Thanksgiving Dinner At Oak Grove School House
The Thanksgiving gathering at Oak Grove school house drew many from Fernwood Alliance Sunshine and nearby towns. Notable attendees included Chalmers Clark Brillant and the Ricker and Weems families, with a lavish turkey dinner and a Sunday rally led by Rev S S Atkins and Rev Williams. The collection exceeded 200 dollars. Moving pictures, a wood business, and a local relocation were mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oak Grove
Chalmers Clark
Brilliant
Charles
Don Ricker
Weems
George Mills
Merriah
Anderson Vermillion
Chris. Adams
Della Palmer
Mable
Harriet Armstrong
Fernwood
Hoyt Elliott
Tennie Oliver
Alliance
James Wide
Sunshine
Coon West
David West
William Ramsey
Hopedall
James Arust
Local notes from Brilliant area and gatherings
Miss Daisy Peck shopped in Brilliant while J E Schameron tore down Glen Run Co houses for mine relays and reerection. The Blythe coal mine resumes with Sunnyside Electric power. Thanksgiving dinner hosted by D E Peck included many Brilliant residents. Dr C M Church led meetings with Rev Haverfield noting several conversions. Miss Marv Everrin ill caused Linton school to close briefly. Sivard preached Sunday evening in Steubenville area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daisy Peck
Brilliant
J. E. Schameron
Glen Run
Captain White
D. W. Brown
Blythe
Sunnyside Electric Company
Ewrin Brandfast
Esther Hathway
George, Avary and
Howard
Thomas Chamberlain
Smithfield
John Lynn
Edith
Weilda
Gosnell
Mingo
Ragland
C. M. Church
M. E
Haverfield
C. Sivard
Stonville
Mr. Sivard
Steubenville
Lintons School
Marv Everrin
Carmen Farmers Institute Planned for Carmen Illinois
The Farmers Institute will meet in Carmen German Township Harrison county on December 18 and 19 1916. The program covers morning sessions with talks on hog feeding clover and alfalfa growing profitable corn culture and home economy and evening sessions with school exercises and family topics. Guests include Horatio Markley George Crawford Nellie Woods Rev W W Gilmore and others. Attendees are advised to bring dinners and travel by listed rail routes to Carman or nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmen
Farmers Institute
German Township
Harrison County
Institute
Horatio Markley
George Crawford
H- Markley
William Drake
Smithfield News Highlights and Local Updates
The Thanksgiving sale at George Merryman’s drew good attendance and strong bidding. Mrs. Jessie Heniken is expected to assume the local post office duties soon. Mr. Shinley visited on a hunting trip last week. The new bank building nears completion with the roof in place. George Merryman plans to move from town this week. HH DeLong is employed at Park Jett. The Bradley mine is operating at full capacity.
Fernwood Grange Holds Regular Session and Public Sale
Fernwood Grange met Wednesday with good attendance. Judge Mansfield and George Armstrong will hold a public sale of sheep and cattle at the Mansfield farm on Thursday December 14 at one o clock. Thanksgiving gatherings occurred in the neighborhood. Various local residents visited in town and with relatives. The Valley Oil Company of Steubenville will have a light oil producer on the Sprunes farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fernwood
Grange
Judge Mansfield
George Armstrong
Mansfield Farm
James Kane
Cadiz
A. M. Smith
Audrey Sutherland
Mary Long
Lucie Sheets
Wellsburg
Frank McCullough
Julia
Steubenville
Wilson McCullough
William McCullough
W. A. McCullough
Anderson Vermillion
Cross Creek
Valley Oil Company
Sprunes
Moorestown Social News Recaps Thanksgiving Visits and Visits
Local society notes report Mr and Mrs Bert Crales hosting a games and music night with a doughnut and apple lunch. Numerous relatives and friends, including R W George family at Dr J Y Walker in Bergholz, John Casey in Steubenville, Homer McLain from Cleveland, Gladys George in East Liverpool, Ed Crabbs in Bergholz, and students Meryl George Fay Robbins, spent Thanksgiving with their families. Additional gatherings include Elizabeth Moore returning from Congo West Virginia and Miss Mary Moore hosting W T Moore in Alliance. Mrs T Ernest George visited To ronto with Miss Merle Shane while Miss Elsie Casey visited Pittsburg. Jesse George, OSU student, spent Thanksgiving at his mother’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Springfield
Wm. L. Hales
Elizabeth Morgan
Harry Fulton
Annapolis
Dean Davidson
Hales
Prossus
M. E
China
J. Frank Smith
Indianapolis
M. E. Church
Charles A. Sheldon
Ada Kirkpatrick
Shull
James
Ashtabula
J. C. Kirkpatrick
Leighton Buchanan
Unionport
Mr. Buchanan
Miss McClurg
Bergholz
McClurg
W. S. Porter
Billy
W. R. Hales
Toronto
J. M. Anderson
Dale
Non Rutledge
Hazel
Braddock
L. G. Flenniken
The
Grange
Mary Rutledge
Virginia Fleniiken
James McClare
Paul Polen
Mille
Robert
Knoxville
M. George
Ae Martha Georgy
Salineville Mondey
Marjorie McBane
Rt Crabbs
W. K. Smythe
Lomuella Dorrance
Berghols
Mooretown Achoo
Francis Sutton
Zion
George Morrow
Frank Grimm
Erna George
Edgar George
Will Casey
Pittsburg
W. N. Casey
B. B. Owen
Louis
Phillips
Ruth
Gene Moore
Hugh Saltsman
Chestnut Grove
Prussius
Smythe
Mooretown
Bert Crales
R. W. George
J. Y. Walker
John Casey
Steubenville
M. N. Casey
Homer McLain
Cleveland
Gladys George
East Liverpool
Ed. Crabbs
Meryl George
Fay Robbins
Salineville
Irondale
Bunch
Martha George
Elizabeth Moore
Congo
W. Va
T. Ernest George
Merle Shane
W. T. Moore
Mary Moore
Alliance
Elsie Casey
Gene
Jesse George
O. S. U. Columbus
T. B. George
Nina Hammon O. N. Porter
Anna Starr
Blackburn
Lewis Behnke
Lyle
Will McCullough
A. Moore
J. A. Spencer
Mary Maxwell
Ed. Blackburn
Frank Boyd
John D. Hervey
Tefferson
Ohio
EM. Brown
A. J. Plants
John C. Maxwell
Malvern
Claudine and
Violet Moore
Elsie Plants
Vermillion
J. C. Parks
Kate
Barney Dye
George Dodds
Adella Moore
J. C. Mather
Wm. Swearingen
Pittsburgh
Claudine
Alice Stewart
Annie Starr
Marke Mather
Mary Starr
Anna M. Reagan
Jewett
J. A. Gordon
Annie Thompson
D. H. Jones
Dr. Kent
Cadiz
D. G. Harriman
W. G. Gorsuch
Vina Hervey
Chas. Megrail
Eugene Hobler
Uhrichville
Union Evange
Rev. Simpson
Rev. Fowler
D. B. Frazier
J. D. Jones
Sharon
O. Coyle
J. Henry Coleman
Saltsburg
C. H. Trimmer
Bowerston
Ross Owens
Coleman
Ok Jones
Elsie Gotschall
Mabel Gorsuch
Miss Jones
Smithfield
Martha Cookson
Paul Mansfield
M. K. Tipton
Steub
Carnegie
G. L. Tipton
West Penn Hospital
W. E Parks
Ona Masters and Son
New Castle
George Badger
S. H. Armstrong
J. T. Dodds
J. S. Cookson
Will Tipton
M. E. Missionary Society
N. V. Maxwell
H. J. Merryman
H. H. Parks
R. FE. E. Patterson
Presbyterian Church
Esy
Cooke
James L. Hobso
Kansas
Columbus
Jay Kilgore
Norma
Elizabeth ‘Kilgore
West Main Street
Ralph S. Ford
Jewette High School
L. S .Ford
Elda Skaggs
Mingo
Rachel Simpson
J. M. Hobson
Thomas Hobson
Harold Gille
Organza
E. C. Gille
William Hout
Margaret
A. A. Arnold
West Market Street
Mason McClelland
Bacon Ridge
Paul Thompson
George W. Harris
Leslie W. Wood
Bloomingdale
H. J. Welday
C. A. Ford
C.H. Rarey
Richmond Friends
A. C. Davis
McNary
Merrile Ellis
Mt. Union College
Homer Elis
Girard
J. F. Ellis
Richmond M. E. Church
Ralph
Francis Ford
FE. Metcalf
Pittsboro
D. L. Watt
BR. H. Rinehart
L. S. Ford
Emma Graham
Maggie Jenkins
Charles Gille
Warren Gilbert
Charles Ford
Merrill
Homer Fills
Tennie Scott
C. A. Gille
Lena Gilbert
David Graham
Florence
Wintersville
Marvy McClurg
Margaret Rawlins
C. S. Culp
Goodyear Rubber Works
Akron
Vilage
Helen Jones
Margaret Ashton
Wheeling
Lizzie Neel
Ragland
Fred Tyler
Donaldson
Zellers
McKeesport
Ivan Maurer
Benjamin Roberts
Roberts
Clemmic Dewhurst
Henry Shane
Warren Ridge
Esther
Genev É Haystone
Utica
Lizzie Orlsdorf
Paul McCahen
Bertha Heil
Martin’s Ferry
Catharine McCormack
Oklahoma
Powell Lee
Foster
James Dixon
Portland Oregon
Oliver Lewis
Miss Gillespie
Tacoma
Dice
Win Stullenberg
George
Fannie Haythorne
Anna Large
Rush Run
Rayland
Wm. Blackburn
John Owens
Brilliant
Connorsville
Wright
Mr. Hipkins
Fred Baumberger, Sr
Fred Baumgardner Sr
Fairview Farm
Frank Lewis
Bloomfield society bazar and local weddings recap
The Bloomfield column promotes a Missionary Society bazar in the town hall on Saturday December 9 with a quilt sale and refreshments. It also reports multiple marriages including Stanton M. Rittenhouse to Mrs. Mary Leeper in Denver on Thanksgiving Day, and the weddings of Marie Hervey to Stanton M. Hervey in Bloomfield, Maude Spencer to Harry Crane in Smithfield, plus community news on Thanksgiving visits, local guests, and church events.
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Stant
Wayne Township
S. T. Frazier
Marie
Stanton M. Hervey
Gans
Bloomfield
Smithfield
Maude Spencer
J. A. Spencer
Harry Crane
Canton
Lawrence Momoser
Minerva
Paul Frederic Momoser
Bertha Parks
Darrell Hoobler
Pittsburgh
Carl P. Wallace
New Athens
J. B. Simeral
S. V. Wallace
E O. Lucas
Eugene
Julia Dyson
Jewett
J. W. Mansfield
H. R. Fleck
Harrisburg
Homer Mansfield
Hopedale
Wilbert Mansfield
Akron
Paul Mansfield
Steubenville
J. E. Mansfield
Will Tipton
Bloomingdae
George Harris
Dr. Lyle
High
Union Streets
Cyrus Day
State Center
Towa
James Ferguson
Charles Mather
Cookson
Margaret Day
John D. Maxwell
Claudine
Violet Moore
Malvern
A. J. Plants
Rachel Hammond
Anna J. Cole
E. L. Reed
Sarah N. Parks
D. M Merryman
Chas. Merryman
Maggie Couch
Donald
E. R
Dora Beshore
Ada Simeral
Chas
Richmond Thanksgiving Roundup Brightens Village Life
Thanksgiving services at the M E Church drew a fair crowd. Many Richmond residents and visitors shared meals and greetings, with local families hosting relatives from Steubenville and Unionport. Notable notes include visits by teachers, students, and former residents, a planned farmers institute in January 1917, and a temperance program led by the WCTU and Methodist and Presbyterian churches.
Death of Mrs Mary Tanley at 75 in Warrenton area
Mary Tanley died at her Warrenton area home after a brief illness. She was 75, lifelong in the community, endured multiple bereavements, and is survived by her son Edwin and several grandchildren. The piece notes her quiet life, steadfast faith, and the family’s care in her later years along with local social items including Thanksgiving dinner guests and church work.
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Rayland
Mary Tanley
Warrenton
Edwin
Naomi
M. B. Cole
J. D. Hervey
Masters Marshall
Cameron Farr
Jefferson
E. R. McHugh
Steubenville
Wm. Dean
Fthel Cole
Politician W B Francis eyed for post under national admin
After defeat by D A Hollingsworth the former congressman W B Francis is touted for a role under the national administration with claims of “something just as good” and others expect him to return to law and seek the gubernatorial nomination in two years.
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Cox
W. B. Francis
D. A. Hollingsworth
Free Press- Standard
Carrollton
Reckless Driving at Wellsburg Ferry Landing
Earl Bryan, a Wellsburg youth, was struck by a touring car as he left the ferry Albert landing. The auto, believed to belong to a Follawsbee foreigner, fled the scene up the wharf and through the city. Bryan suffered leg injuries but was not seriously hurt and was later cared for at home. police have the car's number and will seek the owner.
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Earl Bryan
Wellsburg
Bryan
Albert
Follawsbee
Bound Over In Child Marriage Coercion Case
Frank Jacobs of Colliers West Virginia was bound over to the Grand Jury after a preliminary hearing before Squire W R Glass in Wellsburg. A three year old girl and her parents testified that Jacobs coerced the marriage proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aliia Waterman
Frank Jacob
Colliers
W. Va
Wellsburg
Squire W. R. Glass
Jacobs
Adena Bridge to Be Replaced by Steel Span
The old covered wooden bridge at Adena long a landmark in Jefferson county will be replaced by a new 150 foot steel span. Morgan and his raiders once crossed the wooden structure during a memorable raid through the county.
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Adena
Wich
Morgan
Jefferson County
State of single blessedness sparks divorce joke
A humorous exchange notes a place with absolutely no divorces, jokingly calling it the state of single blessedness. The quip plays on the idea that being single means never facing divorce.
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Millard Clark
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John Burris
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James Blackburn
Jenkins
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D. A. Walton
Richardson-Jenkins
Austin Richardson
Mary A. Jenkins
Shanesville
Richardson
Shepfer & Moomaw Bros
Simpson
David Henry
Gladys Merryman
William Merryman
Harry J. Merryman
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Oscar R. Whittaker
Ralph Whittaker
Carolton
J. A. White
Richmond
U. P
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James Elliott
Sebring
Ladies Auxiliary Sr. of
J. L. Thompson
Lena Fryer
Bertha Dorsey
Union Hall
M. C. Hart
James Macmillan
Lieoyd Burk
Farmers’ Institute
Richmond Institute
Jones Concert Company
West End
Fancy Work Club
Frank Mauer
Mary Harris
Lawson
United Presbyterian Church
Deets
Florence Richards
P. L. Rodgers