Smith To Head Commissioners In Pomeroy Ohio
POMEROY Jan 1 The Meigs County Board of Commissioners elected William Smith as chairman after a compromise between Karr and Compton. The board plans to appeal Judge David J Thomas 29 000 back tax ruling in the Ebersbach case to the Court of Appeals with Cedric W Clark and Judge A D Russell assisting. A pest house will be rented for quarantined residents as smallpox spreads in the county. A county infirmary dispute over admission was rejected. county files may move to the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society. County surveyor reports gravel work and road costs for April 1930 to November 30 1936. Local notices include visitors and church Ladies Aid plans for a future supper.
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Pomeroy
Jan
Meigs County
Karr
Compton
William Smith
Smith
County Board of Equalization
David J Thomas
Marietta
Ebersbach
Court of Appeals
Thomas
D. H. Peoples
Cedric W. Clark
Clark
A. D. Russell
Pomeroy Bench
Henry Manley
Middleport
Milo Stewart
Mantey
Ohio State Archeological and Historical Society
Columbus
Doc Tax Fund
Will Serfried
Hattie Gardner
A. W. Miller
Dale Sheets
Guy Mutchier
J. R. Ogdin
Wayne King
Pearl Lanning
Honorable
Board of County Commissioners
Community church notes from Middleport
Rev J A Walden for Sheasbury A M FB Church lists events at the parsonage with practice for young people on Friday January 9. January 11 communion service expected to feature the Mewardesses on organ. February 12 marks the second quarterly meeting.
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Sheasbury A. M. FB
Middleport
J. A. Walden
New Meigs County Sheriff Jumps Into Duties
POMEROY Jan 6 A O Tracy the new Meigs County sheriff jumped into work immediately after taking office with calls for his services across the area He was deputy under the late Sheriff Harry Rice and is ready to meet demands Jess Pickens of Portland was added to ten prisoners in the county jail his arrest was on a liquor charge County commissioners inspected the jail and ordered the residence repapered.
Youth movement aims to guard nature in Meigs County
A state drive to enlist Meigs County children in Nature Guardians, led by Ethyl B. Ryan, promotes protecting birds fish and forests under Ohio Department of Agriculture funding. Meetings in Pomeroy High School and other towns will explain the plan to youth and adults, with active local support from Mrs. Harry B. Roush.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Nature Guardians
Ohto Department of Agriculture
Division of Conservation
Ethyl B. Ryan
Rutland
Harrisonville
Syracuse
Wolfpern
Rose Hill
Rocksprines
Harry B. Roush Pomeroy
Loealty
Rutland A M E Church Service and Communion Dates
Rev J A Walden preaches at 11 o clock Sunday in Rutland A M E Church. Business meeting set for January 19. Communion scheduled for January 25 at 11:46 am.
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Rutland A. M. EL Church
J. A. Walden
Village of Pomeroy Sets 86 539 09 Budget For Year
Pomeroy council approves an annual appropriation totaling 86 539 09 to run village operations. Funds include 2 588 General 600 Special 2 250 Safety 32 706 Service 4 300 Cemetery 12 392 Street Maintenance and 31 709 69 Retirement. Eddie Hoeflick named fire house foreman Ward Two. Sheridan Casto reappointed street commissioner. Water committee notes 51 fire plugs, six movable. no action until water debt paid. Council considers borrowing under 6 percent to cover 30 600 debt to utilities. Pesthouse action discussed but halted after county measures.
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Pomeroy
Eddie Hoeflick
William Stivers
Hess
Sheridan Casto
Light and Water Company
Finance Committee
Plantz
Ralston Russell
Meigs County Commissioners
Rutland man protests calf hide payment with cheeky note
Ashe Mc Ghee of Rutland complained after sending a 12 pound calf hide by express to a city dealer and receiving a check for only forty one cents. He noted the word only on the check angered him as belittling his sale.
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Rutland
Pombroy
Ashe McGhee
Express
Highway improvements proceed in Meigs County
Pomeroy reports that despite a change in Ohio's official family the 1931 road program for Meigs County will be carried out. Work includes the Route 7 fill at East Pomeroy and the Pomeroy to Rutland route elimination or mitigation of Dead Man's Curve by a creek approach.
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Pomeroy
Ohio
Meigs County
East Pomeroy
Rutland
Bradford Illness Shocks Middleport Community
Word comes that George K. Bradford former Meigs County treasurer and longtime Republican leader is seriously ill at his Columbus home. His son J B Bradford of Rutland traveled to Columbus to assist in his care. Bradford is a brother of Mrs. R B Laughead and has many friends in the area.
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Middleport
George K. Bradford
R. B. Laughead
Columbus
J. B. Bradford
Rutland
Bradford
Meigs County
Heath M. E. Church Missionary Society Meeting
The Foreign Missionary Society of Heath M. E. Church was entertained by Miss Alpha Somersille on South Fifth Avenue. Mrs. Charlotte BurneI led devotional and Miss Julia Miller gave the lesson on the teacher as a trained instructor for their people.
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Middleport
Foreign Missionary Society of Heath M. E. Church
Alpha Somersille
South Fifth Avenue
Charlotte Burne
Julia Miller
Penny Social Postponed by Womans Class
The planned penny social at Heath M. E. Church by the Womens Missionary Circle is postponed indefinitely due to union meetings at the Presbyterian Church next Friday evening.
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Middleport
Heath M. E
Presbyterian Church
Mrs Hendrick Taken To Holzer Hospital For Observation
REMOVED TO HOSPITAL MIDDLEPORT Jan 6 Mrs Tom Hendrick Pradbury was taken to Holzer Hospital Monday for treatment and observation. Mrs Hendrick has been ill for a long period.
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Middleport
Tom Hendrick
Pradbury
Holzer Hospital
Hendrick
Old Tax Receipts Reveal Distant Farm Finances
A correspondent presents seven old Meigs County tax receipts from Josiah Merritt, owner of a 46 acre Columbia Township farm, showing low rates and changing valuations from 1854 to 1869. Details include land values around 177 to 228 dollars, varying taxes, and treasurers Joel Haskins, Branch, Cyrus Russell, and G B Grow.
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Pomeroy
Will C. Merritt
Trimble
Josiah Merritt
Columbia Township
Joel Haskins
Meigs County
Branch
Cyrus Russell
G. BR. Grow
Treasuer Meiges
Merritt
Sudsy Tree Mystery Outside Courthouse
A knot hole in an elm near the courthouse wall fills with rain water and acidic sap, causing the trunk to foam as suds drain to the ground, forming a foamy pool after rains.
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Pomeroy
Ellia Lambert Returns to Bliss College in Columbus
Miss Ellea Lambert resumes studies at Bliss College in Columbus after holiday visit with parents Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lambert of Pomeroy Pre tinct. The January term of common pleas court opened without business as eight criminal cases remain on the docket. Willie King of Rocksprings was sent to St Joseph Hospital in Parkersburg for further care. William Durst funeral attended by Mrs Mary Tiersch and others.
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Ali
Mefigs County
Ellea Lambert
Columbus
Bliss College
Jesse Lambert
Pomeroy
D. J. Morgan
Flatwoods
George W. Kerwood
West Columbia
W. Va
Common Pleas Court
Willie King
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
Henry Zeiher
Elizabeth
Jacob Blum
Mary Tiersch
Walter
John Durst
Meigs County Native Maywood Spence Dies at 48
Maywood Spence 48, son of the late Timothy Spence, died yesterday at 116 Dexter Road South Columbus. The body will be taken to his old Meigs County home for burial at Bald Knobs.
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Pomeroy
Maywood Spence
Timothy Spence
Dexter Road
Columbus
Meigs County
Bald Knobs
Former resident dies in Columbus
Mrs Mary Gertrude Eichenlaub died at 285 Twelfth Avenue Columbus on January 2. Widow of Albert Eichenlaub she was a stenographer in the Ohio State Department. She leaves a son Albert and extended Bal family connections. Funeral at Holy Name Church Columbus with burial at Mt Calvary Cemetery.
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John Bal
Vinton Furnace
Zaleski
Holy Name Church
Patterson Avenue
Columbus
Mt. Calvary Cemetery
Albert
Catherine Bal
P. C. Shetler
Fred Bienenslaub
Edward Siegfried
Chillicothe
Local notes record family visits and illness in McArthur area
Mrs. Leonard Warner of Dundas suffered a slight stroke and is mobile again. Mrs. Elza Taylor in McArthur bruised after a fall Sunday night. Raymond Taylor celebrated his birthday at home with Elza Taylor and guests from Wellston Allensville and McArthur. Local residents and visitors from Columbus Athens Mishawaka San Antonio gathered at family homes and events.
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Leonard Warner
Dundas
Elza Taylor
McArthur
Raymond Taylor
Anna Lou
Bernice Edwards
Wellston
Carrie Seitz
Allensville
Jack Taylor
James Goldsworthy
Arden Ray
San Antonio
Texas
Ray
Senator Vollenweider
Forest Snyder
Mishawaka
Ind
R. W. Bail
Millersport
Bail
Vinton County
William Coultrap
Ann Arbor
Mich
Elizabeth Coultrap
Ohio Wesleyan University
Frances Coultrap
L. W. Pilcher
Homer Goddard
Herbert Hamilton
Ralph Benner
Robert Will
Alice Louise Gill
Jean Will
Martha Hamilton
Elisabeth Coultrap
James Pilcher
John Gill, Jr
Elected Vinton County officers sworn in January
The named officers elected last November were sworn in January 1 by county clerk Maude Collins. Sheriff Ray Cox, Riley Fee, County Commissioner George Knox, County Auditor C O Chapman, Prosecuting Attorney Harley Peck, County Recorder B J Henry, and Coroner. The January term grand jury will meet January 19 at the courthouse with Judge J W Darby presiding. grand jury names will be drawn soon. Only a small amount of business is expected.
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Vinton
Riffle Leads Escape Attempt at Mansfield Reform
Kenneth Riffle formerly of Puritan attempted to scale the Mansfield Reformatory walls on December 29 with four companions including inmates from Adams and Athens. Riffle, previously jailed in January 1936 for passing forged checks, and the others were recaptured within a short distance of the enclosure.
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Kenneth Riffle
Puritan
Mansfield Reformatory
Adams
Athens
Riffle
New Plymouth Grange to Install Officers and Social Event
A full day meeting of the New Plymouth Grange is planned for Saturday January 16 with installation of officers for 1931 and a social program to follow.
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New Plymouth Grange
County Agents Outline Dairy and Soil Plans in Vinton County
T C Kennard announces a January 13 meeting at McArthur to form the Vinton County Calf Club with Ivan McKellip of the State Dairy Department likely speaking on calf care. A three day soil survey April 1 3 will analyze samples to guide fertilizer use. Kennard will also help prepare farm record forms for 1981 and attend January 6 in Athens to aid a new cooperative sales corporation's constitution and by laws and a milk producer buyer contract. The Swan Booster Club hosts a February 22 meeting at the Rannells home with games contests and an oyster supper.
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T. C. Kennard
McArthur
Vinton County
Kennard
Athens
Cooperative Sales Corporation
Swan Booster Club
D. V. Rannells
Swan Township
Washington
Christmas Reunion at 77 Warren Street Columbus
Mr and Mrs Peter Schneider hosted a Christmas Day gathering at their Warren Street home in Columbus with all their children and grandchildren present for turkey dinner. Daughter Mrs Gerald Robb came from St Petersburg Florida, joining siblings William Schneider Albert Rose William Graffis Oscar Hedding and their spouses and Pete Robb. Music and games filled the day and the Schneiders also provided Christmas dinner to ten city unemployed.
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Peter Schneider
Warren Street
Columbus
Zaleski
Gerald Robb
St. Petersburg
Fln
William Schneider
Albert Rose
William Graffis
Oscar Hedding
Pete
Schneider
Tornado Hits Uniontown Causes Severe Damage
A high velocity tornado struck Uniontown shortly after noon. Buildings were unroofed, cars blown from streets, and trees torn from the ground. Winds peaked at Burgess Field around 102 mph, later recorded 80 mph.
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Uniontown
Payan
U.R
Burgess Field
U. S. Army Airport
Here
Ohio fair managers to gather in Columbus in mid January
Ohio Fair Managers plan a three day gathering January 13 to 15 in Columbus presided by I L Holderman. The annual banquet on January 14 will feature Gov. Myers Y Cooper and Gov elect George White with over 1000 attendees. The issue includes coverage of hunting seasons and state activities.
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Columbus
Ohio Fair Managers
I. L. Holderman
Myers Y. Cooper
George White
Thoxine Promises Quick Relief for Coughs
An advertisement claims Thoxine cures night coughs quickly by targeting the internal cause. It asserts immediate relief after the first swallow and safety for the whole family, with refund if not satisfied. Sold at Cline's Drug Store Athens Hickman Drug Co Nelsonville and other drug stores.
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Cline
Dri
Athens
Hickman Drug Co
Nelsonville
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