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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1908
Page
4
Local letters note Mr Roy Black in Follansbee, Ellersville threshing by William Jackson, plus Mrs Baxter and others visiting friends. Doings include church services, family visits, health updates, and social gatherings with many names and small-town connections across Follanshee and nearby towns.
Amsterdam residents report Jones move to Ivile and take a job in a machine shop while others plan Friday nights for Red Men events. Jewelers, opticians, and dentists announce upcoming repair days and relocations. Multiple residents travel, vote, lecture, or visit, including Miss Nettie McBane, Miss Ruth Phillips, Rex Crabb, George Wilson, and Harry Wilcoxen.
Misses Jean Buchan and Mary Wil gon of Mingone are guests of the Misses Loyder. Guests include Grover Dalrymple and friend of Follanshee entertained by Mrs. Seymour Graham of Wells township with Charles Aine and Misses Lizzie and Olive Dalrymple. James Hanna and wife visit father-in-law J. B. Moore and an Eimer KE. Frefl and family of Steubenville visit Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Frell. William Waugh and wife with children Harry and Frances visit Bellaire and father ite ta. Fellows and friends in the vicinity. ve woe nadile of Chestnut Ridge with Albert Waugh and Miss essie Waugh entertained by K. Waugh and family Sunday. W. W. Rabe and wife and daughter Mrs. Blackburn of Bloomingdate visit Mrs. R. M. Thompson and Miss Alfretta Rivne of New Alexandria with Septare and Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Tompson at Weems. Edith Thompson and brother Morris of New Castle, after summer visit with grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Quillen on Main street, return home very much pleased with summer outing. Mrs. Anna Spencer and son Alex of Morgan county, visiting John Rine and family, village, return home Tuesday. Mrs. Campbell nee Miss Bird Bell.
Mrs Jennie Burnett and nephew Wmn Carson attended Hollow Rock camp meeting. Miss Bertha Jones of Bloomingdale visited Kee wnele J Helitets. Miss Mary McCoy spent time with home folks. Erma and Evalyn Andrews with Ethele and Wilma McElroy. Allen city visitor. Ridge youths at Unionport August meeting. G M Leech and daughter Eleanor of Steubenville visited. Huston family guests of Ross Lowry in Steubenville. Erma Andrews and Ethel McElroy plan to attend Steubenville high school. Ida Thompson and Cora Andrews visited Carnelle Pa. George McElroy and sister mentioned.
Misses Mary Ferrell and Mabel Shields are visiting relatives in Bergholz and Carrollton this week. Several from here attended the Harvest Home Picnic at Newmanely. Mamie Polen and Roy Thompson quietly married at East Springfield. Typhoid patient Wm. Beatty showing slight improvement. Community notices detail visits, picnics, and a dinner with Emily Fulton.
The Mt Moriah church invites the public to morning and evening services led by Rev Cunningham on September 13. Mrs Wilson will give a lecture Friday night August 28. Local residents and visitors are noted in this community update with several travelers and visits mentioned. An oil well is being drilled on Mrs K T Coles farm and a union Sunday School picnic is planned in the grove at No schoolhouse on Saturday August 29.
Lille Parkinson returned home on Wheeling Island after visiting cousin Miss Gertrude Dalrymple. Kathleen Haythorne went back to Utica on Wednesday to resume studies after a month with family. Mrs. Catharine Tilton and son Holgen of Martins Ferry hosted kin for a Sunday gathering with cards and gifts for her birthday. Mrs. Linna Hennig Sherman and daughter Adaline of Wheeling were guests of Mrs. Oliver Lewis last week. Ida Cole returned home from Cadiz after a short stay with school friends. Christing and Chita were mentioned among attendees.
Greenlee and family visited Wheeling friends Sunday. Miss Jane Garden bedridden. Mrs. Jessie Dalrymple and children visiting East Liverpool. Rev. Bingham returns from vacation with Sunday services at 11. Pearl Bone Mary Kline Ethel Barr join Leon Everson Will Barr Earl Clow at Rock Springs picnic. Ragland corner hand hosted at John Chambers home for recent marriage reception. Oliver Lewis and son in Martin's Ferry on business. Blanche Gillespie and Eagleson guests of Nannie Gillespie Sunday. Tessie Stringer returns from Canton to visit P J O'Brien sister.
Bergholz glove factory owned by Jacob Pinnock operates fully. Bergholz Gas Co. lays pipe as residents install gas plumbing. Mrs. Wilson, noted lecturer, to speak at M E Church on August 27. Rev. Hughart called to Virginia for mother’s illness and death. Son of John Amstentz ill with fever. Mary Fawcett improving. Jonathan Rowe and family and Charles Brown and family moving to New Philadelphia. Smyth Fowler of East Liverpool visiting William Twaddle. E D Hunt of Alliance rusticating in Bergholz for a few days. Fred Maple’s little child is recovering from sickness. Mrs. Richard Hanson on sick list.
Local notes recount church events and visits across towns. Mentions Rev Williams sermon, Aunt Mrs Emmett Lucas guest Audrey Busby, Miss Rachel Hammond visiting near Catliz, Miss Faye Witlemin with Miss Lizzie Manstedd, and many regional social itineraries including visits to Steubenville, Carnegie, Fernwood, and Malvern with school openings, lectures, and camp meetings noted.
Mrs N R Bell of Wheeling visits Blomfield friends. Mrs Wilson Hawkins and children from Bellaire enjoy vacation with Mrs George W Mel Naty. Miss Vilda Laylander returns to Columbus after a pleasant stay with her aunt Mrs J L Mather.
East Levensponns resident Lewis visits Rush Run with relatives and friends. Miss Ethel Lyons of Dillonvale stays with her sister Mrs. John Linn while Mrs. Bell Hedges returns from Wellsburg to care for her ill father R. T. Wells. Miss Jessie Schamehorn returns to Steubenville. Martin Brimsley of Athens visits Jefferson and Samuel Brimsley after twenty six years away. He recalls the rail line and coal mines, noting only five old schoolmates remain. He hopes to return to spend his final days on the old stamping ground.
A well attended picnic at Two Ridges last Saturday featured an engaging afternoon ball game between Fernwood and Two Ridges. residents visited kin in West Virginia and Philadelphia. attendance included Miss Francis Leech from Valparaiso Indiana and others joining Sabbath services in Wintersville.
Mt Hope residents report busy threshing as many visit Unionport for the annual church meeting. Metcalfes from Wellsville visit home folks this week. Herbert Kirkpatrick’s tenant house burned, Fivecoats occupied, goods saved but fruit destroyed. Mt Hope Sunday school picnics in Sease’s grove near Oak Grove on Friday Sept 4. Clarence Owen returns to Rush Run after visit to Quaker Hill. Metcalf visits Wintersville. Mrs. J B Owen guests in Steubenville. Metcalf on city business Tuesday.
Bergholz residents flocked to Hollow Rock for a camp meeting led by Miss Margaret Hawley of Pha lanx visiting the Homer Beidler home. Mrs. James Morrow and Mrs. Mary Faucett remain ill. Y P S C E B of the Presbyterian church plan a September 3 convent. George Oeffuer of Alliance greeted old friends. Shields family from Annapolis visited relatives. Marty Miller made a trip to Annapolis. Knights of Pythias announce an excursion to Rock Springs park with a special Aug 28 train from Bergholz to East Liverpool via Bayard. Mrs J S Myers shopped in Salem.
Tol Henderson family are visiting Mire while Wic Howard Cape rests with friends in Smithfield as the Wood farm oil well nears completion.
Farmers finish outs harvest while a new music store opens in Mrs. H Ong’s residence and Mc Keen shoe shop changes hands to Mr. Cole. Mrs. Johnson moves milinery to Mrs. WeKley’s rooms on Main Street and a new tailor shop opens in Mrs. Ramsey’s vacated space. Town visitors include Mr. Archer of Steubenville and Rev. Logan returning from vacation.
Southern Ohio Loan & Trust Company filed foreclosure suits against Mary A. Maple and Thos Mesey for properties in Irondale. The notes total $104.18 and $178.63 respectively, with Huston Williams attorneys handling the filings.
Wasps prey on flies a well known fact in Italy. In Tuscan countryside summers or early autumn days, when the luncheon table is blackened by flies, a wasp enters through an open window, selects a fly, rolls it up, and carries it outside to sun. It soon returns for another.
Oil leases recently recorded include John Boka to G D Gordon at Mingo Junction Mary Seboal to George F E Dempsey at Mingo Junction Emerson I Call to Jos C Byers at Mingo Junction
Caroline Thorpe is officially appointed and qualified as Administratrix of the estate of Albert Thorpe, deceased, late of Springfield township Jefferson county Ohio. Dated July 21, 1908. W R Alban, Attorney.
Antonio F Bonelli of 46 Monroe avenue Mayfield Heights Cleveland Ohio is warned Nicola Cerri has filed a probate petition in Jefferson County Ohio on August 24 1908 to remove Bonelli as administrator of Aniceto Calzoni deceased Estate alleging fraudulent conduct and abandonment with a hearing set for September 26 1908 at 1 PM W H Seagrave attorney for petitioner dated August 27 1908
A Steubenville woman, Emma Coleman of 6290 Adams St, testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills relieved her backache and kidney troubles within a short time after six years of use. She says other family members also benefited and urges readers to buy Doans Kidney Pills from Beall & Steele and remember the brand.
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