Middleport Yellow Jackets win 1945 SEC League title
Middleport High School honors coach Forrest Bachtel at a banquet where the Yellow Jackets were praised as the 1945 SEC League champions. Dan Dillon spoke on character training, noting the team’s effort, teamwork, and leadership from captains and seniors.
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Middleport
Middleport Yellow Jackets
Forrest Bachtel
Mmost
Yellow Jackets
Toastmaster Smart
Jackets
Logan
Jackson
Middleport High School
Gallipolis
George Hackett
Alfred Searberry
James Hawley
Earl Knight
The
Athletic Association
Dan Dillon
Ohio State University
Dillon
Ohio State
Bachtel
Dick Koehler
Alfred Scarperry
Richard Bailey
George Ebersbach
Curtis Kelly
Muton Smart
James Ashley
Joe Bailey
Robert Fisher
Jack Kauff
John Kircher
Harry Surface
Paul Gomer
Jean Ashley
Velma Knight
Edith Russell
Frances Pickens
Joan Torrance
Charlene Neal
Mary Bacon
Thelma Ebersbach
Dorotha Miller
Ruth Pratt
Louise Glaze
Norma Pierce
Virginia Lambert
Beatrice Murray
Betty Lewis
Bernard Krinke
Gene Grate
H. A. Rothrock
Meigs County Plans Fund Drive for Infantile Paralysis
Meigs County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announces a 1946 fund campaign chaired by C E Blakeslee. Rev Albert Bitters notes half donations stay locally while treasury depletion prompts countywide support during January. Ministers and community leaders join the drive to rebuild reserve funds.
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Pomeroy
National Foundation
Meigs County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Albert E. Bitters
C. E. Blakeslee
Albert Bitters
Blakeslee
George Meinhart
National Foundation For
Bitters
Paul Smart
Pomeroy Brothers Receive Discharges
Norma Goodwin celebrates three sons returning from overseas service as David and Tracy receive honorable discharges. Olan, with the Seabees on Iwo Jima, expected home for leave. David served 29 months in England Ireland France Germany and Austria. Tracy, a technical sergeant, served in France the Ruhr pocket Germany and Brunau before redeploying to the Pacific. Tracy now in Cincinnati with his wife.
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Pomeroy
Norma Goodwin
David
Tracy
Olan
Seabees
Iwo Jima
Engineer Corps
Indiantown Gap
England
Ireland
France
Germany
Austria
Ruhr
Brunau
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Pacific
Fort Knox
Ralph Welker Resumes Meigs County Sheriff Duties
Ralph Welker returns home and resumes duties as Meigs County Sheriff after honorable discharge from the Navy where he served as Seaman First Class in New Orleans. Deputy Frank Clark served as acting sheriff in his absence.
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Pomeroy
Ralph Welker
Meigs County
U.S. Navy
New Orleans
Frank Clark
Welker
Additional Prizes For Ball Announced At Pomeroy Firemen Event
Donors include Stark's Pharmacy and Pomeroy Firemen's Association with door prizes from the Red Anchor Althea Beauty Salon L and Z Dress Shop New York Clothing Vogue Shoe Shop Meat Market Middleport Peer One Yines Elber field's Store Henrietta's Beauty Salon Meigs Clothing Company Martin Rol ter Drug Store Meigs Theater and Bendyue Theater. The event revives the masqued dance after years as 100 other merchandise donations adorn prizes for New Year's Eve at Pomeroy Junior High School from 9:30 p m to 2 a m.
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Pomefroy Volunteer Firemen's Association
Stark's Pharmacy
Pomeroy Firemen’s Association
Door
Red Anchor
Althea
L&z
New York
Vogue
Middleport
Elberfeld's
Henrietta's
Meigs Clothing Company
Martin & Rolter Drug Store
Pomeroy Junior High School
Post Office Prepares for Holiday Rush in Pomeroy
POMEROY The local post office will be open all day Saturday December 15 with two mail deliveries, and again on Saturday December 22 with two mail deliveries, Postmaster Charles Mullen announced.
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Pomeroy
Charles Mullen
Frank J. Lausche
American Legion
Ohio
Legion
Swink Rites Sunday at Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home
Funeral services for Rev. William A. Swink age 68 who died Thursday at the Riverview Rest Home will be held at 2 30 p m Sunday at Rawlings- Coats Funeral Home with burial at Rutland. Surviving are four daughters Mrs Myrtle Donahue Mrs Kathryn Demar Rutland Mrs Edna Cartwright Middleport Mrs Lettie Rosenthal Pittsburgh and one son Harlow Swink Rutland.
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Middleport
William A. Swink
Riverview
Rawlings- Coats
Rutland
Myrtle Donahue
Kathryn Demar
Edna Cartwright
Lettie Rosenthal
Pittsburgh
Harlow Swink
Christmas worship services listed for Pomeroy churches
Pomeroy church notices announce Sunday School at First Baptist 9:30 a.m. and a rescheduled One-Won-One Class Christmas party. Christian Science at Mulberry Ave 10:45 a.m. with the lesson God the Preserver of Man. Grace Episcopal morning service 10:30 a.m. Advent theme The Coming of the Lord. United Methodist worship 10:30 a.m. and a 10:30 a.m. Sunday School 9:30 a.m. A Christmas program is planned. Trinity Lutheran Sunday School 6:15 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. service with Advent message Christ the Theme of Prophecy by Rev. Hilmar Rosenberg.
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Pomeroy
First Baptist
Episcopal
Church School
United Methodist
Family Takes Part In Grid Affair
A Middleport Rotary Club banquet honored Milton Smart of the 1945 Yellow Jacket team. Mrs Smart helped with food and Mr Smart served as toastmaster. Nephew Malcolm Miller attended as a Tacket squad member. Walls of the Mormon temple in Salt Lake City are 16 feet thick.
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Middleport
Paul Smarts
Rotary Club
Milton Smart
Smart
PFA
Malcolm
Miller
Salt Lake City
Utah
Hartley Boy Lowell Hartley Dies in Mansfield at 11
Word comes of the death of Lowell Hartley age 11 at a Mansfield hospital from a brain hemorrhage and complications. He was the eldest son of Mr and Mrs Earl Hartley of Mansfield and grandson of Mr and Mrs Oliver Hartley of Columbus. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon in Mansfield.
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Pomeroy
Lowell Hartley
Mansfield
Earl Hartley
Oliver Hartley
Columbus
Plan Junior Fair Meigs County 1946 meeting at Jones home
Vocational agriculture and extension workers met at the home of Mr and Mrs C N Jones on Monday evening December 20. Recommendations were developed for Junior Fair exhibits at the 1946 Meigs County Fair. Participants included Mr and Mrs CN Jones, Mr and Mrs Howard Nolan, Mr and Mrs Clade Stout, and Mr and Mrs C E Blakeslee.
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C ON Jones
Meigs County Fair
CN. Jones
Howard Nolan
Clade Stout
C.E Blakeslee
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