Dams in Larger Creeks Outline Federal Aid Plan
Plans for dam construction in Leading Creek and other streams receive WPA aid. Preliminary work is underway as Meigs County funds remain intact. a $13 000 project is funded through the state conservation division with federal support. The aim is fish protection and stocking containment across smaller streams feeding larger ones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leading Creek
WPA
Cigs County Fish and Game Assection
Meigs County
Consericton
Social Arsonal Mention Highlights Easter Week
Racine and Athens residents visit friends and family over Easter. Notables include Mr and Mrs George Jackson and Dick Jackson, Clyde Cross of Ohio State, Mrs Owen Watson in Gallipolis, Jane Cooper from Radneigh School, and the Holter family heading to Akron for medical reasons. Knights Templars attended services at local churches. Holy Week services filled evenings and Easter sunrise at 50 drew attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Georgeackson
Dick Jackson
Amend
Athens
Clyde Cross
Ohio State University
Columbus
Pasterith
A. Cross
Owen Watson
Galliois
Jane Cooper
Radneigh School
Clifford Holter
Jane
Geraldine
Akron
Olter
Knights Templars
Pomerny
Middleport
Acme M. EB
Junior Choir Presents Special Program at Federated Church
Sunday evening program at the Federated Church featured the Junior Choir and the Primary Department with music directed by Rev. R. C. Ditter. The program included recitations and short talks by the pastor Rev. Ditter.
Mrs Amanda Cross Illness Report From Ripley Kin
Mrs Amanda Cross is seriously ill in a Parkersburg hospital, according to her husband Fd Cross of Ripley West Virginia He and Mrs Cross lived in Racine before moving to Ripley Their daughter May Bess Cross is at the hospital with her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fd Cross of
Ripley, W. Va
Parkersburg
May Bess
Barbara
Sewickley, Pas
Pomeroy Brief Notes Highlights Local Easter Activities
Family visits and travels mark the week as Mrs. Chase and Mrs. Russell host and visit relatives in Charleston Zanesville and Columbus. The Home Missionary Society is hosted at the church rooms by Mrs. George Parker. Brownies and Federated Circle members join Easter parties and social gatherings at Peace Evangelical Church with treats for children.
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Fomeroy
John Chase
Union Ave
William Waters
Columbus
Harold Russell
Charleston
Waters
Zanesville
Good Samaritan Hospital
Russell
Chase
Pomeroy
Herbert Pendergrass
McRoberts
Oberlin
Lena Huber
Greatneck
N. Y
Fred Blaettar
Federated Circle
Spring Ave
Cecilia Marsh
Athens
Brownies
Mary Virginia Reibel
Peace Evangelical Church
The
Peace Church
Federated Church
Wiltie Alashire
Rio Grande
Baater
Herb Chambers
Foster
Heath M. RB. Church
Frank TL. Koopp
Seventh Ave
Marjorie Cash
Knapp
John K. Smith
States
George Gilmore
Logan
Woman M McMaster Transported by Air to Cincinnati
Mrs L J McMaster, after two weeks at Holzer Hospital for treatment and observation, was flown Sunday to a Cincinnati hospital. Her condition is described as extremely serious. She traveled with Mr McMaster and Dr Holzer.
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Middleport
Mrs Liova Pendergrass Recovering After Appendicitis
Former local resident Mrs Liova Pendergrass now of Chauncey is in a Marietta hospital recovering from an appendicitis operation. The procedure proved more serious than expected but she is improving as reported by relatives.
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Pomeroy
Liova Pendergrass
Chauncey
Marietta
Easter Observed Across Local Churches with Noon Services
Sunrise prayers filled Baptist Heath M F and Presbyterian churches plus Church of Christ in Faster morning. Pageants and cantatas highlighted Easter Spirit with well attended services and lilies as decorations. Evening services continued across churches to mark Easter Sunday. Separately Lief Bolin of Langsville was arrested for intoxication and jailed for an afternoon hearing before Mayor Hess. Campbell Transportation leased 10 steel coal barges from Marietta for Pittsburgh to Memphis work on the Ohio River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
the Baptist
Heath M. F
Presbyterian
Church of Christ
Pomeroy Lief Bolin
Langsville
Walter Wolfe
C. J. Hess
Pittsburgh
Campbell Transportation Company
Marietta Manufacturing Company of
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Memphis
Ohio River
Old Fashioned Deestrict Skule recalled in Reedsville history
In Reedsville memories older residents recall the 1891 school play Old-Fashioned Deestrict Skule performed by townsfolk ages 30 to 1. The event raised funds for the Reedville Library and featured many named participants, with most now deceased except a few.
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Reedsville
W. M. Knowles
Sanford Williams
John Waters
W. J. Packard
Ed Kibble
Lizzie Woodyard
Jane Shumway
W. B. McBride
Mary Wilson
Jennie Williams
Ella Coleman
Mart Barringer
O. & 8. Packard, Marion Coleman Anderson
Kibble
William Smart Watt McBride
Dell Cottle
FE. C. Hoyt
A. B. Hoyt
William Wilson
Charles Randolph
Dunmore Wilson
Nias Wilson
Thomas Cloran
F. B. Reed
Mary Wson
James Randolph
Weather Disrupts Folklore Event and Rain Spells Doom
Rainy conditions and a hailstorm hit the local city as showers on Sunday afternoon hindered the diss play of new Faster costumes. The erratic weather fueled superstition about seven more Tomero y Sundays and rain.
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Tomeroy
Old Dress Used For Baptism In 1936
POMEROY Ohio infant Harry Allen Lippincott was baptized at Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church by Rev. TFE Maness. The gown, descended from Mrs Mary Lippincott and Mrs Arnold of Gallipolia, is about five feet long and treasured as a family heirloom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Harry Allen Lippincott
FE. K. Lippincott
T. FE. Maness
Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church
Alan
Mary Lippincott
Arnold
Gallipolia
Lippincott
Easter visits and homecomings in Middleport notes
Middleport residents and relatives gather over Easter as Lena Fels returns to teaching, Hilah Rust joins James Arnold here, and multiple families visit kin in Bainbridge Zanesville Parkersburg Sewickley Logan and Charleston. About 106 year old Sarah Ann Crowe celebrated with relatives in Hopkinsville Kentucky.
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Middleport
Lena M. Fels
Bainbridge
Hilah Rust
James Arnold
Zanesville
Miss Rust
A. H. Bradbury
Mr. Arnold
Hopkinsville
Sarah Ann Crowe
J. M. Crowe
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