverage terms for bargaining unitworkers in metal production plants nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Steelworkers Union
Aluminum
Reynolds Metals Co
Ormet Aluminum
J. W. Abel
White House
Ing
Alcoa
Reynolds
Aluminum Workers International Union
Steelworkers
Kaiser
Ormet
USW
Court curbs loitering laws over patient street crowds
The Supreme Court invalidated a Cincinnati loitering ordinance that punished three or more people on sidewalks for being “annoying.” Justice Stewart called it vague and a violation of free assembly, ruling authorities cannot criminalize mere assembly for being bothersome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Potter Stewart
Stewart
Crash Leads To Bust For With Drugs
A Butler County traffic crash in Hueston Woods State Park led to four arrests. Larry Gaither 19 of Cincinnati faced reckless driving and hallucinogen possession charges after officers found marijuana in the vehicle. Passengers Daryll Gaither 21 Rosalind Turnbow 19 and Renee Carter 18, all of Cincinnati, were charged with hallucinogen possession. An 11-year-old girl passenger was returned to her parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Powell
Walter Reynolds
Butler County
Larry Gaither
Cincinnati
Daryll L. Gaither
Rosalind Turnbow
Renee Carter
Deadline Near For Academy Applications
Area residents may apply for service academy appointments. Exams will be held Tuesday July 6 in Hamilton and Dayton. A makeup exam may be scheduled. Complete applicant files must be in by November 15. Nominations will be reviewed in December with potential appointments to West Point, the Air Force Academy, and the Naval Academy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Service Academy
Kep
Walter E Powel
Powell
Hamilton
Dayton
West Point
Air Force Academy
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iree
Margaret Carberry
Elsie Buhrman
Toms
Sutphin
Woodlawn
Homer D.leffler
KR. W. Ellis
Mrs
Pw.p. Copper
Quang Tri
South Vietnam
U.S
Washington
Supreme Court
Nies
Olin Aluminum Co
Hannibal
Junion
Hueston Woods State Park
John Dobrozs Jr
Ins., Inc
First Ave
O. GA
Dodds Monuments
Verity
7Th Ave
Charles
Bud) Steller Mer
Monthru
Singer
Middletown Shopping Plaza
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!