Pomeroy Flood Waters Subside But Town Remains on Alert
River at 48 feet and falling eases flood fears in Pomeroy while merchants move goods in advance of possible rise. Upper blocks flooded up to three feet. Bendvue Theater submerged. crowds tour downtown despite warnings as boats and waves threaten storefronts. Sugar Run basements flooded backwaters extend from Third Street to Union Avenue.
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Pomeroy
Weather Bureau
Bendvue Theater
John
Crescent
Campbell
Sugar Run
Third St
Union Ave
Middleport Rivers Run High Absent Flood Rush
Two miles of river rise meant different fates for Middleport residents. Pomeroy merchants toiled to salvage goods from basements as water neared storefronts while Middleport adopted a watchful waiting stance with limited flooding and business-as-usual activity.
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Middleport
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Man Sails As Radio Operator
Ted Blazewicz, a Pomeroy native, now works as a radio operator on a boat operating between a Texas port and California. He has spent two years across the globe in various postings. He is also studying aviation at a Texas pilot’s school. His sister Eva Blazewicz, living in Poland, plans a spring return to visit their parents.
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Pomeroy
Ted Blazewicz
Texas
California
Blazewicz
Eva Blazewicz
Poland
Firemen Hold Benefit Show To Aid Buddy
Middleport volunteer firemen distributed bills Friday night announcing a benefit motion picture Newsboys Home at the Temple Theater Tuesday and Wednesday. Proceeds will aid Ray McCallum, company vice president, seriously ill for months.
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Middleport
Temple Theater
Ray McCallum
Church Leaders to Head Baptist Workers Conference in Middleport
In Middleport the Rev. Paul Judson Morris and the Rev. H. O. Wyatt will lead a Baptist workers conference at the First Baptist Church. The event includes a 3:30 PM discussion by Miss Helen Wicks and a 6:30 PM banquet, with Pomeroy Gallia and Rio Grande associations taking part. Wyatt, a Virginia native, trained at Richmond College and Crozer Seminary, has Burma and Assam missionary experience. Morris, born in Rising Sun Indiana, is a Franklin College and Newton Theological grad and Ohio Baptist board director.
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Middleport
Paul Judson Morris
Ohio Baptist Association
H. O. Wyatt
Burma
First Baptist Church
Granville
Pomeroy
Gallia
Rio Grande
Helen Wicks
Busy Bee
Morris
Wyatt
Virginia
Richmond College
Crozer Theological Seminary
Chester
Eastern Theological Seminary
Assam
United States
Rev. Morris
Rising Sun
Ind
Franklin College
Newton Theological Institution
Ohio
Ohio Baptist Board of Missionary Promotion
Northern Baptist Convention
No Meal Too Big or Hearty For Her Since Taking Vendol
Glouster coal loader's wife says Vendol cured her constipation and upset stomach. She details relief from acid, gas, bilious attacks, and headaches after using Vendol and Vendol Laxative Tablets. The Vendol Man tours Athens Pharmacy to explain the remedy, with Nelsonville druggists also carrying Vendol.
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Vendo
Samuel Calcara
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Athens
N. Court St
Nelsonville
Hickman
Adv
Two Pomeroy Brothers Brave Ohio River to Reach Pt Pleasant
Mill ward and Hartwell Card navigated flood waters in a john boat after highways were blocked. They averaged three hours for the 16 mile trip against a swift current, then returned aboard Millward Curd’s Ranger, moored at Pomeroy Boat Club for emergencies. Betty Reed, now living in Columbus with her parents, has been pledged to Delta Theta Tau and will be initiated Friday.
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Pomeroy
Millward and Hartwell
Pt. Pleasant
Ohio River
West Virginia
Millward Curd
Ranger
Reed
Middleport
Betty Reed
C. F. Reed
Columbus
Delta Theta Tau
Easy Street the Song of Shifting Social Clout
The poem critiques job insecurity and political power as workers face rising leisure class status. It contrasts workers, then bosses, with loafers who ride to prosperity via political influence and party favors. A. L. Snedden signs off this verse on social change.
Attendance Dips at Pilgrim Holiness Sunday School
Oak Grove notes show Sunday School attendance fell to 35 due to bad weather, same as last year. Rev William Brown preached at 7 pm and Rev Carl Candel of Bucyrus preached at Murray City Pilgrim Holiness Church. various local families and visitors are listed as attendees and guests.
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Morris Lowery
Wilma Patton
Beatrice Hartman
Irma Cagg
Charles Kinsey
Lillian
Katherine
Carl Candel
Conte Pickett
Carl Weigel
Irene
Bonnie
Teddy
Carpenter
Vaughn Foughty
Maurice Covert
Hamley Run
Herbert Ely
Athens
Bucyrus
Katherine Kinsey
Murray City
Hannah Shay
Son of
Hope
Ely
Douglas Hartman
Catherine Levering
Florita
Thelma Ely
Nelsonville
Thomas Barnhart
Helen
Butler Barnhart
Floodwood
Arthur Cagg
Cagg
Homer Davis
Carbondale Road
Harold Carr
Harley Allen
Audrey Hartman
Hartman
Lane Ely
William Wachenschwanz
CCC
Pomeroy Schools Closed By Basement Flood Water
Pomeroy schools were closed today due to water in the Junior High basement. It was doubtful classes could resume before Wednesday. Other buildings remained usable, but transportation issues and inaccessibility kept pupils home.
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Pomeroy
Sugar Run
Mrs Hysell Feted At Pomeroy Social Event
Forty two friends of Mrs Victor Hysell gathered as Mrs Ray Rawlings hosted the event. Pink and blue decorations highlighted a pink water lily scene with a bassinet gift shower. Other notes mention local visits illnesses and upcoming society meetings in Pomeroy and Middleport.
Portland Police Station Burns Brush Incident
Portland police believe their station experienced a rare brush fire caused by two hair brushes left in a sterilizer that boiled dry. Damage listed as 15 cents.
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Portland
Ore
Fox huntress Blanford hunts three foxes in fortnight
Janet Ogden an 18 year old from Blanford mass jeers at sportsmen who use dogs to hunt foxes and shoots three foxes within a fortnight in the hill top hamlet report
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Blanford
Mass
Janet Ogden
Huntress
Theodorus Council Meets at IOOF Hall
Theodorus Council of Daughters of America will meet at the IOOF Hall Monday evening. The gathering aims to discuss upcoming activities and member duties.
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Theodorus Council
Theodorus Council, Daughters of America
IOOF
Twilight Garden Club Events At Ohio Power and Home
Tuesday evening members of the Twilight Garden Club will be entertained at the Ohio Power office with an electrical cooking demonstration. Thursday evening Mrs Theodore Reed will entertain Twilight Garden Club members at her Mulberry Avenue home. Miss Vida fhle will assist. Mrs A C Jones who has been ill several weeks is reported recovering.
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George Arnold
Millersport
J. H. Arnold
Lincoln Hill
Caddie Bing
Union Ave
Mary Rawlings
Rutland
Raymond Eiselstein
Holzer Hospital
Charles Mullen
Mulberry Ave
Cincinnati University
Cincinnati
Virgil Campbell
Betty Campbell
Marcella Fairbanks
Charles Kuhnee
Columbus
L. K
Twilight Garden Club
Ohio Power Office
Theodore Reed
Vida Fhle
A. C. Jones
Railroader 72 Retires After 31 Years Work
Logan Lancaster man LOGAN L D Hamlin retired February 1 as a car inspector for the C and O Railroad after 31 years in the job. He was 72. He began with the railroad in Logan when it was Hocking Valley owned and moved to Lancaster after the C and O takeover. Recently W L White of this city filled in for Hamlin during vacations.
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Logan
L. D. Hamlin
Lancaster
C. & O. Railroad
Hamlin
Hocking Valley
C. and O
W. L. White
Former M H S Athlete Signs With Cotton States League
Middleport infielder Clifford Cunningham signs a one year contract with the Cotton States League and will start spring training in Hot Springs Arkansas. The M H S graduate has played around Pythian Park and drew scouts’ praise before joining Beckley in the Mountain State League last season.
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Middleport
Clifford Cunningham
Hot Springs
Ark
Cunningham
Pythian Park
Tip
Beckley
Vernon Grinstead
Carl Shauver
Hartford
Detroit Tigers
Bradbury Tigers
County Federation Meeting Postponed Indefinitely
There will be no meeting of the County Federation of Church Women at Heath M E Church on Thursday due to high water. Mrs. Ralph Reuther, president, announced the postponement. In a separate item Mrs. Richard Grogan reports her son in law Fisher Russell, long employed by the Union Tanks Car Company in Oklahoma, has transferred to Missouri with his wife and their daughter Dorothy. They now reside near Kansas City.
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Middleport
County Federation of Church Women
Heath M. FE
Ralph Reuther
Richard Grogan
Fisher Russell
Union Tanks Car Company
Oklahoma
Missouri
Two Men Charged With Intoxication
Pomeroy Thurston Stone of Thomas Fork was arrested for intoxication Saturday night and jailed. Rome Hawk was arrested early Sunday for intoxication and disturbing others at his Kerrs Run home.
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Pomeroy
Thurston Stone
Thomas Fork
Rome Hawk
Kerrs Run
Middleport Social Notes Round of Community Events
Middleport residents attended religious and social gatherings as World Comradeship themed events at Heath M. E. Church. Miss Ruth Drake spoke on India at the Ep worth League with H A Rothrock aiding. Jean Flint hosted a midnight slumber party after a Temple Theater show. Ming Mary Reynolds birthday hamburger fry followed. Several locals visited relatives in Columbus and Pomeroy.
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Ruth Drake
Racine
India
Epworth League of the Heath M. E
H. A. Rothrock
Gordon Harrris
Tagore
Temple Theater
Jean Flint
Pomeroy
Flint
Marvel Schmoll
Mildred Asbury
Thelma Snyder
Middleport
Betty Tracy
Purity Dairy
Ming Mary Reynold
Frank Vroman
Columbus
Maude Mason
Sarah Dobbs
Joe Dobbs
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Ida Dobbs
Ruth Lutz
Akron
F. M. Cluff
Helen Beeson
Plummer Beeson
Webb Smith
Mrs Taylor Grogan Recovers After Serious Illness
Mrs. Taylor Grogan is recovering after a serious illness that developed Saturday evening.
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Middleport
Taylor Grogan
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