Pomeroy Closing Hours For Christmas Shopping Noted
Stores plan late hours for Friday and Saturday with many to close at six Monday for church services. Despite heavy snows, shoppers fill stores as Christmas merchandise sells out and post offices rush with cards. Meigs County mail carriers face hazards from ice while delivering holiday parcels. William L Haley sues May N Haley for divorce in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Weather lore cites gulls as storm forecasters and notes the Fifth Marine Regiment’s front-line entry in March 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Santa Claus
Meigs
Charles Sauer
Middleport City
William L. Haley
Meigs County
Christmas Party for Ladies Auxiliary at Fire Hall
Officers of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Volunteer Fire Company hosted a Christmas party Tuesday night at City Hall Firemen's quarters. Carols rang out with Mrs. C. P. Bradbury at the piano. Guests exchanged gifts and enjoyed refreshments laid out on a table decorated with a miniature Christmas scene, a mirror lake bordered by pines and snow.
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Middleport
Ladies Auxiliary
Volunteer Fire Company
City Hall
C. P. Bradbury
Mirror Lake
Zaleski Chapter installs officers. Mace funeral noted
Zaleski Masonic group O E S Chapter No 996 held installation with Edna Dearth W M and James McKibben W P among officers. Mrs Nannie Mace 24 longtime Zaleski resident died in New Marshfield with funeral at New Marshfield Cemetery. Influenza cases surge in Zaleski. Local notes include visits, illnesses, travel, and holiday preparations across Zaleski and Middleport communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zaleski
Mona
O.E.S
W.M
Edna Dearth
W.P
James McKibben
Margery Kennard
Herman Kennard
Genevieve Atkinson
Hattie McAfee
Mary Potter
Jenola McKibben
Ada
Alice Ogle
Ruth
Ella Hayes
Esther
Dora Carter
Martha
Grace Dearth
Electa
Donna Stanley
Fannie Daft
Martha Frakes
Gladys Egleberry
Iva Hill
Sentinel
Otto Dearth
Nannie Mace
New Marshfield
John Quinn
Gertrude Andrews
Beatrice Sickles
Josephine Scott
James Wolf
Chillicothe
Winfield
Mace
J. B. Vanderford
Columbus
John Potter
Wellston
R. H. Thomas
Thomas
Zed Thomas
Wood‘row Thomas
Hugh Egleberry
Loissean
Christmas Party At Downing Home In Middleport
Annual Christmas party held Friday night at the home of Mrs. J. B. Downing on N. Second Ave Middleport. Yuletide decorations and holiday arrangements enhanced the scene as Mrs. James Titus Southeast District director and Mrs. Garen Stansbury former director attended a meeting about the arrangements. Contests and a gift exchange provided entertainment. Mrs. M. L. French won the contest and a dessert course was served from the dining room with a large candle and greenery on the table. Mrs. Titus presided at the coffee service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
J. B. Downing
Second Ave
James Titus
Southeast
Garen Stansbury
M. L. French
Tornado Theory Prompts Inside-Pressure Damage Note
A reader argues that tornado damage comes from internal pressure shifts rather than roof blows, noting air surge inside homes after the tornado passes. The remark emphasizes structural safety and timing of debris risk.
British Propose Small Town as UNO Home
London urged the United Nations to consider a small town in the eastern United States as the permanent home of the UN. A British delegate said the recommendation would favor a town not too close to Washington.
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London
Great Britain
United Nations Preparetory Commission
United States
United Nations Organization
Alltown
Washington
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Sursday
THE
Athens Messenger
U. S. Weather Bureau
Fifth Marine Regiment
Ue G. Nh
Rwih
Rathburn
Rutland, Ohio
Vogue Shoe Shop
Pomeroy, Ohio
America
U. S. Army
Reich
Germany
Middleport Social Notes
Bradbury
Sidney Russell
Kathryn Lois Smith
Jay Thompson
Charleston
A. V. Smith
Pennsylvania
Richard Hemminway
William Peter Hemmminway
Walter Diedrich
Marietta
Robert Diedrich
Ruby Hayman
Rusty Roush
Jack Cottrill
Armed Forces
Charles White
Julius Bennett
Bernard Krinke
Bridgeport
James Brewington
Eben Bowen
Ronald Scott
Akron
Mary
Sharon Bush
Judy
Lois Cecil
Amesville
Jack Walters
Josie Turner
Florida
Elberfelds
Pickens
Hins & Dale
Heart of Pomercy
Downing
Canada
Buckley
Glouster
Drury Drug Store
Altmans
South Court Street
Luckoffs
Pomeroy Bend
Edward Arnold Frances Rafferty Friday
Tokio
Don Juan Quilligan
William Bendix
Joan Blondell
Phil Silvers
Anne Revere
Veda
Ann Borg
B.S. Polly
Gene Autry
Smiley Burnette
Wild Bill
Bill Elliott
the Monster and
the Ape
Robert Lowery
Ralph Morgan
Mother
Sister
Sweatheart
Tadey
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