Leart Falls WSCS Radio Show With Honey Charlie and Frank
The WSCS will sponsor a radio show featuring Honey Charlie and Frank the California Kid on April 2 at the Leart Grade School. Also announced is the birth of Barbara Quilen daughter of Mr and Mrs George Quillen born March 11, the couple's third child.
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Letart Falls
WSCS
Honey
Charlie and
Frank
Letart
Page
Quillens
Middleport
Mia
George Quillen
Barbara
Meigs County Hospital Fund Faces Legal Ruling
Meigs County Commissioners seek a prosecutor’s ruling on the Memorial Hospital Fund to determine if levy money can fund a hospital and how to handle possible losses. They discuss sources of federal aid, bond votes in 1948, and the County’s role in maintaining the memorial fund.
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Meigs
Ohio
Meigs County
Ohio Department of Health
Department of Health
Hospital Board of
Dan Hartinger
Recorder
EF. L. Hughes
Steel Company To Recruit For Workers In Canton
Unemployed residents registered at the Pomeroy Ohio State Employment Service office total about 400, with ages 18 to 50. A Canton steel firm begins recruiting Thursday for riggers crane operators and laborers, seeking experienced and new workers, with housing scarce but sleeping rooms available.
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Pomeroy
Ohio State Employment Service
George F. Paulson
Canton Steel Company
Paulson
Meigs County
Canton
Mr. Paulson
Canton Company
James E Grate Dies at 81 in Salem Center
James E Grate, 81, of Wilkesville and Salem Center, died at Holzer Hospital after a two week illness. Survived by wife Cora, daughter Vella McComber, sons Hollis and Gerald, four grandchildren, brother Emery Grate, sister Laura Jones, and other relatives. Funeral 2 p.m. Thursday at the Presbyterian Church in Wilkesville with burial in Salem Center Cemetery.
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Salem Center
James_ E. Grate
Wilkesville
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Cora Grate
Vella McComber
Hollis
Gerald Grate
Emery Grate
Ewington
Laura Jones
Pomeroy
Middleport
Strong Funeral
Presbyterian Church
Salem Center Cemetery
Children Apt Pupils Practice Their Lesson
Following a lesson on kindness to blind persons, presented by Mrs Thelma Wilcox, pupils of Mrs Gilbert Hayes classes collected an offering to buy a basket of fruit for John Darnell who is deaf and blind. Presenting the fruit were Edward Lee McComas Larry Varneys and Eddie Kitchen.
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Middleport
Thelma Wilcox
Gilbert Hayes
John Darnell
Edward Lee McComas
Larry Varneys
Eddie Kitchen
Ruling Lets Chester North Ballot Write-In Space
Chester North will be the sole voting place in Meigs County allowing write-in candidates for Republican central committeeman at the May primary. Space will be on the Republican ballot for those already elected at Meigs County polling sites, with specific committeemen listed at Pomeroy and Rutland precincts and other towns.
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Pomeroy
Chester North
Meigs County
Republican Central
Hollie E. Green
Pomeroy 1
Eldon Walburn
Harley T. Johnson
Pomeroy Precinct
Edwin C. Haggerty
Middleport
Harold Long
Ben Spencer
Racine Village
William F. Clark
Bedford East
Ralph Turner
Dyesville
C. O. Newland
Tuppers Plains
William Conolly
Long Bottom
George W. Halley
Silver Run
Don McKnight
Rutland Fast
A. J. Hatfield
Rutland West
L. L. Myers
Rutland Village
Plans Completed For Military Rites Classes At Legion Post
Final plans outline classes for Meigs County veterans to learn funeral squad roles. Feeney Bennett Post 128 hosts the program with teachers for chaplains color bearers color guards rifle squads pallbearers and buglers. Each squad needs 21 men and three squads start training the first night with hopes for eight by course end. Future meeting dates await Wednesday evening. All county veterans are invited regardless of service attendance.
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Pomeroy
Feeney-Bennett
American Legion
Meigs County
Evans Rites Are Thursday
Funeral services for Magdalena Evans 84 who died unexpectedly at her home Story's Run will be held Thursday at 2 p m at Silver Run Methodist Church with interment Gravel Hill Cemetery The Rev Lawrence Schmidt of Rutland will officiate Friends may call at the residence She is survived by husband Warren Evans deceased 1933 children Mrs Roy Rife Olmvier Frecker Mrs C E Young John Arthur Evans Miss Barbara Evans five grandchildren seven great grandchildren and siblings Will Priode Ed Priode Mrs Lida Fessler and Mrs Ida Kent
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Middleport
Magdalena Evans
Story’s Run
Silver Run Methodist Church
Gravel Hill
Lawrence Schmidt
Rutland
C. E. Young
John Arthur Evans
Barbara Evans
Will Priode
Hobson
Ed Priode
Pomeroy
Lida Fessler
Oneota
N.Y
Ida Kent
Columbus
Middleport Families Move To New Homes
Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Mills moved from the Ramsey property on Palmer St to the Mills property on S Fourth Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wayland and family moved from the Mulford property on S Third Ave to property on Mill St owned by the county commissioners. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Harris moved from the Grogan property on N Third Ave to the Craig property in lower Middleport.
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Middleport
Shirley Mills
Judgment Sought in Cognovit Note Case
In Common Pleas Court The Citizens National Bank seeks judgment on a cognovit note for 305 dollars plus 6 percent interest from January 4 1948 against Ethel P Thelma and Edward A Bennett.
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Pomeroy
Common Pleas Court
Citizens National Bank
Ethel P
Thelma
Edward A. Bennett
Tom Thumb Minstrel Show Staged at Columbia Grade School
Carpentry pupils present a Tom Thumb minstrel show in the Columbia grade school auditorium Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Interlocutor is Miss Shirley Kimsey with cast members Freddie Yorke Judith Liggett Ann Powelson Trueman Grim Norma Yorke Billy Lyons Mollie Welch Janet Turner Mary Suzanne Dye and Junior Radekin. A Colonial minuet is danced by 16 first grade pupils Lanna Turner George McKnight Melva Faye Jordan Dale Harvey Avene Radekin Jimmy Haggey Scarlet Fraley Roger Turner Beulah Fern McLaughlin Kenneth Crabtree Mona Ruth Hannon Jimmy Haning Donna Jean Nelson Jerry Stansbury Norma Fauber and Larry Stansbury. Chorus numbers are sung by David Crabtree Joan Grim Ray Howery Pauline Burke Betty McCaskey Stella Tom Margaret Lowe Phyllis Burke Norma Gail Holliday Albert Quivey Jewell Buzzard Mary Lou Wray Preston Hamon Nancy Kimsey Janet Jeffers Betty Fauber Sandra Caldwell Nancy Liggett Janet Nelson Janet Grim Mary Staneart and Shirley Lowe. Larry Turner and Harold Bolton are crew of a train.
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Melva Faye Jordan
Dale Harvey
Avene Radekin
Jimmy Haggey
Scarlet Fraley
Roger Turner
Beulah Fern McLaughlin
Kenneth Crabtree
Mona Ruth Hannon
Jimmy Haning
Donna Jean Nelson
Jerry Stansbury
Norma Fauber
Larry Stansbury
David Crabtree
Joan Grim
Ray Howery
Pauline Burke
Betty McCaskey
Stella Tom
Margaret Lowe
Phyllis Burke
Norma Gail Holliday
Albert Quivey
Jewell Buzzard
Mary Lou Wray
Preston Hamon
Nancy Kimsey
Janet Jeffers
Betty Fauber
Sandra Caldwell
Nancy Liggett
Janet Nelson
Janet Grim
Mary Staneart
Shirley Lowe
Larry Turner
Harold Bolton
Turner Endorsed by Transportation Brotherhoods in Columbus
The Cooperative Legislative Committee of the Transportation Brotherhoods endorsed Benjamin F. Turner for representative at a meeting in the Deshler-Wallick Hotel Columbus. The endorsement came via a letter signed by railroad members William Rasey chairman J T Cushing vice chairman and H R Knowles secretary.
Jail Sentence and Fine Suspended in Assault Case
Newell Hysell was arrested on a state assault and battery charge from a warrant by his wife Dorothy Hysell. Mayor D A Canaday presided on Tuesday, fined 200 dollars plus costs, and imposed a jail sentence that was suspended on payment of costs.
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Pomeroy
Newell Hysell
Dorothy Hysell
D. A. Canaday
Hysell
Pomeroy Birth Announced in Lincoln Hill Family
Mr and Mrs Edward Stark of Lincoln Hill announce the birth of a son in Holzer Hospital on Tuesday.
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Pomeroy
Edward Stark
Lincoln Hill
Holzer Hospital
Club Members Attend Meets by Middleport Women
Middleport Business and Professional Women's Club members attended meetings in Parkersburg and Gallipolis on Monday night. Mrs. J. D. Bryan and Mrs. Lillian Lewis Stieff spoke in Gallipolis on equal rights are human rights with Mrs. Bryan recounting experiences in Germany. Other members traveled to Parkersburg for a dinner meeting at Chancellor Hotel where Miss Sally Butler spoke as National and International president.
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Middleport
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American Legion Hall
Feeney Bennett
Bill Smith
Elberfelds
Elberfeld
Kiddie Korner
Ke-brcken
Beauty
Pickens Paint and Hardware
James E. Grate
Evans
Chase
Turner
Brotherhoods Rail
Babys
Gibson
Phillips
Court St
Coats
Dickie’s
Middleport, Ohio
Chevrolet
America
Pers
Nake Kanes
Nye Chevrolet Company
North Court St
Athens
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