Pomeroy Boy Drowns in Ohio River at Ferry Landing
Paul Steffy ten died Thursday evening after falling from a small boat into the Ohio River at the Pomeroy ferry landing. Volunteers from Mason City Middleport and others joined in a 70 minute search with grappling hooks before his body was recovered. He was a Central School fourth grade pupil and son of Rhodell and unidentified mother.
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THE
Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Pomeroy Boy
Ohio River
Ferry Landing
Pomeroy
Paul Steffy
George Ingels
Mason City
Bob Hartenbach
Jack Stivers, Jr
Ingels
Middleport
David
Olan Goodwin
Bryan Bing
Raymond Boice
Roger Daniels
Paul
Central School
Rhodell Steffy
Condor St
E. R. Steffy
Pomeroy, R. Dol
1942 Grads Guests At Alumni Dance
Members of the Class of 1942 will attend a banquet and program in the Junior High Auditorium as guests of earlier graduates of Pomeroy High School Alumni Association. The event continues with a dance open to alumni friends and other guests.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy High School Alumni Association
MHS
Martin and Roller’s
Wallace Bradford
New Books Arrive at Syracuse Library From Lisle’s Store
POMEROY books for children in the fourth grade and up were added to the last collection left at Lisle's Store in Syracuse. During the school year books were sent to the school for children while Lisle's Store library was for adults. Notable adult titles include Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop Corrigan That's My Story Hilton Lost Horizon Skidmore River Rising.
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Pomeroy
Lisle
Syracuse
Cen
Cather
Archbishop
Corrigan
Hilton
Skidmore
Moose Lodge Hall Opens in Middleport Festivities
A large crowd attended the opening of the Pome roy Middleport Lodge Loyal Order of Moose in the former K of P Hall. Flowers decorated the lounge and grill and dancing followed with Dick Wiley and his orchestra playing for the dancers.
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Middleport
Pomeroy-Middleport
Loyal Order of Moose
K of P. Hall
Flowers
Dick Wiley
Sergeant Pomeroy Promoted Near Fort Est Point
Jim Titus of the U.S. Army near Est Point has been promoted to sergeant. The notice comes via his parents Mr and Mrs E R Titus of Lincoln Hill.
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Pomeroy
Jim Titus
U. S., Army
E. R. Titus
Lincoln Hill
Pomeroy Man Reuben Ware Sr. Dies in Columbus
Reuben Ware Sr., long time Pomeroy resident, died Wednesday at his brother Clyde Ware's home in Columbus. Survived by son Reuben Ware Jr and stepson Ethan Allen Hampton Jr, two sisters in Chicago, and a brother. Fire Naomi Baptist Church deacon. funeral set for Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Pomeroy.
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Pomeroy
Reuben Ware
Clyde Ware
Columbus
Reuben Ware, Jr
Brand
Ethan Allen Hampton, Jr
Leola Hartwell
Chicago
Willie Bryant
Naomi Baptist Church
Many Seek Sugar For Canning Season
Meigs County rationing board announces sugar allotments for canning strawberries, cherries, and pineapples. Since registrations began Tuesday, the court house ration office has seen a flood of applicants seeking sugar for these canning needs.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County Rationing Board
Flags to be Dedicated at Federated Church
POMEROY dedication of church flags set for Sunday worship at 10 20 in the Federated Church following a 9 o'clock Sunday School. Mary-Martha meets Wednesday at 7 30 Busy Bees Thursday choir practice 7 30 Thursday. A church film on Ozark Mountain work shown Sunday June 7 at 7 30.
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Pomeroy
Federated Church
Mary-Martha
Ozark Mountain
Missouri
Engagement plans announced for Louise Drake and Roger Emmish
Middleport announces the engagement and approaching marriage of Louise Drake to Roger Emmish. Louise, a Middleport High School home economics instructor, hails from Waterford and studied at Waterford High School and Ohio University. The wedding is set for June 27 in Waterford.
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Middleport
Charles Drake
Waterford
Louise
Roger Emmish
C. A. Emmish
S. Fifth Ave
Miss Drake
Middleport High School
Waterford High School
Ohio University
Athens
Zeta Chapter
Alpha Gamma Delta
Amesville High School
R. B. Laughead
Woman's Music Club
Amateur Gardeners Club
First Presbyterian Church
Emmis
Pomeroy Garden Club Meeting Postponed and Social Notes
Pomeroy Garden Club meeting scheduled for Monday at Mrs. Lawrence Roush's Chester Road home has been postponed with a new date to be announced. Local social items include a Middleport Roadside Park picnic, a shower for Mrs. James William Morris at Mrs. Agnes Theobald’s home, and visits from residents including Sgt James H Eiselstein on furlough from Camp Blanding.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Garden Club
Lawrence Roush
Chester Road
Middleport
Agnes Theobald
James William Morris
Dorothy Dillard
Ben Franklin
Emma Grueser
Agnes Sutton
Dorothy Curtis
Bertha Conde
Elizabeth Davis
Jeanette Young
Vada Hysell
Marie Dickson
Nora Ball
Orbiston Social Briefs Show Various Guests and Updates
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Sorrell included Mrs. Frank Kincade and Mrs. lif ford Hook of Carroll, with Springfield visitors Mrs. Dick Simonton and her two children. Other locals hosted relatives and friends from The Plains Columbus and Toledo as well as Buckeye Boys State attendee Clyde Sorrell. William Halliday and Elizabeth O Rourke recoveries noted. Jack Carsner returns from CCC. Glenna Bricker plans Detroit employment. Paul Collins visits grandmother in Buchtel.
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Orbiston
Martin Sorrell
Frank Kincade
Lifford Hook
Carroll
Dick Simonton
Springfield
Clayton Bookman
Charles Gaskins
The
Plains
William Halliday
Jack Carsner
CCC
Newark
Clyde Sorrell
Murray City
Buckeye
Delaware
Bobby Dean Carsner
Canston
Jack Yates
Harry Jeffery
Toledo
Don Fulton
Greens Run
Floyd Wade
Add
Joe Leybourne
Ruth Coakley
Carson
Columbus
Alice Glancy
Pearl Glancy
Glenna Bricker
Detroit
Elizabeth O'Rourke
Paul Collins
Blanche Collins
Buchtel
Stanley Robinson
Clell Campbell
Janet Dillard Receives Reader's Digest Award
Janet Dillard, senior class president, earned the Reader's Digest Award for scholastic excellence. She and Bill Call received scholarship keys and will have their names engraved on the golden plaque.
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Middleport
Janet Dillard
Miss Dillard
Bill Call
Stores Open Late On Friday Night
MIDDLEPORT stores will open this evening ahead of the holiday weekend. The post office and bank will observe Memorial Day as a full holiday while several businesses operate on partial hours. A Memorial Day observance will be held at the War Memorial by the Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion at 10 30 a m with dinner served at the Legion Hall at noon.
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Middleport
War Memorial
Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion
Legionnaires
Legion Hall
Pomeroy Library Board Reports April Activity
The Pomeroy Library Board's April report shows total circulation 4619 books added 52 and attendance 1231. Deposits now at three stations Racine Simpson's drug store Lisle's Store Rutland Rathburn's Store. The funeral for Mrs Ella Maxwell is moved to 3 p.m. Saturday at Ewing Chapel.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Library Board
Racine
Simpson
Syracuse
Lisle’s
Rutland
Rathburn
Ella Maxwell
Ewing Chapel
Preacher to Speak at Christian Church Sunday
Long Bottom S. E. Barnett of New Marshfield will preach in the Christian Church here on Sunday morning and evening, May 71.
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Long Bottom
S. E. Barnett
New Marshfield
Christian Church
Jenkins To Be Memorial Day Speaker
Congressman Thom as A Jenkins will be the featured speaker at the Memorial Day program at Beech Grove Cemetery under Drew Webster Post American Legion. A parade from the Legion Hall to the cemetery precedes the event with Girl Scouts Boy Scouts and fraternal organizations asked to assemble at 9 o clock.
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Legion Hall
Main St
Court St
Court
Mulberry Ave
Ables Rites On Saturday
Mrs Nellie Ables 51 of Syracuse died Wednesday at the home of her daughter in Pomeroy. Survived by husband Dana and seven children including Dana and Harriett Dill plus six grandchildren. Member of Daughters of America and Syracuse Methodist Church. Funeral Saturday at 1 pm at the Syracuse residence with burial in Letart Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Nellie Ables
Syracuse
Thomas Scott
Dana Ables
Dana
Gallipolis
Harriett Dill
James
Jack
Geraldine Scott
Ables
Daughters of America
Syracuse Methodist Church
Letart Cemetery
Eden Home-Coming To Be Held Saturday
Eden Church hosts Memorial Day events with a flag raising by the Middleport American Legion Post. Rev. Ezra M. Funk will speak, a basket dinner is planned at noon, and refreshments sold. The Middleport High School Band, drum and bugle corps, guitar numbers by Rev. John Lanier, and loud speakers are part of the program. Eden Church lies four miles from Reedsville on the river road. Rededication follows Sunday May 31 at eight o'clock under Bishop Funk.
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Legion
Eden Church
Reedsville
James Mahoney
Rothermund to Address Bible School in Middleport
Karl Rothermund, road construction head for E. B. Badger & Sons Co. at Pt. Pleasant and former Oakland Park Presbyterian Sunday School superintendent, will address the local Bible School hour at First Presbyterian Church. He plans on the topic “Possibilities for Our Sunday School as an Outsider.”
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Middleport
Karl Rothermund
E. B. Badger & Sons Co
Pt. Pleasant
Oakland Park
Columbus
First Presbyterian Church
Rothermund
Presbyterian Church
Syracuse
Henry C. Carr
First Baptist Church
Mayron Schlagel
Church of Christ
H. A. Rothrock
Heath Methodist Church
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Britain
Moose Lodge
Vogue
Mechem’'S
Nelsonville
Middleport Social Notes
the Heath Methodist Church
Gordon Harris
O. P. Klein
Breezy
Robert Rothrock
Dick Schlager
Sandusky
Vanda Thomas
Downing
J. B. Downing
Hobart
Cedric Clark
Robert Harris
B. F. Fultz
W. S. Oliver
John Talbott
Oliver
C. H. Wise Jr
Mazie
Martha Hudson
Harry Hudson
Paul Hudson
Pearl McCormick
McKeesport
Paul Smith
Larry
Leona Eblin
Ravenna
Eblin
Beecher Kessinger
John Fisher
Jim Dawson
William Ford
McCarty
S. Third Ave
Ford
Roscoe Ford
Hobson
New York Central Railroad
Elmer Deihl
Ralph Robson
Eleanor Robson
Jean Robson
Peggy Robson
Dahlia Pauley
Lewis Via
John Kincaid
Charleston
Miss Pauley
Beckley
W. Va
C. M. Hennesy
Catherine Hennesy
Capital University
Milton Hamilton
Ruth
Ferry Nuckles
Montgomery
Betty Nuckles
Ruth Ebersbach
Guinn Rogers
George Hoeflich
S. Fourth Ave
Rogers
Betty Hoeflich
Tribune Telegraph
New Haven
Richard Schlagel
H. E. Cook
Rutland St
Pomeroy Social Notes
Pomeroy Personals
James Clatworthy
George Hobstetter, Jr
Ill
Judy Torrence
R. F. Bell
Akron
Dayton Will
Marshall Miller, Jr
Henry Cade
Bradbury
Compton
W. A. Compton
W. Main St
James H. Eiselstein
Camp Blanding
Fla
Delbert Eiselstein
Osborne St
Orbiston Social Briefs
Library Board
Lisauy Stones
Eden
WAAC
Don C. Faith
Women of America
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Officers
Ft. Des Moines
Charles Farrar Browne
Artemus Ward
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company
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