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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1912
Page
4
The column lists numerous social visits and family gatherings in Wintersville and nearby towns. It notes upcoming Grange Fair in Floyds Grove on September 11 and 12, visits to Steubenville and Dennison, and a Women’s Missionary Society festival near Wintersville. The piece also mentions guests at local homes and trips to Pittsburgh, Cadiz, and Wheeling.
Circle Green Retta and Bessie Morgan shopped at Bergholz on Tuesday. Mrs Bailey and her son Frank of Mingo visit her parents Mr and Mrs Booth during a Steubenville business trip. W H and H W Rutledge were in town. Mrs James Booth attended her cousin Mrs Sheffart's funeral in Steubenville last Monday. Dorcas and Mary Rutledge visited H W Walker on Wednesday. T Fr Rutledge and family attended a Mt Hope picnic Saturday. Clayton Aughenbaugh of Wellsville stayed last week with Emmet Calhoun. Daisy Morgan visits friends in Annapolis. Mr and Mrs E B Peterson returned after days with brother James Peterson in New Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs Kk BE Shepherd spent Wednesday evening at the Booth home.
East Liverpool residents Mrs. John Bullman and daughter Kathryn visit Mrs. Kathryn Billman. Miss Kizzie Russell spends days with her Chester brother. Mrs. Will Lowry and daughter Audene visit Wm. Carson. Ferne Parsons and Rose Montgomery visit D. H. Van Dyke. G. K. Pearce and daughter return to Steubenville after vacation with Barbara Lowry. Maude Neal visits Wm. Carson. Daniel and Julia Funck from Wooster visit J. R. Lowry. Dombrosky Kirber from Pittsburgh visit Fred Reisfar. Rex Call of Steubenville visits brother Daniel. Ernest Vermillion and Laura Orrin visit Billmen's. Mrs. George Cain of Bacon Ridge spends Monday with relatives.
Mrs Steve McDevitt returns home after visiting friends in New Alexandria as local social notes report numerous visits and engagements. Thomas Steven Jones of Steubenville to marry Fern Mertz of Bellaire surprised many. well wishes pour in for the couple.
East Springfield residents share weekend visits Tiny notes mention George Owens and Wallace Owens heading to Richmond after time with Rebecca Ellis and James Dinger family visiting Amsterdam relatives. Miss Anna Morgan visits brothers Forest and Harley Morgan of Amsterdam. Nanable family leaves for PA. I L Miller visits kin in Liverpool Florence and Nellie Drake return from Paris to Alliance. Hilo homestead party enjoyed with music games and ice cream supper. John Elliott family visits George Pettit of Bergholz.
Mrs Norma Moore of Wellsville visited Miss May Elliott last week. George and Grant were doing business in Carrollton and Grant's Hill respectively. Joe Martin and wife of East Liverpool visited here. Alex McLain and T M George also conducted business in nearby towns. Rev Kirk McGeorge and wife visited local friends. Miss Sarah Griffith stayed with Mrs Ames Moore. H W Elliott called on Salineville area, while HH Marshall and son Charley of Bergholz visited Sunday evening. Wm Barrance of Salineville also appeared in the vicinity. Monday.
RaylandMr and Mrs John Becket of Smithfield and Mr and Mrs A B Hedge of Wellsburg West Virginia were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs R T Wells. Miss Ruth Raush returned home from an extended visit with her sister Mrs Marysrete. Mr B F Boster of Smithfield has been sparing Hopewell church.
The piece notes upcoming marriage of Fern Mertz of Belair to T S Jones of Steubenville, a respected Steubenville lawyer, drawing local interest and well wishes. Also mentioned are the quarterly Tiltonville conference attendance by Mrs. Fanny Haythorne and others, illness of Dr. Wells, and a future township Sunday School picnic with details to be announced.
Harvesting is nearly finished in Salt Run as plowing for wheat proceeds. Albert McGrew and Semour Bell excel with their threshing machine. oats good, wheat light. Robert Waugh cuts oats today for E L Crown on the Ridge. A Wellsburg and Brilliant party tours Wm Matthews’ farm to view a new wrought iron fence around the Matthews cemetery built by Ellsworth Everson of Brilliant. Richard Kugler returns to work at Blithes coal mine after illness. Derrick for oil drilling nearly finished by Steubenville men boarding at McGrew’s. M L Ingler and George Meager of Mingo lease land and prepare to drill on Matthews farm. Dr Gourley of Mingo attends Matthews’ place. a nine pound baby boy arrives. Richard Bell of Riddles Run buys mutton sheep and begins butcher business.
Fairfield reports a busy day with a sale of a valuable team of grey horses to John Yocum. Visitors include Masters Ralph Rock and Leonard Mullen from Pittsburg at the Kuester home. Local travels cover John Kirk’s Eastern trip and Miss Mary Vankirk’s return visit to her former home, plus Charles Cline of Unionport. Events note a circus in Richmond, a horse loss by Bud Cline from Unionport due to lockjaw, and timber cutting at Salem by Robert Polen and Al Owens.
Owing to weather, the Union Sunday Evening Service was moved from an open area to the United Presbyterian church where Rev. J B Davit of McDonald Pa preached to a large crowd. Meanwhile locals J De Winters and daughter along with Mrs Harry Welday spent two days at New Philadelphia visiting Winters’ brother Isaiah.
Saturday morning rain delayed the Mt Hope picnic but by ten o clock wagons filled with happy children and well stocked baskets gathered for a bright day. The Jewett Junior Band played, a literary program followed, Sunday schools competed for prizes, and Richmond M. FE Sunday school won second prize for decoration. Numerous local residents and visitors, trips to Steubenville and Cadiz Chautauqua, and community events filled the day, with social gatherings, family visits, and notes on weather and harvests. A Grange meeting and festival drew large crowds as town life rolled on.
Bloomfield notes that Saturday will be a vain day for the Jefferson County Grange as Bloomingdale Grange 1420 hosts a social feast for all subordinate Granges. The event features speakers Toho Bega from Cs Grove and Reve Ko W, icFarteed and Prof. details are limited in the fragment.
Community threshing has begun in Midway. Olen Betts of Chicago visits his parents, while George Clark travels to Tusca-wawas County for a two week stay. Various residents attend picnics, house parties, and visits, and the Midway Schoolhouse gains a fresh paint job with varnished desks and seats. Miss Rose Montgomery hosts a country house party including Pearl and Laura Simpson and Fern and Dale Parsons, with Montgom ery teaching staff planning elocutionary recitals.
Beware bargain fertilizer claims as the text urges buyers to visit P. A. Hoge & Co. at 52 Market Street for better goods and outcomes.
Farmers flock to Hoge's Fertilizer as the preferred product. Market street storefront at 523 Market Street invites buyers seeking the best in agricultural nourishment.
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