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NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
Happenings In The Seven Counties Which Form The
Boundary Line Of Knox
Ashland County

Ashland County
Bert Fox escapes from county Jail
by saving three bars of a grating
and letting himself down by 2O-foot
rope
Business woman's supper in Ash
land attracts 264. Held at the taber-
nacle.
Val EmmOns, missing Ashlander,
found in Mansfield. Was said to be
slightly demented.
Chamber of commerce urges more
adequate fire protection for city of
Ashland.
Samuel Young, Raymond Young
and Harold Wilmer win prizes for
large pumpkins in the Sherradden
community club competition
Ashland county Knights of Pythias
will hold their convention in the Teu-
tonic lodge rooms, Loudonville, on
Thursday evening, Oct. 26. A feature
will be the conferring Of the First
rank, in amplified form, by the Ash
land team.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alden Bruce celebrate
golden wedding anniversary at home
in Ruggles township.
coshocton County
Lancaster, Dover and Columbus po
lice notified to watch out for Leo
Roger and John Hamaker who ran
away from their homes.
Evan o. Evans and II. o. Andrews,
driving automobiles, collide in Co
shocton. Machines somewhat dam
aged.
Coshocton county commissioners
notified that price of prisoners at
wOrkhouse has been increased from
55 to 65 cents per day.
Senator Ollie James of Kentucky
to open Coshocton county Democratic
campaign.
John d. Rodeheaver appointed rur-
al mail carrier out of Walhonding.
William Taylor of Coshocton ar
rested for stealing sugar and tobac-
co from ]. ID. Stevenson's grocery.
Delaware County
Chief Engineer +. II. Meyers of
the Delaware Coal & Ice Co. confined
in Jane M. Case hospital as the re-
suit of injuries sustained when an
ammonia cap flew off and exploded in
his face.
Ohio Wesleyan university class
presidents; senior, Elmer r. Schim-
mel of Newark; Junior Sidney Mayer
OF Salem.
Rev and Mrs. Cooper leave Della
ware for new home In London where
Rev. Cooper will occupy the pulpit OF
the Methodist church.
Gustave Beutelspacher of Croton,
ambassador to Venezuela during the
Mckinley administration succumbs
to cancer at the Jane M. Case hos
pital.
Charles Fifer and George Murphy
of Redwood indicted for manslaugh-
ter in connection with an automobile
motorcycle accident in which they
figured.
Holmes County
Burning grass and weeds in Kill
buck bottoms threaten destruction
of the village itself Change of wind
aud heavy shower only saving fea-
ture.
G. v. Gray of Nashville wins case
by decision Of the appellate court,
which had TO do with an action
brought against him by woman in
jured on account of the position in
which he parked his automobile
County Sunday school convention
will be held at Millersburg on Oct
10 and 20.
Mrs. Noble j. Uhl and baby badly
scalded when former, carrying buck
ct of boiling water and the baby, trips
on stairs and throws water over self
and child.
Licking County
Dr. Hugh Wayt OF GAINESVILLE to be
the principal speaker at the dedica-
tion of the new Church of Christ in
Newark which occurs Sunday.
Sam and James Flevey, two for
eigners, plead guilty in Newark to
a charge of snaring fish in the north
fork of the Licking river.
Edward Lescaileet and two other
employees of the Ohio Fuel Supply Co.
painfully hurt at Homer when tank
explodes.
Anabel Wondering falls at home
near Utica While playing and frac-
lures her hip.
Morrow County
Stockholders of defunct Mt. Gilead
Savings and Loan association bring
action againt directors to compel them
to make an accounting and restore
funds.
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