Village Votes August Street Light Shutoff
Village officials move to keep street lights off during August to save about 316 dollars monthly, totaling 948 dollars for three months. The measure, tied to a larger financial report, follows agreements with Columbus and Southern Electric and includes street repairs and legal actions on riverbank property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jumeroy
Ness
Agust
Hartley
Count
Columbus
Southern Elec
Alvin Norris
Middleport Social Notes Highlights Local Gatherings
Mrs. Henry Cherrington hosted a breakfast bridge at the Lafayette Hotel with nineteen tables in play. The Middleton Garden Club met at president Mrs. M. G. Brown’s home to plan events and year books for next year. Community notices cover birthdays, travels, visitors from Fordham University, and family visits across Middleport and nearby towns, with several residents on trips, hosting gatherings, or attending trainings.
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J. B. Downing
Cedric Clark
Garen Stansbury
Henry Cherrington
Henrietta Cherrington
Gallipolis
Lafayette Hotel
Middleport Garden Club
E. R. Tompkins
M. G. Brown
Rutland St
Adhie Mayor To Speak Before C of C Tonight
James G. Stewart mayor of Cincinnati will address the Nelomeroy Chamber of Commerce tonight in the hotel dining room. Dinner is served promptly at 6 30 with the program promised to be profitable for attendees.
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F Pomeroy
aNincinnati
James G. Stewart
Nelomeroy Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Martin
Bee
Stewart
Jaening
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Porch Party and Community Visits
Simpson Methodist Church members held a porch party at Miss Lucy Gibbs home on Mulberry Ave. Edith Mallory led devotionals. An August 17 picnic at Mrs. Dey Hysell on Harrisonville Rd was planned. Several visits and travels noted include Mrs. Guy Thompson returning to Columbus and guests at the Will home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Missionary Society
Simpson Methodist Church
Mulberry Ave
Lucy Gibbs
Edith Mallory
Dey Hysell
Harrisonville Rd
Ruth Ebersbach
Mae Hartley
Norma Compton
Grace Episcopal Church
Lincoln Hill
Patrick Lochary
Guy Thompson
Columbus
Boyd Dilgard
Minersville
Paul Davis
Parkersburg
Frank Will
E. F. Will
FE. D. Defenbacher
Will
Eva Simms
Emma Waterman
Athens
Dolly Bean
George Parker
West Virginia
Donna Love
Dayton
Miss Love
Lima
Oliver Wilson
Dora Wilson
Marietta
Warren H. Bright
Union Ave
Lancaster
Epworth League
Lydia Ebersbach
Simpson Home Missionary Society
Emil Ball
Letart
W. Va
Ball
Elias Ball
Ravenswood
Wilbur Grimm
Virgil Campbell
A. Caunk
J. C. Pilch
Westerville
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Pomeroy
Special Service Invites WCTU Members to Awakening Campaign
All members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union are invited to a special service at the Spiritual Awakening Campaign in the tent tabernacle on Mill Street tonight at 7 30 p m. Dr Robert Howell of Gallipolis will lead the service.
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Middleport
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Mill St
Robert Howell
Gallipolis
Marriage Licenses Issued In Probate Court
Two marriage licenses were issued Monday in probate court. Delbert Edwin Lehew 39 of Portland R D and Frances Bardin Bibbee 38 of Portland. Lebb Duffield 28 of Middleport and Rebecca Laxton 21 of Middleport received licenses.
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Pomeroy
Delbert Edwin Lehew
Portland R. D
Frances Bardin Bibbee
Portland
Lebb Duffield
Rebecca Laxton
Middleport
Blood Transfusion At Local Fire Company
Record by Dr. R E Boice lists blood types of Volunteer Fire Company members. Jacob Turner and Sidney Russell donated blood for Denver Kapple of Pomeroy at Holzer Hospital. Kapple is critically ill with repeated nosebleeds. Russell recovered from the transfusion induced illness.
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Middleport
R. E. Boice
Fire Company
Jacob Turner
Sidney Russell
Holzer Hospital
Denver Kapple
Pomeroy
Kapple
Guth and Whitlock Bakery
Russell
Middleport Department Store Softball Joins Marietta League
The Middleport Department Store softball team joins the Marietta League of 26 teams and will compete in the elimination series for the season. A trip to Hawaii awaits the final winner. The team has won 24 of 26 games so far, and local fans back the entry.
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Middleport
Middleport Department Store
Hawaii
Department Store
Mrs Shauver Rites Set For Wednesday
Funeral services for Mrs. Willa Shauver 72 will be held Wednesday at 2 PM at Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home. Interment Gravel Hill Cemetery Cheshire. Survived by sons Harry of Washington PA Frank Clyde Middleport and Jessie of Athens. Widow of Joseph Shauver.
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Middleport
Willa Shauver
Walnut St
Rawlings- Coats
Gravel Hill Cemetery
Cheshire
Three Choirs Join For Concert Tonight
Three choirs from Minersville Methodist Simpson Methodist and Baptist churches join for a Sunday evening concert at the Baptist Church directed by Mrs Egner of Middleport through the WPA. The program features individual performances and numbers performed en masse with public invitation.
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Pomeroy
Baptist Church
Egner
Middleport
Minersiville Methodist
Simpson Methodist
Middleport Salesman Heads for New York World Fair
Earl Mankin of Pomeroy Motor Co. and several Chevrolet salesmen in the district left Sunday for a weeklong trip to New York to visit the World’s Fair.
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Middleport
Earl Mankin
Fourth Ave
The
Pomeroy Motor Co
Chevrolet
New York
Alfred Social And Personal News Update
Alfred Floyd Vanmeter of Marion visits his brothers Fred Lester and Earl. Mr and Mrs Murray Hopkins and Rex go to Danville West Virginia to visit Mrs Hopkins mother Mrs Bessie Hopkins. Mrs Elmer Hazelton had a stroke and is seriously ill. Zina Bentz and Garnet Bentz visit Eleanor Hazelton. Pearl Lutridge of Bucyrus and her son George of Columbus visit the Swartz families and Iva Findling. Stella Watkins of Pomeroy arrives to visit. Ralph Parish of Derry Pennsylvania visits Mrs J M Bentz. Coy Hawk buys a new threshing outfit. Threshing reported on many area farms. Martin Keehler and wife visit Pomeroy. Guy Midkiff visits Dana Midkiff and Mrs Midkiff.
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Alfred — Floyd Vanmeter
Marion
Fred
Lester
Earl
Murray Hopkins
Rex
Danville
W. Va
Mr. Hopkins
Bessie Hopkins
Elmer Hazelton
Zina Bentz
Garnet Bentz
Eleanor Hazelton
Pearl Lutridge
Bucyrus
George
Columbus
James Swartz
Dana Swartz
Iva Findling
Stella Watkins
Pomeroy
W. E. Robinson
Ralph Parish
Derry
Pa., Visited Mrs. Parish’s Sister, Mrs. J. M. Bentz, Friday Evening. Coy Hawk
Martin Keehler
Guy Midkiff
Dana Midkiff
Midkiff
Chauncey Church of God Outing for Children
Chauncey Church of God Sunday School held an outing and picnic supper at Sawyer Grove on Saturday afternoon. Teachers Mrs. Elsie Staley and Mrs. John Marshall led games and contests. attendees included Mary Tope Inez Tucker Mary Lou Verity Betty Banfield Norma Lee Ross Helen Henderson Rita Jean Pennell and many others plus Mr and Mrs Clarence Way Mr and Mrs John Marshall.
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Chauncey
Chauncey Church of God Sunday
Sawyer Grove
Elsie Staley
John Marshall
Mary Tope
Inez Tucker
Mary Lou Verity
Betty Banfield
Norma Lee Ross
Helen Henderson
Rita Jean Pennell
Roger Way
Jo Ann Johnson
Glennis Phillips
Imogene Kelzenburg
Bobby Loper
Helen Loper
Ellen Loper
Helena Ross
Betty Palmer
Lillian Johnson
Velva Barrowman
Ruth Tope
Bonnie Sue Scott
Audry Banfield
Jerry Powell
Paul Ross
Clarence Way
Death claims Claude Grant of Weston WV
Chauncey Grant and wife of Lower Plains were notified of the death of his brother Claude Grant in Weston West Virginia. The funeral was held there Sunday with relatives including Mr and Mrs W R Dailey and Mr and Mrs Fred Dailey of Athens in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
R. E. Grant
Lower Plains
Weston
W. Va
Claude Grant
Abundant Blackberry Harvest Report Shown At Dutch Creek
Berry pickers work fields of Mr. and Mrs. Elza Burchfield on Dutch Creek where large luscious berries yield many gallons of canned preserves and jellies. Mr. Burchfield notes his fields have produced numerous bushels this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elza Burchfield
Dutch Creek
Plan Church Benefit Ice Cream Social July 22
New England Sunday School youth group hosts an ice cream social on the church lawn Saturday evening July 22 to raise funds for a new lighting system. Mrs Emma Gabriel remains seriously ill at her Lower Plains home. Mrs 8 S Shaw visited her aunt on New Marshfield Rd Saturday.
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New England
New England Sunday School
Chauncey
Emma Gabriel
Lower Plains
8. S. Shaw
New Marshfield Rd
Mrs. Gabriel
Family survives car overturning near Pomeroy
A car carrying Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smith and their children Mary Martha and Anne left the road Sunday afternoon near Pomeroy and overturned three times. All occupants escaped with minor cuts and bruises.
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Pomeroy
Ed Smith
Newark
Mary Martha
Anne
Divorce Granted to Roy Graves Over Absence of Bertha
Divorce granted in common pleas court to Roy Graves on grounds Bertha Graves has been wilfully absent from the home for more than three years, per an entry filed in the clerk of courts office by Herman Beards.
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Vayor Hartley
Norris
Sherr Norris
United States
Mem Cbers
L. A. Person
James Fugate
FE. F. Jh Robinson
Corhey
May- Mor Hartley
Julius Sauvage
High Street
Koehler Sisters
Butternut Ave
Street Committee For Action
Pomeroy
Common Pleas
Roy Graves
Bertha Graves
Herman Beards
Vesper Service at Waterworks Park Led by Youth Group
Young People's Society of the Church of Christ held a Sunday vesper service at Logan Waterworks Park with Miss Betty Jane Courtney as president. Rev Neil Crawford spoke, devotional led by Courtney, and singing by Julia Johnson and Isabelle Courtney. About 50 people attended and were served ice cream and cake. Parish attendees included Chauncey residents and many local families.
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Chauncey
Young People's Society of the
Church of Christ
Betty Jane Courtney
Logan Waterworks
Neil Crawford
Athens
Julia Johnson
Isabelle Courtney
Gilbert Courtney
Lois Ann Shafer
Roberta Simmers
Isabel Courtney
Margaret Jackson
Elizabeth Spears
Ethel Henry
Robert Smith
Bill Schrappe
Victor Leffler
Dix Pickering
Charles Harvey Courtney
Russell Johnson
Doris Bryson
Millfield
Henrietta Heffken
Kathleen Willis
John Sharick
Dwight Greens Run
Charles Cordray
Doris Cordray
Nelle Belle Cannon
Thelma Fierbaugh
Chauncey Personal And Social Notes
Chauncey social notes recount visits by Chauncey area residents including Mr and Mrs Tonnie Baron of Parkersburg with daughter Kathryn Baron from Jacobs Ave. Pauline Gillespie Victor Robinett and Norman Simpkins of Millfield stayed in Dayton with Carl Parker family. Household members also listed visiting relatives in Millfield Columbus Athens and Longstreth.
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Chauncey
Tonnie Baron
Parkersburg
W Va
Parker
Donald Howard
Glouster
Millfield
Eben Gillespie
Joe Morgan
Lizzie Langle
Lower Plains
Longstreth
Harry Moore
Arthur Burchfield
Hazel Luman
Athens
F. E. Cook
Columbus
Community Guests Visit From Morris Town and Columbus
Mr and Mrs Cecil Sanborn hosted Sunday guests Mr and Mrs William Barnhart and son Gerald from Morris Town and Thomas Jones and son William from Columbus. The gatherings continued Saturday with a trip to Murray City to see Mr and Mrs Alfred Darby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Cecil Sanborn
William Barnhart
Gerald
Morristown
Thomas Jones
William
Columbus
Murray City
Alfred Darby
Bible School Opens at Millfield with 54 Attendees
Millfield Daily Vacation Bible School began in the East Side School building with 54 attendees. Director Mr. Schwartz leads the program, meeting two weeks each morning from 9 to 11 30. Betty Jane Courtney supervises the 26 child kindergarten. Mrs. Margaret Simpkins from Millfield will teach sewing. children are asked to attend at 9 19 a.m.
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Millfield
East Side
Schwartz
Betty Jane Courtney
Chauncey
Margaret Simpkins
Sewroll
Local guests visit in Carbon Hill and Logan
Mrs. Sybil Dicken and others hosted by Mrs. Eva Smith in Carbon Hill with Mrs. Dicken and Mrs. J R Dicken from Logan visiting. family members Chauncey and Grace Dicken plus Richard and Roger Moore attended the Sunday gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Sybil Dicken
Adrian Moore
Frank Hysell
Richard
Roger Moore
Grace Dicken
Lower Plains
Eva Smith
Carbon Hill
Dicken
J. R. Dicken
Logan
Mr. Dicken
Rev Parks to preach at Zion Church Wednesday night
Chauncey Reverend Parks the Athe ns will preach in Zion Church Lower Plains Wednesday night. Public invited. Lucy Ann Muzzio seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Louis Muzzio Millfield underwent a tonsil operation in Chauncey Saturday.
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Chauncey
Parks
Athens
Zion Church
Lower Plains
Lucy Ann Muzzlo
Louis Muzio
Millfield
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Kerrs Run
Ralston Russell
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R. G. Webster
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Ralph Kuether
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Middleport Social Notes
Dor Schaefer
Cc. P. Bradbury
Edison Hobstetter
Mary Bradford Laughead
Fordham University
New York City
R. B. Laughead
S. Fifth Ave
Alfred Elberfeld
Loughead
Florida
Elberfelds
John Circle
Racine
Eleanor Louise
Circle
Fifth St
Miss Circle
Gilbert Hayes
Maxine Bennett
Elizabeth Swindler
Ethel Clark
World Wide Guild of the First Baptist Church
Granville
Beatrice Ann Edwards
Nelle Price Ford
Lester Boice
Hobson
Frank H. Johnston
New York Central
Johnston
Edna Surface
E. H. Surface
White Cross Hospital
Sycamore St
Surfaces
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Mt. Vernon
J. T. Lighter
Thomas Riley, Jr
S. Second Ave
Alton Vale
Esther Gardner
Morrow
Vale
Pearl Gardner
Helen Hale
Albuquerque
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George Anderson
Francis
Frank Collins
Michigan
Torch Lake
Chappelle Talbott
John Wallace
Noell Hysell
R. V. Nutting
Ohio State University
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Oscar Roush
S. Sixth Ave
Homer Roush
Pittsburgh
Mae Roush
Farkersburg
William Stewart
Louise Lewis
Arthur Lewis
Locust St
George Buchannan
William Suter
Welch
Hame
O. G. Suter
Suter
Grant Wiley
Clyde
Citizens Military Training Corps
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Mary
Margaret Healy
Vom
F. G. Joachim
Gertrude Joachim
Charles Joachim
Ison
Cedar Grove
Jack Healy
M. A. Healy
Chicago
Edward Mankin
Maxine
Charleston
Mr. Mankin
McMillin Hospital
Adhie
Pomeroy Social Notes
Pomeroy Personals
Mrs. Shauver
Alfred
Chauncey Church of God
Plan Church
Mrs. Gabriel III
Pontiac
F.R. Beasley
Vesper
Waterworks Park
Bible School
HAL Tonsil
Pure Oil
Pure Oil Company
He Ges Company
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