Arbor Day tree planting by 450 Rutland children
About 450 Rutland elementary students helped plant trees at the new school during Arbor Day. Four pin oaks were added to last year’s plantings by the Rutland Garden Club, with Mrs. Chapman directing a choral poem and songs. Junior Garden Club members and Rutland residents attended.
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Middleport
Rutland
Rutland Garden Club
Chapman
America
Rutland Junior Garden Club
Vernon Weber
Garden Club
Middleport Personal Notes Roundup
Mrs. G H Drumheller returned to Everett Washington after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs William Reuter in Brownell Avenue. Dr G H Drumheller accompanied her to Ohio where he taught a refresher course for physicians in Cincinnati. Mrs Drumheller visited Pom eroy relatives and attended nursing events. Mrs Richard Hayman of Philadelphia helps care for Eleanor Schaaf whose health remains unsettled. Fred Hoyt funeral near Marietta. services at Marietta and graveside at Reedsville. Mrs Charles Payne and grandson Louis Taylor Hayden Jr Dayton spent time with Kathryn Payne Oliver Street. Charles Payne accompanied to Dayton.
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G. H. Drumheller
Everett
Wash
William Reuter
Brownell] Ave
Ohio
Cincinnati
Drumheller
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Harry Smith
Pomeroy
Richard Hayman
Philadelphia
Eleanor Schaaf
Reedsville
Charles Payne
Louis Taylor Hayden, Jr
Dayton
Kathryn Payne
Oliver St
Dr Edna McKnight Returns Home After Weekend Visit
Dr Edna McKnight of Forest Park Bedford Ind returned home Tuesday after a weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs A V Howell and with Ralph McKee Pomeroy Mrs McKnight had been in Washington DC for a week with friends who were her former neighbors in Indiana Theo Maag of Latham has returned home after spending several days here with relatives
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Edna McKnight
Forest Park
Bedford
Ind
A. V. Howell
Ralph McKee Pomeroy
McKnight
Washington, D. C
Indiana
Theo Maag
Latham
Roberts Boy Among Top Ten in Tests
Philip Marvin Roberts 13 son of Mrs Marvin Roberts Racine ranked seventh among Meigs County students in state eighth grade tests with 175 points. He belongs to Racine Methodist Church perfect attendance bar six years and is a Boy Scout and Racine Ground Observers Corps member. He also runs a paper route plays Little League basketball and builds model airplanes and ships.
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Pomeroy
Philip Marvin Roberts
Marvin Roberts
Racine
Meigs County
Young Roberts
Philip
Boosters Plan Special Meeting for Minstrel Fund Drive
Pomeroy Band Boosters call a 7 30 p m Tuesday meeting at Pomeroy Senior High School to finalize participation in the fourth annual Big Bend Minstrel. Plans include selling candy at the minstrel show and parents of junior members are urged to attend. boosters from Pomeroy and Middleport will share proceeds.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Band
Big Bend
Pomeroy Senior High School
William Swatzel
Swatzel
Middleport
United Methodist
Eugene Brown
Japan
Wheelersburg
Christian Science Society
First Baptist
Ralph C. Zundel
Rio Grande College
Christian Education Conference
Rio Grande
Firemen Deliver Baby in Truck Rescue Run
In Middleport a baby boy was born en route to Holzer Hospital after firefighters responded to Mrs. Clonch at about 6 15 p m The crew including Emmet Shuler and O E McKinley sped toward Gallipolis in an emergency truck at 80 mph delivering the newborn and ferrying mother to the hospital This birth marks another addition to the Clonch family with McKinley later praised as part of the team
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Middleport
Robert Clench
Stork
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Clonch
Emmet Shuler
O. E. McKinley
Emergency calls disrupt Middleport firemen meeting
Emergency calls to Middleport firemen interrupted a meeting in the firemen quarters as plans were finalized for a Community Auction. A 17 year old girl, Jean Eblin, was treated for gas asphyxiation after a 6:15 p.m. call and a second at 8:30 p.m. She was attended by a physician. The town operates without a separate emergency squad and uses an emergency truck not yet fully equipped alongside an older truck.
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Middleport
Jean Eblin
Pearl St
Middleport Alumni Bake Sale Schedule
The Middleport High School Alumni Association led by Marcella Taylor announces a pickup and delivery bake sale at Robinson's Tri-Lustre Market starting at 9 a.m. Miss Taylor, Janice Asbury, and Mrs Guy O. Reynolds lead the event with proceeds benefiting the MHS alumni treasury.
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Middleport
Alumni Association of
Middleport High School
Marcella Taylor
Miss Taylor
Janice Asbury
Guy O. Reynolds
MHS Alumni Treasury
Elizabeth as New Jersey’s first capital in 1665
The note identifies Elizabeth as the initial capital of New Jersey in 1665. It mentions meteors traveling at speeds between 10 and 45 miles per second.
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Elizabeth
New Jersey
Meigs County Churches Offer Sunday Services and Activities
A list of churches in Meigs County with pastors and weekly schedules. Venues include Rocksprings Dexter Bradford Syracuse Carmel Rutland Chester Hysell Run Harrisonville St. Paul Alfred Pomeroy and more detailing Bible schools worship times midweek prayers NYPS youth groups and special events.
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Chester
Christian Endeavor
Syracuse
Dorcas
Richard Young
Youth Fellowship
Carmel
Zion Church of Christ
Ronnie Eggleton
Carpenter Baptist
A. T. Biddle
Rutland First Baptist
Syracuse Church of the Nazarene
Roy K. Williams
NYPS
Rutland Church of the Nazarene
Harold Klingel
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Raymond Hummell
Main and
Cherry
Pomeroy
Columbia Chapel
B. H. Morris
Laurel Cliff
W. H. Strausbaugh
Hysell Run Free Methodist
Robert E. Smith
Harrisonville Presbyterian
Laurence N. Woodruff
Lodge Holds Rituals at Fides Lodge No 210 Knights of Pythias
Emerson Jones announced no formal work at the upcoming Thursday meeting of Fides Lodge No 210 Knights of Pythias in Middleport. Refreshments were served by Cash Bahr and Horace McElhinny.
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Middleport
Fides Lodge No
Garden Clubs Hold Meeting in Rutland Ohio
The Cheshire Club, the youngest in the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs, registered at the spring regional District 11 meeting in Rutland. Club officers Mrs. Everett Long and Mrs. Curtis Rice attended, with regional director Mrs. Arthur Pool and contact chair Mrs. Lowell McCarley as guests for an May 8 host event hosted by Mrs. Doyle Shuler and assisted by Mrs. Raymond Zerkle.
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Middleport
Cheshire Club
Ohio Association of Garden Clubs
Rutland
Everett Long
Curtis Rice
Ivan Grover
Arthur Pool
Marietta
Lowell McCarley
Vinton
Doyle Shuler
Raymond Zerkle
Heath Methodist Board Plans For Observances
Heath Methodist Church education board met at the parsonage to outline Mother’s Day and Children’s Day observances and promote Sunday School attendance. They plan Bible presentations to Sunday School seniors and recognize the youngest and oldest mothers with plants.
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Heath Methodist Board
Middleport
Board of Education of
Heath Methodist Church
C. R. Konkright
James Euler
Sales Tax Receipts Increase in Meigs County
Retail sales tax receipts in Meigs County for the week ending April 12 rose about 1600 from the same week last year. The weekly report by state treasurer Roger W. Tracy shows receipts totaling 3983.27, up from 2331.37 the previous year.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Roger W. Tracy
Post Offices Named for Horse Changing Posts
A historic note explains that early stagecoach routes included posts used for swapping horses. Mail was loaded or unloaded at these posts, leading to the modern name post offices for mail handling.
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U.S
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Philip Roberts
Truck
Bake Sale
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Rocksprings Methodist
R. M. Grove
WSCS
Chester House of Prayer
Edmond Life
Salvation Army
Young Peoples Legion
Salvation Service
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
C. W. Proffitt
Kingsbury Church
Williams
Quick's
Konkright
Faille
Lastex
Haiti
Ene
Cannon Sheet Sale
Chenille
Dacron
Yours
Birdseye
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