Poultry Day Draws Record Crowd in Meigs County
More than 1000 people from Meigs and nearby counties attended a Sunday poultry day at the Triple Star Breeding Farm near Rutland. Speakers included Prof Winters of Ohio State University and Mack McPherson of Omaha on diseases, prevention, and the World Poultry Congress. A $25 prize went to Joe Grueser for naming the farm.
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Pomeroy
Meigs
Rutland
Meigs County
Triple Star Breeding Farm
Joe Grueser
Professor Winters
Ohio State University
Cleveland
Mack McPherson
Omaha
Neb
W. O. Atkins
Atkins Chick Hatchery
Clyde Lawrence
Long Bottom
Edison Hobstetter
Pomeroy National Bank
Hobstetter
Bethlehem Bethlehem Baptist home coming at Great Bend
Annual home coming of Bethlehem Baptist Church at Great Bend to be held Sunday Sept 4. Sunday School starts at 9 30 a.m. A visiting minister will give an address. Dinner follows and a varied afternoon program. If rain dinner moves to the church. If not outdoors on the lawn.
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Letart Falls
Bethlehem Baptist Church
Great Bend
Pomeroy Social Notes Round Up of Local Outings
Social column items describe annual church picnic at Pine Grove. Residents and relatives travel for visits in Cincinnati Columbus Buckeye Lake Charleston Nelsonville Day ton and Marietta with many returning home Sunday. Several garden club and state fair attendances noted plus family visits and travels of local residents and guests.
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St. Paul
Middleport School Opening Schedules Announced
Middleport Public Schools announce opening dates for high school registration on Tuesday September 6. Seniors 10 am juniors 11 am sophomores 1 pm freshmen 2 pm in charge of Principal Lee Mc Comas. Friday September 9 faculty meetings with Superintendent Essex follow. No other teaching changes. Miss Margaret Sauer resigns to teach at Dayton.
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Middleport
W. Essex
Bradbury
Silver Run
Lee McComas
Essex
Margaret Sauer
Dayton
Miss Sauer
Ohio University
Park St
Celebration Group Plans Northwest Territory Program
Northwest Territory Celebration committee to meet at the Courthouse Wednesday night chaired by W. A. Compton. Reports from last Friday’s program committee will be heard and final plans adopted. The three day program opens Sunday Oct 9 and runs through Tuesday Oct 11 when the caravan arrives.
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Pomeroy
Northwest Territory
W. A. Compton
Boat Club to Meet With Athens Members on Houseboat
Pomeroy Boat Club members will meet Wednesday evening with several Athens residents who joined the club. Emil Bail, president, announced the gathering on the houseboat moored below the lower parking lot wall. Athens people plan to have boats on the river here.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Boat Club
Athens
Emil Bail
Ball
Pocketbook Lost By Hughes At Levee
Middleport resident Lonnie Jokey Hughes reported losing a pocketbook Sunday while swimming at the levee. The pocketbook contained $8 intended for a bicycle payment. Hughes works at the Lower Market.
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Middleport
Lonnie
Jokey) Hughes
Young Hughes
Garden Club Shows Highlight Vinton and Forest Run Events
Mrs. Garen Stansbury regional director and Mrs. James Titus attended the Vinton Garden Club flower show at the Baptist Church with judges from Pomeroy and Gallia County. Tea followed judging. Stansbury and Titus also joined the Wildwood Garden Club show in Forest Run at the Methodist Church with judges Carrie Nye Edward French and Vesta McCoy. An 83 year old grower George Baer displayed nearly perfect zinnias for the judges. Other program items included stereoptical garden views piano pieces a male quartet short talks by Rev Beuscher and Mrs Stansbury and an ice cream social.
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Middleport
Garen Stansbury
James Titus
Rutland
Vinton
Stansbury
Titus
Wildwood Garden Club
Forest Run
Methodist Church
Carrie Nye
Pomeroy
Edward French
Vesta McCoy
George Baer
Baer
John Bailey
Mildred Stanley
Frank Beuscher
Garden Club
Middleport Social Notes Farewell dinner for club members leaving for schools
The Suzy Q Club hosted a farewell dinner at the Mary Jane Coffee Shoppe for members heading to colleges this fall. Attendees include Dorothy Sauer Olivia Reed Marjorie Brown Frances Pullin Josephine Emmish Cora Dell Seines Melissa Hennesy and Mary Eunice Hennesy.
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Middleport
Mary Jane
Suzy Q. Club
Dorothy Sauer
Olivia Reed
Marjorie Brown
Frances Pullin
Josephine Emmish
Cora Dell Seines
Melissa
Mary Eunice Hennesy
Gallipolis
Miss Reed
Foster Reed
Charles Reed
Betty Reed
Columbus
Olivia
Ohio State University
Charles
North High School
Reed
Jean Reed
Mt. Carmel Hospital
New York Central
James Carruthers
Bradbury Triumphs 10-9 In Thrilling Ohio Valley League Game
Bradbury edged Gallipolis 10 to 9 at Pythian Park in a seesaw Ohio Valley League clash. Fred Crow hit two home runs and James Russell homered in the ninth to spark a dramatic rally, as Bradbury overcame a late Gallipolis surge to win.
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Middleport
Pythian Park
Bradbury
Gallipolis
Ohio Valley League Baseball League
Fred Crow
James Russell
Tigers
Russell
Hom Batteries
Allen
White
Brothers
Marrow
Pullins
Story
Nesselroad
Detroit Tigers
Bradbury Tigers
Gene Wyatt
Hartford
Colwell Vance Families Reunion at Vinton
The annual Colwell Vance gathering and friends will meet in Vinton at Glenn's Grove on September 4. An old fashioned visit and basket dinner will highlight the program.
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Vinton Middleport
Colwell-Vance
Vinton
Glenn's Grove
Old Records Unearth Pomeroy Directory Details
Old records reveal a 1874 Pomeroy directory with family names Ohlinger Davis Ebersbach Stivers Vaughan and others. It notes occupations now forgotten such as wharfmaster bootmaker peddler and cooper, maps of Naylor's Run, a George Lee mayor and H C Smith postmaster, and nine cemeteries alongside thirteen churches with pastors and six with irregular ministers.
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Pomeroy
NYA
Ohlinger
Davis
Ebersbach
Stivers
Vaughan
Naylor
Minersville
Parr
Jones
Scharf
Bee
Last
Phelps
Heckard
Annie
Elben
Frank Varian fined in Pomeroy mayor court for intoxication
WPA worker Frank Varian of Leading Creek was arrested Saturday night by Deputy Marshal Charles Werry in Pomeroy. He pleaded guilty, paid a $10 fine plus costs, and was released.
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Pomeroy
Frank Varian
WPA
Leading Creek
Charles Werry
Varian
Social Notes Of Glouster And Surroundings
Social notes from Glouster Ohio recount Miss Sabra Armstrong and Mrs. Sarah Willis driving to Elyria then to New York with two other teachers, joined by Lew Gatchel. Reunions and visits unfold in Columbus Athens Adamsville Hollister and Zanesville with numerous family and friends.
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Sabra Armstrong
Sarah Willis
Elyria
New York
Lew Gatchel
Glouster
Mrs Faye Jauch Injures Foot In Fall
Mrs Faye Jauch suffered a fracture to a left foot after a fall on Thursday while returning from her brother in law Herman Jauchius home. The foot was cast and her daughter Verl Cherem of Chicago arrived Sunday to help care for her.
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Glouster
Faye Jauchius
Herman Jauchius
Verl Cherem
Chicago
Beech Grove Church Holds 30th Annual Homecoming
GLOUSTER The Beech Grove Church marked its 30th annual homecoming on Sunday August 28 with about 150 attendees. Morning services were followed by a basket dinner, then an afternoon program featuring Mary Williams Rev Tate Millertown Church choir George S Marshall former Columbus mayor and others with readings duets and talks noted Mr Williams has sponsored and attended all homecomings.
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Glouster
Beech Grove
Mary Williams
Tate
Rockbridge
Millertown
George S. Marshall
Columbus
Mary
Arnold Williams
Hospital transfers and recent surgery updates
Herbert Free man of Greens Run was taken to White Cross Hospital today in the John S Blower ambulance for observation. Mrs Isaac Sayfreed returned to her Jacksonville home from White Cross Hospital Columbus after a surgical operation two weeks ago, transported again by the Blower ambulance.
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Glouster
Herbert Freeman
Greens Run
White Cross Hospital
John S. Blower
Isaac Sayfreed
Jacksonville
Columbus
Blower
End Visit in Meigs County With Relatives
Mr and Mrs Carl Hoffman with their son Herman and two sons Wesley Emmerson and Donald Philip all of Chicago left Meigs County after a ten day visit with Mrs Mary Cook and H E Cook. The Hoffmans discussed work at Layne Technical High School and Finger High School and his coauthored book Safe Driving. A farewell family dinner was held Sunday at the Mary Jane Coffee Shoppe.
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Middleport
Carl Hoffman
Herman Hoffman
Wesley Emmerson
Donald Philip
Chicago
Hoffman
Finger High School
Rotary Club
Hoffmans
Mary Jane
Aged Widow Dies at Home in Hunterdon
GLOUSTER Mrs Almeda Hillard age 71 died Saturday night at the home of her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Leo Bennett of Hunterdon after a year long illness Her husband died in 1928 She is survived by four daughters Mrs Mary Frazier Mrs Emily Dobbins Mrs Eddy Wolport of Zanesville and one brother Joseph Wiseman Detroit Funeral services will be at Holy Cross Catholic Church Tuesday 9 am Father A V Kessler officiating Burial in Duncan Falls Cemetery
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Ralph Anderson
Detroit
Anderson
Katherine Anderson
N. Third Ave
Juanita Henry
Athens
Columbus
Minerva Matthews
St. Paul
Gallipolis
Charles Bradbury
John Harley
George Lee Beards
Charles Gordon
Mary June Roush
Dorothy Darst
Lenora Bingham
Betty Hoeflick
Joe Clark
Paul Davis
Robert Darst
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Reds
E. O. Smith
Lee
Lawrence Milhoan
Margaret Belle
Rutland
Milhoan
Miss Higley
Frank Lewis Knopp
Cleveland
Nathaniel Harmon
Beulah Lee Smith
Charles Walburn
Dwight Frost
Pearl Graves
Huntington
Nelle Lyman
Iowa
John K. Smith
S. Fifth Ave
L. L. Carney
E. R. Smith
Gravel Hill
Jean Welte
Rochester
Minn
Robert Welte
R. N. Barnes
S. Third Ave
Myrtle Thatcher
John Lambert
Dickerson
M. A. White
Lotty
Russell Shirk
Clark County
A. V. Kessler
Duncan Falls Cemetery
Funeral attendees listed from Joe Mason's service
relatives and friends from multiple towns attended Joe Mason's funeral on Sunday afternoon. The list includes Mrs. Roy Grove Norman Brown Amos Ayles and others from Nelsonville Fostoria New Philadelphia Shadyside Newark Pomeroy Lancaster Jacksonville and more. Also announced is the birth of Robert Frank Gardner born August 24 in Washington D C with grandfather Mr. Harry Gardner noted.
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New Philadelphia
Joe Horner
Bob MccMullin
Kenneth Hudson
Francis Horner
Shadyside
Albert Mason
Newark
Flossy Beal
Pomeroy
Ben Mason
Lancaster
Wayne Wiley and Son
McCluney
Fred Burdiss
Donald Cooper
Jacksonville
Songlouster
Frank Gardner
Washington D. C
Robert Frank
Harry Gardner
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