Word: township
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wagnalls bequest authorized the memorial's six trustees to award scholarships of $100 a semester to every Lithopolis (or Bloom Township) boy & girl who wanted to go to college, no matter what his grades or promise. Last week the first two scholarships had been approved: Marilyn Good, 18, would study the organ at Ohio's Otterbein College, and Donald Speakman, 18, was planning to take up farming at Ohio State. But Lithopolitans were worried. As Mrs. Mabel Stevenson, the memorial's secretary, said: "With all this new money, you can't tell just what kind...
After more than five hours, only two contestants were left-14-year-olds Darrell Flavelle and Jean Chappelear. Jean, a blonde eighth-grader in the Ravenna (Ohio) Township School, had been boning up for weeks. She had been taking word lists on her baby-sitting jobs-and even...
...were left. Then it was their turn to battle it out in the semifinals. Monroeville, accompanied by the prayers of the home folks, went down to Muncie and got smeared, 49 to 38. There was sorrow among Monroeville's 896 citizens. Portland High fared better, getting by Chester Township, a hotbed of basketball on the Eel River in Wabash County, only to be humbled later in the day. In last week's semifinals, all the small-town schools (the smaller the town, the higher the fervor) were eliminated. It was enough to quench bonfire celebrations all over...
...recent news reports on the so-called sensational lawsuit of Andy J. Yoder, an Amishman of Paint Township, Ohio, asking $40,000 for being "mited" [TIME, Nov. 17] calls for an explanation...
...When he was out threshing, he had to take his meals in barns or cellars-alone. Said he: "It was like feeding the dog out of a dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs. of his chin...