Middleport Prayer Week Services Are Scheduled
Middleport plans a Week of Prayer starting January 7 at First Baptist Church. The Mid dleport Ministerial Association organizes nightly services Monday through Friday with alternating venues and offerings funding cooperative work including a Daily Vacation Bible School. Participants include Rev. Claremont E. Hoyt and others from local churches.
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Middleport
First Baptist Church
Association
Daily Vacation Bible School
Middleport Bridge Group Meets For Social Cards
A group of young matrons in Middleport meets twice monthly to brush up on bridge. On Wednesday they gathered at Mrs. Tom Rue’s home on S Third Ave with snacks and cokes provided.
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Middleport
Tom Rue
S. Third Ave
Rue
Lionel Boggs
Donald Mills
James Thomas
Don Stivers
Roger Morgan
Richard Karr
Martha Donnelly
Roland LeVaughn
Karen
Sue Rue
Middleport Garden Club Meeting Canceled
The January Middleport Garden Club session at president Mrs. Malcolm Roller's home is canceled due to the death of Mrs Viola Jones, the president's aunt.
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Middleport
Middleport Garden Club
Malcolm Roller
Roller
Viola Jones
Memorial rites mark Evangeline Chapter OES officers
Middleport observes memorials for a past patron of Evangeline Chapter Order of Eastern Star and District 25 officer Eva Van Dyke who died December 26. New officers including Mrs Willis Anthony presided. Plans set for School of Instruction in Marietta January 20 and initiation January 24.
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Middleport
Evangeline Chapter
Order of Eastern Star
District 25
Willis Anthony
Eva van Dyke
OES
School of Instruction
Marietta
Middleport Literary Club Meets at Dale Dutton Home
Mrs Everett Hayes presented a paper at the Middleport Literary Club gathering held Wednesday afternoon at Mrs Dale Dutton's home. She reviewed Winston Churchill's The Birth of Britain and concluded with a dramatic reading from Shakespeare's King Richard II.
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Middleport
Everett Hayes
Dale Dutton
Winston Churchill
Britain
Richard II
Viola Jones dies in Pomeroy at 82
Viola Jones 82 a lifelong Pomeroy resident and Methodist Church member died at 9 35 p m Thursday She was active in the County Women s Republican club and Daughters of Ruth She leaves nieces and nephews Max Roller Jed Webster Sr and F L Klint worth Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 30 p m in the Ewing Chapel with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery
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Pomeroy
Viola Jones
Methodist Church
Daughters of Ruth
Republican Club
Amos and
Phebe Howell
Max Roller
Middleport
Jed Webster
Heart condition drives Fisher to Holzer Hospital
Mrs. A H Fisher of Lasley Sr was taken by the Pomeroy Emergency Squad to Holzer Hospital around 1 30 p m Thursday after a possible heart condition. Squad members gave oxygen en route. it marked the squad’s 1116th call.
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Pomeroy
A. H. Fisher, Lasley Sr
Holzer Hospital
BB Gun Issue Again Probed by Middleport Police
Police questioned several local youths last night over BB gun use within village limits. An official warned the pastime is dangerous and will not be tolerated and that parents will be held responsible for damages and fines. Many BB guns were reportedly sold at Christmas.
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Middleport
Death claims Dr Gwendolen Jones 53 in New York
Middleport reports the death of Dr Gwendolen Schlaegel Jones 53 at St Luke's Hospital New York from a heart attack. She served at Columbia School of Nursing and Columbia University and lived at 600 West 115th Street. Survived by three children from her 1929 marriage to the late Dr S Eugene Barrera, including Kenneth E Barrera and daughters Caroline M Barrera and Gwenith B Hart.
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Middleport
New York
Gwendolen Schlaegel Jones
St. Luke’s Hospital
Phelps- Stokes Fund
Dr. Jones
Wellesley College
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia
American Medical Association
The
Medical Society of New York
Women’s Welsh Clubs of America
English- Speaking Union
S. Eugene Barrera
Kenneth E. Barrera
Caroline M. Barrera
Gwenith B. Hart
Meigs County Churches Map Sunday Services
A detailed list of Methodist and allied churches in Meigs County with pastors guest speakers and weekly schedules. Racine Forest Run Apple Grove Sutton and many more fields show Sunday schools at 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Morning worship times range 9:30 to 11 a.m. Floyd Workman Arlie Marks Victor Brown lead preaching and services through the week.
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Racine
The
Methodist Church
John Elwood
Floyd Workman
Arlie Marks
Freeland Norris
Bill Orr
Vieter Brown
Forest Run
Oak Grove
Victor Brown
Sutton
Antiquity
Letart Falls
Apple Grove
East Letart
Plants
Portland
Arle Marks
Great Bend
Morse
Stoversville
Reedsville
Long Bottom
Joppa
Tuppers Plains
Bethel
Lawrence Chapel
Dorcas Eue
Nesday
Church of Christ
Donald Seevers
Christian Endeavor
Church of God
E. Main and
Cherry Sts
N. W. Jenks
Family A Plenty To Spoil First Baby
Janna Kay Stobart, Meigs County's first baby of 1957, will be spoiled by many relatives. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stobart, formerly June Chancey. Grandparents include Mr. and Mrs. John Chancey and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Pullins of Middleport, with great-grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Milton Russell of Bradbury and Mrs. Mary Stobart of Anthul ty, plus Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Raines of Kenna and Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Chancey of Ripley, W Virginia.
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Middleport
Janna Kay Stobart
Meigs County
Charles Stobart
June Chancey
John Chancey
Hubert Pullins
Milton Russell
Bradbury
Mary Stobart
Anthulty
B. R. Raines
Kenna
W. Va
R. T. Chancey
Ripley
Mrs Downing Critical After Charleston Hospital Visit
Mrs John B Downing remains in critical condition at a Charleston hospital after an ambulance transfer a week ago. Her son Rodney was summoned to Charleston Thursday and a daughter Mrs Raymond Singleton Marie Downing lives there.
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Middleport
John B. Downing
Charleston
Rodney
Raymond Singleton
Marie Downing
Middleport church notices outline weekly services and events
Church of Christ led by Fred J. Gardner lists Bible school at 9 30 a m worship 10 30 sermon The Hearing Ear and the Seeing Eye CE Youth Hour at 6 p m Evening service at 7 with Our Spiritual Age sermon First Baptist led by Rev Clare mont E Hoyt shows church school at 9 15 morning worship and communion at 10 15 installation of officers sermon The Year for Christ Junior and Senior Baptist Youth Fellowships meet at 6 p m Evening worship at 7 30 with Goals for the New Year Senior choir rehearsals week schedules Crusaders class attends week of prayer Tuesday 7 30 p m then home of Mrs Ruth Robinson Golden Rule Class to prayer services Thursday 7 30 p m then at home of Mrs Reid Varney Powell Street
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United Methodist
Eugene Brown
Eugene Frye
Harry Smith
WSCS
Barnitz
Christian Science
R. M. Grove
Dinsmore Boyles
Elmwood Rest Home
Seventh-day Adventist — Day Hall
Butternut St
F. Cadlé
Church of Christ
Fred J. Gardner
First Baptist
Claremont E. Hoyt
Christian Crusaders
Ruth Robinson
Reid Varney
Powell Street
New Sheriff and Deputy Take Oaths of Office
Sheriff-elect Robert Hartenbach and Deputy Howard Frank took their oaths of office before Judge Cedric W. Clark in the Meigs County Court of Common Pleas Courtroom. Frank will be appointed Monday. Hartenbach moves into the jail Saturday with his wife and son. Russell retires after eight years. he will work for Richards and Son Gravel Co. and stay in Middleport.
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Viola
Steve
Meigs County
Charles Russell
Richards & Son Gravel Co
Apple Grove
South Third Street
Middleport
Cook
Hartenbach
Sheriff Russell
Sheriff Hartenbach
Russell
Rehearsals Set for Sunflower Minstrel Shows
Rehearsals scheduled for the Sunflower Minstrel are planned for Wednesday at Pomeroy Junior High School and Wednesday January 16 at Middleport High School. Bradford Maag directs with Fides Lodge Knights of Pythias and Middleport Senior Class sponsoring. A Sunday rehearsal at the Middleport K of P Hall is listed and a dress rehearsal is set for Monday at 7 p.m. in Pomeroy. The curtain rises on Pomeroy’s show Wednesday at 8 15.
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Middleport
Pomeroy
Middleport High School
Bradford Maag
Fides Lodge
Knights of Pythias
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H. E. Ruppelt
First Presbyterian Church
N. D. Borden
Mt. Moriah
Fred I. Gardner
Robert Styers
Church of the Nazarene
R. C
Kankright
Heath Methodist Church
Hoyt
Konkright
Methodist
Bordon
Ruppelt
Presbyterian
Mt. Moriah Church
Styers
Gardner
Church of Christ Choir
Nazarene Choir
Middleport Society
Net
James Criswell
James Pullen
Brownell Ave
Susan Pullen
Athens
Nelsonville
Churchill Book Reviewed
Citizens National Bank
Middleport, Ohio
Federal Reserve System and
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Williams Avenue
Cincinnati
Meigs County Church Services
Keno
Bradford
Zion Church of Christ
Thomas St. Wyatt
Carleton
Kingsbury Road
R. A. Biddle
St. Paul's Lutheran
L. M. Mohrhoff
Trinity Lutheran
H. H. Fickenscher
Danville Pilgrim Holiness
W. V. Gilkerson
Little Hocking
Charles Hupp
Gallipolis
Rutland
NYPS
Rutland Church of the Nazarene
Harold Klingel
Sacred Heart
Father John Turel
Mt. Carmel
Church of Christ—Bible School
Ethel Nichols
Golaghat Girls School
Asia
India
Harrisonville Presbyterian
Ralph C. Zundel
Mayo
Robt
Stark Ruth Roman
SuperScope
Technicolor
Don McGowan
Joyce Holden
Steven Ritch
Cash & Carry
Duke
Court ST
Main ST
Phione
U.S. Government
Federal Reserve Bank
Banking House
Pomeroy, Ohio
Edison Hobstetter
Eldon Weeks
Robert S. Coates
Mildred M. Stanley
Richard Chambers
Dr. R. E. Boice Warren Pickens
Mildred M. Stanley Eldon Weeks
Maxine Griffith
Lera K. Jones
Charlotte M. Evans
Marilyn L. Ebersbach
Cora A. Grindley
William J. Hobstetter
Edith Williamson
Member
Federal Reserve System
Middleport Church News
Allen Appliance
E. Main ST
Bendvue Theatre
Liberty Theatre
Ohio
van Heflin
Anne Bancroft
Peter Reynolds
Rona Anderson
Pomeroy Bend Theatres
Meigs—Pomeroy
Eleanor Tanin
Edmond O’brien
Brian Donlevy
Natalie Wood
Raymond Burr
Marlon Brando
Jean Simmons
Frank Sinatra
Temple
Lex Barker
Jane Maxwell
Paul Muller
Dakota
Dale Robertson
Linda Darnell
John Lund
Ward Bond
Regis Toomey
Victor Mature
Janet Leigh
John Justin
Rolan Culver
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