In the News 1918
Ashland- A R Tillinghast, district
superintendent of the Solvay Co., and Nelson Weedon, who is also connected with the company in an
official capacity are both very ill as a result of assisting in skin grafting
on John Perry. John was badly burned at the coke Ovens some months ago.
{The Semet Solvay
Division }
{ Louis Semet, a relative of
Ernest and Alfred Solvay of Brussels, Belgium, had
developed with Solvay a coke oven designed to recover
valuable materials formerly wasted in the coking process. At Syracuse, New
York, in 1892 the Solvay Process Company was the
first to construct the new by-product ovens in America, and three years later
formed the Semet-Solvay Company to build and operate
them. One of the coke
plants was located in
Catlettsburg- dependent because of his wife's protracted illness and driven temporarily insane by the authoritative information that there were no hopes for her ultimate recovery, William Griffith, aged 46 years, a highly respected resident of argo city, which is the lower end of catlettsburg, blew his brains out with a shotgun.