Birthday salute for Staff Sergeant Biffle at home
Seventy five relatives and friends of S Sgt. Charles Biffle gathered at his parents home on the Pomeroy Athens Road to honor his birthday. Biffle, after 30 months in service with the Third Division of the 7th Army, has participated in African Sicilian Italian French and German campaigns earning the Purple Heart Leaf Cluster and the European Theater of War ribbon with six battle stars. He will spend his 45 day furlough there with relatives.
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Pomeroy
Charles
Riffle
John Friffle
Pomeroy-Athens Road
Biffle
7Th Army
Meigs Pastors Hold Picnic With Families
Meigs County Ministerial Association and their families will hold a picnic at the Elberfeld farm on Monday June 18 starting at 10 30 a m and extending into the afternoon.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Elberfeld Farm
Pomeroy Daily Vacation Bible School Programs Honor Parents
Parents and friends attended the two week old Bible School at Federated Church. Rev Charles Baird commended pupils teachers and parents for cooperation. Proceeds to defray school expenses with offerings to American Relief for India. Congregational singing prayers and child performances noted.
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American Relief For India, Inc
American Friends (Quaker) Service Committee
Howard’ Ebersbach
Albert Bitters
W. Luther Tracy
Martha Chain
Althea Bryan
Herry Sraith
Friends of the Childaren
Howard Kress
Man Breaks Legs in Fall at Coal Mine
POMEROY Denver Bolin of Thomas Fork was critically injured Wednesday afternoon by a slate fall in the Yellow Bush Mine. Both thighs were broken and other injuries reported. He was moved to a Middlewort physician then to Holzer Hospital by Ewing ambulance. Jim Reed oversaw manual training as students prepared certificates for attendance at a school program ending today.
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Pomeroy
Denver
Bolin
Thomas Fork
Yellow Bush
Middlewort
Holzer Hospital
Ewing
Jim Reed
Charles Baird
Sue Grueser
Fatty Blakeslee
Gail Stivers
Jerry Stivers
Barbara Jean Ervin
Jerry Davis
Ralph Kuether
Roger Hussell
Fay Thomas
Dorinda Wilson
Larry Ebersbach
Sue Ellen Smith
Fudith Peoples
Carolyn White
Jimmy Joe Guinther
Don Grueser
Larry Hamm
Margaret Hawk
Neil Hysper
June Ann Inachim
Charles Johnson
Bernice Nease
Marilyn Scott
Barbara Fepples
Donald Reuter
Paul Scott
Keith Reuther
Wloy Smith
Jane Spencer
Ann Strauss
Joan Thorntonard
Vaughan
Paul Easter
Darrell ‘Hawthorne
Umvard Kitchen
Deores Kitchen
John Teaford
Esthier
Margaret Ann Hysell
Emma ‘Kathryn Nease
Carol Ann J Spence
Mary Roth Stace
Mila/ Jane Stark
Elaine Stroke
jMary
Pauline Watson
Barbara Wehrung
Shirley Winpel
Howard Ebersbach
Patty Watson
Anna Lee Warner
June Unrae
Severe Storm Sweeps Middleport Area
A powerful late night storm lashed Middleport causing uprooted trees along highways and homes, widespread electrical outages for about 45 minutes, and vehicles halted by fallen limbs near Race and Front Streets. A large tree toppled onto a Zerkle Transfer truck near the C and O Station, while a Evans meat truck was halted on Second Street as drivers cleared debris. Harold Chase reportedly collided with the truck.
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Middleport
Vicini
C&o
Race
Front Sti
Zerkler Transfer Company
Second St
Evans
Rece
Harold Chase
Pomeroy Area Church Services Announced
Church notices list service times for Christian Science First Baptist United Methodist Trinity Lutheran and more in Pomeroy area. Highlights include First Baptist rededication next Sunday at 7 30 p m with Rev J Burnell Stephenson and Youth Fellowship at 6 30 p m. Trinity Lutheran to begin 7 30 a m service with subject Does It Matter What We Believe.
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Pomeroy
Churches of
Christian Science
Man
Galden
Israel
God
First Baptist
J. Burnell Stephenson
Williamstown
West Virginia
United Methodist
J.O.F
United Methodist Parsonage
Downie
Harry Smith
Paul Beckley
Earl Bitlers
Services in Churches of Middleport
Sunday church services and a closing day for Vacation Bible School are planned in Middleport with Father’s Day observed as Family Day. Heath Methodist Church hosts Youth Fellowship, First Baptist hosts a combined service, and Nazarene Church evangelistic meetings continue with a closing praise service. A Cleveland economist predicts federal expenditures will triple the postwar average.
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Heath Methodist Church
Youth Fellowship
Delmas "Hildebrand
H. A. Rothrock
Jesus
Soviny
Church of the Nazarene
E. E. Cox
Russell Bowman
Communtty
Cleveland
Leonard P. Ayres
Cleveland Trust Co
Election To Be Held At Masonic Temple
POMEROY It has been announced that the annual election of officers will be held at Bos sworth Council Wednesday evening at the Masonic Temple. Degree work will be exemplified as well.
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Masonic Temple
Pomeroy
Bossworth
Daniels Rites Held Sunday for Dr. Manning Daniels
Funeral services for Dr. Manning Daniels 46, who died of coronary thrombosis at his Mulberry Ave home, will be Sunday at 3 p m at Ewing Funeral Chapel. Burial at Beech Grove Cemetery. Rev Luther Tracy officiating with military rites by Drew Webster Post, American Legion. Dr Daniels a Pomeroy native, graduate of Pomeroy High, Denison University ROTC, Western Reserve School of Medicine, practiced in Pomeroy over 20 years. He is survived by his wife and son Rolin, his parents two brothers two sisters and other relatives.
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Sigma Chi
Alpha Kappa Kappa
National Medical Fraternity
Pomeroy
State Board
Daniels
Rolin
Roger Daniels
Hugh Daniels
Dayton
Edson Roush
Meigs County
Ruth Daniels
U. S. Army
118Th Station Hospital
Naples
Italy
Dana Daniels
Columbus
Fred Wills Home After Overseas Tour Set
Sgt. Fred Will Jr recently returned from nearly two years in Africa and Italy with the 84th Depot Repair Air Corps. He visited relatives in Columbus with Mrs. Will, then traveled to Nitro to stay with Uncle and Aunt Paul and Dorothy Davis.
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Pomeroy
Fred Will
United States
Africa
Italy
84Th
Air Corps
Frank B. Will
Will
Lucille Will Defenbacher
Herbert Defenbacher
Columbus
Nitro
Paul Davis
Dorothy Will
Pastor Ralph Zandel Honored At Middleport Birthday
The Rev Ralph Zandel pastor of First Baptist Church Middleport was surprised with a birthday party at the church attended by 55 parishioners and the Rev and Mrs Luther Tracy of Pomeroy The event organized by Mrs Zundel and helpers featured a large ragweed gift a birthday cake and a program of musical selections and speeches by parishioners and Zandel with a salutation from him The note closes with Pomeroy Middleport Social Notes on Page 2.
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Middleport
Ralph Zandel
First Baptist Church
Luther Tracy
Pomeroy
Zundel
Daisy Jasper
H. M. Cross
Florine ‘Talbott
Phyllis ‘Smart
Franklin Richards
Paul Richards
Paul Smart
Zandel
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