Token tax paid hints Willard tract may sell
A $750 token tax payment by Charles Jones, administrator of the Willard estate, signals possible sale talks for the Willard coal lands in eastern Meigs County. Taxes, interest, and penalties total about $47,000, with penalties to be dropped if paid in full. Pennsylvania Drilling Co conducts guarded core drilling around the tract as surveying continues.
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Pomeroy
Willard
Meigs County
Charles Jones
Jackson
Pennsylvania Drilling Company
Nature
Dean
Doan
Tracy Machine Being Studied By Governments And Industry
James E. Tracy of Pomeroy develops a coal cutting machine praised by U S and British governments. Davis and Tracy hosted a Washington mining engineer for two days to review the device to boost coal output and miner safety. Engineers from a major U S coal company found the Tracy machine superior to leading models, and the United Mine Workers Journal notes its directionality, light weight under a ton, and use in tight five foot face mines.
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James E. Tracy
Charles F. Davis
Middleport
Pomeroy
U. S
Mr. Tracy
Washington
Davis
Tracy
United Nations
United States
United Mine Workers Journal
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Legion and Church Events
Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion meets at the Legion Hall with plans for August dinners and a $5 donation to the Boy Scouts. A play Swing Out for Victory is set for Oct 28–29 at Pomeroy Junior High School auditorium. Other items include nominating committee names and a potluck lunch post meeting. Thirty five attendees at Simpson Methodist Church picnic and meeting hear talks on aiding the minister and church. Employees of Ben Franklin Store hold a roasted dinner at Middleport road side park. Local social notes report transfers and visits, plus a Navy update on Homer Hysell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Ruth ‘Thornton
Margaret Holmes
Zana Withrow
Indiana
Margaret Lallance
Mayme Holmes
Elizabeth Young
A. V. Howell
Josephine Crow
Amy Chase
Helen Elberfeld
Katie Elberfeld
Helen Nease
Women's Society of Christian Service
Simpson Methodist Church
C. E. W. Downie
Lincoln Hill
George Parker
Howard Ebersbach
Nobel Rompel
Marriage of Ruth Scines and Roy Roush informs Middleport area
Miss Ruth Scines daughter of Mr and Mrs John Scines of S Second Ave and Roy R Roush son of Mr and Mrs Melvin Roush of Pomeroy were married Saturday Aug 22 at the home of Rev Scott Westerman Grace Methodist Church Gallipolis. Attendants included Elizabeth Swindler Jack Martin Ethel Clark and Don Stivers. The bride trained at Middleport High School and a Bat tle Creek beauty school graduate will take state exams in Michigan next week. Roush a W W O W tool clerk at Pt Pleasant is a Pomeroy High School alum and they will reside in Pomeroy.
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Middleport
Ruth Scines
John Scines
S. Second Ave
Roy R. Roush
Melvin Roush
Pomeroy
Scott Westerman
Grace Methodist Church
Gallipolis
Elizabeth Swindler
Jack Martin
Ethel Clark
Service Men Record To Be Compiled
A county committee will gather names of all county service members from 43 precincts. The program, led by A V Howell as county chairman of the Ohio War History Commission, seeks parents, birth dates, current addresses, photographs, and letters for each serviceman for a permanent postwar record at the Ohio State Museum.
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Pomeroy
United States
A. V. Howell
Howell
John W. Bricker
Ohio War History Commission
Ohio State Museum
Canners Must Make Application Tonight
This evening is the last time canning sugar seekers can register at the local rationing board at the high school. After this date requests go to the County Rationing Board in Pomeroy. Registration runs 6 to 10 p m with ration books required. Last week many could not be classified for missing books.
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Middleport
Pomeroy
Middleport Music Service Led by Snyder Family
Rev Charles Snyder of Ravenna and his family will lead musical services at Pearl Street Nazarene Church in Middleport next Sunday. The pastor Rev Fick directs the service and Snyder will preach.
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Middleport
Charles Snyder
Ravenna
Pearl Street Nazarene Church
Fick
Snyder
New Restaurants Prepare to Open in Pomeroy
Two new dining spots are readied on Main Street in Pomeroy. The Pearl Spencer duo will run the former Purity Dairy Shop space, while Bert House rents the corner room for the Purity Restaurant, aiming to open by next Wednesday. House previously ran a Parkersburg restaurant.
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Pomeroy
Main St
Purity Dairy Shop
Pearl Spencer
Purity Dairy
Bert House
Cheshire
Sycamore
Pickens
Purity
House
Parkersburg
Meigs County Boys Win State Prize for Jersey Bull
Herman Jr. and Alan Carson of Sutton Township won a registered Jersey bull from Ohio State University and the American Jersey Cattle Club. They plan to raise registered Jerseys as their 4 H agricultural project and will buy registered heifers for that purpose.
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Herman Jr
Alan Carson
Herman Carson
Sutton Township
Ohio State University
American Jersey Cattle Club
Ill of spotted fever in Columbus hospital
Miss Josephine Curtis of Middleport is ill in Columbus Hospital with spotted fever after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs John Curtis and her brother in Akron. She is believed bitten by a tick on returning home and is reported improving.
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Pomeroy
Homer Hysell
U. S. Navy
Great Lakes, Ill
Detroit
Pearl Hysell
Middleport
Josephine Curtis
John Curtis
Columbus
Miss Curtis
Akron
Burlingham Church Set for Annual Home-Coming
Burlingham Church will host its annual home-coming next Sunday August 30 with a full day of activities. Sunday school begins at 10 am followed by a community dinner at noon. The afternoon features music speaking and entertainment by children starting at 1:30 pm.
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Pomeroy
Burlingham
Reichman Attends Red Cross Aquatic School in North Carolina
Calvin Reichman of McMaster Hardware and Furniture is spending his vacation at the National Aquatic School in Bruvard North Carolina. The Red Cross life saving and first aid training school is accredited and Reichman has completed several local courses as prep.
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Middleport
Calvin
Brumfield Wins Judgment Over County on School Transport Costs
Gallia County resident Vance Brumfield secured a court ruling against the board of county commissioners awarding him costs for transporting his child to school.
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Board of County Commissioners
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Hysel Contasy
D. S. Farmer
Mgr
June Prestor Voile
Hite
Pomeroy Social Notes
Downie
Ben Franklin
Pauline Cardwell
Virginia Baer
Alice Schaeffer
Agnes Sutton
Dorothy Curtis
William Morris
Max Quickel
Lloyd Wolfe
Chet Shuler
Herbert Dixon
Orville Brown
Alvin Norris
Eugene, W. Main Sr
Zanesville
Edward Wagoner
Mr. Norris
Albert Swatzel
St. Joseph Hospital
Clifton Stout
John Stout
Athens
Homer Cooper
Baltimore
William Cooper
Tampa
Fla
Dan White
Dan White, Second St
Ernest Bigley
Charleston
Harry Ohlinger
Pomeroy and Middleport
Middleport Social Notes
Park
Church of Christ
A. E. Erwin
Ft. McClelland
Ala
Dexter Erwin
Alabama
Erwin
Dave Aleshire
Marie
the Plains
Fink
Mabell Hysell
Aleshire
McBee Bindery
Tom Anderson
Burford
Pennsboro
W. Va
Jane Sauer
Mary Lou French
Alice
Glen Ridge
N. J
Arthur
S. Third Ave
Shirley Mills
Locust St
Wanda Koehler
Betty Koehler
Crooksville
Lewis Koehler, Jr
Charles Sauer
Canton
American Legion Auxiliary
H. L. Ward
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Herbert Chambers
Margaret Cunningham
Foreign Service
Station Hospital
Baer Field
Ind
L. L. Cunningham Gravel Hill
MHS
Camden-Clark Hospital
Elizabeth Rathburn
Willis Hill
Holzer Hospital
Louis Reibel
Yellow Freestone
del Haven
Charmin
P&g
Ivory
Will Vegdabl
California
Sunkist
Nationalitz
Sunkist Lemons
Lyictory Veireo Wares
Nabisco Bran
Donald Duck
Libby
Dolly Madiso
Oxydol
Viimco Complete
Duz
Icuit CO
BY Felber
Ige
Leadway
Cello
Weiners
Margarine Durkee
Burlingham Church
Vance Brumfield
Rathburns
Rutland, O
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