Draft Board Announces 31 Men To Report
Meigs County fills its peace time army training quota with volunteers. The local selective service board lists 31 men to report February 7, including Eugene V. Fisher Ralph G. Martin Woodrow P. Campbell Wilbur L Molder Philip E. Killinger Joseph H. Hood Ira W. Taylor Eugene H. Newland Harry J. Jacobs James L. Biggs Conrad R. Bentz Robert L. Sayre Thomas J. Mitchell Paul J. Ward Carl A. Young Alfred L. Cornell Bruno J. Pierotti Charles M. Williamson Carl D. Sauvage James E. Hite Dale W. Hill Herschel Merritt Wolfe William T. Ratliff Riley L. Cowdery Charles Peeples William E. Smith Lester E. Rose Bruno P. Casci Eugene C. Romine Paul W. Johnson Bert C. Shelby
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Selective Service Board
Eugene V. Fisher
Ralph G. Martin
Woodrow P. Campbell
Wilbur Lawrence Molden
Philip E. Killinger
Joseph H. Hood
Ira W. Taylor
Eugene H. Newland
Harry J. Jacobs
James L. Biggs
Conrad R. Bentz
Robert L. Sayre
Thomas J. Mitchell
Paul J. Ward
Carl A. Young
Alfred L. Cornell
Bruno J. Pierotti
Charles M. Williamson
Carl D. Sauvage
James E. Hite
Dale W. Hill
Herschel Merritt Wolfe
William T.ratliff
Riley L. Cowdery
Charles Peeples
William E. Smith
Leser E. Rose
Bruno P. Casci
Carson Withdraws From Pomeroy Town Council Bid
POMEROY Frank H Carson withdrew his acceptance of the council appointment after a Board of Pensions notice cited civil service restrictions preventing him from holding a political position. No final decision announced on filling the vacancy created by A Downie’s resignation amid civil service connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Frank H. Carson
Pomeroy Council
M. D. Hartley
Carson
Broad
Board of Pensions
A. Downie
Middleport Social Notes Highlights Local Club Formed
A group of Central School girls formed a weekly club at Joan Wood’s home with officers Joan Wood president Annamae Antle secretary Patty Kennedy reporter Connie Lee Koehler Rosemary Fisher and Mary Lou Smith reader Carla Don Owens director of plays. Nearby families gather for visits and farewells as locals share news on health moves and travels including Corp Stephen Cope in Fort Custer and Attorney Dan Jenkins heading to Ft Hayes Army duty. August road accidents noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Central School
Joan Wood
S. Second Ave
Annamae Antle
Patty Kennedy
Connie Lee Koehler
Rosemary Fisher
Mary Lou Smith
Carla Don Owens
Middleport High Prepares Patriotic Program and Concerts
With the second semester underway Middleport High outlines a PTA patriotic program on Feb 21, a Girls Glee Club concert on Mar 14, and the annual band concert on Mar 30. Miss Flossie Frecker chairs the PTA effort with Lois Cecil and Gordon Harris assisting. A fifty piece toy band will perform, and Troop 1 Girl Scouts under Capt. Pearl Reynolds will present A Call To All Americans. The Girls Glee Club, Orchestra, and Boys Chorus will sing together, with a brass sextet and the school band performing overtures and marches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
PTA
Flossie Frecker
Lois Cecil
Gordon Harris
Girl Scouts
Pearl Reynolds
Jean McMaster
Paul Cunningham
L. L. Cunningham
Gravel Hill
MHS
Sammy Kaye
Girls’ Glee Club
Glee Club
Miss Cecil
Boys’ Chorus
Frank‘lim Guinther
Marvin Murray
Janet Dillard
Milton Smart
Quilting Day and Club Party Highlight Racine Notes
An all day quilting and potluck was held by the Woman's Society for Christian Service of the Methodist Church at Mrs. Fred Philson's home. The Racine High Commercial Club met for a monthly session and party at the school auditorium. Founders' Day will be hosted by the Racine Rural PTA with Cedric W. Clark as speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKelvey announce the birth of a son weighing nine pounds, grandson of Charles Beegle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Woman's Society For Christian Service
The
Methodist Church
Fred Philson
Walter Stewart
Racine High Commercial Club
Paul Beegle
Founders
Racine Rural Pta
Common Pleas
Cedric W. Clark
Robert McKelvey
Apple Grove
Charles Beegle
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlights Weekend Visits
Mrs. Robert Fry of Columbus visited her mother Mrs. Fannie Amberger after a month long influenza. Newark couple Kenneth Donahew and wife stayed with his parents on Butternut Ave. C. E. Blakeslee and relatives visited Charleston. T A Downie and wife Lincolnhill guests of Albert Beck at Pleasantville. PTA hosted a 200 attendee event at Central School. awards to Mildred Ohlinger and Edward Foster. Martha Terrell received a cake from Dayton Phillips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Fry
Columbus
Fannie Amberger
Kenneth Donahew
Newark
Butternut Ave
C. E. Blakeslee
Charleston
T. A. Downie
Lincoln Hill
Albert Beck
Pleasantville
Central School
Parent
Mildred Ohlinger
Edward Foster
Martha Terrell
Dayton Phillips
Edward Stark
Patrick Lochary
Charles
Jimmy
Manning Webster
Willard Ashworth
L. F. Schoenleb
Maris Richman
Robert Coates
Ethan, Harper
Frank Will
Robert Jacobs
Rollin Spencer
Smith
Laurel St
Newforth Kennedy
Naylors Run
Frank Kunzelman
Chillicothe
Donald Rosenbaum
Capital University
A. H. Rosenbaum
Middleport to Meet Pomeroy Friday Night
Pomeroy Panthers travel to Middleport to face the Yellow Jackets in a return league game after two losses. Pomeroy carries a strong Southeastern Ohio High School League record with four league wins, while non league play has been rough with eight losses in nine games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Panthers
Middleport Yellow Jackets
Middleport
Panthers
Racine Personal News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Mr and Mrs Robert Carvel and daughter Virginia of Bainbridge and Mrs Carvels father A J Schaefer of Chillicothe spent the weekend with Mrs A J Schaefer Mrs Carvel and daughter remained for a longer visit Miss Florence Circle of Belpre a teacher in a school near Belpre spent the weekend with her parents Mrs Bertha Sayre and son Brooks spent Thursday with Mr and Mrs Dayton Kennedy at Waterford Mrs Kennedy accompanied her mother home and spent the weekend here Herbert Sayre visited his son Darrell at Fort Hayes Columbus Darrell left Friday for Kelly Field Texas to enter the army as a mechanic in the air corps John Jiiden aiding to tear down a drilling rig on the Capehart farm at Syracuse fractured his left foot Darrells injury a timber fall Mrs Sidney Fadely president of the Racine Garden Club spoke on Landscaping the Farm Home at the high school Future Farmers meeting
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Robert Carvel
Virginia
Bainbridge
Dayton Kennedy
Waterford
Sidney Fadely
Racine Garden Club
Future Farmers
Simpson Board Of Education To Meet At Evening Church
The Simpson Board of Education gathers at 7 15 this evening at the Simpson Methodist Church with officers and teachers in attendance. Week events include a Christian Fellowship meeting Wednesday at 7, choir practice at 8, Young People gathering Thursday at 7 15, and a Woman's Society for Christian Service executive meeting Friday at 2 at Mrs Effie Tracy's home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Society For Christian Service
Effie Tracy
Second St
Barton Drug Store Moves to New Court and Second Streets Site
Barton Drug Store, once H. B. Smith Store, relocated Sunday from East Court Street to the southwest corner of Court and Second Streets. The refurbished building, formerly First City Bank, has sat unused since the bank’s closure years ago and is now occupied by the drug store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy — Barton's Drug Store
H. B. Smith
Court St
Court and
Second Sts
First City Bank
Transfers of Meigs Realty Increasing
Real estate transfers surged last week per Meinhart records with sheriff sales and parcel moves. Properties in Rutland Bedford Sutton Letart Middleport and Lebanon shift to buyers including Johnson Chase Soulsby Carman Bose Wells and Doss among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary A. Harris
Sutton
William Soulsby
Cora Soulsby
Cora Soulsby Carman
E. C
Florence McGrath
Bedford
A. O. Lightfoot
A. C
Rena Lightfoot
E. C. McGrath
Wm. B. Donohew
Letart
Irene Donohew
Salisbury
William and
Lena Wells
E. E
Bird Hull
Orange
James S
Alma N. Doss
Henry Bell
Lebanon
Sidney W. Durst
Meigs County Probate Actions And Estates Not Subject To Tax
Meigs County notes detail probate actions from last week, including Ed Ison Hobstetter named administrator of Judge C. E. Peoples estate with a $10,000 bond, Edward H. Reuter as administrator of Stella H. Starkey estate with a $2,100 bond, and G. H. Prall appointed executor of Anthony Harmon estate with a $3,000 bond. Several estates were examined and ruled not subject to inheritance tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Edison Hobstetter
C. E. Peoples
Court Journal
Edward H. Reuter
Stella H. Starkey
George Victor Spenagel
Manning D. Webster
Henry W. Cherrington
G. H. Prall
Rutland
Anthony Harmon
Salem Township
Blanche Prall
J. C. Phillips
Margaret H. Stanbery
A. D. Russell
Emma Bramm
Philemon Stanbery
S. N. Glenn
Lewis Cooper
Clara S. Thomas
Rush Sayre
Lafayette Paugh
Leroy Holmes
J. T. Mosley
Charles S. McKenzie
George Wm. Quick
Jennie Pickens
Sarah Hartinger
Lucas Cross
Anna Hilber
Edgar Wright
Luella Wingett
Daniel S. Sayre
J. Wilkin Merrall
Peters. Epple
Dona Josephine Collman
Alta Tracy
Ellen Turley
Carrie Burton Abbott
Liddie E. Welk
John P. Matthews
Martha Andrew King
Margaret Bentz
Roy H., King
Emma Pierce
George W
Pearl Kennedy
George Koenig
Meda Imboden
Sarah E. Beegle
Benefit Minstrel In Middleport Supports Infantile Paralysis Fund
Rehearsal for the minstrel Lotsadoin directed by Ed Condon featured amateur performers from Pomeroy and Middleport at the high school auditorium. Proceeds from the Sunday show go to Meigs County Infantile Paralysis Fund with Dr George Schaaf as interlocutor. Middleport volunteer firemen handle ticket sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Ed Condon
Pomeroy
Meigs County
George Schaaf
Corn Hybrids Prove Their Worth in Ohio
POMEROY The first 21 cooperative tests summarized by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station show adapted Ohio hybrids yielding 96.1 bushels per acre on average, far above 63.9 for top open pollinated varieties. In 1940 drought years, Ohio Certified hybrids delivered high yields while open pollinated types produced poor results with 25 to 40 percent barren plants. MIDDLEPORT The Rev Ralph Zandel of Zanesville will visit the First Baptist Church this Thursday if health permits after missing last Thursday's services due to illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Ohio
Middleport
Ralph Zandel
Zanesville
First Baptist Church
Junior High Cagers Defeated by Tronton
Middleport Junior High fell to Tronton in the first round of the junior high basketball tournament at Gallipolis Saturday afternoon. The local team was to play Gallipolis again after school this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tronton
Middleport
Marshall Mee Cuen
Ironton
Gallipolis
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Middleport Social Notes
Louis Seyfried
N. Second Ave
United States Army
Paul French
Corp
Stephen Cope
Fifth Division
Fort Custer
Cope
Army
Stansburys
William Stansbury
Grant St
Boggess
Garen Stansbury
Lowell Nichols
Alabama
William Jones
Paul Leonard
Paula Jane
Leonard
DuPont
Charlestown
Ind
New Albany
Ruby Byers
James Terman
D. S. Harold
New York City
James Harley
John
Ohio State University
Charles Reed
Charles Bradbury
Willis Aleshire
J. A. Seeberger
Hubert Mace
H. N. Swift
Chimney Corner
Seeberger
Pittsburgh
la Salle Hotel
Wendell Willkie
London
Herbert Morrison
Willkie
Middleport High
Racine Social Notes
Mary Wolfe
Gloria Schaefer
Dolores Wolf
Martha Lou Watterson
Shawnee
Belpre
Racine Neigler
Cozart
Oneness
Meemmler
Shawnee T Sommers
Hannas
Jones
Collins
Woods
Seeceeeen Opperman
Coates
Wong Whintisone
Scan
Norris, Paynter
Sales
P. Beegle
Baltimore
Barton Drug Store
Meigs Realty
Dichaiis
George I
England
Mhens Pharmacy
Athens
fEpsihola
America
Pepsi-Cola
Jim Josten
Chi
Edterfield
Lisuart & Rans Tonacce Gas
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