Letter From Montana Reflects on Health and Old Dalton Roots
John H. Stoll writes from Butte Montana in 1924 about long illness after the flu epidemic and pneumonia. He recalls Dalton childhood friends and places Schultz's blacksmith shop and Myers' restaurant, notes band membership, and laments losses of friends like Daniel Schultz and J M Fiscus while dreaming of outdoor trapping trips and “the call of the wild.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Gazette
Schultz
Myers
Dalton
Rip van Winkle
Falling Water
Daniel F. Schultz
Thomas Moore
J. M. Fiscus
Los Angeles
East
Nick Whiffles
California Joe
John H. Stoll
Hershey Family Farmer Dies At 79 In Baughman Township
H. F. Hershey aged 79 a well known local farmer died at his home near No 4 school house in Baughman township last Friday. He is survived by his wife two sons Arthur and Clayton and one daughter Mrs Howard Douglass. The funeral was held Monday afternoon from Newman chapel.
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H. F. Hershey
School House
Baughman Township
Arthur
Clayton
Howard Douglass
Newman Chapel
New Spring Dress Goods Arrive at Berg's Department Store
New arrivals include spring ginghams and crepes in a variety of shades and patterns now on sale at Berg's Department Store.
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Berg’s
Valentine Box Social at Kidron School House
Valentine Box Social set for Saturday night at Kidron school house with a short program and singing. Proceeds will go to the library fund.
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Kidron School House
Canton Dalton Party Held at Rudy Residence
A Canton-Dalton party gathered Friday February 8 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rudy 919 Second St S W Canton Ohio with eighteen attendees. The group played games and enjoyed lunch before adjourning. Next meeting will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E R Burkholder 1200 15th NW.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Rudy
Second St. S. W
Canton
Ohio
E. R. Burkholder
15Th N.W
Estate Notice of Wayne County Administrator Appointment
T C Hunsicker has been appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of D F Schultz late of Wayne County Ohio. Charles C Jones Probate Judge of Wayne County Ohio.
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T C. Hunsicker
D. F. Schultz
Wayne County
Ohio
Charles C. Jones
Amanda Stinson Baughman Stinson Dies in Canton
Mrs Amanda Stinson formerly Amanda Baughman Stinson born Dalton Ohio August 25 1845 died February 8 1924 at the home of her son Wayne Baughman in Canton Ohio of pneumonia She married Richard P Baughman in 1867 and Robert J Stinson in 1906 leaving seven children fifteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren Also one brother S W Goudy Akron. The Dalton M E church member.
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Amanda Baughman Stinson
Dalton
Ohio
John
Eliza Goudy
Wayne Baughman
Canton
Richard P. Baughman
Jennie
Byron
Robert J. Stinson
Mr. Stinson
S. W. Goudy
Akron
Dalton M. E. Church
Dalton School News Literary Contests Set For Soon
Fred Fiscus of the seventh grade has scarlet fever. Preliminaries for literary contests with Smithville and Apple Creek were held Friday and Monday. Debaters include Della Springer Helen Stockham Margie Zaugg Florence Tschantz and alternates. Orators Raymond Ross Carrie Lehman Readers Josephine Edwards Cora Wecht. Senior events and parties noted with teachers hosted by Ethel Lehman Margaret Snyder and others.
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Smithville
Apple Creek
Della Springer
Helen Stockham
Margie Zaugg
Florence Tschantz
Dale Bixler
Robert Buchanan
Willard Kerstetter
Merle Eckard
Raymond Ross
Carrie Lehman
Josephine Edwards
Cora Wecht
Mrs Lee H Stahl Breaks Leg in Fall on Way to Church
Mrs Lee H Stahl suffered a severe leg break above the ankle when she fell Sunday morning while en route to church. She received prompt care and was stabilized for treatment.
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Lee H. Stahl
World events wrap up in brief from Washington to Berlin
The State department urges Honduras to elect a president after a deadlock. Lane League of Nations mourns Wilson as a future engraving on history. London plans 200000 subsidized homes to tackle unemployment. Fall refuses to testify. Mellon tax cuts pass Ways and Means. AFL memorializes Wilson. treasury bill funds prohibition enforcement. Coolidge backs higher wheat tariffs. foreign aid relief urged. Border co operation curbs theft. around the world flight to begin in LA. Panama Canal traffic and tolls rise. pork-barrel politics in New York and Michigan tax take.
Sonnnenberg Items
Feb 11 notices report Delila Bixel visiting Bluffton relatives while Jacob Baumgartner recovers at home. Properties sold at public sale: Chr Badertscher farm for 5100 and Merle McDowell farm for 6005 to Jacob Bixler for his son in law Warren Eby. Amos Basinger and Clyde Hofstetter work on a Seville dairy. Rev. Sommers attended Moody Institute event in Chicago. Mrs Kirchhofer suffers head pain after a hearing. Magdalena and Dorothy Fankhauser visit Wooster to see Ivan Boone family. A stillborn child born to Mr and Mrs Menno Steiner was buried yesterday.
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Delila Bixel
Bluffton
P. Baumgartner
Martin
Jacob Baumgartner
Badertscher
Dan. J. Lehman
Merle McDowell
Jacob Bixler
Warren Eby
Amos Basinger
Seville
Clyde
Dav. J. Hofstetter
Adam Sommers
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
E. E. Kirchhofer
Magdalena
Dorothy Fankhauser
Wooster
Ivan Boone
Menno Steiner
Admiral Selfridge and Dr McMurtry Die in Chicago Pneumonia
Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge noted naval hero dies in Chicago at Dr Lewis 8. McMurtry seventy three, internationally known surgeon and former AMA president, after pneumonia at home.
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Thomas Oliver Selfridge
Washington
Lewis 8. McMurtry
Seventythree
The
American Medical Association
Chicago
Trolley Crash Kills Twelve Near Muncie Ind
A head on trolley collision near Muncie Indiana leaves twelve dead and from twenty to eighty injured. A Milan Ohio house where Edison was born was lit with electricity Thursday night ending kerosene lamps. Margaret Matzenauer gains divorce decree in San Francisco. Wooster Arkansas storm nearly destroys village with no serious injuries. Chicago suffers a crippling snowstorm cutting off most communications.
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Muncie
Ind
Milan
Thomas A. Edison
Olympic Winter Games at Chamonix Lose Money
From a financial view the Chamonix Olympic winter games were a flat failure with total receipts around 251000 francs about 11071 dollars in American money.
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Chamonix
Paris government to sell telegraph blank advertising space
Government in Paris approves selling space on telegraph blanks to raise revenue. Washington delegates from wheat states back the Coolidge plan to support farmers. Villistas seize 500 rifles, 260000 cartridges, and escort weapons on a southbound Mexican Central train at Doulores Chihuahua. Cordoba capture officially confirmed under Gen Fausto Topete. Vera Cruz evacuation proceeds as Adolfo de la Huerta plans to depart on a rebel warship.
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Paris T
Washington
Coolidge
Villistas
Doulores
Chihuahua
Cordoba
Fausto Topete
Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Adolfo de la Huerta
Real Estate Changes and International News
Jacob Bixler bought the J. C. McDowell farm west of Dalton at public sale last Wednesday. Orville and Mrs Santmyer acquired the D. H. Santmyer farm southwest of Dalton known as the Arnold farm. Haverstock Davis bought the Dan Hofstatter building beside McDowell's. J R Taylor of Nashville bought the Allen Teeple building beside the drug store and plans undertaker parlors by April 1. Hofstetter bought a Wertz heights lot from Nelson Zuercher. Torpedo destroyers bound for Tampico leave port leaving no US warship at Tampico. Gandhi is freed by Britain with no conditions. Coal mine cave-in in Stilesig entombs miners per Berlin reports. Kellogg MacDonald and the Prince of Wales spoke at Pilgrims dinner in London. Burgerijk fire reported 600 miles off the Irish coast. 400 Yaqui Indians move south toward General Oregon through El Paso and Juarez.
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Jacob Bixler
J. C. McDowell
Dalton
Orville Santmyer
D. H. Santmyer
Anthony Arnold
J. R. Taylor
Nashville
Allen Teeple
Mr. Taylor
Dan. J. Hofstetter
Nelson Zuercher
Wertz Heights
Bible Class Banquet At Methodist Church
The Men's Bible Class invites members families and ladies to the annual banquet in the church basement on Thursday evening February 14 at eight o clock. W P Slusser presiding.
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Methodist Church
World Almanac and Scott's Winter Book Selections
A roundup of reading options at Scott's featuring the World Almanac for 1924 and other choice books priced from 75 cents to 2 dollars for winter reading pleasures.
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Scott's
Scott’s
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Montana
Mont
Ernest F. Scott
Dear Merrick
Valentine Box Social
Amanda Stinson
Dalton School News
Fred Fiscus
Ethel Lehman
Margaret Snyder
Miss Stone
Katherine Schultz
Mr. Sheets
Victor Houghton
State Department
League of Nations
Geneva
Woodrow Wilson
London
Fall
Senate Oil Investigating Committee
Mellon
Ways and Means
House
Wilson
American Federation of Labor
Treasury
United States
Northwest
Ways and Means Committee
Federal Council of Churches At
Germany
Washington Dispatch
Patrick
Air Service
Seattle
Panama Canal
Pacific Fleet
John James
Westport
Conn
Lehigh Valley
Nonayett Dawn Depany
O¢car Vasc Tarasic, & A
Bayonne Housing Corporation
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Christiania
Amundsen Exploration Party
Arctic Ocean
Milford
Crosby
Minn
Middle Western
Milwaukee
Cooper
Albany
N. Y
J. B. Strauss
San Francisco
Golden Gate
Citizens National Bank
Albuquerque
N. M
Philadelphia
Charles H. Levermore
Adelphia College
Brooklyn
New York Peace Society
Oscar S. Straus
Michigan
John F. Dodge
Lansing
Evansville
Indiana
Doheny
Senate Committee
William G. McAdoo
McAdoo
Senate Oil Committee
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Sonnenberg
Farmers’ Savings Bank of
Essington, D. D
Margaret Matzenauer
Floyd Glotzbach
Cal
Conway
Ark
Haverstock & Davis
McDowell
Tampico
Mahatma Gandhi
Bombay
Stilesig
Berlin
Kellogg
MacDonald
Prince of Wales
Queenstown
Burgerijk
Rotterdam
Norfolk
Oregon
el Paso
Juarez
Bible Class
W. P. Slusser
Pres
Mako
Berg's Department Store
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