Rev P E Auer to Be Commencement Speaker
Middleport seniors set Friday evening exercises in the high school auditorium. Philip E. Auer pastor of Peace Lutheran Church Galion will deliver the commencement address and receive a Doctor of Divinity from Capital University on June 2 1958. He is an international Kiwanis leader and was featured in Readers Digest for the Galion Trouble Clinic. He has long been active in youth work and community projects.
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Middleport
Middleport High School
Philip E. Auer
Peace Lutheran Church
Galion
Capital University
Kiwanis International
Auer
United States
New York
California
Galion Trouble
Pomeroy Ground Observer Corps Plans Sunday Alert
The Pomeroy Post of the Ground Observer Corps will join an area alert from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Lincoln Heights corps building is the location, announced head Jack Thomas today.
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Pomeroy
Ground Observer Corps
Corps
Lincoln Heights
Jack Thomas
Oil Bids Due June 2 in Meigs County
The Meigs County Board of Commissioners voted to advertise for a firm to supply diesel fuel oil for the next 90 days. Bids must be submitted to the commissioners' office in the courthouse by June 2. Standing bills were approved for payment.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Shade Valley Baseball Group Elects Bob Martin
Robert Martin, Eastern High School coach, named president of the Shade Valley Baseball Association after a planning meeting at Tuppers Plains Church of Christ. Harold Doster and Mrs. Harry Swartz elected vice president and secretary treasurer. Teams span Riverview, Tuppers Plains, Hemlock Grove with Babe Ruth League ages 13–16. Each community to raise about 90 dollars per team. boys to pay five dollars for uniforms and insurance.
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Shade Valley Pastoral Unity
Long Bottom
Tuppers Plains
Orange
Hemlock Grove
Grange Names Mrs Ables Mother of the Year in Silverton
Mrs Lora Ables was chosen Grange Mother of the Year at Silverton Grange No 506 meeting. She received a crown and corsage as Gay Cox presided. A rummage sale was planned and a cane patch on Cox farm will provide sorghum molasses. Robert Vought shared home movies. guests included Delmar Wolfe and the Vought family.
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Ravenswood
Lora Ables
Silverton Grange
Gay Cox
Robert Vought
Delmar Wolfe
Kingwood
Debbie
Susie
Pomeroy Bend Grange Meeting Set at DAV Home
Pomeroy Bend Grange will meet at 7 30 p m Wednesday at the DAV home.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Bend Grange
DAV
Area Girl Scout Leaders Meet To Discuss Program Developments
Area Girl Scout leaders from Meigs County met at First Presbyterian Church to discuss expanding Scouting into a broader program. The council plan includes a Neighborhood approach with enhanced camping, training, and resources for leaders and troops, plus more on the job help from neighborhood service teams.
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Area Girl Scout
Middleport
First Presbyterian Church
Paul Theiss
A. R. Knight
Meigs County
Pomeroy
Girl Scout Council
Carl Weber
Athens
J. R. Angell
Ravenswood
D. C. Demmon
Andrew Wallace
Marietta
Knight
Theiss
Marion Allensworth
James E. Simpson
Francis Biron
Charles A. Bradbury
Allensworth
Parkersburg
David Ohlinger
Marvin Swan
Don Mills
Roger Morgan
William Lewis
James Titus
Harold Ebersbach
John Moore
Maxine Arnold
William Collins
A. L. Phelps
Iva Powell
Rocksprings
Laurel Cliff
Rene Bastin
Twenty Five Examined at Chest Clinic in Meigs County
Twenty five persons were examined at a chest clinic held at Dr Edmund Buthmas office, sponsored by the Meigs County Tuberculosis and Health Association and the Meigs County Department of Health. Dr C R Markwood and aides led the examinations with health nurses and officials in attendance.
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Bernice Ledlie
Jean Evans
Wallace Bradford
The
Tuberculosis and Health Association
B. J. Allison
Martha Miller
Finances Stymie Pomeroy Village Council Over Plant Study
Pomeroy village council met briefly at City Hall to discuss a partial sewage disposal plant survey by Burgess and Niple. The firm estimated the survey at about 1500 dollars, but council tabled the idea due to finances. The meeting also noted a June 15 permit renewal requirement, officer staffing during Chief Hudson's June 1 vacation, requests for slow-speed signs in Lincoln Heights, and new loading zone signs. Bills were approved.
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Pomeroy
Burgess and Niple Engineering
Ohio Water Pollution Control Board
State Pollution Control Board
Council
Franklin D. Hudson
Charles Legar
Mothers of
Lincoln Heights
Six Chapters Join In Friendship Night
RAVENSWOOD Friendship Night was celebrated at the regular meeting of R. Douglas Chapter No. 15 of the Order of Eastern Star in the Masonic Hall. Six Chapters were represented Ripley Bluefield Moundsville Winola Clarksburg Trinity Davenport Iowa and Ravenswood. The hall was decorated with spring flowers and a covered dish was enjoyed. Miss Irene Worth and John H. Hall conducted the business session and a program was given by officers of the Chapter.
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Ravenswood
R. Douglas
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic
Retirement Bell official Forrest dies at 83
Middleport purse obituary notes Burr Forrest 83 longtime Bell Telephone executive died at home on Walnut Street after a short illness heart failure listed as cause. He was born in Rutland and survived by his wife Betty and a son in law Russell Balsizer with his daughter Jean having died years earlier. Forrest retired in 1939 after overseeing systems in several towns and was a Kingsbury Bell Telephone pioneer. Funeral at Rawlings Coats on Wednesday at 2 pm with interment Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery.
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Middleport
C. Burr Forrest
Bell Telephone Company
Walnut St
Rutland
Forrest
F. A
Carolyn Stevens Forrest
Betty McCoy Forrest
Vesta McCoy
Forrests
Russell Balsizer
Fremont
Jean Balsizer
Bell Telephone Co
Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Charleston
W. Va
Kingsbury
N. Y
Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home
Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery
C. R. Kankright
Church To Honor Grads New Members
POMEROY High school graduates and new church members will be honored at a family night supper at 6 30 Wednesday at Pomeroy First Baptist Church. A committee led by Mrs Roy Domigan Mrs Leroy Ruschel Mrs Albert Smith and Mrs William Watson arranges a covered dish af fair with a short program featuring music a dramatization of weekday religious education and greetings by department leaders.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy First Baptist Church
Roy Domigan
Leroy Ruschel
Albert Smith
William Watson
Divorces Granted and Dismissed in Meigs County Court
A divorce suit by Estel L. Sampson against Hurdle D. Sampson was dismissed in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Judge John C. Bacon granted Jed J. Webster a divorce from Elizabeth Anne Webster on grounds of gross neglect of duty with custody of two minor children awarded.
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Pomeroy
Estel L. Sampson
Hurdle D. Sampson
Meigs County Common Pleas Court
John C. Bacon
Jed J. Webster
Elizabeth Anne Webster
Sunday School Class Meets at Nancarrow Home
The Golden Hour Sunday School Class of Walton Memorial Methodist Church meets at Mrs. C. A. Nancarrow’s home on Henrietta Street. Co hosts are Mrs. Holly Moorhead and Mrs. O. C. Hessegger. President Mrs. H. D. Hartley leads the meeting with a devotional by Mrs. Marguerite Compston.
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Ravenswood
Walton Memorial Methodist Church
C. A. Nancarrow
Henrietta St
Holly Moorhead
O. C. Hessegger
H. D. Hartley
Marguerite Compston
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P. E. Auer
Judy Ann Arnold
Patricia Ann Barth
George Erwin Baumgard
Ronald Keith Miller
James Norman Neutzling
Jimmie Rae Ohlinger
Sharon Louise Roush
Wilbur Harrison Rowley, Jr
Jack Russell
Stanley Lester Saunders
Vonda Mae Lee
Thomas Arthur Skinner
Phyllis Lou Stanley
Warren Davis Stover
Fredrick
Oscar Thomas
Carnell Vance, Jr
Judith Delle van Cooney
Phillip Neil Varney
Charles Talmadge Wayland
Milton Wayland
Larry Duncan Wehrung
James Arthur Wilson
Philip E.auer
Shade Valley Baseball Group
Bob Martin
J. M. Harris & Co., Inc
Roanoke, VA
Grange
Mrs. Ables
Girl Scout Area Development Committee
Stymie Council
Chrysler
Mobilgas
Kinneer Motors
East State St
Ohio
Mr. Forrest
Nancarrow
Rd Tada
Marble Cliff
Marble Cliff Quarries CO
Agricultural Limestone Division
Columbus, Ohio
Powell and Lewisburg
CORD
Dacron & Cotton
Ivy
Dacron
Cotton
Ivy Styling
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