Bureau Women's Chorus to Appear in County Talent Revue
POMEROY The Farm Bureau Women's Chorus will join the Meigs County Talent Revue at Middleport High School on May 9. Director Mrs F Whitney Ingraham announced rehearsals will begin immediately to prepare a specialty number. An alumni committee listed Howard Cozart Racine pianist Judy Jacobs Jane Bailey Middleport Pat Vaughan Sandra Kay Ingraham Helen Houdesbelt Ann Piersall June Whaley Pomeroy as participants. Registration remains open through next week with prizes of 20 10 5 for youth and 25 10 5 for adults. A WLW audition is sought for the adult winner.
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Pomeroy
Farm Bureau
Meigs County
Middleport Alumni Association
Middlec H School
F. Whitney Ingraham
Middleport
Pat Vaughan
Richard Vaughan
Sandra Kay Ingraham
Harrisonville
Helen Houdesbelt
Ann Piersall
June Whaley
Hoeflich
Ris Palmer
Miss Palmer
WLW
Mry
Marcelline Buell
Racine
Hool
Norma Hecox
Martha Howell
Patricia McKinney
Polly Karr
Danny Thompson
Marietta Man Killed When Thrown Under Car
A Marietta man was killed when dragged beneath a car, leaving a wife and two young sons. The accident marked the second highway fatality in Meigs County that year, following Floyd Riftle’s death near Antiquity on February 27. The body was returned to Marietta for funeral services. Minor injuries and property damage were reported in a second Sunday evening crash on E Main Street when Oliver Unroe of Pomeroy tried to pass Samuel Fry Jr of West Columbia, who had double parked near Elberfeld's Department Store. No arrests were made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Malcolm Pape
Marietta
Meigs County
Floyd Riftle
Urban
E. Main St
Russell Bailey
Oliver Unree
Pomeroy
Samuel Fry, Jr
West Columbia
Elberfeld
Fry
Pomeroy Bend Grange Notes Show Dancing Demos
Pomeroy Bend Grange 2741 met with Ch. Legar presiding. Officers practice set for Thursday at 7:30 pm. Mr. and Mrs. John Hardy demonstrated polka, waltz and schottish with a seven-dance showcase. A cake walk followed. Tramp Night featured snack toss. A dance group formation was planned after practice with refreshments served by members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Bend Grange
Ch . Legar
Martha Jean Sayre
Legar
Henry Beaver
N. Jones
Pomona Grange
Pomona
Erma Smith
John Hardy
Bend
Pomeroy Third Friday Dinner Club Plans Rummage Sale
The Third Friday Dinner Club met at Mrs. Albert Ebers bach home with 12 members present. A 6 p.m. luck dinner featured red crepe rose favors filled with mints. President Mrs. Max Meinhardt led a business meeting arranging a rummage sale for Tuesday through Saturday at the Eagles Building on E Main St. An auction with Mrs. Meinhardt as auctioneer proved amusing and profitable. Prizes were awarded to several members, and Mrs. Gladys Grubser Witking of Lancaster invited the May meeting to her home there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagies
E. Main St
Meinhardt
Ebersbach
Bentz Wolfe
Max Meinhardt
Kate Ebersbach
Everett Dailey
Gladys Grubser Witking
Lancaster
Rocksprings Better Health Club Meeting Report
The Pomeroy Rocksprings Better Health Club met at the eye home of Mrs Buena Grueser on Thursday afternoon. President Mrs Difford Leisteit led a business session and discussed a donation to the Cripple Children's Fund. Program chair Mrs Florence Burnside introduced readings including When Things Go Wrong by Buena Grueser, Fun by Anna Reuter, and Spring is Here by Trecie Abbott, plus homemaker tips by Lottie Lemnard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Unroe
June Unroe
Hattie Bolin
Clara Elichinger
Hazel Humphrey
Ruth Ann Batley
Florence Burnside
Anna Reuter
Maxine Arnold
Lottie Leonard
Lelia Bailey
Clara Eichsinger
Trecie Abbott
Wilmetta Leifheit
Helen Blackston
June Unree
Alice Euler
Susanha Arnold
Ruth Ann Bailey
Pomeroy
Eye
Buena Grueser
Difford
Crpple Children’s Fund
Fiorence Burnside
Buena Gruexer
Lottie Lemnard
Sugar Run PTA selects officers and reports progress
The Sugar Run PTA met at Sugar Run School with Mrs. 3. W McMurray presiding. Reports covered a fifth grade party fundraiser for playground equipment, a district meeting in Marietta, and progress on the Friday junior high musical. Officers elected include Mrs. John Lambert president and Mrs. William Anderson vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter. Hamm
Denver Kappie
Harry Watson
Albert Smith
Charles Swateel
Parkersburg Track Team Makes Stop in Middleport
Twenty three members of Parkersburg High School track team and coach Jimmy Scott stopped for dinner at the Mary Jane Coffee Shop in Middleport on Saturday evening while en route home from Huntington after relay races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Parkersburg High School
Jimmy Scott
Mary Jane
Huntington
Juniors Lead Honor Roll At Pomeroy High School
Pomeroy High School reports juniors leading the fifth week scholastic honor roll with 40.4 percent of the class honored. Seniors and sophomores show lower participation while a long list of on honor roll names appears for each grade.
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Pomeroy High School
Pomeroy
Jahieh
Ae RU White
Senior High Schen
Sgsphomores
Phe
Plaid
Ike Heron
Don Odonald Kinser
Tack Letty Virginia
Acolytes’ Festival Procession At St Alban’s Bexley
A colorful procession marked the Acolytes Festival at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Bexley. The event featured the church choir clergy and youth acolytes from the Northern region of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, all vested with parish crosses. Rev. Lawrence Hall of All Saints Portsmouth spoke at the parish house supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
St. Alban's Epicopal Church
Bexley
Robert E. Leake
Ohio University
Grace Episcopal Church
Episcopal Diocese
Ohio
Lawrence Hall
All Saints Church
Portsmouth
Meigs County Land Transfers Highlight Property Shifts
D E Sanborn and Anna B Sanborn transfer 4.47 acres in Pomeroy to Wilbur and Ruth Young. T M Cross transfers 59 acres in Scipion Township to Caro S Lowe. William and Violet Harlose convey 80 acres in Salem Township to Earl and Garnet Harleses. J W Landaker sells 43 acres in Bedford Township to Mabel Landaker, who then sells 43 acres to Owens J Smith and Hazel Smith. Siney T Russell and Donna T Russell transfer lots 137 and 135 in Middleport to John W Weatherby and Selah Weatherby. Olen Doerfer and Rosalee Doerfer convey lot 36 to Nancy Jane Hawkins. Harry FR Oll er and Elizabeth Oll er transfer lot 8 in Middleport to John W Baker and Florence E Baker.
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D._E.Sanborn
Anna B. Sanborn
Wilbur Young
Ruth Young
Pomeroy
Charlies
Russell
Sheriff
T. M. Cross
Caro
S. Lowe
Scipion Township
William Harless
Violet Harlise
Earl Harlese
Garnet Hariess
Salem Township
J. W. Landaker
Mabel Landaker
Bedford Township
Mabel A. Landaker
Owens J. Smith
Hazel
Smith
Siiney T. Russell
Donna ‘T. Russell
John W. Weatherby
Selah Weatherby
Middleport
Olen Doerfer
Rosalee Dorrier
Nancy Jane Hawkins
Harry FR. Oller
Elizabeth Oller
John W. Baker
Florence E. Baker
Appointments Made In Meigs County Probate Court
Fiora Pomeroy and Cassie Caster appointed administratrix and executrix of estates. Walter Lottridge and Frank FE Wood referenced. Meigs County Probate Court records list Roy F. Parker and Mary EF Wolfe marriage license in Pomeroy.
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Pomeroy-Fiora
Steffy
Walter Lottridge
Cassie Caster
Frank FE. Wood
Meigs County
Meigs
Roy F. Parker
Chester
Mary EF
Wolfe
Pomeroy
Program Announced for Middleport Glee Club Concert
The Ohio University Men’s Glee Club concert in Middleport is set for 8 p.m. at Middleport High School. Girls’ Glee Club of Middleport High School sponsors the event with director Philip L. Peterson and accompanist Roy Graber. Horns by Millard Biggs and Ruth Wickline. The program includes works by Brahms, Dawson, Sullivan, Handel, Schubert, and others performed in various groupings.
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Middleport
Ohio University
Sir Arthur Sullivan
C. C. Robinson
Jesus
William Dawson
Men's Glee Club
Samson
Handel
Schubert
Roy Ringwall
Brahms
Davison
Death notice for Miss Mary Rathburn in Meigs County
Miss Mary A Rathburn 86 native of Meigs County died April 12 at Colum home of her sister Mrs Grace Swartz after two years ill health from influenza. Born January 14 1865 to Samuel and Susan Rathburn she is survived by another sister Mrs Jeanette G Ross Springfield and many nieces and nephews. Graveside services conducted April 15 at Middleport Gravel Hill Cemetery by Rev Charles Pomeroy Middleport.
Rev Devol Returns Here
Rev John Devol returned from Columbus Sunday afternoon and reports his wife Mrs Devol is hospitalized at White Cross Hospital receiving tests and treatment to determine her illness. He will return to Columbus this afternoon and cancelled an engagement at Richland Ave Methodist Church in Athens. Evening services in the local church were dispensed with and Rev Bryan Thomas of Lancaster preached at the 10 30 service. Wednesday prayer meetings will be discontinued until further notice due to Mrs Devols illness.
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Glouster
John Devol
Columbus
Devol
White Cross Hospital
Richland Ave
Athens
Lancaster
Lamp repair workshop yields thirty lamps completed in two days
Twenty two homemakers attended a two day lamp making and repair workshop led in Pomeroy. The group began at early hours Tuesday April 17 and continued into Wednesday. A total of 24 new lamps were produced and 22 old lamps were repaired or remodeled at an average cost of 2.25 dollars per lamp.
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Pomeroy
Memorial Day plans and church gathering announced
Plans for Memorial Day services were set at a Disabled American Veterans chapter 53 meeting at 8 p.m. at the Butter Nut Avenue home. In Glouster, the Faithful Class of Jacksonville Methodist Church will meet Wednesday evening at Mrs Leona Orme’s home with a 6:40 p.m. pot-luck lunch followed by a program.
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Pomeroy
Piang
Chapter 53
Butternut Avenue
Glouster
Jacksonville Methodist Church
Leona Orme
Car Crash Drags Driver From Scene In Middleport
MIDDLEPORT The window fronts of Robinsons Tri Lustre Dry Cleaning and Martin Roller Drug Store on Mill Street were shattered in an early morning crash Sunday. Agnes Clendennin, a Gallipolis telephone operator, drove from Athens and failed to turn onto Mill Street, hitting the Tri Lustre shop and fleeing. police chased the car into Gallia County near Cheshire, stopping the driver near a railroad crossing. She and a female companion were returned to Middleport for investigation with no charges filed yet.
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Middleport
Robinson's Triustre Dry Cleaning
Martin
Mill St
Cheshire
Agnes Clendennin
Don Gosney
Gallipolis
Athens
N. Second Ave
Gosney
Gallia County
Clendennin
Glouster High School Honor Roll Names Released
Glouster High School released the honor roll for grades seven through twelve. Read across grades: seventh graders Patty Bailey Evelyn Bodenbender James Ginnan William Jayjonn Gene Pugh Line Bonna Trace Joyce Williams. eighth graders Tommy Williams Roberta Zimmers Sue Dunnette Jane Farres Gertrude Phillips Lorene Raber Patricia Sikorski Donna Smith Mary Lou Spencer Patty Sweeney Barbara Whaley. ninth graders Betty Grandstaff David Grubbs Joan Waldeck. tenth graders Suzanne Colbert Helen Crawford Helen Dalton De flores Gilmore Jerry Ginnan Joan Ginnan Elizabeth Ann White Judy Zimmer. eleventh graders Lee Dennison Lynn Gladden Florence Grandstaff Sharma Phillips James Trace Ronald Thompkins. twelfth graders Jane Andrews Wayne Bailey Helen Cole John Dunnette Sharon Gamwell Jane Meyer Tommy Pappas Marlene Raber Kay Swart June Vaughn Judy Vernon Barbara White.
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Tommy Williams
Roberta Zimmers
Sue Dunnette
Jane Farres
Gertrude Phillips
Lorene Raber
Patricia Sikorski
Donna Smith
Mary Lou Spencer
Patty Sweeney
Barbara Whaley
Betty Grandstaff
David Grubbs
Joan Waldeck
Suzanne Colbert
Helen Crawford
Helen Dalton
Deflores Gilmore
Jerry Ginnan
Joan Ginnan
Elizabeth Ann White
Judy Zimmer
Lee Dennison
Lynn Gladden
Florence Grand Staff
Sharma Phillips
James Trace
Ronald Thompkins
Jane Andrews
Wayne Bailey
Helen Cole
John Dunnette
Sharon Gamwell
Jane Meyer
Tommy Pappas
Marlene Raber
Kay Swart
June Vaughn
Judy Vernon
Barbara White
Krank Six Dies at Home in Murray City Area
GLOUSTER Frank Six aged 56 died at his Murray City road home Saturday at 530 am after a long illness. He was born in Murray City, son of the late John and Eller Six, and lived there his entire life. Survived by wife Mae two sons John and Fred of Lancaster three daughters Laverna Penn Murray City Wilma Wolfe Lancaster and Vera Fullmer Albright WV one sister Mrs Martin Sarina Grouster and eight grandchildren. Funeral services at Hollister EUB Church Tuesday at 1 pm conducted by John Molnar burial Beech Grove cemetery. Friends may call at John S Blawer funeral home until service time.
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Glouster
Frank Six
Murray City Road
Murray City
John and
Eller Six
Mae
John
Fred
Lancaster
Laverna Penn
Wilma Wolfe
Vera Fullmer
Albright
W. Va
Martin Sarina
Grouster
Hollister Eub Church
John Molnar
Beech Grove Cemetery
John S. Blawer
Auxiliary Meet Set at Sayres Building in Jacksonvi
The Ladies Auxiliary of the UMW of A resumes after a postponement and will meet Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the Sayres building in Jacksonvile. Page 16 has additional Glouster news.
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Glouster
Ladies’ Auxiliary
The
UMW of A
Mg Sayres
Jacksonvile
Middleport Births and Social Notes Parade
Birth announcements list a son to Ralph Gibbs Jr. and wife at Mason Clinic April 21 named Ralph Gregory with grandparents George Childs and Ralph Gibbs. Also Robert Junior to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner and Opal Turner with grandparents Jacob Turner and Belle Turner. Social items cover a spaghetti supper, slumber party, prom aftermath, injuries, recent surgeries, and residents visiting Charleston and Radford with various relatives and moves.
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Middleport
Ralph Gibbs, Jr
Mason Clinic
Ralph Gregory
George Childs
N. Second Ave
Ralph Gibbs
New Haven
Minnie Gilmore
Gibbs
Gloria June
Robert Priddy
Opal Turner
Nitro
W. Va
Robert
Jacob Turner
Belle Turner
Heath Methodist Church to serve refreshments after rally
A committee of mothers from the Heath Methodist Church Youth Fellowship plans to serve refreshments tonight after the County Youth Rally. Rallys are held monthly in different county churches. The Rev Louis Berger will be the speaker.
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Middleport
Mothers of the Youth Fellowship
Heath Methodist Church
Louis Berger
Local church notes and community updates weekly recap
David Wiley celebrates his sixth birthday during Sunday School at the Church of Christ. He is recognized as a junior soloist at church and in kindergarten. Several visits and family travel are noted, including Sgt Cleo Kerns moving from Okinawa to Korea, and Emma McCracken in Columbus in critical condition. Local residents and relatives from Middleport, Chillicothe, Columbus, and Kensington share weekend visits and contacts.
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David Wiley
Church of Christ
David
L. R. Wiley
C. R. Young
Meigs General Hospital
Paul Winn
Clarence Murray
Marvin Murray
Columbus
Lawrence Bradford
Larry
Lynn
Gail
William Bradford
Brownell Ave
Cleo Kerns
Judy
Okinawa
Korea
Clarence Root
Chillicothe
Middleport
Mary Root
Emma McCracken
A. J. Strauss
H. C. Ewing
N. Third Ave
Richard Davis
W. B. Davis
Easter Martin Ewing
Virginia
James Shields
Dame Joan Hamilton
Kensington
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Sugar Run Pta
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Hillsboro
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Peacock Ave
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James Clatworthy
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Lewis Miller
Parkersburg
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Jean Smart
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Ann Rupe
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Pearl St. School
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Florida
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St Undexter
S. Third Ave
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South Charleston
Edward Tewksbury
Wellston
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Iddleport
William Bakers
Penstoy
William Lowe
Charleston
William Wyatt
M-Set
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Fla
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Marjory Hutton
Bucyrus
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Bradbury
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Radford
Philip Sporn Pliant
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Winchester
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Gravel Hill
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Walter Hayes
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Amos Walker
Patrick Lochary
P. Klein
Tau Alpha Chapter
Athens Country Club
WSCS
Jackson
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