Defense area plan debated for Pomeroy Middleport Gallipolis
A Columbus meeting discussed including Pomeroy Middleport and Gallipolis in a defense area. Attendees included State Bridge Commission members Roy Irons Oscar Grisby and Charles Schaber and others from engineering legal and corporate groups. No final decision announced yet though expected soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Ohio
Middleport
Gallipolis
Columbus
State Bridge Commission
Roy Irons
Oscar P. Grisby
Charles F. Schaber
Ray Palmer
Mr. Giese
Hugh Huntington
Commission
O. F. Bakhaus
Ohio River Bridge Co
R. G. Wells
General Chemical Defense Corporation
W. A. Compton
E. H. Condon
Capitol Flags Sent To Legion Posts
Two 5 by 8 foot flags flown over the U S Capitol in Washington D C are sent by Congressman Thomas A Jenkins to Drew Webster Post and Feeney Bennett Post American Legion. They replace World War trophies donated for salvage and will be encased for display in the Legion Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drew Webster
Legion Hall
Feeney-Bennett
United Brethren Baptism Plans Set At Eden
Eden United Brethren Church schedules a baptism by Rev. Harry E. Harwood and Rev. James E. Mahoney for Sunday at 2 PM. Those wishing river baptism contact Rev. Mahoney at 122 Mulberry Ave. Pomeroy. Quarterly conference business meets Saturday 7:30 PM at Pleasant Grove Church Success. Sunday services include 9:30 Sunday School and 10:30 preaching with remarks by Rev. Harwood and Mrs H F E Harwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren
Pomeroy
United Brethren Church At
Eden
Harry E. Harwood
James E. Mahoney
Mahoney
Mulberry Ave
Pleasant Grove
Success
H. E. Harwood
U. B
Harwood
H. FE. Harwood
POMEROY Pastor Lists Sunday Services
Rev. S. J. Nihiser, pastor of the Pomeroy United Brethren Church, announces Sunday services at Enterprise including Sunday School at 9 30 a m and Evening worship at 8, with Wednesday prayer and Praise and Thursday woman's aid. Syracuse services include Sunday school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 30, plus Tuesday evening prayer service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
S. J. Nihiser
Syracuse
W C T U Social Evening and Club Gatherings
Middleport social notes report a Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting hosted by Mrs Graves Mrs Biggs and Mrs Walburn with devotionals readings and a $15.73 treasury balance and a $16.25 ambulance fund gift toward a third ambulance for the Red Cross. Also notes Pre School Mothers Club WPA Nursery School Mothers Club and a Contract Club card party with refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Pearl ‘Graves
A. L. Biggs
Charles Walburn
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Treasury
Red Cross
W.C.T.U
Ohio
Arthur Lewis
Henry Wallace
Washington
Baptist
Presbyterian
Raymond Saxton
Margaret Sauer
Union Sentinels
Pomeroy Social Notes and Local Notices
Pomeroy social notes record a June 23 Flag Day gathering by the Pomeroy Ladies Auxiliary of the Drew Webster Post of the American Legion with a 6 30 potluck dinner and program. Also listed are numerous short notes on residents visiting returning home moving and a June 20 probate hearing in the Lorenzo Dow Poston John Loeffler Jessie McVay Straight estates with inventories filed and notices to executors and heirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy—Ladies Auxiliary
Drew Webster Post
American Legion
Lorenzo Dow Poston
Jessie McVay Straight
Anna Pauline Rothermund to Wed Wilbur Baker Tomorrow
A pre nuptial dinner is set tonight at Mr and Mrs Karl Rothermunds home for the wedding party of their daughter Miss Anna Pauline Rothermund who will wed Mr Wilbur Baker of Muskegon Michigan tomorrow afternoon at the First Presbyterian Church at 430 p m The ceremony is open to the public A reception for 50 guests will follow at the bride's parents home Out of town guests include Mr and Mrs John Baker of Kalamazoo Michigan and Mr and Mrs Henry Deegans and their twins who are moving to Nebraska for wartime work The Deegans lived on Grant Street in the Garen Stansbury home while Mr Deegans headed igloo construction for WWOW at Point Pleasant Miss Dann Jean Hamilton daughter of Mrs Luther Roger Columbus Ohio visits her grandparents Mr and Mrs Thomas Longstaff and relatives prior to returning to Western College for Women Oxford She plans to spend part of the summer vacation there and will resume musical activities with Western groups.
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Ruby Deem
Yale St
Lawrence Deem
Marietta
Roy Davis
Carolyn
Pontiac
Mich
John Bowen
Athens R. D
Ida Davies
A. B. Cross
Mulberry Ave
Grant Roberts
Point Pleasant
Robert Roberts
Cora Roberts
Union Ave
Lawrence Reuter
Alice Ewing
Josephine Pickens
Ollie Randolph
Reedsville
Neil Sheneck
East Liverpool
Pomeroy
James Murray
Middleport
K. PD
Amsbury
Main St
Graber
Linecoln Hill
Lynne Hartley
Lincoln Hill
Don Weese
Columbus
Bert Weese
Carl Edwards
Syracuse
Maurice Harden
Ravenna
Roscoe Harden
Ralph Neigier
Racine
Patrick Healy
Karl Rothermund
S. Third Ave
Anna Pauline _Rothermund
Wilbur Baker
Muskegon
Baker
John Baker
Kalamazoo
First Presbyterian Church
Henry L. Carr
H. G. Deegans
Nebraska
Deegans
Garen Stansbury
Grant St
W.W.O.W
Dann Jean Hamilton
Western College For Women
Oxford
Thomas Longstaff
Herman Ohlinger
Miss Hamilton
Western
Luther Roger
Auto Trunks Are Scrap Rubber Mines
Middleport resident Harry Barnes demonstrates a method to supply rubber for the ongoing drive by removing a rubber mat from his car trunk. The mat contained 6 1 2 pounds of pure rubber, enough to make one tire, and he expects other car owners to follow suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Harry Barnes
Barnes
Church of Christ to Welcome Guest Minister from Atlanta
The Rev. James C. Redmon of Atlanta Georgia will be the guest minister at the Church of Christ Sunday. He is preaching his trial sermon. The local pastorate has been vacant since Rev Don McMillin resigned in late May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
James C. Redmon
Atlanta
Church of Christ
Redmon
Ohio
Don McMillin
Auto Thief Arrested Held in County Jail
G. E. Gregg from an army camp in North Carolina is held at the county jail on automobile theft charges. He took Theodore Ebersbach’s car in Pomeroy Wednesday night and wrecked it above Syracuse on Route 124. Constable Dean Brinker arrested him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
G. E. Gregg
North Carolina
Gregg
Theodore Ebersbach
Syracuse
Dean Brinker
First Softball Game Set For Tuesday Night In Middleport
Middleport announces the first softball game of the recreation project will be Tuesday evening at the high school grounds under lights about 9 15. An admission will cover expenses with teams from W W O W and Middleport, plus possible squads from Pomeroy and locals. A band rehearsal precedes at 7 p.m. with players invited to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Charles McMaster
Middleport Youth Recovers From River Injuries
Leonard Henry of N Second Ave Middleport is recovering from severe cuts suffered while swimming on the West Virginia side of the river. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W L Henry who reside with him on N Second Ave while his father works for E B Badger and Sons Construction Company. His bicycle theft weeks earlier remains unsolved and he now makes daily visits to his physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Leonard Henry
N. Second Ave
West Virginia
Leonard
W. L. Henry
Tennessee
Ohio
E. B. Badger & Sons, Construction Company
Legionnaires Will Elect Officers Sunday
A county meeting of the American Legion is set for Sunday June 21 at two o'clock in the Legion Hall. Officers will be elected and all Legionnaires are urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
American Legion
Legion Hall
Death of Mrs Kasler in Athens at Richland Ave home
Friends of the A. W. Kasler family report the death of Mrs Kasler at her Athens home on Wednesday afternoon. Funeral is set for Saturday at two o clock at the residence 540 Richland Ave. The Kasler family formerly resided here and were active in the Church of Christ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Middleport
A. W. Kasler
Meigs County Farmers Prove Pasture Fertilizer Pays
Thirty four Meigs County demonstrators across Bedford Dayton Salem Chester Olive Salisbury Columbia Orange Scipio Lebanon Rutland and Sutton show lime and fertilizer on pasture boosts. Reports from late summer 1941 and spring 1942 indicate outstanding pasture improvements and benefits for local farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Bedford
W. A. King
W. D.thoma
Dayton Tubbs
H. B. Picklett
Letart
Dan Hartinger
Thereon Johnson
John L. Wolfe
Salem — Burley
M. Nelson Everett Colwell
D. G. Gill
Chester
Theodore Morn
G. L. Michael
Olive
A. F. Halsey
C. E. Humphrey
Salisbury
Norman O. Heilman
Homer Radford
Columbia
Harry W. Dudgeon
G. A
Four Graduate From First Aid Course at Ohio Fuel Gas
Four employees of Ohio Fuel Gas Co at Lebanon Compressor Station completed the American Red Cross Standard First Aid Course on June 14. Participants include Ray Angel chief engineer Doyle Sargent Paul Laughling Carl Lee and R D Weaver and John P Scott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
H. O. Ewing
Farmers Urged to Collect Scrap Rubber Drive
Edson E. Roush urged rural and urban residents to search farms and homes for reclaimable rubber and turn it in at nearest filling station. Meigs County War Board members met to plan drives and a public meeting is set for Saturday June 20 at 9 30 a.m. at the AAA Office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Usda War Board
Edson E. Roush
U. S
Roosevelt
Usda War Boards
Meigs County
AAA
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Bobby
Zenners
Virginia Beach
H. G. Armoreaux
Gerald Leibowitz
Middleport Social Notes
Sally McCormick
D. E. Miller
Earl Knight
Emerson Jones
W.P.A
Pearl St
Willis Aleshire
Mill St
Pomeroy Social Notes
Pomeroy Personals
Francis D. White
Legionnaires
Father's Day
Athens National Bank
Athens Pharmacy Bank of Athens
Berry Hotel
Burnett Smith Cables
Nelsonville
Carpenter Home. Co. Cline's Pharmacy
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Co
Evans Grocery
Gillilan’s Jewelry Store
Kyle & Clifford Luckoff's
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