West Chester early history and Pisgah township notes
Readable excerpts describe West Chester as the oldest village in Union Township laid out in 1817 by Hezekiah Smith, with mills, taverns, a first store and blacksmith, early residents, and a log school. Pisgah rises as a high point with an early hotel, doctors including Dr. Round and Mrs. Hulse, Civil War soldiers, and Port Union’s McMaken who ran the first grocery and built the first frame house.
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Alice Battaglia
Butler County
West Chester
Hezekiah Smith
Chester
Mechanicsburg
Ezekiel Gard
Anderson
Jeremiah Day
Jeremiah
Margaret Simpson
John C. Beckett
Charles Legg
William van Hise
James Cox
Pisgah
Union Township
William Belch
James L. Round
Round
David Hulse
Hulse
Russia
Port Union
McMaken
Union Township notes little items amid busy budget talks
Union Township trustees discuss a dog run cost of 131.50 and other small items. Route 42 speed denial at 35 mph. no parking zones debated with Springdale. Cox Road hump removal planned near a new junior school. garage sale objections and road vacating. a bush hog auction Saturday August 11 at Fire House No. One in West Chester.
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Union Township
Larry Gandler
Ohio Department of Transportation
Pyo Grounds
Cliff Choate
Springdale
Crescentville Road
Albert J. Shuholz
Union Road
Cox Road
West Chester
TV addict is guilty of house entry
A 15 year old Union Township boy was found delinquent on breaking and entering and placed on two weeks house arrest in Butler County Domestic Relations Court. He admitted entering a friend's home to watch television at about 8 a.m. July 31 by removing a bathroom window screen left open by a neighbor.
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Union Township
Butler County
David Black
Jack Milbauer
Jack Parsons
Parsons
Parson
Right to Life drive expands in Butler County
Paula Pawling profiles Mrs. Waigand of West Chester, a former nurse leading Butler County's Right-To-Life Committee. Since January she recruited 40 active members and 50 paid members, with 5,000 newsletters distributed. The effort aims to build countywide chapters and push constitutional protections for unborn children.
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Paula Pawling
Journal-News
Butler County
Vs. Waigand
West Chester
Waigand
Cincinnati
U.S. Supreme Court
Right-to-Life Committee
Father Butler Council
Knights of Columbus
Hamilton
Gingerich quits political managing over Powell disclosures
Don Gingerich, former associate of U S Representative Walter Powell in the 1970 campaign, says he will stop managing campaigns. He accuses Powell of perjury over a $10,000 payment and alleges false disclosures. Gingerich sought probes from state officials but was told investigations cannot proceed after a year.
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Don Gingerich
U. S
Walter Powell
R.fairfield
Gingerich
Powell
Butler County Board of Elections
First National Bank and Trust Co
Armed robbery at Sheraton Motor Inn in Union Twp
Union Township investigators probe an armed robbery at the Sheraton Motor Inn on Cincinnati Dayton Road near I 75. Two white male suspects, one with a moustache, held the manager at gunpoint about 215 am and fled with cash and traveler’s checks. State troopers checked suspects near Dayton. released as not involved. The incident remains under investigation.
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Union Township
Sheraton Motor Inn
Cincinnati-Dayton Road
I- 75
State Hights
Dayton
Ivestigation
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Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
Pasbock
Corres Ll
Saya
Mill ST. Lockland
Dunn
Secretary of
Ted W. Brown
William Brown
Ted Brown
Ohio
Brown
Attorney General's Office
Secretary of State
John F. Holcomb
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