Middleport plans for youth and adult summer recreation
Middleport High School coach Charles McDonald reveals a full season of programs for youths and adults at the stadium and football field. Wilson and Scarberry organize grades four through nine activities with varied schedules, archery to golf, and trophies at season end. Swimming pool activity draws about 600 on Sunday as Miss Mar Hoyt leads lessons.
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Middleport
Charles McDonald
Middleport High School
Frank B. Wilson
Brownell Ave
Wilson
McDonald
Richard
Dick) Vaughan
Ben Franklin
William Scarberry
Scarberry
Mar Hoyt
Daily Vacation Bible School Opens With Strong Enrollment
Fred I. Gardner, dean of the Daily Vacation Bible School in Middleport, says the season looks very successful after the first two days with 216 enrollments on Tuesday and more expected. Ministers help, two sessions run in Central School, and staff changes include Mrs Clifford Stumbo as supervisor.
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Middleport
Fred I. Gardner
Daily Vacation Bible School
Clifford Stumbo
William Bradford
W. T. Grueser
George Childs
Delegates Placed for Eighth District Convention at Lancaster
Drew Webster Post 29 American Legion appointed delegates C J Rhodes Paul Casci William Baxter and H K E Boney for the Lancaster district convention on June 19 with alternates Clifford Hayes Richard Vaughan Robert Vaughan and John M Will. Department delegates to be chosen June 20. Memorial Day report praised Chester Hemlock Grove attendance but criticized Pomeroy observance and suggested changing or discontinuing the public plan.
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Pomeroy
Lancaster
Drew Webster
American Legion
Joost
C. J. Rhodes
Paul Casci
William Baxter
H. K E. Boney
Clifford Hayes
Richard Vaughan
Robert Vaughan
John M. Will
Department
Chester
Hemlock Grove
Rhodes
Cleveland Browns
Local Visitors and Residents Move Through the Area
Mr and Mrs John Colwell hosted guests including Everett Colwell and Mrs Duffy of Wilkesville. The Carl Higley family moved into the Fisher Moran house in Bidwell. Several families and individuals from Gallipolis Bladen Mansfield Pomeroy and Columbus visited hosts such as the Spires Metheney Vance Dykes Anderson Nelson and Barrett households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danville
John Colwell
Colwell
Everett Colwell
Duffy
Wilkesville
Carl Higley
Bidwell
Fisher-Moran
Perry Fisher
Gladys Moran
Gertrude Duty
Francis
Gallipolis
Delores Jeffers
Bladen
Dora Spires
Sam Dyke
Ruth Lucas
Roy Anderson
Will Barrett
Toledo
Bruce Barrett
Everett Tracy
Near Pomeroy
Davis
Pearl Goff
Birdie Davis
Mae Nelson
Pomeroy
Alta Dyke
Kentucky REA financed power lines see farm consumption rise
The report shows monthly farm electricity use funded by REA growing from 90 kWh in 1947 to 205 kWh in 1954, reflecting increased rural energy demand and investment effects.
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Kentucky
Far Power Lines
Yearbooks For Pomeroy High School Distributed Saturday
Copies of the 1955 Pomeroyan yearbook will be handed out Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Senior Hi band room. Nancy Jacobs edited the yearbook with Nancy Blaetmar as business manager under W. A. Drake. The 112 page book is dedicated to Forrest Ward and was delayed by the flood closing school that week.
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Patty Ann Carpenter
Dorothy Douglas
Perry Carpenter
Miss Carpenter
Ashland
Bainbridge
Pomeroy High School
Riverview
Pomeroy
Nancy Jac
Nancy Jacobs
Nancy Blaetmar
W. A. Drake
Chester High Band Boosters Thanked for $305 Gifts
Mrs Eddie Hart Ung today thanked contributors totaling 305 from local businesses to Chester High School Band Boosters. Proceeds from the drive fund instrument repairs and purchases for the year.
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Chester High Band
Pomeroy
Eddie Hartung
Chester High School
Hartung
Meigs Marriage License Issued to Warren Schultheiss and Joyce Burke
Warren Bradley Schultheiss aged 28 of Hemlock Grove and Joyce Elaine Burke aged 17 of Chester received a Meigs marriage license. The text notes a separate statistic that New England textile mills employ about 170 000 people despite declines in recent years.
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Meigs
Warren Bradley Schultheiss
Hemlock Grove
Joyce Elaine Burke
Chester
New England
Middleport Garden Club elects officers for 1956 57
Middleport Garden Club chose officers for 1956 57 unanimously after nominating committee report led by Mrs John Kincaid. New president is Mrs Malcolm Roller with Mrs James E Harley as vice president and Mrs W H Juhling as treasurer. Secretary is Mrs John Duerr. Installations set for October.
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Middleport
Middleport Garden Club
John Kincaid
D. B. Hartinger
Malcolm Roller
James E. Harley
W. H. Juhling
John Duerr
James Titus
Rutland
E. M. Wood
Miss Fruth and Rossi Visit in Point Pleasant
Miss Kathryn Fruth and her nephew Henry David Rossi of Point Pleasant have been guests of Mrs. Fruth’s sister, the former Mrs. Rossi observing the visit at the family home.
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Kathryn Fruth
Henry David Rossi
Point Pleasant
Speech Workshop Set at Pomeroy June Thirteenth
Meigs County Society for Crippled Children organizes a speech workshop led by Willie V Harris from Quincy Schools for eight weeks. Screening days are June 13 14 and 15 at Pomeroy Senior High Auditorium with 30 pupils max. Parents urged to call Meigs County Health Department for appointments.
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Pomeroy
Willie V. Harris
Quincy, Ill
Meigs County Society For Crippled Children
Pomeroy Senior High
Meigs County Health Department
Health Department
Meigs County court actions involve tax suits and divorce
Four suits filed in Meigs County Common Pleas Court include two tax collection cases against Howard K. Ewing and Nancy V. Ewing for 6 percent interest on unpaid real estate taxes totaling 270.86 and 876.20 from Middletport Development Co. A divorce petition by Margaret Searles against Charles W. Searles seeks custody of two minor children amid claims of gross neglect and extreme cruelty. The fourth suit, Lucille LiefHel t and Jean Zirkle of Pomeroy, seeks partition of real estate from Mildred Radford and Fred W. Crow, executor of Marion Radford’s estate.
Meter receipts tally 215.50 for past week reported
Acting Police Chief Franklin D. Hudson announced meter receipts totaling 215.50 for the past week. The figure reflects street parking collections during the period.
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Pomeroy
Frankllin D. Hudson
Local residents join family visits across Ohio and nearby states
Walter Crooks on strike in Charleston is mentioned along with Mt Ephraim NJ visitor Jon Martin Schaaf and his mother. Several Meigs County figures and relatives travel to Columbus Bucyrus Cincinnati Akron and Columbus for visits and events. Reunions involve Ellis siblings Reynolds and Crooks families with hospital stays and routines noted.
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Walter Crooks
Greyhound Bus
Charleston
Pie
Jon Martin Schaaf
Mt. Ephriam
N. J
Lough Wit
Ua Gibbons
Evelyn
Bucyrus
W. H. Juhling
Rutland
Columbus
Dana Daniels
Middleport
Kincaids
Margaret Sansbury
R. S. Sansbury
Meigs County
Jane Ellis
W. 8S
N. Second Ave
Guy Reynolds
Akron
Nina Bland
Charles Archer
Reynolds
Minerva Childers
Gene Crooks
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Raymond Burr
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Clary Cooper
Ingrid Bergman
Flora Robson
Jerry Austin
Hansel & Gretel
Keystone Kops
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George Nader
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Middleport Society
Philip Meinhart
Erma Smith
Faye Mayer
Genevieve Meinhart
Edith Russell
Lillian Stieff
Emma Bissett
E. R. Tompkins
Margaret Sauer
Circle of Heath Methodist Church
M. L. French
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Meigs County Court News
Poll Parrot
Hartley & Bennett Shoe Store
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Kimberly
Cleveland
Ed Haggerty
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