Pomeroy Council OKs Indefinite Municipal Garbage Service
The Pomeroy council approved continuing municipal garbage and rubbish collection indefinitely as long as profitable. Mayor George Howell reported February and March figures, noting 200 signups to date and projected cost savings. He urged action on dog-control measures and discussed gas franchise negotiations with Ohio Fuel and Gas Co. A river gauge location was also approved for flood readings.
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Pomeroy Council
George Howell
Myor Howell
Howell
Owell
Alvin Norris
W. A. Smith
Chamber of Commerce
Lincoln Hill
Wehe Terrace
Ohio Fuel and Gas Company
Middleport Personal Mention Recap of Local Visits
Local residents and visitors are noted returning home or visiting relatives in Middleport and nearby towns. Families such as the Knopps and Dabos, Parmalees, Lloyds, and Crabbsones frequent guests at dinners and weddings. Several plan moves or departures including Vincent Dabo to military service and Ruth Drake purchasing property.
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Frank Lewis Knopp
Sue Ellen
Nitro
Frank Knopp
Vincent Dabo
Emma Jean Smith
Dabo
Columbus
Charles Bing
Judy
Frank Parmalee
Pearl St
Michigan
Parmalee
Bruce Lloyd
Shiflet
N. Fourth Ave
E. B. Smith
Ruth Drake
Racine
S. Third Ave
FE. F. Mang
Long Bottom
Sidney Russell
Thomas Young
Daisy Jasper
Ralph Zandel
Sharon
Lancaster
William Robson
Kansas
James Buchanan
Baby
Mason City
N. Third Ave
Pomeroy Marriage License Issued To Deavers And Baer
Sherman Deavers 24 of New Lexington and Virginia Baer 19 of Pomeroy were granted a marriage license on Saturday April 1. Baer is a Pomeroy High School graduate and works in the Deputy Registrar of Motor Vehicles office. Deavers is employed as a printer for The Herald-Tribune. Other licenses were issued to Harold Hancock 27 Beckley Mary Piziak 23 Middleport Everett Sisson 34 Long Bottom Leona Taylor 20 Long Bottom. Middleport Harry Featherstone son of Mr and Mrs Lee Featherstone was unable to attend school Monday due to a sprained ankle from a church meeting.
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Middleport
Harry Featherstone
Lee Featherstone
Methodist Church Fellowship
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlights Local Visits and Returns
Mrs. Emmett D. Keeler arrived home Sunday from New Orleans after a two week trip caused by her daughter Mrs. Richard Morgan’s illness following the birth of a baby girl. The baby and Mrs. Morgan are improving satisfactorily. Local residents and visitors include Mrs. Margaret Bradbury and children Bob and Betty, Mrs. H. W. McHenry in Columbus, and Harry Denney returning from Louisiana and Arkansas. Additional notes cover guests of families, student nurses’ homecomings, new hires at the Ohio Valley Bank, and aviation cadet Alva G. Shoemaker’s training to continue in Topeka, Kansas.
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Emmett D. Keeler
New Orleans
Richard Morgan
Morgan
Margaret Bradbury
Gallipolis
Marion City Hospital
Bob
Betty
H. W. McHenry
Columbus
Harry Denney
Hot Springs
Ark
Robert Richards
John Burkle
Patty
Parkersburg
A. E. Williams
James Oliver
Charles Weaver
Arthur Smith Jr
Great Lakes
Ill
A. H. Smith
Utica
Smith Jr
Naval Training Station
Smith
Leota Vornholt
St. Marys of the Springs Academy
Otto Vornholt
Vornholt
Dayton
Cynthia Rieger
James Rieger
New York
Alice Jean Bush
Holzer Hospital
Cincinnati General Hospital
Gilbert Bush
I. J. Kail
Huntington
Earl W. Mauck
Kails
Rothrock
Middleport
Kail
Upper Sandusky
Paul Mossman
Ohio Valley Bank
Lakewood
Julia Agnes Wood
Miami University
Oxford
E. F. Ewry
Guy White
Elyria
Lucille Christ
Commercial and Savings Bank
Clara Ohlinger
Emily
Monkey Run
Katherine Davies
Velma
Thelma
Conrad Ohlinger
Troy Ohlinger
U. S. Army
Frank Fugate
Ft. Benning
Cpl
Marion Fugate
Daniel Griffith
Philip Wippel
Albert Wippel
Eleanor
Sis) Wessa
the Sinai Hospital
Cleveland
Edison Wessa
West Main St
Wessa
School of Nursing
Orville Well
Genevieve Welker
Philadelphia
Mary Gilmore
Mary Shain
Racine
Meigs County Court House
Larry Goldberg
Zanesville
Frank Phillips
Athens
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Constance Seyfried
Malcolm Hartley
Oliver Hartley
Camp Meade
Money can't buy aspirin affordable, faster, dependable
A brief ad extols faster acting aspirin claiming superiority to the widely sold St. Joseph aspirin. It touts a 100 tablet size priced at ten cents and markets Boe as the seller.
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St. Joseph
Annual Congregational Meeting at First Presbyterian Church
In Middleport the Annual Congregational Meeting of the First Presbyterian Church is set for 7 30 p m in the Sunday Schoolroom. Rev H L Carr announces reports from church departments will be read and triplicate copies prepared for the pastor the clerk of the session and the reporting member. In a separate Middleport item Wilbur Theobald of Marietta Mfg Plant suffered steel splinters entering his right eye last week causing excruciating pain.
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Middleport
First Presbyterian Church
H. L. Carr
Wilbur Theobald
Marietta
Tuberculosis Survey Highlights Mason County Findings
Mason County's tuberculosis survey shows 75 active or suspected cases among 2000 Marietta Manufacturing employees with 30 suspects and seven advanced to sanatorium treatment. School screenings reveal many positive tuberculin tests but few active X-ray cases. Health officials urge cooperation. illegal quarantine and compulsory X-ray checks may follow to curb spread.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Marietta Manufacturing Company
County Health Department
Mason, County
Lakin Industrial School
Marietta
Pomeroy Social Notes and Local Church Activities
Pomeroy Woman's Civic Club meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at the Martin Hotel. Pom eroy Lodge No 164 F A M to raise a candidate to Fellowcraft. Birth announced for James Radford, son of Mr and Mrs Donald James Morgan of Oak Hill at Holzer Hospital March 25. Numerous local visits and family events noted including Mankin baby Thomas Edward II born April 2 at St Joseph Hospital Parkersburg. Several residents and visitors named, with travels to Columbus and Cincinnati for medical and military reasons.
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Pomeroy
Woman's Civic Club
Martin Hotel
Antone Lucke
Pomeroy Lodge No. 164
P. E. Stanley
W.M
Donald James Morgan
Oak Hill
Holzer Hospital
Morgan
Alta Radford
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
James Radford
Donald Lee
Dan Morgan
Charles Radford
Thomas Mankin
Mildred Russell
Thomas Edward II
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
Mankins
Ed Mankin
Middleport
Agnes Russell
Akron
Theron Russell
Charles Russell
Mankin
Maxine Russell
Letter Praises Rutland Soldier David Tillis in South Pacific
Sgt. Clifford Brenna writes from the South Pacific that Corporal David Tillis, a Rutland native and husband of Mrs. David Tillis, has served 19 months creditably. The letter notes he is a gentleman and fine soldier, loves his truck, honors his wife’s picture, and attends church, asking that he not be told of the letter.
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Rutland
Roy Tillis
Gallipolis
David Tillis
South Pacific
Clifford Brenna
Tillis
Pomeroy Brothers Reunite in England After Three Years
Mr and Mrs J A Biggs of Wyllis Hill Pomeroy received news that Sgt Darsel D Biggs met his brother Sgt Nathan P Biggs in England. They spent five hours together and Nathan, promoted to sergeant days earlier, proudly showed his new stripe. Both brothers are well.
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Pomeroy
J. A. Biggs
Wyllis Hill
Darsel D. Biggs
Nathan P. Biggs
England
Nathan
W. K. Adams to Attend DAV Meeting Tonight
Meigs Chapter No. 53 of the Disabled American Veterans hosts a birthday party in Legion Hall at 7 p.m. honoring W. K. Adams of Portsmouth, a state legislator and D. A. V. representative. Dinner invites DAV members Auxiliary and World War II veterans. committee listed.
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Middleport
Meigs
W. K. Adams
Portsmouth
D.A.V
Legion Hall
The
Auxiliary
Ed Spencer
Herman Ohlinger
Dale Mourning
Sadie Wolfe
Edith Spencer
Goldie Mourning
Elberfeld Named to Bus Committee at Pomeroy New Haven
Alfred Elberfeld was named a director of the bus committee, succeeding Ralph Graves who leaves for military service as the Chamber of Commerce met at the Martin Hotel. The committee said bus patronage on Saturday April 1 was the largest in its history, surpassing holiday traffic, and members plan to extend service to Rutland.
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Pomeroy
Alfred Elberfeld
Pomeroy- New Haven Bus Company
Ralph Graves
Chamber of Commerce
Martin Hotel
Chamber
Rutland
Fugitive Held Here In Meigs County Jail
William Jorden Pomeroy, an escaped convict from Moundsville, arrested by West Virginia police last week, is held in the Meigs County jail awaiting extradi tion papers. The sheriff reports he had been serving a sentence on a King and entering charge.
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Pomeroy
William Jorden
West Virginia
Moundsville
Pt. Pleasant
Meigs County
Nease Settlement Tops War Fund Drive Progress
Nease Settlement in Meigs County reports progress in the American Red Cross War Fund Drive. Chairman Mrs Earl Scott and Pomeroy War Fund chairman Frank H Johnston note local contributions have not yet reached 6000 dollars, with a county quota of 6750 dollars for the drive.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
P. E. Stanley
American Red Cross
Nease Settlement
Earl Scott
Frank H. Johnston
Meeting Postponed by Middleport Village Council
Middleport Village Council postponed its meeting from last night the first Monday to next Monday night. The delay affects expected votes and local agenda items on the schedule.
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Middleport
Middleport Village
Meigs Real Estate Transfers Listed in Local Office
Transfers filed April 3 in Meigs County Recorder's Office include John A. Houck to multiple heirs, Ruth M. Houck administratrix, and various parcel splits in Salem and Middleport. Titles show 64, 26.24, and 127.66 acres plus a 40 acre tract in Columbia and 120 acres in Chester. Other deeds involve Perry J. Bailes adm to Charles Frankenberg and Banks to Charles and May Lewis.
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Charles Frankenberg
Fred A. Shifler
Middleport
Ney Carpenter
Velma Carpenter
Ray
Drusilla Woodrum
Columbia
Howard Weyand
Truman
Priscilla Penn
Columia
W. B
Emma Noyes
Ed J
Helen Griffith
Chester
Farmers’ Bank and Savings Company
Charles and
May Lewis
U S Income in December 1943 Reaches 13.5 Billion
The total U S income in December 1943 was 13 billion 500 million dollars as the nation tracks wartime earnings and economic activity. The figure reflects the mobilization and production push shaping the wartime economy.
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U. S
Decemer
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Athens Messenger
Ohio
Pomero Poy
U. S. Army Combat Engineers
Anzio
Signal Corps
NEA
Arlington Farms
Capital Police
Colegroves Market
Middleport, Ohio
Gallipolis Social Notes
Mary Beth Hughes Armida Anson Weeks Orchestra
Ted Fio Rito Orchestra
Manton Morel
Eddie Quillen
Paris
George Sanders
Brenda Marshall
ARMY
George Murphy
Kate Smith
Bendvue
Gail Patrick
Nancy Kelly
H. B. Warner Today
Good Fellows
Buck Jones
Mason
Ward L. Oliver
USPHS
Pomeroy Social Notes
Masons
C. J. Ebers Hach
A. R. Mills
Paul Mills
Springfield
Herbert Giles
Emma Leifheit
Theodore Lehew
Car Hysell
Willard Ebersbach
Pomeroy Personals
Pomeroy Brothers
DAV
Elberfeld
Meigs Real Estate Deals
SHELL
Jane
America
Baltimore & Ohio
B&o
C. B. White
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