Pomeroy Council Passes Three Ordinances On Monday Night
Pomeroy officials approved three measures, two under suspension of rules. The supplemental appropriation of 1771.14 funds the fire department and street department as contingencies. A 13000 bond refunding ordinance and a salary schedule for two years were adopted. Current annual salaries are listed for mayor clerk treasurer marshal street commissioner night watchman fire chief ward foremen and six councilmen.
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Pomeroy
Ward House
Honor Aunt At Racine
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Easterday hosted a Sunday gathering honoring Miss Sybil Batey on her 76th birthday. Attendees included relatives and friends from Gallipolis Chester Columbus East Liverpool and Richwood plus a Thanksgiving Union Service planned at the Baptist Church with Rev. Charles Stephenson delivering the address.
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Racine
Carl Easterday
Sybil Batey
Raymond Gooch
Gallipolis
Reid Fasterday
Carol ‘Christy
Chester
Dick Lee
Charles Mallory
Miss Batey
A. C. Smith
Sumner
David Easterday
Columbus
John Philson
Holzer Hospital
Earl Johnson
Fred Johnson
Joe Hoback
Termandima
Fla
Robert Carvel
Virginia June
Dayton
Racine Happy Hustlers Plan Charity Supper and Sale
Racine The Happy Hustlers Sunday School Class of Racine Methodist Church met at Mrs Grace Jividen s home. A covered dish supper followed a business meeting led by Mrs A J Schaefer and Mrs Dana Cleland. Plans for a waffle pancake supper on Nov 24 at 5 30 pm and a December gift sale were discussed. Two members, Mrs Martin Wolfe and Mrs Mayme Powell, are ill. cards were requested to be sent. Guests included Mrs Emma Jividen, Mrs Ralph Robinson and Mrs Kelley Coe from Columbus.
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Racine
Happy Hustlers
Pomeroy Christian Science Society Announces Thanksgiving Service
The Pomeroy Christian Science Society invites the public to Thanksgiving services at 10 45 a m. The notice highlights the ceremony and welcomes attendees.
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Pomeroy — Christian Science Society
Pomeroy
Athens Air Taxi Service Schedule Fragment
Athens Municipal Airport offers Airtaxi service from sunrise to sunset with connections to main airlines at the nearest hub. Listed times include departures from Athens WEST at 1046 p.m. and 12:30 p.m. with various routes labeled NORTH EAST and WEST.
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Athens Municipal Airport
Airtaxi
Sunrise
Qunset
Tikets
Connec- Mons
Athens
Joan Bennett to Star in Stage Door at Hartman Theater
Joan Bennett appears in Stage Door at the Hartman Theater Columbus for three days starting December 2. The touring hit features Bennett in a lead role, drawing on her screen fame from Vogues of 1938 and her stage pedigree as Richard Bennett’s daughter. The play, by Kaufman and Ferber, centers on young actresses in New York’s Footlight Club.
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Broadway
Stage Door
Joan Bennett
Hartman Theater
Columbus
Miss Bennett
Richard Bennett
Constance
Barbara Bennett
Morton Downey
Hollywood
New York
Margaret Sullavan
Miss Sullavan
George S. Kaufman
Edna Ferber
Minnick
Footlight Club
Middleport Firemen and Legion Run Santa Toy Drive
Middleport firemen and the Feeney Bennett American Legion post will set a Santa workshop in the Legion basement on S Fourth Ave starting November 29. NYA boys and girls will craft and repair toys for needy children, with house to house toy collection Saturday at 9. The effort includes a fire truck escort and a Christmas display with trees and candy for children.
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Middleport
Santa Claus
American Legion
S. Fourth Ave
N.Y.A
Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion
Morgan Carsey
Post
Sons of the Legion
George Childs
Charles McElhinney
B. F. Parmelee
Pomeroy Social Notes Recap of Weekend Visits and Illnesses
Pomeroy social notes list residents ill at home including Pearl Hysell and Aten Shain. Many families host or visit relatives in Columbus Athens Huntington Parkersburg and Cincinnati. Also noted are students from Ohio University and Ohio State University visiting home on Lincoln Hill Mulberry Ave and Wehe Terrace while workers travel between towns.
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Pomeroy
Pearl Hysell
Harrisonville
Ora McClain
Huntington
Marsh Shumaker
Athens
Ohio University
C. D. Shu
Roy Tracy, Jr
Main St
J. R. Elder
Columbus
John Chase
Wehe ‘Terrace
William Waters
Aten Shain
Mulberry Ave
Grant Hood
Minersville
Mrs
Clifford Hood
Chillicothe
Rosey Thornton
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
Maurice Thornton
Ohio State University
Pat Thornton
Pomeroy-Harrisonville Road
George Zier
Lorain
Clara Zier
Chester Zerkle
Logan
Marion Radford
Union Ave
Middleport Social Notes and Thanksgiving Gatherings
Middleport residents share travel for legal consultations and family visits as Thanksgiving plans surface. Mrs. Fowler heads to Columbus to meet her attorney Joe Hogan while families from Coventry, Gahanna, Canton and Monongahela coordinate festive visits. The Women's Missionary Society held its annual bank offering and a local birthday party with games and supper rounded out the social schedule.
Troop 40 Scouts Distribute Gnat News at Heath Church
At a regular Troop 40 meeting at Heath M. E. Church, scouts received copies of Gnat News edited by Robert Snider and the Gnat Patrol. The mimeo edition includes county news and a cartoon, with a Thanksgiving special edition planned for the Pomeroy-Middleport game. Senuimaster McKay schedules more events.
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Boy Scouts
Heath M. E
Gnat News
Robert Snider
Gnat Patrol
Pomeroy-Middleport
R. E. McKay
Five-year-old Gordon Ely hosts birthday party
Saturday marked a joyful birthday for Gordon Ely as his mother Mrs Wesly Ely Cole Sr invited friends to celebrate at home. Guests included Phyllis Smart Jane and Jean Smart Shirley Ann and Mickey Miller Juanita Irene Gordon Diane Brannon Kenneth Turley Hazel Hawkins Jimmy Sanborn Bobby Don Davis Norma Jean Scholl Betty Ann Hayes Carl Holter and several others with games gifts ice cream and cake.
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Small Gordon Ely
Wesly Ely, Cole Sr
Phyllis Smart
Jane
Jean Smart
Shirley Ann
Mickey Miller
Juanita
Irene Gordon
Diane Brannon
Kenneth Turley
Hazel Hawkins
Jimmy Sanborn
Bobby and
Don Davis
Norma Jean Scholl
Betty Ann Hayes
Carl Holter
Middleport Football Team Plans Thanksgiving Dinner
Members of the Middleport football squad will hold their annual pre game dinner at the Mary Jane Coffee Shoppe on Thanksgiving. The menu lists minute steaks baked potato toast fruit and tea. One player Donald Mathews loses his last game Thursday.
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Middleport
Mary Jane
Donald Mathews
Rutland Woman Found Dead From Heart Attack
Mrs Winnie De Wolf 55 resident of Rutland was found dead Monday morning by neighbor Mrs Dennison. The death was due to a heart attack and she was seated in a chair by an open grate. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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Pomeroy
Winnie DeWolf
Rutland
Church Re-decoration Progress Nears Completion
Heath M. E. Church in Middleport continues basement re decoration with volunteers painting the second side in the same light buff color as the first.
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Middleport
Heath M. E
Ohio University pledges Shumaker to Kappa Kappa Psi
Chauncey Shumaker Jr of Lincoln Hill and son of Mr and Mrs C D Shumaker joins Ohio University marching and concert band in being pledged to the Kappa Kappa Psi honorary marching fraternity.
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Chauncey Shumaker, Jr
C. D. Shumaker
Lincoln Hill
Ohio University
Kappa Kappa Psi
Students Come Home For Thanksgiving from Ohio University
Ohio University in Athens lists students returning for Thanksgiving vacation Marsh Shumaker Chauncey Shumaker Joe Quizenberry Edward Lietwiler and Amy Kingsland will arrive Tuesday for the break.
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Ohio University At Athens
Marsh
Chauncey Shumaker
Joe Quizenberry
Edward Lietwiler
Amy Kingsland
Breakfast for Two at the Athena Theater
A new light comedy features Barbara Stanwyck and Herbert Marshall in Breakfast for Two at the Athena. Stanwyck plays a Texas debutante who uses her fortune to reform a Broadway playboy, with Marshall under her plan as he works to save his inherited steamship line.
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Barbara Stanwyck
Herbert Marshall
The
Athena
Texas
Ne’er
Marshall
Glenda Farrell
Miss Stanwyck
Eric Blore
Frank M. Thomas
Etienne Girardot
Donald Meek
Pierre Watkins
Meigs County Vote Tally Report and Township Officials List
Meigs County total votes in the last general election reached 10,339 as reported by Deputy Clerk Frank Fugate and Election Board Clerk Albert Gloeckner. The document also lists constables and justices of peace for Sutton, Rutland, Orange, Salisbury, Chester, Scipio, Bedford, Salem, Columbia, Olive, Letart, Lebanon and other townships with named officials.
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C. O. Newland
D. E. Swartz
William Lewis
Earl E. Parker
J.p. Salisbury
Charles Werry
Ross Evans
Bert Doddridge
Percy L. Peoples
Earl Titus
J.p. Chester
Marion Woods
Dale Congreve
Jess Tuttle
J.p. Scipio
Harold Fry
Dell Dye
Harley Derry
J.p
Ralph Wickline
J.p. Lebanon
J. A. Siders
Allen Brewer
Young People Rally Friday Night in Dexter
The Christian Churches of Bradford, Rutland, Dex ter and Dexter will host a quarterly youth rally at the Dexter Church Friday night at 7 o clock. Rev. Don McMillan of Middleport is principal speaker with Rev. J P Miller of Somerset assisting. Miller will preach in Dexter Saturday night and speak at Bradford and Bradbury on Sunday and Rutland Monday nights.
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Dexter
Bradbury
Bradford
Rutland
Don McMillan
Middleport
J. P. Miller
Somerset
Ind
Miller
Fellowship Carried Out By Methodists
Nearly one hundred Methodists from Gallia and Meigs Counties gathered at Simpson M E Church for a mass meeting linked to the Million Unit Fellowship movement. Mrs Beuscher led the mass choir and presented Gloria in Excelis. The program included prayers, scripture, hymns, and speeches by Rev Rowland of Portsmouth, with Rev Beuscher directing and Rev Copley delivering benediction.
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Women's Missionary Society
First Presbyterian Church
Ray Sherman
Cecil Bailey
O. H. Stewart
Stewart
Sarah Probst
H. E.thomas
Iva Brown
Pomeroy
Gallia
Meigs
Simpson M. E
United States
F. Beuscher
Mozart
Emmett Winden
Ruth Will
Stafford
Snyder
Beuscher
Rev
Rowland
Portsmouth
Copley
Mate on Steamer Omar Dies Saturday in W. Va
Tom VanMeter age 61 died Saturday on the Steamer Omar at Leon West Virginia from a heart attack. He was a mate on the boat. The body was taken to his New Haven home for funeral services Friday with interment in Graham Cemetery. He is survived by his wife a daughter Loretta and a son O W Van Meter.
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Pomeroy
Tom VanMeter
Omar
Leon
W. Va
VanMeter
New Haven
Graham Cemetery
Loretta
O. W. van Meter
Racine Silver Tea Held at Wingett Home
The Million Unit Fellowship Silver Tea by the Racine Woman's Foreign Missionary Society took place at Mrs. E. A. Wingett's home in Racine with two sessions from 2 to 5 and 7 to 9. Speakers included Mrs. Charles Stephenson and Mrs. Wingett with music by Mrs. Eber Neigler and others. decor featured a lace tea cloth, ivory tapers, and yellow chrysanthemums.
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Racine
American Bible Society
A. J. Schaefer
Gomer Lewis
Eber Neigler
Ben Philson
E. A. Wingett
George Simpson
Wingett
Charles Stephenson
Kelley Coe
Edith Hayman
Dana Cleland
Charles Spencer
Dan Stewart
Fred Philson
Farm Institute Set for Racine December 10 11
Racine hosts the Annual Farmers Institute at Racine High School on December 10 and 11 under the auspices of the Racine Grange. A state speaker will appear. Committees include Chairman C. S. Morris, Mrs. Sidney Fadley secretary treasurer Mary Virginia Easterday program Harold Carnahan Sidney Fadley Francis Idle and Mrs J L Spencer refreshments Bertha Spencer Isabella Carnahan Letha Morris publicity Mr and Mrs Elmer Grueser and J L Spencer hostess Mrs Ed Harpole finance Herbert Tucker Cecil Circle Dana Moor Curt Johnson and decorating Mrs Herbert Harris Earl Cross.
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Racine
Racine Grange
Racine High School
C. S. Morris
Sidney Fadley
Mary Virginia Easterday
Harold Carnahan
Francis Idle
J. L. Spencer
Bertha Spencer
Isabella Carnahan
Letha Morris
Grade School at Chauncey Thanksgiving Program
Chauncey Elementary staged a Thanksgiving program directed by Christine Brown. Grades 1 through 8 performed songs with themes of harvest and prayer, culminating in an assembly presided by student council officers President John Watkins and Vice President Charles Rudson with Secretary Ruth Lester.
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Chauncey
Christine Brown
Lois Ann Shafer
John Watkins
Charles Rudson
Ruth Lester
Saffol Hanna Wedding Announced in Gallipolis
Chauncey Mr and Mrs Clifford Saffol announce the marriage of their daughter Lauretta to Ernest Hanna of Carroll Ohio. The wedding occurred Sunday Nov 7 in Gallipolis. Lauretta is a Dover High School graduate and the couple plan to live in Lancaster where both worked at the Glass factory.
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Chauncey
Clifford Saffol
Lauretta
Ernest Hanna
Carroll
Ohio
Gallipolis
Saffol
Chauncey- Dover High School
Hanna
Lancaster Glass Factory
Mrs. Hanna
Mrs. Saffol
Return Home for Chauncey Walters After Hospital Stay
Chauncey Walters son of Mrs Bessie Walters of Chauncey has returned home after ten days in Mercy Hospital Columbus where he received treatment for rheumatism His mother and brother Ralph spent the weekend in Columbus and accompanied him home on Sunday.
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J. B. Shumaker
Detroit
Long Bottom
C. D. Shumaker
Phoenix
Ariz
Bernard Wysong
Roy Tracy
Columbus
Cincinnati
Wysong
Clifford Jenkinson
Crooksville
Jenkinson
Main St
Chauncey
Charles Walters
Bessie Walters
Mercy Hospital
Ralph
Chauncey community notices update Tuesday meetings
Chauncey Bible Class of M. E. Church will meet Tuesday night at Mrs. Nell Jorden's home. Ladies Aid Society will not meet Wednesday as announced. Local residents and visitors are noted, with birthdays and social visits among Chauncey families. The 4-H Busy Body Club gatherings are scheduled Friday at 1 30 in Miss Frances Howard's home.
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Chauncey
Esther
M. E. Church
Nell Jorden
Mill St
Ladies Aid Society
Lillie Barrows
Athens
Josephine Lott
High St
Hubert Coulson
Zanesville
Edith Coulson
Arzetta Schoonover
Donna Adkins
Laura Adkins
Ralph Parry
Albany
Thomas Cruikshank
CCC
Marietta
Luther Cruikshank
Thomas
Main St
Billy Worden
Betty
Nelsonville
Frances Howard
Converse St
Final Plans for Chauncey-Dover Grads
Chauncey-Dover Association president Chauncey-Max Wilson announces final plans for the annual Thanksgiving homecoming and dance. Invitations go out as alumni return to Chauncey Mayfair for a 9 to 1 dance with Don Graves' 10 piece orchestra and Martha Cummings. Alumni basketball games set for Wednesday at 7 pm in the high school gym.
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Chauncey
Max Wilson
Chauncey-Dover Association
Wilson
Mayfair
Don Graves
Martha Cummings
High School
Chauncey-Dover
Alumni
Chauncey Boys
Millfield
Funeral Rites for Coalton Kinsman Charles Conrad
Chauncey and Mrs. Field er and relatives attended the funeral of 92 year old Civil War veteran Charles Conrad in Coalton. Survived by wife, four sons, two daughters, and brother James Conrad 86 Wellston. Announce birth of daughter Janice June to Jacob Way and Florence Kelzenburg at Chauncey home.
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Chauncey
B. H. Fielder
Florence
Fielder
Mabel Conrad
Athens
Wesley Conrad
John Bridenthal
Cambridge
Coalton
Charles Conrad
James Conrad
Wellston
Jacob Way
Florence Kelzenburg
Janice June
Lexington Ave
Clarence Way
Lower Plains
Alice Kelzenburg
Tanks Shipped as Boats by Barge Canal Tow
Sixteen steel tanks including a 460000 pound 25 foot longer than a railroad flat car unit were floated from Jersey City to Whiting via the Barge Canal. The tanks served as their own barges and were towed by tugs.
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Albany
N. Y
Jersey City
N. J
Whiting
Ind
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Pledges Fraternity
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