Christmas Helps Meigs Children Enjoy Seasonal Programs
Meigs County Children's Home in Pom ery benefited from broad support as wards enjoyed a festive season. Activities included a staff party, a home concert led by Mrs. Avon Jones and Mrs. Virginia Egnor, church cantatas, hospital and infirmary visits, a Middleport Legion outing with theater and refreshments, a Federated Church program, and a December 17 party. Local organizations and many individuals provided gifts and decorations, with volunteers from schools, churches, and clubs aiding throughout December.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
W.P.A
Simpson Methodist Church
Church of Christ In
Meigs County Infirmary
Middleport
American Legion
Temple Theatre
Purity Dairy
Ralph Kuether
Federated Church
Meigs Theater
Helen Lyons
Jones
Pomeroy Chapter Order of Eastern Star
Harriet Allen
Chester Bolton
Cleveland
Dale Carl
Mildred Betzing
Cedric Clark
Lenora Kent
Lucy Kibble
James Buckley
Ernest Duerr
John Chase
Avon Jones
Frances Lewis
Ethel Evans
Kuether
Home Council of Women
John Leifheit
Herman Beards
Brown
Syracuse Presbyterian Star Class
Middleport American Legion
Elizabeth Hartinger
Massar’s Grocery
Herman Warner
Arthur Beegle
Charlie Rathburn Trust Fund
C. E. W. Downie
Pearl Ash
Blanche Graves
Lenora Donovan
Elmer Napper
William Kauff
Audra McKenzie
Rachel Chapman
Stella Boston
Mina Givens
Lenora Coleman
Mr. White
Syracuse
Grand Association
Rebekah Lodge
Miss Eleanor Karr to Wed Fred Crow in Summer 1941
Announcement tea at Syracuse home of Mr and Mrs Irving Karr Sr honors Miss Eleanor Karr and reveals her upcoming marriage to Mr Fred Crow. Miss Karr, Ohio University graduate and Cincinnati area teacher, will wed after a summer 1941 date. Crow, Ohio State graduate, is employed in Houston and is connected with the FBI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Eleanor Karr
Irving Karr
Syracuse
Miss Karr
Fred Crow
Patty Karr
Karr
Mr. Crow
Ohio University
Wyoming
Cincinnati
Crow
Ohio State University
Griff Russell
Columbus
Bill Barker
Lima
Kenneth Sauer
McMillan Hospital
Paul Smith
Athens
A. V. Smith
New York City
Washington, D. C
O. L. Wood
Athens High School
Smith Home
J. L. Gibson
Charleston
Harry Craig
Guy Carson
Florida
Xenia
Charles Williams
Garfield Ave
Williams
Charles
U. S. Army
Ft. Bliss
el Paso
Texas
Harry Johnson
Huntington
David Flanagan
Newman Powell
Cleveland
Phi Mu Alpha
Irene Ward
New Plymouth
FE. W. Schrieber
Bess Bentz
Lincoln Hill
Juanita Ashworth
Marilyn
Ward
Edith Kearns
Athens State Hospital
Meigs County Children's Home
Betty Holsinger
Meigs County Children Home
E. F. Maag
J. T. McClain
Mary
Matlack Sues for Divorce and Name Restoration
Doris G. Matlack filed suit Tuesday for divorce from Robert R. Matlack on cruelty grounds and seeks restoration of her maiden name Doris Gaul. The couple married October 31 1938 and have no children.
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Pomeroy
Doris G. Matlack
Robert R. Matlack
Doris Gaul
Middleport Social Notes Highlight Holiday Gatherings
Local social page lists multiple holiday visits and family dinners. Names include Richard and Bart Rawlings, R. H. Rawlings, Ewing, Barker, Longstaff, Gibbs, Williams, and Hackett among others. Also notes medical updates on B. E. Talbott and Clarice Gibbs influenza cases and Watch Night plans with the First Baptist Church.
Social Notes of Syracuse
Social notes from Syracuse report many neighbors visiting and ill with influenza. Highlights include Eleanor Karr hosting tea, dinners and visits by Miss Norentha Fleming and others. marriages and anniversaries. a silver wedding anniversary for Dana Hysell. illness of George McBride and several others across Pomeroy Cadiz Albany and Steubenville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Asbury Methodist Church
Eleanor Karr
Everett Fields
Lena
Katie Guth
Pomeroy
George McBride
College Road
J. C. Hallam
D. B. Williams
Marcia Karr
E. W. Kingsland
Harold Jones
Burlingham
George Henderson
Joe Quisenberry
Lancaster
Carl Seidenabel
Cadiz
George Rea
Hortense Seidenabel
Lou Rossetter
Howard Rossetter
Albany
M. J. Karr
Frank Capehart
Robert Flanagan
Ira Fleming
Norentha Fleming
Tedla Hess
Dana Hysell
Irene
Hysell
Irene Hysell
George Shiveler
Donald Holter
H. L. Holter
Samuel Winebrenner
Steubenville
Russell
Methodist Church Circle 1 Holds January Soup Sale Plan
Pomeroy Circle 1 of Simpson Methodist Church met at Mrs. C. T. Tompkins home with fourteen members present. Mrs. Minnie Neutzling led devotions and Mrs. Malcolm Hartley gave the missionary review. Under chairwoman Mrs. Albert Young, plans were finalized for a soup sale Friday January 10 with soup lunch and pie at the church and delivery orders taken by members. Next meeting will be at Miss Emma Waterman and Miss Eva Simms on Mulberry Ave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Waterman
Eva Simms
Mulberry Ave
Watch Night Service At Federated Church Tonight
Rev Ralph Kuether announces a Watch Night service at Federated Church starting at 11 oclock. Thursday Church League meeting at the church and Friday teachers meeting at 7 39 pm. Sunday Holy Communion followed by the annual congregational meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Federated Church
Ralph Kuether
Church League
Warners Celebrate Golden Wedding on Farm
Mr. and Mrs. Earnest Warner near Harrisonville marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary on December 27 with a Christmas Day gathering of 20 relatives at their 250 acre farm. Emma Gotshall Warner was born on the farm and a turkey dinner was served by their daughter Evelyn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisonville
Earnest Warner
Mrs. Warner
Warner
Emma Gotshall
War
Evelyn Warner
R. S. Blackwood
Cécil
Jerry Warner
Edna
Evelyn
Earl Warner
Rodney
David
Dallas
L. French
Eugene
Catherine Powell
Esta Larkins
Guy, N. M
Pomeroy Ministerial Group Plans Week of Prayer
The Pomeroy Ministerial Association met Monday at the Federated Church to finalize plans for the Week of Prayer from January 5 through January 10 to be held at the Episcopal Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Ministerial Association
Federated Church
Episcopal Church
Motorist Injured In Truck Accident In Ohio
Harry Craig Sr. and Charles Gomer were returning from a business trip to Tuppers Plains when the Craig driven truck turned over three times injuring Craig with fractured ribs and other injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Harry Craig
Charles Gomer
Tuppers Plains
Ancient Gaul Lid On Freshmen Girth Fines
Ancient Gaul cities enforced eating and drinking rules with maximum girth laws. Citizens faced fines if their bodies exceeded the legal mexunum. The regulations show how early urban controls extended to personal size.
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Gaul
Social Notes of Portland and Area Celebrations
Social notes report a 22 December wedding at the parsonage of Portland between Stacil Harris and Floyd Bogard with Rev. Earl T. Scott officiating. The couple will reside with Bogard’s parents in Long Bottom. The section also notes a surprise birthday for Mrs. Scott, multiple Christmas visits, and various local family movements and holiday gatherings involving residents of Portland, Great Bend, Parkersburg, and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Stacil Harris
Grover Harris
Great Bend
Floyd S. Bogard
Long Bottom
Earl T. Scott
Homer Bogard
Gerald Ours
van E McDade
Eber Ours
Irene Mosher
Watertown
N. Y
Columbus
Francis Worthington
Leland Siders
J. A. Siders
Dana Browning
J. M. Cox
Mable Ann Cox
Charles Slaughterl
East Liverpool
James Slaughter
Adam Slaughter
Maysville
Earl Henderson
Wheeling
Mattie Henderson
Nicholas Klein Dies In St. Louis
Nicholas Klein 62 died yesterday in a St. Louis hospital after a week as a patient. A native of Pomeroy, he moved to St. Louis as a young man and worked many years as a linotype operator. Survived by his widow, three daughters and a son.
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Middleport
Nicholas Klein
St. Louis
Klein
Pomeroy
Peter Klein
Pearl St
Miss Lenore Giles resigns as Meigs County court stenographer
Miss Lenore Giles resigns from the office of official court stenographer for Meigs County. Her appointment did not expire until April 1943. After brief visits in Columbus and Dayton she will go to Washington to enroll in a business school for further training.
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Pomeroy
Lenore Giles
Meigs County
Columbus
Dayton
Giles
Washington, D. C
Isaac Brock Funeral Held in Gallipolis
Funeral services for Isaac Brock also known as Ike Kent were held at 10 30 this morning in Gallipolis. Burial followed at Middleport Hill Cemetery. Brock a Spanish American War veteran served in Co G 48th Regiment U S Volunteer Infantry and belonged to Gerber Camp No 88.
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Pomeroy
Isaac Brock
Ike Kent
Gallipolis
Middleport Hill Cemetery
Brock
Co. G
48Th Regiment
U. S. Volunteer Infantry
Gerber
Phi Delta Kappa names auditing committee
At a meeting Emmett Shuler Charles Pickens Charles Murray and Robert Haggerty were named on the auditing committee. Bill Gratel and Calvin Reichman were placed on a committee to plan installation of new officers next week and will meet Thursday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middlefort
Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity
Emmett Shuler
Charles Pickens
Charles Murray
Robert Haggerty
Bill Gratel
Calvin Reichman
Pomeroy Couple Married in Minersville Ceremony
Miss Yolanda Dilgard and Mr. Morley Mackey wed in a single ring ceremony at the Dilgard home in Minersville. The bride, a Pom eroy High School graduate and nurse, will reside in Cleveland with her husband after a South honeymoon. Attendants included Miss Jane Dilgard and Dr. Keith Corbett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Rawson
Middleport
F. J. Gardner
Washington D. H
Church of Christ
Jane Dilgard
Keith Corbett
Cleveland
Pomeroy High School
St. Lukes Hospital
FE. F. Maag
Betty
Kathryn Thomson
Kenneth
E. W. Lallance
Margaret Lallance
Lottridge Revival Attracts Large Attendance
Lottridge United Brethren Church hosts revival led by Rev. P Elmer Wright Jr with Dr B P Wright of Lancaster preaching nightly. Belpre Pomeroy District rally set for Saturday Jan 4 from 10 am to 3 30 pm with Rev F Koster presiding.
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Lottridge
Lottridge United Brethren Church
P. Elmer Wright, Jr
BP. BE. Wright
Lancaster
Rev. F. ©. Koster
Marx
Eskew
Jacksonville
Columbus
Young Church of Christ Watch Service Draws Meigs County Crowd
Middleport youths from the Churches of Christ will join with Meigs County youths for a Watch Service. A large crowd is expected as the event gathers church members and families for prayer and fellowship.
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Middleport
Churches of Christ
Meigs County
Church of Christ
Norris Funeral Held At Letart Falls
Adele Elizabeth Norris aged 36 died after a period of illness and funeral rites were held Thursday afternoon at the Letart Falls Methodist Church. The service was conducted by Rev. C. L. Thayer with a male quartet providing music. Nephews served as pallbearers and nieces assisted by the Sunday School class. She is survived by her husband two children Mil dred and Thomas Jr five brothers and one sister plus her aged parents and other relatives.
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Minersville
Alfred Phillips
Cincinnati
Ethel
Clara Garland
Norman MeeCallum
Walter Eary
Richard Chandler
Charleston
Ruth McIntosh
Mason City
Otto Hartenbach
Pearl Phillips
George Roush
Carmel
Will Thomas
Ethel Garland
Norman McCallum
Margaret
Mary
Ernest Rea
Ernestine
Pomeroy
Columbus
Raymond Fisher
Flat Woods
Dorothy Hartenbach
Fisher
Billa Lawhead
John Rees
Akron
Janie Rees
Lizzie
Alberta
Chloela Southard
Jacksonville
Floyd Rummel
Omaha
Neb
Rummel
Glenna
Harry Mescher
Velma Grueser
Jack McDowell
Mary Radford
Walter Baer
Alva Radford
Kathryn Mitch
Freda’ Mitch
John
Elizabeth Bartels
Annie
Albert
Will Arnold
Lorenzo Parker
Theodore Grueser
Elyn Yost
John Hitchens
Parkersburg
John Houdashelt
George Daniels
Ruth
Edison Roush
Car‘Inel
Taylor
Methodist Church
Letart Falls
Adele Elizabeth Norris
C. L. Thayer
Norris
Letart
Mildred
Thomas Jr
G. K. Roush
Arthur
Richard
Walter
Early
Henry
Ralph Neigler
Roderic Wolfe
Kingston
Helen Phelps
Sidney Kane
New Brighton
Athens
5. S. Chambers
Clendenen
W. Va
Henderson
Huntington
Irene Miller
Delaware
Ralph Hummel
Zanesville
Lawrence and
Murl Wolfe
Lestart
Earl T Scott
Portland
John Lanear
Farm Record School Started in Pomeroy
Floyd DeLashmutt and A H Smith farm management specialists from Ohio State University led a farm records school in Pomeroy. They started six new record keepers in the morning and reviewed the annual records of eight local farmers in the afternoon.
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Athens Messenger
Blanche Williams
Evelyn Stewart
George Beards
Manning Webster
Middleport Social Notes
Richard Harold Rawlings
Brazil
Bart Rawlings
Rutland
Richard Rawlings
R. H. Rawlings
Robert Rawlings
Howard Ewing
B. E. Talbott
N. Third Ave
John Kincaid
Pauley Ann
Montgomery
Ala
Keith Kincaid
Burns Barker
William Barker
John Longstaff
William Longstaff
Corning
Virginia Russell
L. O. Grant
First Baptist Church
Louisville
BYPU
Margaret Ella Hysell
George Sagen
Social Notes of
Belle Carleon
Virgil Campbell
Gerald Arnold
the Stormer
Rock Springs
Warners
Pomeroy Social Notes
Pomeroy Social Briefs
R. T. West
Woman's Society of Christian
Harvey French
Pearl Hyse
M. E. Bing
Bing
Natal
Hold Watch Service
CH Theatre
Tonite
Chinatown
Nate
Eens
Lindsay Ta
Alee Ead
Our Gang
Farm Record School
Ohio
Vicks
Vicks VapoRub
Jean Hersholt
Robert Taylor
Togeon
Ruth Hussey
Schines Athena
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