Ninety Two Volunteers Responded To Bloodmobile Visit
Ninety two volunteers from Pomeroy Middleport Racine Chester Reedsville Wilkesville Rutland Minersville and Long Bottom assisted the Red Cross bloodmobile that toured Meigs County Thursday. Of these, 79 were accepted as blood donors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Pomeroy
Racine
Chester
Reedsville
Wilkesville
Rutland
Minersville
Long Bottom
Red Cross
Meigs County
A. J. Strauss
First Presbyterian Church
Ruel Finstead
Clarice Krautter
Jackie Menchini
Alice Gilbert
Pearl Beverage
Virginia Crew
Annaaeal Webster
Susie Ley
Eleanor Thomas
Pins
Mary Ellen Seyler
Virginia Clifford
Daisy Bing
Myrtle Long
Norma Koehler
John Becon
James Brewington
Pool
Gress
Ro LeVaughn
John
Federated Church
Russell Mel
W. A. Smith
Phil Globokar
John Lawrence
Carlos Jacobs
Rawlings
Thomas Oung
James Fugate
Sidney T. Russell
Fred Collins
Howard Ruppelt
Middleport FHA initiates 24 members at High School
The Future Homemakers of America, led by Donna Wells and Mildred Ohlinger, initiated 24 Middleport High School home economics students. Names announced by Marlene Taylor include Sally Gilmore through Janis Childs. Former members were reviewed. red rose traditions, music, dancing, canasta dinner, and card play followed at local homes and The Martin Restaurant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Middleport High School
Future
Homemakers of America
Donna Wells
FHA
Mildred Ohlinger
Marlene Taylor
Sally Gilmore
Linda Helrich
Juanita Farley
Marie Fife
Carole Alice Hovatter
Lois Annan
Joyce Chancey
Rose Little
Donna Miller
Helen
Mrs. Cecil Dies at 74 in Meigs General Hospital
Middleport resident Dessie B. Cecil 74 wife of J W Cecil of Amesville died after a stroke at Meigs General Hospital where she had been hospitalized two weeks. Survived by daughter Lois Cecil two brothers W L Heston Vienna and F W Heston Johnstown funeral at Rawlings-Coats Saturday 1 pm graveside Amesville Cemetery about 3 pm Rev Louis A Bangerter to officiate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Dessie B. Cecil
J. W. Cecil
Amesville
Meigs General Hospital
Louis A. Bangerter
Methodist Church
Cub Scouting Film Shown at Federated Church Meeting
About 100 people attended a Cub Scout meeting at Federated Church. Rev. Harold F. Hess welcomed attendees and introduced David Collins, Gallipolis scout field executive. Leaders urged parent involvement and monthly get togethers with the pack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hess
Collins
Federated Church Brotherhood
Four Ike Backers Nabbed for Bonfires at Dump
Berkeley police arrested four Ike supporters as they set Eisenhower victory bonfires. The four were sentenced to four days in the city dump for refusing to disperse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Carlif
Ike
University of California
Three Men Fined In Mayor's Court
Three men faced fines in Mayor Delmar A. Canaday courts in Pomeroy. Charles Gilkey was fined 100 dollars plus costs for driving while under the influence. Joseph Weyersmiller of Pomeroy was fined 25 dollars plus costs for intoxication. Asa Rayburn of Point Pleasant West Virginia was fined 100 dollars plus costs for driving while under the influence, with the fine suspended. Patrolman William Lehew filed the charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Delmar A. Canaday
Charles Gilkey
Joseph Weyersmiller
Asa Rayburn
Point Pleasant
W. Va
William Lehew
Scioto County to Vote Dry in Local Option Tuesday
Road openings in Union Rush and Green Plain in Scioto County will be dry measures adopted in local option votes Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scioto
Portsmouth
Union, Rush and
Green Pl
Scioto County
Mrs Cowie Entertains Middleport Group
Mrs Jack Cowie entertained members of a local Middleport group at her home. Guests enjoyed refreshments and a socialaverages, with conversations highlighting community activities and upcoming events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowie
Middleport
Jack Cowie
Pre Induction Tests Set For Monday For Eight Men
Pomeroy officials announce eight men including a local dentist will travel to Ashland Kentucky Monday for pre induction physicals. Seven others depart Thursday for induction into the armed forces. A nine man induction call is also noted for December 4 with no physical receipts yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Russell
Pomeroy
Columbus
Ben
Guest Pastors Assigned for Letart Falls Campaign
Letart Falls Ohio Methodist Evangelistic Campaign appoints Rev. Charles Cramer of York Center and Rev. Everett E. Mosslander of Plain City as guest pastors for November 14 to 23. Cramer, veteran evangelist, has served multiple Ohio churches. Mosslander, a Boston Theological School and Baker University graduate, brings visitation evangelism and youth work expertise. A community prayer and re consecration week precedes the crusade with nightly services ending to open the mission on Sunday, November 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Letart Falls
Ohio Methodist
Charles Cramer
York Center
Everett E. Mosslander
Plain City
Cramer
West Ohio
Lafayette
Lynchburg
Fairhaven
Dialtown
Mosslander
School of
Boston University
Boston
Mass
Baker University
Baldwin
Kansas
Dunkirk
Crooksville
Grove City
Corn Field Day Report At Letart Falls Farm
About 75 people attended the corn field day Thursday at Andrew Cross farm Letart Falls. Top yield reached 132 bushels per acre and the lowest 9 bushels per acre. Co E Blakeslee Meigs agricultural agent estimated yields would be 50 bushels without lime and fertilizer. Event sponsored by the county USDA council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Andrew Cross
Letart Falls
Co. E. Blakeslee
Meigs
Usda Council
Pomeroy Boys Club Seeks Members At Game
A membership drive starts in Pomeroy with tickets sold at the Pomeroy Athens game. The Jug will be in the crowd and has $22.23 deposited. Proceeds fund uniforms for the seventh and eighth grade football teams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Electric ray stores energy at wing tips lightning foes
The electric ray, a rare salt water fish, stores electrical energy at its wing tips. It uses discharges to stun opponents and prey, aiding in defense and hunting.
Women group serves dinner for BPW meeting at church
Middleport group 1 of the Women's Association of First Presbyterian Church will serve dinner to members of the Middleport Business and Professional Women's Club when they meet Tuesday evening. The BPW is sponsoring a bake sale Saturday at the Tri Lustre Shop on Mill Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Women’s Association of First Presyterian Church
Middlemt Business and Professional Women's Club
BPW
Mill St
Local residents host lists of visiting relatives and trips
Recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Co. E. Vance on Palmer Street included their son-in-law and daughters from Kent and Ravenna, and friends from Gallipolis and Cheshire. Many visits are noted to Rittman, Parkersburg, Cleveland, Columbus, Charleston, Huntington, and Denver with hospital and travel details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. E. Vance
Palmer St
William Yeager
Kent
Ra Summers
Randy
Ravenna
Aaron Davis
Gallipolis
Wilbur Butchers
Cheshire
Will ‘ Lynn
John Blosser
Keesler Field
Ala
Reymond Blosser
Beech St
Camp Stoneman
Calif
Blosser
Cleveland
Joe Kennyn
Eileen Blosser
Ralph Blosser
Columbus
Joe Wolfe
James Arnold
Frank Weisse
Plain City
Arthur Howe Carpenter
Chicago
Denver
Adkins Rites Conducted in Middleport
Pallbearers for Mrs. Robert Adkins included Gale Hysel Sherman Kemper Richard Johnson Edison Baker Edward Spencer and O P Klein. Interment followed at River View Cemetery with Rev H O Cart officiating. Attending were Richard Johnson Nancy Johnson Robert Johnson Ida Johnson Sherman Kemper Robert Holcomb Robert Holcomb Jr Jack Phillips and others from Point Pleasant Gallipolis and the Navy at Norfolk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Robert Adkins
Rawlings-Coats
Gale Hysel
Sherman Kemper
Gallipolis
Richard Johnson
Point Pleasant
Edison Baker
Edward Spencer
O. P. Klein
Robert Coats
Irene Kessinger
Mildred Kemper
Bertha Hysell
Nellie Watkins
Rally Services Set At S Bethel Church
POMEROY The South Bethel EUB Sunday school at Silver Ridge schedules rally services for 11 am Sunday with drills recitations dialogues and motion songs. Twenty five children and youths are expected to participate as the Sunday school runs a membership contest attracting many new members.
Two Men Jailed in Middleport Investigation
Delmar Hawley and James McHaffie are jailed in Middleport while investigations continue. William Lee, before Mayor Sidney T Russell, was fined five dollars plus costs for intoxication and ordered to serve 21 days of a suspended sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Delmar Hawley
James McHaffie
Sidney T. Russell
William Lee
65th Community Institute Held in Chester
The 65th Community Institute was conducted in Chester with Pomeroy Clarence Henry among Ohio’s first Farm Bureau trustees addressing the audience. The program featured opening exercises by students from first to fourth grade, a soil erosion film, Indian songs by grades, the high school band performing alma mater and fight song, 4-H awards presented by Mrs. Geneva H. Nolan, and accordion solos by George Hall. Institute officers included Jones, Mrs. Pearl Mora, Mrs. George Genheimer, and Mrs. Esther F. Wright as hostess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Clarence Henry
Hebron
State Farm Bureau
Ohio
Henry
Ana Jean Rose
Rosemary Rose
C. N. Jones
J. Bernard Krinke
Geneva H. Nolan
George Hall
Glee Club
Institute
Jones
Pearl Mora
George Genheimer
Esther F. Wright
Local Church News Listing Pomeroy and Surrounding Parishes
A dense local church page lists service times sermons meetings and events across Pomeroy Letart Falls Syracuse and surrounding communities. Pastors include R H DeMott Harold F Hess J Leslie Kunze and others with schedules for Sunday school worship prayer choir midweek activities and youth groups.
Clean-Up Is Project Aims at Church Shelter
Operation Cleaning took place at the Church of Christ with two church women's groups sweeping polishing and waxing while volunteers from Loyal Women and Loyal Bereang classes prepared a noonday lunch of vegetable soup relishes pie and coffee in the dining room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Church of Christ
Bereang
Ernest Lallance
Will Reynolds
Roscoe Satterfield
C. E. Vance
William Hetteseimer
Minerva Childers
Nina Bland
Akron
Pearl Graves
Leo D. Childs
Marvin Kelly
Raymond Blosser
Walter Bunce
Class Sponsoring Sale at Mill St Location
The Middleport Philathea Society of the Church of Christ continues a rummage sale in the Stansbury building on Mill Street. The site has served as Republican headquarters for the past month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport — Philathea Society of the
Church of Christ
Stansbury Building
Mill St
Pomeroy Social Notes Tea for Ladies Aid Society
Mrs Thurma Milboan and Mrs Charles Lytle hosted a Wednesday tea at Spring Ave home for the St Pauls Lutheran Ladies Aid Society. The program highlighted the Thank Offering meeting and the women’s missionary federation plans in Ohio and Milwaukee October events. several members joined and the tea table featured chrysanthemum centerpiece and silver service.
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Pomeroy
Thurma Milboan
Charles Lytle
Spring Ave
Ladies Aid Society
St. Pauls Lutheran Church
Women’s Missionary Federation
Ohio
Milwaukee
Colfax
Withers
Lyle Seegar
Hank Young
Local residents and visitors update neighborhood entries
Mr and Mrs Ross Evans move to Simpson Apartments at 111 Butternut Ave. Ralph Russell had eye surgery at Holzer Hospital on Tuesday. Dr and Mrs Hilmar Grimm and sons Dickie and Freddie of Columbus visited with Mrs Belle Vaughan and Anna Roos in Naylors Run. Mr and Mrs Harry Ohlinger moved to Columbus for work. Clyde Brown transferred Monday to University Hospital in Columbus from Meigs General for treatment possibly surgery. Mrs Harold Hess remains a patient at Meigs General.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Evans
Simpson
Butternut Ave
Ralph Russell
Holzer Hospital
Hilmar Grimm
Dickie and
Freddie
Columbus
Belle Vaughan
Anna
Roos
Naylors Run
Harry Ohlinger
Ohlinger
Clyde Brown
University Hospital
Meigs General Hospital
Harold Hess
Prayer Group Meeting Set at Grace Episcopal Parish House
The Pomeroy Women s Prayer Group will meet Wednesday at 10 a m with Mrs Charles Speers leading in the Grace Episcopal Parish House Women of churches are invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
R. H. DeMott
Pomeroy Women's Prayer Group
Grace Episcopal
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Women's
Grace Episcopal Parish House
Charles Speers
Women of Churches
Women Missionary Convention Set for Rutland Mt Zion
The Women's Missionary convention of the Hocking District will be held Sunday afternoon at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Rutland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Women's Missionary Convention
The
Hocking District
Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Rutland
Officers Elected for Pomeroy Chapter OES
Pomeroy Chapter 186 OES elected Thelma Dill as worthy matron Theo Smith as worthy patron Amy K. Jones as associate matron Harry P. Smith as associate patron conductress Mabel Goeglein as associate conductress Nellie Brown Lula Nease as secretary Patsy Radford as treasurer The new officers will be installed at the December meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Chapter
OES
Masonic Temple
Thelma Dill
Theo Smith
Amy K. Jones
Harry P. Smith
Mabel Goeglein
Nellie Brown
Lula Nease
Patsy Radford
Middleport Church Services Include Vision for Our Age
Schedule from First Baptist First Presbyterian Heath Methodist Church of the Nazarene and Syracuse Presbyterian lists morning worships Sunday school and sermon topics. Speakers include Rev Jim Megaw and Rev C E Hoyt with themes Man made or God made They Cast Out Also The Finished Work of Calvary and The Purpose of the Passover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
Claremont
E.hoyt
Jim Megaw
Rio Grande College
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Dorcas
The
Sanborn Missionary Society
Paul Smart
Lincoln St
Ladies Bible
R. S. White
Fifth Ave
C. E. Hoyt
Rehtarsal
First Baptist Church
Jackson
W. T. Packer
H. E. MacCombie
Granville
First Presbyterian
Howard E. Ruppelt
Westminster Fellowship
Heath Methodist
Louis A.bangerter
WSCS
Church OF the Nazarene
Robert Styer
Church School
Young People’s Meeting
Calvary
Syracuse Presbyterian
Harrisonville PTA Dance Supports Child Recreation Program
Proceeds from an 8 p m round and square dance at Harrisonville High School will fund a recreational program for children. Refreshments will be sold by the Harrisonville PTA, the event sponsor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Harrisonville High School
Harrisonville Pta
Superintendent Pomeroy attends Columbus meeting on school legislation
Meigs County schools chief O. O. Patterson attended a Columbus gathering of county superintendents to discuss proposed state school legislation. The session focused on potential changes to educational policy and funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
O. O. Patterson
Meigs County
Columbus
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Bloodmobile
Middleport Social Notes
Martin
N. Second Ave
C. O. Fisher
John Zerkle
B. F. Parmalee
One
David Ohlinger
Bruce Lloyd
de Gilkey
Charlies McMaster
James Buchanan
Mrs. Cecil
Letart Falls Farm
Adkins
S. Bethel Church
65Th Community Institute
Church News of
Federated
Harold F. Hess
Paul
Troas
Church Council
Federated Circle
United Methodist
J. Leslie Kunze
Charles R. Speer
Trinity
Christian Science
Jesus Christ
Richard D. DeWitt
Apple Grove—Church
Letart—Church School
United Chi
Weber Thoma
Mt. Herman
Neasel
Danville
Pilgrim Holiness
Woodrow Mullihan
Syracuse-Racine
C. A. White
Bethany
Syracuse
Church OF God
E. Main St
N. W. Jenks
Sacred Heart
Donald Seevers
Naomi Baptist
H. E. Harris
BYPU
Rutland Church OF the Nazarene
Lyndon A. Walls
Young Peoples
Robert E. Linter
Bethel
Salem Center
Forest Run
Baptist Young Peoples’ Union
Rock Springs
Groves
Liberty
Theatre
Proudly
Voice of the Theatre
Zane Grey
Richard Arlen
Mary Brian
Ridin
Charles Starret
Smiley Burnette
Robert Ryan
Clair Trevor
Blondie
Society
Penny Singleton
Arthur Lake
Pomeroy Social Notes
Pomeroy Personals
Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Groucho
Middleport Churches
Harrisonville
Judy Garland
Gene Kelley
Betty Grable
Victor Mature
First Robbin
John Wayne
Albert Dekker
Old
California
Wayne Seaven
Virginia Grey
Papa’s
Sun
Mon
Esther Williams
Joan Evans
New Martin
OTA Dmv
Aks
Johnny Mack Brown
James Ellison
Harlem Globetrotters
Rita Haywor
Wrth
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Galveston
Gene Autry
Pat Buttram
Virginia Huston
Robert Livingston
Judy Nugent Thurston Hall
Estellta Rodriguez
Robert Hutton
Grant Withers
Athens
Nelsonville
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