County Agent Green To Lead New Program
Meigs County extension agent Wesley S. Green will lead a series of farmer problem meetings next week at Chester High School and Salem Center School. The program aims to boost farm income through soil care livestock breeding crops and pastures. the Meigs orchard group attends a January 18 fruit school in Coolville with storage and marketing talks.
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Pomeroy
Wesley S. Green
Meigs County
Chester High School
Salem Center School
Green
Meigs County Dairymen
Racine High School
Tri-County Apple Growers’ Association
Washington
Athens
Meigs
Coolville
Meigs Orchard
Dean Comin
Ohio Experiment Station
Howard Wells
Wilkesville
W. B. Baughman
New Concord
Mr. Wells
A. E. Whaley
Tuppers Plains Defeats Chester in Close 24-21 Victory
A large crowd watched Tuppers Plains edge Chester 24-21 on Friday night. It marked the fourth win in five games for Tuppers Plains, with a next game set at Rutland Court on Friday January 14.
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Tuppers Plains
Chester
Tuppers Plains Boys
Toppers Plains
Rutland
Rutland Court
Injuries Result in Death of Meigs Youth
Thomas Kauff 22 of Middleport died at Holzer Hospital from injuries suffered New Year’s in a truck crash wedged between a tree. He was the son of Mr and Mrs John Kauff. Funeral services set for 2 PM Saturday at the family home.
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Middleport
Thomas Kauff
Holzer Hospital
John Kauff
Middleport Hill
Athens Party Sees Chester Cage Game
The Christy String Band of Silver Ridge performed at Hilltop Service Station in Athens on Saturday night. A basketball game between Tuppers Plains and Chester drew local residents, with several Athens residents in attendance.
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Christy String Band
Silver Ridge
Hilltop
Athens
Stanley Christy
Carl Barnhill
Gus Vannest
Cherry Ridge
Wilbur Colburn
Thie Faye Swartz
Mildred Christy
Harry Swank
Eloise
Tuppers Plains
Chester
Bethel A. B. Church
Horton Smith
Fern Smith
Long Bottom
Bernice Betzing
Carol Suthrie
Howard Christy
Carolyn Ann
G. W. Christy
Middleport Social Notes
The Junior Shakespeare Club met after school with two sections led by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Wyatt studying Midsummer Night's Dream. Pauley Kincaid was elected president of the senior division with officers due in three weeks. Mrs. C. P. Bradbury entertained a contract club with Mrs. O. P. Klein as guest. Dor Schaefer had high score. The Contract Club hosted by Mrs. W. G. Davis at her home had absent members replaced by Mrs. Elizabeth Hartinger and Mrs. B. F. Fult, with Mrs. Garen Stansbury posting the high score.
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Shakespeare Club
Gene Wyatt
Pauley Kincaid
C. P. Bradbury
O. P. Klein
Dor Schaefer
City Sit Down Pomeroy Council Considers Sit Down Strike
Pomeroy village council members threaten a sit down strike after a flurry of special meetings. With water plant purchase efforts and January activities keeping them busy, councilmen earning four dollars a month are estimated at about eight cents an hour for two weeks of meetings.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Village
Spanish War Veterans Elect New Officers
POMEROY Officers for 1938 of Gerber Camp No 88 United Spanish War Veterans are Irving Karr commander M S Russell senior vice commander H S Root junior vice commander W L Russell adjutant E J Parson commissary sergeant James F E Murray color bearer H E Motley and Peter Schalegal color guards W E Bryan Earl Bryant and W H Ebersbach trustees Philip Reibel officer of day C F Hill aide de camp E H Morris chaplain W L Russell Gerber Camp adjutant has been appointed assistant state inspector Meeting place moved from Middleport to the Courthouse in
Busy Bees Meet Pomeroy Brain Trust at Federated Church
Busy Bees of the Federated Church met to quilt and celebrate the birthday of Anna Hamm. A noon dinner honored Mrs Hamm with other members and visitors. the group planned a bridge gathering and an executive Boy Scout meeting at the church.
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Pomeroy
Federated Church
Anna Hamm
Julius Smith
Barbara Massar
Anna Stark
Elizabeth Huber
Mary Huber
Lena Huber
Ellen Price
John Strauss
Mary Fisher
Louis Reibel
Barbara Meinhart
Kuether
Erma Smith
Ellen Ebersbach
Paul Huber
Bobby Hamm
Boy Scouts
Eddie Blake
Athens
Richard Maier
Sharon
Toledo
John Smith
Nye Ave
Meigs Beauty Winner To Be Selected January 28
Feeney Ben nett Post American Legion in MIDDLEPORT hosts the state pageant to choose Miss American Legion of Ohio. Local beauties represent merchants and parade before out of town judges for the chance to go to Columbus and compete.
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Middleport
Feeney Bennett Post
American Legion
Department of Ohio
Miss American Legion” of Ohio
Herman Olinger
Post
Enterprise
Columbus
Charles McElhinney
Everett Collins
Couple at Carpenter Is Honored at Shower
On Tuesday evening about 75 friends gathered at the new home of Mr and Mrs Harley Pickett honoring them with a shower. Starr Grange installed the Laurel officers for the coming year with about 80 patrons present including visitors from Columbia Star and Laurel members. Refreshments were served and a bushel of citrus fruit from Florida was presented by Mr and Mrs J A Turner Laurel members wintering there. Friday evening Harrisonville Grange will install the Columbia officers for the coming year.
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Carpenter
Mrs
Harley Pickett
Starr Grange
Laurel
Columbia
Star and Laurel
Florida
J. A. Turner
Harrisonville Grange
Pomeroy Panthers Host New Boston After Two Wins
The Pomeroy Panthers seek a third straight victory as they face New Boston this evening at the Junior High Gym following two recent wins.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Panthers
New Boston
Meigs Auto Deal Illustrates Purpose of New Title Law
In Meigs County the clerk shows the new title law at work as a buyer with two unfiled bills of sale cannot finalize ownership. The case underscores that without a title certificate a car cannot be sold. Clerk Beards predicts 90 percent of cars will bear titles within three years, with pre 1938 cars as the only likely exception.
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Meigs Auto
Pomeroy
Herman Beards
Meigs County
Beards
Survey for Federal Building is Started
Treasury Department engineer MIDDLEPORT N P Greller arrived and started surveying the Central School lot bought for the new post office site. He works with Paul Leonard and Theodore Beegle to set boundaries test soil and place boundary markers.
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Middleport
Ex Pomeroy Resident Anna Andrews Dies in Columbus Home
Anna Andrews widow of William Andrews and former Pomeroy resident died at her Columbus home on Wednesday. She belonged to Simpson M E Church in Pomeroy and later to Glenwood M E Church in Zanesville. Survived by sons Earl and Clyde, with Chester and several grandchildren deceased. Funeral held at Trinity Methodist Church Zanesville with burial in Glenwood Cemetery.
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Orr
Free Methodist Church
Laurel Cliff
Wilson Norris
Athens
P. L. Peoples
D. Curtis Reed
Columbus
Pomeroy
Farmers Bank
Floyd Pooler
Mary Pooler
Monkey Run
Bertha Pownall
Texas
Mexico
Maria Wiley
Lincoln Hill
Maud Kohl
Anna Andrews
William Andrews
Chester
Trinity Methodist Church
Zaneseville
Gelnewood Cemetery
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Wehe Terrace
T. P. Eiselstein
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