Meigs Historical Group Re-Elects A V Howell
A V Howell of Pomeroy was re elected president of the Meigs County Pioneer and Historical Society at the annual meeting in the Federated Church. New officers include Grate of Iddleport as vice president and Mrs Wilma Sargent of Pomeroy as secretary treasurer. Directors named were Bess Sanborn Delia Windsor and George Genheimer. The group approved letting each local club appoint a member to the board, planned a memorial for the Condor steamboat site in Pomeroy, and endorsed designating the Buffington Island Memorial Parkway from Pomeroy Bend to Fort Gower site. Discussions covered liberalizing out of county membership but regulations were upheld. The society discussed Pioneer History of Meigs County and the book’s sale price of 7 dollars. Publicity was assigned to Mrs Francis H Klein and chaplain to Miss Grace Horton. Delia Windsor performed poems and Lillian Stieff played a piano solo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Grate
Will Scott
Newell
County Society
Nowell
Pomeroy
Valentine Norton
Meigs County
Pomeroy Bend
Old Fort Gower
Hockingport
Buffiington Island Memorial Parkway
Lecture to be given at Pomeroy by Jules Cern
A Christian Science lecture on healing through prayer will be given Sunday at 3 p m in Pomeroy Senior High School. Jules Cern of New York, a member of The Christian Science Board of Lectureship, will discuss Christian Science Understanding and Practice of God s Allness. The talk is free and open to the public.
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Pomeroy
Jules Cern
New York
Cern
Christian Science Board of Lectureship
Dallas
Texas
United States
Canada
Governor's Island
Diddle Completes Armor Vehicle Maintenance Course
Pvt. Ward L. Diddle has completed the armor track vehicle maintenance course at the armored school in Fort Knox Kentucky. His mother Mrs. Sarah Diddle lives on Racine Route 2.
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Racine
Ward L. Diddle
Sarah Diddle
Armored School
Fort Knox
Pomeroy Church News Listings and Schedules
A catalog of church services across Pomeroy and nearby towns listing pastors Sunday schools worship times prayer meetings and special programs for Sacred Heart Free Methodist Church Racine Nazarene Church of God and other denominations with details on mass times sermon schedules and upcoming events including an October 31 rally and Wings Over Jordan performance.
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First Baptist
KR. H. DeMott
Youth Fellowship
United Methodist Church
Meigs County Ministerial Association
Wings
Jordan
Pomeroy’ Junior High School
Park Group Plans Campaign Kickoff at High School
Memorial Park Association president Bruce Lloyd led a finance committee meeting at the village hall to set a kickoff event at the high school auditorium. A park model will be shown and association plans explained to citizens. Mrs. E S Schaaf was named secretary. attendees included Rev. Clarence Hoyt Dr E D Amsbury Richard Rawlings Joe Young Jr Forrest Bachtel Fred Hibbs and Mrs E B Schaaf.
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Middleport
Bruce Lloyd
Memorial Park Association
E. S. Schaaf
Lloyd
Clarence E. Hoyt
E. D. Amsbury
Richard Rawlings
Joe Young Jr
Forrest Bachtel
Fred Hibbs
Guy Reynolds
E. 8. Schaaf
Pomeroy Social Notes Talk On Peonies And Party Plans
Mrs. Mark Evans hosted the Wildwood Garden Club gathering with Mrs. Amanda Baer and Mrs. Charles Baer assisting. The program featured the poem As the Rose Is a Rose and a Peonies topic. Christmas party plans and gift exchange names were drawn, and refreshments were served to many members and guests.
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Hanson Holter
Ralph Sisson
Arthur Nease
John Scott
Joe Thoren
Harry Roush
Lawrence Rose
David Nease
Fred Nease
U. S. Nease
Vernon Nease
Stanley Jones
John Shie
Milton Houdashelt
Homer Holter
Edison Holton
Denver Holter
Lelia Flint
Edmond Grueser
Karl Grueser
Paul Fisher
Hiram Fisher
Norman Fisher
William Fisher
Everett Damewood
Christy Baer
Miss Marguerite Meyer Hosts Dessert Bridge Party
Miss Marguerite Meyer entertained guests at her Mulberry Avenue home on a Wednesday evening for a dessert bridge party. Attendees included Mrs. Carl Bilikam, Mrs. James O B O Brien, Mrs. William Anderson, Mrs. Albert Coates, Mrs. Charles Gibbs, Mrs. Neiss Powell, Mrs. Paul Nease, Mrs. Fred Crow Jr., Mrs. Rolland Neutzling, and Mrs. Forrest Bachtel. Prizes were awarded to Mrs. Bachtel, Mrs. Nease, Mrs. Bilikam and Mrs. Fred Crow Jr.
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Pomeroy
Marguerite Meyer
Mulberry Ave
Carl Bilikam
James OB. O’brien
William Anderson
Albert Coates
Charles
Charles Gibbs
Neiss Powell
Paul Nease
Fred Crow
Jdr
Fred Bilnettar
Rolland Neutzling
Forrest. Bachtel
Bachtel
Nease
Bilikam
Fred Crow, Jr
Drapery Making Class Held by Rocksprings Club
The Rocksprings Home Demonstration Work Club met at the Rock Springs Grange Hall for an all day POMEROY-A class led by Mrs T A Downie and Mrs John Handley. A year program was outlined with an advance basket making session on November 17 and a December 15 meeting on light refreshments. A noon sack was held.
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Pomeroy
T. A. Downie
John Handley
Rocksprings
Rocksprings Grange Hall
POMEROY Farewell Party at Massar Cabin
Mr and Mrs Charles Massar Jr hosted a farewell party for Mr and Mrs Alberta at the Massar summer cabin on Long Bottom Sunday evening. Guests included Mr and Mrs R R Gray Mr and Mrs L P Summerfield Mr and Mrs Clay Tuttle and Mr and Mrs Norman McCain.
Funeral services set for Mrs. Joe Boyd in Pomeroy
Mrs. Joe Boyd 63 of Pomeroy dies Wednesday at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. Funeral at 2 p m Saturday at Ewing Funeral Home. Survived by husband four daughters Frances Qualls Pomeroy Marie Cyrus Lakin W Va Betty Robinson Washington DC Birdie Powell Pomeroy three sons Charlie Pomeroy Lawrence Middleport John Pat Boyd Blackfork mother Edith Johnson Sutton sister Grace Johnson Sutton Huntington sister Lucille Washington Huntington four brothers John Johnson Cincinnati Raymond Johnson Cleveland John Johnson Dayton Wilford Johnson Piqua ten grandchildren. Friends may call at Ewing Funeral Home any time. Burial in Middleport Hill Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Joe Boyd
Holzer Hospital
Gallipella
Ewing
Boyd
Joe
Frances Qualls Pomeroy
Marie Cyrus
Lakin
W. Va
Betty Robinson
Washington, D. C
Birdie Powell
Retail Sales Receipts Par With $53 Period
Meigs County weekly retail sales tax receipts totaled 3471.51 for Oct 16 period, roughly equal to 3442.01 for the prior year week ending Oct 17, per state treasurer Roger W. Tracy.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Roger W. Tracy
Christmas Project Slated by Pomeroy Legion for Veterans
The American Legion post on W Main St Pomeroy schedules a Monday meeting to discuss Gifts for the We Gave a central fund for Christmas gifts to sick and disabled veterans in VA hospitals and state institutions. The session covers business and committee reports and is the November meeting only.
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Pomeroy
Legion
Ares
W. Main St
American Legion of Ohio
Veterans Administration
Halloween Party For Children At Legion Hall
Children of the area are invited to a Halloween party Saturday at the Morrow Legion Hall on Fourth Avenue. Legionnaires and families are guests and are asked to bring sandwiches fruit or a pie. Prizes will be awarded for costumes and a moving picture will be shown by Walter Bunce with other entertainment.
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Middleport
M Rt Legion Hall
Fourth Avenue
Prigee
Walter Bunce
Feeney-Bennett
Legion Hall
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Meigs Historical Group
A. V. Howell
the News
Francis H
Cooking
Pomeroy Church News
Sacred Heart
Father George Adams
Free Methodist
Harry Bates
Lauren Cliff
Hysell Run
Rutland Church of God
T. P. Satterfield
Church of God
N. H. Jenks
Bearwallow Church of
Truman Dodson
Racine Methodist
John Elwood
Tor
Antiquity
Forrest Run
Oak Grove
Sutton
Syracuse Nazarene
J. C. Larmore
Rutland
Apple Grove
Letart Falls
East Letart
Carleton Interdenominational
Kingsbury
Burlingham
Seevers
BYPU
St. Paul's Lutheran
L. M. Mohrhoff
Forest Run Baptist
the Missionary Society
Dorothy Lewis
DAV Hall
Lester Marx
Narcotics Education Service
Joey
Alfred Methodist
R. M. Grove
C. E. Woode
Grange Hall
Minersville
Rh. M Grove
Church of Christ
Donald Seevers
Christian Endeavor
Christian Science
Israel
United Methodist
J. Leslie Kunze
Wings Over
Pomeroy Junior High School
Acton
Athens Buick CO
N. Court & Carpenter
Athens, Ohio
Park Group
Pomeroy Social Notes
Entertains Garden Club
Miss Meyer
Irs. Boyd Services Set
Piqua
Ewing Funeral Home
Middleport Hil
Cannon
Don Roach
Dale Mourning
Frank Cheesebrew
Cannon Towels
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