A Look at Ourselves Viewed by Sociologist
Dr. Albert Orcutt of Ohio State spoke to Meigs County residents on health problems and economic outmigration since 1940. He warned of an aging population, inadequate physicians, and the need for a new hospital while advocating health education and disease prevention. a local health official backed the points and outlined planned activities and committees for follow up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asd
Albert Orcutt
Ohio State University
Meigs County
Cut
Makin
West Virginia
Ohio
Orcutt
H. M. Boocks
Health Department
C. C. Patterson
Ron Springer
Boocks
Edmund Buthmas
Arthur Strauss
Pat Thornton
Charles Goeffein
Geneva H. Nolan
Virgil Atkins
Pauline Johnson
Dorothy Smith
Harriet Niegier
Racine
Ruby Halliday
Harrison
Morgan
Rock
Edna Lee
Red N Moore
Middleport
Ada Haskins
Hemlock Grove
Pauline
Halliday
Salem Center
Maxine Goeglein
Chester
Pomeroy
C.F. Blakeslee
Nellie Vale
Wallace Bradford
Bernard , Fultz
Barbara Stout
Paul Theis
Glenn Lee
Maxine Miller
Bernice Ledlie
Elizabeth Smith
Satterfield
First Baptist’ Church
Canton
Ohio Baptist Convention
First Baptist Church
Charles Pomeroy
Pomeroy Society installs 1957 Eastern Star officers at Masonie Temple
Florence Tracy Pomeroy was installed worthy matron for 1957 with Daniel Goeglein patron and Marie Curd among officers and guests from Athens Belpre Point Pleasant Racine Middleport Harrisonville Gallipolis. Nellie Brown presided with Theo Smith as patron during a Christmas themed ceremony. Guests included Dr. Satterfield and others. refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Florence Tracy
Order of the Eastern Star
Daniel Goeglein
Marie Curd
Nellie Brow
Marlene Moore
Shal
Clara ‘Thomas
Marie Woodgeard
Mary
Brown
Ruth
Ruth Thompkins
Esther
Margorie Crow
Martha
Jane Abbott
Electa
Virginia
Theo Smith
Mason Ie Temple
Fayer
Everett Tracy
Sentinel
Athens
Belpre
Point Pleasant
WN. Va
Racine
Middleport
Harrisonville
Gallipolis
Margaret Blaetmar
Geraldine Young
Squad Meets Emergencies at Hobson Bridge Route 7
Middleport fire emergency squad responds to two incidents Thursday afternoon. At 3 18 p m they transported James Hawley to Meigs General Hospital in Hobson then investigated an auto crash at Hobson bridge. State Highway Patrol later joined an incident north of Kgger Creek Plant on Route 7. Traffic was directed until patrol arrival. Free service lasted about two and a half hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iddleport
Middleport
Hobson
James’ Hawley
Meigs General Hospital
Hawley
Hobson Bridge
State Highway Patrol
Kgger Creek
Woman's Music Club
Chureh
Pearl Harbor
United States
Hamilton's
Yellow Jacket Club
U.S. Navy
William Outerbridge
Ward
Outerbridge
Mid- Airport
British Outerbridge
Jessie W Ward Outerbridge
Legion Plans Initiation Dinner At Legion Hall
Feeney Bennett Post American Legion members and prospects will eat fried chicken tonight at 7:30. Commander Roscoe Fife said initiation of new members will follow at the Legion Hall on Fourth Avenue.
Middleport Social Notes Christmas Party Preparations
Decorations by Mrs. O. J. Roush and Mrs. Edward French for the Loyal Women's class Christmas Party at Church of 1st. The social room will feature tarle ton trees and small glitter pine cone trees made by Theo Neutzling. Card shower planned for Viola Jones who turns 81 Sunday. she is ill at Hillcrest Rest Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallance
0. J. Roush
Edward French
Church of 1St
Loyal Women’s Class
Tarleton
Theo Neutzling
Middleport
Viola Jones
Jones
Republican Women's Club
Hillcrest Rest Home
Athens Route 5
Malcolm Roller
Jed Webster
Stained Glass Windows Now Half Century Old
A Heath Methodist Church set of three stained glass windows plus smaller panes, bought fifty years ago for 2500 dollars, now insured at 10000 dollars though replacement cost is questioned. Windows honor F B Murphys and James Williams memory, with a Morton gift to the church. The donor group includes Mrs Crary Davis and Clarissa Morton, highlighting the windows' beauty in the sanctuary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riddleport
Heath Methodist
Murphy, Williams and Morton
F. B. Murphys
James
Clarissa Douglas Morton
Crary Davis
The World Turned Upside Down On a Quiet Sunday Afternoon
Francis H. Kacey recalls a Sunday fifteen years ago when families gathered after dinner to hear a Pearl Harbor attack bulletin amid snowy squalls. The broadcast cut through static as news shocked the nation and local listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis H. Kacey
Middleport
Pearl Harbor
Middleport Church News and Pearl Harbor Reflections
Sunday church schedules across Middleport include First Baptist Mt Moriah and several others with varied worship times and youth groups. The article recounts December 7 1941 Pearl Harbor Day through Middleport residents Lt William Outerbridge Wick Wyatt and Babe Wolfe and notes families facing wartime concerns and personal histories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clase Mont E. Hoyt
Toesney
Mt. Moriah
Farm Talks Planned by South Ton District Staff
Farm talks are planned for the South ton Local School District. Howard Nolan, Racine High School teacher, outlined meeting dates and topics including farm accounting lean hogs milk program and marketing. Attendees at the last session included Otis Knopp Earl Cross Raymond Ervin and several others with Nolan and Glenn Wright as instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jumeaux
Southton
Wen
Howard Nolan
Racine
Loag
Otis Knopp
Earl Cross
Raymond Ervin
Joe Thoren
Dan Smith
Ray Medkiff
Carl Morris
Mayford Harris
Delbert Smith
Gerald Powel
Charles Theiss
Gene Yost
Property transfers and affidavits in Pomeroy and area
Meigs County transfers list numerous deeds and affidavits including parcels in Pomeroy Syracuse and Olive. Names include Swatzel Lambert Grueser Hatton Harvey Morgan and others with several legatees and beneficiaries. Additional Pomeroy news referenced on page 1.
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Asses Karwar
Cumsce Ay Dames J
Sally
Ruth
Anna Priode
Russell
Neta
Jane Brown
Mildred
Harold Oren Long
Leona
Robert Doman
Charles E
Leah Jane Swatzel
Lot
Pomeroy
Minnie A. Schott
Marie S. Hatton
Bess Harvey
Charlotte S. Morgan
Syracuse
Joseph Lambert
Lydia Lambert
Sadie M. Kramer
Mary E. Little
Gaynell Clark
Della Marie van Cleve
Roy M
Percy R. Lambert
Salem
William
Ma Joseph Grueser
Fred W
Gene E. Wheaton
Standard Oil Co
Tuppers Plains
William A
Hazel MeKel
Floyd H. Ross
Lebanon
Thomas R. Justice
Frances J. Hewetson
T. A. Hewetson
Albert
Harold
Walter
John Werry
Olive
Amateur Gardeners Club Christmas Party in Middleport
Mrs. Guy Reynolds hosted the Amateur Gardeners Club Christmas party at her South Fourth Avenue home. Members and guests enjoyed decorated rooms, painted magnolia leaf arrangements, carol singing, devotionals, corsages, and a display of member arrangements. The traveling prize went to Mrs. Reibel. gifts were exchanged and refreshments served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike McKenzie
Merlin Russell
Jennie Thomas
Dale Smith
Frank Burson
Darst
Amanda Kaspar
Lucille B. Hawkins
Rollin’ Beards
Ebersbach
Middleport
Jane Myers
Ray "Seidenable
Lawrence Laning
Thelma and
Lena Grueser
Delbert Eiselstein
Terry Grueser
William Fisher
Oland Goodwin
Elna Jesse
Joseph Beegle
Bernice Ann Durst
Guy Reynolds
Amateur Gardeners Club
S. Fourth Ave
Robert Coats
J. E. Reynolds
Robert Reibel
Carol Singers
Arthur Skinner
E. S. Schaaf
E. M. Blake
Paul Davis
Ben Philson
Robert Rawlings
Don Tullis
Forrest Bachtel
P. Klein
James Titus, Jr
Titus
Reibel
Skinner
Walter Crooks
Charles Bradbury
Val E. Reynod
Gallipolis
Auto Crash Damages Fender in City Emergency Run
A minor traffic accident at Sycamore and Main Damages 35 to a Reinhart car and 25 to a City Police Cruiser during an emergency run by City Patrolman John McKenzie. The collision happened about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday as the patrol car activated siren and blinker while eastbound on Main Street.
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East Main
Syea
McKenzie
Hoyt Attends Baptist Camp Directors Meeting
The Rev Jaremont E Hoyt longtime dean of Baptist South Camp attended the Ohio Baptist Camp administrators meeting in Granville. Camp directors deans and faculty for next summer's six camps were chosen at Lake Erie Granville and Tar Hollow. The Ohio Baptist Association approved two extra sites in northeast and southeast Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jaremont E. Hoyt
Four Ears
Baptist South Camp
Granville
Ohio Baptist Camp
Lake Erie
Tar Hollow
Hoyt
Ohio Baptist Association
Ohio
Cemetery Budget Studied by Trustees
Middleport cemetery trustees met last night with Mayor C. Fisher and secretary Jean Lama to review the coming year’s budget. Fisher noted about $1000 has been received from lot owners for care. Riverview Cemetery parking area work has begun by the street crew led by Lewis Ellis. Also present were sexton John Berry and trustees H. M. Cross HH N. Swift CM Henmesy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport—Cemetery
C. Fisher
Jean Lama
Fisher
Riverview Cemetery
Lewis Ellis
John Berry
Sexton
H.M. Cross
N. Swift
CM. Henmesy
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Homerion Council
Pomeroy Society
San Juan
Georgia
Tennessee
St Joseph’ Aspirin
Liberty Theatre
Leo Gorcey
The
Bowery Boys
Dalton Woman
Tom Neal
Jack Holt
Lash LaRue
Fuzzy St.John
Nelsonville
Bea
Middleport Social Notes
Middleport Church News
R. C. Konkright
Church of the Nazarene
Rob
Lert Styers
First Presbyterian
Howard E. Ruppelt
Westminster Fellowship
Syracuse Presbyterian
Ruppelt
Church of Christ In Christian, Union
Guy Sayre
Church of Christ
Fred J. Gardner
Carrie Hall
M. L. French
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
U.S.N
Washington, D. C
Wick) Wyatt
Babe) Wolfe
Freda’ Wyatt
Gertrude Rickard
Mansfield
Wolfe
Lena Wolfe
William Wolfe
Montgomery
Ala
White Chapel
Tia
Court ST
Duke
Main ST
Et Jeeps
Jakarta
Indonesia
Ali Sastroamidjo
Robert E. Rubens
Unionown
Stark County
Jack T. Estabrook
Lakeland
Fla
Here
Bendvue Theatre
Baptist Meet
Seid Ine
Pomeroy Bend Theatres
Meigs
Charles Drake
Warren Stevens
Bing Crosby
Grace Kelly
Frank Sinatra
Celeste Holm
Temple
John Agar
Mamie van Doren
Richard Boone
James Glesser
Colleen Gray
Tom Tully
Sylvia Sidney
Betty Lyne
Jona Gavin
Jett Chandler
Dorothy Malone
Ward Bond
Lee Morrises
Bath
Citizens National Bank
the Friendly Bank
Member
Federal Reserve System and
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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