Rutland High Science Club Demonstrates for PTA
Rutland High School Science Club showcased experiments in low pressure and slide rule race, displayed new equipment, and presented a research paper on atomic fission at the Rutland PTA meeting. Members include Lawrence Brogan, Larry Parsons, Nina Adkins, Esta Blackwood, and others under sponsors Warner Morgan and Henry Null.
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Middleport
Rutland High School
Rutland Pta
Warner
Blaine Turner
Ernest Johnson
Marlene Hoffman
Mildred Lucas
Carol Salser
R. A. Biddle
Vernon Weber
Adopt A Child Project Grows Community Support
The Middleport Women’s Christian Temperance Union launches a drive to provide new outfits for all 13 children at the Meigs County Children's Home. Churches and local merchants in Middleport and Pomeroy donate items while Sunday school groups adopt a child to supply clothing. Gifts of candy fruit toys and other items accompany a Christmas program at 1 p.m. Saturday and the children will wear their outfits at the annual Christmas dinner party hosted by James Martin at the Martin Restaurant.
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Middleport
Meigs County
Bradbury PTA Meeting With Holiday Program Planned
Middleport notice says Bradbury PTA will convene at 7 30 tonight at the school with Robert Morris as president announcing the program hour includes a seventh grade Christmas play by Sadie McElhinney and carols sung by the fourth grade under Edith Forrest.
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Middleport
Bradbury Pta
Robert Morris
Sadie McElhinney
Edith Forrest
Meter receipts in Middleport total $186 in a week
Village park meters collected $186 in the past week per a police report filed by Chief Herbert Gilkes. The report records daily receipts and notes adherence to meter regulations.
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Middleport — Village
Herbert Gilkes
Answer Filed To Divorce In Salser Case
An answer and cross petition have been filed in the divorce suit of Robert Salser of Rout 3 against Janice B. Salser. Mrs. Salser alleges gross neglect and extreme cruelty and seeks custody of three minor children. Judge John C. Bacon granted Nelson Archer a divorce from Elma Archer on grounds of extreme cruelty in the common pleas court.
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Pomeroy
Robert Salser
Janice B. Salser
Pomeroy Emergency Squad to Meet in Special Session
Pomeroy Emergency Squad will hold a special meeting at 8 p.m. Thursday at Pomeroy City Hall. Chief Henry Werry announced the session today.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy City Hall
Henry Werry
Presbyterian Women Elect New Officers
Middleport First United Presbyterian Church Group I elected officers for 1960 Tuesday evening. Appointed posts include Mrs James Sanborn as chairman, Mrs Edward Burkett as co chairman, Mrs Richard Vaushan as secretary, and Mrs John Parsons as treasurer.
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Middleport
Louis Sauer, Jr
William Morris
Lucy Gregg
Farie Erlewin
Sanborn
Clarence Lacey
Jean Lama
Bethel Coleman
Hand
Everett Bachner
Haptonstall
Dale Walburn
Myron Miller
George Anderson, Jr
Parsons
Burkett
Donald Lowery
Dwight Wallace
Martha Obhlinger
Joe Bailey
Women’s Association to Meet at First Presbyterian Church
Middleport notes the Women’s Association of the First United Presbyterian Church will meet at 7 30 Friday evening at the church. Mrs William Oblinger will give the devotional and Mrs Harold Sauer will lead the program on United To Serve. Members are urged to attend and bring a gift of money for a local Christmas project.
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Middleport
Women's Association of the
First United Presbyterian Church
William Oblinger
Harold Sauer
Middleport Personal Notices Wide Holiday Travel
Mr and Mrs Edgar Allensworth plan a Friday departure for Alexandria Virginia to spend the holidays with son in law Captain James Hartinger and family. Accompanying them will be David Hartinger, brother of Captain Hartinger. Connie Cooke recently had a cast applied to her left leg for a knee injury. Kenneth Cooke left Columbus for Memphis to board his work boat. Mrs Cooke drove him to Columbus. Mrs Denver Rice, long hospitalized at White Cross in Columbus, returned home midweek. Their son Billy stayed with grandparents in Minersville during hospitalization. Robert Kim of Arlington Virginia returned home after visits with the E A Red family in Middleport and Mrs Mabel Kim in Tuppers Plains.
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Edgar Allensworth
Alexandria
James Hartinger
Allensworth
David Hartinger
Capt
Hartinger
Connie Cooke
Kenneth Cooke
Columbus
Memphis
Tenn
Cooke
Denver Rice
White Cross Hospital
Rice
Billy
Lewis
Incumbents Circulating Petitions for May Primary
Two current office holders, Recorder Jack Thomas and Probate Court Judge F Harmon O'Brien, have petitions circulating for the May primary elections.
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Pomeroy
Jack Thomas
F. Harmon O'Brien
Christmas Luncheon of Alpha Omicron Chapter Delta Kappa Gamma
MIDDLEPORT The Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority Alpha Omicron Chapter held a Christmas luncheon at Evalyn Thomas's Oak Hill home. Ethel Chapman led carols, Anna Maude Fehrman reviewed The Madonna by Cynthia Pearl Moss, and Esther Dauber sang Adesto Fidelis before a money gift for ill member Lois Cecil. Hostess helpers were Mabel Conley and Gwendolyn Davis. Meigs County teachers attended.
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Middleport
Alpha Omicron Chapter
Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority
Evalyn Thomas
Oak Hill
Ethel Chapman
Rutland
Anna Maude Fehrman
Jackson
Cynthia Pearl Moss
Esther Dauber
Lois Cecil
Mabel Conley
Gwendolyn Davis
Blackford
Meigs County
Virginia Covert
Mrs. Chapman
Ruth Euler
Ethel Garland
Geneva Joachim
Nan Moore
Margaret Parsons
Marcellene Buell
Mary Virginia Reibel
Beatrice Reinhert
Lucille Smith
Nellie Vale
Christmas charity and society notes from Heath Methodists
A $10 contribution to the Meigs County Jaycee Christmas program was approved at a Racine Chapter Eastern Star meeting hosted by Mrs. Bert Grimm. The Heath Methodist Women’s Society of Christian Service planned a Jan 17 dinner, elected officers, and staged a Christmas program featuring readings and decor. A bloodmobile canteen will serve Dec 30 at Pomeroy Junior High, with a Cincinnati charity donation also noted.
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Ada Nease
Cora Webb
Leona Hensley
Hazel Cleland
Louise Stewart
Grimm
Middleport
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Heath Methodist Church
B. N. East
Earl Knight
Glen Lambert
Pomeroy
Wesleyan Child Care Center
Cincinnati
L. W. McComas
Charles Asa Bradbury
John Krawsczyn
Nan Moore
McComas
Glenna May Sprague
Dionne Criswell
Dianne Mc
Feeney-Bennett Post 128 to honor WWI veterans
World War I veterans will be honored at a Feeney-Bennett Post 128 American Legion meeting tonight at 7 30 at the hall. Commander Paul Haptonstall announced the event.
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Middleport
Feeney-Bennett Post 128
American Legion
Paul Haptonstall
JURY LIST DRAWN FOR MEIGS COUNTY JANUARY TERM
The names of 65 residents will be drawn for possible service on petit and grand juries at 2 pm Thursday in the Meigs County clerk of courts office, overseen by Mrs. Evelyn Locke.
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Pomeroy
Evelyn Locke
Meigs County
Christmas Program at Tuppers Plains EUB Church
The annual program will be held at 7 30 Sunday evening with church youth participating. Directing the program are Hazel Hooks Betty Chevalier Mrs. Marvin Walker and Mae Vineyard. After the program the young people will go caroling.
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Home Economic
Presbyterian Women’s Association
Manhattan Savings Bank
Madison Avenue
New York
Penny Selwyn
Dana Brooksmith
Santa Claus
Mrs. Claus
Central Press
Elberfelds
Revere Ware
Revere
Racine
CBS
Heath Methodist
WSCS
Aycee Fund
Comas
East
Harold Woodgerd
David Miller
C. A. Emmish
Max Roller
Merry
Russell Stover
Dutton Drug
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