Miss Compton To Be Queen For Welcome
Plans for the Blue and Gray Trail celebration in Pomeroy are complete Frank Johnston announces. The Benton Harbor Blossom Queen and attendants will travel from Columbus Ohio Theater to Pomeroy for a 6 oclock banquet and appearances at Bendvue and Temple Theaters before a dance at the junior high. Virginia Compton will be queen instead of Marcella Compton.
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Pomeroy
Frank Johnston
Benton Harbor
Mich
Ohio Theater
Columbus
Bendvue
Temple
Pomer
MHS Announces Senior Activities and Dates
Middleport seniors calendar includes the play Top O' the World May 19 and 20 the baccalaureate May 29 commencement June 3 the Junior Senior Banquet this Friday and the Alumni Banquet May 28.
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Middleport
MHS
Water Wagon Returns as Mill Street Clears Dust
In MIDDLEPORT the old fashioned water wagon helps ease dust from torn up Mill Street. Street Commissioner Arthur Lewis rides a square block as WPA workers repair sewers and gas lines after a January 1937 flood and related brickwork. Merchants await completion while the improvised sprinkler wagon keeps streets passable.
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Middleport
Mill St
WPA
Arthur Lewis
Middleport Honor Roll gains shown by six week period
Middleport lists 42 honorees eight months into the school term with 10 boys and 32 girls. Donald Mathews maintains male honors for the junior class and freshmen sophomores and seniors are named with full rosters. In Stockton Baer defeats Connolly in a four round exhibition.
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Middleport
Donald Mathews
Lois Bailey
Jean Bennett
Bill Diles
Ruth Hamilton
Betty Hartinger
Thelma Howard
Esther Michl
Robert Tompkins
Maxine Bennett
Eloise Byers
Easter Ewing
Perry Hoffman
Evelyn Knopp
Virginia Mayes
James Rickman
Bob Rothrock
Marvel Schmoll
Robert Snider
Jane Stansbury
Dorothy Nell Stewart
Dorothy Durst
Marcella Fraser
Alice Louise Lama
Margaret Mce-Bride
Pauline Mitch
Kathryn Rose Monahan
Margaret Stewart
Mary Gilmore
Mary Hackett
Violet Hartinger
Melissa Hennesy
Harold Hubbard
Harold Kauff
Carl Nichols
Geraldine Parsons
Mary
Stockton
Calif
Max Baer
Frank Connolly
Modesto
Five Drivers Fined in Pomeroy Traffic Check
A Tuesday night traffic check by local police and state highway patrols led to five drivers appearing before Mayor M. D. Hartley. Henry Kap tina Melvin E. Johnson and Thomas Bryant Deem pled guilty to driving while intoxicated and were fined 100 dollars plus costs and released on bond. Truman Russell pled guilty to illegal use of dealer tags and paid 25 dollars. Paul T. Leonard was fined five dollars for faulty brakes.
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Pomeroy
M. D. Hartley
Henry Kaptina
WPA
Melvin E. Johnson
Thomas Bryant Deem
Ltill
Truman Russell
Paul T. Leonard
Middleport social notes and events at local groups
Social notes recount Heath M E Church class 12 gathering at Mrs David Miller home with insignias of books and a bake sale plan. Junior Choir at First Baptist Church entertained by Mrs Paul Smith with dues and future activities. Brotherhood auxiliary dinner and lodge meeting at Mary Jane Coffee Shopper and E M McCarty home. Meigs Temple Pythian Sisters hostesses at Allman home. Banquet plans discussed for Junior-Senior and Mother-Daughter events. Nuptials of Elizabeth McClain and Marvin Whaley reported with Rutland address details. Toledo workers see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influence on jobs. Disney characters featured in glass industry.
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Ruth Rothrock
R. E. McKay
Miller
George Schaaf
Kelly Grogan
First Baptist Church
Paul Smith
Smith
Margaret Ella Hysell
Eva Brown
Brotherhood of Railroad
Mary Jane
E. M. McCarty
Herman Bailey
Whaley-Mcclain
Elizabeth McClain
William McClain
Middleport
Marvin Whaley
William Whaley
Rutland
Gallipolis
Toledo
Snow White
the Seven Dwarfs
Japanese Experts Guarantee Accuracy in Chick Sexing
Japanese experts at Atkins Chick Hatchery in Meigs County boast 98 percent accuracy in determining chick sex. Tok Kuroiwa Tad Saito and Iwai Suzuki trained by the Japanese Chicken Sexing Association handle over 600 chicks per hour and travel worldwide.
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Pomeroy
Atkins
Mulberry Ave
Tok Kuroiwa
Tad Saito
Iwai Suzuki
Adil
Kuroiwa
Japan
California
Saito
Suzuki
Meigs County
William Atkins
Leghorn
Pomeroy J.O.F. Class Meets at Hysell Home
Mrs. Dey Hysell hosted the J.O.F. Class of Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church on Harrisonville Road with 15 members present. Miss Marion Ebersbach led the meeting in the absence of president Mrs. Norman Foss. Refreshments followed and the next gathering is set for the third Monday in May at Miss Gertrude Smith's home. Floyd Stobart Jr. and family announce the birth of a daughter Dorothy Mae, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stobart Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Ed Eichinger.
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Gertrude Smith
Mulberry Ave
Floyd Stobart, Jr
Dorothy Mae
Floyd Stobart
Pomeroy
Ed Eichinger
Pine Grove
Mission Group Holds Meeting At Kananga
The Woman's Home Missionary Society met at Mrs. A. W. Pullins home with Cheshire auxiliary members present. Mrs. John Starcher led and Louise Starcher Roush read from the study book followed by a song by Rev. and Mrs. H. N. Snider. Lunch was served to 16 attendees. Multiple local residents visited relatives in nearby towns over the weekend.
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Kanauga
Woman's Home Missionary Society
A. W. Pullins
Cheshire
John Starcher
Louise Starcher Roush
H. N. Snider
Henry Spencer
Clayton
Portsmouth
Sam Giles
George E. Bush
Jane
Detroit
W. E. McDade
Carl Keebaugh
Delaware
Albert Paulins
Paulins
Faye
Joe Litchfield
Gallipolis Ferry
Ernest Lewis
Pleasant
Vaughn Scott
James Eblin
Charleston
Frank Fowler
Goldin McCoy
Buffalo
W. Va
Cam Shaw
Baptist Church
Addison
B. M. Raike
Greenup
Loma Montgomery
Leon
Ella Russell
Mrs. C. Dapper Dies At Logan Monday Night
Death reported for Mrs. Charles Dapper at her Logan home Monday night formerly Catherine Thomas of Lincoln Hill. Sister of Mrs. Margaret Flowers and aunt to several Pomeroy residents, funeral set for Thursday at 2:30 in Logan.
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Pomeroy
Charles Dapper
Logan
Catherine Thomas
Lincoln Hill
Margaret Flowers
Lancaster
Will
John Thomas
John Seakus
Marion Radford
Giles
Pearl Hysell
Taylor Ridge Neighbors Visit and Illness Report
Taylor Ridge round up of local social visits and health notes. Mrs. John Wenger hospitalized at White Cross in Columbus with Edith Risley visiting. several families from Athens, Millfield, Lewisville and Zanesville noted visiting, traveling, or hosting guests.
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Taylor Ridge
Fred Heffken
Jean
June
Billie
Dora Heffken
Harrietsville
Guy McVay
John Wenger
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Edith Risley
Athens
Wenger
Herb Hooper
Hooper
Charles Hooper
John Hooper
James Stem
Donald
Henry Evenoff
Roy Strausbaugh
Robert Tessana
Elpha Hooper
Lewisville
John Eisler
Shelbyville
Ind
Joseph West
Gilbert Strausbaugh
Clyde Hill
Zanesville
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Middleport Social Notes
William Allman
Teresa Autherson
Katherine Anderson
Meigs, Temple
Heath M. E
James Weber
Chas. McNamee
Alice Ritchie
Long Bottom
Carl Mourning
H. A. Rothrock
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S. Third Ave
Pomeroy Social Notes
Kananga
Racine
Oliver Duke
Franklin Road
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Delores Ann
Salem Central Clinic Hospital
Duke
Lucille Circle
C. D. Circle
Racine-Portland
Salem
Ewings
Pomeroy Ohio
Ardsley Axminster
McMaster
Athens Pharmacy
North Court Street
Vendol Store
Texas
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UDGA
D.C
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Miles Nervine
Miles
Mennen
Johnson's
Pablum
Clapp’s Baby Foods
Fitch
Dr. Miles
Actrite
LeGear
Friends
Sir Walter Raleigh
Granger
Kentucky Club
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