Heritage Trail for Middletown Scouts Celebrates 50th Year
Mrs Charles Leas and committee, with W D Vorhis, map a Heritage Trail in Middletown celebrating the Girl Scouts 50th year. The route includes 33 landmarks from homes to schools, churches, cemeteries, and historic sites along Main Street, Central Avenue, and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Leasure
W. D. Vorhis
Girl Scouts
Middletown
Franklin
Lebanon
Waynesville
Springboro
Testing Has A Big Role In Middletown Schools
Lawrence W. Johnson, coordinator of guidance and testing in Middletown public schools, explains testing as a balanced tool between extremes. Since 1900, secondary enrollment rose to 90 percent and mass testing expanded. city tests from first grade to senior high shapes instruction and even guides career paths in high school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Lawrence W. Johnson
Johnson
American woman helps cousin flee East Berlin crisis
Mrs Myron Balon of Jefferson Road recounts aiding her cousin to escape across the Iron Curtain during a three month visit to Germany. They crossed at night with altered plates and passes, then retrieved the girl from a bar and returned to work, saying the operation went smoothly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Berlin
Myron Balon
Jefferson Road
Berlin
Germany
Iron Curtain
Balon
Old Courthouse Stories and a German Wartime Survivor
The article recalls the 1885 Butler County Courthouse cornerstone and its copper box of era memorabilia, the 1888 move, and 1912 repairs. It also features Langard Balon recounting wartime Germany, her Hitler Jugend camp experience, family hardships, postwar rebuilding, and her return visit with reflections on resilience and modern Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler County
Hamilton
Berea
Butler County Common Pleas Court
John Torrence
Dayton
Water Streets
Ft. Hamilton
High Main Street
Langard Balon
Germany
Hitler
Augsburg
Community club meetings fill the week schedule
A dense list of local gatherings fills the week with clubs and chapters in Manchester Monroe and surrounding areas. Meetings span Sunday through Tuesday at churches schools armories and clubhouses including IPPA AFL Hall Trans. Bn VFW and Lions Club with times from noon to 8:30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AFL Hall
Monroe Grange
Monroe
Garfield
Armory
Board of Education
Lily of the Valley
CES
Trades and Labor Hall
Amanda Athletic Club
Amanda Club
Civitan Club
Manchester
Safety Council Board
Ymca Barnitz
Sertoma Club
Manchester Knights of St. John
Trenton
St. John’s
Butler County Medical Assistants
Miami Lodge
FOE Lodge
Eagles Hall
Spebsqsa
Legion Home
Al-Anon Family Group
Firemen's Dance Set for October 21 at Armory
Firemen's Welfare Fund hosts its annual Middletown Dance Saturday October 21 at the National Guard Armory. Co chairs Louis Knezich and Ralph Pete Curtis say proceeds aid firemen charitable efforts and support peewee football and knothole baseball. Garwood Wells and his orchestra play from 9 to 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firemen’s Welfare Fund
Middletown
National Guard Armory
Louis Knezich
Ralph Pete Curtis
Garwood Wells
Middletown Orchestra
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Lynn Danner
Robert Wilson
S. Main St
Paul J. Sorg
S. Main
Alexander Hill
Daniel McCallay
George M. Verity
John B. Tytus Sr
Adam Dickey
Amanda
Nathaniel White
Dr. Peter Vanderveer
Thornhill Lane
Harkrader
Francis J. Tytus
Avalon Drive
Daniel Crane Doty
Woodside
Yankee Road
Central Ave
Sorg Opera House
Old South School
Blue Ball School
Old
U.S. 25
Mount Pleasant Baptist Church
Ohio 4
Elks Temple
N. Main St
First Methodist Church
Broad Street
Second Avenue
Harding-Jones Paper Co
Excello
Canal Lock
Crystal Tissue Co
Middletown Water Works
Columbia Avenue
Middletown Cemetery
First Avenue
Woodside Cemetery
Vanderveer Street
14Th Avenue
Excelin
Central Avenue
Verity Parkway
Leibee
First National Bank
Barnitz Bank
Hydraulic Canal
State Dam
Mound Builders
Carmody Boulevard
Cincinnati, Hame Ilton and
Abraham Lincoln
Doty Sycamore
Jesse Leasure
Marsha Hoskins
Mrs. Balon
County Commission
Judy
Stephen
Quarterback Club
Frisch. Industrial Council
Monroe Lions Club
Dolors Church Recreation
Rotary Club
Alcoholics Anonymous
Mayfield Fire Department
Sheffield Street
VFW
Miami Valley
Lemon-Monroe Band
Lemon - Monroe High School
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