Meigs County Names New Supervisor of Girls Activities
Middleport Ohio George W Munson Midland area director announces the appointment of Mrs Vid C Miller as supervisor of girls professional activities for Meigs County. Miller brings a Smith Hughes vocational Home Economics background and a B S in Home Economics from Ohio University Athens. duties include supervising girls projects and training for industry and teaching the related training class under M W Essex. Hazel Hughes leaves Middleport for Logan after a short leave to engage in government work.
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Middleport
George W. Munson
Nyarea
Vid C. Miller
Meigs County
Hazel Hughes
Logan
Change Library Hours at Pomeroy Public Library
Miss Virginia Ramsey announces new evening hours for the Pomeroy Public Library effective this week. The library will be open 6 to 8 pm on Wednesdays and Saturdays and will be closed Tuesday and Thursday evenings as before.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Public Library
Virginia Ramsey
English Leghorn Hen Lays Eight Inch Egg
Miss Ruth Gorsuch of the Pomery road owns an English White Leghorn hen that laid an eight inch egg weighing four ounces. Her flock includes 191 hens and yields 130 to 135 eggs daily, ranking high in production.
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Pomeroy
Ruth Gorsuch
Pomeroy-Harrisonville Road
Gorsuch
John Joachim Visits Parents Before Army Induction
John Phillip Joachim, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Joachim, who earned a Central Academy of Commercial Art diploma in layout lettering and mechanical illustrating, will visit his parents in Middleport before a year of U S Army training. He won second prize for his work and a silver medal for scholastic honors as his sisters Elizabeth and Phyllis Joachim joined him from Kentucky for the commencement exercises.
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Middleport
John Phillip Joachim
J. P. Joachim
Central Academy of Commercial Art
Cincinnati
U. S. Army
Joachim
Elizabeth
Phyllis Joachim
Kentucky
Holiday Picnic Draws Huge Meigs County Grange Crowd
The Meigs County Pomona Grange hosts the annual inter county picnic at State Farm Park Carpenter on Friday July 4 with Louis J. Tabor master of the National Grange to speak along with Ohio State Grange master Walter F. Kirk and other speakers. The event includes farm tours, musical performances, a noon picnic dinner, and entertainment by local acts. Attendance is expected to exceed 500 and the next Meigs Pomona Grange meeting moves to July 18 in Racine High School Auditorium.
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Carpenter
Grange
Meigs County Pomona Grange
State Farm Park
Louis J. Tabor
National Grange
Rock Springs
Tabor
Washington, D. C
Walter F. Kirk
Ohio State Grange
Bachtel
Wooster
Ohio
E. Blakeslee
Meigs County
Melodiers
Gerald Hoffner
Charles Walburn
Hemlock Grange
Whitney Ingerham
Chester
Frank Nelson
Wanetta Radekin
George H. Lasher
Geneva Humphreys
Women's Home Council
Meigs County Home Economics Committee
Taber
Pomona Grange
Great Bend Grange
Racine High School
No Public Display Won’t Keep 4th Quiet Pomeroy
Despite no planned public celebration, fireworks sales suggest local youth along with older residents will create noise on Independence Day. Fireworks went on sale Wednesday under state law now set to change. a new law prohibits sales after 1941 and takes effect on the next Fourth of July in 1942.
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Pomeroy
Camera Casts Suspicion On Boys in Office
James Woodrow Workman 18, seen by a camera trap entering Grueser Body Works Saturday night, was questioned by local officials Monday with no action taken. Mayor Hartley said age verification is underway. Junior Lee, 14, a companion, was tentatively sentenced to the Boys Industrial School in Juvenile Court.
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Pomeroy
James Woodrow Workman
Grueser Body Works
Workman
M. D. Hartley
Junior Lee
Boys’ Industrial School
Plants Growing Well in Middleport After Rainy June
Middleport reports 17 straight days of rain in June yet flowers and fruit are ahead of season. Flower growers note dahlias blooming for two weeks and chrysanthemums beginning to bud, signaling a robust early garden year for area growers.
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Middleport
Grand Jury Bound for Pomeroy Assault Case
Charles Tice of Mason City was arrested Saturday on a charge of assault and battery. He appeared in mayor's court Monday, was bound over to the grand jury under $500 bond, with the charge filed by George Lawson, who works in Radford, Virginia. Lake Superior is noted as the longest of the Gregg Lakes.
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Grand Jury
Pomeroy
Charles Tice
Mayor's Court
Tice
George Lawson
Mason City
Lawson
Radford
Chambers Observe 58th Wedding Anniversary at Home
Mr and Mrs W D Chambers of Long Bottom plan a basket dinner on the lawn Sunday July 6 to mark their 58th wedding anniversary. They invite friends and ask guests to bring two presents.
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Long Bottom
W. D. Chambers
Last of June brides Leona Erlewine weds Clarence Bailey
Miss Leona Erlewine daughter of Mrs Minnie Erlewine of Grant Street married Clarence Bailey in an open ceremony at St Paul Lutheran Church Pomeroy. Rev W F Lodt officiated and Alfred Genheimer played music. The newlyweds left for Patterson Field Springfield where Bailey works as a government clerk.
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Middleport
Meigs County
Leona Mae Erlewine
Minnie Erlewine
Grant St
Clarence Bailey
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Pomeroy
W. F. Lodt
Alfred Genheimer
Bailey
Faerie Erlewine
Robert Swisher
Springfield
Patterson Field
Erlewine
Middleport High School
First Presbyterian Church
William Bailey
Pomeroy High School
Ewing
Better Lighting At Middleport Library Aids Readers
Middleport Public Library adds five Mitchell fluorescent lamps over the front book shelves to ease locating titles. The library also reports new volumes added to its shelves with a list due for publication.
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Middleport
Mitchell
Hartford Beaten Twice In League Games Sunday
Hartford suffered two league losses Sunday losing 3-1 to New Era and 5-2 to Stiversville while slipping toward a potential three way tie for first with New Era and Stiversville. Syracuse faced Hartford in a rained out doubleheader and fourth of July games wrap up the first half.
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Hartford
Pomeroy
Racine
New Era
Ohio Valley Association
Silversville
Tuppers Plains
Syracuse
Toppers Plains
Campbell
Wamsley
McNamee
Durst
Powell
Stiversville
Pomeroy Personal Visits Across Ohio and Cincinnati
Local residents travel for weekend visits with family and relatives. Mr and Mrs U S Nease and son William of Minersville spent the weekend in Cincinnati visiting their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Herbert Davis. William remained for a longer stay. Other visitors include Mrs Charles Edwards and daughter Mrs William Foss and George Foss from Canton with his wife, Mrs Minnie Davis and Miss Sarah Phillips. Phyllis and Marilyn Sue Davis of Columbus visit grandmother Mrs Minnie Davis and sister Miss Sarah Phillips. Howard Ewing returns to Akron after weekend with his mother Mrs R H Rawlings. T A Downie leaves for Cincinnati to resume railway mail clerk duties after weekend with wife.
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Annabelle Botts
Charleston
Edward Bennett
Broadway
Columbus
Charles Brary
Anna
Sherman Kemper
Huntington
Sara Jane Fisher
Melissa Hennesy
William Keith Kincaid
John Kincaid
Fourth Ave
Effie Lockett
Harry Russell
U. S. Nease
William
Minersville
Cincinnati
Herbert Davis
Nease
Charles Edwards
William Foss
George Foss
Lasley Sr
Canton
Phyllis
Marilyn Sue Davis
Minnie Davis
Sarah Phillips
Howard Ewing
Akron
R. H. Rawlings
Union Ave
T. A. Downie
High St
Hold Services Today For Frances Wingett
Funeral services were held at Carleton Church for Frances Wingett age 80 who died Sunday at the nephew Charles Wingett’s home in Peoria Ohio. She is survived by several nieces and nephews including Lowell and Ernest Wingett. Burial followed in Carleton Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Carleton
Frances Wingett
Charles Wingett
Peoria
Wingett
Lowell
Ernest Wingett
Carleton Cemetery
Three Arrests For Intoxication In County Drive
County officers detained Roy Cheney Blanche Hudmore and Everett Mc Daniels on Monday for intoxication. They are held pending further action by authorities.
Smith brother dies in Cleveland funeral follows
Pomeroy P. K. Smith of Second Street left Tuesday to attend the funeral of his brother Pearl Smith who died early Sunday in Cleveland.
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Pomeroy
P. K. Smith
Second St
Pearl Smith
Cleveland
June marriage licenses report in Pomeroy area
In June the probate court issued the forty ninth license to Lawrence Huston and Imogene Winger. May set a record with 54 licenses and a peak day of 12. Also noted is the Saturday issuance for William Edward Rose and Helen Marie Blankenship.
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William Edward Rose
Gallipolis
Helen Marie Blankenship
Racine
WPA work halted countywide until Saturday
Work on all WPA jobs in the county stopped Monday and will not resume until Saturday. The Sugar Run sewer project continued until 10 30 Monday night.
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Pomeroy
Sugar Run
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