Heavy Rain Floods Roads Causing Wrecks In Ohio Countrysides
Meigs and Gallia Counties endured almost three inches of rain causing flooded streams and blocked highways. In Rutland a home flooded to its floors while two auto wrecks were reported as motorists tried to cross rising waters on Route 124 and Route 338. Route closures spanned Route 143 near Bradbury Route 124 Langsville and Dead Man's Curve and multiple routes in Gallia and Meigs counties including Routes 325 775 141 554 and 218 with one minor injury and scattered property damage.
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Pomeroy
Meigs
Gallia
Robert Hartenbach
Rutland
David Morgan
Jackson
Leading Creek
Langsville
Route 124
Morgan
Myron
Oak Hill
George Gary Connally
Racine
James Hunt
Letart
Hunt
John Stobart
Dam 23
Apple Grove
William Hall
Main Street
Meigs County
Bradbury
Dead Man’s Curve
Kingsbury
Burlingham
Portland
Sheriff's Office
Gallipolis
Vinton
Hannah Trace Road
Cadmus
Cheshire
Mercerville
Meetings In Meigs Outline Local Club Activities
Jonathan Meigs Chapter DAR will meet Friday at 2 p.m. at Mrs C M Hennesy’s home in Middleport with Mrs Everett Hayes presenting the program and Mrs Lawrence Milhoan as co host. Eleanor Circle Heath Methodist holds mother daughter banquet Thursday at 6 p.m. at the church. Middleport Literary Club’s final meeting of the year is Wednesday at Mrs Carl Hortky’s home. Mrs James Titus will review The Last Love by Thomas B Costain.
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Jonathan Meigs
Dar
C. M. Hennesy
Middleport
Everett Hayes
American Music Chairman
Lawrence Milhoan
Eleanor Circle of
Heath Methodist Church
Carl Horky
James Titus
Thomas B. Costain
Ribbons Awarded In 6 Classes At Meigs County Flower Show
The annual spring Flower Show themed A Tour of Meigs County was held at Pomeroy Elementary School by the Winding Trail Garden Club. Mrs. James Titus awarded ribbons in six classes, with blue ribbons to several named club members and junior winners, plus invitational entries and special displays highlighted by the Japanese Peony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winding Trail Garden Club
Glenn Lee
Edson Hart
Darwin
Milton Roush
Syracuse
Wildwood
Pomeroy
Meigs County
James Titus
Ohio Association of Garden Clubs
Electric Company
Hollows
Meigs
Robert Thompson
John Terrell
Robert Lewis
Charles Lewis
Walter Bentz
Joe Struble
Leo Kennedy Sr
Roy Betzing
Victor Hysell
Jack Robson
Kosie Hysell
Wildwood Jr. Club
Brenda Bolin
Rutland Friendly Junior Club
Sam Terzoppolous
Winding Trail Jr. Club
Carol Lewis
Sandra Roush
Sarah Roush
Harry Hysell
Sears
Allard Pratt
Man Injured In Accident Near Point Pleasant
A truck crash six miles south of Point Pleasant left one man with injuries and $1500 in damage. Hennis Freight Lines Inc. tractor trailer driven by Johnny Gray Rothrock veered after hitting a deep water hole on Route 17, going off the berm and over an embankment. Co-driver Donald M. Melvin suffered a back injury. sheriff's deputies investigated. Police arrests over the weekend included Lloyd W. Noffsinger and Patrick Dale Shaffer for driving while intoxicated and several Point Pleasant residents for intoxication. Additionally C E Blakeslee and librarians attended Ohio Library Association events in Marietta. The Bruins allowed 253 goals in 70 games while scoring 182, trailing the Rangers by two spots.
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Point Pleasant
Sheriff's Department
Hennis Freight Lines, Inc
Winston Salem
N. C
Johnny Gray Rothrock
Route 17
Donald M. Melvin
Lloyd W. Noffsinger
Red House
Patrick Dale Shaffer
Mansfield
Roy Franklin Waggoner
Boyd Fisher
Lucian Ferguson
Rex Thorn
Point Man Beaten in Up River Tavern Parking Lot
Larry L Strickler 26 of 104 Pleasant St Point Pleasant was found severely beaten in a parking lot at 2 30 a m Sunday near Up River Tavern by Kanauga. He was taken to Holzer Hospital by the Gallia County sheriff s department with a fractured nose and eye injury.
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Point Pleasant
Larry L. Strickler
Pleasant St
Up River Tavern
Kanauga
Holzer Hospital
Gallia County
Hall Picked For Position With Scouts
Hall C Hall of Lewisburg Ohio is named district Scout executive of the MGM District covering Meigs Gallia and Mason Counties. He will attend the National Training School in Mendham New Jersey May 9 for 45 days then return for full time work. He is a Barnesville High School graduate and Palmer College of Chiropractic alumnus with prior Bellaire Music Center work. His wife teaches first grade at Lewisville and they have two sons Ward 6 and Eric 2.
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Point Pleasant
Chadds C. Hall
Lewisburg
Ohio
MGM
Meigs
Gallia
Mason Counties
Virgil H. Watson
Tri-State
Hall
Mendham
N. J
Barnesville
84Th Army Band
Germany
Palmer College of Chiropractice
Davenport
Iowa
Bellaire Music Center
Bellaire
Lewisville
Ward
Eric
Hospital Births Listed by Holzer Hospital News
A long list of births is announced by Holzer Hospital News with numerous families from Wellston Gallipolis Point Pleasant Coalton Ironton and surrounding towns welcoming sons and daughters. Names include Ewing Lacey Swi sher Kight Gillenwater Grubb Brown Smith Russell and many others across multiple households.
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Charles Ewing
Wellston
Thomas Lacey
Gallipolis
Clinton Swisher
Point Pleasant
Robert Kight
Coalton
Carlos Gillenwater
Crown City
Marie Grubb
Ironton
Monroe Deal
Ashton
Robert Brown
James Smith Jr
Portland
Charles Russell
Bidwell
James R. Johnson
Mason
Harold Hood
Addison
Bernard Edwards
Bert S. Gilkey
Middleport
Newton I. Jones
Elwood Howard
Cheshire
Harry Evans
Mark Lee Newberry
Patriot
Nellie Long
Albany
Kippie Dawn Bowles
Ethel Lightfoot
Dundas
Kermit M. Cosco
Larry Strickler
Eleanor Evans
Minersville
Louise Klaas
Hartford
List of names from Middleport Racine Point Pleasant and Gallipolis
A compressed roster of individuals including Florence Rhodes Minnie Johnson Fred Roush Freda Krider Helen Sayre Marie Shato Anita Harmon Leodus Lee Mrs William Weaver Clifford Rhodes Florence Rhodes Eloise Adams and Orville Arms across Middleport Racine Route 1 Route 2 Point Pleasant and Gallipolis with no further context or actions provided.
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Florence Rhodes
Middleport
Minnie Johnson
Fred Roush
Racine
Freda Krider
Helen Sayre
Point Pleasant
Marie Shato
Gallipolis
Anita Harmon
Leodus Lee
William Weaver
Clifford Rhodes
Eloise Adams
Orville Arms
Admitted Edith Rice and listed others in hospital district
Edith Rice of Pomeroy joined by Joe Wilson Sr of Middleport and Thurman C Stanley at the admission desk as part of the current patient records for the regional hospital.
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Edith Rice
Pomeroy
Joe Wilson Sr
Middleport
Thurman C
Stanley
Historic Modern Home Tour Sponsored By University Women
Gallia County hosts a June 11 home tour by the Gallipolis branch of the American Association of University Women from 2 to 5 pm. It features historic houses Gatewood O O McIntyre Court Street Roderick Durose and the Thomas sisters Rio Grande with two new homes Brandebery and Clarke. Tickets cost 1.50, proceeds fund scholarships and the Addie Vanden Library Fund.
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Gallipolis
American Association of University Women
Rio Grande
Addie Vanden
Our
Semi-Trailer Outfits Car In Accident
Gallipolis state patrol reported a Sunday morning wreck at Kananga involving two semi trailer outfits and a car driven by David Lee Hutton, 30, of Gallipolis. One semi tried to turn onto the Point Pleasant bridge. another semi backed up to yield, striking Hutton’s car. Moderate damage occurred. Leon Harmon Alfred, 43, of S High Point, NC, was cited in Gallipolis municipal court for improper backing.
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Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Woman Hurt In Accident In Middleport
Mrs Florence Rhodes of Second Street was taken to Veterans Memorial Hospital at 1 10 p m Saturday for minor injuries after a two car collision at Race and Second streets. She was a passenger in a Twin City cab driven by Don Little. The cab collided with a car driven by Ruth Ellen Durst. Both cars reported.
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Middleport
Florence Rhodes
Second St
Veterans Memorial Hospital
Race and
Second Street
Rhodes
Appalachian Power announces plant manager changes
Appalachian Power Co names T. W. Abolin of Philip Sporn Plant New Haven as manager to head Clinch River Plant Carbo Virginia. He will be succeeded by J. A. Moore, current Clinch River manager, with both moves effective June 15.
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Point Pleasant
T. W. Abolin
Philip Sporn
New Haven
Appalachian Power Co
Carbo
J. A. Moore
Clinch River
Joe P. Gills
Appalachian
Abelin
American Electric Power System
Indiana and Michigan Electric Co
AEP
Logan
Kanawha
Glen Lyn
Clinic River
Moore
Appalchian
Cabin Creek
West Virginia
Muskingum River
Ohio
Middleport High student Eyes Wilmington Music Show
Miss Debbie Grueser represented Middleport High School at the April Wilmington Inter national Music Festival showing. At a Heath Methodist Church dinner meeting in Middleport Carl Horky presided, Eleanor Circle served, and Wayne Davis could not attend.
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Middleport
Wilmington
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Leon
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Henderson
Edna Duncanm
Hogsett
Otho Birchfield
Homer Doolittle
Beverely
Ann Price
Valerie Halstead
David Flagg
Willard Deweese
Charles Clayton
Mason County Retarded Children Association
Roy Lloyd
Clarence Blessing
Amy Elliott
David Gainer
Direc
Mason County
Board of Education
C. E. Blakeslee
Jean Hart
Wanda Eblin
Ohio Library Association
Regina
Hermann Fine Arts
Marietta College
Library Service
Joseph F. Shubert
Boston Bruins
New York Rangers
Bruins
Holzer Hospital News
J. Michael Allen
Harlan Bailey
Caryl Black
Chester G. Campbell
Urban Cornett
Eleanor Davis
Grover Fulks
Edwin Gates
Earl Gentry
John W. Hall
Dale Wallace Hill Jr
Charles Jenkins
Jeffery Johnson
John Keys
Mary Law
Dewey McCain
William McPherson
Stella V. Mohr
Peter Ohlinger
George Pinkerman
Larry Ritchie
Roy Russell
Don Tillis
Augustine Williams
Debra Window
Donald Bails
Joseph Blackburn
Donovan Cragg
Murven Deweese
Phillip Dowdy
Burl L. Duncan
Sheryl A. Hardyman
Sharon Ann Johnson
Lonnie McCombs
James Meters
Cinda Miller
Delphia Noble
John Rumsey
Joseph Saunders
Jesse Swan
Carroll T. Williams
Anna Carter
James R. Smith Jr
Meigs General Hospital
House Museum
Fortification Hill
Log Cabin Book Store
Davis Library
Rio Grande College
M. T. Epling
First Ave
Appalachian Power
Rosie
Lester
Kermit
NEW York Clothing House
Linoleum Sale
Elberfelds
Armstrong Accotone
Armstrong
Mechanic Street
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