Pomeroy City Hall Decorated for Christmas Lights
Bright Christmas lights brighten Pomeroy City Hall on Second Street extending to Butternut and Mulberry Avenues. The aging Opera House nearby remains dim. Twilight Garden Club provided the seasonal lights stored for civic use.
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Messenger
Athens
Pomeroy City Hall I
Pomeroy
Pomeroy City Hall
City Hall
Town Hall
Second St
Butternut
Mulberry Ave
Opera House
Twilight Garden Club
Pomeroy Social Notes Holiday Visitors and Events
Local residents host and visit for Christmas and holidays. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Robert Warner and family, the McElhinny and Homer McElhinny families, the Frecker household with visitors from Columbus and Detroit, and William Roush from Center ville. The Rock Springs Health Club held a Christmas party at Mrs William Grueser’s home with a potluck lunch and program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Warner
Mulberry Ave
Cora Warner
Five Points
Horace McElhinny
Homer McElhinny
Leading Creek
Estie Hill
George Frecker
Chester
Edward Frecker
Columbus
Ruth Spencer
Detroit
Frecker
William Roush
Centerville
Montana
Springfield
Dorothy Rebel
Fredencktown
Louis Reibel
Union Ave
Rock Springs
T. A. Downie
Lincoln Hill
Dunbar
W.va
C. E. W. Downie
Harold Brabbin
Maurice Thornton
J. M. Thornton
Harrisonville Road
Preaty Party At Klein Home
Holiday decorations set the scene for a Christmas party hosted by Mrs. Noah Haskins Mrs. John Haskins Mrs. Marshall McCuen Miss Lucille Tatton and Mrs. Klein for Class 22. The program included a candlelight devotion a nativity dramatization a cafe planning session and a gift exchange with Mrs Haskins and Mrs Klein honored. Guests enjoyed ice cream cake and social time after the table was set for refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. P. Klein
Noah Hakins
John Hawkins
Marshall McCuen
Lucille Tatton
Klein
Gordon Harris
Birth
Jesus
Noah Haskins
Charles Preston Haskins
Hazel Mae Hawkin
Miss Dutton
George Schaaf
Virginia Jo Wise
God
C. P. Bradbury
Haskins
Clss
Bradbur
C. H. Wise Jr
Ken Kincaid
Will
Hazel Mae Hawkins
Panthers Set Open Date With Greenfield McClain
Pomeroy’s Panthers schedule includes a midweek game against Greenfield McClain next Wednesday evening with no fixtures over the weekend. The marquee Friday night matchup features Racine versus Gallipolis in Racine, while Ryland and Chester clash on Friday in Chester.
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Pomeroy
Pathers
Greenfield-McClain
Christmas Services Announced at St Wil's and Grace Church
OMEROY Charles E Ayers pastor at St Wil s Wayside Cathedral in Southern Ohio announces Christmas services at Grace Church. Dec 24 morning prayer sermon 11 am 3 30 pm children service 11 pm Holy Communion Ayers to preach at morning and midnight services with Rev Dwight Benton of Cincinnati celebrant at midnight communion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omeroy
Charles E. Ayers
St. Wil's Wayside Cathedral
Peese
Ohio
Grace Church
Anday
Ayers
Dwight Benton
Cincinnati
Middleport Hosts Kindergartners Christmas Party
The youngest students of Middleport schools hosted a Christmas party for mothers led by Miss Lucille Dutton on Wednesday morning. Decorations in blue, a creche, a toy band, and an accordion solo by Virginia Jo Wise highlighted the event attended by about 50. Favors, gift exchanges, hurricane lamp gifts from pupils, and refreshments followed a short program.
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Middleport
Lucille Dutton
Dutton
Vesta McCoy
Virginia Jo Wise
Noah Haskins
Robert Rawlings
Paul Smart
C. P. Dutton
Racine Garden Club Entertained at Gomer Lewis Home
Mr and Mrs Gomer Lewis hosted Racine Garden Club on December 13 with a six o'clock dinner. The Lewis residence was decorated for Christmas with pine bells lighted displays and a large Christmas tree plus candlelight. Guests included prominent local residents and their families as well as several clergymen and community members.
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Racine
Gomer Lewis
Sidney Fadely
Marjorie
Virginia
Owen Watson
Ben Philson
George Simpson
H. O. Curtis
Ralph Hayman
Alfred Cooper
Mary Jiiden
B. M. Tyree
Jake Gaul
Sybil Miles
Paul Theiss
Frances Roberts
Plan Three Christmas Programs at Local Churches
Bradbury Dexter and Bradford Churches of Christ present Christmas programs this weekend. Bradbury hosts a 7pm Friday night play and carols for shut-ins. Dexter follows at 7:15pm Saturday and Bradford at 7:30pm Sunday with young people singing carols.
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Bradbury
Dexter
Bradford
Churches of Christ
Christmas Programs and Grange Installations in Columbia Area
Carpenter and Columbia schools hold Friday Christmas programs after which break begins. School resumes Tuesday January 2. Columbia Grange Hall hosts joint installation for Harrisonville Laurel Star Granges with officers installed by Bess Musser. Laurel Grange hosts Saturday gift exchange and Christmas refreshments. Carpenter Church plans a Sunday morning Christmas program after Sunday School.
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Carpenter
Columbia
Columbia High School
Harrisonville
Laurel
Star Granges
Columbia Grange
Bess Musser
Ohio State Grange
Laurel Grange
Carpenter Church
Licensed to marry Pomeroy in probate court
Marriage licenses issued list couples Lee Combs 28 of Rutland and Helen Wanzo 24 of Belpre plus Luther Martin Williamson 39 of Zanesville and Marvel Clair Hays 29 of Chester.
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Pomeroy
Lee Combs
Rutland
Helen Wanzo
Belpre
Luther Martin Williamson
Zanesville
Marvel Clair Hays
Chester
Bridge Directors Decline War Hazard Insurance
Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, completed three years ago, declined to take out a 35 million dollar insurance policy against war hazards. They do not anticipate an attack on the United States from the sea and chose to forego the coverage.
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Bridge Insurance
San Francisco
U.P
Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Entrance
Pacific Ocean
San Francisco Bay
United States
Citizens National Bank Extends Saturday Hours
MIDDLEPORT The Citizens National Bank will stay open until 8 PM on Saturdays to aid customers and last minute shoppers as holiday shopping peaks. Banking and shopping activity increases as snow limits supplies and forecasts call for two large days ahead.
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Middleport
Citizens National Bank
Short Burial Services Held in Middleport
Short services were held at the grave yesterday at 10:30 a.m. for Mrs. Ella Womeldorf Harry who died at her niece Mrs. Frank Ryan Columbus Sunday afternoon. She was 83 and had lived with her niece for several years. The funeral party included Mr. and Mrs. Ryan, a nephew Major Womeldorf, Mrs. Womeldorf, and the officiating minister Rev. Clyde Hutchinson, all of Columbus.
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H. A. Rothrock
Bob and
Allyn
Athens
Ruth
Ohio University
Memorial Hall
August Knabb
Cincinnati
Chester Knabb
Knabb
Elizabeth Russell
Beech St
Charles H. Coats
Winchester
Ind
Robert Coats
Stephen H
Middleport
Ella Womeldorf Harry
Frank Ryan
Maude Womeldorf
Columbus
Harry
Miller Lumber Co. Hosts Thanksgiving Dinner for Employees
Officials R. A. Miller and D. C. Miller welcomed over 30 Miller Lumber Co. employees to a turkey dinner at the Masonic Temple. The Past Matrons of Evangeline Chapter OES served the meal as a holiday gift, followed by two films on a building project.
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Middleport
Miller Lumber Co
R. A. Miller
D. C. Miller
Evangeline Chapter
OES
Masonic Temple
Schools Close For Two Week Holiday Recess
Local schools closed yesterday afternoon for a two week vacation during the holiday period and will reopen Tuesday January 2. Miss Louise Drake will spend the vacation with her parents at Waterford. Miss Thelma Morehart has gone to her home at Carroll and Coach and Mrs Marshall McCuen left today for Ashland to spend Christmas.
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Middleport
Louise Drake
Waterford
Thelma Morehart
Carroll
Marshall McCuen
Ashland
Plan Burial Services for Calvin Burford
Funeral services for Calvin Burford 77 will be held Friday at two o'clock at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home. Interment follows at Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery where the late Mrs Burford is buried. The body lies in state at the Burford home until noon Friday.
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Middleport
Calvin Burford
S. Second Ave
Rawlings- Coats
Cheshire Gravel Hill
Syracuse Children Present Three Part Christmas Program
Syracuse graded school hosted a Christmas program in three parts on Wednesday night. First graders performed an operetta Is Santa Real featuring Santa Claus as Mr Parker. Fifth to eighth graders lit candles in a Oh Come All Ye Faithful procession followed by a pageant and musical concert led by Mrs Clara Lochary.
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Syracuse
Santa Claus
Parker
Weese
Clara Lochary
Carleton
McBride
Thle
Veterans Auxiliary Pomeroy meeting packs Christmas boxes
The American Legion Auxiliary in Pomeroy met Tuesday evening to assemble Christmas boxes for veterans at Chillicothe hospital. Additional special boxes were prepared for local men who are veterans treated at Dayton and Chillicothe hospitals.
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Pomeroy
American Legion Auxiliary
Chillicothe Hospital
Dayton
Chillicothe
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Cleo
Kansas City
Zoo
Hippo
Middleport Social Notes
Miss Carroll
Ann Carroll
First Presbyterian Church
Imogene Dunagan
Della Little
Marceline Dunagan
Joan Gilmore
Marjorie Hughes
Joan Talbott
Mary Burns
Anita Hix
Mary K. Hoover
Wanda L. Hix
Margaret Rife
Bernadine Dunagan
Colleen Waddell
Racine Garden Club
Carpenter Briefs
Plan Burial Services
Rathburns
D. A. Tinker
St. Louis
Old Quaker
UAKER
Bourlon Whiskey
KER Company
Lawrenceburg
Erm Ge Gute Dounne
Isxrv
Oraee
Taylors
Taylor’s
Dad
Holgate
Schine
Athena
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