Villages' Yale Parade Saturday Will Show Cooperative Effort
Middleport and Pomeroy prepare a joint Christmas parade day with bands, Santa, and lights. The 1 30 p.m. start in Middleport leads to a 2 30 p.m. Pomeroy parade, with prayers by Rev Howard Ruppelt and treats funded by local merchants. Officials say the effort signals a larger cooperative plan and hopes for next year.
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Yale
Pomeroy
Middleport
Rutland St
Racine St
Rawlings and Sons
Santa
Karr and
van Zandt
Main St
Sycamore St
Ohio Power Co
Lewis Ellis
Rev Howard Ruppelt Delivers Thanksgiving Sermon in Middleport
In Middleport the annual Union Thanksgiving service at First Baptist featured Rev Howard Ruppelt of First United Presbyterian Church as speaker with a music themed sermon on thanksgiving as a song to joy. The service included readings by local pastors, congregational hymns, choir anthem The Hymn of Thanksgiving and offerings split between CROP and local cooperative work.
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Ruppelt
Middleport
Howard Ruppelt
First United Presbyterian Church
First Baptist Church
Cecil Bradbury
Middleport Ministerial Association
N. D. Borden
Robert Palmer
Church of the Nazarene
Everett Delaney
Church of Christ In Christian Union
Mr. Ruppelt
Jesus Christ
Baptist Church Choir
Clarence Lacey
C. R. Konkright
Heath Methodist Church
Warren M. Hulburt
Ministerial Association
Izaak Walton League Elects New Officers at Meigs County
The Meigs County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America held its 154th meeting at a Chester area farm. New officers were elected: Charles Radford president, George Buchanan first VP, Willis Anthony second VP, J Edward Foster secretary, Carl Kautz treasurer, Wallace Bradford membership secretary, Arthur Skinner state director, Charles Vroman Harold E Hubbard Harry Lee Bailey Chester Erwin and Dr Kenneth Amsbury directors. Mark White named division fish management supervisor and spoke on the white muskie development program traced to Shade River.
Miss Stobart To Reign At Homecoming Dance
Middleport queen Janet Stobart and attendants will reign at a Homecoming dance in the Middleport high school gym. Friends and alumni are invited to the 9 30 p.m. affair.
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Miss Stobart
Middleport
Janet Stobart
Middleport High School
Dexter Star Garden Club Holds December Meeting
The Star Garden Club met at Mrs. Henry Turner’s home with Mrs. Mildred Jeffers presiding and Mrs. Irma Vale leading devotions. Ten members shared bird feeding tips, and Christmas corsages were prepared for elderly neighbors.
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Dexter
Star Garden Club
Henry Tur
Alfred Grange Holds Meeting with Degrees and Farm City Week
Lloyd Blackwood presided as third and fourth degrees were conferred on a candidate. Harry Guthrie reported on state proposals. The Alfred Grange to host Pomona Grange in January. The Lecturer led a Farm City week program and discussed community farm issues. Poems Gratitude and Thanksgiving were read. A film on people products and progress of 1975 was shown. Refreshments were provided by Mr. and Mrs. Clair Follrod and the Doster couple. Next meeting will host October November December birthdays with a December 23 Christmas party.
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Alfred
Alfred Grange
Lloyd Blackwood
Harry Guthrie
State Grange
Thelma Heneerson
Pomona Grange
Ella Yost
Doris Caldwell
Clair Follrod
Harold Doster
Grange
Meigs General Hospital Patient Fractured Hip
Mrs Edna Laing is confined at Meigs General Hospital with a fractured hip from a fall at her Bradbury home. Mrs Fisher Russell of Rahway New Jersey visits due to her mother Mrs Richard Groagan now at home after Holzer Hospital care. Mrs Titus and Mrs Stansbury attended a Tu Endie Wei Garden Club meeting in Point Pleasant West Virginia.
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Edna Laing
Meigs General Hospital
Bradbury
Fisher Russell
Rahway
N. J
Richard Grogan
Holzer Hospital
James Titus
Garen Stansbury
Point Pleasant
W. Va
Epis
Two Ministers Return from State Meeting
POMEROY The Rev. Warren M. Hulburt of the Middleport First Baptist and the Rev. Ralph C. Zandel of the Pomeroy First Baptist returned home Tuesday from Columbus where they attended a Mission to Ministers sponsored by the Ohio Baptist Convention. Speakers included Dr. Jitsuo Morikawa and Dr. Emlyn Davies with sessions led by Clinton Powers, James Ashbrook and Horace Hunt among others.
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Pomeroy
Warren M. Hulburt
Middleport First Baptist Church
Ralph C. Zandel
Pomeroy First Baptist Church
Columbus
Ohio Baptist Convention
Jitsuo Morikawa
New York City
Baptist Jubilee Advance
Emlyn Davies
Canada
Clinton Powers
Denison University
James Ashbrook
Granville
Horace Hunt
Local residents spend weekend visits across towns
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence McNeal visited his sister Mrs. Ruth Groves at The Plains on Sunday. Miss Sharon McClung from Milton, West Virginia, arrived Wednesday to spend the holiday weekend with her aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. George Hudson. Mr. and Mrs. George Baker and Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Buskirk Jr. and children Michael David and Nancy were Sunday visitors in Charleston.
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Clarence McNeal
the Plains
Ruth Groves
Sharon McClung
Milton
W. Va
George Hudson
George Baker
Sherman Buskirk, Jr
Michael
David
Nancy
Charleston
Meigs County Land Transfers List with Multiple Deeds
A transcription of real estate transfers in Meigs County shows Henry C. Williams’s estate and others transferring parcels to Ida Dennison, Ohio Power Co., Ellsworth Crispin, Jack and Jenny Hoy, and several others. The list includes certificates, affidavits of transfer, and parcels in Salem Two, Olive Two, Salisbury Two, Middleport, Columbia Two, Bedford Two, Orange Two, and Rutland. Bermuda note appears as a non sequitur about colonial history.
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Henry C. Williams
Ida Dennison
Salem
Ida Denison
H. H. Denison
Ohio Power Co
Sanford Cozart
Cora Cozart
Ellsworth
Almeda M. Martin
Orange
Victoria C. Gillogly
Odta Gillogly
Columbia
Charles R. Lansbury
Jessie Fay Sansbury
Elmer Whittington
Rutland
Bernard Wallace
Clara Jean Wallace
Local social visits span three states and several families
Point Rock and Columbus residents, including Mr and Mrs J E Radekin and Mrs Nellie Vale with her son John, visited Mrs C W Stansbury in Columbus and dined with Mrs Maggie Burchfield. Lizzie Harvey of Columbus visited G B Radekin guests, and Elmer Fairchild with Judy May spent a week with Walter Fairchild in Kentucky. Laurel Home Demonstration Group hosted by Mrs W D Holliday.
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J. E. Radekin
Nellie Vale
John
C. W. Stansbury
Columbus
Maggie Burchfield
G. B. Radekin
Lizzie Harvey
Elmer Fairchild
Judy May
Walter Fairchild
Kentucky
Laurel Home
W. D. Holliday
Practice Meeting for Eastern Star Officers
There will be a practice meeting for the installation of officers of the Order of Eastern Star at 7 p.m. Friday in the Masonic Temple. All officers elect and those assisting are urged to attend.
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Middleport
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
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George Dallas
Pomeroy High School
Ray Woodgeard
Fred I. Gardner
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Pete TY
Izaak Walton League
Mark White
Shade River
Ebersbach Hardware
Remington
H&r
Stevens
Mossberg
Winchester
Marlin
Firestone
AC Firestone
Mildred Jeffers
Irma Vale
Chester Price
Helen Williams
Grover Stout
James Nicholson
Neal Jefferson
Norma Gillegg
Albany
Elizabeth McCumber
Nellie Nelson
South Bloomfield
Paul Murray
Beverly Hills
Calif
Kim Novak
Frederika
Sophie
Esther Williams
Jeff Chandler
Athens Messenger
Meigs County
Bermuda
Elberfelds
Kroehler & Valentine-Seaver
Big Savings
Ben Franklin
Tilly
Wyatt Earp
Ironing Board
Lincoln
Pomeroy, Ohio
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Sue
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Paris
Nylons
F.E.T
Point Rock
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