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Newspaper
Portsmouth Times
Location
Portsmouth, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1908
Page
3
Dee and Keefe mix in a tight local encounter as an E tied game unfolds. Spectators witness a close finish with both sides contesting every point and sustaining momentum through the final whistle.
Levi Porter Ai Catlettsburg, formerly assistant secretary at the N. & W. RR, is succeeded by his brother George Porter and now located at Catlettsburg Kentucky. A letter to his parents states he is in the restaurant business on Center Street and runs the Mausard Cafe with fine styles.
Fragmented item lists auctions and property transfers including Alice Hall to Henry Merihou in Washington sp, Joshua Allen to James A. Max wall with a 5 acre tract, Augustio to J. W. Marsh, and Ann Me Doherty of Columbus acquiring 158 acres in Valley Ty for 2500 dollars.
A town church bloc retains membership amid disputes over issues. The central group remains united, with two leading Presbyterian churches backing the decision. The smaller congregation plans to welcome Rev. Mr. Ger from Coms Grove to lead services starting early in the year.
Attorney Wm J Meyer, struck by sudden illness, shows improvement and plans to return to Kentucky. From Columbus on Thursday, he is reported to be recovering and resuming duties. Mr Miller, Gratz Wy head of mines, hosted Thanksgiving with family at South Portsmouth and celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary with relatives at Gratz.
The Markets opens with Wheat Dee at 1.054 and 1.0314 for May and July futures. Corn Dee 0.614g May 0.6254 July. Oats Dee 0.4855 May 0.5114. Close shows Wheat Dee 1.0596 May 1.10. Corn Dee 0.81. Oats Dee 0.494. Shoe man Mr Yohnny Garrazhty, a Selby shoe seller, is ill with typhoid and may take a position here. Clyde Wamsley, Peebles druggist, arrives seeking pharmacist work.
Column advertising livestock and farm equipment for sale from J C McNelley of South Webster offering English Berkshire bogs for sale of either sex and fine breeding. Also two four row McCormick corn huskers for cash or trade for Andrew Glim in Wheelersburg. Contact via local home phone.
A wagon struck by a team of horses hitched to a Steelham ice wagon ran away on Wednesday along North Waller Street to Eleventh Street. A child named Johnson narrowly avoided being struck in front of Swickert grocery as the horses demolished a telephone pole near the Stockham plant. the wagon was wrecked but the horses were uninjured.
Friends of John Carroll a well known young contracting painter of West Third street are learning the exact date of his coming marriage. Carroll has been seen at a tailor shop and rumors say a Washington hotel hostess is arranging her trousseau. The couple may wed soon and locate in Chattanooga Tennessee. Carroll’s brother in law Alfred Ledbetter has lived there since his wife’s death earlier this year.
Marlin fireman Martin Able of the Negara division N W, residing at 662 Winton Avenue, went out on his run for the first time in six weeks on Wednesday. He suffered blood poisoning from a stall pimple picked with a brass pin, causing swelling and fear of amputation, but his arm has swollen down and is almost as good as new.
Mt. Ores grain dealer E. White in town on business to secure a shipment of 20 carloads of corn. A contract award for the George Appel home on Gallia Street has been postponed until Saturday.
Ira Wyer, a Gallia Street resident, plans to leave Portsmouth this month to take over a three-store business in Quincy, Kentucky. He exchanges his Portsmouth assets for Tol Hewitt’s general store in Quincy, with Hewitt already relocating to Oklahoma. Wyer will manage the Quincy venture, expand stock, and pursue additional deals, while Hewitt gains three Portsmouth properties.
A little girl Margar et mourns her father Mont Bybee who died suddenly in Lattington. She keeps writing letters to Papa in Heaven and mails them daily, hoping for a reply she fears may not come. The postal worker, moved, calls it the saddest case he has seen in his long career.
A Harrisonville meeting of the township board of education investigated a brutal whipping of 11 year old Blave Tavitz by village teacher Herbert G C Rickey. Witnesses described the teacher grabbing the boy from his seat and shoving him against a wall. The Lantz family denounced the act as excessive and public sentiment favors disciplinary action against Rickey.
Aden residents TW. Johnson and OC. C. Brown rented No. 05 East Third to run a first class general store selling top lines in groceries. They plan to open by mid next week after relocating and bringing experience from the grocery trade. Raincoats on sale at Haas' Home. Farley, Selby foreman, returns from Colorado Springs after news of his brother's death.
Attorneys Ogent W. Newman and Nolw Gillian act as counsel in Waverly for the Stockham will case. The legal issue centers on the validity of a joint will by husband and wife as tested in this matter. Sweaters discounted at Haas. nothing else verified.
A lively four hour debate on tariffs drew a crowded Washington hotel lobby Wednesday night. Two long winded knights traded points, one a tobacco man from the city and the other an iron man, both earning mixed applause and questions from the gathered listeners.
In probate court on Wednesday Mrs. Jennie Dever qualified as executor of her husband Edward L. Dever's estate of Porter township. He left real estate valued at 2500 and $70 in cash securities. Four minor children are heirs.
Frank Valley arrived in town to showcase new autos described as beauties bigger than any before, equipped to start without a crank. Mark IL Mechelin traveled from Manchester on business, arriving by automobile to observe the event and meet with agents.
Judge Dever has reportedly given up hopes of becoming the next speaker. He is said to be playing for position and accepting the chairmanship of a minor committee in the House. Chan Moulton, Edwin Jones, and Sen Jackson County boss were noted but overlooked in dispatches.
Jno Russell was elected grand knight of the Portsmouth council Knights of Columbus at a spirited annual election. Daniel Flannigan was re elected deputy grand knight with Bernard Crahan chancellor and other officers named, to be installed in January by a state officer in a likely new quarters setup.
A traveling man from Portsmouth recounted an Atlanta incident involving a bootlegger scam. A stranger offered whiskey for a $2 bill, handed him a shoe box to guard, then vanished. The man later opened the box to find a bottle of whiskey inside, revealing the ruse.
William R. Price a Louisville and Nashville railroad engineer filed in Kenton circuit court for divorce from Emma Price whom he married in 1896 amid charges of improper conduct. He seeks custody of two minor children. Emma resides in Portsmouth Ohio. Attorney B F Graziani for Price.
George B. Tyler, a state senator from Georgetown and prominent Democrat, was seen in the city Wednesday evening renewing old acquaintances. He is on the road for a major stationary concern and previously served in the senate during James W. Newmen’s tenure as secretary of state.
South Portsmouth resident Rube Lawson has returned from a lengthy tour through northern and eastern Kentucky. He now works for a gas company, arranging leases and rights of way for a line from West Virginia fields to Cincinnati, passing Carter, Lewis, Beavken, and Elliott counties after a prior survey. Condemnation proceedings are launched against landowners who refuse to grant rights. Peck King lands a new job at Chris Wagner's shop in the West End as a barber.
Several small boats including the Valley Belle with a light tow and the steamer Duce with a junkeet are aground in the bend above the government lyke as the river continues to fall. Prospects for a boating stage are very remote.
The workers at Kaps Bros harass bookkeeper James Mc Gosney over a promised haul from a hunting trip. He reported buying items for a grand hunt and promised friends a big mess of game. He returned with a single rabbit, claiming the catch was his sole prize.
Henry Sommer is seen clearing land recently purchased by Leo Sommer and Frank Seymour on the West Side. The work aims to prepare the parcel for cultivation and development.
In Upwater a quirky bequest of 1000 dollars to the prettiest woman prompts a town lawn party contest judged by married elders. Mary Bennett, ignored for her plain looks, wrestles with her feelings as Richard Gordon muses over Bertha Klendenning while she prepares to enter the competition.
Richard proposes in a tense scene as Mary Vannett is announced winner of a local contest judged by townspeople. The event centers on a will clause, with Bets, Bertha, and other young women under scrutiny while Mary radiates joy and surprise at the platform announcement.
George Ffarmon enters temporary employment as a clerk at Theo Pierron's new Market Street grocery. Pierron reports a nearly complete stock and one of the city's most extensive lines.
Pickaway county residents Mrs. X C Rader attended the funeral of her son in law 18 Bodmer who died at his home on Careys Run last week. John Norman and his wife, longtime residents on Sum mit street, have spent the past two months at their daughter's home Mrs. Heder amid ongoing family tensions.
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