Sullivan Wins Title in Marbles

 Marietta Daily Times, April 14, 1924

Marietta public school marble championship for 1924 was won by Walter Sullivan, who eliminated all competition in the finals of the city tournament held at the Y.M.C.A. on Saturday afternoon. Sullivan hails from the Norwood school.

Second place in the tournament was won by Kelly Mike of Willard school, and third by Cecil Berg, also of Norwood school. In the final round out of the 12 marbles Sullivan took seven, Mike three, and Berg two.

Receives Silver Medal

A silver medal, symbolic of the championship of the city schools, was presented to Sullivan. Winners of the school championships were presented with bronze medals. Over 400 boys and girls took part in the tournament. It took two and one-half hours of actual playing time to get the final rounds played off.

Three girls took part in the finals and although they were all eliminated in the opening round, they deserve much credit for their persistence. The girls were Freda Sprague of Terberg school, Margaret Mathers and Doris Jackson, both of Pike Street school.

Winners in Various Rounds

The winners of the first round games were as follows: Charles Lowers, Elvin Price, Chauncey Callihan, Cecil Berg, S. Goldman, Charles Goodwin, Dean Henderson, Tom Reid, Dean Hill, B. Roney, Kelly Mike, Playford Meridith, Charles Camden, and Walter Sullivan.

The survivors of the second round were: Walter Sullivan, Cecil Berg, Charles Lowers, Dean Henderson, B. Roney, Charles Goodwin, and Kelly Mike.

Fourth round survivors were Kelly Mike, Cecil Berg and Walter Sullivan.

In the fifth and final round Sullivan took the championship by easily outplaying the other two boys.

The Waif Given a Home

Marietta Daily Leader, April 7, 1899

Ray H. Van Armor, the two-year-old child who was found in a basket on the doorstep of the residence of Dr. S. D. Hart on Fourth Street when he was a small infant, was formally adopted by the family who have had him in charge since that time. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen G. Huffman [Stephen G. Hoffman] who live on the West Side have been taking care of the little fellow and decided to formally adopt him, which was done Wednesday, Probate Judge Rood issuing the necessary papers to make him the child in law of Mr. and Mrs. Huffman [Hoffman]. He was given the name of Glenn Howard Huffman. [Glenn Howard Hoffman].

The child's parentage is unknown and likely will never be disclosed. The baby was found nearly two years ago on the doorstep of Dr. Hart, the people who left it there no doubt thinking that as the Doctor had been so long in charge of the children's home that he would be very capable of caring properly for the infant.

 

Many Babies Win Prizes in Fine Show that Was Event of Washington County Fair

 Marietta Daily Times, September 7, 1923

Here are the prize babies of Washington County, according to judges at the Baby Show at the fair on Wednesday afternoon:

Donald Gray Hoffee of Waterford

Geraldine Metcalf, 619 Eighth St., Marietta

Audrey Preston, 149 Franklin St., Marietta

Jean Davis, 613 Third St., Marietta

Betty Jean Knox, 121 Franklin St., Marietta

These tots were winners of the grand prizes in the competition which included over 700 babies. All of the five will get money prizes of $10, which will be awarded in the form of savings deposits by the First National Bank, the Dime Savings Society, the Citizens National Bank, the Peoples Banking & Trust company, and the Central National Bank.

Many Other Winners

There are 78 other winners, and each of these is to get a prize. These prizes range from baby carts, breakfast sets, dresses, sweaters, baby chairs, silver cups, photographs, etc., to one and two dollar money prizes and boxes of talcum powder.

Here are the names of these winners:

Patricia Ann Ward, 431 Third St.

Eileen Betty Power, 210 Marion St.

McGregor twins (children of C McGregor, R.D. 7)

Marjorie Ann O'Donnell, 730 Second St.

Ruth Strecker, Fairview Heights

Alvena Born, Stanleyville

Richard Lancaster, Rathbone

Leota Bules, 128 N. Seventh St.

Patricia Ann Moore, Fourth St.

Roy McMahan, R.D. 1

Neva Councell, 915 Jahn St.

Billy Frank Reiter, Lower Salem

Georgia May Mooney, 411 Hart St.

Clair Schwendeman, Waterford

Jean Warburton, 503 Second St.

Charles West, Reno

Frances Ann Davis, 161 Woodlawn Ave.

Betty McKinney, Scammel St.

Richard Sutton, Reno

Evelyn Bougamont, 756 Greene St.

Sara Gruber, 720 Sixth St.

Jean Ellis, 524 Front St.

Margaret Reichardt, Newport Pike

Mary Elizabeth Huck, Lowell

Dennis Murray, 146 Harmar St.

Claude Mendenhall, Reno

George Rampp, 117 Franklin St.

Owena Ginsburg, 510 Warren St.

Maxine Evelyn Gerber, 613 Tenth St.

Eugene Simms, 106 Franklin St.

Betty Jean Gill, 981 Gilman Ave.

Mary Bertha Henderhan, 123 N. Seventh St.

Ralph Tryon, 111 Gilman Ave.

Anna May Price, 327 Gilman Ave.

Mary Lou Lender, Fourth St.

Elizabeth Norris, 619 Fourth St.

Helen Anderson, Newport Pike

Jennie Charles, 302 Market St.

Phyllis McPeek, Matamoras

Don Carr, Muskingum Dr.

Robert Kennedy Merrow, 621 Ninth St.

Distribution of Prizes

Money prizes will be mailed to the winners. Deposit prizes may be claimed by the recipients at the respective banks. For other prizes, winners are expected to call Mrs. S. C. Gilman, 305 Fourth Street.

Physical, mental, and general health qualifications were taken in to account in the awards. In the award to Jean Davis, who was among the grand prize winners, her dancing and work in the costume parade also were taken into account.

Talcum Powder Winners

Parents of the babies whose names follow may get a box of talcum powder by calling at the store of the J. W. Dysle company, 128 Front Street.

Wanda Schriver, Lowell

Winnifred Weisend, R.D. No. 3

Mildred Louise Daniel, Whipple

Gerald Brown, Reno

Jack McNutt, 325 Gilman Ave.

Kenneth Sparling, R.D. No. 3

Carl Eldon Pape, R.D. No. 1

Walter Gale Lauer, Newport, R.D. 1

Richard Neil Christy, Fairview Heights

Mary Catherine Wright, 207 Greene St.

Catherine Dobbins, Coal Run

Clyde Eugene Parlin, 525 Eighth St.

Luther Thompson, 110 Sharon St.

Edwin Cogswell, 787 Glendale St.

Maxine Delores Sprague, 108 Fourth St.

James Delmar Baker, 805 Greene St.

Louise Rose, 727 Eighth St.

Juanita Farnsworth, 105 Court St.

Rosebelle McPherson, 503 Fort St.

Delores Hill, R.D. No. 7

Helen Mendenhall, 833 Ridge St.

Doreen Oesterle, 206 Montgomery St.

Martha Bowman, Rathbone

Mary Anna Menke, 638 Fourth St.

Ralph Chandler, Lowell

William Caskin, 638 Fourth

Betty Burton, 911 Fourth St.

Dorothy Miller, 230 Crawford St.

Ruth Lynn, 505 Fort St.

Richard Fowler, 600 Phillips St.

Dale Skinner, R.D. No. 6

Elizabeth Jane Hart, Reno

Betty Jean Perdue, R.D. No. 4

Wanda Schriver, Lowell

Winnifred Weisend, R.F.D. No. 3

Catherine Graber, 625 Ninth St.

Donors of Prizes

Donors of prizes, in addition to banks of the city, were: The Pattin Brothers Col, the Wieser & Cawley Co., H. P. Fischer, Richards Brothers, the Union Hardware Co., L. Gruber & Sons, S. R. Van-Metre & Co., the Turner-Ebinger Co., the Leader Store, Baker & Baker, the Marietta Mantel Co., Hollenbeck & Green, the Blue Door, L. C. Braun, the W. A. Sniffen Co., the Marietta Furniture Co., Charles L. Flanders, J. Wittlig & Sons, The Stanley & Grass Co., Hartman Book Store, the Strecker Brothers Co., the Becker Manufacturing Co., the Dysle Co., the Corner Drug Store, and the National Drug Store.

The Children's Home

 Marietta Intelligencer, December 15, 1860

It is some time since we have alluded to Miss Fay's Institution, "the Children's Home." We wish now to offer some remarks, which the approaching holidays suggest. All who have little children to love and care for, are now busily engaged in preparing some gift for the comfort or amusement of the dear ones, and anticipating with delight the smiles with which they will be received.

Now, Miss Fay has under her charge twenty-one children, all but three of whom are under ten years of age. All bright, active children, as fond of amusement and fun as the more fortunate little ones who will be loaded with toys and surfeited with dainties during the coming holidays. The noble lady who has undertaken the care of these poor friendless children, finds it as much as she can do to feed and clothe them, and it will of course be impossible for her to provide for them a holiday entertainment, or present them each with the trifling gifts which children all enjoy so much, and need for their reward and amusement. Will not some of our benevolent ladies move in this matter! Perhaps provide a dinner and be themselves present to cheer and encourage not only the children, but the heroic woman who has devoted her life to them. Articles for use as well as amusement would, doubtless, prove most acceptable.

Here is an opportunity of doing much good at very little cost, and the children as well as their parents can aid in it. You will gladden the hearts of twenty-one little children who receive very few of the good things of this life, you will greatly encourage and strengthen her who has assumed the position of mother to these children, and you will receive into your own hearts the blessing that is promised to those who minister to the wants of the widow and the orphan.

Any articles left at this office will be taken care of and forwarded to their destination.

Boy's Revolver Cracks in Crowded Theatre and Adds Thrill to Western Picture

 The Marietta Daily Times, February 20, 1926

A touch of the realistic was injected into the make-believe of a roaring western melodrama at the Lyric theatre on Friday evening when a 13-year-old boy discharged a revolver in the middle of a capacity audience. The bullet from the gun tore through the skirt of an overcoat worn by Glen Andrews, a Junior High school student, passed on through the leg of his trousers, struck a seat iron and glanced harmlessly to the floor. No one was injured.

Johnny Kidd, son of Fremont Kidd of Cisler's Ridge, had possession of the gun, a harmless-looking weapon of 22-calibre. It was in his trousers pocket, he declares, when it was discharged, and he says the whole thing was an accident. Johnny was slated to explain matters to the juvenile court on Saturday.

The chance shot was fired shortly after 7 o'clock, and the theatre was packed. "The Riddle Rider," one of those western pictures with Indians and cowboys and wild-riding heroes and an appealing heroine was on the screen. It is a serial that the Lyric is running and just as the story reached a thrilling climax and the audience was keyed to the highest pitch of excitement, the gun cracked and the smell of real powder was wafted over the crowed.

The management called for the police and a whole squad of bluecoats responded. They pressed into the theatre and wormed their way through the crowd, finally discovering the boy with the gun. He was taken to headquarters and there told his story to Lieutenant Mills. He couldn't account for the firing of the gun and insisted that he wasn't even touching the weapon when it "took a fool notion to explode."

Judge Fleming of the juvenile court was called to headquarters and after questioning the Kidd boy, he sent him home with an agreement that he would report in court on Saturday.

The lad lives north of the city near the old Cole farm, and he and a twin brother attend the Lyric theatre regularly. "We always try to be there on Friday nights to see "The Riddle Rider," he told the judge. "It's a good picture and we like it. Several nights when we have walked to our home in the country, persons in automobiles along the Glendale hill road have shot at us, so I decided to get a gun. I bought the weapon of Chuck Camden of Norwood, giving him 50 cents for it. I got shells for it out of my father's rifle at home. I have carried the gun for a week or 10 days.

Johnny is a small boy for his years, is a student at Junior High school, and this is the first time that he has been in trouble. His chief concern on Friday evening was the worry his experience would bring to his parents.

Four Boys To Be Whipped Soundly By Court Order

 The Marietta Daily Times, November 20, 1922

Four Norwood boys, Charles and Cecil Duff, Homer Hendricks and Samuel Brown, are to be whipped soundly before they are put to bed tonight, and the fathers of the youngsters will administer the lacings under direction of Judge Schramm of the juvenile court. This is being done in an effort to make the boys quit swearing and fighting.

Representatives of the three families, who appear to have engaged in a neighborhood fuss on East Greene Street, were before Judge Schramm on Monday morning, and the facts showed that the two Duff boys have been fighting the Hendricks and Brown boys, and the four, by their fistic encounters and profane talk, have become an unbearable nuisance at the Norwood school and along the streets between the school house and their homes.

An extended effort on the part of Judge Schramm was necessary to straighten out the tangle, but the facts finally were related by the boys. Then promises were exacted and the applications of hickory oil were prescribed. The fathers were cautioned to make the whippings sound ones and they promised to obey orders.

The fact was developed during the hearing that conditions at the Duff home are not what they should be. There are eight children in the family and while the father is a hard worker, his wages won't keep things going and want stalks about the place. The court will endeavor to assist the family, not only in providing the necessities of life, but in the management of their home.

Santa Claus Will Be In Marietta Saturday

The Marietta Daily Times, December 15, 1932

Santa Claus will be in Marietta Saturday in his workshop that will be in front of the court house on Putnam Street Saturday. That merry old sprite, Mr. Claus, will keep regular office hours and will greet every child who visits him at his workshop Saturday between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m.

At certain times during the day Santa will give away candy to the children who visit him. The workshop itself is a delight to the children and interesting to the grown ups as well. On the walls are pictures of Humpty-Dumpty, and All the King's Horses are there and the cow is still jumping over the moon. If the children do not see Santa Claus in his famous workshop they will be missing a real Christmas treat.

The be-whiskered old Saint is going to make a visit of some days in Marietta and his workshop will be moved around to different places in the city. Just where it will be Monday has not yet been determined. That is up to Santa Claus to decide. He wants all the children and parents as well as other grown-ups to be sure and see him before he leaves Marietta. The interior of the workshop has been repainted and decorated especially for the children.

It's a long distance from the North Pole to Marietta, but old Santa Claus has made the trip so that no child will be disappointed. When Santa was in that parade through Marietta some time ago, he promised to return and Saturday he will be here.

Mayor Makes Proclamation

 Marietta Daily Times, November 16, 1918

At this morning's session of court, Mayor Crawford issued the following statements:

My experience as police judge of this city has fully convinced me that by far the greater portion of juvenile delinquency and criminality is attributable, directly or indirectly, to mothers and fathers who have the insane idea that the sooner they get their children from "under foot" the better, and that is is the duty of the juvenile judge, the police officer, or perchance the mayor, to train up their families for them. The parent animal does better than this for it not only raises and trains its own young, but stoutly resists outside interference.

I have issued orders that the Curfew ordinance of this city be enforced to the letter, and further that all boys under eighteen years of age who make a practice of loafing and hanging around public pool and billiard halls with a cigarette in their mouth are to be summarily arrested and brought before me.

The workings of the recent health order has shown me that nearly all of our "gutter snipe" drunkenness comes from "bar drinking" and "treating," so that I have also given orders that the anti-treating ordinance is the only remedy just now available and will be strictly enforced.

I feel that the laws and ordinances upon which the above orders are based are just and wholesome, and I believe that every law-abiding and self-respecting man and woman in Marietta will rally to the support of our police force in carrying them into execution.

Township Trustees and Orphan Children

The Marietta Intelligencer, June 3, 1847

As the excitement growing out of a recent case involving the rights of a certain orphan child in Marietta has subsided, it will be profitable to examine the principles involved in that case. Not only every orphan child - but every person in the community who may have the orphan children of his poor friends or relations cast upon him - is deeply interested in them. I will avoid allusion as far as possible to the unpleasant circumstances attending the case and state only such facts as are necessary to a correct understanding of it.

The parents of the orphan died nearly at the same time in Cincinnati about five years ago. They were both members of a Presbyterian church in that city and on their death-beds committed their children to the care of two or three benevolent ladies, who were members of the same church - and requested that they might be placed in families where they would be instructed in the religious principles and faith of their parents.

One of these children was sent to a family in Marietta. As it was supposed there would probably be some property left for the children on the settlement of their father's estate, the person to whom the child was sent took guardianship of her. Afterwards ascertaining there would be no property for her, the letter of guardianship was not renewed when she became 12 years old. Her only surviving grandparent, her uncles, and elder married sister, earnestly requested the friend in whose care she was placed to keep her in their family till she became 18. Both they and the child objected to her being bound to service. She has remained in this family to her own entire satisfaction and that of her relations and friends till the present time.

About the last of April, in consequence of some unpleasant reports which had been put in circulation, the Township Trustees interfered, and without allowing a hearing to her friends, without communicating with the relations, and against the strongly expressed wishes of the child herself (now supposed to be nearly 16 years old), bound her in service as a domestic in a respectable Methodist family in Marietta. 

The child refused to go with her new master, and as her friend and protector did not compel her to leave him, she was brought before one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas on a write of Habeas Corpus. The return on the writ stated the principal facts above mentioned and also that the child was and had been furnished with everything necessary and proper for her. On these facts, the plaintiffs claimed that the child was a destitute orphan and that the Trustees were authorized to take her from her friend and bind her to service, and so the Court decided.

The orphan still refused to leave her old friends, and her master finding he could not take her with him without violence, told her to return to them and remain there till he called for her, and there she still is, contented and happy.

In reviewing this case, it appears to be the law of Ohio:

1st. That an orphan child without property or some responsible person liable for its support is a destitute orphan, no matter how well treated and provided for it may be, nor how able and willing its friends may be to continue to provide for it.

2nd. That the Township Trustees may take such child from its friends without notice and without assigning any reason for their conduct and bind it to the most menial service allowed by the laws of Ohio, contrary to the wishes of the child and of all its relations and friends, and while they keep within the letter of the law, there is no redress. The court must ask it, if of the proper age, to choose its own guardian, but the Trustees may give it to whom they please as its master.

3rd. It follows also that the guardian of such child (he not being responsible for its support, where it has no property) can have no such control over it, except by binding it out himself, as to prevent it from being taken from his custody and bound out by the Trustees against his will.

4th. That the want of property, according to the laws of Ohio, creates distinctions and disabilities to which the poor must submit, but which cannot affect the children of the rich. it is not the probability that the child may become chargeable that justifies the interference of the Trustees, but the fact that it is poor.

I have no complaint to make of the decision of the court or of the law in this case. I have no doubt, not only that the Judge decided it according to his honest convictions of duty, but that he would have gladly allowed the injured parties a hearing if he had believed it to be in his power. If the fathers and mothers of Ohio who have nothing to give their children but education, industry, and virtue, are content to leave them, when they died, to the operations of such laws, it is not for me to complain. There is a strong, and it is a natural and proper repugnance in a parent to binding his child in service to another, but no poor man can safely leave his children without thus providing for them.

There is also an unwillingness on the part of many excellent persons, who would gladly receive and bring up poor orphans, to take them as indented servants, but they can have no assurance of being able to keep them without it.

The poor orphans adopted and educated as their own children by rich relatives and friends must be bound as servants or the Township Trustees may take them away at their pleasure.

The pious orphan young men and women who are pursuing their studies in our colleges and seminaries, under the patronage of education societies and benevolent individuals, may be taken at any time by the same authority and bound out till of age to any service the laws allow.

And the large number of the orphan children of the poor, who are earning an honest living in the families of their brothers and friends, or gaining an education by their own unaided efforts and talents, are not safe a moment from this same degrading control. But it is not necessary to multiply cases of the iniquitous operation of such laws, or of the danger of trusting such power in the hands of even the best men. They will readily occur to everyone.