Complaints On Phone Rate Hike And Personal Taxes Heard
A Meigs County meeting at Rock Springs Grange Hall drew hundreds to hear The General Telephone Co. of Ohio defend a proposed local rate increase and discuss personal property taxes. Officials from the company and the Ohio Department of Taxation faced residents on rate hikes, service concerns, and tax valuation practices with a panel-led Q and A.
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Pomeroy
General Telephone Co
Ohio
Meigs County
Rock Springs Grange Hall
Meigs County Farm Bureau
Telephone Company
Ohio Department of Taxation
William Farrington
Bob Feesemeyer
Farrington
Farrington and
Feesemeyer
Ohio Bell
General Co
Rutland
Portland
Utilities Commission
Andrew C. Hubler
First Half 1958 Real Estate Taxes Grow by 17k in Pomeroy
Pomeroy treasurer Clyde Millhone reports 354858.91 collected in real estate taxes for the first half of 1958, up about 17000 from 1957. Totals by township and village include Bedford 18290.86 Chester 28472.41 and Salem 14915.21 with water receipts added for Rutland Racine and Syracuse.
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Pomeroy
Clyde Millhone
Meigs Ion
Bedford
Chester
Salisbury
Columbia
Lebanon
Letart
Rutland
Rutland Village
Salem
Middleport Village
Pomeroy Village
Scipio
Sutlton
Racine
Syracuse
District WSCS Meeting Planned At Gallipolis
Gallipolis hosts a district WSCS meeting on April 7 as announced by district vice president Mrs. Dc F Tompkins. At the meeting in Pomeroy Mrs. Oma Winebrenner hosted with Miss Marcia Karr reviewing Concerns of a Continent and devotional themes by Mrs. Capehart and Mrs. Sauvage.
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Oma Winebrenner
Area church services and schedules in Middleport and Syracuse
Multiple local churches list weekly activities including Bible school worship services and sermons at Church of Christ Christ in Christian Union Nazarene Methodist and Baptist congregations. Timings cover Sunday school 9:30 10:30 a.m. and evening services with various choir events and youth meetings.
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Church of Christ
Fred I. Gardner
Amazing Grace
Tirmon
Middleport
First United Presbyterian
Howard Ruppelt
Church of Christ In Christian Union
Everett C. Delaney
Church of the Nazarene
Robert Palmer
Young Peoples
Heath Methodist
Raymon Konkright
First Baptist
Warren M. Hulbert
Board of Deacons
Literary Club Meeting Held Wednesday
The Middleport Literary Club met at Mrs. D. B. Hartinger’s home to hear a program and report on the annual sale of articles by the Ohio State School for the Blind project. More than $50 was raised as part of the club’s annual charitable effort.
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Middleport
Ohio State School For the Blind
Middleport Literary Club
D. B. Hartinger
Bess Sanborn
M. L. French
Henry Null
Lloyd Douglas
H. E. Cook
Forrest Bachtel
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Cook
Harry Chesser
Masters of Deceit Topic for BPW Meeting
Public Affairs Group to present Masters of Deceit at the Middleport Business and Professional Women's club dinner at the Heath Methodist Church social rooms at 6:30 Tuesday evening. Nellie Vale urges reservations for the Deshler Hilton small business clinic in Columbus March 14 and 15.
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Middleport
Middleport Business and Professional Women’s Club
Heath Methodist Church
Pearl Reynolds
Sadie McElhinney
Nellie Vale
Columbus
Middleport Church Group Attends Tri-State Mission Rally
Six members of the Middleport Church of Christ joined Rev and Mrs Fred I Gardner Mrs George Childs Mrs George Hudson and daughter Carol and Mrs Clarence Cline at a missionary rally in Grayson Kentucky. The event was sponsored by Kentucky Christian College and the Kyowva Evangelistic Association.
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Middleport
Middleport Church of Christ
Grayson
Tri-State
Party Honors Mrs Roller in Sendoff at Home
Mrs Max Roller hosted a Wednesday evening party at her Middleport home to honor her daughter in law Mrs James Roller. The guest list included Mrs Robert Tewksbury Mrs George Dallas and others as the hostess presented a farewell gift. Mrs Roller and Cathy Jimmie and Johnny will accompany Lt James Roller to Chanute Air Field in Rantoul Illinois where he will report for duty.
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Middleport
Max Roller
James Roller
Robert Tewksbury
George Dallas
William Walter
John Carson
Henry Cooper
Jack Bachner
Church deacons to meet at Syracuse church
The deacons and deaconesses of the Syracuse First United Presbyterian Church will hold their meeting at 7 30 Sunday at the church. Rev. Howard Ruppelt, the church pastor, announced today.
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Pomeroy
Syracuse
First United Presbyterian Church
Howard Ruppelt
Pomeroy Women Hear Africa Study Tour Report
Mrs Richard Riley head of the Women's Auxiliary of the diocese of Southern Ohio spoke about Africa at Grace Episcopal parish house in Pomeroy. She and her daughter completed an Africa study tour beginning in Liberia and visiting the Congo Ethiopia and Egypt after a previous Asia perimeter tour. The luncheon and meeting were hosted by local auxiliary members with guests from St Peter's Gallipolis and Grace Auxiliary.
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Pomeroy
Richard Riley
Ohio
Africa
Grace Episcopal Parish
St. Peter’s Church
Gallipolis
Liberia
Asia
Japan
India
Patrick Lochary
Theodore Ebersbach
J. E. D. Hartinger
Fred Crow, Jr
Hartinger
Theodore Reed
A. R. Knight
Gallipolis Church
George Files
Charles E. Holzer, Jr
Jesse Lockhart
Eton MacKay
Paul Myers
James Thompson
Frank Woods
Everett Hayes
Grace Auxiliary
Riley
Two Listed To Receive State 4-H Recognition
Sharon Atkins and Wayne Roush of Meigs County will receive state recognition at the junior leaders honor award conference at the Ohio State fair youth center in Columbus. Atkins, Rutland High School senior, has 10 years of 4-H and National 4-H poultry representation. Roush, Rutland High School junior, has five years of 4-H and served as Meigs County junior fair board secretary.
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Pomeroy
Sharon Atkins
Wayne Roush
Meigs County
Columbus
Miss Atkins
Virgil Atkins
Harrisonville
Rutland High School
Ohio
Roush
Orion Roush
Salem Center
Meigs County Junior Fair Board
New Meigs Auditor Takes Office Monday
Gordon Caldwell a Democrat elected Meigs County auditor last November will assume duties Monday morning. Mrs. Dean Barnitz, former commissioner's clerk, has been serving as auditor for weeks replacing Perry Riggs, who resigned to join the Meigs County Department of Health as sanitarian.
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Pomeroy
Gordon Caldwell
Meigs County
Dean Barnitz
Perry Riggs
Meigs County Department of Health
Sanitarian
Presbyterian Deacons Meet at First United Church
A meeting of the deacons and deaconesses of the First United Presbyterian Church will be held at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the pastor s study at the church.
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Presbyterian
Middleport
First United Presbyterian Church
Local Residents Attend Circleville Death Call
Middleport resident Miss Jean Lama and her sister Mrs Ernest Jones of Columbus were in Circleville Sunday for the death of their great aunt Mrs Anna Sensenbrenner. They visited with Mrs Genevieve Emmons and M E Sensenbrenner mayor of Columbus, who are daughter and son of Mrs Anna Sensenbrenner.
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Middleport
Jean Lama
Ernest Jones
Columbus
Circleville
Anna Sensenbrenner
Genevieve Emmons
M. E. Sensenbrenner
Emmons
Sensenbrenner
Anna Sesenbrenner
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