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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1907
Page
2
The Bloomfield correspondence reports a Friday October 25 1907 band entertainment at Town Hall with Kyle and Miss Hess from Hope Dale assisting, plus readings by Miss Tipton and others. The column catalogs visits, illnesses, marriages, housing projects, church services, theatre tickets and local arrivals and departures across Bloomfield Smithfield and vicinity.
Corn cutting nears completion with a better than expected yield. Charlies Smith and wife host relatives from Pine Grove. Walter Huston improves after a week of illness. Edna Holmes of Milwaukee and Ora Gilkinson of Carnegie visit Mrs Jennie Burnett. J F Rines and wife of Fernwood and Elmer Gilkinson host Mrs Mary Underwood for dinner at James Bowers home. S S Welday visits daughter. Bergholz guests Mr and Mrs Buchanan. Lillie Scott returns home from short visit in the city. Mrs James Bowers and daughter Sarah Hosterman visit Adena relatives. Mrs William Gilkinson called to New Philadelphia for illness of daughter-in-law. John Porter loses a work horse to jockjaw. Gilkinson and Ferguson attend Meingley monument unveiling and visit George in New Philadelphia.
Miss Effa Shipper hosted about fifteen friends last Saturday night. Miss Daisy Harrington of Wheeling visited Mrs. Lucy Merryfield. Miss Mabel Reed shopped in Cadiz last Monday. Samuel Sprotes and daughter Gertie from Nebraska visited Mrs. M. Ferrell. Ray Brinley bought the Palme property near the post office. Mrs. P. S. Buchanan returned Friday after two weeks with her daughter Mrs. D. Carman of Sturgeon Point. Miss Mildred Rittenhouse celebrated her eighteenth birthday with a small gathering of friends last Tuesday.
Friendly notes recount birthdays and greetings as residents shared good wishes and received gifts. Several families visited relatives in nearby Steubenville and Chicago trips were mentioned. Church gatherings hosted by Rev Hamilton and others described with meals and merriment.
Hopewell community notes various visits and travel. Families including Jacksons on G W Hiel's farm, Mrs M B Cole visiting Brilliant, Mary Lewis visiting her mother in Dillonvale, and Arthur Bake with Clyde Baker in Bellaire. Hopewell school hosts a box social Friday Oct 25 to raise funds. Florance Whickerhan of Pennsylvania visits uncle G M McClune. Joe Bake visits from Tiltonville.
Mrs. Lavina Warren shopped in Smithfield on Wednesday. J J Parkinson suffers a sore hand from a splinter. R J Henderson returns home from fairs with prizes. Wilma Parkinson, now in Columbus, visits Sugar Grove. John Francis of Cadiz visits Sugar Grove farm. Mr and Mrs M Finley of Piney Fork visit brother T A Sutherland.
Wintersville locals report McCoy Bros Co locating a new well on the Grim farm and readying to drill soon. A Cunningham farm gas well reached sand without gas. Rev John Winters will give a lecture at the M E church next week, considered worth hearing.
FE D Warren and family visited Howard Floyd and family on Saturday. Lillian Scott left for Alliance to visit her sister. Andrews and McElroy won a timber-cutting contract for Charles Smith. Thompson siblings visited the city. Ethele McElroy visited Mrs J S Bowers Wintersville. The Glee club gathered at D K Andrews with several members including Prof E D Allen and James Fenimore Cooper of New York. Mrs W Burnette joined the club. Jane Scott Wintersville visited J A McElroy’s family. Prof E D Allen shot a rare spotted giant rabbit while hunting. Old residents recall no such marked fox chase by J A McElroy and James Allen and Armstrong McCoy on Bantom Ridge Fernwood.
The Rush family suffers a third loss within a year as Lula, the great granddaughter of Mrs. Susan Rush and daughter of Mrs. Laura Plants, dies at about sixteen. Described as bright and kind, Lula’s death shocks relatives and friends, with God’s will noted in the life.
Funeral arrangements note the services Friday afternoon for a woman, with interment to follow at Blomfield cemetery. The field is short on details about the deceased.
A short devotional line states that love joy and peace shape a man's life and resemble Christ qualities as noted by C E Hughes.
Judge Artman to deliver a notable lecture at the Second Presbyterian Church on Wednesday evening October 2 about the legal status of the saloon. The piece urges all ages to hear him, stressing the topic's vital importance to the city.
The wedding of Fred Elmer McCleary of Chicago and Anna Louise Williams of Newton Falls was held at Edwin Park's home on a green and white theme. Ties to Warren township and Newton Falls figures, with Nellie Hoover singing and Nellie Davis at the piano. The ceremony featured a silver ring basket carried by Lewis Edwin York as a bridal party, with Rev Caine officiating.
The wedding marked by a grandmother’s date 1840 featured a floral bell with rose leaf shower at the moment of the vows. The bride wore French mousseline with Trish crochet and val lace, carried roses, and wore a pearl and diamond necklace from the groom. Bridesmaid wore silk organdie with green trim and carried white chrysanthemums. A dinner for twelve followed, catered by John Sickels. The couple will reside in Chicago after a wedding tour.
At 6 30 p m last evening at the Grove home in Glen Osborne Miss Jeannette Oliver Grove married William Wheeler Roney of New York. The ceremony was by Rev Dr Thomas Park of Fourth Presbyterian Pittsburg. Relatives and a few intimate friends attended with Elizabeth Grove maid of honor and bridesmaids Mary Grove and Helen Roney. Best man was Walter Lace of New York. The bride wore white and the couple plan to live in New York after a southern trip. Out of town guests included Capt John F Oliver a grand uncle of the bride and cousins C J McConnell of Steubenville.
On Tuesday evening October 15 at Rev. W. B. Logan’s residence in Smithfield, Howard D. Blackburn and Mahala Verna Cole were married. Blackburn, a prominent young farmer near Bloomfield, and the bride, a popular young woman from near Smithfield, were all praised by friends who wished them happiness and success.
114 acres in good cultivation one mile from Pan Handle railroad six and a half miles from Steubenville on rural mail route about 50 000 feet oak timber plenty of Jo cust timber half a mile from pike inquire of P B Floyd Steubenville Ohio Route No 2 oc4-2mod&w
A box social will be held at Hope well school house on Friday evening October 29th at 8 o clock. All friends are invited. Boxes prepared by the ladies. An interesting program of music and recitations will follow before boxes are sold to the highest bidder.
In the past 60 days five Ohio papers in county seats halted publication. They were valued as solid investments but high paper and labor costs forced suspensions. Advertised sales of papers exceed any period in years as prosperity reshapes the business. Sewing.
An advertisement extols kidney health and warns of disease from impure blood. It cites Mrs T F Jones of Steubenville Ohio praising Doan's Kidney Pills for back pain and improved sleep, claiming quick relief after taking the product. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY is named as US agents. price 50 cents.
Winchester repeating shotgun nearly new for sale. Inquire at 432 Wells Street. Contact Oct 7.
State Factory and Shop Inspector John H. Morgan plans to urge the legislature to authorize three women inspectors to oversee workplaces employing women and children. He argues women gain better information from workers, improving safeguarding of interests, and he seeks seven additional deputy inspectors as current staff不足. This year 206 child labor convictions were secured, down from 312 last year due to greater compliance and enforcement.
Secretary of State Carmi A. Thompson issued a ruling requiring women to reveal their exact ages to vote for school board members in the November election. The rule responds to requests from women statewide who sought permission to testify they were over 21.
For Sale Corner lot in Village of Bloomfield 47 by 18 feet near stores school and churches. Snap at 250 dollars. Address H M Albaugh Bloomingdale Ohio. octiz 6td and 1tw.
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