Four Education Posts Open in Vinton County Schools
McArthur and Zaleski schools seek new staff as several resignations create vacancies. Agriculture and vocational posts at McArthur, plus a high school teaching role for Eleanor Arnett Lowery replacement, await candidates. Scholarships worth 500 yearly for two years require applications by Saturday morning.
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McArthur School
Eleanor Arnett Lowery
Marguerite Bigony
Mary L. Palmer
Ohio
Health Board Seeks Levy To Fight TB
Vinton County Commissioners and Health leaders seek a 65 hundred dollar levy to fund care and maintenance of tubercular patients. TB costs rise due to mass X ray findings and hospitalization of new cases. officials emphasize linked health program and tuberculosis control.
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Health Board
McArthur
Vinton County
Board of Elections
Funeral Services Held For Howard Harris
Funeral services conducted by Rev. Francis Graham were held Saturday at Heistand Funeral Home for Howard L Harris who died in a truck collision Thursday. Burial followed in Ridgeway Cemetery Wellston. He is survived by his mother two sisters Dorothy at home and Helen Null of Ashtabula, four brothers Walter and James of Ashtabula Fred Cheshire and William at home.
Pearl Clements Rites Held at McArthur
Pearl Clements died at his home in McArthur Friday morning after years of declining health. Born July 22, 1868 in Vinton County, he lived his life in McArthur as a farmer. Survived by his wife Anna Wescoat, funeral services were conducted by Rev. J H Sudlow and burial followed at Elk Cemetery.
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Mcarthur
Pearl Clements
Mr. Clements
Vinton County
Hannah Arnold
Jacob Clements
Anna Wescoat
J H. Sudlow
Elk Cemetery
Wrightsel Reunion Members Elect 1954 Officers
About 50 attended the Wrightsel Reunion on the McArthur school grounds. Officers chosen for 1954 were Earl J. Wrightsel of Lancaster as president, Mrs. Bertha Dunkle of Columbus as treasurer, and Mrs. E. L. Sprague of McArthur as secretary.
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Alice Wrightsel
John Keller Logan
E. J. Wrightsel
Lancaster
Cash Thompson
Dundas
R. L. Repp
Lantz
Goshen
Ind
J. A. Wrightsel
Newark
Thomas Swain
Roma Kay
Gerri
Larry
P. E. Wrightsel
Douglas
Paulette
E. W. Sprague
Cynthia
G. Wrightsel
E. I. Sprague
G. C. Frye
Tamara
Roxanne
Christine
C. R. Wrightsel
Connie
Alden Wenham
Susie
McArthur
Births Reported from McArthur Area
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Pittinger Wellston on August 12. In Chamberlain Clinic Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Barney Allensville welcomed a daughter born August 18. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Long Wellston on August 14 at the Bullock Clinic.
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Thomas Long
Wellston
Bullock Clinic
Six Weekend Crashes Probe Near McArthur and Vicinity
State Highway and sheriff's office investigated six weekend crashes. One Route 75 collision killed Howard Harris and seriously injured Charles Waldron. A separate Route 50 incident at Jar vis Grill involved George Border and Sgt. J F Vesely. No major injuries reported in other crashes near Wellston and Walton Kentucky.
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Jarvis Grill
George Border
Chillicothe
J. F. Vesely
Fort Knox
Ruth E. McKinnis
Ewington
Rena Mae Morton
Wellston
Morton
Inves
Murphy Acts as Mayor in McArthur Amid Resignation
Leland E. Murphy, McArthur merchant and veteran councilman, serves as acting mayor after Clarence Ziegler resigns to join Austin Powder's sales department. With no party candidate filed for November, the mayoral ballot will be blank and write-ins are required. Murphy will serve until Ziegler's successor is elected and qualified.
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McArthur
Leland E. Murphy
Clarence Ziegler
Ziegler
Austin Powder Co
Murphy
Homecoming on Sept 6 prompts crash near Wesley Chapel bridge
On wet pavement a car skidded and hit the west abutment of the Wesley Chapel homecoming bridge during the Sept 6 events. Passenger Harriett was shaken up. Orland from Pumpkin Ridge was an occupant. Conner Noland serves as president.
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Wesley Chapel
Wilma Jean Lucas
Lucas
Orland
Pumpkin Ridge
Harriett
Conner Noland
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Wilton
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Ady
Howard Harris
Undershirts Choice
Sale! Big Boys
Oxfords
A. C. Gorsuch
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Pearl and High
May Gutridge
Myrtle Ashcraft
D. E. Marquis
Margaret McHarg
Charles Wood
Nellie Earich
Sylvia Wallace
Harry Atkins
Margaret Frost
Lizzie Canter
Minnie Maxwell
Thomas Rosser
Norman Engh
Ray Smith
Ida Wise
Marcus Davis
Hamden
Harold Koerber
Davis
Koerber
Brown
Route 75
Robert Lucas
Columbus
Sears
Durasite Agitator
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Logan, Ohio
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