Pomeroy Council Names Group To Set Water Plant Purchase Price
A three member committee was appointed by the Pomeroy Council to confer with Meigs Water Company officials on the price to sell the water plant and lines to the village. The village budget was also approved to satisfy state law, though expenditures cited differ from actual spending, reflecting a customary higher budget to cover needed revenues amid rising debt.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Pomeroy Council Names Group
Pomeroy
Meigs Water Company
Alvin Norris
Pomeroy Social Notes Items and Local Visits
A summary of social notes from Pomeroy including hospital patient Jane Priode and weekend guest Pauline Boston, family visits to Gallipolis and Columbus, fishing trip departures, store management duties, and a July meeting. Recitals in Gallipolis featured Dana Tracy and Nora Tracy with Marian Jeffers, aged six, performing.
Mrs Gilmore Hostess for Simpson Church Society
Mrs Ralph Gilmore entertained the Home Missionary Society of Simpson Church at her home on Butternut Ave Monday evening. Mrs Pearl Hysell presided. Plans were made for a porch party at the next meeting with Queen Esther Society members as guests. Refreshments were served during the social hour.
Cloudburst Forces Cyclists on Detours
Two young cyclists Tracy Goodwin and Robert Crow on a East Coast tandem tour faced diversions due to a cloudburst in West Virginia. By Tuesday morning they reached Pennsboro after departing Parkersburg and met Cairo mayor during the detour. Two persons drowned in the storm. They planned to reach Washington, D C, later today, averaging about 110 miles daily for three days.
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Pomeroy
West Virginia
Pennsboro
W. Va
Parkersburg
Cairo
Tracy Goodwin
Robert Crow
Washington, D. C
Tom Jones Residence To Be Redecorated
MIDDLEPORT The large brick home of Capt. Tom Jones state senator on S Third Ave is being redecorated inside by Fultz and Son who also sand and finish the floors. Jones a longtime flower garden enthusiast has spent much time with shrubbery landscaping around the grounds. He lost two Norway spruce trees at the front entrance to his residence damaged by the January flood.
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Middleport
Tom Jones
S. Third Ave
Fultz and Son
Captain Jones
New Tow Boat Jack Rathbone Sights At River Trial
Residents along the Ohio River along Pomeroy Bend watched the new tow boat Jack Rathbone on a trial run with two barges in tow. The vessel, built at the Marietta Plant in Pt. Pleasant, traveled upstream about 10 miles an hour and will enter service in Baton Rouge Louisiana.
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Middleport
Pomeroy Bend
Jack Rathbone
Marietta
Pomeroy
Canning Demonstration Moved to Tuppers Plains
Mrs Bruce Lorch will conduct the canning demonstration Thursday at Tuppers Plains replacing Mrs Gladys Mullenbury Ayers due to illness. The Federal ReSettlement Office announces the change and the event will start at 10 o'clock.
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Pomeroy
Bruce Lorch
Tuppers Plains
Gladys Mullenbury Ayers
Federal Resettlement Office
Ayers
No Solution Yet Found for Williamson Injury
Lafe Williamson remained in a coma at Holzer Hospital after a mysterious injury on W Main St. Police discarded the fall theory due to skull fractures and lack of outward injuries. Investigators, aided by county and village officers, pursue clues but report no progress.
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Williamson
Main St
W. Main St
Liberty
Walter Wolfe
Meigs County Grange Friday Meeting Plans
The Meigs County Pomona Grange will meet Friday night at Laurel Grange Hall. The program includes Grange service, Highway Safety topics, poems, cooperative discussions, safety posters display, a Canadian folk dance, a patrolman talk, short play As We Sow, songs, contests, and refreshments. Members should bring pie.
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Meigs County
Pomona Grange
Laurel Grange Hall
Grange
The
Johnson Boys
Harold Pickering
Anne E. Ogden
Cooperative Gazette
Freda Kennedy
Arlin Verigan
G. A. Radekin
Albert Caster
Columbia Grange
F. F. Cherryholmes
Athens Post
Racine Personal and Brief Social Notes
Miss Mary Philson left for Cincinnati to work as a nurse and will travel with her sister Miss Mabel Philson on to Colorado. Several locals tied up visits and trips with relatives in Athens Gallipolis Middleport and Columbus during the week. Boy Scouts plan an entertainment by the Buskirks of Parkersburg at the high school auditorium Friday night. A son was born to Mr and Mrs Roy Ellis of Harrisonville, with the mother staying at Mrs Robert Crew’s home.
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Pomeroy
Jane Priode
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
Yale St
Pauline Boston
Leonard Scholl
Inlaw
Melvin Scholl
Barbara Scholl
Jasonville
Ind
Pete Reinhart
Geneva
William Reinhart
Michigan
Mary Bibbee
Columbus
Apple Grove
Harold Crum
Racine
Mary Philson
Cincinnati
Mabel Philson
Colorado
Joe Schaefer
Dayton
Robert Carvel
A. J. Schaefer
Harold Weatherholt
Douglas
Emma Ji
Sidney Fadely
Boy Scouts of
Buskirk
Emma_ Jiiden
Huntington
Roy Ellis
Harrisonville
Ellis
Robert Crew
Middleport
Pythian Sisters
Lodge
Allen Jenkinson
Standard Oil
Portsmouth
Robert Adams
Ruth Rowley
Ruth Ann
George Lasher
Rutland
Frieda Faehnle
Phi Delta Kappa
Hershel Williams
Toledo
Clark Williams
Horton Brown
White Cross Hospital
Eleanor Lee Roush
Dorothy Gardner
Covert Baking Company
Charles McNamee
Mazie Wise
Kate Rees
Ernestine Rea
Kerrs Run
Max Sanborn
Akron
Herbert Chambers
Richard Chambers
McArthur
Colby Grimes
Mr. Grimes
Nashville
Student Hugh D. Pomeroy sails to study in Europe
Hugh Davis Pomeroy sails from New York on the S S Wolendam to Rome to study this summer. He will visit Italian archaeological sites and travel by rail to Paris and beyond, planning routes through France Switzerland and Italy, with Boulogne sur Mer as a port of call.
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Pomeroy
Hugh Davis
New York
S. S. Wolendam
Rome
Italy
Boulogne sur-Mer
France
Switzerland
Kootaga Area Scouts Begin Jamboree Trip
POMEROY Boy Scouts of Koo taga Area left Parkersburg Monday night for the Washington D C jamboree aboard a special train. Six Pomeroy boys joined the trip carrying bamboo canes for drills and equipment totaling 65 pounds per pack. Parents and local Scout leaders saw them off in Parkersburg as an entire trainload of jamboree youths ages 12 to 18 departed.
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Pomeroy
Boy Scouts
Kootaga
Washington, D. C
Parkersburg
Local Man Enlists in Ohio National Guard
Middleport native Lyston Fultz, an instructor in recreational guidance at Xe nia home, wrote to his mother about enlisting in the Ohio National Guard. He reports his unit, Company L 147 Infantry, sent to the riot area in Youngstown where they were quartered at the Buckeye School Building.
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Middleport
B. F. Fultz
Pearl St
Lyston Fultz
Sailors and Soldiers Orphans Home
Xenia
Ohio
Ohio National Guard
L. 147 Infantry
Youngstown
Buckeye
Fultz
Chamber to honor 25-year vet workers in Elyria
The Elyria Chamber of Commerce announced plans to issue recognition cards to men and women who have served their current employers for 25 years or more.
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Elyria, O
Chamber of Commerce
Chsis Bank
American Express
Notice of Appointments and Tax Foreclosure in Athens County
Notice shows F. E. Kimes of Athens appointed Administrator of Franken Kimes estate with four month creditor claims. Also legal notice targets unknown heirs of Andrew Walker in tax lien foreclosure case 16839 in Court of Common Pleas Athens County. Defendants must answer by July 10, 1987 or judgment.
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F. E. Kimes
Athens
Ohio
Franken Kimes
Athens County
Louis Tyroler
Andrew Walker
G. D. Gorham
Court of Common Pleas
Hudson
Athena
Missionary Society Meeting at First Baptist Church
The B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church met Monday evening hosted by Mrs. Homer Hysell and Mrs. Harry Cross. Mrs. Florence Bush and Mrs. J. O. Leonard presented readings on missionary work.
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B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Homer Hysell
Harry Cross
Florence Bush
J. O. Leonard
Newlyweds Establish Home in Greenup Area
Mr and Mrs Frank Wilson recently wed at Greenup Kentucky have taken rooms in the apartment of Mrs Mayme Byers on S Third Ave Mr and Mrs Willis Anthony have moved from the Steiff apartment on S Second Ave to an apartment in the Souders residence
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Frank Wilson
Greenup
Mayme Byers
S. Third Ave
Willis Anthony
Steiff
S. Second Ave
Souders
Motor Supper Offered by Loyal Pals at Church
The Loyal Pals Class of the Church of Christ hosted a Motor Supper on Tuesday evening. The event featured a social gathering with members serving meals to attendees in a community ministry effort.
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Church of Christ
Columbus Buckeyes Schedule Off Weekend Game
The Columbus Buckeyes failed to arrive for the Sunday game with Middleport Firemen and will be rescheduled for Sunday July 4 at Pythian Park. On Monday July 5 the club will meet Bradbury at the same park.
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Middleport
Columbus Buckeyes
Middleport Firemen
Pythian Park
Bradbury
Death notice for Jasper Burris in Pt. Pleasant funeral
The death of Jasper Burris is reported. He died in a Columbus hospital on Saturday and funeral services were held at the United Brethren Church in Pt. Pleasant. Burial followed at Lone Oak Cemetery with relatives from Gallipolis attending.
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Jasper Burris
Columbus
United Brethren Church
Pt. Pleasant
Lone Oak Cemetery
H.S. Mourning
Paul
Phyllis McDaniel
Nannie Beckett
Gallipolis
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Pearl Reynolds
Lula Googlein
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Elizabeth Campbell
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Lucie B. Langlotz
Jean Hart
Effie M. Tracy
Bertha Radford
Charity Seakus
A. V. Howell
Eva Russ
Elsie Hart
Minnie Eiselstein
Bertha Miller
Eva Simms
Clara Zier
Emma Waterman
Mulberry Ave
Isobel Thomas
Corning
Nial Hysell and
Jack
Lois Ann Campbell
West Main St
Dana _ Tracy
Nora
Sophia Blaczewicz
Norah Condee
Adam Scholl
Nellie Marie
Joan
Verda Oliver
Virgil Brown
Charles Smith
Jane Smith
Luckoff
Ree
Grey
OF Women's
Charlie Chase
Meigs County Grange
Europe
Ted
Gorham
Foster B. Cornwell
Middleport Social Notes
Nina Russell
Selah Sidenstricker
Robert Day Blizzard
Nellie Zerkle
Hallie Zerkle
Robert Coats
Nan Moore
Blizzard
Dr. H. McDaniel
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