Meigs 1955 Highlights Continue With Broiler Festival
A year of Meigs County events spans Aug through Dec 1955. Aug 17 marked the 92nd Meigs County Fair with a new midway. Sept 14 the Northern district approved a $71,000 school bond for an addition. Sept 21 Charles Legar named master of Pomeroy Bend Grange. The period covers hospital board changes, labor observances, curfews, drownings, a riverbank abandonment, and a busy slate of fairs, school reopenings, and community projects across Middleport Pomeroy and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport Street Department
Swisher
Meigs County
Otis Cole
Tuppers Plains
Middleport
Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion
The
Jaycees
Linda Basnett
Pomeroy
Charles Legar
Pomeroy Bend
Harrisonville
Charles Sheets
Paula Jean
John Moore
Donald Moore
Joe Young, Jr
Middleport Council
Racine
Virgil V. Brown
Ernest Covert
Jo Hardy
Hal McIntyre
Jaycee
Monkey Run
Dale Bachner
Fred Winn Rites Set
Fred Winn died Wednesday at his daughter’s home in Langsville. Survived by two daughters Edith Summers and Helen Gross, a son Paul Winn, and eight grandchildren. Wife Essie died in 1945. Lifelong Rutland resident. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday at Rutland Baptist Church with burial Wells Cemetery Pagetown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Fred Winn
Clair Taylor
Langsville
Edith Summers
Medina
Helen Gross
Cuyahoga Falls
Paul
Bradbury
Essie
Paul Winn
Rutland Baptists Church
Wells Cemetery
Pagetown
Meigs General Hospital Daily Admission and Discharges
Admitted patients include Mrs Mary Barnett Mrs Helen Hudnall Mrs Daisy Patterson Mrs Mildred Meredith. Discharged are James Phillips Mrs Wanda Neigler and daughter Mrs Glenn Lee Paul Beards Patricia Smith Mrs Anna Grimm Mrs Deereten Stone and son Mrs Eva McElroy and Miss Lena Herrmann.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Barnett
Middleport
Helen Hudnall
Springfield
Daisy Patterson
Rutland
Mildred Meredith
Long Bottom
James Phillips
Wanda Neigler
Glenn Lee
Paul Beards
Patricia Smith
Anna Grimm
Deereten Stone
Eva McElroy
Lena ‘Herrmann
Pomeroy Mayor’s Yearly Receipts Total $5926.31
The 1955 report by Mrs. Truman Russell shows Mayor E. F. Robinson’s office collected $5926.31 in income from taxi licenses, fines, patrol charges, and miscellaneous sources. Total cases heard reached 300 with intoxication and speeding the top offenses. allocations included payments to the village treasury, county law library, and state funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
County Laws Library
County Treasur‘er
State
Division of Natural Resources
Andrew Dye Rites Friday
POMEROY Andrew Dye prominent Harrisonville resident died Wednesday at his daughter Mary Paynter’s home in Mount Blanchard Ohio. He is survived by his wife two daughters Mary Paynter and Evelyn Jones of Santa Monica California and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Presbyterian Church in Harrisonville with calling at the Ewing funeral home until noon and body taken to the church. Burial will be in Shipman Cemetery Harrisonville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shipman Cemetery
Harrisonville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Meigs
E. F. Robinson
Meigs General Hospital Board of Directors
Earl Stevens
Janice Story
Ruby Holter
James
Deem
Bob Robinson
Bailey
Ohio
J. Edwin Charles
Grace Episcopal Church
Scipio High School
Middleport Boy Scouts
Evelyn
Helen Capteina
Pomeroy Band
Roosters
Ralph C. Henderson
R. C. Follrod
Charles G. Sheets
Pearl W. Williams
Harold ‘Carnahan
County Agricultural Society Board
Big ‘Bend
Russell Singer
Thomas Fork
Ohio Valley Horse Show Association
Norma Chapman
Queen of the
Portland
Hiram Slanter
County Agricultural Society
Meigs County Farm Bureau
Robert Coats
Middleport Board of Education
Wagner Hardware
Esco Sarkkinen
Ohio State
Francis Wallace
Midway
Tri-County
Federated Church
Board of Education
Robert J. Grueser
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Columbus
Meigs Jaycees
Richard Gaul
Save
Beth
Children's Department
Meigs General Hospital
N. Court St
Athens, Ohio
Andrew Dye
U. S
FEARN
Buick
America
Jackie Gulason
Ivery
N. Court & W. Carpenter Sts
Athens
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