Ohio State Liquor Store Moves to Pomeroy
Pomeroy changes include moving the State Liquor Store from E Main Street to Mulberry Avenue before Nov 1 to escape flood risk. The Democrat Printing Co will switch to The News Sentinel after ownership changes. A new shoe store run by Marguerite Meyer opens on Main Street as shelving and stock arrive.
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Pomeroy
E. Main St
Mulberry Ave
John Will
Paul Clifford
Mechanic St
Democrat Printing Co
The
Democrat
News Sentinel
R. M. Cheseldine
Tribune Telegraph
Dorothy Kuntz Lowe
Pomeroy Social News
Frances Klein
Middleport News
Fred Daniels
Red Lisle
Marguerite Meyer
Main St
Sanitary Grocery
Miss Frances Bowen First Meigs County Nurse Enlists
Miss Frances Bowen daughter of Mr and Mrs Eben Bowen Chestnut Sr becomes Meigs County s first nurse to leave for active service in the United States Army She served as assistant supervisor at General Hospital Charleston and is now stationed at Fort Bragg North Carolina She reports a busy life and the great need for nurses with field duty planned in October plus local remodeling notes and a service station reopening details
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Middleport
Frances Bowen
Eben Bowen
Chestnut
Meigs County
United States Army
Bowen
General Hospital
Charleston
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Chief Breaks Eggs In Ride After Auto Crash
Police Chief Walter Wolfe and Mrs. Bonnie Williams rode to Town Hall after an E Main St crash. A blood reference was from a sack of twelve eggs seven broken as the chief sat on it. In Middleport s Cecil Loudermilk of Springfield won a local radio contest Flowers for Your Neighbor following the death of her step father Edward P Roush.
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Pomeroy
Walter Wolfe
Bonnie Williams
E. Main St
Simpson Methodist Church Home Coming and Organ Dedication
Simpson Methodist Church plans a September 14 home coming with organ dedication. The program includes 9:15 Sunday School, 10:15 church service with Rev. F O Weed as guest speaker, 12:30 dinner, 2:00 address by District Superintendent A J Kestle, organ dedication by Rev Noble Rumpel, 4–5 musical program, 5:30 supper, and 7 pm informal song service with former residents speaking briefly.
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Pomeroy
Simpson Methodist Church
F. O. Weed
Wheelersburg
Simpson Church
A. J. Kestle
Cincinnati
Noble Rumpel
Pomeroy Social Notes and Local Gatherings
Pomeroy notes report the Heaton reunion at Walls Grove in Flatwoods on Aug 31 and Racine relatives planning a Bentz family reunion in Columbus on Aug 24. Also featured are a 75th birthday handkerchief shower for Mrs. Josephine Pickens, a long list of attendees, and a wedding at Racine Methodist Church between Phyllis Bailey and John Otis Bailey with family present. Eskimo population estimated at about 30,000 worldwide.
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Pomeroy— Heaton
Walls Grove
Flatwoods
Racine
Will Bentz
Columbus
Bentz
Ray Wilson
Eddie Whitmer
Josephine Pickens
Reedsville
WSCS
Grover C. Shaffer
Kenneth
Dwight
Akron
Patience Russell
Ruth Moore
Kay
Ode Massar
Harold Massar
Frankie Pickens
Wanda
Naomi
George
Charles
Alfred Rudolph
A. D. Arnott
Olive Randolph
KB. D. Randolph
Clyde Pickens
Josephine
Harry Pickens
Fay
Gladys
Maxine
Grace
Helen Coleman
C. A. Barnett
Doris
L. B. Sisson
Marvin Petty
Fred Shumway
Eunice Sprague
Ira Boring
C. V. Buckley
Ethel Packard
Fannie Lease
Ella Petty
Phyllis Maxine Bailey
Letart Falls
John Otis Bailey
Kingsbury
Racine Methodist Church
Walter R. McCerney
Carmen Bailey
Albert Silvia
Jackie
Airplane Marker Signs Planned in Meigs County
Meigs County towns move to install airplane marker signs per state rules after notification. Middleport delays due to roof size and material issues. Pomeroy plans proceed with location yet to be chosen while Syracuse Rutland and Racine have not decided.
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Meigs
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Middleport
Syracuse
Rutland
Racine
Old Pine Camp Meeting at Lower Market Lot
A camp meeting on the vacant lot behind Lower Market on Beech Street runs with nightly evangelistic services. The event theme is America Back to God.
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Middleport
Beech St
Old Pine
America
Meigs County Grange Notes
Columbia Grange visited Hemlock Grange for a literary program featuring Dorothy Morrison Floyd Cummings Eddie Lou Howery and others. Next Columbia meeting moved to Aug 29 for inspection by H E Starkey. Columbia visitation to Racine Grange rescheduled to Sept 10. Star and Laurel Granges hosted a wedding shower for Mr and Mrs Walter Canode at Star.
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Columbia Grange
H. E. Starkey
Columbia
Racine Grange
Star
Laurel Granges
Walter ‘Canode
Vesta Nelson
Grange Hall
Canode
State Hospital
Toledo
Polly Parrot Leaves Racine Home Prompting Missing Bird Appeal
Polly the pet parrot of Mr and Mrs Charles McNickles disappeared after a Saturday night outing around Fourth Street and Elm Street in Racine. The family asks anyone who hears a voice in a tree to report the bird missing since it lived with them ten years.
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Racine
Charles McNickles
Polly
McNickles
Fourth St
Fourth
Elm Sts
POMEROY DOCTOR NAMED TO STATE FARM SECURITY ADVISORY
Dr. George Lasher of Meigs County was notified Wednesday of his appointment to the state advisory committee on farm security. The selection marks a high honor for the local physician and public servant.
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Pomeroy
George Lasher
Meigs County
Archimedes Exults After Solving Great Problem
Archimedes of Sicily leaped from a bath and ran into the street crying Eureka as he announced a major mathematical breakthrough. The famous mathematician’s discovery brought him great elation and public celebration.
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Archimedes
Sicily
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Athens
Oht
Ohio State Liquor Store
Main and
Court Sts
Sinclair
W. Main St
Fidelity Co
Fidelity
Syracuse, Ohio
Arrow
the Friendly Men's Store
Pomeroy, Ohio
Pomeroy Social Notes
Gilbert Mees
Stark House
Sycamore St
Breezy Heights
Sam Strauss
Strauss
Charles Reuter
Gallipolis
Pomeroy-Chester Road
Reuter
Lida Riebel
Helen Zeiher
Billy
Florida
Carl Dunn
Huntington
Dunn
Crooksville
Norman Klees
J. T. McClain
Lancaster
Harold Brabbin
Dunbar
W. Va
C. E. W. Downie
Lincoln Hill
Nelsonville
C. E. Blakeslee
James Spencer
Riley Pigott
W. O. Atkins
Wallace Damewood
H. A. Hensley
Hobart Shields
Bernice Blakeslee
Owosso
Mich
A. H. Blakeslee
Kathleen Ann
St. Johns
H. J. Hysell Furniture Company
D. S. Farmer, Prop
Rathburn
Rutland, Ohio
Walkers
Hires Extract
Quaker Sparkies i
del Haven
Welch Tomato Juice
Leadway
Libby
National Wheaties
Wheaties
Sati
Dolly Madison
Sweet Pickles
National Biscuit Cos
Nabisco Sugar Honey Maid
Grahams
Weiners
Bologna
Ict
Honey Grahams
Felber
Calif
Val
Sunkist
Kraft Mayonnaise
Caldwell Creamery
Durkee
Ctores
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