1962-64 Linda Hughes - Peace Corps

Linda Hughes NVHS'59 Collage.  Left to right: 1957 Cheerleader, 1958 Homecoming Attendant; 1957 FFA Queen; 1959 Graduation Picture.

The Peace Corps was officially started in 1961 by President Kennedy and a year later two NVHS graduates were serving: Linda Hughes (NVHS'59) in Ethiopia and Doug Bernard (NVHS'61) in Brazil.  Any other New Vienna people who were part of the Peace Corps?

Found on Newspapers.comNew Vienna Girl Joins Peace CorpsLinda Hughes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Hughes, New Vienna, Rt. 3, is Wilmington College's third graduate to enter the Peace Corps.
Having received her degree with a major in education and English in June, Linda expects to teach English or geography in Ethiopia.  She has left for training at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., where she will study Ethiopia and Amharic, its major dialect, and American politics.  After her training there is completed she will leave Sept. 4 for Africa.* * * * *
The above clipping is from the front page of Hillsboro's Press-Gazette, July 13, 1962.

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The letter that follows was sent to the Uible family during Linda's second year in Ethiopia. Transcription follows, as does a synopsis of Linda's life after the Peace Corps.  Thanks to the Hughes family for assisting me in this post, and especially to Laura "Weegie" Hughes Page for providing the biographical write-up.

 

 

Tuesday

October 22, 1963

Hello,

I want to thank you for the interesting letter you sent me in June.  And I'm ashamed of myself for not finding time to answer it before now, but if you've read any of my summer letters you'll realize I had a pretty exciting time.

I'm assuming that perhaps you've hard something about it, so I won't go into any detail.  The most interesting part was meeting so many different people and observing the ways of Egyptians, Cyprians, Jordanians, & Sudanize.  They resembled the people of this area in ancient dress and ways, but the signs of progress were much greater than in Ethiopia.

I am now sitting in the teacher's room of the school during my free period.  We don't have any study hall, but we do have an empty room which will be a library and a good one thanks to the Wilmington Community Project.  Those books haven't arrived, yet; but we're eagerly waiting.  I'm sitting here rather oblivious to what is being said by the others, because they're speaking in Tigrinya – one of the 6 local languages.  Two of the women teachers speak English, so they translate for us.  They've just been teasing me about putting holes in my ears, rings in my nose, & tatooes [sic] on my hands, feet & forehead.  These women don't follow these old customs, but their mothers & friends do.

The students understand English so much better and teaching is just so much easier in this second year.  I'm sure the same would be true if I were in the U.S.  As my roommate & I were walking down the street to the post office a man perched on his camel went trotting by only a couple of feet from us.  We remarked at how common place this sight was and how at home we now felt in this once strange land.  It makes me wonder what will be my feelings when I returned to the land of plenty – America. 

How is your sprouting family?  If each has grown as much as Weegie I'm sure I won't recognize them.  Though I hated to see the school lose their identification & personableness, I feel consolidation will bring more advantages and great challenges.  I'm so happy there is now a kindergarten, as I haven't met many people my age who didn't go to kindergarten, and it's about time they had one at New Vienna.

My family wrote that they're preparing another program on Ethiopia – I'm pleased that people are so interested, but wonder if it isn't becoming repetitious for you.  I've never seen any of my pictures on screen, so I don't have a very good idea of how they look.

I would certainly enjoy hearing from you and send my best wishes to all the Uibles.

Sincerely,

Linda

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Linda Hughes, New Vienna HS of '59, graduated from Wilmington College ('62) and immediately entered the Peace Corps. She was stationed for two years In the Eritrea area of Ethiopia.

After returning from Africa via a trip through the Far East, Linda taught elementary school at New Vienna (1964-5) and subsequently in the Milford and Woodlawn schools in the Cincinnati area. Linda married William C. Wilson in 1966. She received her Masters degree in elementary guidance and counseling from Xavier University in 1968, and her Rank I in 1982 from Northern Kentucky University.

Linda and Bill relocated from Cincinnati to Williamstown, Kentucky, which was Bill's hometown. They were the parents of three children, Todd, Nicole and Stacy.

An enthusiastic planner and organizer, Linda continued being involved in education support at the local, county, and state level. The Grant County (KY) school parent volunteer organization, the Williamstown (KY) United Methodist preschool, and the Grant County Library children's story hour were all founded and developed by Linda based on her love of children and commitment to early childhood education.

Linda passed away at age 43 on October 6, 1984 after a 20 month battle with breast cancer, still orchestrating children's church activities and lesson plans in the last weeks before her death.

1923 NV Canning Factory Destroyed

Clipping obtained from the Clinton County Historical Society and transcribed below, is presumed to be from the Wilmington News-Journal, September 24, 1923.  The writer of the article is unidentified, but the phrase "nothing that savors of definiteness" seems fitting.  Interesting that the night watchman made "the rounds . . . shortly before being awakened by the fire."  Was he sleepwalking??
 
The canning factory was rebuilt after the fire though no details are currently available on that construction. The canning factory was constructed in 1916, seven years prior to the fire: "C.L. BAUGH [Carlton Baugh 1878-1937] is building a new canning factory at New Vienna at Railroad tracks.  John HULL has contract." --Clinton County Democrat 27Apr1916 as abstracted by Josephine Williams & Adrian Roberts.  In 1963 the property was sold by the New Vienna Packing Co. to the New Vienna Farmers Elevator, a mill operated by Mac LAUGHLIN and Charlie HART.  See below.

NEW VIENNA CANNING FACTORY DESTROYED BY FIRE; LOSS HEAVY

Fire of Unknown Origin Sweeps Plant; Warehouse is Saved

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Fire of unknown origin swept the plant of the canning company, at New Vienna shortly after midnight Saturday, and by early Sunday morning the plant was completely destroyed, entailing a lost of approximately $25,000, about 50 per cent of which was covered by insurance.

Efforts of the volunteer firemen, who were favored by the direction of the wind, resulted in saving the warehouse, in which was stored the portion of this year's crop which had been placed in tin, but the flames wiped out the main factory building completely, destroyed the scales and the silo, and ruined beyond repair all the fine machinery which had recently been installed in the plant.

Watchman on Duty

A watchman was on duty and his report to the owners of the plant –– George M. NEFFNER, Dr. MATTHEWS and James R. WEST –– was that he had made the rounds of the factory only a short time before he was awakened by the flames, and found that the discovery of the fire came too late to save the plant.  The fire was first detected about 1 o'clock in the morning, and the plant was soon burned to the ground, the flames licking up the wooden building and its contents in amazingly quick time.

Investigation has failed to show a cause of the fire.  It is pointed out that recently all the electrical wiring had been inspected and much of it renewed, and danger in that direction was not thought possible.  Whether spontaneous combustion could operate in such a circumstance, with so little storage, is doubted, it is said.  However, to date nothing that savors of definiteness can be found by the investigators of the catastrophe.

In Midst of Season

The factory was in the midst of a very busy season.  The crop of corn was said to be unusually good this year, and fully 350 acres of fine corn are yet outstanding, one of the owners said today.  An effort is being mad to secure the co-operation of canning plants in neighboring towns, and a call has been sent to the Bates plant, in Wilmington; to the Swaim Cannery, at Sabina; to Clarksville and Leesburg for help in putting into tin the immense crop of the New Vienna country.

"We understand that all these plants have their hands full with their own corn," said Mr. Neffner to a newspaper questioner, "but we feel that by dividing the crop around it may be possible to handle it without loss to the growers."

Had Cut Insurance

When the plant was reconditioned a short time ago, with everything put into ship-shape, the owners decided to cut the insurance, and $3,000 was taken off, it is admitted by the owners, who now argue that they should have added that much to the sum carried, rather than deducted it.  The plant has been under the management of James R. West, as one of the owners, and Charles ELLIOTT had been assisting Mr. West.  The men are at a loss to explain how the fire could have started.

The local firemen did valiant work and saved the ware-house, but so far advanced was the fire when it was discovered there was not chance to save the plant.

Hope is being expressed that the efforts to get help from neighboring canning plants may succeed and thus solve the problem of saving the fine crop that the farmers of the New Vienna country were rushing to the factory.

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New Vienna Ohio Cannery c1940, Pictured in front row behind the "L" is David MARTIN.  

Image Courtesy of Larry Martin.

The cannery was a noisy and smelly place, but a chance for seasonal employment for many New Vienna area residents.  The Hakes family was also involved in the operation of the cannery during the 1940s and 50s according to Phyllis Tilton White.

Other cannery tidbits:

1939 - H.G. BATES has an interest in canning factories at New Vienna, Wilmington, Spring Valley and South Charleston.  His son, C.E. BATES, owns the Blanchester canning factory. --Hillsboro Press-Gazette, 20Jun1939, p3

1942 - Charles ELLIOTT, New Vienna, is financing a new tomato canning factory in Lynchburg. --Hillsboro Press-Gazette, 27Jan1942, p1 

1944 - Homer, WILLIAMS, New Vienna, has been named to manage the Lynchburg tomato canning plant this year. --Hillsboro Press-Gazette, 11Apr1944,p1

1952 - W.T. CREAMER, Wilmington, part owner and operator of the New Vienna Packing Co., said that this year's [corn] crop was larger than last year's in spite of the drought damage to early corn.  The New Vienna plant closed last week. --Hillsboro Press-Gazette, 19Sep1952, p1

1963 - Transfer of Real Estate from New Vienna Packing Co. by C. T. VANDERVORT and W.H. ROBINSON to New Vienna Farmers Elevator, Inc.  Another parcel was transferred to the Elevator from Mary Elizabeth CREAMER. --Hillsboro Press-Gazette, 8Oct1963, p12

1976 - William E. COVERT & Sons advertise their lawn and garden tractor business located at the old canning factory. --Hillsboro Press-Gazette, 29Oct1976, p8

Doc Noble's Drugstore 1924-1967

When Norman Cyril [later "Doc"] Noble was born on November 24, 1893, in Orange, Ohio, his father, John, was 33 and his mother, Inez, was 29. He married his first wife, Leona S. Baker Noble, on July 27, 1920, in Macon, Missouri. About 1953 he married his second wife, Jennalou Green Engle Noble, in Ohio.  Marrying Jennalou, Doc Noble became step-father to Eugene Engle (NVHS 1962).

Doc Noble at New Vienna Drug Store 1956.  Image Courtesy of Mike Whited.

Noble was a registered pharmacist, and owned and operated Noble's Drug Store in New Vienna for 43 years, 1924 to 1967. He died in March 1967 in New Vienna, Ohio, at the age of 73, and was buried in Lebanon, Ohio.

The drug store during Doc Noble's tenure was a dimly lit space with a magazine rack near the front window and though Doc Noble generally sat behind a counter in the middle of the store, he kept an eagle eye on anyone looking at the magazines or comic books.  He was known to call parents if young eyes wandered to the more racy magazines or acted at all suspiciously.  There were many glass cases around the walls, small tables (at one time there was a soda fountain), and shelves going up to the ceiling along the walls.  There was a postcard rack with New Vienna and other local scenes depicted.

Doc Noble's sister, Alma Nease Noble, 1901-1992, had a PhD in romance languages.  She taught French and Latin at the college level.  In 1985 she established at Ohio State University College of Pharmacy, the Norman Cyril Noble Memorial Scholarship Fund for academically successful students who show financial need.

In addition to the apartment above the drug store, Doc Noble also had a farm on Noble Road where he had Belgian Horses.

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Sources:
Ancestry.com info about Norman Cyril Noble.

New Vienna Drug stores & Druggists

The 1976 booklet, Historic Buzzard's Glory: New Vienna, Ohio 1827-1976, lists one druggist (Rogers) in 1856, 2 drug stores in 1876, and one in 1976.

New Vienna Drugstore, known later as Noble's Drugstore and then as New Vienna Pharmacy, was in operation as a pharmacy from the 1880s until the 1970s.  The drug store was a long narrow building in the center of the downtown block on the south side of Main Street.  In 2013 the former drug store location is on the west side of the Sunrise Bakery which is owned/run by the daughter of Doc Noble's stepson.

The drug store during Doc Noble's tenure was a dimly lit space with a magazine rack near the front window and though Doc Noble generally sat behind a counter in the middle of the store, he kept an eagle eye on anyone looking at the magazines or comic books.  He was known to call parents if young eyes wandered to the more racy magazines or acted at all suspiciously.  There were many glass cases around the walls, small tables (at one time there was a soda fountain), and shelves going up to the ceiling along the walls.  There was a postcard rack with New Vienna and other local scenes depicted.

There were at least four pharmacist/owners:

1. William Henry 1880s -1890s
2. Unknown(s) 1890s - 1900s
3. John M. Bettetao (Battelas, or Bettatas) listed on 1900 census as 55-year-old druggist/proprietor in New Vienna.  No other information found on him other than he was single and living in the Fealy Hotel (later Wells Mfg. building).
   
   Fairfax West (1844-1927) is listed as a druggist in New Vienna in 1900; a pharmacist in 1910 and a drug store clerk in 1920.
   
   Also on the 1900 Census, Richard Mason Williams is listed as a druggist as he was on the 1880 census. Possibly he ran one of the two drugstores listed as being open in 1876.
4. William Cushing Higley 1900s - 1924 
5. Norman Cyril Noble 1924 -1967
6. Charles Henderson 1973 - about 1977

Frank Hussey drowns
Hillsboro News-Herald July 28, 1887 p. 7

William Henry had a New Vienna drug store in the 1880s.  In 1887, one of his clerks, Frank Hussey, son of the deceased Simon Hussey, drowned while bathing in an old gravel pit on the Conard farm near Auburn Meeting-house in Penn Township.  He was with two or three other young men about his same age (21 or 22), but none of them were able to swim, and Frank evidently got beyond his depth. [Hillsboro News-Herald, July 28, 1887.]  In 1900 the census records show the Henry family, which then included six children, living in Greenfield.  Daughter, Della C. Henry Dunlap, graduated from NVHS in 1892.  Henry's wife, Leanna Hussey Henry, born in New Vienna in 1854, was the daughter of Nathan Hussey.

Fairfax West, son of Joseph Benson West and Sarah Olive Grice West, was born in Wayne Township, Clinton County in 1844.  After serving in the Civil War, he married Mary Lurena Susannah Wilkinson in 1866, and worked as a druggist in New Vienna for the rest of his life.  They were the parents of nine children including: Edmund, Effie, Sarah, William, James, Martha, Olive, Zilpha (NVHS 1897) and Fairfax, Jr., West.

Richard Mason Williams married Margaret Adelia Rulon in 1871 and they were the parents of Guy Rulon Williams 1872-1940.  Guy graduated from NVHS in 1889.  Margaret was born in New Vienna in 1849.  Richard was born in Virginia in 1846 but his family moved to Green Township, Clinton County in 1849.

William Cushing Higley, operated a drug store in New Vienna from the early 1900s until 1924, when he died at age 71.  His family, which included a daughter, Mamie, born 1898, lived in Penn Township in 1910 and in Green Township in 1920.  Mamie was a pharmacy student in 1920 but was not a graduate of NVHS as far as can be ascertained.  Prior to moving to New Vienna, Higley was a druggist in Coolville, Ohio, Athens County, where he was later buried.  Ancestry details on him can be found at this link.

Norman Cyril "Doc" Noble – see separate blog post.

In 1973 the New Vienna Pharmacy reopened after renovation by Charles Henderson, a registered pharmacist-manager, who operated the store for a limited period of time.  Little is known of Charles Henderson and his efforts to continue operating a drug store in New Vienna.  Possibly he was from Hillsboro.  There was an ad in the Dec. 1976 Hillsboro newspaper for the New Vienna Pharmacy but nothing can be found after that date.

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Sources:
Ancestry.com info about William Henry
Ancestry.com info about Fairfax West
Ancestry.com info about Richard Mason Williams
Ancestry.com info about William Cushing Higley

September News from "3" years

1863, 1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 and 1913 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1943, 1963 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette. Other sources as listed below.

1863 Sept. 10 - Meeting of the grand Union Basket Meeting will be held at New Vienna on Sept. 25.  Ohio Gov. Tod had promised to be present as well as many other fine speakers.  The New Vienna committee is composed of Benj. SMITH, C.C. BOWERS, Jno. MATHEWS, and J.C. GREEN.

1873 Sept. 4 - Rev. Mr. MOORE of New Vienna preached to good audiences in the Baptist church.

1873 Sept. 10 - Marriage of Emma ARTHUR to T.J. ASHDELL.  Emma is the daughter of Edward ARTHUR, a New Vienna banker. --Cincinnati Enquirer p.5

1883 Sept. 12 - Commissioners of the Mt. Olive free turnpike awarded remainder of the bonds, $6,000 in all, to the contractor of the pike Dr. A.T. JOHNSON of New Vienna.  These bonds can be purchased from the Dr. at a reasonable price.

1883 Sept. 19 - J. A. ROBBINS [of New Lexington (Highland)] has been employed to help to the brickwork of the new hotel at New Vienna.

1893 Sept. 6 - D.D. CHANEY appointed as Methodist minister for New Vienna and New Lexington [Highland].   --Cincinnati Enquirer p.5

1893 Sept. 19 - A fatal train collision near Chicago killed nine persons, including J.W. POWELL of New Vienna.  --Salem (Ohio) Daily News p.2  A Young man named Penn, a bank clerk at New Vienna, was traveling with Mr. Powell and is now missing, and no word of him can be obtained. --Hillsboro News=Herald, Sept. 21, 1893, p.5.

1893 Sept. 28 - [For those not wanting the gruesome details on the above mentioned article, skip this paragraph.]  Mr. Powell's body was horribly mangled.  His legs were cut off near the body.  His arms were severed, and one of them was never found.  His head was crushed.

1903 Sept. 8 - Rev. A. HAMILTON appointed to the Methodist pulpit in New Vienna.  --Piqua Daily Call p.2

1923 Sept. 3 - William B. BONHAM of New Vienna, is an Ordained Elder of the M.E. [Methodist Episcopal] Church.  --Cincinnati Enquirer p.7

1943 Sept. 3 - Hunting licenses can be purchased at Kibler Implement Co. in New Vienna.

1943 Sept. 7 - Aviation Cadet, Robert G. THOMPSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete THOMPSON  of New Vienna is enrolled in pre-flight school at San Antonio, Texas.

1953 Sept. 12 - Janet BERNARD of New Vienna, showed the junior fair champion, Southdown ram, winning the state Southdown award.  --Marysville Journal-Tribune p.3

1963 Sept. 6 - Mrs. Wendell TRENARY, New Vienna, was hostess for the Hudson reunion held Mon. at Leesburg Roadside Park.

1963 Sept. 10 - Death of Miss Elizabeth HODSON, 85, of New Vienna.  She was born November 12, 1877 in Highland County, daughter of Eli HODSON and Sophia McFADDEN HODSON.  She was survived by nieces and nephews.

1963 Sept. 13 - Mr. and Mrs. Leonard SHAW of New Vienna announce the engagement of their daughter, Deanna Sue, to Mr. Jerry C. DAVIS, son of Mr. Frank A. DAVIS of New Vienna and the late Mrs. Davis.  Both Miss Shaw and her fiance are graduates of New Vienna High School.

1963 Sept. 17 - Ad for Clark's Family Clothes, New Vienna.

1963 Sept. 17 - Announcement of marriage of Miss Janet Lee MILBURN, daughter of Mrs. Irma MILBURN of NV and Mr. Thomas MILBURN of Sabina, to Mr. George M. COX, son of Mr. and Mrs. William COX of New Vienna.

1963 Sept. 17 - Death of Stanley MORRIS, retired farmer who lived in New Vienna for some years.  He was survived by his wife Mara; as well as three sons and four daughters.

1963 Sept. 27 - Mr. and Mrs. Herschel HOOK of Hillsboro have purchased the Smith Restaurant in New Vienna from Clarence SMITH.  Mrs. Hook, formerly with the Ritz Restaurant in Lynchburg has had 15 years experience in the restaurant business.

1973 Sept. 7 - L. Eugene SMITH, owner of Smith Funeral Home, New Vienna, announced the purchase of Reynolds-Sulcer Funeral Home, Wilmington.

1973 Sept. 12 - Wedding reported of Joyce Ann SHANK, Sabina, and Mark D. ALLEN, New Vienna.

1973 Sept. 18 - Etta May [POST] SELPH, 84, of New Vienna, passed away on Sept. 13.  She was born in Highland County April 3, 1889.  She was survived by her daughter, Mrs. Heber FAUBER [Jane NVHS 1944] and four grandchildren: Larry, Penny, Teddy and Ricky.

1973 Sept. 28 - William (Bill) MANOR, a 1973 graduate of East Clinton, has enlisted in the Air Force. --Xenia Daily Gazette p.12

1993 Baileys celebrate 50th Anniversary - Sept. 19

Ann Bailey taught reading at East Clinton Schools from 1977 to 1991.  In 1993, she and her husband, Everett, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.  Ann passed away in 2011; Everett in 2003.  Read more about them in the following clipping which is (mostly) transcribed below.

1993 Baileys (Ann & Everett) renew wedding vows on 50th Anniv. 

Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal Sept. 15

Baileys to renew wedding vows on 50th anniversary

Georgia Ann Gabbert Bailey and Everett Lafayette Bailey of Wilmington will renew their wedding vows on Sept. 19, 1993, at the Butlerville United Methodist Church in Butlerville, on Rt. 143, 20 miles southwest of Wilmington, during the 10:30 a.m. service.  The couple requests no gifts other than the presence of their family and friends joining their celebration.

Everett Bailey married Ann Gabbert on Sept. 19. 1943.  The couple was married by Rev. Hoke Dickinson in Portsmouth.

Mr. Bailey opened, managed, or owned numerous grocery stores throughout Centerville, Leesburg and Blanchester, finding himself in the general offices of the Kroger Co. in Cincinnati for 13 years where he worked until his retirement in 1991.  In 1980 he was licensed as a local pastor by the Methodist Church and given a charge at Butlerville, where he has pastored since.

Mrs. Bailey was co-owner of the Leesburg Supermarket and enrolled at Chatfield College in 1972, later completing her bachelor's degree in elementary education at Wilmington College and her master's degree at Xavier University in Cincinnati, enabling her to teach reading at East Clinton Schools for 14 years.  She also retired in 1991.

Since their "retirement" Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have filled their time with trips to Europe and Israel; church work; hospital visitation; and the grandparenting of eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

1973 Morrow named EC Supt.

September 18, 1973's Wilmington News-Journal had the following clipping about the new Superintendent at East Clinton, 10 years after the consolidation of New Vienna with Wayne Township schools.  Transcription follows.

Morrow named superintendent at East Clinton

County superintendent of schools Walter Nichols announced today that the East Clinton board of Education in regular session Monday night, employed school principal Donald Morrow to replace Superintendent George Greer who has resigned.

Greer, on approval by the EC board, has accepted the position, effective Oct. 1, as superintendent of schools of Highland County.  He replaces John Cushing who resigned because of ill health.

Morrow, who will become superintendent Oct. 1, has 18 years experience in school work.

He has been a high school principal seven years, an elementary principal one year, and was a high school teacher for 10 years.  Before coming to East Clinton, he was principal of Fairfield High School, in Highland County.

He received his masters degree from Wittenberg University in 1952.  Morrow is also a four year Navy veteran who spent 22 months in Korea.

He lives in Jeffersonville, where he has been mayor since 1960.  He plans to move his family to the EC district.  He and his wife, Glenna, have two daughters, Lenna is in the fourth grade, and Sharon attends the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts.

Morrow's replacement as principal is presently under consideration.

August News from "3" years

1873 and 1883 news from the Highland Weekly News, published in Hillsboro, Ohio 1853-1886; 1893 and 1913 news from the Hillsboro News-Herald; 1943, 1963 news from Hillsboro's Press Gazette. Other sources as listed below.

1873 Aug. 21 - Officers of the newly formed Union Grange, No. 77, New Vienna are as follows:
Master – Christopher LEWIS; Overseer – Wm. H. BURNETT;  Lecturer – Wm. WEST;  Asst. Steward – Josiah POLK;  Chaplain – James HUSSEY;  Treasurer – Amos J. HIATT;  Secretary – Jonathan LEEKA;  Gate-keeper – G.B. MILLER;  Ceres – Miss F.B. WEST;  Pomona – Miss Lydia THORNBURG;  Flora – Miss Eunice HUSSEY;  L.A. Steward – Miss Victoria HIATT.

1873 Aug. 28 - Elder Wm. D. MOORE of New Vienna, will preach in the Hillsboro Baptist Church on Saturday and Sunday, 30th and 31st of August.

1883 Aug. 1 - Taylor EVANS has bought property on East Main street in Leesburg where he intends to build a mansion with brick supplied by a New Vienna firm.

1883 Aug. 1 - James MORROW is moving to New Vienna after living on the Adolphus WOODMANSEE farm south of New Lexington [Highland] for five years.

1883 Aug. 15 - Rev. Joseph WRIGHT of New Vienna will preach on Sunday the 19th at Hardin's Creek meeting house near Leesburg.

1893 Aug. 22 - James COLLIGAN of New Vienna and 59 other members of the Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer Household Club will ride on a special car of the C.H.&D. and Monon [CH&D = Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, Monon was route to Indianapolis and on to Chicago] Railroad to Chicago.  The Club is composed of contributors to The Weekly Enquirer.  --The The Cincinnati Enquirer  Aug 22, 1893 p.3.

1893 Aug. 10 - Will and Frank TRIMBLE of Hillsboro and Pat JONES of Wilmington were implicated in a recent shooting and attended the trial at New Vienna which started last week.  Will and Pat were fined $8.40 each and Frank was released.

1893 Aug. 10 - "Pet" McCLURE, of Highland, boarded a freight train in New Vienna for a ride home but fell asleep and on waking found himself fifty three miles from home.

1893 Aug. 17 - Claibourne BURNETT's barn near New Vienna, was destroyed by fire.

1903 Aug. 21 - The Clinton County Democratic Convention met August 20 and was presided over by Dr. R.T. TRIMBLE of New Vienna.  They indorsed [sic] the candidacy of Tom L. Johnson [former mayor of Cleveland, lost to George Nash] for Governor, and Bookwalter for US Senator.  The Clinton County ticket is as follows: Representative, H.W. Smith; Treasurer, Dr. Lambright; Commissioner, T.D. Edwards; Infirmary Director J.H. Shrack, and Coroner, Dr. W.E. Srofe.  The convention was well attended, considering the fact that Clinton is a Republican county.  A candidate from New Vienna, ZIMMERMAN, was well supported by a group of 17 from New Vienna, would probably have been the choice if his advocates had not lacked organization.   --The The Cincinnati Enquirer  Aug 21, 1903 p.3.

1913 Aug. 7 - A Farmers Picnic will be held Tuesday at Frank CLARK's Grove, near New Vienna.  Everybody bring their dinner and enjoy the day.

1923 Aug. 22 - George PUCKETT, 40, of New Vienna, is employed as the new superintendent of Stockdale Ohio schools.  He was formerly employed as a high school director and a professor at Wilmington College [but did not graduate from NVHS].   --Portsmouth Daily Times Aug 22, 1923 p.3.

1933 Aug. 24 - Eighteen churches of this region [Wilmington] will send delegates to the 88th annual meeting of the Clinton Baptist association at New Vienna.  --Sandusky Register Aug 24, 1933 p.10.

1933 Aug. 29 - Ohio State Fair report -- New Vienna, Clinton county, took first in its FFA exhibition with its exhibit of farming ability.   --The Times Recorder (Zanesville) Aug 29, 1933 p.1.

1943 Aug. 5 - Former Pastor Dies – The Rev. Edgar B. BUFFINGTON, 80, former pastor of the New Vienna Christian Church.  He also held pastorates in Elyria (1911); and later at Wilmington, New Vienna, Willoughby and Crawford Road Christian Church in Cleveland.  --The Piqua Daily Call, Aug 5, 1943 p.1.

1943 Aug. 6 - Former New Vienna resident Elmer R. MOON [1903-1979], Supt. of Schools at Higginsport, Ohio for the past five years, has been appointed as a deputy collector to the Zanesville Internal Revenue office.   --The Times Recorder (Zanesville) Aug 6, 1943 p.2.

1943 Aug. 13 - Mr. and Mrs. Heber RUNK and son, of New Vienna, visited with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert LEAVERTON Sunday [in Leesburg].

1943 Aug. 13 - Penn-Fairfield Advisory Council, Chairman Meredith MICHAEL met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey FLEMING of the New Vienna neighborhood last week.  A special meeting of the council will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E.J. COOK near Careytown on Aug. 17.  The Union Twp. Council will be guests.  Attending were Mr. and Ms. Jas. WOLFE, Mr. and Mrs. Emery RHOADS, E.L. BRITTON and Misses Goldie TOMLIN, Betty and Janet HAMILTON and Mr. WATSON.

1943 Aug. 27 - Mr. and Mrs. Marshall BAYLESS, of New Vienna, visited Monday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius TISSOT [in Mowrystown].

1963 Aug. 2 - Mary R. [RENO] WEST of Rt. 1, New Vienna, has been appointed Administratrix of the Estate of her late husband, Earl G. WEST [1902-1963].

1963 Aug. 23 - Death of Alvin "Buck" ACHOR, 77, reported.  He was born Nov. 26, 1885 in Martinsville, the son of Charles [Clement] ACHOR and Elva HAWORTH ACHOR HILDEBRANT [they divorced in 1890, she then married Arrista HILDEBRANT].  Buck married Jan. 21, 1949 to Hanna BOOMERSHINE ACHOR.  He was a fireman for the B&O RR until World War II, and was a farmer and operated a stone quarry on his farm near New Vienna.

1963 Aug 23 - Death of George W. SMITH, 79, on August 18, 1963.  He was born July 9, 1884 near Xenia, son of Charles and Susan COTTRELL SMITH and was married Feb. 28, 1912 to Julia HESS.  He was a member of the New Vienna Church of Christ.  For five years he had been caretaker at the Snow Hill Roadside Park.

1963 Aug 27 - Death of Loren DAVIS on Aug. 22, 1963, who came to Farmers [Station] in 1950 from the Wilmington area.  He was born July 2, 1896, son of John and Ella McKIBBEN DAVIS.  He was married Oct. 27, 1914 to Ruby MOON [DAVIS WIGET].  Among his survivors was his daughter, Treva DAVIS FISHER of New Vienna.

1963 Aug. 27 - Death of Verne SIMKINS [NVHS 1904] on Aug. 23, 1963 at age 78.  Verne was born March 30, 1885. son of John Huston and Mary Helena DAVIS SIMKINS.  He attended two years of college, graduating from Lebanon Teacher's College.  On Nov. 6, 1910 he married Audrey Maude OUSLEY.  He was a lifetime government employee, and was a member of President Theodore Roosevelt's staff.  Among his survivors was a brother C.R. of Lynchburg and his sister-in-law, Marie DECK SIMKINS.

1972 Scouts at Air Force Academy; and Wayne Ames - Aug. 4

Another clipping and a picture of this scout trip can be found at  http://nvhsmemories.blogspot.com/2012/12/1972-philmont-scout-ranch.html.  Appreciate the WNJ putting two New Vienna related articles in the same space.  Transcription of these two articles from the Wilmington, O., News-Journal, August 4, 1972, follow.  

NV Scouts visit Philmont Scout Ranch and Air Force Academy – July-August, 1972
Clipping from Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal - Aug. 4, 1972

Local Scouts Visit Air Force Academy 
As reported by ROBERT SMITH

While returning from an expedition from the National Scout Ranch at Philmont, New Mexico,  Tecumseh Council Scouts traveled north to Colorado Springs, Col., for an overnight stop at Fort Carson.  Monday afternoon the eight Scouts and two advisors visited the United State Air Force Academy.

The tour covered major points of interest such as the Fieldhouse Chapel, and Visitor Information Center.  Cadets were observed in drill as well as off duty.

The crew continued home Tuesday, spending the night in eastern Missouri.  Wednesday the two-car caravan stopped at Good Samaritan Hospital in Cincinnati to visit John Uible, one of our number unable to attend the trek since he was stricken with typhoid fever.

The expedition returned to New Vienna Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 2, at 4:30.

Pictured above standing (left to right) Jim Bernard, Kevin Croghan, Dale Hertlein, Brian Smith, Mark Young, Jim Mongold; seated (left to right) Bennie Mathews, Ranger Lynn Davidson, Advisor Gene Williams, Crew Leader and Reporter Robert N. Smith, and Advisor Harold Uible.

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Wayne Ames To Play In All Ohio Band

Wayne Ames, son of Mrs. Jean Ames, New Vienna, has been chosen to play in All-Ohio Boys' Band at the Ohio State Fair Aug. 24 to Sept. 3.  He will play the sousaphone (tuba).

Ames attended AOB band camp in June at Rhodes Center at the state fairground.  Director is Omar Blackman of Cleveland.

Ames will be a junior this fall at East Clinton High School.

In the eighth grade he received a superior rating playing tuba solo in the district contest.  He has been a member of the E-C marching, concert, and stage band for two years and four years grade school band.

Other activities by Wayne include State FFA band two years, 4-H five years, FFA two years.  He won second place in Junior division "Enquirer Boy of the Year" in 1970.  Member of New Vienna United Methodist Church and Union Grange No. 77.

Josephine Williams

New Vienna resident Josephine Miller Williams is featured in this 1990 article written by New Vienna native, Daniel Nixon for the Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal as part of a series titled Clinton Corner: A weekly visit with the people of Clinton County.

Josephine (1910-2007, NVHS'28), daughter of Ennis Miller (1885-1966) and Nellie Elliott Swartz Miller (1886-1967) was born in/near New Vienna in 1910.  She married Homer Keith Williams in 1932.  Homer (1904-1993, NVHS'23), also born in New Vienna was the son of Charles Wyatt Williams (1856-1926) and Sarah Alice Keith Williams (1867-1929).  They were the parents of twins, Mary Jo (Weitz) and Martha (Knauff) 1958 graduates of NVHS.

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1990 Josephine Williams clipping from Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal - Dec. 3.  
Headlined: Williams addicted to genealogy.  Picture captioned: 'Genealogy Jo' at historical society

1990 Josephine Williams clipping from Wilmington (Ohio) News-Journal - Dec. 3, page 2

Williams addicted to genealogy

by DANIEL NIXON Staff Writer

Clinton Corner: A weekly visit with the people of Clinton County

There are 82 cemeteries in the county and Homer K. and Josephine Williams of 92 S. Third St. New Vienna, know each of them – intimately.

If you have perhaps noticed small green and white signs naming those family cemeteries off the roads and backroads of Clinton County, a large part of the credit goes to the husband and wife team researchers.

"Homer had to finish the work.  I got such a bad case of chiggers I couldn't go out anymore," says Josephine.

"We thought it was important that these places be recorded and not forgotten," says "Jo," or as her friends at the Clinton County Historical Society call her, "Genealogy Jo."

On file at Rombach Place is the Williams' cemetery research, who is buried, birth dates and deaths.  But it didn't stop there for the Williams.  As Jo says, "You just can't put down who died without starting to find out who they were related to and where and when."

Historical society Director Rhonda Curtis says, "We have many excellent volunteers, but none more so than Genealogy Jo.  She's kind of special."

It was the cemetery research that led to an interest in genealogy, a subsequent passion for more information and the cavalier moniker of "Genealogy Jo."

Once a person develops a reputation as a genealogist, letters for information seem to find the proper destination like letters to Santa Claus simply addressed "North Pole."

Sometimes letters would come directly to the Historical Society requesting information.  Sometimes they would take a more circuitous route to the office of county recorder, probate, common pleas or simply a post office.  Eventually they became the responsibility of the Williams', not without some irony.

There is a nominal charge for having the research done, says Jo.  Some people would try to avoid the historical society and send a second letter to the courthouse.  "Well, the people in those offices don't have the time to look for that information so they give it to us.  It was funny, because sometimes you would see a letter already written to you the first time," says Jo.  It's like being a detective, taking pieces of a family puzzle scattered across the years and combining the parts to make a whole.

She doesn't drink, but when it was suggested that genealogy was perhaps akin to the mounting obsession one has searching for berries in the woods, she shook off the analogy as too mild.

"It's more like drinking," says Jo flatly.  "You take one drink and then another and another and you can't stop."

Today the Williams' have turned much of their research and letter-answering duties over to another addicted genealogist, innocently hooked when trying to help his son with a school report on family history.

Genealogy Jo began genealogy because she says she can't sit still and read.  "We both go to the library regularly and Homer, he can sit and read for hours.  But me, I've got to be doing something."

For a woman who claims not to be one to sit still, she compiled three looseleaf notebooks at the library of biographical tidbits gleaned from microfilm copies of early county newspapers such as the "Clinton Republican" or the "Wilmington Democrat and Herald."  Those notebooks are also on file at the historical society's growing archives of local information. (1)

She went issue by issue, year by year and jotted down any reference to anyone in the paper: their birth, their death, marriage. business announcements or tangles with the law.

"People think they're going to read the microfilm and find exactly what they're looking for," says Jo.  The reality is more time consuming.

An obituary, the most common looked-for information, is easily overlooked, assuming it was printed in the first place.  "Death or births could be anywhere in the paper, just a paragraph stuck somewhere," says Jo.

"People are surprised to see how much national news is in the local paper then, and a lot of ads, on the front page, too.  If the president made a speech, it was printed word-for-word.  If the governor gave a speech – same thing.

"Well, of course, that was the only way people had of knowing such things then.  There just wasn't very much local news."

On the other hand, those early newspaper editors, and presumably their readers, were much more enthralled by shocking local tragedies.  Suicides, when they occured [sic], were reported as such.

"Oh, yes," says Jo, "the gorier it was, the more they wrote it up, I remember one story of a woman who abandoned her baby in the snow.  It was all described in the newspaper, where the baby was found, who she was.  It just went on and on."

From newspaper research at the library, Genealogy Jo began work at the historical society.

When she began, there was one filing cabinet containing newspaper clippings, genealogy sheets and anything else of reference about Clinton County families alphabetized according to surnames.

At about the same time, valuable old newspapers – a genealogist's working capital – were about to be discarded from the courthouse.  "They had no place to store them." says Jo.

She accepted the task of sorting through each paper, clipping articles and adding to the family history file at the historical society.

"When the folks here at the Society asked me how many envelopes I thought I'd need, I said a couple of thousand," and she tilted back her head to laugh, "It took more than that and Homer thought I had lost my mind."

Perhaps he was thinking there was truth to a sign on a shelf in the historical society's genealogy room:  "Genealogists never die; they just lose their census."

It took Jo a year and three months to sort through each paper, clipping articles and filing them.  But in a sense, the work is never done.

Each evening, she clips fresh information from the local papers to add to the five filing cabinets of more than 5,000 county family histories.  "There's a lot of people who don't know how much material we have got her," says Jo.

When Genealogy Jo set out on the trail of her own family, the Miller's, the research was relatively easy – up to a point.

"My great-grandparents came in here early and stayed here," says Jo.  That made it simple.  No hunting across the countryside.

She then traced them back to 1790 only to find two full pages of census listings for D. Miller, the Miller progenitor.  But which one was her D. Miller?  "I gave up," she says with a laugh.

Although Jo and her husband have eased out of the heavy research and letter writing duties they had done, she remains one of a group of volunteers at the historical society who staff the genealogy department always ready like technicians at a hospital emergency room.

"Sometime we can sit here for three weeks and nobody comes.  Other times, everybody comes at once," says Jo.

Those who visit the Historical Society's archives are asked by the genealogy staffers to register and leave a message of which family they are searching – a sort of genealogy of genealogists.  "That way, if somebody comes in hunting for the same people, they've got an address they can write," says Jo.

It is a cheerful room that old General Denver left to house the histories of county families.  The sun streams in the windows lighting up the titles on the spines of volumes of county history, national census material, mortality records, Quaker records and books by Clinton County authors.

The sunlight seems to reach back across the years as Jo studies photographs, names family relationship and punctuates her comments with "I remember when."

"I must quit saying that – and quit humming old songs."

Appropriately, Genealogy Jo celebrated her 80th birthday while at work at the historical society, a day when everybody seemed to show up to do research; a genealogist from Cincinnati, two from Tennessee, two from Springfield, four from Kansas, another from Manhattan.

In the midst of all those genealogy researchers was Jo's birthday party.  "All those people.  Everybody got ice cream and cake," Jo laughs, "And from out of state, they must have thought they had never gotten into such a place."

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 (1) The compilations mentioned are available for reference or sale at the Clinton County Historical Society in Wilmington and include:

• Newspaper Abstracts Clinton County, Ohio 1886-1889 abstracted by Adrian Roberts, Josephine Williams, indexed by Joyce Hopkins Pinkerton, Clinton County Genealogical Society 2005
• Clinton County Newspaper Abstracts 1889-1894 by Joyce Pinkerton, Josephine Williams, Hazel Williams, Adrian Roberts, published by The Clinton Count Genealogical Society 2000
• Abstracts of Wilmington, Ohio Newspapers 1895-1899 by Josephine Williams and Hazel B. Williams, compiled and indexed by Joyce Pinkerton, published by The Clinton County Genealogical Society
• Clinton County Newspaper Abstracts 1915-1921 by Josephine Williams, Adrian Roberts; compiled and indexed by Joyce Pinkerton, published by the Clinton County Genealogical Society 2009
• Clinton County Newspaper Abstracts 1924-1928 abstracted by Josephine Williams, typed and indexed by Joyce Pinkerton, published by the Clinton County Genealogical Society 2009
• Clinton County Newspaper Abstracts 1929-1932 abstracted by Josephine Williams, typed and indexed by Joyce Pinkerton