Meigs County Democrats Plan Meeting Tonight at Pomeroy
Meigs County Democrats organize an executive committee at Pomeroy City Hall at 8 pm. Will Stivers currently chairs the committee as factions diverge over leadership. Edgar O'Brien urges cooperation to back Sawyer for governor with Limbach signaling potential state-level changes.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Democratic Central Committee
Will Stivers
Edgar O’brien
Central Committee
Sawyer-for-Governor Club
A. L. Limbach
Sawyer
State Committee
Francis W. Poulson
O’brien
Sawyer Camp Committee
Downington Social And Personal Mention
Social notes from Downington record church services, births, visits, and local happenings. Entries include a Aug 21 Morris reunion, family visits to Sand Ridge and Buckeye Lake, and updates on Henry Haning and Ruth Dixon. A humorous church critique and aviation statistics from July 1, 1938 are also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckeye Lake
Clarence Hudnell
Springfield
William Hudnell
Hazel Welch
Snowville
Mazie Brickles
Hattie Haning
Pomeroy
Captain Haning
Mary McGlothlin
Rutland
Albert Morris
Jack Jewell
Athens
Glenn Jewell
Redcay Divorce Suit Filed by Cora E Redcay
Cora E Redcay filed for divorce from Harvey L Redcay on Thursday. The couple married December 28 1937 for the second time after a prior marriage and divorce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Cora E. Redcay
Harvey L. Redcay
Pomeroy Social Notes Honors Son and Community News
Mrs. Dana Brown hosted a six o'clock dinner in Minersville honoring her son Russell on his birthday. Numerous locals frequent the social column report including visits, club meetings, travel to Columbus and Chicago, and honors for Miss Lucille Beards at Dayton State Council.
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Dana Brown
Minersville
Russell
H. D. Brown
Russell Brown
Elizabeth Cosgrove
Jamestown
N. Y
Louis Reibel
Marcella
Dorothy
Union Ave
Mary Baker
Huntington
Woman’s Republican Club
Mary Huber
Lizzie Aubrey
E. W. Kingsland
Amy
Columbus
Adkins
Homer Cooper
William
Gibson Cooper
Syracuse
Tampa
Fla
Cooper
Dan White
Elsie Hart
Helen Faris
East Main St
Chicago
Albert Mees
Anne St
Donald Weed
Valentino Pierotti
Lino
Buffalo
New York
A. Angelotti
West Main St
Geno Pierotti
Gallipolis
Mary Rawlings
Rutland
Dana Oliver
Rivervne
Walter Lodt
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Charles Eddy
Williams
Glouster
Second St
Juanita Bentz Ashworth
Huntington Hospital
Ashworth
Juanita Bentz
Bessie Bentz
Lincoln Hill
Charles Klein
J. W. Kelley
Athens
Pomeroy
Klein
Condor St
St. Paul
Miss Beards
Theodorus Council
Has Beens Edge Kerrs Run in Darkened Nine
The Has Beens beat Kerrs Run 21 to 9 at the end of the eighth inning, but play was halted in the ninth due to darkness as Kerrs Run had added five runs while still batting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Has Beens
Soda spill floods Sapulpa Oak Street scene
In Sapulpa Oklahoma half a truckload nearly 10 thousand bottles of soda broke as a truck side gave way on Oak street. Driver James Sawyer called it quite a mess amid broken glass and spilled liquid on the street.
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Sapulpa
Okla
Oak Street
James Sawyer
Services in Churches of Middleport
Middleport church notices outline Sunday activities across several congregations. Nazarene Sunday School led by Jasper Durst with worship by Rev. George Archibald. cottage prayer at James Taylor’s home at 7:30 pm. Rev. L O Grant returns to preach at First Baptist both morning and evening.
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Middleport
Nazarene
Jasper Durst
George Archibald
James Taylor
Broadway St
L. O. Grant
First Baptist Church
Harley Sanborn
Church of Christ
Harry Gaskill
Don McMillin
Edward Russell
Heath M. E
H. A. Rothrock
First Presbyterian Church
Middleport Social Notes Delights With Luncheon Guests
Miss Martha Jane Downing of Hot Springs Ark entertained with a Thursday luncheon for Nan Fisher Barbara Stout and Carla Clark as part of a bustling Middleport social scene. The note also lists visits from several relatives and neighbors, hometown travel, and local family comings and goings amid trips to Columbus and Pittsburgh. In a closing item the Bay Bridge period tolls report records 3 500 000 cars crossing in its first year with gross tolls totaling BA TA0 000.
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Martha Jane Downing
Hot Springs
Ark
Rodney Downing
J. B. Downing
Nan Fisher
Barbara Stout
Carla Clark
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Grain Loans May Be By Meigs Farmers
POMEROY Applications for emergency winter grain loans for 1938 are now being received at Pomeroy by Cora B. Roberts. Loans will be to farmers who cannot obtain credit from any other source, up to $400, secured by a first lien on the financed crop.
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Pomeroy
Cora B. Roberts
Farm Credit Administration
Farquharson Dies by Drowning in Porterville
The coroner records list Miss Frances May Farquharson, 47, who took her life by placing her head in a partly filled irrigation stand pipe after mounting a ladder. Investigators ruled the death as drowning. A second note mentions the Museum of the French Conservatory of Music holding the only Stradivari guitar signature.
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Porterville
Cal
Frances May Farquharson
The
French Conservatory of Music
Antonio Stradivari
Edith Kerns Moves to Mansfield Home
Miss Edith Kerns left Thursday for Mansfield to reside with Mr and Mrs Earl P Hartley. after seven years at the Children's Home she active in 4 H Club work and Epworth League at Simpson Methodist Church she appeared in a Columbus radio duet on a 4 H program she will attend Mansfield High School as an eleventh grader.
Funeral services for Robert Pullins Smith held today
Robert Pullins Smith died at White Cross Hospital Columbus and funeral rites were conducted at Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home by Rev. C. C. Bailey former pastor of First Presbyterian Church. Production of aircraft and engines in the US for the first four months totaled 35039267 dollars, about 12000000 dollars more than the same period last year.
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Middleport
Robert Pullins Smith
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Rawlings-Coats
C. C. Bailey
First Presbyterian Church
United States
Mrs. E. R. Wills Dies After Long Illness
Mrs. E. R. Wills, 76, of Chester, died Wednesday after a long illness at her home. Funeral services were held at 2 PM at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chester with Rev. Bert OConnor officiating. Burial followed in Chester Cemetery. No immediate relatives survive. Her husband, a Civil War veteran, died years ago.
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Pomeroy
E. R. Wills
Chester
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bert O'Connor
Wills
Pt Pleasant Wins 4 1 Over Bradbury Tigers
MIDDLEPORT After six innings the Ohio Valley League game between Clarence Fishers Pt Pleasant and the Bradbury Tigers was called due to darkness with Pt Pleasant winning 4 to 1. Inning by inning summary shows three runs in the second and one in the third as Pt Pleasant built its lead. Batteries Pt Pleasant Barrs and Eskew Bradbury Manley and Koehler Next Sunday Bradbury faces Hartford at Hartford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Clarence Fisher
Pt. Pleasant
Bradbury Tigers
Ohio Valley League
West Virginians
Barrs
Eskew
Bradbury
Manley
Koehler
Hartford
Revival Meetings At Dexter Church Of Christ
At 8 p m nightly revival services are held at the Dexter Church of Christ with evangelist Neil Crawford of Athens Christian Church. Song leader is Guy Glaze and Ruth Will is pianist. Rev J P Miller assists. Subject lineup includes The Greatest Promise Ever Made Aug 19 and All Hands on Deck Aug 26 among others.
4-H Work Is Judged at Calloway Ridge Club
Miss Arline Graff county home demonstration agent judged the Cheerful Helpers 4-H Club work this summer on Calloway Ridge. Guests included Mrs Lenna Lenz Mrs Edgar Burton Mrs Saunders and Miss Norma Jean Saunders at the Wednesday August 17 meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuppers Plains
Arline Graff
Calloway Ridge
Graff
Lenna Lenz
Edgar Burton
Saunders
Norma Jean Saunders
Scipio Harrisonville schools set to start September
Pomeroy district announces school openings for Sept 5 with staff lists. Superintendent Earl Knight. High school principal Harold Pickering. Teachers include Pearl Williams history, Viar Lee commerce English, Clara Murray vocational home economics, German, and Sidney Parker math geography. Pagetown grades four to six led by Grace Skinner. Alice Reeves to grades one to three. Irving Creek and Pagetown pupils under seven grade structure shifting to Pagetown due to staff.
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Pagetown
Grace Skinner
Alice Reeves
Irving Creek
Harrisonville
Rio Grande sorority to hold summer reunion
Gallia region notes that Alpha Sigma Tau of Rio Grande College will hold their summer reunion Sunday on the campus lamps area at the college.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Alpha Sigma Tau _ sorority
Rio Grande College
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Breed
Downington
Comeaut
Amboy
Department of Commerce
IL Ea
Pomeroy Social Notes
Miss Hart
D. F. Defenbacher
Wright McCroba
Lester Fauber
McCroba
Mary Goodwin
Ralph Spencer
Urbana
Elizabeth Conde
Mulberry Ave
Frank Johnson
Logan
Pomeroy Personals
Elberfelds
Middleport Social Notes
Betty Jane Nuckles
Pittsburgh
Miss Nuckles
Stewart Adams
Carl Mumford
Washington, D. C
Jessie Hundley
Billy Diles
Adams
Garen Stansbury
Tom
Bill
Ann Horden
Cecil Horden
J. T. Mitchell
Stansbury
Jane Stansbury
Horden
Duane Joan Hamilton
Charles Hamilton
Miss Stansbury
Miss Hamilton
L. D. Diles
Phyllis
Charleston
Miss Diles
Robert W. Harris
Robert
Gordon
Gene Harris
Robert Chambers
Mary Eunice Hennesy
Virginia Beach
Charles Thomas
Cincinnati
Cedric Clark
Carla
Racine Dam
Frank Eaton
Sarah Spencer
Wendell Ward
Pomeroy Bend
Ward
Beaumont
Texas
Beaumont Journal
I. F. Ward
Ripley
W. Va
C. C Washington
Washington
Paul Jones
Sprigg
Canada
A. A. Searberry
A. M. Carter
Oma Johnson
Kerri Run
Ada Allison
Child Welfare Service
Mary Laughead
Fordham College
R. B. Laughead
Paul Hoffman
Jeft
Bellefontaine
Meigs
Hold Smith
Scipio-Harrisonville
Rio Grande
Bartlett Pears
Clover Farm
Royal Ann Cherries
Baby Food
Clover Fun
Vac
Green Cup
Clover Farm Beverage
Duchess
Malaga
MRS
Onnt Orel
Shere
Foodland
Edgemont
Targe
Pke
Glendale
Colby Cheese
Sunkist
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