Hello to Marines and cities visitors in Rittman
A local note from Rittman praising 12 Marines in Hai Wink South Vietnam and sending 26 pounds of cookies baked by five ladies plus invitations to visit and receive a city key. Includes birthday, anniversary, and wedding notices, a wrens nest story, and upcoming events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Vietnam
Hai Wink
Ron
Rick
Benny
Mike
Rich
Sal
Art
Paul
Richard
Doc
Hank
Aries
Rittman Boy
William Houseworths
Charles
Deloris Wright
Clarence Kunkler
Jay Griffith
Ed Musser
Ashton Hall
Tare
Rittman
Key-No Game to Unfold 16 Weeks of Prizes
Rittman merchants launch a 16 week Key-No game with weekly $25 bonds and $3 door prizes from each merchant. Each merchant awards a $25 prize to their grand prize winner at week 16 plus a $100 bond to a lucky participant. A perfect game wins a $100 bond. total prizes amount to $1960. Games run weekly from Wednesday to Tuesday with rules on page 3A.
Style Show Set for Next Month in Wooster
The annual Arts Club bridge party and style show will take place on September 26 at Rawiga Country Club. The event begins at 8 p.m. and serves as a benefit. Mrs Larry Wertz chairs the Three Arts ways and means committee, with Mrs Macauley Gosney as ticket chair. Mrs Willard Wertz of Wooster coordinates fashions, and Freedlander’s of Wooster provides the fall lineup. Three Arts Club members will model.
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Arts Club
Rawiga Country
Larry Wertz
Three Arts Ways and Means
Macauley Gosney
Willard Wertz
Wooster
Freedlander’s of
Three Arts Club
Steak Roast at American Legion Hall Sees Special Guests
The American Legion Auxiliary schedules its annual steak roast for Monday at 6 30 PM at the American Legion Hall. Special guests include Buckeye Girls Statery and members from Orrville American Legion post.
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American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion Hall
Buckeye Girls Statery
Orrville
American Legion Post
Rittman schools announce three day workbook presale
Rittman school system holds a three day presale of workbooks and supplies for grades one through eight at North Street School from Thursday to Saturday August 29 30 and 31. Doors open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 11 30 a.m. Saturday. Grade specific envelopes cost 5 each with kindergarten and high school supplies priced differently.
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Rittman School
North Street
Rittman boards plan land purchase for new high school
The Rittman board of education moves to appropriate about 26 acres west of South Metzger Avenue and north of DeCourcey Road for a new high school. Bonds of 1,225,000 dollars are proposed at four and a half percent, with bids in September and groundbreaking planned for next spring.
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Rittman Board of Education
Harriatio
Rhonemus
Teacher's Breakfast At Milton Church Announced
Annual teacher breakfast for all instructors in the Rittman school system set for Friday August 30 at 8 a.m. The event, sponsored by Rittman PTA and Rittman Education Association, is under Dennis Antram with assistants Edith Jones Melvin Beery and Roy Ramsier assisting.
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Rittman
Milton United Presbyterian Church
Rittman Pta
Rittman Education Association
Dennis Antram
Edith Jones
Melvin Beery
Roy Ramsier
Labor Day slow pitch tourney signs Twenty clubs
Twenty Northeast Ohio ball teams signed up for an annual Labor Day slow pitch tournament at Industrial Street Park August 31 to September 2. More registrations expected by Thursday with drawing at city hall. Teams from Streetsboro, Atwater, Kent, Mantua, Massillon, Lodi, Cleveland, Akron, Canton and Rittman already show intent.
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Ohio
Industrial Street Park
City Hall
Streetsboro
Atwater
Kent
Mantua
Massillon
Lodi
Cleveland
Akron
Canton
Rittman
Portage County
Wolfe Fakes Best In Garden Club Show
Mrs Richard O Wolfe of 229 North Metzger won best of show at Buckeye Garden Club’s annual show. Her drift wood and gladiolus arrangement topped a field with multiple firsts and seconds across many classes including patriotic, amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties. James Steiner led seven firsts with several top placements.
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Fred Kloha
Buckeye
Richard O. Wolfe
North Metzger
Buckeye Garden
America
James Steiner
George Rastorfer
John Collins
Fred Klohn
Rastorfer
Steiner
Karl Bauer
Econd
Frank Bostancic
Ted
Collins
Bestancic
Herbert Willems
Klohn
Wolfe
Ras
Morton Sales Earnings Rise
Morton International reports record fiscal year ending June 30 1968 with net sales of 153073382 up 6.7 percent from prior high and net earnings of 8034860 up 96 percent from last year Earnings per share rise to 458 from 119 over the previous year.
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Morton International, Inc
Pac Mor Campers Campout at Sudden Acres West Salem
Pac Mor Campers Chapter 348 of NCHA will camp August 23 to 25 at Sudden Acres West Salem. Ray mond Pope and Gene Rowe families host. planned activities include a campfire program and homemade ice cream Saturday night. Public hearing on the proposed trailer ordinance set for Monday at 7:30.
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Pac*Mor
NCHA
Sudden Acres
West Salem
Raymond Pope
Gene ‘Rowe
Vietnam War Death Notice for Private First Class Fretter
Vietnam War notice for Private First Class Christopher C. Fretter age 20 of Doylestown assigned July 27 to the 4th Infantry Division near Pleiku as a clerk. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Schmitt.
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Christopher C. Fretter
al Schmitt
Beech
Doylestown
4Th Infantry Division
Pleiku
Vietnam
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Nadine Trogdon
Florence Yoder
Katherine Bruny
Mildred Haller
Gertrude Lichty
Robert E. Adams
Earl W. Lambert
Robert Grygots
Ellen Britton
Audrey—Winchell
Bertha Sherrick
George ‘P Robinson
Betty Ann Donaldson
Chet Greenbank
Betty Zimmerly
Alan Joel Nieman
Diana Jordan
Tim Taylor
Louise Tester
Chuck Craig
Fran Breece
Ronald Tisher
Mark Craig
Jean Payne
Carla Howell
Bob
Dorothy Parkinson
Dave
Alice Wright
Dorothy
Ellis Garver
Ora Lancé
Ted Hanson
Rittmanites
Ralph Riggs
Port Richey, Fla
Riggs
Dallas
Irene Copley
Treasure_Island
Fla
Gene Parson
Kathy
Charleston
Jin
Homer _ Pyle
Calvary Baptist Church
West Sunset
William K. McComas
Wesleyan Methodist
Fairlawn Avenue
Wayne County Board of Elections
Biol- Bey Redo Senessee
Pepa Land FE
Laurers
Cleveland’s
W. H. Hauenstein
Rittman School Board
Ronald Woyat
Woyat
Ed Schaad
Janussey and
Schaad
Pittsburgh
Hauenstein
Ohio State Department Foundation
Kathryn Harry
Texas
Liverpool
Harry
Mary Menegay
West Hill School
Gary—L.—Thompson
Grace College
Ind
John R. Wachtel
Wachtel
Akron University
WolfeFakes
Bostancic
Bauer
Mrs. Klohn
Mrs. Collins
Secn
James Fond
Buckeye Garden Club
Stanley Dagne
Delanne Simpson
Morton
PacMor
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