Coupon era echoes in a small town prose
In a nostalgic column the author laments modern life driven by coupons, stamps, and credit cards while contrasting past simplicity with today’s collectable culture. The piece reflects on grandma saving stamps, cereal prizes, and the pull of promotions shaping family life, ending with a school news note about James Diehl joining the Meigs Senior High planning committee for an Ohio teachers conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
James Diehl
Meigs
Ohio Association of Secondary School Principals
Columbus
OASSP
Teachers Honored At Dinner In Racine
Racine Sunday school superintendent Frank Cleland hosted a dinner honoring Baptist Church school teachers. The event, prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Cleland with Martha Lou Beegle assisting, featured a devotional and songtime. Rev. Charles Simons spoke on teachers, methods and qualifications, followed by a Q and A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Frank Cleland
Baptist Church School
Cleland
Martha Lou Beegle
Charles Simons
Middleport Baptist Church
Gene Yost
Johnny Stobart
Blendena Hudson
Martin Wilcoxen
Marilyn Powell
Rod Grimm
Evelyn Young
Vinton Visits And Public School Employees Meeting
Local news notes several social visits including Langsville’s Cottrills and Gallipolis visitors at Hartsooks and Castos, plus Columbus resident James Snyder returning to his wife Kathryn Snyder. Meigs Local Chapter of the Ohio Association of Public School Employees will meet Tuesday at Harrisonville Elementary School at 7:30 p.m. Members and prospective members are urged to attend. The piece cites 3.7 to 5 million disabled Americans who could be rehabilitated into employment per the U.S. Social and Rehabilitation Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meigs
Ohio Association of Public School Employees
Harrisonville
United States
The
U.S
Social and Rehabilitation Service
DAV
Elbert L. Stutler
Ohio Department
Jacob Turner
Stutler
Christmas Program Presented by Long Bottom Churches
Long Bottom churches joined to present a Christmas program at Long Bottom United Methodist Church. The venue featured pine and candles, a decorated spruce tree, and a lighted star. Rev. Charles Norris opened with child recitations as Steve Holter and others performed. An adult and youth candlelight choir sang carols, while Wallac Damewood read the Christmas story with church members enacting roles. A living Christmas tree segment followed with multiple participants, and the service ended with congregational caroling and piano by Sandra Newlun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Bottom
Long Bottom United Methodist Church
Charles Norris
Steve Holter
Mike Larkins
Judy Perry
Judy Holter
Roberta Larkins
Kenneth Larkins
Dale Welsh
Bobby Headley
Brian Connolly
Lee Swain
Wallac Damewood
Charles Hensley
Tommy Osborne
David Heaton
Joe Bissell
Sanford Cozart
Lewis Edgell
Mr. Norris
Phyliss
Darsel Larkins
George Pickens
Delores Frank
Sammy Rairden
Adam Bissell
Clyde Lawrence
Nancy
Kim Schul
Sandra Newlun
Famous Men Used To Illustrate Story
In Syracuse United Methodist Church Women’s Society meeting, seven well known figures were cited as character study references from The Practice and Power of Prayer. Ed die Rickenbacker’s 1942 South Pacific plane crash inspired faith among two atheists in the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Syracuse
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Syracuse United Methodist Church
Donald Lisle
Marcia Karr
Matthew
John R. Matt
E. Stanely Jones
John Tyndall
George Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Schetzer
Eddie Rickenbacker
South Pacific
Servicemen Update From Ohio and Nearby Areas
Capt Joe D Tate took part in an eight day joint training exercise with Charleston based units. Pvt Willis P Kaderly completed a cooking course at Fort Jackson learning meat cutting pastry baking and food service in mess halls and in the field. Spec 5 William A Hughes finished welder skill training at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Staff Sgt Jerry L Fry arrived at Avon Park Range for Tactical Air Command duty. his wife Cheryl is the daughter of Ellen and Willard Ebersbach. Larry Spaulding serves with the First Marine Division in South Vietnam. Marine Pvt David A Savage graduated from eight weeks of recruit training in San Diego. Rev J P Stephenson and family visited his parents in addition to relatives Zahl Pre ntiss and others from Groveport Wintersville and Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe D. Tate
Sondra
William E. Swatzel
Pomeroy
Military Aircraft Command
Charleston
S. C
Willis P. Kaderly
Margret
Valley View Drive
Athens
Army
William A. Hughes
Henry P. Hughes
U. S. Army Ordnance Center
Aberdeen Proving Ground
Jerry L. Fry
Faye E. Fry
Middleport
Avon Park
Carpenter Social Visits Across Towns and States
Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Culwell included Roscoe Tackett and family from Flatwoods Kentucky and other relatives. Numerous locals hosted visitors from Orlando Florida and Dayton Ohio while Mrs. Paynter recovers at home after a car accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carpenter
Jerry Culwell
Roscoe Tackett
Flatwoods
William Culwell
Clay Jordan
Dale
Barbara
Chillicothe
Leslie Canode
Lucasville
Elizabeth Canode
Rob Turner
Arthur Crabtree
J. K. Crabtree
New Marshfield
Alva Rupe
Jesse Cuckler
Athens
William Lawson
Cheryl
David White
Carroll
Sidney Parker
Bolivar
Ney Carpenter
Glen Cline
Jess Swan
Langsville
Webster Facemyre
Penny Temple
Dayton
Oliver Cheasaux
Matthew
Plainfield
Cheasaux
Linda Bishop
Bob Wiles
Fairborn
Elza McComas
Victor Perry
Dwaine Jordan
Bryan
Keith
Alfred Rice
Berg Brothers celebrate 60th anniversary in Bismarck
Mr and Mrs Christ Berg of Bismarck marked their 60th wedding anniversary with a family celebration. Attending were three Berg brothers and their spouses. Christ Berg wed Elizabeth Neumiller in 1908, Carl Berg to Jessie Tapplin in 1915, Ed Berg to May Tapplin in 1917, and John Berg to Lydia Wagner in 1918. A sister, Mrs Ed Eslinger, had married in 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bismarck
N. D
Berg
North Dakota
Christ Berg
Elizabeth Neumiller
Carl Berg
Jessie Tapplin
Ed Berg
May
John Berg
Lydia Wagner
Golden Circle
Ed Eslinger
Farmers Bank reports best year in history assets rise 17
POMEROY The Farmers Bank and Savings Co. announced a 17 percent asset increase in 1968 bringing total assets to over 9 million. Theodore Reed Jr. said the year was the bank’s best ever and announced fulltime hiring of There on Johnson among other officers and planned move to a new building by April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson Farms
Letart Falls
Johnson
Meigs Soil and Water Board of Supervisors
Meigs County
Racine Lodge
Pomeroy Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Bosworth Council
R&sm
Ohio Valley Commandry
Knights Templar
Valley of Columbus
Aladdin Temple
Columbus
Menting
Richard E. Jones
Paul Kloes
Dorothy Will
Joanne J. Russell
Reed
Bank
Starkey Charged With Hitting Bus Driver
Earl Starkey of Gallipolis Ferry was arrested on a felonious assault warrant after allegedly taking an school bus driver Carolos Benson from his vehicle at 7 35 a m and striking him in the face He is free on a 1000 dollar bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starkey
Point Pleasant
Earl Starkey
Gallipolis Ferry
State Police and Sheriff's Department
Carolos Benson
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England
Junior
Susie
Eleanor White Vinton
Harold Cottrill
Lucy Hartsook
Gene Kessel
Charles Casto
Don Schilling
Lisa
Gallipolis
E. E. Hartsook
Liane
Diane Hartsook
James Snyder
Mrs
Kathryn Snyder
Sherri
Phil
Meigs Meetings
Columbia Gas Co
Ohio
Beuich Jones
Dana Winebrenner
Wendell Stutler
Carl Weese
Keith Lisle
Honolulu
Hawaii
Marine Pvt
David A. Savage
Walter T. Savage
Chauncey
Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Pomeroy Personals
J. P. Stephenson
Delaware
J. H. Stephenson
A. M. Zahl
William Zahl
Groveport
Leo Smith
Wintersville
John M. Prentiss
Louisville, Ky
Prentiss
Smith
Lincoln Hgts
Pomeroy, O
Citizen’s Band
TRAM
Titan
Tram Titan
Westina Crabtree
Elberfelds
Farmers Bank
Mary Lou Philson
Donald F. Johnson
Mary K. Konicek
Virginia Wheeler
Com
Fred W. Crow Jr
Leslie Fultz
Pomeroy Block Co
C. Wayne Swisher
Fred Carsey Jr
Mason, W. Va
Harold Smith
Meigs Equipment C
Robert Schellhase
Canton
Richard C. Follrod
Ben-Tom Inc
R. C. Follred Co
HMI
Home Mutual Insurance CO
V. D. Edwards
Insurance Agency
A Bai
FDIC
Rutland
Member
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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