Meigs County to Try 17 Year Old William Larkins Without Jury
William Emmett Larkins, 17, faces a first degree murder and breaking and entering case in Meigs County. Three judges will preside instead of a jury, a historic procedure for the area, with Judge C E Peoples joined by Judges White and Rowland. Trial set for Thursday amid spectator expectations and questions over the defendant's mental condition.
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Meigs County
Edgar Morris
Larkins
Sarah Lawrence
Racine Brief News Notes Highlights Local Visits and Birth
Charles Spencer returns from a CCC camp in Ontario Oregon after four months at home. Isabella Sayre of Columbus and Genevieve Decker visiting friends. Mason Spence announces birth of a son on February 23. Jack Philson visits with Mrs. Philson's family. Betty Neil returns to Pittsburgh after months with the Roush family. Dr. Charles Crow of Springfield spends weekend with his wife and relatives. Judy Bell hosts Dr. Van Schule and granddaughter Betty Joan. Hart Harpold of Chester West Virginia visits family. Mrs. Eliza Roger critically ill after influenza. Local visits by Stobarts, Haymans and others noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Charles Spencer
CCC
Ontario
Ore
Isabella Sayre
Columbus
Genevieve Decker
Fairmont
W. Va
EB. R. Decker
Mason Spence
Mabel Coffee
Jack
John Philson
John Boyd
Marietta
Emmett Smalley
Betty Neil
Pittsburgh
H. W. Roush
Charles Crow
Springfield
Kate Wolf
Judy Bell
Charles van Schule
Betty Joan
George Luther
Charles
Edith Tinker
Jacksonville
Hart Harpold
Chester
Minnie Harpold
Eliza Roger
Crit Bradford
Lewis Stobart
Hubert Pickens
Peer Hayman
Parkersburg
Ralph Hayman
Mrs Barnes Hosts Missionary Society Meeting
In MIDDLEPORT the Sanborn Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church met Monday night at Third Ave and Lincoln St with host Mrs R N Barnes assisted by Mrs L L Lyons and Mrs T A May. Lyons, the president, led the business session and devotional while Mrs F C Kreager spoke on an exposition of the last chapter in the textbook Out of the Far East. The gathering was well attended and concluded with refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Sanborn Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
R. N. Barnes
Third Ave
Lincoln St
Far East
Middleport Social Personal Mention
Elizabeth Hartinger returned home after a week in Athens with sister Mrs. Frank Murphey and Mr. Murphey at 8 Third Ave and Garfield St. O E Bechtle and Mrs Bechtle stayed in town with IL Lyons at Chestnut St before returning to Portsmouth. Viola Jones suffered two weeks of pneumonia at 2 Second Ave and Garfield St and is being cared for by Mr and Mrs Max Roller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Elizabeth Hartinger
Athens
Frank Murphey
Mur Phey
Third Ave
Garfield St
O. E. Bechtle
For
Second Ave
Jones
Max Roller
Licensed To Wed POMEROY Marriage License Issued
Marriage license issued in probate court to Roy Van Cooney age 23 son of Frank Van Cooney and Margaret Morris age 19 daughter of Ira Mor both of Pomeroy. They wed by Justice J W McCullough. Guests invited to a Simpson Methodist Church class electrical demonstration by Mrs Willis McMurray at 7 30 o'clock at Caio Power Company on Main St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Roy van Cooney
Frank van Cooney
Margaret Morris
Ira Mor
J. W. McCullough
J.C.F
Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church
Willis McMurray
Caio Power Company
Main St
Leo Phillips to Appear on WCOL Radio Programs
Leo Phillips a former Pomeroy resident now with the Columbus police force appeared on WCOL Monday at 9 15 p m He is scheduled to return to the air from 7 to 7 15 Wednesday and from 9 to 9 15 Thursday evening on the same station.
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Pomeroy
Leo Phillips
Pomeroyan
Columbus
WCOL
Dam Building In Meigs Will Be WPA Work
Construction of Shade River and Leading Creek dams will be funded via the Works Progress Administration with an $11,000 federal grant through the State Conservation Division. Meigs County Fish and Game Association secured full project details in Columbus during the League of Ohio Sportsmen conference. Materials worth about $1,500 will be provided from existing stock. funds are separate from county WPA allocations.
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Pomeroy
Shade River
Leading Creek
Works Progress Administration
WPA
State Conservation Division
Meigs County Fish and Game Association
Columbus
League of Ohio Sportsmen
Rio Grande PTA hears Founders Day pageant and music
Rio Grande scene covers February PTA meeting at the high school with Vera Reeve leading a string ensemble including Hester McFarland Glena Hesse Helen Maerker Lulla Patterson and Allen Childers. Founders Day pageant starred Mrs Ernest Wiseman and Mrs Harry Cameron.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande
Parent-Teacher Association
Vera Reeve
Hester McFarland
Glenna Hesse
Helen Maerker
Lulla Patterson
Allen
Frank Childers
Mae Smeltzer
Ernest Wiseman
Harry Cameron
Middleport
Herb Chambers
Elizabeth Coon
Lois Fasig
Harry Anderson
Ray Troth
Victor Snyder
Pomeroy
PD. C. Richards
L. F. Allen
W. T. Packer
The
Baptists
Columbus
Packer
Bloomvville Hill
Coal Hill
Paul R. Lyne
Oberlin-Denison
Granville
Walter Livingston
Denison University
W. L. Stafford
H. C. Hackett
Worthington
C. H. Baxter
Gallipolis
Anna
Ina White
Frank McKeen
Marion
McKeen
Cora Stewart
May Fulton
Coughlin Leader May Seek Senatorial Post
Cincinnati reports Rev. Herbert Bigelow, longtime organizer of Father Coughlin’s National Union for Social Justice, hinted in a Sunday address that he may run for Congress or a Senate seat. He said the next Congress could be crucial and he would like to push Coughlin’s policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Herbert 8
Meigs Teams Open Tourney in Rutland This Week
Rutland County basketball tournament begins Thursday at the local gym and runs three nights with finals Saturday. An independent tournament runs alongside the high school event. A Rutland High School banquet tonight honors basketball and football players with Don Peden of Ohio University as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland — County
Rutland
Rutland High School
Don Peden
Ohio University Bobcats
Hartley to Serve Again as Secretary of Ohio Sportsmen
Oliver Hartley, former local newspaper man, was re elected secretary of the League of Ohio Sportsmen at the convention in Columbus last week. Dor Schaefer of the Meigs County Fish and Game Association is a district director of the league.
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Pomeroy Oliver Hartley
League of Ohio Sportsmen
Columbus
Dor Schaefer
Meigs County Fish and Game Association
Mrs. Gilmore Hosts Mission Society Meeting
Mrs Fern Gilmore hosted the Home Missionary Society of Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church at her Butternut Avenue home. Thirteen members attended with Devotions by Miss Lucy Gibbs and prayer by Miss Eva Simms.
Miss Marie Parker Dies Sunday Night
POMEROY Miss Marie FE Parker died Sunday night of pneumonia at her aunt Mrs Louise Taylor home in Syracuse where she resided She is survived by her aunt and one brother George Parker Mulberry Ave Miss Parker was a member of Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution
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Pomeroy
Marie FE
Parker
Louise Taylor
Syracuse
George Parker
Mulberry Ave
Return
Jonathan Meigs
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mrs. Nancy R. Ervin Dies In Pomeroy Home
Mrs. Nancy R. Ervin aged 2 died Sunday evening at Hemlock Grove from heart disease. She is survived by husband George Ervin and five children including Sadie Butterfield of Oklahoma and Mayme Barnhill of Marion. Funeral held at home at 1 PM with burial in Cherry Ridge Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Nancy R. Ervin
Hemlock Grove
George Ervin
Sadie Butterfield
Oklahoma
Mayme Barnhill
Marion
Alma Young
Alice Reed
Oscar Ervin
Colc
Cherry Ridge
Mrs. Roush Injured After Ice Slip at Home
Mrs. Roush of S. Fifth Ave. is confined to her home with a badly injured right ankle after slipping on the ice at her back door. An X-ray was taken Monday to determine the injury.
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Middleport
Downing Roush
S. Fifth Ave
Ocean Water Volume Stated At 210 900 000 Cubic Miles
A science note cites an estimate that the world’s oceans hold about 210.9 million cubic miles of water. The figure appears in a general reference on Earth's hydrosphere.
Funeral for Hannah Hibbard in Chauncey
Funeral services for Hannah Elizabeth Hibbard 75 of Sand Ridge were held at the Chauncey Church of Christ with Rev. Gilbert Courtney officiating. Burial followed at Nye Cemetery Chauncey. She was the daughter of Wallace and Sarah Ann Hibbard born near Margaret's Creek and lived in Chauncey since childhood. She had a stroke two years ago and used a wheel chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Hannah Elizabeth Hibbard
Hibbard
Sand Ridge
Caun
Floyd Nye
Miss Hibbard
Wallace
Sarah Ann Hibbard
Margaret's Creek
Margaret
Nathaniel
Chauncey Area Personal News Passages
Chauncey residents report visits to Point Rock Ohio and Chamberlain relatives. Robert Hillyer Jr CCC enrollee from Moundsville West Virginia becomes ill at home after weekend in Chauncey. Local residents F H Staffinger Sapp Locke Fennell and Ferguson recover or attend church services. Rev Ray Green led Chauncey M E Church service Sunday night.
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Chauncey
Lydia Chalfant
Harry
Pearl Chalfant
Point Rock
Ohio
F. H. Staffinger
Arthur Sapp
Plains
Nazarene Church
James Locke
Locke
Thomas Fennell
Crooksville-C Chauncey Basketball Game Canceled
Crooksville and Chauncey due for game cancellation as Crooksville coach was hospitalized with appendicitis last week. Chauncey Blue Devils will not play again until the week of March 5 6 and 7 during the Chilli cothe tournament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Crooksville
Chauncey Blue Devils
Chillicothe
Chauncey Birthday Dinner Honors Two Celebrants
A Sunday birthday dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Pennell in Chauncey marked the anniversaries of Jack McGurty of Murray City and Alden Pennell. Attending were numerous relatives from Chauncey and Murray City, including the McGurty and Northrop families, and the Pennell household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Howard Pennell
Jack McGurty
Murray City
James Henderson
Margaret
Arthur
Lillie Mae
Hubert
Helen
Rita
Junior
Jackie
Phyllis Ann
Billy Diles Hosts Birthday Party in Middleport
Billy Diles celebrated his twelfth birthday Saturday afternoon from 2 to 4 at the L. D. Diles residence on Beech Street. Friends enjoyed games and decorations themed to the George Washington tradition. Lois and Phyllis Diles served refreshments as gifts were given to the host.
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Middleport
Billy Diles
Chauncey Club Meetings and church notices
Chauncey Past Chiefs Club and Pythian Sisters Chauncey will meet Tuesday at Mrs. Clara Wallace home in the Plains. The Chauncey M FE Church board meets Friday Feb 28 at 7 in Rev Ray Greene’s parsonage Jacksonville. Millfield Church of Christ Ladies Aid plans all day quilting at the church Thursday. Millfield Needle Club members will gather Wednesday evening at Mrs Daniel Fulton’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Chiefs Club
Pythian” Sisters
Clara Wallace
the Plains
Chauncey M. FE. Church
Ray Greene
M. FE
Jacksonville
Ladies’ Aid Society of
Millfield
Junior-Senior Class and Faculty Party At Chauncey High
The Junior-Senior Class party occurred in the Chauncey high school gym Friday night with faculty present including Miss Mingus Miss Fiske Mrs Brown Mrs Henry and Mr Theisen. Prizes were awarded to Erle Bridgewater Jr Ruth Fiske Eli Labosky Virginia McQuade Frederick Ross and Roselle Locke. Refreshments followed as attendees listed include Frances Atkinson Gloria Hintz Gretchen Edwards Virginia McQuade and others. Ultra violet lamps treated 200 animals for rickets at the Highland Park Zoo Pittsburgh.
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Meigs
Wm. Larkins
Mrs. Barnes
Society of Church
Wed
Carl Russell
T. B. Russell
Beech St
PTA
Coughlin
Sioux City
Missouri River
Neb
Open Tourney
Hartley
Mrs. Gilmore
Mission Society
Marie Parker
Mrs. Roush
Hannah Hibbard
Schauneey
Millfeld Needle Club
Daniel Fulton
Higheland Park Zoo
Ins Signia
Lance
Ando
RAND
American Tobasto Company
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