Panthers and Jackets Fail To Score in Annual Game
Middleport Yellow Jackets and Pomeroy Panthers played to a scoreless Thanksgiving Day tie at Middleport Fields in front of about 180 fans. Pomeroy pushed into Yellow Jacket territory multiple times but could not finish drives. Alfred Searberry returned after injury as Middleport’s standout, and the game ended with both teams held scoreless. Middleport defended the south goal for a moral victory in the season finale.
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Middlekoka
Merore
Ole
Middleport Yellow Jackets
Pomeroy Panthers
Middleport Fields
Yellow Jacket
Middleporters
Crett
Jackets
Middleart
Muang
Alfred
Searberry
Whry Hair
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Coln
Middleport
Pomeroy
Srore
Panthers
Yellow Jackets
Slade
Sal
Midlepor
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Koehler
Rice
Engin
Englan
Ebersbach
Gal
Poscemon
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Lehew
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Middieport
Pearl Willams
Forrest Bach
West Virgina
Smart
Fisher
Hawley
Ashes
Devol Hottner
RT Quivey
Rosenbaum
RE Walters Conde
Hackett Ash
Enersbach
Bailey Stanley
Hayes
White
Searter
A.B. Long
Leroy Bos
Harry M. Kruminut
Robertson’s Bucks and Indiana Picks Stir Weekend Sports
New York AP reports a coinless pick batch for Saturday games. Ohio State heads the slate with Le Horeath and Hackett leading a Michigan clash, while Notre Dame faces Georgia Tech and Indiana bets on a knee‑injured Boris Dimanchett pushing Purdue. In golf, Sam Snead eyes a hot Portland Open run amid rain and slow greens as Nelson and McSpaden chase prize money.
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Michigan
Ohio
le Horeath
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Howell
Cosmos
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Purdue
Boris Dimanchett
Bob Hoern
Themeyer
Cornell-Pennsylvania
Quakers
Big Red
Penn Iowa
Lowe
Illinois
Northwestern
Poriland
Ure
ar—Colortu
P.G.A
Jam Snead
Byron Nelson
Harold McWc
Lpaden
Bob Hamilton
Hot Springs
Power- Crown House
Sam
Portland Golf Club
Brillant
Snead
Tradition Carried Out At Big Game in Meigs County
MIDDLEPORT The annual homecoming game between Middleport Yellow Jackets and Pomeroy Purple Anthers drew 1700 plus attendees at Alddieport stadium. The day featured combined bands, war bond promotion, and a heartfelt memorial for Meigs County World War II heroes with names read, guns fired, and taps.
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Middleport
Middleport Yellow Jackets
Pomeroy Purple
Alddieport
M.H. Fowler
Celina
Gordon Har
Linden- McKinley
Wills Alethire
Portsmouth
Middleportland Pomeroy
Charles Stroud
Pomeroy
Donnie Walters
Carolyn Clark
Hazel
Jean Ashley
Wilmaree
Julia Erwin
Sulla Archer
Sona
Ted
Najor
Hazel Bolinger
Betty ‘Tedross
Carol Exis
Jane Clifford
Arol Evans
Chrisstian
Solers
Meigs F County
L. W. McComas
Feene Bennett Post
Franklin Ginther
MHS
Joanna Warren
Norma Plants
Franc Pickens
Juanito Casto
Hhe
Te Dium Majorett
Virginia la 7
Schaaf
Sara” Daum Hartley
Bernard Krinke
Agnes Bentz
Rosalie Parfitt
Eleanor Smith
JoAnn Watson
Members of Church Meet Monday Night
Grace Episcopal Church canvassers plan a 7 15 p m gathering at the Rectory announced by Rev Charles Baird. The annual Every Member Canvass starts Tuesday and runs for one week with Patrick Lochary as chairman.
Attend Rites for Oren Stansbury
NYCRR employees attended funeral services for Oren Stansbury who died suddenly after a heart attack at the round house in Hobson. Services were at the Methodist Church with pallbearers Guy Mutchler Ela Barton Blaine Giles Dei Rice Joe Young Victor Bral. Attending were Mrs. Gertrude Rupe Akron Dwight Muthler Chicago Homer Stansbury McKeesport Pa.
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Ruianw
NYCRR
Oren Stansbury
Hobson
the Methodist Church
Guy Mutchler
Ela Barton
Blaine Giles
Dei Rice
Joe Young
Victor Bral
Gertrude Rupe
Akron
Dwight Mutehler
Chicago
Homer Stansbury
McKeesport
Pomeroy Church Services and Trinity Lutheran Hour
Church notices list services in Pomeroy including Pomeroy Church of Christ Trinity Lutheran Church and First Baptist locations. Details cover Sunday School times 9:30 to 11, morning worship 10:30, evening services 7:30, and midweek 7:30. Also notes Salvation Army event November 26 with speaker Mrs. Captain Sharp and a pause the week of Nov 26 to Dec 3.
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Pomeroy
Church OF Christ
W. G. Dieringer
Salvation Army
Captain Sharp
Marietta
Ray Winning
Trinity
Lutheran
Church of the Lutheran Hour
Lutheran Church
Butternut Street
West Main
Hilmar Th. Rosenberg
First Baptist Church
C. A. Swick
Ci Enter
John Rawlings
Iiddleport Social Notes Quiet Yearend Gatherings
Iiddleport Social Notes report a small morning gathering at the Kanauge Chion School Study Worship hosted by Peter Mission at Marist Saceventerained. Garreld Aver Plans are set for a Christmas party and bazaar to be held on December Fourteen with M A Epple, superintendent, coordinating. Members and saints attended. the event marked the close of the business season as Stace served paint court.
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Mwdletunt
Otra
Peter Mission Marist
Wsc.s
Garreld
M.A. Epple
Onti
Dee
Memnert
Saents
Stace
Stamp Sales In Schools Show High War Stamp Totals
Pomeroy Public Schools students reported 318.40 in War Stamps and Bonds sold on Tuesday, bringing the term total to 3030.75. Senior High aims to fund a 1165 Jeep, with this week’s sales added to the drive. Sugar Run Elementary led with 100.20, Junior High totaled 61.20, Central Elementary reported 31.35, as principals White Seitz and Stobart oversee the drive.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Public Schools
J.E. White
Sugar Run
Imma Seitz
Charl Bbs
Central
Itiss Genevieve Stobart
Pomeroy Social Notes Family Dinner Thanksgiving Guests
A family dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs A Fugate on Third Ave featured guests including Mrs Jere Russell and Mrs A E Russell, Mr and Mrs Meinhart, Mr and Mrs Allensworth and daughters Susan and Barbara, plus Ohio University figures. In the evening the Allensworths visited Dorothy and Roberta Allensworth in Cheshire for Thanksgiving. Middleport Personal: Mrs Charles Howard of Athens traveled to Zanesville for Royal Neighbors Camp candidacy adoption.
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W. Robert
Barbara
Ohio University
Allson
Zanesville
Royal Neighbors
Pomeroy
Larry Goldcamp
Virginia Ramses
Lebanon
Marion Sheribach
Mildred Lisle
Syracus
May Tuerite
Charles Lisle
Camp Bowie
Texas
Uesday
Frank Fugate
Hulda Klein
O. P. Klein
Virgil Walker
Lewis Walker
Minersville
U.S. Navy
Great Lakes
Carl Beard
Sharpsburg
Ohio
R. D. Young
Columbus
Gerald Wise
Thomas Young
Springfield
Ellzrem Rader
Callvai
Pie
TAVE GUESTS AND HOLIDAY VISITS IN POMEROY
Sheriff and Mrs Ralph Welker hosted a rabbit dinner with Courthouse employees on Wednesday noon. The report lists numerous local residents and visitors including Jerry Wise Gerald Wise and family, Miss Virginia Ramses former librarian, and others in town for Thanksgiving and holiday gatherings.
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Ralph Welker
Tiesther
Mary Gilmore
Spencer
Alice Davi
Adele Leota Hawk
Jerry
Jack Welker
ISIS
Jerry Wise
Keat Lakes
Gerald Wise
Wests
R. D. Youngolumbus
Thomas Young and
Eorge “Meinhart
Barl
William Wise
Harlow Russell Dies in Dayton After Long Middleport Career
Word has been received of the death of Harlow Russell former harness shop operator in Middleport and later NYCER worker in Hobson. He had lived with his stepson Ernest Bowman in Dayton. Funeral services are planned for Saturday in Dayton with a second service at Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home. Interment will be at Middleport Hill Cemetery.
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Harlow Russell
Middleport
Ernest Bowman
Dayton
Russell
Fat Hobson
Rawlings-Coats, Funeral Home
Middleport Hill
Trojans Need Win Saturday For Bowl Bid
USC faces UCLA in a pivotal clash with a Rose Bowl bid on the line. A UCLA upset could force PCC polling to determine the representative. The Trojans boast a strong backfield and aerial attack, while UCLA’s passing game threatens an upset.
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Los Angeles
Southern California
UCLA
Ohio State
Tennessee
Thanksgiving dance draws large crowd at Eagles Club
A Thanksgiving dance at the Eagles Club drew a large crowd with Klein Kats providing music from 10 to 1. Out-of-town guests included Mr and Mrs SM Pyle of Mt Union Pa and Mr and Mrs William Lowe. A 25 pound turkey was awarded to William Lowe. Also noted are community notices from Shade Middleport and Athens about weddings, illness, visits, and local events including Burns and Bereavements, with names such as Mrs Flora Bunyan in North Vernon and Pfe Paul parts in Holland.
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Eagles Club
Klein Kats
SM. Pyle
Mt. Union
Mie
William, Lowe
Earl Fort
Columbus
Fe Sauer
Dayton
Earl Cowen
Benson Cowan
Eula
Ralph 0
Phar
Xenia Brill Ruth
Ordon Ruth
Mildred Fulton
Johnny Carroll
Louise Fulton
Lancaster
George Sutton
Annie Swartz
Athens
Margaret Grim
Nettie Burson
George Brady
South Solon
John
Eugene Daina
Louie Niggemeyer
Charles Nuzum
Ethel Sargent
Meigs County
Herb Riggs
John Bobo
and Mire
Ray Bobo
Sun John
Nettie Meeks
Herman Ator
Athens RS
Flora Bunyan
North Vernon
Ind
Sam Jetters
Wayne Wingett
Lenore Williams
Paul Burson
Athens Grange Hall
Jessie Doolittle
Charlotte Peck
Carbondale
Fred Moore
Fullerton's Roundup by Hugh Fullerton Jr
Amateur night reports on Gunder Haegg and Arne Andersson open to persuasion for a U.S. winter tour. Haegg escaped a Malik Malmo haberdasher’s guard and military service may be postponed. Andersson resists travel without his wife. Plus Pigskin Picks feature Ohio State Michigan and Cornell Pennsylvania matchups and notes on college and professional football figures including Crowley Layden Fleming and Hemsley.
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Hugh Fullerton, JR
New York
Gunder Haegg
Arne Andersson
United States
Sture Olsson
Swedish Athletic Association
Andersson
Per Albin Hansson
Thanksgiving gridiron action across Midwest contrasts routes
Midwest football teams pushed through Thanksgiving week with few rests as Columbus and Ann Arbor prepared for key clashes. Michigan, Ohio State plans focused on defense and offense while Purdue Indiana and Wisconsin Minnesota teams held light scrimmages. Notre Dame prepared for Georgia Tech and Iowa studied for upcoming opponents as the era’s big rivalry week pressed on.
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Columbus
Turday
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Wolverines
Willenteam
Ohio State Alrium
Dei
Jorthwestern
Ray Eliot
Buddy Young
Eddie Bray
Don Greenwood
Jerry Cies
Orthwestern
Steve Bennett
Purdue
Boris
Babe) Dimanchetf
Indiana
Hoosiers
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Midwest
Notre Dame
Atlanta
Georgia Tech
Hawkeyes
Towa Seahawks
Corning Social Notes Announce Marriages and News
Corning notes report Slee Margaret Dawson and Paul B Murphy tied in Columbus at First United Brethren Church to celebrate their nineteenth anniversary observance. Patrick F Eddy wed Viola M Meek in Columbus at United Brethren Shurds Corning on November 21. Lawrence Losey marked a silver wedding anniversary at home on S Valley St with many friends present. Elmer Kader, son of Mike Kader of Congo, received an Army honorable discharge from Italy. E C Haskins and wife visited relatives in Bucyrus. Harold Binderbasin traveled to Cleveland and Akron. Mrs Gertrude Allen Ensign Hubert Lowry from Nelsonville spent Sunday with Mrs Fiolet Walters and Miss Jessie Schl ingerman.
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Slee
Margaret Dawson
Paul” B. Murphy
Columbus
First United Brethren Church of
Elmer ‘Kader
Ind
Mike Kader
Congo
Rarge
Italy
E. C. Haskins
Bucyrush
Harold
Hubert Lowry
Nelsonville
Fiolet Walters
Jessie ‘Chlingerman
Suchtel Schools Present Friday Evening Program
Buchtel School audiences watched 11th and sixth graders in the Jolly Pickaninnies Minstrels with Tack Sharp Bob Smart Roy Earl Wright Jeanette Dearing Wanda Wright Bob Newman Shirley Duncan Danny Merz Harley Yate Donald Keeney Richard McDonald Billy Wicks. Girls Chorus wore bright costumes and sang Blowing Bubbles. Chorus members included Orletta Burgess Wanda Jones Billie Jean Irkendall Marlene Levandofsky Smathers Shirley Duncan ine Kieffer Doris Anne Miller Shirley Newman Rose Smart Shirley Robson Jeanette Dearing Wanda Wright Geraldine Smith J Shone Smith. Susanne Kiefer recited Thanksgiving. Miss Mary King directed. Guest entertainers were the Traubert family with Mrs Traubert on violin Betty on saxophone Mary Ellen on piano. Mary Ann danced a Scottish step. John sang Pocket Full of Dreams. James Hickman was master of ceremonies.
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Buchel
Tack Sharp
Bob Smart
Roy Earl Wright
Jeanette Dearing
Wanda Wright
Bob Newman
Shirley Duncan
Danny Merz
Harley
Orletta Burgess
Wanda Jones
Billie Jean ‘Irkendall
Marlene Levandofsky
We ‘Smathers
Traubert
John ‘Trausbert
Betty
Mary’ Ellen
Maryt Ann
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