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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1912
Page
5
Thursday evening visits and social calls fill the town as residents speak of a festival on the church lawn Saturday evening July 20 to benefit the church. Folks from Midway Steubenville and Ragland gather, with families sharing meals and music as the event approaches.
Farmers busy with heavy hay and promising apples. An open meeting at Mooretown schoolhouse July 24 1912 at 8 PM to form a new Grange. County Deputy Gilkinson will assist. Farmers and their wives and daughters urged to attend. Thomas E George reports an extra fine wheat field with potential large yield.
Orville Purviance and wife traveled from Steubenville to visit their parents on Sunday. Mrs. Rachel Elliott and daughter Ada visited Mingo friends on Monday. S. D. Elliott was a business visitor at Plum Run on Wednesday. Lena Naylor left Monday for a two week visit with friends at Mechanicstown. A. L. Sutherland was a business visitor at Steubenville on Tuesday. Mrs. Sowers and children from Canal Dover returned home Tuesday after visiting her sister.
Mr and Mrs Frank Salisman of Wellsville spent Tuesday evening at W A Lowry. Hilda Anderson of Braddock PA visits Miss Margaret Reed. Mary Carson of Knoxville stayed with her brother on the Ridge. Charles Redding and sister Sarah attended their aunt Mrs Neal s funeral in Pittsburg last Thursday. G K Pearce of Steubenville spent the weekend at Mrs J R Lowry s. William Reisfar from Braddock PA visited over Sunday with Fred Reisfar. Taylor H Carson and Blaine Redding attended the Mt Zion quarterly meeting. Mr and Mrs Rex Call of Steubenville spent Sunday with William Russell. Steve Ridmyer and wife of Hammondsville visited on the Ridge. Harry Noble of Harlem Springs visited D H Vandyke Saturday. Ray Billman came home Saturday for the weekend. Edna Carson and Sarah Redding shopped in East Liverpool Wednesday. Some young people attended the Mooretown festival Saturday. A Lowry transacted business in Wellsville Saturday.
The Ladies Missionary Society of Cross Creek Presbyterian Church will be entertained at Mrs. J. E. Gault's home on Thursday afternoon with Miss Jessie Nicholson of Steubenville speaking on her Los Angeles work. A Cadiz party visited Timmon’s Camp on Judge Mansfield place Sunday. Master James Kirk shows improvement after illness. Miss Audrey Sutherland of Weems hosts the Fancy Work Club Saturday. Mina and Marty Long attended Miss Margaret Miller’s funeral in Wellshire and George Zimmerman’s in Steubenville. J. & Gault, recently kicked by a horse, are able to be about. May Dunn visited Steubenville friends. Frank Gault spending vacation with home folks. Lucie Sheets of Wellsburg visiting Mina and Mary Long. Aida Elliott paid a Steubenville visit. RR. B. Mansfield of Brilliant visiting relatives. Mrs. Rachel Elliott spent Monday in Brilliant.
Edith Vale ill and relatives visiting. Thomas Wolfe Sr and Jr on vacations. Miss Irene Port and Maud Spencer visit Parlett. D D Foster dies at Smithfield home after long life. survived by wife Mary Whitten and six children. active in local churches. notes on funeral and faith.
A telephone festival will be held at Tames Bowers' of Reeds Mills on July goth with a large crowd expected. Mr. and Mrs. Lockhart were translating business in Steubenville. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Houston and daughter Maria of Steubenville visited Mrs. Houston of this place over Sunday. Ridge attendees reported a scrumptuous rog at R. W. Scott's Wednesday. W. Chalfant visits Pittsburg friends. Erma Andrews and Lizzie Scott were guests of Mrs. John Ford.
Mrs G W Burnette visited Wintersville friends on Wednesday and Mrs F B Scott was a Unionport visitor on Saturday. Ridge folks plan to attend a grocer picnic at Rock Springs. Mrs F M Houston shopped in Steubenville Friday. Hazel Dell is back and readers enjoy the letters. Miss Mildred Scott visits home folks. James Lindsay hosted a party with Miss Woods of Smithfield. guests from far away included John Weinman and Vern McElroy of Steubenville. Telephone festival set for Saturday night July 20.
A simple wedding was held at Rev. S. P. Loyd’s home in Bethesda on Wednesday at noon. Miss Evelyn Loyd married Homer H. Herbert of Salineville with Rev. Loyd and Rev. Church officiating. A dinner for twenty three followed, and the couple will reside in Salineville after a eastern trip. Attendants from nearby towns included Rev. and Mrs. Church and several relatives from Barnesville Cleveland Wintersville Maywood Jewett and other locales.
Various correspondents from Atlantic City Trinidad Mackinac Island and New York pledge sums for a new city hospital fund. Subscriptions range from fifty to five hundred dollars with messages of support and campaign well wishes dated July 7 to July 17.
The funeral for George W. Curry was held from the home of his son in law Frank Bell at 724 Adams Street on Wednesday July 17 at 2 PM. Rev Pattelle McCarthy led the services with music by members of the First church.
Pallbearers B R Prosser John W George B H Maxwell L E Maple John B Swinehart served for the M E church choir. Interment followed at G A R cemetery.
A series of property transactions shows Mary C Tilton transferring lot 88 Highland City for 150 dollars to Nicholas Zachina and wife, and Elizabeth A Collier selling lot 1 in J A Collier's 1st Addition for 2500 in City. Other transfers include Banfield & Co. sub-div Liondale lots 2 and 3 for 200, Lewis McClain to Fred L McBane for lot 2 Liondale second addition, y to 500? Susan Comly et al to Charles R King parts of Carruther's Addition Mt Pleasant for 50? Ernest Finley to A Lillian Koch et al for 5 acres Mt Pleasant township 7350, Isaac Jubellier to George W Ault lot 11 Clark's Addition Toronto for 8500, Edward N Fisher to Joseph Maley lot on North Sixth Street City for 1 dollar, Charles McGrew to J W Underwood lot City for 1 dollar, Morris Hess to Norman Brown for 12000 sq ft Springfield Twp 1000, Mary A Stringer to J S Buckman 13000 sq ft Wells Twp for 600.
Washington July 17 semi official word states Taft will nominate four Ohio Republicans to major government jobs in Washington to bolster ties with state organizations. Laylin Mooney Cole Thompson named for roles. Hilles becomes chair. Romero nominated as U S Marshal of New Mexico after Foraker resignation. Chicago and Wheeling items follow with Democratic leadership changes and a major Mannington fire.
The House approved 222 to 1 articles of impeachment against Judge Robert W. Archbald, with Rep Farrell voting no. Senate will try the case, while reports say a fall trial may be postponed. other legislators face bribery sentences and trials including Huffman Diegle Andrews Nye Evans.
Probate court handles wills probated for Robert B Hays and G W Snowden. Estates open include Alice A Shane Owen Taffe and Thos Farrington real estate sales. Admins named for S W Ault and Loretta Seigfried name change from Lauretta A Carr. Real estate sales, inventories, appraisals, and deeds ordered or confirmed. Florence Knapp ordered to Massillon hospital for treatment.
The Ohio River Board at Wheeling urged funding for Ohio River Dam No. 16 at Steubenville and Dam No. 31 below Portsmouth and No. 43 below Louisville. Also recommended large sums for Dam No. 19 at Parkersburg and No. 2% at Huntington, about one quarter complete.
Sheriff of Jefferson Co transfers to A Buckingham Trance overseeing 21 lots at Har well Place for 1218 dollars. Merrie J Hess and husband sell 7200 square feet in Springfield township to Jesse L Slates et al. for likely nominal one dollar. Andrew Loyer and wife sell lot 23 Zinn Schar fott addition Minno to John fi Loyer and wife for one dollar. R Ms Francis and wife sell lot 47 McLaughlin's 2nd addition Adena for 2650 dollars. Anna Belle Wright and others to Clar- (incomplete)
Poem lines express peaceful slumber and farewell. Separate real estate deeds show transfers in Jefferson county and Wayne township including lots 16 17 Har ry Place 130 Murphy's addition and Urquhart Rickey addition. Amounts range from 500 to 4000 dollars with names Scanlin Pickett Peeler Grafton Hayes and Flaherty among others.
A regional sketch contrasts several girls from nearby towns with playful verse mixing flirtation and social observations. It then reports a fire at E C Turley's Brilliant home, a fatal derailment injury near Folsom, and local Steubenville and Toronto property actions plus a morgue update on Thomas Smith.
Mrs Emily Jane Peterson widow of John Peterson died at her son Joseph Petersons home in Bacon Ridge on July 3 1812 aged 77. She left seven children three sons and one daughter still living. A devout Christian with a cheerful disposition she walked with God and trusted in faith though death, and she joined the M K F Church.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder to make tight shoes feel easy, relieve swollen feet and blisters, and help break in new footwear. It claims instant relief for sweating and sore spots with a free trial offer via Allen S. Olmstead in Le Roy, New York.
Thomas F Arthur has filed for divorce and custody of their son George Arthur in the Common Pleas Court of Jefferson County Ohio. The hearing will be on and after August List 1912. Plaintiff's attorneys Miller & Miller.
Jefferson County in Steubenville Ohio invites sealed proposals for the sub and super-structure of a Cross Creek bridge at Unionport. Bids due August 16 1912 at 1 pm EST, must use blank forms and include a $100 certified check as a contract guarantee. County reserves right to reject any or all bids. By order Willydim Sherman Floyd, Clerk.
A compilation of probate notices from Jefferson County Ohio dated June 1912 and surrounding weeks. Entries announce appointments as Administrator Administratrix and Executrix for estates of Ignatz Dombo Austin C Cole Herman T Peidler J Raymond Maley Thornton Winesberg and others with respective counties towns and filing dates.
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