Officers Help Track Stolen Car Through Radio Broadcast
Police radio aided officers in recovering a stolen Ford car after a description was broadcast from Columbus to Kerrs Township and Belpre. Deputies from Athens and patrols from Parkersburg and Belpre chased the vehicle, stopping it about 12:15 PM near the Ohio River bridge. The suspects, Gordon and Virginia Hodges, were jailed in the county jail pending further action.
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T. A. Downie
Kerrs Grtomers
Columbus
Tes
Athens
Pomte
Belpre
Ohio River Bridge
Parkersburg
Utes
Gordon F
East Rich
Virginia Hodas MS
South Fifth
Tung
Short wave radio urged for bank crime unit
A cryptic note calls for permanent equipment including a short wave radio for the office, suggesting no special significance to the Sunday incident and likening it to other robberies or criminal cases. The text implies a proactive stance on security and communication capabilities.
Meigs County Scouts Win Circus Honors
Meigs County Scouts earned recognition at the Boy Scout Circus in Parkersburg where about a thousand Scouts, floats, and bands paraded. Syracuse Scoutmaster Fred Shumway received a district certificate of achievement as one of ten across the Kootaga Area.
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Pomeroy
Kootaga
Parkersburg
Middleport
Jed Webster
Kinshata
Pomieroy
Racine
Syracuse
Fred Shumway
Kinshuta
Portland Ladies Aid Society Plans Social
Portland The M E Ladies Aid Society held its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs H J Lee in Dam 21 Wednesday afternoon. Attendance was good and ice cream and cake were served. A benefit social is set for Friday evening June 21 in the church basement.
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Portland
M. E. Ladies’ Aid Society
Crown City County Board Deadlocks Over Travel Payments
The Crown City county school board failed to reach agreement, affecting travel payments for five members, including Dillon Tanner Evans Jones and others on rural routes. Mileage and stipends totaling about $5,900 were at issue as meetings resumed under a new act favoring mileage for traveling to meetings and duties.
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A. L. Dillon
C8. Tanner
Gal C. A. Evans
Bidim Bert Jones
Ipteras
Coun
Teachers Paid Today in Gallipolis District
Ledger notes in Gallipolis show teachers receiving pay today amid discussions on salary funding. Officials confirm two months of salaries are due and approvals for borrowing against sales tax proceeds were authorized.
Car Sales Surge Reported in Clerk of Court Office
Lively activity in car sales was reported in Gallia County's Clerk of Court office Saturday with thirty six bills of sale filed in one day, nearing recent monthly totals.
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Gallipolis
Seven Licenses To Marry Are Issued In Gallipolis
Probate Court issued seven marriage licenses presaging June weddings. Richard Jones and Beulah Hendricks. Harold Mondhank and Kathleen Kinney. Richard Scott and Cleola Keils. H A Jarrett and Maude Higgins. William Evans and Elsie Black. John R Vieth and Dorothy Fife. Carl Neal and Viola Wheeler were named as couples.
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Gallipolis
J. 8. Clark
Richard Jones
Cheshire
Beulah Hendricks
James Hendricks
Harold Mondhank
Man of
Dorothy Fife
Ross Fife
Carl Neal
Viola Wheeler
Mercerville
Auctioned Unclaimed Cars Bring Modest Sums in Gallipolis
Two unclaimed cars auctioned by Police Chief John Fraley sold Saturday. A coupe brought 35 dollars and a coach 29 dollars. Virgil Ligier bought the coupe and Lonjana Cornell purchased the coach.
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Gallipolis
John Fraley
Virgil Ligier
Lonjana Cornell
Donkey Ball Staged Tonight With Local Leaders In Lineups
Prominent Middleport and Pomeroy businessmen join donkey ball rosters for an 8:30 pm game on Middleport High School field. A 6 pm parade through Pomeroy business district precedes the event, with a 6:30 parade through Middleport.
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Middleport
Pomeroy
Middleport High School
Roscoe Fowler
Tom Crow
George Schaaf
Tom W. Jones
Fred I. Gardner
Paul 8. Smart
F. E. Rife
Max Roller
Deb Becker
Brewery Work To Be Started This Week
Double shift of men will be put to work this week re conditioning the old Wildermuth Brewery in Pomeroy. The abandoned plant, 17 years idle, is being renovated with machinery cleaned and painted as the new venture forms. Max Wildermuth will serve as vice president of the reconstituted company.
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Pomeroy
Wildermuth
C. E. Dow
Max Wildermuth
Racine Social Notes Highlight Visits and Parties
Racine social mentions guests in Newark and New Haven. The Cross and Wolfe families, the Richards household, and Mrs. Shelton host a surprise party with Baptist Church refreshments. Decker relatives visit from Parkersburg while Miss Spencer stays with her aunt in New Haven. A factory uses stethoscope tests on electric clocks.
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Racine
John Cross
Evelyn Wolfe
Paul
Newark
Dillon Richards
P. T. Shelton
Fifth Street
Parkersburg
E. K. Decker
Myrtle Hayman
Francis Weldon
Loyal Berean Class to Meet at Church of Christ
Middleport residents note church gathering as Loyal Berean Class of the Church of Christ meets Tuesday night at the church. Several local families visit relatives and travel for medical care, including Mrs. Lewis Triplett awaiting possible surgery and others from Dallas, Gallipolis, Pittsburgh, and Greensboro.
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Middleport
Church of Christ
Lewis Triplett
Lincoln Street
McMillan Hospital
Middleport Social Personal Notes
Middleport social notes recount visits and travels among residents. Mrs B F Fultz Jr visits Columbus with husband, others tour Charleston visiting Pauline Tucker man. Edith Schreiner accompanied by her mother returns home. Several Columbus guests stay with Dr B E Maag at Long Bottom.
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Middleport
B. F. Fultz, Jr
Columbus
Sidney Russell
Ruth
Russell
Rue Tuckerman
Charleston
Harry Schoen
Mollie Williams
South Third Avenue
Edith Schreiner
Miss Schreiner
Gray Huffey
BE. F. Maag
Dr. Maag
Maag
Long Bottom
Pomeroy Personal Notices Include Civil War Veteran Visit
Pomeroy personals note John Adams, a Civil War veteran, was taken to Columbus Sunday to attend a G A R meeting in session there by his son in law Clish Jacobs who has been his guardian at home. Mr and Mrs T A Downie Lin coln Hill visited Sunday eve ning at the home of the latter's parents in Pleasantville. Oliver Hartley of Columbus and sons Earl of Mansfield and Race of Baltimore spent the weekend here with C A Hartley.
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Pomeroy
John Adams
Columbus
Clish Jacobs
T. A. Downie
Lincoln Hill
Pleasantville
Oliver Hartley
Earl
Mansfield
Race
Baltimore
C. A. Hartley
Coolville Social News Highlights From Local Guests
Coolville updates list multiple Sunday visits including Mr. and Mrs. George Sanders and others in Fisher and Holliday's Cove W Va. The Ladies Aid of the M E Church met at Mrs. Ralph Chevalier. Birth announced Janice Kay Walden. Osage volunteers and University summer scholars from the district noted with several families hosting or visiting in nearby towns.
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Coolville
George Sanders
Success
Ralph Chevalier
Max
Harry Hoisington
Fisher
F. H. Booth
Harold Wilcoxen
Pearl Castle
Charles
Harry Booth
Janice Kay Walden
R. J. Runion
Harry Runion
Torch
E. M. Daugherty
Schnaufer
Marietta
Glennis Daugherty
W. E. Travis
D. of A. Lodge
Little Hocking
Ohio University
Athens
Wilma Green
Ruth Kiracofe
Donald Runion
Harold Calloway
Lee Baker
O. R. Kiracofe
W. A. Peebles
Chesterhill
Penrose
Diantha Frame
Miss Flourine
Perry Bingman
Miriam
Charline
Frank Humphrey
Belpre
Carleton Snyder
P. O. Smith
Bessie Taylor
F. Booth
Dale Reed
Parkersburg
Rotary Engineer Dies in Mexico Climbing Pyramid
Charles F. Renwick of Richmond California dies of a heart attack while ascending the Cholulu Pyramid during the International Rotary convention in Mexico City.
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Mexico
D. F
Charles F. Renwick
Richmond
Calif
Albany Brief News Notes
Local items from Albany move through community life with visits and illness updates. Lola Mae Baugh returns home after appendicitis surgery at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Mrs. C. E. B. Ashworth ill at daughter’s home. Various visits and social events noted across Stewart Marietta Lowell Morgantown and Hebbardsville. Mexico leads in world silver production.
Grace French Ends Inspector Work in Washington County
Deputy Grand Matron Grace French completed a year as inspector at Bartlett with an Eastern Star Chapter inspection in Washington County. She was accompanied by Mrs. E M McCarty Mrs. Vannie Townsend Mrs. R H Horden and Mrs. E M Harrah. POMEROY Officers to be Installed for newly formed Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter at Red Men’s Hall with J E Mahoney announcing. Enrollment of members shows steady growth.
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Middleport
Grace French
Bartlett
Washington County
Eastern Star
French
E. M. McCarty
Vannie Townsend
R. H. Horden
E. M. Harrah
Pomeroy
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Red Men's Hall
J. E. Mahoney
Funeral services for William J Buck Heffernan
Funeral services are held in San Francisco for William J Buck Heffernan longtime partner of Ed Gallagher in the Gallagher and Shean team. Heffer nan was once part of the famous comedy duo.
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San Francisco
Calif
William J
Buck) Heffernan
Ed Gallagher
Gallagher and Shean
Real Estate Transfers Across Townships This Week
Real estate transfers list multiple townships including Columbia Township Joseph Turner transferring 2 acres to R.8 and Nellie R. Vale. Lebanon Board of Education transferring 75 hands to RE. E. Hayman. Nicholas Ours transferring 8 acres to Marion Ours et al. Rutland Township Perry R. and Maggie M. Brown transferring 2.60 acres to W. D. and Lulu Bolin and to H. A. Dixon. Salisbury Oscar Smith transferring 9 hands to Clarence and Clara Grueser. Middleport I. E. Allen sheriff sale of Lots 117, 118 and Rhoda Allen Lot 33 to Buckeye Savings and Loan Company.
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Oscar Smith
Clarence
Clara Grueser
Middleport
I. E. Allen
Rhoda
Buckeye Savings and Loan Company
Health Officers Conference Opens With Federal Officials
A conference of state health officers begins in Washington today gathering officials from several states to meet with federal health authorities for a two day event.
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Washington
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Meigs County
Portland Ladies Aid Society
Chester
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Dillon
Vica Moore
Salor
Oscar Moore
Legislaboarda
Gallia
R. R
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Helen
Betz
Hilda Wier
Satie Thom
Virginia
Roy Johnson
Second Avenue
James Canady
FERR
Adolph Henke
Sycamore
Third Streets
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William Halley
William Shane
Sam McGuire
Dave Jaques
A. J. Stormont
Herbert Smith
Dallas
Texas
Martin Collins
Ernest Rider
Denny
Nallen
W. Va
Paul T. Leonard
Rachel Mossman
Madge Mossman
Elizabeth Pfarr
Glen Lawson
Roy Ridley
Lewis Laudermill
Mose Bumgartner
Richard Romine
Clark
Meiga County
Sugar Run
A. H. Ebersbach
Ebersbach
Pomeroy Personals
Coolville News
Albany
Lola Mae Baughman
Sheltering Arms Hospital
C. E B. Ashworth
A. E. Donaldson
Harry Davis
Stewart
H. W. Davis
O. D. Dailey
P. E. Harner
J. W. Gray
Nellie
Gray
H. L. Brown
the Baptist Church
Clint Frost
Bobbie
Athens R D
I. M. Frost
Alexander Presbyterian Church
Hebbardsville
Edna Hoover
Zanesville
Paul Barnes
United States
Canada
Veterans
Buck Heffernan
Mutual Home & Savings Ass
Majestic Theatre
Athens, Ohio
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
Tommy Armour
Amy Lou Ouver
Mel Ort
New York Giants
Stubby Kruger
Amy Lou Oliver
Lester Stoefen
Pete Knight
J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
Wiascon-Selem, N
Melvin Ott
N.Y. Giants
R. J. Reynolds
Lester R. Storfen
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