Middleport Scouts Camporee Opens Today at Cheshire Farm
The Tri County Boy Scouts plan a three day camporee at the Swisher property in Cheshire May 2 3 4 hosting about 160 Scouts from Racine Pomeroy Rutland Cheshire Mason and New Haven. Activities include setup Friday evening reveille Saturday colors first aid compass and wildlife studies with a Sunday church service and tour of nearby strip mine operations.
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Middleport
Boy Scouts of
Tri-County
Swisher Property
Scott's Bottom
Cheshire
Racine
Pomeroy
Rutland
Mason
New Haven
Briggs Kirby
30 Diseases Are Combined In Virus X
Boston report explains how antibiotics reveal many new diseases labeled as virus X. Doctors describe how penicillin streptomycin aureomycin and others kill dangerous germs, but leave bodies exposed to a large host of lesser viruses. The piece notes these infections were once grouped under vague terms like congestion catarrh and summer flu and now number at least twenty.
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Boston
Society of American Bacteriologists
Cheshire Commencement Dates Set for May 11 and 16
Local notices list cheyenne area graduation plans with baccalaureate on May 11 and commencement on May 16. Weekend visitors include Joe Foley Day ton guests with Ed Yeanger and various regional families visiting kin across Gallia Gallipolis Fairborn Nelsonville Akron and local households.
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Cheshire
Joe Foley
Dayton
Ed Yeanger
Thomas Ragar
Gallipolis
Alva Roush
Lottie Roush
Virgil Skaggs
Richard
Herbert Skaggs
Fairborn
Charles Skaggs
Bake sale election day noted by Chester DAA Lodge
The Daughters of America Lodge of Chester Council schedules a bake sale on election day. A village social list mentions visits by Elmer Mowery and family of Canal Winchester and Lancaster relatives, plus local funeral and family visits among residents including the Wolfe, Ridenour, Blackstone, Cleland, Clarke, and Showalter families.
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Chester
Daughters of America Lodge
Chester Council
Elmer Mowery
Canal Winchester
Lancaster
Gordon Ridenour
C. N. Jones
Mary Blackstone
Columbus
Lloyd Wolfe
Howard
Akron
Curtis
Cris Roush
Fred Showalter
Middletown
Ohio
Sam Showalter
Forrest Showalter
Goldia Wolfe
Hospital Day Display Sunday at Chillicothe VA Hospital
Six Air Force displays highlight National Hospital Day on May 4 at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Chillicothe. A seven-vehicle convoy arrives May 1 for a pre public showing to inmates. The exhibits include NATO tour themed displays and the world around non stop flight bomber Lucky Lady. An operational F 80 Shooting Star jet will be shown with a running engine and a radio controlled Jetster model. The exhibit group from Wright Patterson AF Base brings this event to Chillicothe. The Victoria and Albert Museum carving of Virgin and Child from a walrus tusk is noted as found in a store.
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Air Force
National Hospital
Veterans Administration Hospital
Chillicothe
Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
United States Air Force
Wright-Patterson AF Base
Chillicothe Veterans Hospital
Rutland Social Notes from Rutland Ohio Area
Rutland social notes recount visits and leisure events. Glee club program at Rutland High School featured Judy Chase piano. Several guests from Middleport Columbus Celina and Athens attended gatherings during weekends.
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Judson White
Middleport
Clarence Chase
Rutland High School
Judy Chase
Edna Mae Swick
Mason Clinic
Ray Biddle
Celina
Ohio
Anson Jackson
Miami
Fla
O. E. Burson
Janie Saxton
Gerald Violet
Dale Hart
Cletus Hart
Linda
Athens
Gearld
Violet
Myrtle Curtis
Racine
O. O. Patterson
Sue
Columbus
Local visits mark Mt Olive area gathering
Eloise Connolly of Long Bottom visited Harold Bruer and a bell ringing occurred at the Bruer home with Mr and Mrs Charles Powell. Several relatives from Marietta Chester and Long Bottom joined Mr and Mrs Rex Summerfield and family during a Sunday morning with grandparents Mr and Mrs Fred Young. Elder Bissell traveled to Columbus for work and attended the funeral of grandfather Al Frazer at race Price.
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Mount Olive
Eloise Connolly
Long Bottom
Harold Bruer
First English Channel cable found by eager French fisher
An eager French fisherman hauled up the first submarine cable laid across the English Channel in August 1850 thinking it was an eel. The incident occurred the day after the cable was laid.
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English Channel
Dental fund aid pledged by Rutland Legion auxiliary
Members of the Rutland American Legion Post auxiliary contributed five dollars to the Meigs County Children's Home dental fund. Mrs. Ethel Willoughby, superintendent, announced the donation. A separate note states Manhattan property valuation for 1950 51 was 8 291 241 400 dollars.
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Pomeroy
Rutland American Legion Post
Meigs County
Manhattan
New York City
Pomeroy High Band Spring Concert Set Tonight
The Pomeroy High School marching band plans an 8 pm spring concert outdoors at the stadium if weather allows. If rain, the performance moves to the junior high school auditorium.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy High School
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Messenger
Rufus Putnam School
Messenger Newsphoto
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
Rutland Social Notes
Lady Canaday of
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Thomas
Tom Conley
Mrs. Hull
Gahanna
Carrie Baughman
Milton Haley
Saul Kelly
Depot St
Ada Mae Harrison
Ernest Harrison
Harrison
Ethel Snowden
Lawrence Snowden
Tra Wolf
Roseville
Darlene
Joyce
Sherill
Archie McKinney
Dexter
MT. Olive
Ans Altmer
Mie
Big Yank
Grey
Aid Dental Fund
the American Distilling CO. Inc
Pekin Ill
Altman
Atyens
Fruit-of-the-Loom
Brookfield
Pacific Mills
M. L
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