Sewer Trunk Bid Falls Below Engineer Estimates
The Middleport area received bids for a sewer trunk system with Parkersburg the low bidder at A 279 825 B 170 882 totaling 450 707. Parkersburg is four to five weeks from award after review by federal aid agencies while bids from Haydad Construction J R Savage Mountain State River City and others ranged from 465 323.70 to 869 208.56 plus five percent bonds.
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Morey Conera
Parkersburg
Saniina
City Hall
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Floyd G. Browne Associates
Mullen
Economic Development Administration
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Haydad Construction Company
Columbus
J. R. Savage
Orientation Meet Held in Meigs County CAP Program
Enrollees in the Community Action Program in Meigs County attended a semi monthly orientation at the Meigs county courthouse. Seventeen enrollees work for the county highway department Pomeroy and Middleport villages and various public offices. Common Pleas Judge John C. Bacon spoke on court procedures and the duties of the county judges.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
County Highway Department
Pomeroy and
Middleport
Common Pleas
John C. Bacon
Bacon
CAP
Nancy Franklin
Neighborhood Youth Corps
Gallipolis
WSCS Unit Banquet In Pomeroy
Mrs James Richards Portsmouth district president spoke at the WSCS mother daughter banquet in Pomeroy United Methodist Church on Nature and the Art of God. Fifty three attended as junior department girls sang two numbers, with welcome by Mrs Jack Carsey and response by her daughter Jane. Flowers honored oldest and youngest mothers, guests accompanied by Naomi Beeman. Officers training school noted for Gallipolis on May 18. Covered dish dinner preceded the meeting.
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Pomeroy
James Richards
Portsmouth
WSCS
United Methodist Church
Jack Carsey
Jane
Robert Werner
June Eichinger
Kermit Walton
Richards
Naomi Beeman
Gallipolis
Half Century On Rails Ends Soon For Middleport Engineer Hackett
George Hackett a longtime New York Central Railroad engineer retires June 3 after nearly 50 years of service. He began Aug 2 1917 on an old steam engine with the K and M which became NY Central. Hackett served in World War I and recalls major wrecks including the Rushville and Malden incidents. He will join Middleport’s aging rail crew in retirement with wife Rhoda and six children, 20 grandchildren, and one great grandchild. He plans travel and fishing in the days ahead. He is a Bancroft WV native who has lived in Michigan and Barberton prior to Middleport.
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Middleport
George Hackett
New York Central Railroad
Hackett
K&m
New York Central
Rushville
Malden
W. Va
Charleston
S. Second Avenue
Rhoda
Michael Shafer
Yvonne
Thomas Scally
Mary Shafer
George Jr
Barbara
Don Mullen
Rose
Joe Tribble
Divorce Actions Filed in Clerk of Courts Office
Two divorce suits appeared in Evelyn Locke’s records. William B Capehart of Middleport seeks divorce from Dorothy M Capehart of New Haven West Virginia for gross neglect and requests custody of a minor child along with costs and relief. Mary Jane Herald of Middleport seeks divorce from Frank Harold for gross neglect and extreme cruelty with a restraining order, custody of three children, and alimony. Hallie David Bias of Waco Texas and Maude Ellen Dougherty of Middleport are listed as respondents.
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Board of Public Affairs
C. 0. Fisher
John Zerkle
Richard Bailey
Dale Tresmer
Bowman’s Dept. Store
Chauncey, Ohio
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Athens National Bank
Athens
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Beulah Strauss
Betty Lowery
Gallia- Meigs Community Action Program
H. E. Rittenhouse
Bill Garber
Argonne
Kananga
Hebbardsville
Bancroft, W. Va
Michigan
Barberton
Hallie David Bias
Flint Ave
Waco
Texas
Maude Ellen Dougherty
Diamond St
Baileys
Bailey
High St
Glouster, O
Glouster
Ohio
Cologne
Glouster, Ohio
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