Meigs County Draft Board Prepares for New Call
Meigs County selective service will call 14 men between November 2 and 25 for the November 14 draft. The clerk Bryan Parr urges all registrants to report address changes and occupation updates promptly to avoid missing notification and reporting for service.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Meigs County Draft Board
Pomeroy
Meigs County Selective Service Board
Bryan Parr
Selective Service Board
Parr
Mrs Bentz 77 Dies at Home in Antiquity
Lydia Annette Bentz age 77 died Monday evening at her home in Antiquity. She was survived by husband William S. Bentz seven daughters one son three sisters one brother and several landchildren. Funeral services set for Thursday at 10 30 AM at Antiquity Methodist Church burial in Plants Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Lydia Annette aBentz
Antiquity
William S. Bentz
Antiquity Methodist Church
Plants
Will Visit Parents
Roger Emmish is recovering satisfactorily after knee surgery in Detroit and will be brought home to 5th Avenue for convalescent care. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Emmish, will drive to Detroit to assist him during recovery.
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Middleport
Roger Emmish
Detroit
C. A. Emmish
Roger
S. Fifth Ave
Emmishes
Residence Shifts Reported for Local Families
Change of home is noted for the Walburn family moving from Main St. to the corner of S Sixth and Lincoln. The Kitchen family plans to relocate from the Shiflet property on S Second Ave. to the Scott property on Front St newly vacated by the Rathburns.
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Middleport
Charles Walburn
Main St
S. Sixth and
Lincoln
H. H. Kitchen
Shiflet
S. Second Ave
Scott
Front St
Rathburn
Students Dismayed By Class Reports
Middleport High School completed The Activity, the six weekly school paper, and distributed it to students. Rolls of honor omitted many names drawing students’ ire with calls for more at home nights as six weeks tests dominated the early week.
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Middleport
Middleport High School
Halloween Pranks Prompt Police Warning In Middle Port
Police in Middle Port warn Halloween celebrants after early pranks. Chief Robert Allensworth reports damaged property including a stolen car found at a high school and a shattered window, with prosecutions possible if complaints continue.
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Middle Port
Robert Allensworth
Denver Rice
Lillian Stieff
Allensworth
Racine Social And Personal Highlights From Local Notices
Mr and Mrs Wallace Pickens of Columbus and Mr and Mrs Albert Botkins of Springfield visited Mr and Mrs Oren Wolfe. The Baptist Missionary Society met with Rev Spring opening a China class with 23 members present. Marian Simpson returned home after a tonsillotomy. The week end saw numerous social visits across Columbus Parkersburg Plain City and Springfield as residents traveled and hosted relatives.
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Racine
Wallace Pickens
Columbus
Albert Botkins
Springfield
Oren Wolfe
Pickens
Botkins
Wolfe
Marian Simpson
Parkersburg
Loren Apgar
Detroit
Mike Chittenden
Inlaw
Herman Swartzwalder
Plain City
Wilbur Theobald
Kathryn Philson
Clarington High School
Fred Philson
Oliver Sayre
Mr. Sayre
Ruth Weldon
Elizabeth Taylor
Bradbury Social Notes Highlights Local Visits and Births
The Bradbury church noted 52 in attendance with a $36 offering. Susan Blazer of Gallipolis visited friends here. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Lester Bailey. Dana Russell family visits Crooksville. Visits and illnesses among the Russell and Keffer families. Various locals hosted guests from Columbus Dayton Gauley Bridge and Middleport.
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Bradbury — Bible School
S. M. Gilmore
Susan Blazer
Gallipolis
Lester Bailey
Dana Russell
Marvin Russell
Crooksville
Clarence Herman Hoppes
Columbus
Harry Bailey
J. M. Carsey
Glenna
Dayton
Grandma Keffer
Gauley Bridge
Celia Keffer
Otho Smith
Sanford Dodson
Roberta
William Russell
Alpha Russell
Middleport
W. M. Russell
Philip Russell
Dora Russell
Dexter Group Plans Party At Church
DEXTER-Dexter Ladies Aid will hold a Halloween supper at the Church on Friday night Oct. 24. The public is welcome. Numerous local residents and visitors are noted in casual weekend visits and family gatherings across Dexter.
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Dexter
Betty McKinney
Sarah Hampton
Gerald Minor
Millie Hager
Cobb
Wilkesville
Homer West
Race Hill
Earl Nelson
Carpenter
Peter Nelson
Arline
Hubert Nelson
Columbus
P. H. Nelson
F. C. Folden
Cc. C. Folden
Akron
Margaret Davis
New Castle
Ind
Malcolm Davis
Albany
George Davis
Dana Williamson
Ironton
Lewis Saxton
Garland Weaver
J. W. Weaver
Jim Folden
Worley Davis
Wilma Johnson
W. R. Amos
Keith Weaver
Kenneth Weaver
Chauncey
Robert Blizzard
Dayton
Sherman Minor
Social Notes of Kanauga and Nearby Visits
Kanauga social page notes visitors including Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Shipley Huntington and Mr. and Mrs. John D. Gill McArthur to aunt Mrs. Emma Comstock. Eva Deem and Emma Comstock ill but recovering. Norma Jean Raike seriously ill. Billy Schoonover home after appendicitis surgery at Holzer Hospital. Wanda sister ill with tonsillitis.
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Kanauga
T. J. Shipley
Huntington
John D. Gill
McArthur
Emma Comstock
B. D. Raike
Valley Belle
J. Q. Adams
Ray Adams
Eva Deem
Rio Grande
Albert Allen
Springfield
Norma Jean Raike
S. A. Stewart
Oliver Weethee
Bellaire
Billy Schoonover
Holzer Hospital
Wanda
Birth and Death Touch Family in Middleport
R. B. Laughead celebrates birth of his first great grandchild and namesake William Richard Anderson to Mr. and Mrs. William Anderson while receiving word that his only sister in the West has died. Laughead has been ill for several weeks.
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Middleport
R. B. Laughead
William Richard Anderson
William Anderson
Mary Elizabeth Iberfeld
West
Mr. Laughead
Women’s Music Club tea brightens Middleport home
Rainy afternoon hides behind candles as Mrs Homer Grant hosts the Woman’s Music Club silver tea at Sixth Ave. Guests include Mrs George Schaaf new president and members hostesses and a four to five tea hour with a musical program directed by Frances Pullin featuring choruses piano solos and vocal numbers from Pomeroy and Athens attendees. Out-of-town guests listed from Pomeroy Racine Rutland Letart Belmont Mass and Zanesville among others.
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Middleport
Woman's Music Club
Homer Grant
Sixth Ave
Grant
C. O. Fisher
Hartinger
John Kincaid
O. P. Klein
Walter Harris
Everett Hayes
M. C. Hobart
Jean McMaster
Frances Pullin
Willis Aleshire
Gordon Harris
Aleshire
Pullin
Alice Smith
Velma Geary
Pomeroy Music Club
John Talbott
J. R. Harvey
C. B. Dillon
R. C. Alexander
C. E. Atkinson
Athens
Gomer Lewis
Ben Philson
Donald Wolfe
William Stewart
Racine
P. A. Jiiden
Lucille Smith
Chapman
Frank Bean
Rutland
Charles Baird
Amy Kingsland
Mary Ewing
Dana Will
R. H. Rawlings
John Duerr
Lester Hart
C. E. Blakeslee
J. E. White
Ralph Reuther
R. P. Bell
Ed Bauer
Pearl Stanley
Arthur Skinner
Helen Mees
A. H. Rosenbaum
Charles Gibbs
Nonga Roberts
Edith Bowen
Irving Karr, Jr
Grace Horton
Theodore Reed
Oscar Roedell
Pomeroy
Dan Hartinger
Letart
William B. Thomas
Belmont
Mass
James Harley
Zanesville
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlights From Garden Club
Hemlock Garden Club meets with Mrs Alta Eastman. talk on peonies by Mildred Betzing. plans for year. refreshments served. Woman's Society of Christian Service meets at Simpson Church with joint program and Circle No 4 hosts. Five American Legion Auxiliary members attend fall district convention in Murray City. Emma Waterman injured by sewing machine wringer. five stitches. Earl Williamson visits from Columbus to Pomeroy home. William Anderson baby named William Richard. Grandparents listed for the newborn. Edward Stark and others visit Columbus and Delaware.
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Alta Eastman
Hemlock
Mildred Betzing
Louise Hines
Hemlock Grove
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Simpson Methodist Church
John Chase
Albert Young
C. E. W. Downie
M. D. Hartley
Lucy Gibbs
Pearl Hysell
American Legion Auxiliary
Murray City
Emma Waterman
Earl Williamson
Columbus
Georgia Williamson
Pomeroy-Harrisonville Road
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
William Anderson
William Richard
George W. Anderson
Middleport
Alfred Elberfeld
Lincoln Hill
Edward Stark
R. R. Boice
Norman Russell
Delaware
Booster Club Rally At Courthouse Tonight
Booster Club members finalize plans for a 7 30 p m rally at the Courthouse in Pomeroy in support of the school bond issue. Local men will speak on tax levy aspects and the High School Band will parade before a public program including a question period.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy Man Held On Abandonment And Non-Support
Homer Eastman of Pomeroy was returned from Jasonville Indiana by Officers Grindley and Beards. He appeared before Justice P S Peoples Tuesday on charges of abandoning a pregnant woman and non support. He was held to the grand jury with bonds of 500 dollars on each charge.
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Pomeroy
Homer Eastman
Grindley and Beards
Jasonville
Ind
Justice of Peace P
Seek Release of Girl From County Home
A Meigs County hearing on a habeas corpus petition sought Anita Colwell a 14 year old unmarried mother from the county infirmary. Judge C W Clark ruled the petition had no standing since the girl was no longer in the infirmary custody at the hearing.
Pre convention rally attendees from First Baptist Church
The Young people and pastor Rev. Ralph Zundel attended a pre convention rally in Gallipolis on Monday night. Participants included Dorothy Turner Florence Clark Opal Turner Margaret Houdashelt Freddie Houdashelt and Bill Diles.
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First Baptist Church
Ralph Zundel
Gallipolis
Dorothy Turner
Florence Clark
Opal Turner
Margaret and
Freddie Houdashelt
Bill Diles
Three Await Sentence At County Jail
Pearl Hawthorne was arraigned in common pleas court and pleaded guilty after a prior not guilty plea. Indicted with William Darst and Carl Cook for breaking into Eileen Knopp’s storehouse and chicken house on July 28. All three await sentence at the county jail.
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Pomeroy
Pearl Hawthorne
Grand
Common Pleas
Hawthorne
William Darst
Carl Cook
Eileen Knopp
Darst
Cook
Social Roundup From Miss Edith Young and Local Clubs
Edith Young hosted Sew and So Club on Brownell Ave with Florence Clark Nan Fisher and Elizabeth Moore as co hostesses for a chili supper. Ladies Auxiliary of the American Legion met in Murray City with Mrs Sauer Sisson Stieff in attendance. Harold Johnson on furlough from Camp Shelby visited relatives. Mrs James Harley of Zanesville attended the Woman's Music Club tea. Families including the Handleys Smiths and Alice Smith spent Monday in Glouster and West Virginia. Mrs Handley assists in caring for an ailing mother. Mrs A J Beaver returned from Richmond Ind to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs H E Cook were in Columbus on business. Guests at Powll St included Mrs Talbott Atkinson Dillon Alexander Harvey from Athens.
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Edith Young
Sew and So
Brownell Ave
Florence Clark
Nan Fisher
Elizabeth Moore
Lucky Thirteen
Clark
Harold Johnson
Camp Shelby
Johnson
Charles Sauer
Emma Sisson
Lillian Stieff
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the
A. J. Beaver
Richmond
Ind
Rossie Fowler
H. E. Cook
Columbus
A. A. Chappelle
Powell St
John Talbott
C. E. Atkinson
C. B. Dillon
R. C. Alexander
J. R. Harvey
Athens
Marriage Licenses Issued In Probate Court
The probate court issued licenses for several couples. Clarence Munday 22 of Long Bottom R D 1 and Ernestine Quinn 21 of Long Bottom R D 1. William Offutt 40 of Long Bottom and Lavina Ferrell 47 of Portland. Harold V. Watson 29 of Parkersburg and Dorothy May Nicely 35 of Parkersburg.
Eagles To Hold Dinner Dance
Pomeroy Meigs Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles plans a dinner dance next Wednesday for members and wives with an out-of-town speaker. A stag party precedes at the regular meeting Monday night. Forty-five members attended the meeting with three visitors from Marietta and four from Murray City. Four new candidates were accepted and a resolution endorsed the Pomeroy school bond issue.
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The
Aerie
Meigs Aerie
Pomeroy
Leonardo da Vinci’s Submarine Vision Remains Unwritten
The famed inventor sketched a submarine over four years ago but declined to publish details. He feared human malice and the potential for underwater assassination by breaching hulls and sinking vessels with crews aboard.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Painster
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