Eight Middleport houses to be auctioned Saturday
Eight homes on Pearl Street opposite the Pearl Street school will be sold Saturday at 2 PM to clear land for a new elementary school bought by the Middleport board of education last fall. Auctioneer Paul Smart will preside with bid rejection rights and a 30 day removal deadline. A Charleston mover firm declined moving a single house, sparking concern over local movers.
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Middleport
Middleport Board of Education
Pearl St
Paul Smart
Smart
Charleston
Glouster and Bishopville Churches Schedule Youth Sunday
Glouster Church of Christ with minister David Grubbs lists Bible school at 9 30 a m and services at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with sermons Art Thou the Christ and Conversation of Cornelius Evening worship. Glouster Methodist led by Rev Dale Hoplight notes churchship 10 30 a m MYF 6 p m Jan 27 Youth Sunday junior choir to sing Sunday morning and high school youth to participate Inter mediate and senior Methodist Youth Fellowship to depart after services.
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Bishopville
Chillicothe
Holy Cross Catholic
Anthony Nickles
Jacksonville
W. E. €Race
Elmer Miller
Hollister
W. E. Crace
First Baptist
Clinton Powell
Oakdale
Miles Hoon
Rodney Hood
Athens
Darewood Jewell
Church of Christ
D. K. Teater
J. Anthony Bosco
Trimble
Clifford McCabe
Somerset
Seventh-Day Adventist — Front and Summit
Robert Craig
Stephen Craig
Rites Planned for Mrs. Nancy Vickroy in Malta Area
Mrs. Nancy Vickroy 81 of Malta Route 3 will be honored in funeral rites at Pizgah Methodist Church with Rev. Paul Whipple and Rev. Kenneth Roach officiating. Burial is in Maplewood Cemetery Glouster. She died Wednesday at Shadyside Rest Home Reinersville. Surviving children include three daughters and two sons with military and civilian relatives listed. Funeral call at her Malta home before services.
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Pizgah Methodist Church
Maplewood Cemetery
Glouster
Helen Vandegriff
Zanesville
Maj
W. F. Vickroy
U.S. Army
Yokohama
Japan
John Vickroy
Malta
Meigs County Land Transfers Report
Land transfers detailed in Meigs County include Richard Schilberg to Paul J Adler two acres in Lebanon and multiple transfers within Sutton Chester Rutland Scipio Middleport Pomeroy and Bedford. Transfers involve several family entities and deceased estates with certificates of transfer and affidavits recorded.
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Richard Schilberg
Paul J. Adler
Lebanon
Ralph S
Dorothy E. McKenzie
Sutton
Buel K
Pauline Ridenour
Chester
Russell
Alice Priddy
Guy Swadley
Rutland
William J
Myrtle M. Cook
Duane
Hazel K. Stanley
Scipio
Harold
Dorothy Demoskey
Riley S
Eleazady L. Manley
Middleport
H. Clyde Jones
Gladys
Kenneth
Millard C. Jones
Edith Joanne Russell
Pomeroy
Millard C
Jean
Kenneth Jones
Geraldine Jones
Edith Joanne
Guy Russell
Harvey Chaney
Maggie Chaney
Vernal
Denver
Bedford
Denver Well
Wake vigil origin linked to Saxon word for watch
The Britannica notes that the term wake for a vigil around a corpse derives from the Saxon word meaning watch, reflecting a historical practice of keeping watch over the deceased.
Pricilla Class Meets at Methodist Church Social
The Pricilla Class of the Methodist Church gathered in the church social rooms Tuesday evening. Refreshments were served by Ruth Cole, Etta Rogers, Margaret Gamwell and Verna Leroy.
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Glouster
Pricilla
Methodist Church
Ruth Cole
Etta Rogers
Margaret Gamwell
Verna Leroy
Ann Logue Installed as Columbus Toastmistress Club President
Ann Logue formerly of Glouster was installed as president of the Columbus Toast mistress Club. She serves as secretary to the district manager of agricultural sales for the New York Central System.
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Ann Logue
Glouster
Columbus Toastmistress Club
New York Central System
Trimble Grange 1830 to Convene Saturday Evening
Trimble Grange 1830 schedules a meeting at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Grange hall. The first and second degrees will be conferred. A potluck supper will follow.
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Trimble Grange
Grange Hall
Auxiliary of VFW Post 9866 Jacksonville Meeting
The Auxiliary of VFW Post 9866 in Jacksonville will meet at the post home Sunday at 2 p m.
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VFW Post 9866
Jacksonville
Local visits and military homecoming notes
Mrs. Betty Poches and her son Michael of Jacksonville visited Thursday with Betty’s mother Mrs Essa Cairelli. Roger McClelland of the U S Marine Corps has returned to Cherry Point North Carolina after spending a leave with his parents Mr and Mrs William McClelland of 15 Locust St.
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Betty Poches
Michael
Jacksonville
Racine Girl Advances in Betty Crocker Homemaker Contest
Emma Lee Brewer, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edgar Brewer of Portland, tops Racine High School in a December 4 homemaking exam. Her paper may become a runnerup for Ohio All American Homemaker of Tomorrow. she earns a Trifari pin and a chance at major scholarships totaling 106000 with state and national awards culminating May 2 at the Waldorf Astoria New York.
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Pomeroy
Emma Lee Brewer
Edgar Brewer
Portland
Betty Crocker
Racine High School
Qohio
Betty’ Crocker
Washington, D. C
Williamsburg
New York City
Pastor Styers Heads to Detroit for Youth Meetings
The Rev. Robert E. Styers, pastor of Middleport Church of the Nazarene, will travel to Detroit with his wife and son after Sunday service to lead a week of youth meetings at Grace Nazarene Church. They will stop in Newark for a brief visit with his mother, Mrs. Charlene Styers, and return Feb. 4 to lead a youth session at the Nazarene Church in Athens. District superintendent Dr. G B Williamson will supervise.
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Middleport
Robert E. Styers
Middleport Church of the Nazarene
New Nazarene
Beech St
Detroit
Grace Nazarene Church
Newark
Charlene Styers
Mr. Styers
Church of the Nazarene
Athens
G. B. Williamson
Salvation Army Free Clothing Day at Bethany Church
The Salvation Army will hold its Free Clothing Day in the basement of Bethany Methodist Church on January 31 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Any county resident in need may request clothing that day.
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POMEROY — The _ Salvation Army
Bethany Methodist Church
Mrs Myrtle Long Recovers at Home After Virus Pneumonia
Following a virus pneumonia attack, Mrs Myrtle Long is recuperating at her Rock Springs home.
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Myrtle Long
Rock Springs
Ledger’s New Plant Echoes Front Page Legacy
The Mexico Missouri Ledger unveils a modern small newspaper plant with a front page façade design. Interior features showcase prizes and certificates won in national regional and state contests. The Ledger marked its 100th anniversary in 1955 and carries the slogan Dedicated to the people's right to know.
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Mexico, Mo
Ledger
Bake Sale Planned for Bishop Baby Fund February Lake Sale
The Enterprise EUB Church Youth Fellowship outlined a Lake sale set for February 26 to raise funds for the Bishop Baby Fund. They also discussed plans for the District Youth Rally at the church on March 4.
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Pomeroy
Bishop Baby Fund
EUB Church Youth Fellowship
Courthouse Bell Tolls For Fred Crow Rites
POMEROY Thursday afternoon marked the first toll of the courthouse bell for Fred Crow Sr. a 77 year old attorney, former prosecuting attorney and judge, trustee of Holzer Hospital, and resident civic leader. Burial followed at Letart Cemetery after services led by Rev. J. Edwin Charles with 18 honorary and 6 active pallbearers and attendees from near and far.
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Pomeroy
Court House
Letart Cemetery
Fred Crow
J. Edwin Charles
Ewing Chapel
Common Pleas
Ohio University
E. Main Street
Henry W. Cherrington
R. W. Finsterwald
John Halliday
John Baker
Theodore Reed
Gordon Bush
D. Curtis Reed
Cedric W. Clark
Manning Webster
E. W. Peoples
John Bacon
Clatworthys Attend Ward Funeral Rites
Mr and Mrs James Clatworthy traveled to Marietta to attend funeral services for Albert Ward whose wife is the immediate past district deputy grand matron. Ward died after a business trip to Florida. The Clatworthys were past worthy matron and patron of Evangeline Chapter Order of Eastern Star in 1956.
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Middleport
James Clatworthy
Marietta
Albert Ward
Funeral Rites Today for Former Pomeroy Resident
Herman Kuntz longtime Pomeroy Salt Corp vice president died at his Grand Rapids home Tuesday. His daughter Ella Fogle arrived in Pom eroy Thursday night for the funeral. Other relatives from Cincinnati are also listed. Funeral services were held at Ewing's funeral home at 2 p.m. with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Herman Kuntz
Ella Fogle
Hermosa Beach
California
William
Grand Rapids
Mich
Walter W. Kuntz
Helen
Helen Brinkman
Walter
Cincinnati
Kuntz
Pomeroy Salt Corporation
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Glouster Church News
Mrs. Vickroy Rites
Tillie Davis
Near Glouster
Austin Chappelear
John of Columbus
Merchant
Philo
Louis
Ravenna
Meigs County
Ford Garage
Ohio
Pomeroy — Common Pleas
Wanda B. Beck
Leo Beck
Carpenter Hdwe
High St. Glouster, Ohio
Racine
Mrs. Long
Moxico Ledge
Plan Bake Sale
Best Buy
H. O’brien
J. B. O’brien
Bernard Fultz
Dor Schaefer
R. E. Boice
E. F. Robinson
Ed Stark
Dan C. Hartinger
Jed Hartinger
Albert Hill, Jr
Wallace Weaver
George Meinhart
Clair Karr
Wayne Foster
Holzer Hospital
Charles Holzer
Mr. Crow
Clatworthys
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