Middleport High Band Seeks New Equipment Support
Middleport High School Band, about 50 members, has grown since its start eight years ago. At the PTA meeting Monday, a permanent organization will be formed to raise funds for needed equipment ahead of the April 9 annual concert directed by Dan L. Farmer. The program includes a play and talks on colds and home study.
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Middleport
Middleport High School
Parent-Teacher Association
Dan L. Farmer
Farmer
John Cranston
Birthday party honors Peggy Robson at new Gravel Hill home
A birthday event for Peggy June Robson was held Wednesday at the new home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Robson Gravel Hill. Thirty girls attended the seven to ten oclock party in the heated lighted garage with a radio. Bingo was played and refreshments were served.
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Middleport
Peggy June Robson
W. M. Robson
Gravel Hill
Miss Robson
O. Fisher
Second Ave
Garfield St
Bobby
Workers and Farmers Group Plans County Meeting
Pomeroy dispatch says the Workers and Farmers Association will hold a county meeting Tuesday night at Rutland Gymnasium. County president A. W. Hoover announces a program with Judge C. F. Peoples speaking on Constitutional Rights and L. D. McMaster addressing Boy Scouts Training to be Workers.
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Pomeroy
Workers’ and Farmers’ Association
Rutland
A. W. Hoover
Marcinko Pleads Guilty on Liquor Violations in Long Bottom
Joe Marecinko was arrested at his Long Bottom home by state and county officers for liquor law violations. In justice court he pleaded guilty to possession and illegal sale of liquor, fined 100 dollars and costs on each count for a total of 200 dollars.
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Pomeroy
Joe Marecinko
Long Bottom
Justice Court
Tragedy Follows Death in Ed Martin Home
In Naylor's Run the Martin family faces a sequence of misfortune after Mr. Martin's death about two weeks ago. The infant Oshy fell ill with fever pleurisy and tonsils. Eddie Martin, a boy of few years, touched a gas tank, sustaining severe burns to his face head and neck with his right eye and cheek most affected.
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Pomeroy
Ed Martin
Naylor
Instructors in Pomeroy Paid in Full
POMEROY. Salary checks totaling 5074.26 were distributed Thursday to Pomeroy school teachers per Floyd F. Mees, clerk of the Pomeroy School Board. He noted monthly payments have continued, school bills met, Senior High bonds retired, and Junior High interest payments due Saturday.
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Pomeroy
Floyd F. Mees
Pomeroy School Board
Mees
Mrs. Lucy Boggess Dies in Kansas City
Middleport reports the death of Mrs. Lucy Grant Boggess in a Kansas City hospital from pneumonia while visiting relatives for the winter. She was the last of her immediate family, daughter of William T. and Esther Grant, pioneer residents. funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Middleport
Tom W. Grant
Kansas City
Lucy Grant Boggess
Pomeroy and Middleport Social Scribbles and Events
Dr and Mrs C F E W Downie and Mayme Downie travel from Lincoln Hill to Pleasant Flats W Va then to Cincinnati for the death of Rev Charles Walker Mrs J A Edwards visits Malcolm Hartley family in Lincoln Hill Ladies Aid meets at Bethany M E Church Middleport hosts play The Alley Daffodil by Pythian Sisters Rutland sponsored by Feenay Bennett Post Large turnout Tax director R M Winegardner to speak at Rotary Club Middleport evinfalls Church of Christ group attends evangelistic meetings led by Rev James E K Burns
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Ladies Aid of the
Bethany M. E. Church
Mary Miller
Middleport
Middleport School
Pearl St
Pythian Sisters
Rutland
Feenay-Bennett Post
American Legion
R. M
Winegardner, McConnelaville
Sales Tax Commission
Ohio
Rotary Club
Riverside Hotel
Church of Christ
Tuppers Plains
James EK. Burns
Local Health and Social Notes From Middleport Area
Middleport reports include visit by Mr and Mrs C M Frwin of Malden W Va to Mrs Jessie Lansbury in Mill Street. Updates on residents: Mrs 1D J Sullivan back home after Charleston stay. Herbert Fink and Charlie Grate improved but still ill with pneumonia. Mrs Ben Erwin in Charleston visiting. M L French slightly improved at Holzer Hospital. Dennis Gallagher of Charleston visiting Gravel Hill parents William and Hetteseimer. Huntington trip by Gallagher, Hetteseimer, Martha Heines, and A K Oliver to see Mary Baber in Foster Memorial Home. Baber formerly from Pomeroy.
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C. M. Frwin
Malden
W. Va
Jessie Lansbury
Mill St
J. Sullivan
Charleston
John Schaefer
Seventh Ave
Herbert Fink
Charlies Grate
Grant St
Middleport
Dennis Gallagher
William Hetteseimer
Gravel Hill
Three Women Plan To Attend DAR Convention
Mrs. C. F. Rathburn and sisters Mrs. W. T. Moore and Mrs. R. S. Hamilton journey from Chesapeake to Dillsboro for the weekend and Springfield for a state DAR convention where Rathburn serves as president. Rathburn then heads to Greveland Crile Hospital while Moore remains home in Chesapeake until his wife returns.
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DAR
Middleport
C. F. Rathburn
W. T. Moore
R. S. Hamilton
Chesapeake
Dillsboro
Springfield
The
Daughters of American Revolution and
State Officers Club
Rathburn
Court Of Appeals To Hear LeRoy Holmes Case
Court of Appeals will convene Tuesday here to hear the dispute over a gas well lease between LeRoy Holmes and A. N. Bengel and others.
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Pomeroy—Court of Appeals
LeRoy Holmes
A. N. Bengel
Pastor Walker Dies in Cincinnati After Long Ministry
Rev Charlies KE Walker aged 85 former Pomeroy resident died at his Cincinnati home He served as pastor of First Presbyterian Hartwell for 35 years and was Pastor Emeritus He is survived by wife three sons and one daughter Funeral services set for Saturday in Cincinnati Relatives from Pomeroy Lincoln Hill Blueball and Grover Swearingen travel to attend the rites
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Pomeroy
Charlies KE. Walker
Cincinnati
Gallia County
William McKnight
First Presbyterian Church
Hartwell
Walker
Blueball
Ohio
Mayme Downie
Lincoln Hill
C. BE. W. Downie
Grover Swearingen
Man Arrested for Reckless Driving in Funeral Procession
Mose Frazier of Middleport was arrested by Pomeroy Police Chief Dana L. Tracey on a charge of reckless driving during a funeral procession. He also faced a separate charge for driving with a single license plate, fined five dollars plus costs, with a hearing set later. January is described as named from the god Janus, symbolizing beginnings.
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Pomeroy
Mose Frazier
Middleport
Dana L. Tracey
Frazier
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Middleport Pta
New Home
Marcinko
Rayon
Luckoff
Martin
Lucy Boggess
Pomeroy Personals
Pythian Sisters Act
Watkins
Marion
Othal Watkins
Cyre Bennett
Lima State Hospital
Ora de Ween
James Bennett
Harold Garlough
Frank M. Coppock, Jr
Meigs County
Charles FE. Walker
Mr. Farmer
Stitute
Messenger
January
Janus
Quick's
Absorbine Jr
Castoria
Scholl's
Ingram
Jergen
Vicks
DR. Caldwell
C. D. Shafer Co
Ae Cal Mn IL
Ponselle
Martini
Sastelanetz Orchestra and Chorus
P.M
Columbia Network
Liccerr & Myens Tosacco Co
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