Waterworks Purchase Discussed by Pomeroy and Middleport
Pomeroy village council and Middleport considered jointly buying Meigs Water Co under a county water district plan to cut costs and enable a future sewage disposal plant. A Cincinnati bonding rep urged a combined purchase to save money and avoid duplicate taxes. A follow up meeting was set for Wednesday at Middleport Hall.
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Pomeroy
Meigs Water Co
Middleport
City Hall
Cincinnati
Pomeroy Motor Co
Meigs Voting Place Set For Wheat Sterendon
Meigs County will hold a wheat marketing quota referendum on Aug 14 at one polling place the PMA office in the Masonic Temple Mulberry Ave Meigs. Hours are 8 am to 6 pm and a referendum committee will supervise. Eligible voters are farm owners operators or tenants with more than 15 acres wheat for 1954. Outcomes affect 1954 wheat loans parity and quota enforcement with penalties for excess wheat.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Shields
PMA
Masonic Temple
Mulberry Ave
Miss Norma Lee to Wed George Tassian August 15
Mrs. Dale Lee announces the engagement and upcoming marriage of Norma Lenore Lee to George J. Tassian of Youngstown. The open church wedding will take place August 15 at 6 30 p m at Racine Methodist Church with a reception at the bride elects home after the ceremony.
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Pomeroy
Dale Lee
Norma Lenore Lee
George J. Tassian
Youngstown
Racine Methodist Church
Middleport Social Notes Showers for Moving Family
Mrs. W. K. Beaver and family received handkerchief gifts from the B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society at a Middleport Roadside Park picnic. Ceremony included a poem by Mrs. I. D. Diles and a grace by Rev. Claremont E. Hoyt. Members discussed missionary support, polio aid plans, and gifts for Miss Alice Mae Simmons heading to Burma.
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Middleport
W. K. Beaver
Columbus
B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society
First Baptist Church
Charlies Bennett
I. D. Diles
Claremont FE. Hoyt
H. M. Cross
White Cross
Alice Mae Simmons
Burma
Paul Smart
J. M. Archer
Diles
Edison Baker
Harold Chase
Parayisis Foundation
Mary B. Fulton
Smart
Granville House
Bennett
Cross
Beaver
Archer
Chase
Baker
Florinel Talbott
Homer Hysell
Mineral area visitors and church rites noted in Meigs county
Rumors of visits spread through Mineral and nearby towns as families such as Knowltons Stage Gibsons Woods and Lowrys joined in church services at New Straitsville and Racoon Creek. Warding off illness Calvin Hawk of Long Bottom underwent emergency appendectomy at Meigs General Hospital with a good prognosis.
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Mineral
Arch Knowlton
Columbus
Clarence Stage
Nelsonville
Bertha Lightfritz
New Straitsville
Philip
Keith Stephenson
Springfield
Ohio
Ralph Gibson
Gibsons
Charles Woods
Sandra
Mission Church
Mineral Area
Raccoon Creek
Bob Dinsmore
New Marshfield
C. V. Hester
Mary Clark
Dorothy Secoy
G. K. Lowry
Ray
Carl Shulz
Avery Nell Lowry
Wichita Falls
Texas
Carlos Buckley
Joe Buckly
Bucyrus
Canada
Orland Ely
Parkersburg
Darrene Crow
Ernest Crow
Vincennes
Ind
Crow
Dayton
Leslie Allbaugh
Will Lowry
Leonard
Duane Saylor
Saylor
Pomeroy Calvin Hawk
Long Bottom
Meigs General Hospital
To Wed in September
Portland couple Mr and Mrs Marion L Furbee announce the engagement of Harriet Ann Furbee of Dayton to Robert Edward Schaefer of Dayton The couple state Harriet is a Ra c ine High School graduate employed by Frigidaire General Motors in Dayton and Robert is a Chaminade High School and University of Dayton graduate employed by National Cash Register Co The wedding is set for September 5 at 10 30 am at St Stephens Church Dayton
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Portland
Marion L. Furbee
Harriet Ann
Dayton
Robert Edward Schaefer
Furbee
Racine High School
Frigidaire
General Motors
Schaefer
Joseph ‘Schaefer
Chaminade High School
University of Dayton
The
National Cash Register Co
St. Stephens Church
Athletic Association Names New Officers At Middleport Meeting
Middleport Athletic Association elected Curtis Jenkinson as president Shirley Mills as vice president Thomas Durst as secretary and Robert Haggerty as treasurer Forest Bachtel retired president opened the session A seven member committee including three women will organize the membership drive starting next week Student memberships at 50 cents were approved with emphasis on recruiting local women supporters The group bought a motion picture camera last year and will purchase film again for home game coverage Coach David Winefordner endorses the project The association plans to reconvene next Wednesday to announce committee results and campaign details
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Middleport
Middleport Athletic Association
Curtis Jenkinson
Shirley Mills
Yellow Jacket
MAA
David Winefordner
Pomeroy Social Notes and Local Gatherings Report
Pomeroy community notes cover church meetings at First Baptist and Church of Christ, Masonic initiation at Lodge 164 F and A M, Beegle reunion attendees in Bedford and Racine, and weekend visits among local families including the Hills and Freckers. Names include Caddie Wickham Janet Nesselroad Lorenzo Davis and Ed Frecker.
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Pomeroy
First Baptist Church
Caddie Wickham
Caryl Cook
Pomeroy Lodge 164
Hobstetter Family Reunion Set at Rocksprings Fairgrounds
The Hobstetter family will hold its annual reunion at 11 a.m. Sunday at the Rocksprings Fairgrounds. George Hobstetter Sr. serves as president and will announce the event. A noon picnic follows, with new officers to be elected in the afternoon business session.
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Pomeroy
Meigs Jayceettes Meet At Mason Home Thursday
The Meigs County Jayceettes will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at Mrs. Barbara Mason’s home in Lincoln Heights. Also announced: the White Shrine of Jerusalem hosts a tri state picnic this Sunday at Cooper’s State Park near Morgantown West Virginia with a picnic lunch at 12 noon.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Jayceettes
Barbara Mason
Lincoln Heights
Cooper's State Park
Morgantown
W. Va
Grace Episcopal Guild Meeting Planned at Lochary Home
Grace Episcopal Guild members will meet Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. W P Lochary with Mrs Harten bach and Sue Lehew as assistant hostesses.
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Pomeroy
Grace Episcopal
W. P. Lochary
Hartenbach
Sue Lehew
Local Families Visit and Camp Outing Observed
Mr and Mrs Ashton Sayre of Fairborn spent the weekend with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Stewart while Mr and Mrs George Massar of Columbus visited his parents Mr and Mrs Clarence Massar. Miss Sue Struble a 1953 Pomeroy High School graduate has taken a job in the local telephone company offices. Mrs Clarence Struble and Mrs A W Hoyt joined Janet Struble Marilyn Davis and Judy Hoyt to Lancaster Sunday for Methodist camp with Sue Struble and Barbara Wehrung accompanying them. Traveling to the camp.
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Ashton Sayre
Fairborn
Frank Stewart
George Massar
Columbus
Clarence Massar
Sue Struble
Pomeroy High School
Telephone Company
Clarence Struble
A. W. Hoyt
Janet Struble
Marilyn Davis
Judy Hoyt
Lancaster
Wheelchair Gift Planned for Local Music Teacher
Middleport Mrs G O Reynolds and room mothers report Project Wheelchair has surpassed its goal with enough sales stamps to buy a wheelchair for Miss Lois Cecil vocal music teacher at Middleport School. Volunteers counted sorted and bound stamps at Middleport Roadside Park and collected stamps from Mrs Michael Hackett.
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Middleport
G. O. Reynolds
Central School
Lois Cecil
Middleport School
Reynolds
Milton Hood
Owen Bratton
William Lewis
Charles Archer
Dwight Wallace
Michael Hackett
Meigs General Hospital Notes Discharges and Births
Hospital notices list discharged patients including Hattie Woodyard John Brinker Leopold Hussell Lawrence Hysell Herman Clark John Epple and others. Birth announcements record a son for Leo K Smith and daughters for Max Bowers William Casey Godwin Heck Carl Roach and Clarence McDaniel.
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Hattie Woodyard
Pomeroy
Patricia Burns
John Epple
Minersville
Raymond Saxton
Middlert
Gale Hysell
Middleport
Calvin Hawk
Long Bottom
Clarence Blessing
Letart
W.va
Clarence McDaniel
Carl Roach
Max Bowers
James Marsee
Flatwood
George Smith
Dexter
William Casey
Isaac Clark
John Brinker
Leopold Hussell
Lawrence Hysell
Hermann Clark
Irving King
O. E. McKinley
Edna Laing
Leo K. Smith
Godwin Heck
St. Albans
Two Divorce Actions Filed in Meigs Court
Martha Ann Ables sues Dana Ables Jr for divorce and seeks custody of three minor children. Gladys M Molden seeks divorce from Robert B Molden on the same charges and requests custody of one minor child.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Common Pleas Court
Martha Ann Ables
Dana Ables, Jr
Gladys M. Molden
Robert B. Molden
Pomeroy Mothers Club Meeting Set
A meeting of the Pomeroy Mothers Club is scheduled for 8 30 p m Wednesday at the home of Mrs Robert Freeman Lincoln Heights.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Mothers Club
Robert Freeman
Lincoln Heights
Three Guilty Pleas Entered In Common Pleas Court
Meigs County Common Pleas Court heard three guilty pleas from Harold Long Ernest McGrath and Jesse Will tied to robbery breaking and entering and falsified funds charges. Judge Cedric W W Clark will decide sentences after consultations with Sheriff Charles Russell and Prosecuting Attorney James B O'Brien later this week. A fourth defendant James Hawley pleaded innocent to non-support with potential later change.
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Pomeroy
Cedric W.W. Clark
Meigs County
Clark
Long
Ernest McGrath
Rutland
McGrath
Jesse Will
Pomeroy Route 2
Charles Russell
James B. O'Brien
James Hawley
Hobson
Hawley
X Ray Results From Mobile Units Reach Meigs County
Meigs County Health Department received reports on over 2381 chest x rays taken by two mobile units from May 6 to May 13. Of these, 2262 were negative and 106 positive. 13 images were unsatisfactory. Notices will be mailed to those with negative results and appropriate contact will be made for positives.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Halth Department
Health Department
State Health Department
Library to Close Thursday Throughout August
Pomeroy Public Library will close on Thursdays all through August, announced librarian Mrs. Jess Gainer. The notice specifies weekly Thursday closures during the month.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Public Library
Jess Gainer
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