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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1906
Page
10
A parade of visitors and residents fill the city notes with names from Pittsburg Steubenville and Wheeling. Many attend commencements and weddings while others host gatherings and showers as friends travel from Meadville Alliance and Cleveland for summer visits.
Mrs. Joseph Blekar and children head to Carnegie to stay with relatives for a week. Miss Blanche McClelland of Brit Hast and Miss Olive Orte of Johnstown visit at the Conley home. Miss Acton's Suncey class postponed a Richmond hay ride due to a rain, while plans for a future trip remain. Mrs. Hammond wins poetry prize in a Seti Preabyte gathering honoring Miss Mary Gracey, June bride elect, with a silver spoon gift and a bound poetry collection. A complimentary social with decorations and a luncheon followed.
Court actions wind through a hotly contested docket as Ross Nicholson seeks a temporary and permanent injunction to stop construction on lands along the pike road. The 250 by 45 foot strip is allegedly occupied unlawfully. Also listed are divorces and other civil matters including Minnie F. Henry vs James G. Henry with $30 support for minor children, and multiple cases settled with costs split.
A night storm with a bolt of lightning hit a double frame house on South Fifth Street, shaking rooms across two families, Powers and Buchhagen. Plaster, soot, and broken pictures filled upstairs rooms while three sleeping Powers children woke not at all. The kitchen chimney and stove were knocked down. cleanup begins as both families assess damage.
Three places visited Wheeling and Lake Erie Station Hillman’s Grocery and Kirk Jones residence on Friday night. Burglars forced entry through rear window then pried open a window at Jones's home taking coats a hat and a traveling case. Police searched area but no arrests yet.
Two Italian laborers died after being crushed at La Belle Iron Works between 6 p m Friday and 2 a m Saturday. Nicola Schirripa 24 died at his boarding house after being crushed near a bumping block. Dimitar Trbovich 36 died at Gill Hospital after wheels passed over him. Steve Tepovic suffered minor injuries. Coroner Campbell directs inquests into both cases.
The June dispatch from New York highlights black and white gowns in toulard and foulard with rings dots and checker patterns. orange black and white accents appear in hats and millinery. Accentuated styles include accordion plaited skirts and full lace yokes with embroidered belts. Leather belts and lingerie hats shape the season, with leather belts stitched to resemble silk and coordinated with shoes.
A vacant house on the farm once owned by Emmet Wright and now by George Allman burned mysteriously on Sunday night between 1 and 11 o clock, consuming the structure and about 400 feet of lumber 30 yards away. Barret Wright, recently at the county infirmary, had been lodging there briefly and was known to have stayed Saturday night before reportedly leaving for Steubenville.
The text notes that belts cease to be mere links when the waist and skirt are separate. Elaborate belts become the meridian of arts, embroidered with lace or beaded details, elevating a functional piece to a decorative centerpiece.
Census Bureau bulletin shows Ohio's manufacturing growth from 1900 to 1905 with a total annual manufactured product value near $961 million. Iron and steel dominate the capital and output, followed by factory and machin shop products and trou and grist mill items. Other notable sectors include slaughtering and meat packing, Boots and shoes, malt liquors, and printing and publishing. Ohio lists 13,165 manufacturing establishments with $856 million in capital and about 364,259 wage earners, reflecting large gains across salaries, employment, and materials.
A fatal accident occurred Saturday morning at the Carnegie works in Mingo when a cable broke while J Louis Strohmyer a furnace department employee climbed to up a valve. He fell about twenty feet fracturing his skull and breaking his left thigh. He died at 9.59 a m after transportation to his home on North Hill. He was twenty two and well regarded by coworkers and the community.
Two probate notices appear from June 1906. One names J W Jordan as administrator of Aiken Mansfeld deceased of Steubenville township Jefferson County. The other names Madge Bowles as administratrix of Frank I Bowles deceased of Toronto Island Creek to ship Jefferson County Ohio.
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