Middleport Fourth of July Draws 2000 Fans
Nearly two thousand people attended the Middleport High School Athletic Field for a Fourth of July celebration by the American Legion and Boy Scouts featuring contests boxing matches a recreation ball game and a fireworks display. Middleport beat Pomeroy 13 to 10 in a pickup baseball game as Gid Maness defeated Cub Allensworth by technical knockout in five rounds. Fireworks capped the program as a quiet holiday drew families to picnics and gatherings.
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Middleport
Middleport High School
American Legion and
Boy Scouts
Pomeroy
Pomeroyans
Gid Maness
Cub Allensworth
Maness
Allensworth
Local Residents Visit Before Travelers Leave After Funerals
Middleport reports Walton Carney family members staying several days with L. L. Carney after Walton Carney's funeral. Beulah McCullum Ruth Zerkle and Hallie Hawley visit Athens with Nan Moore. Frank Booth Bucyrus visits his daughter Lera M Roush in town. C D Dawson and son Jimmy from Columbus stay with Mrs. Davis. Robert Stevens, on 11 day naval furlough, departs Friday. Rexie Neff from Nalien West Virginia visits with Paul Leonard family. son Billy Neff has been here two weeks.
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Walton Carney
L. L. Carney
Houston
Beulah McCullum
Ruth
Nella
Hallie Zerkle
Athens
Nan Moore
Mildred Hawley
Ruth Drake
Frank Booth
Bucyrus
Lera M Roush
Locust Street
C. D. Dawson
Jimmy
Columbus
Dawson
W. G. Davis
North Third Avenue
Robert Stevens
J. R. Stevens
Gravel Hill
Naval Base
United States Navy
Rexie Neff
Nalien
W. Va
Paul T. Leonard
Billy Neff
Meigs County Relief Office Moves in Prospect
Meigs County Relief Office will relocate from the Koebler Building to the Reed Building in Pomeroy. County commissioners approve the move and provide headquarters with county funds. New facilities offer recreational amenities for families and lodging for transients when needed. Rural workers will be paid in cash instead of grocery orders, and five CWA projects abandoned after the program ended will be finished or cleared for use.
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Pomeroy
Meigs
FERA
Salisbury
Sutton
Lincoln Hill Group Celebrates on Fourth
Lincoln Hill residents gathered at the McQuigg home for their annual Fourth of July celebration with a lawn supper and hillside fireworks display. About 75 attended. The oldest guest, Civil War veteran Charles Kraft, turned ninety this year. the youngest, nine weeks old Diana Lynn Hartley, joined the gathering.
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Kraft
Union Blue
Meigs County
Diana Lynn Hartley
Malcolm Hartley
Aged War Veteran Not Recognized for Union Service
Andrew Jackson Zink 104, a Meigs County Home resident born in 1830 in Wilson County Virginia, served as a northern blacksmith in the Union Army but was not eligible for a pension and has lived at the county home for two years. The Fourth of July reflection notes his unrecognized service. A separate item notes the unusual Fourth of July pastor picnic trip by Rev. and Mrs. Clarence Swearingen and family to Circleville.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Andrew Jackson Zink
Mr. Zink
Wilson County
Zink
Middleport
Clarence Swearingen
Circleville
Methodist Episcopal Church
The Thin Man and Other Silent Detective Screenings
The article reviews The Thin Man at Majestic Theater with praise for William Powell Myrna Loy Maureen O'Sullivan and Shirley Temple in Baby Take a Bow. It notes Stand Up and Cheer and The Man Trailer at Ohio and Court theaters with Buck Jones leading and Lambert Hillyer directing.
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William Powell
Myrna Loy
Majestic Picture
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Nick Charles
Nore
Maureen O'Sullivan
Dorothy Wynant
Shirley Temple
Ohio Theater
James Dunn
Buck Jones
Court Theater
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Ewing
Meigs Relief Office
Prospect
Lincoln Hill
Andrew Zink
Union
Bae
Cassia
Ls Ae Saa
Thin Man
Alexander Woollcott
Sinclair Lewis
Dashiell Hammett
Sherlock Holmes
van Dine
Charles
Wynant
Shirley
Claire Trevor
Alan Dinehart
Dunn
Littie Shirley
Buck
Sally
Cecilia Parker
Arthur Vinton
Lambert Hillyer
CESAT
THE
the Thin Man
Ana
Willia Myrna
Eld
Maver
Cosmopolitan
Nat Pendleton, Minna Gombell
P. K
Childrens Shorts
Cretonnes
Ries
Stevens
Stevens P
Saleia
Bates New Red
Cape Ann
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