Regatta Plans Preview Big Weekend Festivities
Pomeroy Chamber reviews final 1974 Big Bend Regatta schedule with Friday parade opening and new events. Stagecoach rides, balloon rides, sky diving, frog events, a 500 prize grocery top award, and a Friday flea markets display mark the weekend along with a fireworks show and Regatta Queen crowning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Big Bend
Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce
Meigs Inn
Middleport
Messenger
Beulah Beulah Jones
Big Bend Regatta
Ohio Society For the
Charles Wayland
Mary Colmer
Willard Ebersbach
Wayland
Royal ettes Take 9 State Trophies
The Riggs Royal ettes Baton Corps of Meigs and Athens Counties won nine state trophies at the 1974 Ohio State Baton Twirling Championships in Lancaster. They claimed four team titles and five individual trophies, with several members earning high placements and the Junior team set to compete at Notre Dame in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Kroger Co
Ohio Society For the
Messenger
Becky Salser
Riggs Royalettes
Baton Corps
Meigs
Athens Counties
Debra Newell
Melissa Hughes
Debbie England
Kelly Hughes
Teresa McPherson
Greta Miller
Karen Strausbaugh
Kathy Follrod
Becky Windon
Beth Snider
Teresa Carr
Joanne Fick
Vicki Sheets
Janet Ambrose
Louann Newell
Betsy Amsbury
Riggs Royal Ettes Baton Corps
Athens
Ohio State
Lancaster
Judy Riggs
Riggs
Notre Dame University
Datelene Scott
Ronald Scott
Albany
Diana Guthrie
Gerald Guthrie
Coolville
Royalettes
Ezra J. Sheets
Minersville
Cindy Patterson
Syracuse
Jo Ellan Thompson
Regatta Baton Twirling Festival Moves to Meigs High
The fifth Regatta Baton Twirling Festival now set for Meigs High School with entry forms via Judy Riggs Chester. Events include corps teams Miss Regatta Queen and many twirling categories. Spectators welcome. refreshments by Riggs Royalettes. Travel prize and high point trophies planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Meigs High School
Middleport
National Baton
Judy Riggs
Chester
Riggs Royalettes Baton Corps
Pomeroy Meigs Senior Citizens Center Weekly Activities
The center offers rug making, cards and games on today and Wednesday ball game with 7 30 p m departure. Nurses day blood pressures 12 30 to 2 p m quilting daily and senior lunch 11 30 to 12 30 Monday through Friday. Thursday cards and games Friday Regatta crafts bazaar noon to 8 p m introduction of queen and dance 8 p m to midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy — Meigs Senior Citizens Center
Lawnmower vandalized as power outage hits Wellston
Wellston police investigate damage to a Bob Fain lawnmower at 421 East First Street missing gas cap oil cap carburetor top and spark plug wire. Officers directed traffic during a weekend power outage from about 8 p.m. to past midnight amid storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellston
Bob Fain
First St
Arkansas River Becomes Fully Navigable to Tulsa Area
The Arkansas River, once muddy and shallow, was made fully navigable from the Mississippi River to near Tulsa in 1969. The Corps of Engineers project cost $1.2 billion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas River
Mississippi River
Tulsa
Okla
Corps of Engineers
Pomeroy City Hall Sale Bids Approved in Special Session
Pomeroy council approved advertising for bids to sell the present city hall to enable the Weed Building to be bought for a new city hall. The session also approved a trash pickup proposal from Scientific Sanitation and set extra police protection for the regatta. A fireworks display permit was granted for Friday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Eleanor Thomas
Meigs County
Don Griffin
Scientific Sanitation
Nazarene Church
Union Street
Mulberry Avenue
Jed Webster
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Dwight Goins
Mill
Second Streets
Goins
Drew Webster Post No. 39
American Legion
Wahama
Eastern
Kgger Creek
Southern
Ashville
Mason
Racine
Rutland
Frogmobile
Baton
Kyger
Shrine
Belpre
Waverly
Shrinettes
South Second Street
Locust
Mill Streets
Meigs Museum
Ohio Valley Publishing Co
Earl Engels
Pomeroy Council
Regatta Committee
Royal Ettes
Judy M. Thompson
Bill R. DePue
Radcliff
Olin Cooper
Lindsey
Cooper
Wayne Cooper
Ramon Morris
Bob Hamon
Jeff
Marvin
Woodville
Hamon
Frank Cottrill
James Wetzel
Arnot J. Jeffers
H. EF. Rife
Pamela and
Lisa
St. Petersburg
Flo
Salisbury, Rhodesia
Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation
General Service
Earl F. Radcliffe
Ohio
Modern Woodmen of America
Fraternal Life Insurance
Rock Island
Illinois
Arkansas
Charles Legar
Board of Public Affairs
Fred Crow
WAC Pvt
Rena L. Minnick
Wilbur K. Minnick
N. Plains Road
the Plains
Academy of Health Sciences of the Army
Ft. Sam Houston
Tex
N. Court Street
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