Pomeroy Council Buys Street Truck and Sets Weight Limit
The Meigs County Farm Bureau legislative committee discussed rural roads and county needs. A bid of 2 522 for a village street truck was approved, with fines set for first offenders at 50 dollars and 100 dollars for subsequent violations. Discussions included secondary road construction chances and a spring rural urban meeting with plans for a young couples program event.
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Farm Bureau
Pomeroy
Humber
Pomeroy Streets
City
Halcounel
Kerr, Liberty
Lawcust
Ebenezer Gale
Lincoln Hill
Road
Martin
Lincoln Heights
Lincoln
Hill Reed Springs
Fry, Run
Waght
Beech Peacock
Osbourne
Legion Terrace
San Steven
Thin Spring
Rock Springs
Carl Hutchinson
State Farm Bureau
Cleanup Starts as Waters Return to River Banks
The town of Pomeroy resumes activity as waters recede and streets open after days of flooding. Business operators begin cleanup overnight, traffic planning improves, and police coordinate with the sheriff to manage rerouted routes. Officials expect routine work to resume as merchants reopen and restorations move forward.
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Busines
A. Keveral
Pomeroy Femen
Walter F. Wolfe
W. Main St
Sean
Othe Locks
Flood Sidelights Town Cleans Mud After Flood
Rescue crews and volunteers clear mud along W Main St Pomeroy as floodwaters recede. Fire dept workers store operators police and highway staff keep services open while residents bring heat boots and supplies for cleanup and road repairs. Sacred Heart Church hosts dinner meeting with Ford Morrow Ravenswood Kaiser plant executive as regional council plans discussed.
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Pomeroy
Shieh Fame
Dorothy Johnston
Jane Sayre
Wally Ebersbach
Mason
Donna
Robinson's
Pat Will
Mays FF
Robinson
State Highway Department
Tlean’ O
Henry Werry
Bill Downie
Eddie Strauss
Ian
King
Anderson Rites Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Sylvia Anderson will be held Friday at 2 PM at Cheshire Baptist Church with interment in Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery. The Rev Sherley Wood will officiate. She is survived by three brothers and two half-brothers with parents named James and Might Conkle. Friends may call Rawlings funeral home until noon Friday.
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Middleport
Sylvia Anderson
Holmer Hospital
Cheshire
Rutland
James
Might Conkle
Rawlings Funeral Home
Cheshire Baptist Sharch
Hereford Association Show Heads to Rock Springs Fairgrounds
Hereford show and sale set for Tuesday at Rock Springs Fairgrounds begins at 9 am with sale at 1 pm Emerson Marting of Washington DH. as auctioneer and Sam Marting of Washington CH as ringman. Special reps include LP McCann and Hiram Stantis of Middleport. directors from Pomeroy, Amesville, Huntington, and Marietta among others. consignors span Huntington to Marietta with Borden Farm and Real McCoy Farm among participants. bank liens by Pomeroy National Bank.
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Cntystic Animale
Emerson Marting
Washington DH
Sam Marting
Goof Washington CH
Tidge
LP McCann
American Hereford Asso
Huntington
W. Va
Marietta
Hiram Stantis
Middleport
Alfred Gane Pomeroy
FH. Gifford
Amesville
Denver Walker
Vinton
J. W. Dixon
Hamden
Vick
F. Mee Coy
Pomeroy National Bank
Butler Herald
Dodd
Spencer
George Duncan
Alfred Gans
Pomeroy
Hugh Leitheit
Pome Coy
W. F. McCoy
Real McCoy Hereford Farm
Chesapeake
Verna McCoy
Ohio
Board Session Still Slated in Meigs County Schools
The Meigs County boards of education will meet as scheduled this Thursday night at Salisbury Consolidated School auditorium. A banquet planned for the evening is canceled. Transportation to joiners and Ohio University speaker Don Perry will discuss the drivers education program.
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Pomeroy
Boards of Education
Meigs
C. C. Patterson
Salisbury Consolidated School
Is Or of Transportation
Department of Found
Don Perry
Ohio University
U S Bows to Soviet In Technician Output
The article warns of a U S shortage of engineering technicians as Russia graduates about 50 000 engineers and 50 000 engineering technicians last year while the United States produced 23 000 engineers and 13 000 technicians. Leaders including Secretary Weeks and Dr H R Beatty stress the need for hands on builders who advance technology and production amid a widening gap between trades and engineering fields.
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Russia
United States
Sin‘Weeks
Weinher
H. Russell Beatty
Wentworth Institute
Beatty
Interstate Business College Extension School Opens
The Interstate Business College Extension School, directed by Fred W. Tweel Jr. of Huntington, opened a month ago in the K of Phalt under high water conditions. Regular classes continued in the extension building as students spent Saturday at Tweel’s Huntington home.
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Interstate Business College
Phalt
Fred W. Tweel, Jr
Hunting.ton
Huntington
Death rites held for Red Beck in Gallipolis
Attendees gathered at the funeral home in Gallipolis for the Red Beck Day service. The ceremony honored the late Beeks family member, with eulogies and music reflecting the era.
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Red Beck
Gallipolis
The
DaReuben
Tie
Howard E Uppelt
Receipts Total in Office of Mayor Pomeroy February
Office records show FF Robinson mayoral receipts totaling 214 dollars and 10 cents for February. Income sources include ordinance fines and expenditures, 108 dollars for half State Highway Patrol fines, 105 dollars to the law library fund, and 4 dollars to the sheriff for coats.
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Pomeroy
FF. Robinson
Law Library
Coats
Grass Run Grass Run 2 Wy Charleston Weekend Visit
The text describes visits by Chester Bogan and Arnold Jackson to Charleston West Virginia, with Mr Jackson of Polka spending time with his daughter Mrs Louis Boggs and her son. The Red Cross Disaster Service supplied rehabilitation aid, assisting roughly one family every nine minutes.
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Brogs
Charleston
W. V
A Chester Bogan
Mr. Jackson
Polka
W. Va
Louis Boggs
Arnold Jackson
Red Cross Disaster Service
Three Held For Jury In Danville Break In Case
Three men, Frank J. Knotts age 23, Francis Graham 24, and Robert F. Knotts 26, were bound over to the grand jury in Pomeroy under $1,000 bond each on breaking and entering charges. They entered pleas of guilty and were reportedly arrested Tuesday by Sheriff Charles Russell.
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Pomeroy
Court of Justice of the Peace
Percy
Peoples
Charles Russell
Danville
Frank J. Knotts
Vinton
Francis Graham
Langsville
Robert F. Knotts
Vintor
Pomeroy Social Notes Called Off
A meeting of Past Councilors Theodorus Council Daughters of America at Mrs Bentz Wolfe’s home was cancelled due to high water. The group will not hold a March meeting. Officer elections planned by White Shrine of Jerusalem. A Grange meeting at Rock Springs Grange Hall with potluck supper follows the business session and program hour.
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Pomnkut
Theodorus
Council Daughters of America
Bentz Wolfe
Pomeroy
Mary Snrine
Unis
Wrnmmars
Tock Springs
Grange
Middleport Resident Attends West Virginia Wesleyan College
Middleport resident John C. Dudding, 261 Locust Street, is listed as attending West Virginia Wesleyan College as a physical education major. He is a graduate of Middleport High School and is noted as a member and one manager of a local organization.
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Middleport
John Fran Dudding
Locust St
Gleport
West Virgina
Residents Asked To Leave Care Home After Flood Cleanup
Residents are urged to vacate the care home during flood cleanup to avoid obstructing work. Authorities request calm departure and explain the temporary relocation aims to speed repairs and safety. Local officials coordinate with responders to resume normal operations once debris and water are cleared.
Ella Smith Burial Held
Funeral services for Ella Smith 81 a former Pomeroy resident who died in Columbus were held at Moody Funeral Home Columbus Friday March 4 She was widow of Andrew Smith died December 1953 and survived by three children Clarence Columbus Clifford California and Mrs Earl Young of Pomeroy a sister Mrs Mary Snyder a brother Joe Heavener both of Murray City four grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Pomeioy
Ella Smith
Pomeroy
Columbus
Moody Funeral Home
Andrew Smith
Funeral Friday for Indian Fighter Edward FitzGerald
Funeral services are set for Friday at 8 pm at Trevey funeral home and Heart Church for Edward FitzGerald, Indian fighter and U S Army veteran who died February 3. Interment will be at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Huntington. He was born June 15, 1866 in Kerry Ireland and came to America with his parents, later settling in Columbus. He leaves a son Cornelius and a sister Marie. Rosary services will be said.
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Romsxor
Punefas Mastill
Heart Church
Drew Prom Turel
Edward Francis FitzGerald
Webster
Sac
faGerald
Veterans Cred Heart Cemetery
Notal’ Huntington
U. S Army
New Haven
Omaha
Columbus
Thgee Tone
Nora Hegarty
County Kerry
Mr. Pitacereid
Mary “Elen ‘Cronan
Athens
Pomeroy
Mtr
Ted
Tince
Mise Fitacerd
Sacred Heart Parish
Holy Name Society
Ancient Order of Tiberniane
American Sons of St. Patrick
Order
Eag
Cornelius
Marie
New York
Conn
Births and Discharges Noted in Pomeroy Area
Mr and Mrs Eugene Lauder mill of Pomeroy welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs Sanford Gheen of Pomeroy report a son. Discharged individuals include Lily Girolami Martha Stewart Helen Rehm J B Stone Kenneth Lulichart Homer Jones Cecil Nelson Viet Joe Ebersbach James Pearl Brickles and Fred Hottman.
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Ted
Sanford Gheen
Pomeroy
Howard Dailey
Middleport
John Buckner
Forrest McNell
Cheshire
T. V. McCumber
Wilkesville
Fred Hottman
Dunbar
W. Va
Manel Harmon
Eugene Laudermill
Lily Girolami
Martha Stewart
Helen Rehm
J.B. Stone
Kenneth Lulichart
Homer Jones
Cecil Nelson
Viet Joe’ Ebersbach
James 8
Pearl Brickles
Fred Hottmman
Turnout Sought for Legion Meeting and Sicily Invasion Film
Feeney Bennett Post commander IDDLEPORT Don asks members to attend tonight's American Legion meeting at the Legion Hall. After business and program sessions, plans for the March 16 birthday party will be discussed and a screening of footage on the invasion of Sicily and Italy will follow, with basement cleanup to precede.
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Feeney-Bennett Post
American Legion
Legion Hall
Sicily
Italy
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Peterson
Associated Radio Sales and Service
Harry A. Miller Mann
Pickens
Paint & Hardware
Mason City
Dickie's
Hereford Association
Rock Springs Fairgrounds
SORC
U.S
Pally
Technica Mattrey
Wierie Voight
U. S
Red Cross Aid
Dale Dutton
Middleport, Ohio
Liberty Theatre
Idolepory
Voice of the Theatre
Mickey Spurane
Anthony Quinn
Charles Coburn
Gene Evans
Peany Castle
Courage
Chester Methodist Sunday School
Wesleyan
Ohio Valley
Chrysler
Karr & van Zandt Motor Sales
Oldsmobile Vrater
Children's New
Kiddie Korner
Court St . Pomeroy
All Pictures
Templs
Sabrina
oFaber
Rey
LDS
Pomeroy Cement Block Company
Frigidaire
Baker Furniture
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