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The Mahoning Dispatch, 1908-11-27

The front page of 1908-11-27. 586 words, read by machine from the Library of Congress scan and reproduced without correction.

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ma vlaltod at Jacob Helsels Thursday Basil Portor and wlfo of Diamond spent Sunday at John Porters Mra Jonnlo Williamson and Mrs Ida Force visited Miss Pearl Klingeman Friday Harry Kale la suffering with granu granulated - lated granulated eye lids Miss Ona Delong called Wednesday on Mrs Ida Force David and Frank Porter are hauling lime from Warron for their new house Mr and Mrs Earl Orr are the proud parents of a 15 pound boy He came Tnursday a Salem Nov 25 At the special election Mon Monday - day Monday the city voted by a small majority to issue bonds in the sum of 1131000 to take over the waterworks plant It re remains - mains remains to be seen whether municipal ownership In this particular Is as satis satisfactory - factory satisfactory as many people olalm it will be R E Bullard who had his left band badly injured in a feed cutter Is in a Plttaburg hospital Buffering from lock lockjaw - jaw lockjaw Mrs Ellon Davis aged 70 years died Saturday Trolley lines bring considerable busi business - ness business to this olty What has become of the old-fashioned turkey shootB so popular at Thanks Thanksgiving - giving Thanksgiving time In the years agone fl a m Brain Leaks Fine feathers make expensive hata A fight for right is never wholly lost A receipt for pew rent Is not a pass passport - port passport to heaven The man who haB never experienced trouble caa sever appreciate joy Faith may stumble in the dark but doubt will tumble In broad daylight There are some people who tkfaak they are outtlng arose lots to heays Some ma Uka an latere la politfe wlAout aaviag any principle about it Thare to eat thin waa than a quitter lb nau wbo to JrM to

The sad cataetropho befalling tho family of John Wampfler near Alliance In tho south west corner of Manonlng county in which four of his children lost tholr lives In the burning of his home mention of which was made In last weeks Dispatch was one to try tho strongest parental heart and it is little wonder that father and mother are verging on complete nervous collapse so great Is their grief Almost two thous thousand - and thousand dollars have boon contributed by kind hands to alleviate property losses while many are the sympathetic heart boats going out to them In their hour of untold sorrow In an unmarked gravo In tho little Bunker Hill M E Church cemetery in Goshen township repose tho ashoa of five children who perished in a similar firo In Mahoning county In 1859 almost a half century ago tho fact being brought to mind by tho fatality above mentioned The unfortunate homo In that early day was that of Humphrey Owen n mile north of Patmos Somo of tho older peoplo of that neighbor neighborhood - hood neighborhood wore present at tho fire and vivid vividly - ly vividly recall tho circumstances Whon tho firo wbb discovered and thoBo answering tho alarm woro ablo to roach tbo scene nothing could bo done to Bavo tho llttlo folks from their peril Tho charred remains woro placed In ono funeral pllo and sorrowfully borno to tho tomb From what was learned cruol Indeed was tho decree bf fate in the Owon family It bolng rotated of them that a son pri prior - or prior y lost hla llfo from a kick of a horso

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