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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1913
Page
7
Local correspondence records many Toronto visitors and Toronto shoppers. Notable items include engagements, births, and dances. residents welcome guests from Steubenville Lisbon Wellsville Akron Wheeling and Weirton. Recurring scenes of church events family visits and community movements abound.
Miss Ruth Carson is home for the summer from Wooster. Miss Eva Barrett of Denver will visit before returning to Colorado. Funeral services for John Finney will be at St Francis church Thursday morning. Miss Georgia Liggett returned after visiting Mr and Mrs Grant Arthurs at Cuyahoga Falls. Mae McClaine and Mrs Walter McFerren spent the day at Turkeyfoot. L H Brown and Miss Anna Marshall visiting friends at Turkeyfoot. Mrs H D McCullough returned to her home in Bellaire. William Green of Toronto is a guest of H E Statton at Empire. Eva Barnett of Denver, a Wooster classmate of Ruth Carson, is a guest on Third street. Mr and Mrs Theodore Blackburn attended the funeral of their uncle at McDevitt, Burgettstown. Dorman Stratton of Empire is at Wheeling. Mrs Wm Carnahan and grandson Harold Arnold are visiting at Irondale. Mrs Robert Johnson is guest of friends at Wellsburg. Mrs W J Miller spends the weekend at Steubenville. Edna Blackburn of Hudson is guest of Misses Pearl and Margaret Hartford on Daniels street. Beatrice Francy attended a dinner and dance at The Kenilworth Country Club Est Liverpool last evening. Mrs Gee Maxwell spent the day with relatives at Goulds Station.
Mary J Fisher et al transfer to C C Pierce Jr and Mary Ethel Simpson et al to Ar gia Vante in Smithfield township for $1 and other metes. Ernest L Finley et al transfer to Herbert Loppe and Oscar Crom in Mt Pleasant township for $15 and $900. D Bucey to Thomas B Gilchrist lot 14 New Alexandria for $1. James W Russell to Jennie Russell lots 26 and 82 Irondale for $600. William C Harshman to Steven Horwath Peelers 2nd add Mingo for $1. Mary Moore to Emma Staples lot 200 Dilworths add Mt Pleasant. Eaimea FE Staples et al to Albert R Moore lot 209 Dilworths add Mt Pleasant for $550. John Grendel to Lewis Brown Wells township 9 acres for $823. Thomas B Gilchrist and wife to John Johnston F McCullough acres Island Creek township for $1800.
Miss Lulu Brady visits Mrs. L. Yantis in Indianapolis. Earl Bowers and family from Witts nirg visit his parents in WIn ersville. Mrs. A. H. Herbert and daughter head to Columbus until October. Edward Bachman of Steubenville visits Dennison relatives. Dr. H. W. Nelson extends his trip to Detroit with daughter Grace. Mrs. Milton Foster attends a niece’s wedding in Middletown, Ohio. Ang. Slaer and wife and two daughters return from a weeklong auto trip through Pittsburg and Cleveland. Wynne McVaniman, Win. Carnill and P. E. Magee visit from Tulsa. Miss Donnie Strauss travels to Pittsburg to stay with cousin Miss Cadie Hale. Frances Feist returns from College of St. Mary’s with family. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Maxwell, former city residents, visit Dr. and Mrs. Groesbeck before returning to Washington, Pa. Thanks to Miss Margaret Warner Sutherland for Ohio State Teachers Association program. she will deliver the inaugural at Cedar Point. The young ladies auxiliary of the IM. P. church hosts a gathering hosted by Miss Marian Walker on Queen Ann place with a large attendance and devotions.
Recurring community gatherings feature Rev Miller led exercises and a Miss Walker guided social hour. Attendees include Mr and Mrs M E Davin and Miss Mary Davin at St Marys College graduation in Shepherd. Mrs Harry Armstrong hosts H I club, Roy Woods wins travel contest prize. Young Ladies Missionary Society hosts papers on Woman of Foreign Lands and Chinese missions. A Leech home dinner follows with numerous guests, grapho phone music and moonlit departure. Robert Barclay named Sinking Fund Trustee.
A compact catalog of titles and performer names including Olvia Shaner Doll, Miss Aimy Thayer, Van ished Dreams, Gluckes Genug, Miss Marie Goucher, A Bit of Nonsense, Miss Mary Thayer, I Know a Lovely Garden, Because, Miss Anna Schwerber, Simple Confession, Miss Evelyn Minor, Valse Caprice, Paul Metcalf, Reverie Petite Morceau, On the Lake, Miss Irene Burns, Tyroliene, In the Gondola, Miss Anna Ferrell, Ad Valse, Miss Ida Mae Carson, A Bowl of Roses, The Swallows, Miss Schwerber In Memoriam, In the Rose Garden, Miss Marion Burns.
Elizabeth Kirk of Avalon Pa and Dr Charles M Cummins of this city wed at St Bartholomew church Bell Vue at nine AM Tuesday The ceremony was conducted by Fathers MacGovern Powers and Slatterly with Miss Nash maid of honor and George Kirk best man A wedding breakfast followed and the couple plan to reside at 202 North Street Steuberville after a July tenth homecoming date.
Washington DC geologist LD D Condit and government geologist C Sherburne Rogers joined a field survey of the Wellsville Sa lineville quadrangle from the Ohio Pennsylvania line toward Salineville. Condit will focus on locating clay deposits while Rogers conducts the overall survey and studies structure to aid oil and gas exploration in the East Liverpool region.
A little son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Parsons of Hammondsville died on Monday. Funeral arrangements are not listed in the available excerpt.
Charles O. Daniels 32 of Piney Fork and Mary J. Ankton 23 of Rayland. Thomas H. Pyle 32 of Rhodesdale and Kathyn Runyon 22 of Rayland. Ches iter Wallace 24 and Mary M. Parks 7 of Unionport.
John Giffin Chas Martin and Thos Davis were arrested on an affidavit in Squire Lawler s court on charge of malicious destruction of property a survey owned by Eb W Metten berger Giffin also faces another affidavit of abandonment.
Tuesday night a scuffle ended with Mayor McLeish striking Alpesi after Alpesi refused to leave the mayor’s office. Alpesi, a boss at the diner, had been fined for assaulting three men brought in to work. Police arrested several drunks and disorderlys during the same incident.
Court records show L Zimmermann versus F Consantini with a judgment for 31 dollars and 17 cents. H O Elliott versus C P R R settled by payment of 800 dollars.
The clipping lists stock notes and percentages for items including American Savings, Goodrich Rubber, U S Steel, South Pacific, and Pittsburg stocks. Names such as Moore Leonard Lewis and firms in New York and Pittsburg appear, with various bid and offered figures and percentages. The garbled OCR yields scattered prices and company names across steel, coal, and manufacturing sectors.
The new hunter license law effective August 5 2013 allows non residents who are U S citizens to hunt in Ohio for 15 dollars while residents pay 1 dollar. No fishing licenses are required. Property owners may hunt on their own land without a license. Licenses available from the Clerk of Court or Town Clerks. Violations void the license.
Trustees of the M. E. church at Empire were empowered to mortgage the property for $2000 to pay for recent improvements.
Martins Ferry reports 2700 youths this year, about 100 more than last year, with a steady rise in youth population across the Ohio valley highlighting the area as a center of progress.
In blasting for the dam locks, slate bore fine fern leaf impressions. The find, tied to the coal period, places the reef in a tropical Gulf of Mexico climate.
The piece argues hog cholera caused vast losses totaling sixty million dollars, driving up pig meat prices as the industry bears the impact. It emphasizes the scale and economic burden of the outbreak on consumers and markets.
Washington observers report President Wilson's currency reform program disrupted after a long White House meeting with Carter Glass Owen McAdoo. The Glass bill delayed. income tax exemption cut to 3000 with 500 per dependent. chances of passage uncertain amid anticipated Senate fight and final conference on sundries schedule.
Los Angeles dated June 18 detective Browne, once chief of da's secret service, says he will sue detective W J Burns for half of the $10,000 reward approved by an assembly bill for capturing the McNamaras. Gov Johnson signed the bill despite Browne's protest.
Bridgie Webber, a witness against former Police Lieutenant Charles Beck in the Rosenthal murder, left Polyclinic hospital where he was treated after a back stab injury sustained early Saturday morning under mysterious circumstances.
Six people die and dozens suffer heat prostration in Cincinnati as temperatures reach 102 degrees. Ice wagon strikes threaten worsening conditions as water supplies strain city services and a brewery-backed firm signs only partial agreement. Other cities report record heat, drought damage rising above a million dollars in Illinois, plus a deadly fall at Elyria from heat and a string of heat deaths around New York.
New York money on call 2 percent. Prime mercantile paper 4 percent. Sterling $4.87 on demand. Government bonds steady. Grain and livestock reports from Cleveland Toledo Buffalo Pittsburgh Chicago with varied quotes for flour wheat corn oats butter cheese potatoes hay cattle sheep hogs and calves across multiple markets including Minnesota patents at 5.50 and oats at 45 ½ cents.
Three men over seventy, Simon Enck aged 82 Andrew Stakes aged 72 and Jacob Denzer aged 74, answered the call after trustees could not recruit younger workers. They mowed the entire cemetery, demonstrating dedication and community spirit.
The report notes ideal picnic weather with June bugs and ants described as fatter and more active than usual, signaling a lively outdoor scene. Local observers remark on the unusually robust insect activity during this period.
J Roy McDowell of Adams Express Co is transferred to Wheeling to serve as agent there J M Henry former cashier becomes agent at the local office in this city.
William Baker, 21, who lost both hands in a press at Belmont Stamping and Enameling Co in New Philadelphia last fall, won a $21,000 verdict in U S federal court at Cleveland after suing for $60,000. The jury delivered the decision Monday afternoon.
Max Robinette a Pan Handle brakeman had a narrow escape when struck on the head by an overhead bridge as his train passed Conesville He was knocked to a box car and lay unconscious for an hour and a half before being taken to his home at Uhricheville
The eighteenth annual Knox townPublic Schools commencement under Patterson law will be in Knox ville United Presbyterian Church this evening at 8 o'clock. Six graduates include Wilma Agnes Alexander Russell Grimm Hilda Elizabeth Russell Robert Swickard Aka Ruth Swickard Laura Taylor. S. G. Alexander leads the program.
Professor L T Teceker formerly led Mt Union college commercial department, married Tuesday in Zanesville to Mrs Mary Judd of East Fultonham widow of Dr W B Judd former philosophy professor at Mt Union. They will live in Salina Kansas where Teceker will run Kansas Wesleyan Business College.
Mayor McLeish granted Archie Lash a six month suspended sentence for the theft of Floyd Yocum's bicycle. The bicycle was recovered weeks later, hidden in Lash's warehouse on Church Street.
A reflective note discusses the trend of paint prices over years, comparing it to feed costs for horses and the delayed decision to paint houses, barns, and fences. The piece argues property values decline yearly as paint costs creep up, urging savings and timely painting, and mentions DEVOE through Earle G. Richards Hardware Co.
State Highway Department in Columbus invites sealed proposals by July 3 1913 for grading and paving with waterbound macadam on Section one of the Canton Steubenville road in Springfield township Jefferson county 12500 ft 2.4 miles wide 4 ft. Estimated cost 31005.76. Bidder must deposit 200 draft or certified check and bond to 150 percent. Completion set for October 1 1913 plans in county commissioners and state highway offices. Right to reject bids reserved. James R Marker State Highway Commissioner.
In the Court of Common Pleas Jefferson County Ohio Henry King plaintiff notices Edna King and Kina King defendant last known address Atlantic Avenue McKeesport Pennsylvania that on June 7 1913 petition filed in Cause No praying for neglect of duty and that the defendant must answer by July 1 1913 otherwise the cause will be heard. W C Brown clerk
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