Elaborate Ceremony Planned for Pomeroy-Mason Bridge Freeing
The Pomeroy Mason Bridge will have a 3 p m October 31 ribbon cutting marking the first toll free Ohio owned river bridge. The event, led by W A Smith and the Bridge Freeing Committee, includes band parades from Pomeroy Middleport Point Pleasant and Gallipolis, potential governor presence, and a West Virginia side ceremony. A statewide and multi town celebration with bands, a banquet, and a special eight page brochure is planned.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Pomeroy-Mason Bridge
Pomeroy
Middleport
Smith
Frank J. Lausche
Clarence W. Meadows
West Virginia
Judge Shaver
State Bridge Commission
Ray Palmer
Point Pleasant
Gallipolis
Logan
Nelsonville
C. D. Shafer
Perry O'Brien
Ripley
W. Va
Wright Field
Dayton Air Base
U. S. Engineers Department
Huntington
Galli- Polis
Edgar Ervin
W. A. Smith
Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce
Walden Roush
Wahama High School
Pomeroy Junior High
Benjamin F. Turner
Tom Jones
Lausche
Jones-Turner
Palmer
Commission
Columbus
Carpenter Annual Harvest Festival at Columbia Chapel
The Columbia Chapel Church hosts its annual harvest festival this Saturday featuring a bazaar with farm and garden products and needlework displays. Entertainment is planned and a dinner will be served including boupcament.
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Columbia Chapel
Boupcament
Rutland High Plans Halloween Carnival Oct 30
Rutland High School sponsors a Halloween carnival for Oct 30 from 7 30 p m to 11 p m. Proceeds go toward buying a school movie projector. Attendees can enjoy amusements and prize awards for the mask contest.
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Rutland High School
Rutland
Meigs Ward Voting Booth Workers Listed for Nov 5
Pomeroy and Middleport precinct workers named by clerk Albert Gloeckner for the November 5 general election. Presiding judges, judges, and clerks listed across Pomeroy First to Fourth Wards, Precincts, and Middleport Precincts and Wards with party affiliations. Names include Webster, Darst, Mees, Fisher, Reuter, Fugate, Diehl, Gibbs, Sherman, Lewis, Johling, Stephenson, Cooper among others.
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Pomeroy
Albert Gloeckner
Meigs Board of Elections
Middleport
Mattie Webster
Betty Beards
Celia Stivers
Maggie Bohan
Helen M. Harper
Ethel Smith
Ella Smith
Elizabeth Darst
Lillian Gross
Elizabeth Young
Albert L. Martin
Harry O. Bolinger
Helen Mees
Viola Jones
Blanche Condee
Pearl Kesterson
Sarah E. Campbell
Helene Mullen
Pomeroy Third Ward
Alex Fisher
Jesse Gainor
Rosa Hartenbach
James Tracey
Ulah Church
Hazel Wood
Jennie E. Kauff
Raymond W. Zerkle
Frances Stansbury
Dela Norton
John Diehl
Norman Heilman
Jerena Russell
Cecil E. Karman
Bertha M. Parker
Mildred A. Ackley
Meda Gibbs
A. L. Hysell
Ed Hysell
Griff Archer
Vesta M. Lambert
Herbert Johnson
Genevieve Sherman
Louis Mills
Ruth Dodson
Wilma A. Davis
Martha E. Haggetty
Garnet Scheeffer
Evelyn M. Lewis
Eleanor S. Schaaf
Mildred Ohlinger
Ethel M. Mankin
Hilda V. Rice
Margaret Healy
Middleport Third Ward
Edna V. Johling
Emerson Jones
Mable Waddell
Margaret Kloes
Frankie W. White
Blanche Haptonstall
William R. Stephenson
Anna M. Conley
Audrey A. Frost
Neilie J. Werner
Virginia Owens
Mildred Co. Lowe
Meigs Land Boom Noted
Meigs County recorder George Meinhart said the week of Oct 14 yielded $158.70 in fees with two unusually busy days. Real estate transfers are two thirds higher than normal, led by deeds for dwelling houses. Read list shows transfers in Pomeroy Letart Salisbury Middleport and Olive Townships among others.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
George Meinhart
Meigs Recorder
Meinhart
Recorder
Oma Davies Elise
Ralph R. Elise
Edna D. Coryell
Lebanon
Sutton Townships
Hudson Lowery
Roma Kelley
Middleport
William Kelley
Paul WN. Harris
Gertrude Alice Harris
Fred Kauff
Lillie M. Kauff
Anna Eberspach
Kate Ebersbach
James
Emma K. Clatworthy
Salisbury Township
James W. Canter
Ruth Canter Riggs Aughinbaugh
Letart Township
T. H. Lasley
Marshall Lasley
Katharine L. Bethel
Clyde Saunders
John Young
Rosie Young
George Ray Lewis
H. L. Coen
Vada M. Coe
Ethel Jeffers
Clara Levacy
J. E. Levacy
Rosa E. Crabtree
Bedford Township
Emmet
Ruth Stethem
Hoyt W. Curtis
Olive Township
John Henry Evans
Andrew F
Evans
Middleport Fathers Take Over PTA Night in Civic Program
Middleport fathers acted as special guests at the annual Fathers Night of the Middleport PTA. About 150 parents teachers and children attended as Rev Charles Pomeroy spoke on Christian ethics in home school and community. Bruce Lloyd presided with Robert Coats as secretary and a $252 treasury noted.
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Middleport
Parent-Teacher Association
PTA
Bernard Krinke
Gene Grate
Charles Pomeroy
Pearl Reynolds
Pomeroy
Bruce Lloyd
Robert Coats
Ben Philson
Teasurer
Treasury
Flossie Avensworth
Calvin Reichman
Volunteer
Fire Department
Ohio Congress, Parents and Teachers
Columbus
George Childs
Delbert Rice
Robert Rawlings
Court Fines Reported in Middleport Justice Court
Justice of the Peace L. B. Higgins’s court recently settled cases. Frankie Varian of Middleport pleaded guilty to assault and battery and an intoxication charge, ordered to pay fines and costs totaling $43.70. Clarence Varian paid a bad check amount and costs after which the warrant was withdrawn and an intoxication charge led to a $24.10 fine and costs. Daisy Wheaton of Cheshire, arrested on license violation, received a 10-day jail sentence for disturbing the office, plus $25 fine and costs.
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Middleport
Justice of the Peace
L. B. Higgins’ Court
Frankie Varian
T. W. Davidson
Clarence Varian
H. W. Craig
Daisy Wheaton
Cheshire
State Highway Patrol
Justice
Meigs County
Willing Workers Class Entertained Thursday at Home
Mrs Huber Brown hosted the Willing Workers Class of the United Brethren Church Enterprise on the Athens Road. A brief business meeting followed by a brush demonstration by Mrs Naomi Smith preceded refreshments for the invited group including Mesdames Harley Brown James Sutton Paul Frick Myrtle Long Carl Mitch Herbert Dixon Earl Stobart John Smith Albert Swatzel Carl Moore Allen Bail Jessie Griffith Thomas Bowen and Misses Genevieve Stobart Kathryn Mitch.
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Pomeroy
Huber Brown
United Brethren Church, Enterprise
Athens Road
Naomi Smith
Harley Brown
James Sutton
Paul Frick
Myrtle Long
Carl Mitch
Herbert Dixon
Earl Stobart
John Smith
Albert Swatzel
Carl Moore
Allen Bail
Jessie Griffith
Thomas Bowen
Genevieve Stobart
Kathryn Mitch
Truancy Cases Law Report From Meigs County Schools
Meigs County school attendance officer POMEROY POMEROY DIDDLE reports finding few deliberate truancy cases across 23 schools visited monthly. He says wartime farm labor needs forced rural absences during planting and harvest seasons, a condition now relieved as veterans return and attendance improves.
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Pomeroy Ocat Diddle
Meigs
Diddie
Public Halloween Party Held in Harrisonville
POMEROY boosters hosted a Halloween program at Harrisonville Grange Hall on Friday night with songs readings names and dancing. Orin Smith Harrisonville School principal urged support for a 3 mill levy renewal for schools. Refreshments followed the social hour. A Halloween party for the public is planned for October 31.
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Pomeroy—Boosters
Harrisonville Grange Hall
Orin Smith
Harrisonville School
Grange
Folden Simp son engagement announced in Middleport
Mr and Mrs Richard Folden announce the engagement of their daughter Lucetta Cladys Folden to Calvin Bruce Simpson son of Mr and Mrs Edward Simpson of Racine The wedding is planned for early November The bride elect is a Middleport High School graduate class of 1944 and worked for Dr Robert K R Boice Simpson a Racine High School graduate class of 1943 is employed by Coal City Towing Co Pittsburgh PA Also notes: Mr and Mrs James Souders returned from a motor trip through Pennsylvania Virginia and Washington DC and met Arthur Lewis Washington and Lee football coach in Lexington VA and Mrs Josephine Stewart Blevins in Norfolk VA who left to join her husband in Trinidad.
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Middleport
Richard Folden
Locust St
Lucetta Cladys Folden
Calvin Bruce Simpson
Edward Simpson
Racine
Middleport High School
Robert KR. Boice
Simpson
Racine High School
Coal City Towing Co
Pittsburgh, Pa
James Souders
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Washington, D. C
Lexington
Arthur Lewis
Washington & Lee University
Norfolk
Josephine Stewart Blevins
Trinidad
Mrs Charles Murray Named Representative of Mothers Club
Mrs Charles Murray was named representative of the Mothers Club for the Community Youth Recreation Center at a recent meeting. The item notes several weekend visits and social gatherings among residents, including Beeson Pryor gatherings in Columbus Long Bottom and Pomeroy, and relatives visiting Athens Middleport game.
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Charles Murray
Mothers Club
Meigs County Leads in Soil Improvement Progress
Meigs County shows strong soil improvement as Dana Hoffman of Tuppers Plains and Wilber Parker of Sumner report boosted livestock capacity and larger herds since 1937. Lime applications and tailored fertilizers, plus wheat to alfalfa plans, increased pasture and milk potential. local farm groups plan annual meetings and a new bulletin from Ohio State highlights dairy farming with meadow crops.
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C. E. Blakesler
Pomeroy
Ohio State University
Ohio
Meigs County
Dana Hoffman
Tuppers Plains
Meigs
Wilber Parker
Sumner
Hoffman
Parker
Huntington Interstate Milk Producers Association
Gallipolis
Emory Powell
Meigs County Farm Bureau
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Pomeroy Social Notes Recap of West Coast Trip and Reunion
Pomeroy residents gathered for a surprise Sunday reunion as relatives from Washington and Pomeroy visited the Ewing home on Mulberry Ave. The Hoffner family returned from a 7,000 mile trip through 10 states with snow encounters in Idaho and Wyoming. They met Jack Baker in Albany Oregon and visited relatives in California before Betty accompanied them home. Mrs Baker plans to stay in Oregon for the winter with her brother Earl.
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Pomeroy
W. H. Ewing
Mulberry Ave
Washington DH
Alonzo DeWees
Kenneth DeWees
San Francisco
Hoffners
Betty
Cross Breeding in Swine Highlighted by Experiment Station
The bulletin notes cross breeding reports from the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Wooster and the Extension Office in Pomeroy. It stresses cross breeding requires purebreds or inbreds and warns that mixing breeding stock is not a substitute for quality. It also references farming progress at Bull County Experiment Farm with cows and grain usage and invites copies of the bulletin.
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Bull County
Wooster
Pomeroy
Melgs County
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Harrisonville
Middleport Social Notes
Souders
Helen Beeson
Minerva Pryor
Long Bottom
Horton Brown
Collumbus
Brown
Maxine Smith
George DeWeese
Rachel Owen Walburn
Clarence Chase
Paul Mourning
Shirley Walker
Dickinson
Willis Anthony
Gene Smith
Harold Hoy
Isaac Hoy
Canal Winchester
George Bernice Cook
Grand Rapids
Mich
G. Arthur Stuart
Grant St
H. E. Cook
Addie Doerfer
L. D. Diles
Burlingham
Howard Shields
Charles Shumaker
Gravel Hill
Elizabeth Moore
Nani Moore
Lorena Moore
Jerusalem
Song OF
Arizona
Roy Rogers
Gabby” Hayes
Dale Evans
Lyle Talbot
Bob Nolan
Sons of Pioneers
Robert Mitchell
Boys
Edmund Cobb
Warner Baxter
Mona Barrie
Craig Reynolds
Robert Barrett
Bendvue Pomeroy
Kane Richmond
Town Trail
Sunset Carson
Pomeroy Social Notes
Xavier Cugat
LE Odce
Rex Fontane
Disekin
Hilgers & Co
Bingham
Thorobreds
Taytan
Dayton
Sll
Sinen
E. Carpenter
Fred Beasley
Lacy
Packard
Butword
Detroit
Algeo Motor Sales
Lancaster St
Athens, Ohio
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