Ohio News In Brief Highlights Local Oddities And Records
Fremont reports a hitchhiker repaying part of a day’s work after a year, restoring faith in humanity. Port Clinton notes Ot tawa county Peach Festival on August 25 with queen candidates from area communities. Tiffin announces W Kenneth Ebel setting a new world altitude record for commercial geoplanes at Baltimore in a Glenn Martin clipper ship carrying 24,000 pounds to 27,300 feet for Pan American Airways.
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Fremont
Diogenes
Guy Wickert
Wickert
Port Clinton
Catawba Island
Ottawa County
Catawba
Tiffin, C
W. Kenneth Ebel
Nora Ebel
Tiffin
Baltimore
Pan-American Airways
trans-Pacific
Million Acre Forest Planned in Southern Ohio
Columbus August 10 A million acre forest aims to open land for cabin rents from 10 to 25 dollars yearly Hunt and fish in well supplied woods and streams with round the clock camping grounds Byron L Gosbeck forest supervisor announced the purchase of 17 497 acres for Wayne National Park across Muskingum Hocking Scioto Vinton Gallia Washington Monroe Noble Perry Morgan Athens and other counties In all 1 464 000 acres will be acquired The project brings jobs via Civilian Conservation Corps WPA and staff totaling about 2000 workers The plan seeks to restore damaged timberlands and create a wooded playground while boosting county relief and works program funds The effort emphasizes planned economy to rehabilitate the region and provides a path to education and civic improvement.
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Columbus
Ohio
Byron L. Gosbeck
Wayne National Park
Muskingum
Hocking
Scioto
Vinton
Gala
Washington
Monroe
Noble
Perry
Morgan
Athens
Pike, Ross
Jackson
Lawrence
Grosbeck
Civilian Conservation Corps
WPA
New Deal
United States Forest Service
Ohioan
Grosheck
Wellington Paving Plans Sought by State Highways Engineers
Wellington August 10 plans for a new paving on Herrick avenue East with sewer and sidewalk sketches were requested by state highways engineers. A conference with Highway department and village officials including Resident Engineer A P Lagton and Village Engineer Tom Laudon is set for early next week. Potential action may follow.
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Wellington
Herrick Avenue
Highway Department
A. P. Lagton
Tom Laundon
Local visits and hospital notes from Akron area
Dick Walter of Akron spends the week with Donald Swanger. Marie Wise works as a night nurse at Falls Clinic. F Sattler, commander of Ohio Department Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and Mrs. Sattler, visited Mr. and Mrs. H B Stevick for dinner Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. A P Lincoln returned from Columbus where they visited friend W E Hempstead who is critically ill.
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Dick Walter
Akron
Donald Swanger
Marie Wise
Falls Clinic
C. F. Sattler
Ohio Department
Sattler
H. B. Stevick
A. P. Lincoln
Columbus
W.E. Hempstead
Wellington Garden Club Visits Gardens And Plans Fair Exhibit
Eleven members visited a sequence of gardens on Thursday evening beginning at 6 30 with Dorothy Hughes. They toured ten gardens including Fred Abbott Jr Harold Whiteside Edith Robinson and others before returning to Miss Hughes home to appoint a committee for the Wellington Fair exhibit. A Fall Flower Show is planned for September 14 with a committee named to organize it. Hostess Dorothy Hughes served refreshments.
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Wellington
Funeral for Oren Wilcox in Rochester
Relatives and friends attended the funeral of Oren Wilcox Friday afternoon at the A. L. Bradford home in Rochester with burial at Baker's Crossing cemetery. Wilcox was struck by lightning and killed while returning from fence repairs Tuesday afternoon during a dangerous thunderstorm.
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Wilcox
Oren Wilcox
A. L. Bradford
Rochester
Baker's Crossing
Mr. Wilcox
Airport Wanted Wellesley to Be Cemetery Site
Wellesley officials received a petition from the Memorial Park Cemetery Association asking the board of health to convert the town’s airport into a cemetery, signaling a shift from aviation use to burial grounds.
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Wellesley
Mass
Memorial Park Cemetery Association
The
Board of Health
Huntington AU AU TO ACCIDENT AT ATLANTA GA
Miss Aileen Bowen, granddaughter of Mrs. H. D. Bowen, was injured in an automobile accident in Atlanta, Georgia and is hospitalised there. The article also notes visits by relatives to Harry Mervine’s home and a Markley Burgoyn reunion at Lakeland Beach, plus a series of social brief items including 4‑H club activities and Wellington Fair preparations.
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Huntington
Aileen Bowen
H. D. Bowen
Atlanta
Harold Hasterday
North Olmstead
Chas. Easterday
Sullivan
Earl Easterday
Phillis Jean
Markley-Burgoyn
Lakeland Beach
Telescope built from odds and ends mounted at Ripon College
Col. W B Haseltine of Ripon fashioned a high powered telescope from old castings brass pipe valves and an old manhole base. The instrument with about 100 diameters magnification will be mounted on the Lane Library roof at Ripon College after nearly three months of grinding and polishing. Nearby notes mention visits by Lawrence and Betty Thudhum to Teddy Harris in Sullivan and Miss Marie Crile visiting Vermilion with Geo C Martin for City Auditor races.
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Ripon, Wie
W.B. Haseltine
Ripon
Ripon College
Lane Library
Haseltine
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Ohio News
Esker & Fox
Esker
Harold Fox
West Ave
Second Si
Visions
J. M
Marshall
Massillon
Cora M. Shepard
Barker St
Courtland
B. R. Lehman
J. T. Duff
Ray
Coates
Aee Harry Allen
Harold Prosser
M. Jones
T. M. Pfeiffer
Guy T. Phelps
Frank Murray
C. L. Hill
Frank Obrig
C. L. Ormerold
Board of Trustees of Public Affairs
Wm. Bennett
A. R. Branson
C. G. Battles
C. &. Coats
Willis Hines
Sam Manning
William Blanchard
L. W. Banning
Office of Justice of Peace
L. A. Johnson
Harry W. Wagner
Fred Sherman
T. W. McAdoo
Wellington District Board of Education
W. J. Powell
Arthur Mason
Karl Townsend
Keith Andrews
Frank J. Dost
Sterling Foundry
Here
Mary Brinkerhoff
H. A. Brinkerhoff
Upper Sandusky
Babylon
Long Island
Coffland
Ida Coffland
Daniel Shepard
Arthur W. Shields
Elyria
Robert L. Walden
Kelser
Wellington High School
Crystal Beach
Richard C. McKisson
Wellington Eagle Berie
Eagles Lodge
Dayton
Scout
Woman's Benefit Association
William Long
Phil Beal
Jennie Smith
Bessie Riggs
Kent State College
Pittsfield
Harry Bachtell
Jimmy, Medina
EB. B. Watters
Bernice Kirkpatrick
Toledo
C. W. Gannett
Wibur Sutliff
Detroit
Mich
Paul Gray
Kroger
First Wellington Bank
Wilda Abbott
Tron
Frank Mead
Ht. C. Cheney
Oberlin College
Western Reserve Law School
Prac
Ohio County Government Commission
Elyria City
H. C. Cheney
Harry Mervine
E. C. Dailey
Rey
J. C. Updegraff
Lorain
Betty Jean
Velma Mae Garrett
Alice Jean West
Turner West
Ruth Haskina
San Francisco
Cal
Mable Hawk
R. A. Cassell
Grange Hall
Martin Derzen
Doris Hines
Leola Simonson
Wellington Fair
Wellington School
Consuella Wyer
Betty Thudhum
Teddy Harris
Sullivan, O
North Olmsted
Marie Crile
Geo. C. Martin
Vermilion
Auditor. Pol. Adv
Scotland
Canada
Elyra Savings & Trust
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
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