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* notice all the small store front / houses around town - was more of a community | * notice all the small store front / houses around town - was more of a community | ||
* many lodges - Eagles - Odd Fellows - Masons - what else? | * many lodges - Eagles - Odd Fellows - Masons - what else? | ||
* Many churches considering only 5000 people | |||
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Revision as of 12:55, 14 August 2009
Great Grand Father WittenBerger
- tinner / slater / did most of the roofs in East Palestine -
- said "I bet I can give you something perfectly good and you will not eat it" then put donuts in a brand new bedpan full of cider - the fellow did not eat it
Wheelbarrow bet
What the bet was who knows? - loser had to wheel the other to Washington D.C. from East Palestine
McGraw Tire and Rubber
- McGraw was on his way west on a train when someone talked him into getting off in East Palestine and starting his company there
- X will go back to work when McGraw starts up again - was not very ambitious
- Y would get your a job if you payed him - he was a son of a bitch
First Person I voted for was Abe Lincoln
Drunk who painted
- painted landscape scenes - lady mentioned that it would be good place in the lake to fish from if there was a stump - 15 seconds later there was a stump
Meyer Paiser
- Daughter was paying Pete Blosco to screw here - she was quite ugly
- Meyer has a scrap iron dealership
- owned part of a company in Pa .. city?
- jewish community in East Palestine?
John Blosco
- Bought up houses during the depression
Background
- few people had horses
- few people had cars
- notice all the small store front / houses around town - was more of a community
- many lodges - Eagles - Odd Fellows - Masons - what else?
- Many churches considering only 5000 people