Commissioners Win State Route Additions in Meigs County
Meigs County Commissioners announced successful routing additions to the state highway system. The Welsh-Downington-Reedsville Road and related routes including Albany Harrisonville Racine Applegrove Great Bend are described with mileage and township intersections. Mae Roush and Grace Hadley returned to Parkersburg after visiting O L Roush and family. the note mentions a brief stay with Mrs Reed’s parents.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
State Highway Department
Scipio Township
Downington
Snowville
Scipio
Harrisonville
Racine
Plants
Letart Falls
Applegrove
Letart Township
Kanawha River
Meigs Youths Enter CCC Training in Kentucky
Meigs County boys numbering 58 applied and were examined at Camp Meigs and departed for Camp Knox Kentucky. Reportedly they may be sent to camps in Iowa or California. The group includes Jerry Barber Chester Betzing Glenn Boston Charlies Bowen Earl Buchanan and others. A second group will depart this Friday. interested boys should report at the Meigs County Relief Office by Thursday.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Camp Meigs
Camp Knox
Iowa
California
Jerry Barber
Chester Betzing
Glenn E. Boston
Charlies D. Bowen
Earl Buchanan
Hershel Buckner
Riley Cowdery
Phillip W. Donovan
Harles Ellis
Arthur Stitt
Ervin Swartz
Charles Swarvel
Otho Tracy
Joseph D. Vadish
Edgar van Inwagen
David Wince
Meigs County Relief Office
Missionary Society Begins Textbook Study
MIDDLEPORT The World Wide Guild Junior Missionary Society of the Baptist Church met Monday evening at Mrs. Frank C. Kreager’s home. They begin study of the new textbook Consider Africa with Miss Letty Fugate presiding and Miss Elizabeth Bradford presenting the first chapter. Refreshments were served. MINISTER HERE FOR RETREAT POMEROY Dr. John H. Strong of New York City spent the weekend with Rev. and Mrs. A. R. Stark. He and Dr. Stark left for Gallipolis to attend the annual Baptist Ministers Retreat led by Dr. Strong for Southeastern Ohio ministers all week.
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Middleport
World Wide Guild
Junior Missionary Society of the Baptist Church
Frank C. Kreager
Sixth Ave
Africa
Letty Fugate
Elizabeth Bradford
Ms. Kreager
Pomeroy
John H. Strong
New York City
A. R. Stark
E. Main St
Strong
Stark
Gallipolis
Ohio
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Weekend Visits and Gatherings
Pomeroy notes show residents visiting relatives in Zanesville Columbus Huntington and Cincinnati. The Twilight Garden Club meets with a potluck on the Pomeroy Harrisonville Road with a business discussion. Local residents host guests from Athens Marietta Portsmouth and Parkersburg and attend church events and hospital visits.
Racine Social and Personal Mention
Racine society notes recount visits among Crow, Cross, Easterday and Batey families including Dr and Mrs Charlies Crow of Springfield, Mrs Thurl Stone hosting for her father James Batey’s 78th birthday, cataract surgery planned, and several local residents plus Ohio State students visiting relatives. Birth announced for Norman Theiss’s son. Other local families guesting with Tanborey relatives in East Liverpool and Akron.
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Racine
Charlies Crow
Springfield
Co. B. Crow
Amanda Cross
Charles Mallory
Ben Cross
Sybil Batey
Myrtle Smith
C. J. Easterday
Hartford
Thurl Stone
James Batey
Batey
Arthur Sayre
Kenneth Roby
Lillian Wilson
Evelyn Shelly
Granville
Jonah Cottrill
Harrisonville
Rebecca Cottrill
Reed Easterday
Chester
C. J
Clyde Cross
Russell Lee
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ed Howell
Bonanza
Ore
Norman Theiss
Ella Roush
Edna Thomas
East Liverpool
Walter Flescher
Akron
W. F. Tanborey
Garden Group Receives Advice on Lawns and Flowers
In Middleport the Garden Club met with 85 members at Mrs. J. B. Downing’s home. Guest speaker George W. Kreitler explained lawn soil and flower garden care. Next meeting set for Nov 2 at Mrs. R. W. Harris’s home. A separate report notes a collision in Pomeroy between a state highway truck and a taxi injuring driver Virgil Will.
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Middleport
J. B. Downing
Downing
G. H. Stansbury
George W. Kreitler
Meigs County
Kreitler
Pomeroy
William Robson
E. Main S1
Virgil Will
Fire Alarm To Be Installed In Village
POMEROY Provision to accept a new fire alarm siren on a 60 day trial was approved by the village council. The signal will cost 360 dollars and replace the Courthouse bell. The street lighting ordinance for Southern Ohio Electric was read a second time and passed under suspension. William Watson, injured by a fall from the fire truck, asked for medical and loss payments and a committee was set to meet on his Firemen's Indemnity Fund case.
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Pomeroy
Southern Ohio Electric Company
William Watson
GOP Women Plan Sunflower Ball And Quilt Giveaway
The Republican Women's club met at the K of P hall with a large turnout. They planned the Sunflower Ball to be held Friday evening Oct 16 at the hall, where a sunflower quilt will be given away. Effie Warren presided in Mrs Avon Jones absence. talks covered immigration taxation and national work.
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Francis Moore
Chesapeake
Syracuse PTA Plans Membership Drive
Syracuse Parent-Teacher Association launches a membership drive this week urging all parents to join and attend the monthly meetings. The group funded school ground swings last year and seeks more playground equipment this year. Mrs. C. B. Weese is president with Mrs. Carl Duckworth as membership chairman and Mrs. Haze Clark as publicity chairman.
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Syracuse
Parent- Teacher Association
C. B. Weese
Carl Duckworth
Haze Clark
Child Loses Fingers in Runaway Lawn Mower Incident
Six year old Ruby June Wince of Forest Run, daughter of Mr and Mrs Oscar Wince, lost two fingers at the second joint while playing with companions at her home Sunday when a lawn mower ran.
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Pomeroy
Ruby June Wince
Oscar Wince
Forest Run
Miss Antona Baily Visits Pomeroy This Weekend
POMEROY Miss Antona Baily of Columbus was weekend guest of her parents Mr and Mrs John Baily of Forest Run. She is a junior nursing student at White Cross Hospital Columbus and recently elected vice president of the White Cross Guild. Mrs Will Bradfield formerly of Pomeroy died Monday at her home on St High St Columbus. The death message was received by local relatives Monday afternoon.
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Pomeroy
Willard Meier
Gordon
W. Va
Spring St
Theron Russell
R. T. West
Zanesville
Albert Young
Norma
Magnolia Temple Pythian Sisters
Pleasant Ridge
Edward Stark
Mila Jane
W. G. Downie
Columbus
Downie
Scott McQuigg
Stark
N. D. Russell
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Howard Coates
Paul Dillard
Parkersburg
Mary Goodwin
John Schmitt
Louise Saxton
Charleston
Charles Findling
Alfred
Emma Webster
Feeble Minded Institute
Louise Heller
Harley Johnson
Wolf Pen
Henry Ihle
Blanch Whitehead
Joe Bill
Indiana
Jake Roller
George Webb
Mary
Portsmouth
Wesley Webb
Louis
Marietta
Cora Webb
W. Main St
Carl Arnold
Rose Hill
Virginia Arnold
Lancaster
Marjorie Wheaton
Frank Myers
Athens
Roy E. Tracy
Spring Ave
Helen Zeiher
Billie
Lester Fauber
Marguerite Meier
Herman Burt
P. L. Peoples
Union Ave
The
Free Methodist Church
Mary Martha League of the Peace Church
Anna Hamm
Barbara Massar
Antona Baily
John Baily
Forest Run
Bradfield
Will Bradfield
St. High St
Residents and Visitors Trade Towns in Weekend Talk
Middleport notes greetings as Mrs Gertrude Talbott Baker returns from Miami after a two day Athens visit with Aunt Myra Hayes. Miss Wiletta Emmish, nurse in Columbus, came home for the weekend with her Emmish parents in Columbus. Several families report visits to Charleston, Marion, Toledo, Covington and Clarksburg with brief returns and health updates.
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Middleport
Gertrude Talbott Baker
Athens
Myra Hayes
Baker
Miami
Fila
Will Osborn
Charleston
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Meigs
CCC
Devon
Barnstaple
Eng
Pomeroy Social Notes
W. W. Casley
W. W. Watkins
Hattie Beverage
Marguerite Worthan
Huntington
Dayton Will
Mulberry Ave
Harry Ohlinger
Joe
Harriet Ohlinger
Peter Baer
Walter Baer
Minersville
Dana Peoples
Fisher
Monkey Run
Walter Meinhart
Meinhart
Henry Meinhart
Twilight Garden Club
Pearl Hysell
Pomeroy-Harrisonville
Joe Larbeck
Margaret
Belleview
Ronald Stillman
Cincinnati
Jake Ament
E. Mainst
Albert Whipple
Cecelia
Harold Posch
John Gloeckner
St. Joseph
Miller
Walter Miller
Peacock Ave
Dave Prichard
Frank Rider
Chicago
Ruth Koons
Ironton
Syracuse Pta
Wiletta Emmish
White Cross Hospital
C. A. Emmish
M. G. White
Ben Erwin
Gravel Hill
J. A. Pfadt
Georgia Dodson
Covington
Dennis Gallagher
Harry Schoen
Curd
Oscar Fugate
George Johnson
Toledo
Minnie Neutzling
Fishbaugh
Union Street
Koehler
East Main Street
Meigs Theatre Company
Athens Messenger
Melton
Mackinaw
Coats
Rette
Barertes
Ruth Hoff
East 68Th Street
New York
Foprright
Tobssen Company
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