Racine Teams Claim Meigs County Titles in Final Night
Racine High School edged Chester 27 to 21 to win the county crown while Racine Junior High beat Rutland Juniors 13 to 11 after two overtimes. The Racine Independents lost 33 to 25 to Pomeroy butcaptured a forfeit victory amid a sit down protest sparked by Ohio University freshmen Shu maker and Monk. The delay stretched almost 45 minutes before play resumed. Warner led Chester with sharp foul shooting. Neiglar delivered the decisive shot in the second overtime for Racine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Chester
Racine Junior High
Rutland
Racine Independents
Pomeroy
Shumaker
Monk
Ohio University
Racine Boys
Chester High
Warner
Wolf
Roush of
Neiglar
Racine H
T. Beegle
Bostic
Lee
Roush
Neigler
Wickline
Carpenter
T. Stine
Ceco Warner
Eynon
Osborne
Bahr
Steel Bailey
Racine JR. High
Rutland JR. High
Coonover
Kennedy
Spires
Brown
Stiner
Betshe Aermegararooas
Pomeroy— Go
Cotterill
Grueser
Stivers
Clifford
Ve Joachim
Roberts
McKelvey
Meredith
Salser
Re Roberts
Tent
Nease
Spencer
Flora White Clapp Dies at 84 in Rochester
Mrs. Flora White Clapp 84 died Friday night at her daughter Neela Welte’s Rochester home. A Middleport resident long active as a school board clerk and Woman’s Christian Temperance Union worker, she leaves one daughter, a son Ellsworth Clapp, six grandchildren, and siblings. Funeral 2 p.m. at Mrs. R. N. Barnes home with Rev. Kreager. burial Middleport Hill Cemetery. Also notes Meigs County Society mid year meeting in Columbus March 5 at Schiller Park shelter house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Flora White Clapp
Neela Welte
Rochester
Minn
Columbus
Pomeroy
Meigs County Society of Columbus
Schiller Park
Tom F. Lewis
Gladys A. Moor
Mate of Princess HORIZONTAL 1
Puzzle clues list with various definitions and cross references for a word puzzle drawing on royalty language and common terms. It mixes titles, objects, and actions such as ipecac source and historic figures, requiring expert cross solving.
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Weekend Visits
Pomeroy residents host and visit relatives across Ohio towns. Among attendees are Mr. and Mrs. Parker Mulberry Ave, and George Finkle Marietta visiting Mary Pooler Naylors Run. Rose Wrangler hosts. Ed Diefenbach Columbus visits Myrtle Griffith. others travel between Pomeroy Racine Racine and sister cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
George Parker
Mulberry Ave
George Finkle
Marietta
Mary Pooler
Naylors Run
R. W. Tuck
Cleveland
H. C. Priode
Joseph Lang
Wheelersburg
Clifford Shumaker
Gallipolis
Rose Wrangler
Herman Bert
Marvin
Parkersburg
Wright McCroria
Lincoln Hill
Ed Diefenbach
Columbus
Myrtle Griffith
Spring St
C. W. Pilch
Chester Road
Clara Reuter
Sue Young
Kathryn Arnott
Warren
Racine
Effie Warren
Reedsville
J. C. Fisher
Middleport
Phil Williams
Elizabeth McNally
Charleston
Fred Langholtz
Clarence Neutzling
Chillicothe
Victor Neutsling
Betty Campbell
Virgil Campbell
Butternut Ave
A. C. Stevens
William Chambers
Long Bottom
Wendell Berry
Roseville
Monkey Run
Albert Reuter
Lutheran Church
Reuter
St. Paul's
Middleport Social Notes Highlights Local Folks News
Mrs. J. E. Atkinson shows gradual recovery while her husband improves. Ward family relocates from flood washhouse to Koehler house on Broadway. D. L. Roush and family visit in Letart Falls for Homer Pickens funeral. Several residents travel, visit hospitals, dine, and host guests across Middleport and nearby towns.
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Middleport
J. E. Atkinson
Seventh Ave
Main St
Atkinson
Merrell Ward
Koehler
Broadway
S&st
John Ward
Lancaster
Ward
Sidney Pickens
Frances
Letart Falls
Homer Pickens
EF. J. Zuspan
Kenneth
Kaylong
W. Va
D. L., Roush
S. Sixth Ave
Will Erwin
Broadway St
Disaster Loan Office Set Up for Pomeroy Residents
A Disaster Loan Office opens in Pomeroy with Ebersole of the Cleveland RFC visiting. The Athens Messenger space and Civic Club volunteers support operations, with offices also planned in Middleport. Loans at 3 percent with four months’ interest waiver may be offered to flood and catastrophe victims, prioritizing borrowers with repayment ability and suitable security.
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Pomeroy
Middleport
Thomas A. Jenkins
Ebersole
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Red Cross
Works Progress Administration
Disaster Loan Corporation
RFC
RFC Mortgage Company
Flood Clothing Is Distributed By Legion Post
Feeney-Bennett Post of the American Legion and its auxiliary distributed ten large truckloads of clothing to 2560 flood victims in Middleport. Seven distributions were made with clothing collected from Ohio and Pennsylvania posts. Clothing arrived in a jumble and was sorted into 45 groups. Despite underwater homes, members worked unceasingly, shipping most clothing by truck to Bradbury area and ferried across water for further distribution. Over 1400 hours of free labor were donated by Feeney-Bennett Post members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Harriet Ray
Red Cross
Feeney-Bennett Post
American Legion
Legion
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Post
Bradbury
Clarence Matthews
February Car Sales in Meigs County Report
Forty one new automobiles were sold in Meigs County in February, per the Clerk of Courts Herman Beards office. Thirty seven were passenger cars and four were trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Herman Beards
Mrs Roseberry 84 Dies in Bellaire
Mrs. Roseberry aged 84 died at her home in Bellaire after several days illness. The body was taken to her daughter Mrs. Flora Saxton in Bellaire then to West Columbia for funeral and burial Thursday. She is survived by sister Mrs Will Fowler of Locust Street and brother John Hawkins Sr. a former West Columbia resident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Watson
D. S. Farmer
Mingo Junction
Mr. Farmer
Paul T. Leonard
Quinsey
S. Sixth Ave
Lincoln St
Will Willock
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
T. A. May
Lafayette
The
Electric Company
Virginia Egner
William Steiff
Third Ave
Harry Schoen
Schoen
Mollie Williams
Virginia Sa
Middleport
Roseberry
Bellaire
Flora Saxton
West Columbia
Will Fowler
Locust St
John Hawkins Sr
Racine News Notes Highlights Local Visits
Racine notes several social visits including Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Bailey with two daughters from Reedsville staying with Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Cross. J Easterday, recovering from two weeks of influenza, shows slight improvement. Dr. A. R. Stark, Mrs. Beards of Pomeroy, and Mrs. Ella Watson family members visit Owen Watson. Ed Wolfe and Will Thoma of Morning Star visit W. J. Krider. Roy Wolfe of Eagle Ridge spends Saturday with W. F. Tanthorey.
Dick Tracy Junior Nurse Corps and a Tuesday Radio Schedule
Radio listings feature Dick Tracy Junior Nurse Corps with Tom Thomas Jack Armstrong and Dorothy Gordon plus Orphan Annie and a variety of orchestras and performers. The program includes singing acts by Singing Lady Doris Kerr Munns Warden Lawes and experimental sketches with Orphan Annie and the Johnsons. The lineup covers news of youth, music as hobby, education programs, and a range of radio theater and musical groups across stations WLW and CBS with multiple orchestras and entertainers.
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Dick Tracy Junior Nurse Corps
Tom Thomas
Jack Armstrong
Dorothy Gordon
Tom Mix
Doris Kerr
Orphan Annie
Heidi Orch
Pibber McGee
Haenschen Orch
Pick
Pat Frank Munn
Warden Lawes
Lawes Himber Orch
Jack Pearl
Himber
Wayne King
James Orch
Paul Sullivan Jones Orch
Doctor Poindexter Twins Birth Sparks Newswire Frenzy
For forty years Dr. Charles A. Poindexter practiced medicine but gained unusual attention after a single newswire item said he lost his shoes in mud while traveling flooded roads to attend the birth of twins to Mrs. Emmett Daniels. Letters poured in from across the country including a Michigan couple seeking to adopt one or both babies and Mrs. Joseph F. Lee of Three Oaks who crocheted pink and blue bonnets for each twin. A Mrs. Jice letter urged the babies reach maturity and help make the world better, and requested pictures for her scrap book of twins with bonnets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Charles A. Poindexter
Emmett Daniels
Poindexter
United States
Michigan
Joseph F. Lee
Three Oaks
Dr. Poindexter
Jice
Agriculture Extension Group Plans Work for Meigs County
The Meigs County Agriculture Extension general committee met February 26 with county extension agent Eleanor Whitney. They announced plans for a March 23 meeting at Hemlock Grove Grange Hall at 10 30 am with committees for dinner place reception and program and one representative from 14 communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apple Grove
Letart Falls
George Radekin
Columbia
Pearl Mora
Chester
Everett Colwell
Danville
John Scott
Forest Run
Avon Jones
Harrisonville
Alta Nelson
Hemelock Grove
H. E. Swan
Portland
Harry Pickens
Reedsville
Long Bottom
W. A. Morgan
Rocksprings
Harold
Flood Sermon Draws Large Crowd in Middleport
Rev erend Clarence Swearingen preached at Heath M E Church on Sunday using Old Testament excerpts about disasters and comparing them to the recent flood. The hymn A Mighty Fortress Is Our God was featured. Bishop H Lester Smith and District Superintendent R B Foster will visit Middleport Tuesday to inspect flood damage to the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Clarence Swearingen
Heath M. E
Swearingen
Martin Luther
H. Lester Smith
Cincinnati
R. B. Foster
Chester News Briefs
Chester Ladies Aid Society of the M E Church will hold an all day meeting Thursday at Mrs Mabel Cleland home. Members bring needle and thimble and one dish for lunch. A picture show at the high school auditorium Monday night March 1 benefits the athletic association. Dr and Mrs Philsen Racine were guests of Mr and Mrs Charles Baum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Ladies Aid Society
M. E. Church
Mabel Cleland
High Schoo Auditorium
Athletic Association
Philsen
Racine
Mra
Charles Baum
Hollister School Schedule And Local Notices
Hollister faculty to present The Picture Girl at Greens Run on March 4. The Hall- Taylor Players bring Crime Doers Not Pay on March 3. The Science Class reports The Hollister Flash is off press. Attendance up as influenza subsides. Irma Davis Stemm obituary noted. Third grade adds Anna English. Basketball team praised after Athens tournament. Sally Slay enters Athens deaf school.
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Hollister
Greens Run
Hollister Flash
Irma Davis Stemm
Congress Run
Hall- Taylor
Thelma Adams
Greenfield
Pauline Bethel Brown
Dorcas
Florence Hodgson
Anna English
Athens
Sally Slay
Signs of Spring Reported Across Middleport
Evidence of spring appeared in Middleport with crocus blooming in Mrs Garen Stansburys yard a pussywillow tree near Dr Poindexters porch a marble game on Oliver St and children roller skating as boys flew kites on Gravel Hill local activity showed the season has arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Waterbury man discovers long fractured skull after headaches
Waterbury Connecticut Daniel F. Martin learned he had worked for nearly two years with a fractured skull. He recalled a sharp head impact on a counter that caused brief soreness but no further concern until medical consultation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterbury, Conn
U.P
Daniel F. Martin
Chester Seniors Present Literary Program
Chester senior American literature class staged a Friday program with three plays, a piano solo, and readings in the school auditorium. Participants included Fay Pickens and Cletus Allen among others. Evelyn Ghumeway gave an impromptu speech. a farewell address titled Demosthenes Cicero Webster was read. the next program features sophomores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Fay Picksens
Bernard Osborne
Cletus Allen
Wanda Damewood
Garnet Brooks
Emil Emon
Gene Koblintz
Clara Bird
Richard Smith
Alfred Wolfe
Erma Barnhart
Mara
Ruth Webber
Roy Wolfe
Geneva Summerfield
Lester Sponagle
Kathryn Bailey
Mile Dred Summerfield
Automobile display and sales rooms opened in Albany
Don Allen, son in law of Mr and Mrs A H Bradbury of Seventh Ave, will formally open the Middleport auto display and sales rooms in Albany next Wednesday and Thursday with an automobile show, announced to Mr and Mrs Bradbury and other local residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Albany
N. Y
Don Allen
A. H. Bradbury
Seventh Ave
Creomulsion Promises Quick Relief for Coughs
An advertisement claims Creomulsion relieves chest colds and bronchial irritation by soothing inflamed membranes and expelling germ laden phlegm. It asserts effectiveness after other remedies fail and offers a drugstore guarantee with a money back promise if not satisfied.
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Adv
Vendol touted as remedy for sickness recovery in community
Local ads promote Vendol as a tonic for loss of appetite and weakness from winter illness. It claims to restore strength, improve digestion, and relieve constipation. Athens Pharmacy and Hickman’s Pharmacy endorse the product and offer consultation.
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Ormer
Rochester, Minn
Juliana
Zu Lippee
German House
Netherlands
Spain
CIA
Othirius IH
Robin
Siniain
Pomeroy Social Notes
Robins Entertain
Joe Rubin
E. Main St
Rosenberg and Son
Kay
Maggied
Finberg
White Dove Council
Daughters of Pocahontas
Edith Spencer
PTA
Sugar Run
Parent-Teacher Association
Emma Seitz
Charles MccNamee
Powell Sr
Frank Vroman
William H. Juhling
Middleport Social Notes
Legion Post
Mrs. Roseberry
WLW
al Au
Mary Marlin
Gene Arnold
Alexander Brothers
Sylvia Clark
Dan Hardings
Claudine MacDonald
Fred Astaire
Astaire
Hollywood Goselp
Carol Wrymann
Ensemble
Martinez Brothers
Morgans Orch
Morgan's Orch
Busses Orch
CBS
NBC
Pepper Young
Ma Perkins
Vic and Sade
the O'Neills
Mary Sothern
Betty and
Bob
Guiding Light
Dick Tracy
Singing Lady
the Johnsons
Davis
the Gumps
Ted Malone
Helen Trent
Darlin
Jack Berch
Hall Orch
Aunt Jenny
School of the Air School of the Air
Myrt
Marge Inez Lopez
Marine Band
Billy Mills
Billy Millis
Education
Follow the Moon Ewing Time
Tito
Science Service
Tom Mix Eyncopators
Wilderness Road
Sweethearts of Air del Casino
Befence News
Alexander Cores
X Sisters Narcotic
Renfrew Voce
Jack Fulton
Easy
Alexander Woolleot
Hendrik van Loon
Boake Carter
Ted Hammerstein
Ted Hammerstein Dude Ranch
al Jolson
al Pearce
Vox
Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie Warnow Orch
Warnow
Orch
Andre Baruch Gill Orch
Dorsey Orch
Olsen Orch
Limelight
Chester News
Nature
Hickman's
Nelsonville
Rose Davis
George Buckingham
High Seas
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