Pomeroy Bend Prospects Brighten as Industry Rebounds
In Pomeroy Bend prospects improve as four salt plants resume operation and coal strikes wind down. Meigs County and Hocking Valley revival boosts Meigs railroad work while harvests and winter goods lift farmer purchasing power and store demand. optimism grows for broader regional revival.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Bend
Parkersburg Rig and Reel Company
Meigs County
Hocking Valley
Middleport
Foot Scalded at Excelsior Salt Works Injury
POMEROY October 11 Charles Stanley brinetender at the Excelsior Salt Works suffered a painful accident Sunday when he slipped and stepped into boiling salt brine. Only one foot was affected and he received prompt medical treatment. The burn was severe, peeling skin with the sock removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Stanley
Excelsior Salt Works
Pomeroy
Burial Sunday Elmer Williams Dies at McArthur
Elmer Williams 68 a Salem Center native died Thursday at McArthur. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Salem Center with Rev H F Bolton of the Rutland Baptist Church officiating. He leaves many relatives in Meigs and Vinton Counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Williams
Salem Center
McArthur
Pomeroy
H. F. Bolton
Rutland Baptist Church
Mr. Williams
Meigs
Vinton
Juvenile court to hear cutting charge in Middleport case
Richard Vititoe, 17, of Middleport was held on a $100 bond for a hearing on a cutting with intent to wound charge. Officer Dana Roush arrested him on a warrant by Roger Manley after Manley claimed the boy cut him in the back during an argument. Manley, a push cart peddler from Middleport, is described as well beyond middle age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Richard Vititoe
Middleport
Meigs County
Dana Roush
Roger Manley
H. H. Mees
Manley
Hartley Recounts Curious Near Miss Tale in Pomeroy
C A Hartley, veteran reporter, recalls a tale told by Oliver Bradbury about a ride in a fast spirited horse and a light cart that whipped down Court Street, prompting astonishment among locals at the Philosophers Reach gathering.
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Pomeroy
Court Street
Ripley
C. A. Hartley
Hartley
Oliver Bradbury
Mr. Bradbury
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Promises Quick Stimulation
An advertising pitch touts Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a mild stimulant for digestion. It claims benefits for children and adults including regular bowels, fewer sick spells, better appetite, and fewer bilious days, recommending it as a gentler alternative to harsh laxatives.
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Dr. Caldwell
Two Couples Wed At Meigs Courthouse
Oct 11 Meigs County report lists Virgil Shiflet 22 miner from Glouster and Mildred Smith 21 of Pomery joining in marriage with Justice William M. Fisher. Charles W. Ryan 24 insurance salesman of Shawsville Va and Lilly Williams Notter 24 of Middleport wed by Justice H. H. Trees after probate licenses.
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Meigs
Pomeroy
Virgil Shiflet
Glouster
Levi Shiflet
Mildred Smith
Pomery
Pete Smith
William M. Fisher
Charles W. Ryan
Shawsville
Lilly Williams Notter
Middleport
Harry Notter
Justice of Peace
H. H. Trees
Ballots for election delivered. other ballots near completion
Absent voters ballots for the November 8 general election have been completed and delivered to the board of elections by the printers. Work on other ballots is progressing rapidly and is expected to be completed soon. Also reported are the death of Claude Shields, son of Claude and family, and births of a daughter to Theodore Custer and a son to Frank Greuser with details of local funeral services.
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Pomeroy
Board of Elections
Printera
Theodore Custer
Minersville
Frank Greuser
Rocksprings
Family from Portsmouth Visits Doctor Rosenbaum
A Portsmouth family visits Doctor Rosenbaum's parents Mr and Mrs Dena Rosenbaum, sharing time with the physician's relatives during their stay.
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Portsmouth
Rosenbaum
Mrs
Dena Rsenbaum
Last Civil War bugler Schorn remembered in town notes
Schorn born 1842 in Germany and trained under his father Charles Schorn who died in March 1915. He earned a Civil War distinction as a bugler at Grant's headquarters and sounded the surrender call at Appomattox. He enlisted from Pomeroy after coming to New York as a boy and spent most of his life there.
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Pomeroy
Charles Schorn
Schorn
Main Street
Grant
Lee
Appomatox
Mr. Schorn
Germany
New York
Mrs Mary Baker Dies In Success At 89
Mrs. Mary Baker aged 89 died at her home in Success at 8 o clock Monday morning. She would have turned 90 soon but for her death. She left no close kin but has distant relatives in the west. Maiden name Keller. One brother and one sister, Robert Keller of Success and Mrs Edward Fox of Sumner, both deceased. She had been a widow many years. Her father died about 12 years ago at age 103. She had suffered declining health years, bedfast only a week before death. Funeral arrangements not yet set.
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Pomeroy
Mary Baker
Success
West
Keller
Robert Keller
Edward Fox
Sumner
Former Middleport Principal Joins Columbus Y M C A Night High
Prof Ralph M Howell former Middleport High School principal for six years has accepted a French instructor position on the teaching staff of the Y M C A Night High School in Columbus. Since 1929 he has taught French at Bexley High School. He holds an A B from Ohio University and an M A from Ohio State University, and is the son of Mr and Mrs W P Howell of Downington.
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Middleport
Ralph M. Howell
Middleport High School
Columbus
Howell
Bexley High School
Ohio University
Ohio State University
W. P. Howell
Downington
Rio Grande Fair Set for Thursday and Friday
Rio Grande hosts the Second Annual Rio Grande Community Fair at Raccoon Township High School. Judging Thursday afternoon with premiums paid Oct 18–19. Gallipolis Night features a style show and merchant program. Friday includes community stunts. Exhibits cover wheat to domestic arts with multiple prizes. Sponsored by the vocational agriculture department.
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Rio Grande
Raccoon Township
Gallipolis
Ohio
Vocational Agriculture Department of the High School
Betty Kratz
Roberta Cornwell
Winifred Huntington
Mra
Leo Bean
George A. Tabit Company
Haskins-Davis Company
Clothiers
Will Remove Poles Service Lines To Be Run in Alleys
Linemen of the Southern Ohio Electric Company began moving lines from old wooden poles on Second Avenue. Service lines will be placed on poles in alleys parallel to the street, with entry wires to several businesses changed as a result. A marriage license was issued by Judge J S Clark to L E Smeltzer and Betty Frazier of Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Second Avenue
J. 8. Clark
L. E. Smeltzer
Betty Frazier
Will Champer
Gallipolis Fall Festival Committee Meets For Cleanup
The Gallipolis Fall Festival Committee will meet at 7 30 tonight in the Southern Ohio Electric Company office to tidy up details related to the Sixth Annual Fall Festival and Regatta which has just concluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Scouts Race for Mackenzie Cup Sunday at Gallipolis
Gallipolis scouts set three heats for the Robert and Harold Mackenzie Miniature Yacht Racing Cup Sunday at 1 pm near Eppling Sand and Gravel. Nine heats total over three Sundays, with about 15 to 20 yachts expected from 30 owned by local scouts, testing sailing skill with one river and two across races.
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Gallipolis
Robert and Harold Mackenzie
Eppling Sand and Gravel Company
Gallia
West Virginia
Women Employees Meet for Southern Ohio Electric group
Women employees of the Southern Ohio Electric Company held their semi annual social and dinner in Gallipolis with about 20 attendees from Delaware Hillsboro Columbus Point Pleasant Athens Nelsonville and Middleport. The next meeting will be in Nelsonville. Athens representatives included Eva Welch and Ethel Bateman from Nelsonville Elizabeth Howe attended from Nelsonville.
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Gallipolis
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Delaware
Hillsboro
Columbus
Point Pleasant
Athens
Nelsonville
Middleport
Eva Welch
Ethel Bateman
Elizabeth Howe
Elks Lodge to Hold Annual Inspection and Initiation
Gallipolis Elks announce annual inspection and initiation for Monday night October 17 in the lodge hall. Lancaster district deputy J A Rockey will inspect, with George Tabit Jr as exalted ruler announcing the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallipolis Visit and Barber Shop Fire Reported
Mrs Harvey Miles and her mother Mrs Keeler of Dayton visited the Hotel Lafayette with many Gallipolis friends. Mr and Mrs J W Root returned to the Hotel Lafayette after a summer in Michigan. Damage estimated at 25 dollars to the Sanitary Barber Shop ceiling in the Masonic Building from an electrical short circuit fire yesterday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey Miles
Keeler
Dayton
Hotel Lafayette
Gallipolis
J. W. Root
Michigan
Sanitary Barber Shop
Masonic Building
Declamation Contest Planned for Armistice Weekend
Gallia Academy High School will stage the eighth annual Prince of Peace Declamation Contest with preliminary church contests on Armistice Sunday weekend. Students receive English credit, and medals reward church, county, and district winners. State prizes include tuition scholarships and cash awards.
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Gallipolis
Prince of Peace
Anne Zimmerman
Gallia Academy High School
Ohio
Sgt Alvin C York to Speak in Gallipolis
Sergeant Alvin C York, decorated hero of the Argonne drive, will address Grace Methodist Episcopal Church in Gallipolis on Friday at 8 o'clock on Why I Am for Prohibition. York has spent postwar years running a school for mountain children in Tennessee and is touring Ohio Kentucky and Indiana delivering prohibition talks.
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Gallipolis
Alvin C. York
the Argonne
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
York
Tennessee
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Rio Grande High School Wins Second Prize at Fall Festival
Rio Grande High School earned second prize for an industrial float at the Fall Festival in Gallipolis, correcting an earlier misannouncement that Rio Grande College had won. The float promoted the upcoming Rio Grande Community Fair. Police arrested Clyde Cornell and Carl Beard for intoxication following Monday’s incident.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande High School
Rio Grande College
Clyde Cornell
Cerl Beard
Young Musicians Entertain At Heath Church Program
Miss Kathleen Bush piano pupil under Mrs Norma Lewis Hecox and Paul Haptonstall violin student under Prof Konrad Scholl presented Monday evening at Heath M E Church Middleport A large audience attended the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathleen Bush
Norma Lewis Hecox
Paul Haptonstall
Konrad Scholl
the Heath M. E. Church
Will of Arthur Miller Presented for Probate
GALLIPOLIS October 11 Will of Arthur Miller has been presented and application made to probate.
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Gallipolis
Arthur Miller
Community notices from Long Bottom and nearby towns
Long Bottom residents held dinner for newlywed James and Betty Blake. Funeral services were held for James Harrow at Moses Bottom, W. Va., with many local attendees. Families traveled to Gallipolis, Racine, Salem and Parkersburg for events and visits. Local youths attend Ohio University and cancer.
Hughes Home Blaze Destroys Kitchen in Middleport
Fire of unknown origin gutted the kitchen of Edward Hughes’s home at Grant Street and South Seventh Avenue in Middleport. The family was present but could not stop the flames before the fire department arrived and saved the house. insurance coverage was not learned.
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Middleport
Edward Hughes
Grant Street
South Seventh Avenue
Syracuse residents engaged in development and visits
Christian Baer Sr purchased the C M Karr residence five lots and the old Carleton College grounds with plans for a tourist camp. Artistic park plans emerge for Syracuse. Numerous local residents and visitors are noted, including the Martins, Karrs, Turleys, Engles, Clark family, and several church and school groups meeting in town.
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Christian Baer
C. M. Karr
Carleton College
Syracuse
Milo Wilson
Gallipolis
Rose Capehart
Mary Karr
Ruth Capehart
Columbus
John Capehart
College Road
Harry Turley
Wellsburg
Ellen Turley
Annie Turley
Rama the new internal medicine for rheumatism relief
Advertisement claims Rama purges poisons causing rheumatism by acting on the liver kidneys and blood to ease stiffness swelling and lameness. Quick's Cut Rate Store urges purchase of a one dollar bottle with promise to refund if it does not relieve aches and pains.
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Rama
Kuma
Quick
Marriage Notice for Weese Ber Couple in Jacksonville
A partial clipping reports a Sunday marriage event for Mr and Mrs Weese Ber in Jacksonville with limited legible details. The item notes a ceremony and local observance but lacks full names and dates due to damage.
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Mrs. Car
Jacksonville
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George VanZant
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Ann Jenkins
New Lexington
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Coolville
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D. N. Genheimer
Forest Run
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Burnell Stevenson
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Home Missionary Society
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Lydia Ebersbach
Mulberry Avenue
B. Y. U. Cabinet
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Pearl Hysell
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Laurelville
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First Ward
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Apple Grove
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J. C. Swan
James Blake
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Moses Bottom
James Harrow
Harrow
Long Bottom
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Roberta Post
Lost Creek
I. C. Matlack
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Murray
M. W. Stewart
J. B. Shumeker
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Salem
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Co. L. Arnold
Ruth Arnold
Holzer Hospital
Irving Karr
Martha Echols
H. C. Foster
Avery Roberts
Lillian Moore
Daisy Duckworth
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
Asbury Methodist Church
Fred Shumway
John Hallam
C. H. Williams
Roy Holmes
Cincinnati
Tom May
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General Electric
J. B. Swanson
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