Route 7 Widening Aims to Cut Area Accidents
Pomeroy highway project widens Route 7 between Pomeroy and Five Points by two feet on each side over two miles to reduce recent accidents. The work, led by state highway superintendent Roland Torrence, includes resurfacing after widening and will shift to full resurfacing by the weekend of July 11. One way traffic limits are in place during daylight hours at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Hoeflich
Pomeroy
Route 7
Five Points
Roland Torrence
State
Frank H. Johnston
Fair Board
Columbus
Rock Springs Fairgrounds
Frank
Will Hellerman
Logan Family Reunion Observed in Circleville
POMEROY the Logan family reunion gathered at Gold Cliff Park Circleville with attendees from Pomeroy Wilkesville Gallipolis Springfield and more. Meigs County reports show June vehicle purchases including 92 new cars 18 trucks 19 motorcycles and 3 trailers plus 136 used cars 14 trucks and 4 trailers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Logan
Gold Cliff Park
Circleville
Henry Reibel
Donley Reibel
Donna
Fae
Harley Strong
Diane
Billy
Donley
Wilkesville
Carl Logan
Gallipolis
Ivor Shumway
Howard Logan
Kelson Shumway
Keith Shumway
Springfield
Pomeroy — Meigs
Nellie Brown
Smith Walters Rites Held At Morse Chapel
Miss Miriam Lee Smith wed Robert D Walters in a candlelight ceremony at Morse Chapel Methodist Church. The couple, both with local ties, will reside in Marietta where she works as a lab tech and he as a draftsman while attending Marietta College. A reception followed the service and a Meigs marriage license note of Ramona Jones and Raymond Spires is listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Morse Chapel
Miriam Lee Smith
Robert D. Walters
Dixie Smith
Portland
Ralph Smith
Walters
Eugene Walters
Hilliard
Pearl Caste
Juanita Smith
Thomas Walters
Roy Ralph Smith
James Walters
Ruth Ebersbach
Guy Neigler
Charles Harris
David Yost
Virgil Roush
Garnet Smith
Ralph Shain
Richard McKenna
David
Ethel Hoback
Druscilla House
Mary Wood
Bill
Bob
Pearl Casto
Racine
Charles Grueser
Minersville
Ross Hoback
Gallipolis
Paul Smith
Frank Smith
Florida
Marietta
Marietta Memorial Hospital
Dravo Corporation
Marietta College
Alfred By MRS HELEN WOODE ALFRED
Plans to send two Methodist youths to junior camp and two to senior camp announced. Sunday School picnic in Woodes Grove July 5 honors Rev Pearl Casto and Mrs Casto. Local WSCS meeting covers new rules for societies. Genevieve Guthrie led program on The Methodist Family with readings and songs. Weekend visits and family gatherings noted from Ohio towns and cities. Dennis Hostetter, 22, Springfield, sentenced to indeterminate term for auto theft in Ohio Penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred
Woode’s Grove
Pearl Casto
Casto
Isola Taylor
WSCS
Alma Swartz
Genevieve Guthrie
Pomeroy
Dennis Hostetter
Springfield
Ohio
John C. Bacon
Hostetter
Bacon
Scarberry Leaves Middleport High School Post
Alfred A. Scarberry Jr the Middleport High School principal for four years resigns to return to Tipp City as a full time guidance counselor. He will move with his wife and four children to Tipp City in August after serving as athletic director and SE Ohio league president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Alfred A. Scarberry, Jr
Tipp
Scarberry
North Fairfield High School
Middleport High School
Rio Grande College
Miami University
Ohio University
Middleport High
Southeastern Ohio Athletic League
Southeast Ohio
Peggy
Bruce
Jennifer
Amy
Tipp City
Soldier Dodderer joins Desert Strike exercise lights
Pfc. John L. Dodderer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Dodderer of Reedsville Route 1, participated in Exercise Desert Strike in the three-state area of California Nevada and Arizona. He recently returned from Korea and serves as a radio and relay carrier operator with the Fifth Signal Battalion at Fort Carson Colorado. He entered the army in September 1952 and completed basic training at Fort Gordon Georgia before graduating from the Signal Radio and Relay School. He is assigned to A Company Fifth Signal Battalion Mech at Fort Carson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
John L. Dodderer
Roland Dodderer
Reedsville
Tri- State
California
Nevada
Arizona
Dodderer
Korea
Fifth Signal Battalion
Fort Carson
Colo
Army
Fort Gordon
Signal
Signal Radio and Relay School
Mech
Receipts Hit 1188 for Meigs County Clerk June
Receipts for Evelyn Locke office totaled 1188.70 in June automotive activity. Page shows 715 certificates of title 297 lien notations 188 memorandums 221 lien cancellations 377 applications affidavits and assignments 13 certified copies. County share 920.85 state share 267.85.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Evelyn Locke
Meigs County
Meigs Countians Get Speech and Hearing Clinic Aid
Meigs County launches its first speech and hearing clinic in eight years led by Richard Dent of the Meigs County Society for Crippled Children and Adults. Twenty six participants, including 25 children and one adult, will receive diagnostic evaluations and therapy over eight weeks at Pomeroy Elementary School and Middleport Central with plans for additional county sites. Funds total about 600 dollars with no charges to enrollees and Easter Seal sales support ongoing projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Dent
Cindy Spengler
Atwood Spengler
Meigs County Society of Crippled Children and Adults
Charlene Hoeflich
Middleport
Meigs County
Meigs County Society For Crippled Children
Dent
Pomeroy
Middleport Central
Bernard Fultz
Unmanned Car Coasts Into Parked Vehicle
Middleport police report a car owned by George Burns of Clifton West Virginia coasted into a parked vehicle owned by Dwight Wallace on Palmer Street. Damages to Burns car estimated at 350 dollars with minor Wallace headlight damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
George Burns
Clifton
W. Va
Palmer St
Burns
Dwight Wallace
Wallace
Only Three Permits Issued In Middleport
In Middleport the village issued three building permits in May and June. The Jim Walter Corporation received a permit for a new home on Laurel Street for Mr and Mrs Lawrence Hysell. Pomeroy Cement Block Co secured a permit to remodel a porch at Richard Owen’s residence on North Third Avenue. Arthur Stobart also obtained a remodeling permit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Walter Corporation
Laurel St
Lawrence Hysell
Pomeroy Cement Block Co
Richard Owen
N. Third Ave
Arthur Stobart
Meigs County Group Meetings Planned This Week
The Pomeroy Garden Club meets at 2 p.m. Monday at Mrs Dor Schae fer home with Mrs E W Coates as co-hostess. Theodorus Council Daughters of America meets at 7 30 p.m. Monday at the IOOF hall. Officers will be installed and potluck refreshments served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peach Fork Club
Meigs Motorcycle Club
Pomeroy Garden Club
Dor Schaefer
E. W. Coates
Theodorus Council, Daughters of America
IOOF
Bible School Will Close in Middleport With Open House
Middleport daily vacation Bible school concludes Thursday with an open house in the Central building from 7 to 7 30 p m. A program follows in the high school auditorium. Crafts made by the children over the past two weeks will be on display for viewing by parents and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Meigs General Hospital Discharges Ella Douglas
Ella Douglas, a patient previously admitted at Meigs General Hospital, has been discharged. The record lists A. D. Morrison as attending or related medical staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Douglas
A. D. Morrison
Cars Hit and Driver Fined After Route 124 Accident
An accident at Route 124 junction with 338 in Racine caused property damage but no injuries. John Thabet, 23, Point Pleasant, pulled from Route 337 into the left side of Gerald Sellers, 34, Portland Route 1, who was traveling east. Thabet was fined $10 plus costs in Meigs County Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Racine
State Highway Patrol
John Thabet
Point Pleasant
Gerald Sellers
Portland
Thabet
Meigs County
Frank W. Porter
Meigs Memorial Hospital Admits Four Patients
Kenneth Miller of Pomeroy, Sarah Calaway, Virginia Pierce, and Bertha Williams were admitted to Meigs Memorial Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Miller
Pomeroy
Sarah Calaway
Virginia Pierce
Bertha Williams
Also Mentioned on This Page
Meigs
Ronald E. Duff
Eastview
Robin Elizabeth
Riverside Methodist Hospital
Wayne Turner
Rutland
Emery Duff
I. F. Radcliffe
Duff
Osa Marie Turner
Edith Haptonsta
Lancaster
Winfield Glaze
Civil Air Patrol Squadron 1502
Long Bottom
Forked Run Lake
Jim Berry
Berry
Buffalo Sky Drivers
Rutland Firemen
Portland Letart
New Southern High School
Gospel Harmony Boys
Eastern
Eastern Athletic Boosters
Miss Grueser
Maxine Arnold
Laura Grueser
Grueser
Ronald Grindley
Leonard Bass
Robert Moore
William Thorpe
Lettie Spencer
Glenn Cundiff
Asa Custer
Ruth Cundiff
Roy Arms
Bob Stewart and Robbie
Glenna Soulsby
Leroy Watson, Jr
C. L. Arnold
Marjorie Hope Adams
Wayne Adams
Rendando
Calif
Common Pleas Court
William S. Diles
Ross Cox
Ohio Valley Junk Co
Ramona Ann Jones
Dexter
Route 1
Raymond Martin Spires
Mrs
Helen Woode
Ruth Robinson
Cincinnati
Hobart Swartz
Koehler
Ashville
Clair Follrod
Raymond Harper
Carroll
Clarence Atherton
Arthur Atherton
Clarence
Tina
Rena Swartz
Hockingport
Mrs. Millard Swartz
Terry
Sanda
Vincent Broderick
Christine Grueser
Huntington
Broderick
Veterans Hospital
Gene Houdashelt
George Wagner
John Strauss
Newsies
Fairgrounds
Ruth Ann Bailey
Pomeroy High School
Columbus Business University
Wilbur Bailey
Fae Reibel
George Hobstetter, Jr
MHS
Oxford
Pfc. Dodderer
Bible School
Meigs General Hospital
Meigs Memorial Hospital
Messenger
Messemger
W. Union St
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