Ripley news from THE PLYMOUTH ADVERTISER (Plymouth, Richland Co., Ohio) 12 September 1914 Volume 61, No. 43 School opened for work this week Tuesday. IRENE PALM left Tuesday evening to work for Mrs. PEABODY in Greenwich. L.D. CRUM and wife were guests at the KEISER home in New Haven Tuesday. BENT CHRONISTER and family spent last Sunday guests of MELVIN HOWARD and wife. G.W. BRINSON has slicked up the appearance of his farm residence with a coat of paint. WINFERD LANG was going over our telephone line this week Wednesday testing out phones for groundings. W.G. SCROGGIE and wife of Norwalk were guests of their cousins, G.A. and CLARA A. KNIGHT, last week. B.A. BOARDMAN, F.P. BOARDMAN and A.E. HOLE and families attended the funeral of VELMA HOLE Monday. Miss FANNY CARVER one of Ripley's esteemed young ladies, was married to FRANK KRAUEB of Greenwich, last week. H.M. HUFFMAN is at the wheel in a Buick auto. L.D. CRUM has not run his out yet, so we have not the name to give this week. J.O. PALM, F.B. BARKER, H.W. BARKER, F.P. BOARDMAN and MELVIN LUTZ were among the State Fair guests from this vicinity. Mr. F.M. WILLIAMS and wife, who spent their vacation with Mr. and Mrs. FRANK DARLING, left for their home in Cleveland last week. The application of paint to the already neat buildings of C.H. and G.B. SILLIMAN shows the business thrift of these enterprising men of Ripley. D.W. COCKBURN of Shiloh, and JOHN MONTEITH and wife, of Mansfield, with their families, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. HOWARD LOFLAND Sunday. DAVID TRUXELL, aged 95, visited Dr. KESTER in Shiloh to have an eruption examined that is appearing near the same where he had a cancer removed two years ago. W.G. BLACKMORE is unloading fertilizer this week for his many farmer patrons. W.G. has been in the field with the Bowker goods and they stand the test. RICHARD DAWSON of New Haven was at the home of the writer viewing his young Jersey cows one day this week. Dick knows good cattle and often buys them. Mrs. L.B. TRUXELL and Mrs. FORD TRUXELL were in Norwalk Wednesday turning over the cash to the county treasurer for taxes and looking after bargains in the various stocks. The Young Peoples' Class of the Delphi Sunday School, taught by Miss G.M. KING, was entertained this week Wednesday by Miss DEWITT. Games, etc., were indulged in. E.A. STOTTS of Plymouth, keeps up his daily auto service from Plymouth to Ripley siding, where he delivers men to work on the pike, as well as running the loading machine for contractor BRITTON. FLOYD ANDERSON and family of Plymouth, and NOEL RUCKMAN, agent of the Big Four Railroad at Shiloh, and family, were last Sunday guests at the pleasant home of DAN and TOM RUCKMAN and wife on the county line. Mesdames A.E. DEWITT and G.A. HASSINGER were touring the great state of Ohio from north to south last week. They are not running for office or campaigning for anyone else but visited a sister in Gallipolis, visited the State Fair, called on others at Bucyrus and greeted friends in Plymouth Saturday evening. MELVIN HOWARD, one of Ripley's most useful and much wanted men, a mechanic in many lines of work, met with a painful and serious accident while painting on the house of M.E. REEVES last week Thursday. The ladder on which he was standing collapsed, throwing him to the ground, breaking his collar bone and injuring his leg, which will lay him up for several weeks. Dr. SAUNDERS set the bone. ------------------------------------------- Transcribed and submitted by Amy E. Armstrong ([email protected]) --------------------------------------------