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MAINEVILLE
Mrs. Meddock departed this life on Friday last.
Fannie and Walter Schlotmann were out here over Sunday.
John Kibbey visited his sister, Mrs. Alexander, last Sunday.
Miss Irene Moss and her mother are visiting in Dunkirk, Ind.
Miss Myrta Stevens has returned from an extended visit at Union City.
Lew Torbet spent Sunday with us. He is located for the present at
Indianapolis.
The sacred ordinance of baptism by immersion was administered to three
persons on Sunday at the Miami river.
Miss Willa Alexander is spending her vacation at home. She has been
re-employed as a teacher at Mechanicsburgh.
The soldiers' graves were not forgotten by their comrades in arms on Decoration
Day, although no services were held here.
Our band boys cleared $75 at their lawn fete on Saturday evening.
They are striving to raise money sufficient to purchase new and improved
instruments.
Two of George Crosson's children, aged six and eight respectively, concluded
recently that they would visit their grandparents at Blanchester, sixteen
miles away, and accordingly started out on foot, destined for that point.
Their father overtook them at Level, twelve miles from home, and returned
them to their mother.
At our township commencement the graduates acquitted themselves grandly.
Following is their program:
Our National Holidays |
Willie Stevens |
Self Reliance |
Annie Knapp |
Don't Run in Debt |
Geo. Landon |
Our Ship of State |
Jessie Brandenburg |
John Brown of Gettysburg |
Eddie Hill |
Advantages of an Education |
Louisa Pendery |
Should the Laboring Man be Educated? |
Charles Jones |
Be Correct |
Lucy McCarty |
Randolph of Roanoke |
R. C. Schlotman |
Climb Tho' the Rocks be Rugged |
Lorena Jones |
Independence Day |
Elmer Trimble |
The Polish Bay |
Mabel Thackera |
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Anna M. Hopper [or Harper?] |
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[REST OF ARTICLE IS MISSING]
Source: The Western Star, Lebanon,
Ohio, Thursday June 7, 1894, [copy obtained from microfilm available at
the Warren County Genealogical Society] |
by
Chuck Griffen
12 October 2008 |