Marietta, O., June 16,--Alice Kyle, a schoolgirl and daughter of a farmer residing
between Macksburg and Elba, has confessed to having caused the wreck of
the Pennsylvania flyer near the latter town Thursday night, in
which two passenger coaches were overturned and the engine, tender and mail car hurled
down an embankment.
The girl,
who is twelve years of age, says that she wedged a rail bolt between the ends
of the rails just to see the train smash it, as it had smashed nails and
pennies at other times for her.
The girl
will not be arrested, as the railroad officials are satisfied that it was a
childish prank and had no intent.
Source: Plain Dealer, June 17, 1906 -
Transcribed by C. Anthony
Reads Like A Novel
The Old Adage That “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” is Again Verified.
Milwaukee, Wis., Nov. 21. – Perry C. Merriam, 24 years of age,
yesterday succeeded in finding his father, from whom he has been separated
since he was a year old. The young man was born at Mattoon, Ill. his mother
being a daughter of C. C. Eggleston, a machinest of Cincinnati. According to
Merriam’s story he and his mother were kidnapped one year after his birth by
his grandfather, who opposed the marriage of his daughter to C. P. Merriam.
The mother died at the home of her father six months afterward and Perry was
brought up on a farm near Athens, O., until his nineteenth birthday, when he
started out to see the world and if possible find his father. An aunt living
in Marrieta, O., gave the clew (sic) which resulted in bringing together
father and son, at the home of the former in this city.
[Repository, Nov. 21, 1896, Pg6 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
Riversider Will Address Ohioians
Dr. Horace Porter,
former mayor of Riverside, is announced by Harry B. George , president of the
Ohio society, as the speaker at the Ohio picnic, scheduled to be held in Bixby
park, Long Beach, Sunday, Aug. 1.
Dr. Porter, formerly
a resident of Marrieta, O., is a descendant of one of the first families to
settle in the Buckeye state, and is known as a close student of Ohio
history.
An
elaborate program of entertainmentis announced for the afternoon, following
the basket picnic. The attractions will include an orchestra of 40 pieces, a
chorus of 18 voices, novelty and dancing act by Jerry White and Betty Ann
Biller; accordion and vocal numbers by Frankie and Lee, reading by H. H.
Elliott and soprano solos by Mrs. Elliott, both former Ohioians, Mrs. Elliott
being organist for Hollywood Presbyterian church.
President George
will ne well remembered in Riverside, by reason of his annual visits in
connection with the activities of the tax division of the treasury department.
Some three years ago he resigned to establish the office in Beverly Hills as
tax xounselor and auditor.
[Riverside Daily Press, July 23, 1937 –
Transcribed by AFOFG]
Take
Notice
The subscriber having been appointed by the honorable Court
of Common Pleas in Washington County, Ohio, a Trustee, to receive an
assignment of all the property, real and personal of Col. Abner Lord, late of
Marietta, Ohio, an insolvent debtor; also to accredit and adjust the demands
against said insolvent, and to collect all debts , & c. due to him –
hereby gives notice to all persons indebted to said Lord, by Bond, Note, Book
account, & c. that they must immediately discharge the same, to the
subscriber and unless this requisition is compiled with suits for the
collection of the same, will be forthwith indiscriminately commenced. The
subscriber will attend for the purpose of allowing claims against said
insolvent at his office in Marietta on the third Mondays of February and
March, on the first Mondays of April and May, and on the second Mondays of
June and July, of the present year, from the hour of 9 A.M., to 5 P. M. on
each day; and all claims which shall not be presented on or before said second
Monday of July will be barred from an allowance: at which time a dividend will
be struck upon the first division of proceeds agreeable to law.
Edwin
Putnam
Trustee, & c.
Marietta, Feb. 26, 1811
[Source Western
Spectator, May 11, 1811 – Transcribed by AFOFG]
