Rutland Racine and Chester Alumni Hold Annual Reunions
Rutland High School Alumni Association toasted by Elmer West and featured acts from Darlene Wolfe Kathryn Shene field Mildred McKnight Martin and Barbara Delaney. Racine High School Alumni held a 800 star decorated banquet and 300 at a dance with David Yost and Harriet Neigler as officers. Chester High School Alumni reunion at the school auditorium with 188 attendees and Miss Esther Hayes delivering the graduating class response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarice Erwin
Barbara Delaney
Martha Bolton Algers
Rutland
Joe, Sr
Middleport
Wilbur
Pomeroy
Frank
Robert
Troy
Pauline Buck
Loraine Kennedy
Galena
Harold Rice
Carl Dennison
Janet Morris
Edith Williamson
Carlos Snowden
Racine High School Alumni Association
Jeane Ashley
David Yost
Harriett Neigler
E. A. Wingett
Jean Brown
Lois Smith
Wanda Roush
Rebecca Shockey
My Buddy
Charles Gibbs
Critt Bradford, Jr
Barbara Roush
New York
Methodist Church
Vernon Weber
Chester High School Alumni Association
Mildred iCaul
Donald Mora
Goldie Wolfe
Carol Fick
Clarence Allen
Dana Copeland
Larry Roush
Charles Humphrey
PTA
Humphrey
Alda Nelson
Esther Hayes
Rosemary
Anna Jean Rose
Near
Chester
Howard Knight
Harry Lodwick, Jr
Donna Holter
Sybil Durst
Pauline Myers
Lillian Stieff Orchestra
Middleport Opens New Municipal Swimming Pool For Summer
The Middleport pool opened with a crowd around 11 am and a rush at 10 pm. About 350 children used the facility between 1 and 6 pm Sunday as officials praised the turnout. Season tickets sold well with $650 by Bruce Lloyd. lessons start June 10 with registrations by June 8. Prices: children $4. adults $6. family $10. The pool holds about 180000 gallons, tested twice daily, and first-time swimmers praised its clarity and safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Harlan Devol
Dave Winefordner
Bruce Lloyd
Recreation Commission
Winefordner
Margaret Hoyt
Josephine Hoyt
Ohio State University
Stephen Coats
John Vroman
Patricia Lloyd
Barbara Scott
Sheila Stover
Fractured Ankle and Chest Injury at Meigs General
Mrs Mildred Gaul of Chester received a fractured right ankle after a fall last weekend at Meigs General Hospital Sunday. Norman E Baum of Cleveland formerly of Chester, spent the weekend there after a hammer head flew off striking him in the chest and metal was removed from his chest.
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Meigs General Hospital
Mildred Gaul
Chester
Norman E. Baum
Cleveland
Pomeroy Pupils Present Recital by Mrs. Ebersbach’s Studio
Pomeroy piano students of Mrs. Howard Ebersbach of Portland gave a recital featuring Shirley McKelvey Karen Cooper and Jimmy Price with pieces ranging from classical poems to folk tunes. Janet Cooper and Norma Kay McKelvey also performed and refreshments followed with several attendees from nearby Athens and Columbus.
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Pomeroy
Howard Ebersbach
Portland
Ebersbach
Shirley McKelvey
Karen Cooper
George Cooper
Roland Sayre
Jimmy Price
Billy McKelvey
Norma Kay McKelvey
Sancho
Linda Roush
Patsy Price
Janet Cooper
Janice Harris
Busy Bee Bible Class Host Hay Ride at Rutland Church
The Busy Bee Bible Class of Rutland Church of Christ hosted a hay ride and wiener roast at Linnie Bratton farm with Mrs. Otho Burson guiding. Guests from Rutland included many named attendees in a social farm event with driving tractors by Robert Codner and Earl Riggs.
Great Bend Grange initiates eight new members
Eight new members were initiated at the Great Bend Grange meeting. The group included Mr. and Mrs. Robert McKelvey and their children Robert Allen and Norma Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schuler, Mrs. Hazel McKelvey and daughter Shirley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Furbee
George Circle
Pomery Grange hosting baking sewing contest results
Rocksprings Grange held a Thursday meeting where Oliver Unroe, Hazel Humphrey and Opal Davis placed first to third in the annual baking contest and Ruth Morgan Lottie Leonard won sewing. Betty Leonard took pajama making.
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Pomeroy Bend Grange
Lottie Leonard
Nora Bill
Buena Grueser
Opal Davis
Homer Rice
Portland Club Meeting Set for Tuesday Evening
The Portland Ideal 4-H Club will convene at the school building at 7 p.m. Tuesday to discuss activities and plans for the coming period.
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Pomeroy
Portland Ideal
Middleport High Alumni Feted at Banquet
Middleport High School hosted its annual alumni banquet and reunion at the school gym. Classes 1904 1929 and 1944 received special recognition as officers, dances and performances by Eight Notes and student groups highlighted the program. Out of town alumni registered in Columbus London Baltimore and Parkersburg.
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Middleport
Middleport High School
Genevieve Swallow Farmer
Kenneth McElhinny
Mary Farmer Skinner
Thomas Skinner
Farmer
Skinner
Dan Farmer
L. W. Mc
McElhinny
Mildred Ohlinger Bailey
Edward T. French
Thomas Durst
Pearl Childers Reynolds
Mary Ohlinger
Bailey
Nell Childs Bahr
Jean Clark
Illiam Childs
Peggy Lewis Durst
Paddy Jo Lambert
Wanda Beck
Suzanne Bradbury
Lynn Daniels
Judy Jacobs
Rae Ann Mills
Andrew Pavrish
Francis Hunker Klein
Jeanne Anne Young Bradbury
Charles Bradbury
Janice Daniels Collins
James Daniels
Suzanne
Lynn
Heck
Judy
Woman's Army Corps
Reveille
Bill Darst
Juanita Hawkins
Juanita Bangerter
Sheila Stover
Nancy Rawlings
Hazel Hawkins Ginther
Virginia Mayes
David Ohlinger
Joan Gilmore Tewksbury
Margaret Milhoan Weber
Edna Miller French
Menu
Sara D. Hartley
Jeanne Clark
Katherine Bachtel
Geraldine Pullins
Phyllis Smart Hackett
Beulah Burdette Jones
William Morris
Elizabeth Davis Fisher
Helen Smith Lloyd
Freddie Houdashelt
Mary Lu Hartinger Boggs
Anna Howell
Martha Howell
Wallace Bradford
Nola Knopp Swisher
George Shamblin
Harlan Devol
Don Mills
James Arnold
James Ashley
Don Stivers
Robert Tewksbury
Harold Jones
Ida Lee Hartley
DaReuben Beck
Parent-Teacher Association
Ben Philson
Howard Ruppelt
First Presbyterian Church
Chet Haddox
Ruth Russell Hyath
Columbus
Janice Luman
Naomi Overturf
Julie Mitch
Ann Rupe
Holzer Hospital
Carol Bachtel
Parkersburg
Wanda Thomas Haskins
London
Thelma Erlewine Shirk
Son Russell, Jr
Springfield
Ben Pickens
JPCA Indiana Seminar Draws Area Residents
Officers and field representatives of the Jackson Production Credit Association returned from an agricultural seminar at Purdue University Lafayette Ind May 24 26. The conference held with the universitys college of agriculture was attended by 175 officers directors and employees from Indiana and Ohio. Representing the Jackson association were George M. King secretary treasurer Dwain L. Clark assistant secretary Norman H. Bahr field representative Pomeroy George F E Bolin field representative Athens Ted Dupler field representative Logan Roy Ware field representative Waverly Crate Murphy field representative West Union Floyd Leffler director Jackson
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Pomeroy
Jackson Production Credit Association
Purdue University
Lafayette
Ind
College of Agriculture
Indiana
Ohio
Jackson Association
George M. King
Dwain L. Clark
Norman H. Bahr
George FE. Bolin
Athens
Ted Dupler
Logan
Roy Ware
Waverly
Crate Murphy
West Union
Floyd Leffler
Jackson
Mrs Stone Dies Sunday at 38 in Meigs General Hospital
Laura Mae Stone of Thomas Fork died Sunday evening at Meigs General Hospital from a heart condition. Survived by husband Thurston E. Stone four sons Lawrence Richard Donald Thomas and Thurston Jr. and Robert two daughters Nelia and Karen. Funeral tentative for 2 p m Wednesday at Ewing Funeral Home with calling hours.
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Pomeroy
Laura Mae Stone
Thomas Fork
Meigs General Hospital
Thurston E. Stone
Lawrence
Richard
Donald
Thomas
Nelia
Karen
Thurston Stone, Jr
U.S. Air Force
Charleston
S.C
Robert
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Ewing Funeral
Flying alumnus shows school spirit at Chester reunion
Mrs. Terry DeWolfe of Delavan Wisconsin arrived by plane for the Chester High School Alumni Association banquet and dance. Her brother Edward Frecker flew from Columbus to Wisconsin to pick her up and bring her to Athens, landing at 6 20 Saturday evening. Anna Jean Rose met them in Athens and escorted the group to Chester for the alumni reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Terry DeWolfe
Delavan
Wisc
Chester High School Alumni Association
Edward Frecker
DeWolfe
Columbus
Wisconsin
Middleport Memorial Day Program Honors All Wars Dead
The Middleport Memorial Day observance honored soldiers of all wars under Feeney Bennett Post 128 American Legion led by Joe Young Sr. A parade from the village hall to the war memorial on Mill Street preceded services at the Coal Street levee with taps by bugler Gene Chooks. Morning and cemetery services featured speakers Elmer Roberts and Warren Sheets, with local officials and many community groups participating.
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Middleport
Gene Chooks
Feeney-Bennett
Cheshire Gravel Hill
Russell Bailey
Legion
Civil Air Patrol
Boy Scouts
David Zirkle
Norman Price
Darrell Bechtle
Sidney T. Russell
Middleport Rotary Club
Walter Bunce
Howard Sturgeon
Franklin Ginther
Young
Fred I. Gardner
Church of Christ
Don Roach
Cora Bennett
Feeney- Bennett Post
Norman Wayland
Sidney Pickens
Meigs County
Wayland
Elmer Roberts
Lancaster
Gravel Hill
Cheshire
Warren Sheets
Gallipolis
Sherley Woods
Cheshire Baptist Church
Little Kgger
Noah Haskins
Middleport Social Roundup Guests and Memorial Day Visits
Mrs. George Owen and Mrs. Rus sell Scott and son David of Ft Wayne Ind are guests of relatives while Mrs. Owen's niece Mrs Clarence Chase Rutland hosts. Other visits include the Jenkins family in Mt. Sterling and Nease relatives in McMechen W Va for funeral services. Memorial Day activities feature Sally Schaaf Lancaster at MHS alumni event and weekend trips to Covington Ky Cleveland and Charleston with local families.
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George Owen
Russell Scott
David
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Owen
Clarence Chase
Rutland
David O. Jenkins
Sara Jenkins Rice
Toledo
Roy Nease
McMechen
W. Va
George Childs
William Nease
Nease Settlement
Sally Schaaf
Lancaster
E. S. Schaaf
MHS
Carl Ebersbach
Marilyn
Phyllis
Janis Childs
Covington
Ebersbach
Raymond Burns
Janis
the Burns
Minnie Gilmore
Burns
Ebersbachs
Gail Miller
Sandra
Cleveland
Patricia Walworth
Charles
Effie Wise Fracture Surgery in Holzer Hospital
Mrs. Effie Wise, mother of Mrs. George Meinhart, fractured a hip and was taken to Holzer Hospital Friday. She underwent surgery Saturday and was reported convalescing satisfactorily today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Park
James Thomas
Middleport
Effie Wise
George Meinhart
Holzer Hospital
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