Mother-Daughter Banquet Delights Weer- Ellington Parish
May 10 at a Methodist church in Weer-Daughter, over 200 guests attended a Mother-Daughter banquet in the mining room. The Missionary group organized the dinner at no charge, with Mrs Griggs as chair. HG Earle presided as mistress of ceremonies and a program of songs toasts and talks followed, with Mrs Paul B Pierce delivering an address on maternal relationships.
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Ellington
Anz
Pee
Siacery Guwel
Lucille Royce
Harry Lee
Donna Dague
Charles Jamieson
Robert Holland
Paul B. Pierce
Woman's Club of
Oberlin
Helen Waite
Earl
Woman's Missionary Society
Florence Starr
Practice for Patriotic Pageant At Legion Hall
A large audience gathered at the American Legion hall last evening to rehearse for the Patriotic Pageant set for the opera house the night before Decoration Day. The next practice is scheduled for next Thursday with plans to continue at the opera house.
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American Legion
Opera House
WC T U and Child Conservation League Meeting
A joint WC T U and Child Conservation League gathering at Mrs. Ed Hughes home drew over 60 members and guests. County health doctor Dr. Barrett spoke on disease prevention while Mrs. Bedford distributed white ribbons to attending children. Mrs. D F P Wells led the refreshments.
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Cc. T. U
Child Conservation League
WC. T. U
Ed Hughes
Barrett
Bedford
D. FP. Wells
Kiwanis Sponsor Minstrel Show For Band Benefit
Kiwanis club will sponsor a minstrel show titled A Night in Dixie staged by the Longfellow school Parent-Teacher Association. The event takes place Friday May 24 at the Local Lyera house to raise funds for the Wellington Band. The production features 65 cast members plus a fine orchestra the Masonic quartet and the Xylophonist James Cowie.
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Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Dixie
Longfellow School
Lora'n
Jocal ¢Yera House
Wellington
Masonic Quartet
James Cowie
How
Pole vault record falls at Ohio University meet
Sheldon Rowland, formerly of this place and a student at Ohio University in Athens, set a new OU college pole vault record of 11 feet 2.5 inches at a recent track meet. Frank Stetson of Elyria addressed the Kiwanis luncheon, recounting ballot stuffing in the Cleveland election. Orrin Becher bought the City Electric Shop on West Main and will run it with his plumbing business. Messia Howard Page and Wilbur Sullis will entertain at the Arsherst Parent-Teacher event on Friday May 17.
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Sheldon Rowland
Ohio University
Athens
O. U
Rowland
Frankstetson
Frank Stetson
Elyria
Kiwanians
Cleveland
Buys City Electric Store
Orrin Becher
J. W. Shook
City Electric
West Main Street
Amberst' Messia
Howard Page
Wilbur Sullis
Arsherst
Mammoth Hotel Planned For Cleveland
May 10 report says razing the 3 million dollar Cleveland hotel on the public square and building a mammoth new hostelry as part of the union terminal project. Underpinning the old hotel to provide subways is deemed inadvisable due to tunnel costs and risk. The proposed building would be about stories tall with up to 500 rooms, aiming to be the citys largest hotel.
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Cleveland
Union Terminal
Terminal Group
Cistern Cleaner and Wife Electrocuted Near Milford Center
In Marysville Ohio May 10 Montie Blackford 35 a Delaware well and cistern cleaner and his wife Gertie 30 were killed when a long iron rod used to clean a well touched a high voltage power line A rubber boot protected Blackford’s son Donald who held the rod The couple had worked on cisterns for years and their bodies were to be returned to Delaware for double funeral services
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Marysville
Montie Blackford
Delaware
Gertie
George HM Farm
Milford Center
Blackford
Donald
Biggest Selling Job Goes To Ohioan
Richard H. Grant, newly elected vice president of General Motors, will head the newly created executive position in charge of all GM sales. He will oversee sales and advertising services across divisions, after previously serving as VP in charge of sales at Chevrolet. Grant plans to depart for Detroit and will reach his Dayton, Ohio home the following week.
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New York
Richard H. Grant
General Motors Corporation
General Motors
Grant
United Press
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit
Dayton
Ohio
Grand jury to probe Pickering escape and arson rumors
New Lexington Ohio May 10 Prosecuting attorney E C Wagner announced the Perry county grand jury will investigate the story of Ivan Picker ing 24 escaped prisoner who confessed then repudiated statements that he helped fire the state brick plant at Junction City last fall. The panel will also look into the burning of Hemlock mayor s office and village jail last fall amid rumors bootleggers used the fire to destroy evidence.
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New Lexington
E. C. Wagner
Perry County Grand Jury
Ivan Pickering
Junction City
Wagner
Hemlock
Avon Seniors Present Play It Happened in June
Avon Ohio May 10 A large audience gathered at the high school auditorium last night to see Avon high school senior class stage the play It Happened in June under the direction of Mrs Helen D Lawrence The cast included Betty Branson Susie Crundell Nell Crundell Mollie Jensop Evalina Scrogga Charles Atkins Randy Steward Jim Pritchett Jarvin Sneed and others with Kenneth McAllister Howard Gould among the leads.
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AVON
Farge
Avon High School
Helen D. Lawrence
Betty Branson
Tillian Casper
Susie Crundell
Pearl Wilford
Nell Crundell
Dorothy Stage
Mollie Jensop
Coletta Kinzel
Evalina Scrogga
Herman Gerhart
Charles Atkins
Frederick Mehbling
Randy Steward
Kenneth McAllister
Jim Pritchett
Kenneth Koight
Jarvin Sneed
Howard Gould
Violence rocks UT textile strike at Elliott home
In Elizabethon Tennessee on May 10 violence erupted in the textile strike area as the home of Mac Eliott, a former union leader at the American Glantz plant, was dynamited. Troops guarded the wreckage at Stoney Creek after another dynamite incident and two weeks earlier a bomb damaged his automobile. Elliott and his wife were away. Sheriff Moreland said arrests were anticipated as the union push for recognition at Glantz plant continued.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Mac Eliott
American Glanzstaff Corporation
W. C. Boyd
American Glantstor
Stoney Creek
Elliott
J. M. Moreland
United Press
Eliott
Moreland
Textile Workers
Glanzstof
President And Guests At Talkies
Washington May 10 President and Mrs Hoover hosted guests for the first exhibition of White House talking movies. The new Fox installed sound and vision system cost 23000 dollars, replacing a decade of silent drama gear. A feature film and a sound news reel of the April 23 New York speech were shown.
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Washington
Grand jury fails to indict Delmar Detrick in Degraff case
Bellefontaine Ohio May 10 The county grand jury did not indict Delmar Detrick of Degraff for the March shooting death of neighbor Charles Banning after Banning asked Mrs Detrick to visit his home Detrick admitted the killing but cited unwritten law in defense The incident followed a dispute over Banning’s request to see Mrs Detrick
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Bellefontainde
Delmar Detrick
Degraff
Wyoming
Charles Banning
Banning
Detrick
Multiple Fatalities and Appointments Reported in Ohio News
A crash in Cincinnati killed a 73 year old woman and injured three others including the driver, Mrs Laura Ottenjohn. Near Arthur a daughter hanged herself over her father’s death. In Columbus Governor Cooper named Robert A Martin to Dayton Municipal Court effective July 1. Common Pleas notes include several civil suits involving The Criterion Advertising Co versus Sanitary Wet Wash Inc for 1404, Clyde A Ray versus R B Rockilif for 1500, and a suit by C H King and Co against FR F Garrett for 863.95. Also noted is the Waldorf Hotel’s claim as the first to have a thirteenth floor.
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Columbus
Myers Y. Cooper
Robert A. Martin
Dayton
Lester Cecil
Cecil
Common Pleas
Criterion Advertising Company, Inc
Common Pleas Court
Sanitary Wet Wash Inc
W. B. Thompson
C. H. King and Co
FR. F. Garrett
Bean beetle invasion hits New York and Michigan crops
A pest from Mexico threatens major bean producing states New York and Michigan. A discovery for preserving exes with practical use for packers and housewives involves carbon dioxide gas. Soon a photograph or a letter may be flashed to distant cities in 48 seconds with global news reach.
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Mexico
New York
Michigan
Tokio
Paris
Buenos Aires
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