Pomeroy-Mason Bridge Reopens After Major Repairs
The Pomeroy Mason Bridge reopened to traffic at about 7 a.m. after a two month closure for deck repairs. West Virginia side work allows one lane, with a 46 000 ton weight limit and 50 foot truck spacing. Local businesses saw sales declines while next construction phase is planned for March 1976 to November.
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Pomeroy
Pomeroy-Mason
West Virginia
Department of Transportation
Oakley Collins
Ronald James
Middleport
Court notes and marriage licenses from Meigs Probate
Local court records list fines for speeding illegal parking and defective muffler. Notable entries include James Titus $12 and Evelyn White $27.50, plus a 30 day jail with 16 suspended for Terry Michael for issuing checks. Marriage licenses show Andrew Manning and Mayme Custer, Larry Wilson and Venida Gibbs, Mark Dillard and Mary Weyersmiller, George Young and Peggy Chaney, Paul Smith and Donna Coleman, Robert Hunt and Frances Hawk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Titus
Huntington
George McComas
Proctorville
Thomas Hopkins, Jr
Belpre
Lewis McBride
Gallipolis
Randy Ebersbach
Pomeroy
Evelyn White
Minersville
Janice Ebersbach
Barbara Talbott
Portland
George Deem
Racine
Donny Shain
Terry Michael
Andrew Jackson Manning
Dade City
Fla
Mayme Custer
Larry Wilson
Clarksburg
Venida Gibbs
Middleport
Mark Dillard
Langsville
Mary Weyersmiller
George Young
Peggy Chaney
Paul Smith
Donna Coleman
Robert Hunt
Long Bottom
Frances Hawk
Chester
Tijuana Draws Huge U.S. Tourist Flow
Tijuana hosts more American visitors than any other foreign city with over 30 million U.S. citizens crossing the border last year for meals bullfights jai alai and shopping. Returns may bring back $100 duty free if no prior exemption claimed in 30 days.
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Tijuana
Mexico
San Diego
U.S
United States
Emergency runs Athens fire squad respond to 15 Second St
At 4 27 am the Athens fire crew rushed to O Browns O Blenness hospital area after an 81 year old man fell at 15 Second Street emergency responders reported the incident.
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Athens Fire Squad
O’bleness
Wellston Woman Charged After Four Car Pileup
Ruth C. Franklin 44 of Tecks Mill faces Mayor's Court on a leaving scene charge after a Pennsylvan ia Avenue crash injured Norma Williams 51 Nina Wagoner 39 and Lucille Kelley 48 and damaged four vehicles.
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Wellston
West Virginia
Ruth C. Franklin
Tecks Mill
W. Va
Sylvania Avenue
Norma M. Williams
Pennsylvania
Sixth Street
Franklin
14Th Street
Nina E. Wagoner
East Broadway
Lucille B. Kelley
Wagoner
Kelley
Holzer Medical Center
Two Injured In Meigs County Weekend Accidents
Meigs County Sheriff reports two separate weekend crashes. Douglas Holsinger's southbound car on County Road 46 rolled twice after he fell asleep. he and Rusty Holsinger were evaluated at St. Joseph Hospital. Ricky Blake unharmed. Earlier, Larry Cleland's southbound car on County Road 13 struck a culvert and rolled several times with head and leg injuries. No citations issued.
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Pomeroy — Meigs County
Robert Hartenbach
Douglas Holsinger
Olive Two
Holsinger
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
Rusty Holsinger
Ricky Blake
Reedsville
Larry Cleland
Langsville
Southeastern Ohio Forecast Highlights and Regional Outlook
Fair tonight with lows in the low 40s. Sunny and warmer Tuesday in the upper 60s. Chance of rain 10 percent tonight and near zero Tuesday. Extended outlook shows showers Wednesday and Thursday, fair Friday with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. Regional notes include Lake Shore Northwest Inland Northeast and West Virginia zones with similar patterns.
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Ohio University Geography Department
C. L. Colmer
U.S
Southeastern Ohio
Ohio
Lake Shore
West Virginia
Six Hurt As Car Hits Mailboxes In Point Pleasant
A single vehicle crash on Route 2 in Point Pleasant injured six people including Norman Schoonover the driver. Passengers Roger Tony Chester Nottingham Oscar Smith Harold Smith Charles Marshall and Schoonover were treated at Holzer Medical Center. All are Meigs County residents.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Sheriff's Department
Norman Schoonover
Holzer Medical Center
Roger Tony
Chester
Carl Nottingham
Pomeroy
Oscar Smith
Harold Smith
Syracuse
Charles Marshall
Hemlock Grove
Schoonover
Meigs County
Nelsonville Break-ins Reported Theft of Truck
Nelsonville police investigate two breakins and a truck theft. About 300 dollars vanished from Nelsonville Lumber Co. on Watkins Street. The missing money was in a desk. Offices at Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric were robbed for loose change. A 1967 model truck was taken from Wm Brooks Shoe Co and seen in New Straitsville.
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Nelsonville
Max Walkinburg
Nelsonville Lumber Co
Watkins Street
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Wm. Brooks Shoe Co
Valkinburg
New Straitsville
Meigs County Pioneer and Historial Society Meeting
The Meigs County Pioneer and Historial Society holds its annual meeting Thursday at 7 30 p.m. in the Pomeroy museum on Butter nut Avenue. Trustees will be elected and officers chosen after reports on finances and the fund drive progress. A 16 minute color sound film Going back to Limestone and a Maysville Museum slide show will be shown. Special Bicentennial memberships will be offered. Refreshments served.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Gerard Hilferty
Area death notices headline brief for several Ohio towns
Obituaries from Athens Gallipolis Logan MIddleport Chalfant Cheshire Point Pleasant Rutland list Ed Settle 62 Athens. Loren Thomas 68 Gallipolis. Joseph Martin 57 Pomeroy. Zoa Blosser 87 Logan. Lucinda Danes 92 Middleport. Elza Chalfant 96 Trimble. Charles Barton 75 Cheshire. Charles Frye 78 Point Pleasant. Stanley Molden 67 Rutland. Details include former employments, church affiliations, survivors, and funeral arrangements.
Local groups and notices share Athens area events and legal filings
Public and club calendars list meetings for Athens City Council boards, Kiwanis groups, Garden and Shrinette clubs, Masonic lodges, and planning commissions across Meigs Vinton and Athens counties. Notices include tax appeal adjustments, probate hearings, and estate administration actions with dates in October and November 1975.
Family Announcements List From Athens and Surrounding Areas
A long roster of individuals from Athens Glouster Nelsonville McArthur and nearby communities is noted with mentions of daughters and sons in a sequence of names including Mary Ann Jarvis Kathyanne Reeves Sharna Powell Lee Stotts and Mrs. Stanley West among others. Local residents and families such as the Roath Easler Warren and Gabriel households appear in the compilation.
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Gary Gabriel
Harold McGrath
Betty Stage
Wilfred Burnside
Theodore Versteeg
Athens
Murray Haskins
Nelsonville
Hazel A. Hamnon
Barbara Bogess
Albany
James Davis
McArthur
Donna Sayre
Glouster
Lena Blackford
Jacksonville
George Keeton
the Plains
Mary Ann Jarvis
Stewart
Melinda Brooks
Maxine Kendall
Iva Parker
Mary M Arnold
Sharon Nichols
Hollis Harvey
Edgar Parsons
Kathyanne Reeves
Hertha Douglas
Floyd Mash
Kathleen Cleland
Laverne Arnold
Jenny Jackson
Mitchell Deal
Mary Lisa Coleman
Edward Willet
Carolyn Perry
Curtis Washington
Emily Vickers
Sharna Powell
Larry Monk
Carol Hollister
Stanley West
Tim Kirkendell
Lee Stotts
Bessie Miller
Robert Forrest
Gary Young
Louise Keirns
Paul Moore
Oakdale Circle Election Is Postponed
GLOUSTER The October meeting of the Oakdale Friendship Circle was held at Mae Losey’s home. The group opened with hymn and prayer, read from John, and signed cards for ill members. Officers’ election was postponed to the next meeting. Members were asked to bring a reading for the November 4 gathering at Della Loomis’s home with Geneva Jewell and Betty Coffman supervising contests.
Glouster Residents Host Weekend Guests
Glouster James Moody and his daughter from South Bloomfield visited the home of his sister and brother in law Mr and Mrs William Wintersteen in Glouster over the weekend. On Sunday Mr Chillicothe spent the day at the Wintersteen home.
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Glouster
James Moody
South Bloomfield
William Wintersteen
Mr. Chillicothe
Wintersteen
Water system bid invitation for Old Straitsville area Ohio
Old Straitsville Water Association invites sealed bids for a two division water distribution project serving Old Straitsville Perry County and parts of Hocking County Ohio. Bid deposits vary by division and documents are available from UNO Consultants and Howdyshell Dodd with bids due October 21 1975 at 11 00 A M EDT.
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Old Straitsville
Coal Township
Perry County
Ohio
Oroville
Gore
Old Gore
Falls Gore
Green Townships
Hocking County
OLD Straitsville Water Association, Inc
Howdyshell & Dodd
Peoples National Bank
New Lexington
Attorneys-at-Law
UNO Consultants, Inc
East Long Street
Columbus
F.W. Dodge
Freeway Drive
Kember Lane
Cincinnati
Kettering
Ind
Builders Exchange of Columbus
Dublin Rd
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McCoy
Court News
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Piedmont
Maurice Russell
Belle Vernon
Timothy Rutherford
William Ambrose
Robert Grace
Oak Hill
Steven Runyon
Bidwell
Tommy Tucker
Meigs
National Weather Service
Nevada
Idaho
Utah
Wyoming
Society
New Jersey
West Hazleton
Quakertown
Allentown
Ed Settle
Legion
Sertoma
Edmund D
American Legion
Settle
William
Vicky) Snider
Loren Thomas
Loren (Doggie) Thomas
Second Ave
Gallia County
Dan W
Anna Ham Thomas
Glen
Linda) Crabtree
Louisville
Aldeth Robinson
Elizabeth Phillips
Ironton
Waugh-Halley-Wood
Paul Hawks
Tim Heaton
Tyn Rhos
Joseph E. Martin
Joseph Edward Martin
Pleasant Ridge
Stephen and
Cora Young Martin
Parkersburg Rig and Reel Company
United Methodist Church
Anna Mae Greenlee
Mildred Tubbs
Herman
Leo
South Point
Ewing Funeral Home
Robert Hayden
Beech Grove Cemetery
Chad
Jeremy Snider
Edna Wallace Settle
Richard
Waverly
Harry B. Settle
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Msgr
Jan B. Kish
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Jagers and Sons Funeral Home
Office of the Dead
Zoa Blosser
Logan
Midland Place
Hocking Valley Community Hospital
Lucinda Danes
Richard Reed
Sarah Reed
Tower
Nationwide
Maud Betz
Betz
Brooks Lamb
Virginia
John Quint and Son Funeral
First Baptist Church
Peter Grandall
Middleport Hill Cemetery
Chalfant
Elza V
Trimble
van Fossen
Ernest Williams
Taylor Ridge
Pike County Hospital
Charles Barton Cheshire
Charles Barton
Wetson Grove
Cheshire
Cheshire Township
Pearl and
Agusta Reynolds Barton
Flossie Moeller
Charles
Emma) Ross
William James
Bernard Charles Moeller
Susie Barton
Charles Frye
Charles H. Frye
Jefferson Blvd
Henderson
Augustus C
Marie Hudlin Frye
Silver Bridge
Minturn Lodge
F&am
Franklin Commandry
Knights Templar Chapter
Royal Arch Masons
Pat Wilson Shrine Club
Ioof Lodge
Loyal Order of the Moose
Beni Kedem Shrine
Charleston
Chessie Dunlavy Frye
Alice Marie Icard
Frank Frye
Weston
Crow- Hassell Funeral Home
Tally Hanna
Kirkland Memorial Gardens
Stanley Molden
Rutland
Stanley Pearl Molden
Rutland Area
Licking County Memorial Hospital
Newark
Behm Road
Edward
Alma Grimes Malden
Ford Motor Co
Federal Glass Co
American Blowing Co
Muriel) Foley
David
Fay) Barry
John
Doris) Miller
Calif
Rutland Chapel
Walker Funeral Home
Cecil Wise
Miles Cemetery
Eli Dennison
Nelsonville Lake City
Board of Education
Tri-County
Joint Vocational School
Vocational School Board of Trustees
Hocking Technical College
The
College
Robbins Road
Athens City
Sigma Phi Gamma
Gloria McIntosh
Athens Shrinette Club
David Hughes
Eden Place
Athens Garden Club
Nelson Commons
Husbands
Ron Mills
Department of Natural Resources
First Christian Cwf
Margaret Thompson
Lonnie Connett
Janice Williams
Athens County
Glouster Kiwanis Club
Gordon Priscilla
Methodist Church
Christian Church
Tessie Cavanaugh
Walnut St
Philadorian Lodge
Masonic Temple
Meigs High School
Friends of the Trisolini
Siegfred Auditorium
Richland Garden Club
Archie Greer
Longview Heights
Mount St. Mary
Sharon Brown
Minnie Rutter
Anna Smathers
Kathy Davis
Florence O'Neil
Sue Patton
Hubert Stage
Benjamin Simpkins
Millfield
Lawrence Smathers
Charles Fiddler
Buchtel
Bilbert Davis
Nettie McClain
Shirley Smith
Phyllis Thomas
Ellen Devaughn
Tammy Trout
Ada Jo McCollister
Hocking Valley
Larry Gillispe
Raymond Walker
George Burgess
Ronald Goss
Byron McKinley
Josephine Marks
Georgia Spry
Jack Ingram
Calvin Cooper
Nellie Blackstone
David McClain
Ross Adcock
Wahneta Exenkamper
Arlene Davis
Constitution Lodge
New Marshfield
Albany Vfw
Abagail Circle
First Presbyterian Church
Grace Oakley
West Washington Street
Anita Beliford
Friendly Circle
Trinity Church
Erma Smith
Meigs County Regional Planning Commission
Soil Conservation Services
Farmers Bank
Jennings Associates
Ohio Eta Phi
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Country
Joyce Bartimus
Janet Downie
Pat Brogan
Vinton County
McArthur United Methodist Church
Board of Tax Appeals
Howard E. Frank
Common Pleas Court
Benjamin A. Kenner
Benjamin A. Kenner, Jr
Ruby C. Kenner
Harold J. Rose
Mary C. Mechem
O’ Bleness
Charles Easler
Mark Roath
Billy Joe Warren
Oakdale Circle
OLD Straitsville, Water Association, Inc
Roy E
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