Middleport Council About Faces on Closing Ordinance
Middleport council discussed rescinding the closing ordinance affecting local businesses. Citizens urged action while officials referred the matter to the ordinance committee for a report at the next regular meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marietta
NYA
Middleport
Samp Russell
Milton Hamilton
Guy Carson
Joe Young
Julius Schmoll
Leroy Barsotti
Hamilton
West Virginia
Ohio
Schmoll
Fisher
Ordinance Committee
Cross
Rawlings
Miller
Sug
Middleport Garden Club Votes Five Dollars For Library Book
Middleport Garden Club met at Mrs. O G Suter on S Third Ave to vote five dollars for a library book fund titled Garden Shelf and to urge passage of bills protecting wild flowers and publicizing local natural resources. Members opposed removing quail from the songbird list. Mrs R A Miller spoke on Evergreens and Mrs Suter on Planting for Spring with color planning. Guests Miss Laura McKay of Portland and Mrs Lawrence Bing attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Middleport Garden Club
O. G. Suter
S. Third Ave
R. A. Miller
Laura McKay
Portland
Lawrence Bing
Town Debates Blue Laws and Street Surfacing Plan
Council discusses invoking Blue Laws to close town on Sunday while considering liquor ballot. Ordinance approved for road resurfacing with total project cap of 20500 including WPA and NYA works. notes/bonds up to 8500 if sold, else 12000 cap governs. Cemetery work to begin in three weeks via WPA in Zanesville. 5000 city lots offered later. Legal action: Fitzgerald sues Wildermuth Brewing for 2436.85 for work performed.
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Gested
Cross
Middleport
WPA
Zanesville
NYA
Farmers Hear Bank and Church Future Plans
Meigs County Bankers Association and Meigs County Ministerial Association outlined farming and community development aims at the Unified Farm Program Committee meeting. Gomer Lewis described county banks loan aims and cattle sire support. Rev. Ralph Kuether spoke on church support for welfare groups. Dr. George Lasher sketched land use planning and farm development in wartime context.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Bankers’ Association
Meigs County Minsterial Association
Gomer Lewis
Racine
Bankers’ Association
Ralph Kuether
Ministerial Association
Boy Scouts
Red Cross
B. F. Parmalee
Middleport Rotary Club
Church To Show Chinese War Films In Meigs County
By special arrangement two films about conditions in China have been released to Meigs County for showing at Simpson Methodist Church Rev Warren H Bright announces. Churches county wide are invited to attend as part of wartime relief efforts. The features depict bombing of Chinese cities refugees and China's efforts to re establish itself inland.
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Pomeroy
China
Meigs County
Simpson Methodist Church
Warren H. Bright
Smith Reports Moves In Tuberculin Tests
Meigs County Public Health committee will meet Wednesday at 7 30 PM in Pomeroy City Hall. Dr. Smith of the Ohio Public Health Department will report on tuberculin testing assisted by the local health officer and nurses. Funds come from 1940 Christmas seals sale.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Public Health Committee
Pomeroy City Hall
Smith
Ohio Public Health Department
Missionary Pomeroy to Speak at Federated Church Tonight
Miss Hedwig Schaefer, missionary to India, will speak at 7 30 tonight at the Federated Church per Rev R Kuether announcement. Attendance is open to all. Week activities include church service Wednesday and a teachers meeting Friday. A rug making session led by Miss Geneva Humphreys, home demonstration agent, is set for Letart Falls Community Hall Wednesday at 10 30 AM.
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Society of Christian Service
Pomeroy
Hedwig Schaefer
Federated Church
R. Kuether
Letart Pomeroy
Letart Fails
Sixteen Men To Leave for Army Training
Sixteen men from the conscription list will depart March 10 for one year of army training, starting in Huntington. Names include Herman M. Kincaid Rutland Albert M. Smith Rutland Henry Douglas Johnson Portland William M. Jones Rutland William O. Roush Pomeroy Frederick Kanouse Middleport Robert E. VanMeter Guysville Dayton D. Spencer Middleport Melvin T. Hood Pomeroy Charles Ray Hysell Minersville Guy E. Bing Minersville Lester E. Sayre Langsville Henry Stanley Albany Joe Napper Rutland Carl C. Miller Langsville Henry Johnson Portland. Johnson is in New York State but to return. Jones in CCC Camp will also return. A 21st birthday rule excludes some late registrants. volunteers aged 18–21 may enlist with parental consent. Another call for about 13 men is planned for March 21.
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Pomeroy
Bryan Parr
Selective Service Board
Huntington
Herman M. Kincaid
Rutland
Albert M. Smith
Henry Douglas Johnson
Portland
William M. Jones
William O. Roush
Frederick Kanouse
Middleport
Robert E. VanMeter
Guysville
Dayton D. Spencer
Melvin T. Hood
Charles Ray Hysell
Minersville
Guy E. Bing
Lester E. Sayre
Langsville
Henry Stanley
Albany
Joe Napper
Carl C. Miller
Henry Johnson
New York State
CCC
Parr
Huge Lenten Cross Burns in Pomeroy
The 36 foot cross on Lincoln Hill is lit each evening during Lent. Hanging from a tall pole it spans nine feet in breadth and serves as a year round symbol of Christianity. Its light is visible from Middleport Pomeroy and nearby areas across the river in West Virginia.
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Pomeroy
Lincoln Hill
Middleport
West Virginia
Alter Sewage Line In Pomeroy
POMEROY village to seek WPA approval to change the Sugar Run sewer path from the original course to a line from Butternut Ave. via Fourth Street to the Sugar Run creek bottom. The move would cut costs and avoid rock digging. A district WPA review in Zanesville is planned this week as council prepares a revised ordinance book for issuance after work ends.
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Pomeroy
Sugar Run
WPA
Butternut Ave
Fourth St
Sugar Run Creek
Zanesville
Light
Richard Eblin Is Fined In City Court
Richard Eblin was fined $10 and costs in Mayor Co. O. Fisher's court on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. It is alleged he struck a Safety Cab that was parked discharging passengers, then drove off after turning off his lights. He was apprehended by Chief of Police Robert Allensworth.
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Middleport
Richard Eblin
Co. O. Fisher
Eblin
Robert Allensworth
Writes of Camp Life Ely Enjoys Army Life at Ft Slocum
William Ely, enlisted for three years in the United States Army, is stationed at Ft Slocum New York and, per his mother Mrs Estella Ely, is in good health and enthusiastic about army life. He previously worked at Covert Bakery.
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Middleport
William Ely
Ft. Slocum
N. Y
Estella Ely
Ely
Covert
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Middleport Council
David C. Miller
Francis Gee
Middleport Social Notes
Ada Bing
Miss Bess Sanborn
Hallie Zerkle
Florida
Middleport Colony
J. B. Downing
Ray Singleton
M. D. Hartinger
M. G. Brown
Hialeah Park
Austin V. Wood
Wheeling
Lake Worth
J. O. Dowler
Leonard Hawk
Welch
Dowler
The
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Edward F. Fitzgerald
Wildermuth Brewing Company
Common Pleas Court
Fitzgerald
Iluckoff
P Service
Maine
Falls City
Goorright
Palle City Brewing Line
Leafertiia
Rentacky
Tate
Sune
Solow A
the Gas Company
Sua
Tem
Lelrig
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