Middleport Eyes Route 7 Shift Favored by Council
Middleport village officials with state highway authorities favor a proposed Route 7 re routing. The plan creates a one way from Mill to Second Ave then west on Locust and another from Third Ave to Mill. The change would remove a dangerous jog on Mill St and ease Third Ave parking, earning support from residents, truckers, and through motorists.
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Middleport
Mill
Second Ave
Locust St
Third Ave
Mill St
Third Avenues
Mi St
S. Third Ave
4 H Club Activities Across Langsville Area
Numerous Langsville area 4-H clubs meet at member homes and community sites through July. Demonstrations include dressmaking and hemming, round buttonholes, and sewing projects. Clubs plan picnics, ice cream socials, canters cave camp trips, and a county wide picnic while reporting bake sale and fundraising efforts.
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Eagle Ridge Hustlers
Martha
Janet Orr
Bashan
Additional Meigs County 4 H Club News on Page 23
Meigs County 4 H Club features updates and community notices on page 23. Leaders report club activities, member participation, and upcoming events affecting youth involvement and local stducation outreach.
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Meigs County
Rutland Seaman Training at Norfolk Center
Rutland Navy seaman apprentice Bernard D Romaine trains at the Fleet Training Center in Norfolk for damage control instruction. Son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Romaine of Rutland he entered the Navy in November 1951 after attending Rutland High School.
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Rutland
Bernard D. Romaine
Navy
Fleet Training Center
Norfolk
Wilbur Romaine
Rutland High School
Plans for Middleport flower show discussed by officers
Middleport Garden Club and Amateur Gardeners Club officers met to outline this year’s show. The committee includes Mrs. L. E. Reynolds and Mrs. E. F. Maag with co chair Mrs. Titus and Mrs. Strauss. A tentative date the last week of September aims for state competition with a credited judge and new junior arrangers division.
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Middleport
Middleport Garden Club
Amateur Gardeners Club
L. E. Reynolds
James Titus
A. J. Strauss
E. F. Maag
Lincoln St
Titus
Ohio Association of Garden Clubs
Strauss
John Duerr
Florida
Reynolds
Maag
Fisherman Finds Stolen Papers Worth Large Sum in River
Fred Lumely fishing in the Trinity River recovered a 25 round mesh sack with several hundred documents including $400 in federal savings bonds and about $100,000 in notes and warranty deeds stolen June 28 when a 600 pound safe was stolen from Henry Compton’s ranch in West Texas.
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FT. Worth
Tex
Fred Lumely
West Texas
Lumely
Trinity River
Henry Compton
Rail track sections prepared ahead of new construction
British railroads prepare 60 foot long track sections before building. Cranes place the sections and welding joins them for continuous alignment.
Middleport BPW to Send Mrs Pratt to Columbus Conference
The Middleport Business & Professional Women’s Club voted to send Mrs. Ralph Pratt, president, to represent the group at the BPW leadership conference for presidents in Columbus on July 26-27.
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Middleport
Ralph Pratt
Middleport Business & Professional Women's Club
BPW
Columbus
Pratt
Navy metalsmith serves aboard USS Melvin in the Med
Dwight E. Reed a metalsmith third class in the Navy is serving aboard the destroyer USS Melvin in the Mediterranean. His wife lives at 115 Ebenezer Street in Pomeroy.
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Pomeroy
Dwight E. Reed
Navy
Melvin
Mediterranean
Ebeneezer St
Steel Case Lawyer Quits Justice Dept
Philip B. Perlman, who argued the President's steel seizure case, resigned Tuesday as solicitor general. He is the fourth Justice official to quit since James P. McGranery became attorney general on May 27. President Truman announced the resignation with sincere regret.
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Washington
Philip B. Perlman
Truman
Perlman
Justice Department
James P. McGranery
Patient Taken Home From Meigs General Hospital
John Dixon Sr. was transported by ambulance to his home in South Charleston after being a surgical patient at Meigs General Hospital. Mrs. Dixon stayed with her sister Miss Sara Kerwood during the hospitalization.
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Middleport
John Dixon, Sr
South Charleston
Meigs General Hospital
Sudden Chill Sparks Sweaters and Soup Meat Rush
In Middleport a sharp temperature drop on Wednesday drove shoppers to pull sweaters from storage and rush to buy soup meat in markets. Several households also turned on gas furnaces as cold weather arrived.
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Middleport
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Jolly Star 4-H Club
Barbara Bolen
Andrea Evans
Frankie Evans
Langsville
Sewing Shop
4-H Club
Alpha Barr
Imogene Barr
Bolen
Morning Star
Happy Go Lucky Club
Alice
Louise Fischer
Lee Johnson
Alice Fischer
Annabel Rose
Pomeroy Bender's
Canter’s
Geneva H. Nolan
Portland
Shirley McKelvey
Wolfpen Boys
Joseph Johnson
Leon Shumate
Canter's Cave
Alfred Cloverettes
Alfred Grange Hall
Beulah Swartz
Buck's Lakes
Josephine Spencer
Columbia Make
Barbara Escue
Rhea Hanning
Kroger’s
Chester So
Lew
Howard Knight
Nolan
Helen Parker
Hoyttown Cloverettes
Grange Hall
Virginia Haskins
Jolly Girls 4-H Club
Carolyn Sisson
Margaret Handley
Rou
Rutland Merry Workers
Bernice Hoffman
Syracuse
Sunshine Girls
Jean
Janice Teaford
Bonnie Wilt
Even Basting
Linda Cheadle
Norma Holliday
Lanna Turner
Jolly Star 4-H
West End Star Boys Club
Alfred Boys
Bobby Robinson
James Woodyard
Burlingham Kids
Bedford School
West End
Star Grange Hall
Jolly Star and Wiling Workers Girls Club
Edgar H. Florian
Main
Spacemaker
H & R Firestone
Space Maker Refrigerator
H&r Firestone
Middleport, Ohio
Rutland Seaman
Vanguard
Ebersbach Hardware Co
Pomeroy Ohio
Ohio
Justice Dept
Tappan
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