Pomeroy Chamber Outlines Playground Drive and Bridge Lighting
The Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce met to review six months of work and propose new projects for six months. Leaders highlighted playground expansion, bridge lighting upgrades on the Pomeroy Mason Bridge, and riverbank cleanup with federal aid talks. The group also discussed a city directory, credit bureau, industrial site promotion, and a potential mass promotional meeting.
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Pomeroy
Chamber
Leslie Fultz
Ron Springer
Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
Springer
Meigs County
Meinhart
Middleport Chamber of Commerce
Kgger Creek Association
Ohio River
Corps of Engineers
Huntington
Roy Betzing
Franklin Rizer
Bob Coates
Bill Grueser
Dick Owen
Clarence Collins
John Richmond
Robert Coates
Rep. Meinhart
Arnold Named to Middleport Village Council for Two Years
James Arnold, a Meigs County native and Middleport resident, was named to fill a council vacancy for a two year term at last night’s first session. The unanimous appointment follows the prior election dispute and sets projects including seal coating, traffic signs, a sewage plant, a fire truck, pool repairs, and riverbank cleanup as priorities for 1958.
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Arnold
Middleport
James Arnold
Meigs County
Dale Dutton
C. C. Fisher
Oth
Er Council
Bernard Fultz
Fisher
Riverview Cemetery
Pomeroy
Jean Lama
Clinton Fisher
John Zerkle
Gibbons
Ernest Covert
David Miller
Sanborn Society Plans Fellowship Tea in February
The B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church met to plan the annual associational fellowship tea. Guest speaker Frances Myer from Ohio University was secured. the group voted support for the March of Dimes and a $25 gift to missionaries in Burma. Members organized devotional, dedication, and social portions with Mrs. Hood presiding and Mrs. Simpson of Racine present.
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A. R. Pullen
Harry Houdashelt
William Hackett
Burma
Frances Myer
Ohio University
James Simpson
Racine
Charles Bennett
David Durst
White Cross
Darst
Paul Smart
Clifford Hayes
Willis Anthony
Stefanie Pullen
Hood
Lovejoy
James Pullen
Harold Chase
Grace Hysell
L. D. Diles
Clifford Stumbo
Mrs. Simpson
Vera Beegle
Isabelle Simpson
Jennifer Blakeslee Celebrates Ninth Birthday Party
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Blakeslee hosted a birthday party for daughter Jennifer on her ninth birthday at their Lincoln Heights home. Guests enjoyed games, folk dances, and movies with prizes awarded to John Emier, Terry Fultz, and Dennis Boothe, followed by refreshments. Jennifer also treated her Sugar Run School Third Grade class to ice cream and cake on Friday afternoon.
Ministers Back Feeney Bennett Post Program Support
The Middleport Ministerial Association pledged support to the Back to God program of Feeney Bennett Post 128 American Legion. The group met at the Church of Christ with Mr. Fred J. Gardner, president, presiding. They reviewed the week of prayer services and planned a future community service at Middleport High School auditorium.
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Middleport
Middleport Ministerial Association
Feeney- Bennett Post
American Legion
Church of Christ
Fred J. Gardner
Middleport High School
Mrs. B. P. Williams Dies in Pittsburg
Relatives report the death of Mrs. B. P. Williams formerly Erma Kohl of Pittsburgh. She was the daughter of former resident Val Kohl and is survived by her husband a son and several sisters. A daughter preceded her in death. Services were held Monday and burial occurred in Pittsburgh.
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Val Kohl
Pittsburgh
Weekend visitors and local greetings in Vinton
Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Hill and family of New Martinsville were weekend guests of Mrs. Hill's mother Victoria Hall. Mrs. Nelle Feltman returned home after visiting her sister in Columbus. Mrs. Conley Whitely, Mrs. H. E. Keeney, and Mrs. Lowell McCarley attended a Grace Methodist Church home council meeting in Gallipolis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shultz and son Tommy of Columbus visited Ed McGhee and family. Tom Courtright of Columbus is visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed McGhee.
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Columbus
Ed McGhee
Tom Courtright
Two Divorces Filed In Meigs County Court
In Meigs County Common Pleas Court two divorce petitions were filed. Bobby J. Dudding seeks dissolution from Barbara F. Dudding with custody of their minor Robert Joseph. Juliana V. Wells seeks divorce from John M. Wells with custody of three children, alimony, property division, and restraining orders.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Common Pleas Court
Barbara F. Dudding
D. J. Mooney
Mt. Airy
Bobby J. Dudding
Barbara E. Dudding
Robert Joseph
Juliana V. Wells
Long Bottom
John M. Wells
Rev C E Hoyt Relocates to Weedsport N Y
The Hoyt family moved from Middleport to Weedsport where Rev C E Hoyt will serve as pastor of the First Baptist Church after six years in Middleport. They plan to travel to Rochester to arrange seminary plans for Hoyt, and previously attended a dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Cheesebrew.
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Middleport
C. E. Hoyt
David
Weedsport
N.Y
Hoyt
First Baptist Church
Middleport First Baptist Church
Hoyts
L. D. Diles
Rochester
Meigs General Hospital Admits and Discharges
Admitted Kathy Fields Letart W Va Mrs Pearl Poulin Pomeroy Charles Horner Racine Mrs Victor Young Jr Pomeroy Mrs Carl Casto Harrisonville Discharged Ivan Carman Pomeroy Mrs Carl Casto Harrisonville May Mayle Carpenter Clifford Young Pomeroy Weavers Visit Relatives Mr and Mrs Richard Weaver and family spent the weekend with Mrs Weaver's brother Mr and Mrs Virgil Norris of Mt Vernon Ohio
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Kathy Fields
Letart
W. Va
Pearl Poulin
Pomeroy
Charles Horner
Racine
Victor Young, Jr
Ivan Carman
Carl Casto
Harrisonville
May Mayle
Carpenter
Clifford Young
Richard Weaver
Meigs County Blood Drive Sets Pints Record
In Meigs County 288 residents donated a total of 236 pints at a bloodmobile visit in Pomeroy High School auditorium. The drive ran noon to 9 p.m. with 88 first time donors, and supply shortages required backup from Huntington.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Red Cross
Charles Marcinko
Long Bottom
Marcinko
Pomeroy Junior High School
Huntington Center
Mary Hughes
Middleport
William T. Hendrix
Robert Hoeflich
Marjorie Hoffner
Cecil Hysell
Robert Story
Beatrice Blake
Racine
Ruth Morris
Rutland
Willis Parker
Margaret McDaniel
Mason
B. J. Allison
Bernice Ledlie
Jean Evans
Martha Gross
Jean Wright
Mary Jennings
Jean Smith
Elizabeth Smith
Lelia Weatherby
Myrtle Sisson
Beulah Strauss
Ethel Bauer
Iris Kelton
Annette Knight
Adele Cullum
Audrey Betzing
Henrietta O’brien
Maxine Price
Dorothy Johnson
Susan Probasco Honored By Youth Fellowship
Susan Probasco honored by the Westminster Youth Fellowship of the First Presbyterian Church in Middleport with a jewelry gift as she prepares to move to Charleston West Virginia. The group planned a Huntington swimming party for Jan 25 with Judy Sauer and Janice Zirkle as co chairmen.
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Susan Probasco
Middleport
Charleston
W. Va
Lowell Probasco
Westminster Youth Fellowship
First Presbyterian Church
Miss Probasco
Judson White
David Lyons
Huntington
Judy Sauer
Janice Zirkle
Cochairmen
Elsie Reichert
Miss Sauer
Miss Zirkle
Beverly Perrin
Richard Bolin
Lynn Buchanan
Lyons
Carolyn Russell
Helen Taylor
Patty Lowery
Hubert Taylor
White
Cinda Morris
Charlene Davis
Carolyn Curry
Fred Slater
Jamie Jobb
Carla Sue Gilmore
Sandra Hysell
Howard Ruppelt
Baker Rites Held Today
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. for Wallace Baker 86 of Reedsville who died Sunday in Meigs General Hospital. Rev. Earl Cowan officiated. burial followed at White Chapel Cemetery. Survived by two daughters Lola Griffin and Lily Prushing. three half sisters Lizzie Blackwell Stella Van Dyke and Rosa Bolton. His wife Anna and five children preceded him in death.
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Pomeroy
Ewing
Wallace Baker
Reedsville
Meigs General Hospital
Earl Cowan
Shade
White Chapel
Lola Griffin
Lily Prushing
Columbus
Lizzie Blackwell
Stella van Dyke
Athens
Rosa Bolton
Newark
Anna
Mayor's Son Engaged to Emogene Wells
Mr and Mrs Edmund Wells announce the engagement of their daughter Emogene of Gallipolis to Robert Fisher son of Mayor and Mrs C O Fisher. Both graduates of Middleport High School. Emogene Wells is a nurse at Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis. Fisher served in the US Army and is now with the Firestone Store.
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Middleport
Edmund Wells
Emogene
Gallipolis
Robert Fisher
C. O. Fisher
Miss Wells
Fisher
Middleport High School
School of Nursing
Holzer Hospital
US Army
Firestone
Ketchka Family Attends Akron Funeral
Mrs. John Ketchka was called to Akron by a relative's death and funeral services were held there Monday. Eudel and David Konkright visited Bowersville and Springfield with relatives, attending church where their father Rev Raymond Konkright once pastored. Emerson Jones missed work at the H and R Firestone store due to illness. Elizabeth Ward left for Columbus to join her nephew and his wife for a trip to New Castle Pennsylvania.
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John Ketchka
Akron
Eudel
David Konkright
Bowersville
John Lockwood
Springfield
Ottie Konkright
Raymond Konkright
Emerson Jones
H. and R. Firestone
Elizabeth Ward
Columbus
Frank Vincent
New Castle
Prosecutor Moves Into New Pomeroy Office
Pomeroy Meigs County Prosecuting Attorney James O'Brien begins moving into the county courthouse offices formerly used by C. E. Blakeslee and Geneva Nolan. O'Brien announces his new secretary Martha Orr, a Ches ter High School 1952 graduate from Long Bottom Route 1.
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State Department of Education
Columbus
Hand Harvesting Still Dominates North American Wild Rice
Most of the annual wild rice crop remains harvested by Indigenous communities in Minnesota and Wisconsin lake regions and across Manitoba and Ontario in Canada.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Manitoba
Ontario
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Ohio
State Highway Department
Second St
Wayne Gibbons
Blake
Charlie
Anate
Kou
Blale
Sanborn Society
Jennifer Blakeslee
B. P. Williams
Pittsburg
Weedsport, N.Y
Eroy
Baker
Emogene Wells
Widdleport Personals
Bob Evans
Lanky Planky
AGY
Darwin
Helen
Beauty Shop
Liberty
Theatre
Marla English
Tom Conway
Touch Connors
Lance Fuller
Pamela Duncan
Richard Garland
Allison Hayes
Tom and Jerry
Pomeroy Bend Theatres
Meigs
James Dean
Tommy Sands
Rory Calhoun
Anne Francis
Vince Edwards
John Litele
Temple
Don Murray
Eva Marie Saint Anthony Franciosa Lloyd Nolan
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