Meigs County Fair to swap harness races for running heats
Meigs County fair directors plan a three day event Sept 14 16 to revive public interest. Harness racing will be eliminated and running races added to lure horse race fans in Southeastern Ohio. The fair moves from Tue Thu to Wed Fri with Thursday set as the big thrills day featuring a thrill show by the same company that staged it last year.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Ohio
Ray Gibbs
Gibbs
Laurel Hysell Dies At Home In South Pomeroy
Laurel G. Hysell aged 40 died at his home in John son Tennessee after a short illness. He was the son of Curt Hysell of near Zion and lived on the Zion-area farm in boyhood. Survived by his wife three children his father and stepmother and one brother Eugene Hysell. Burial at Beach Grove Cemetery after services at Zion Church Thursday at two o clock. He was a Mason and member of the American Legion.
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Zion Church
Beach Grove Cemetery
Masonic Order
American Legion
Pomeroy GOP Group Holds Saturday Meeting
Pomeroy Regular session of the Women s Republican Club was held at the courthouse with Mrs James Titus presiding. The afternoon was devoted to planning a rally at the courthouse on Constitution Day September 17 with a known speaker. Republican tags were prepared for sale to fund campaign expenses at the meeting and during the Meigs County Fair and final drive on Constitution Day Rally.
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Pomeroy
Women's
Republican Club
James Titus
Meigs County
Mrs Edward Mallory Dies at Racine Sunday
Mrs Della Skirvin Mallory age 71 wife of Edward Mallory of Racine died at her home Sunday afternoon in Racine. She is survived by her husband daughter in law Edith Mallory and granddaughter Jean Mallory of Mulberry Ave. One son T Mallory died several years ago. A leading worker in civic county and church activities. The funeral was held from the residence Tuesday afternoon with interment in Letart Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Della Skirvin Mallory
Edward Mallory
Racine
Edith Mallory
Jean Mallory
Mulberry Ave
T. Mallory
Mary Rawlings
Bart Rawlings
Guy Mutchler
Rutland
Mutchler
Harry Beegle
Friday Might
Leona Leifheit
Prospect Hill
Emma Leifheit
Charles Beegle
William M. Hobert
Ted Cooper
Cleveland
Fredrick Reed
Chicago
Curtis Reed
Columbus
William Reed
C. D. Reed
Theodore Reed
Richard Reed
Camille
Oliver A. Hartley
Blaine Brewster
Charles Neal
Brewster
Jesse Brewster
Fred Frost
Akron
Pomeroy Bend
Stella McIntosh
Midland
Pearl Phillips
James Houdashelt
James
Eva Houdashelt
Relativ
Athletes Foot Germ Killer Ad at Quick's Drug Store
An advertisement promotes Tingol Solution with camphor as a potent fungicide for Athletes Foot conditions. It claims full strength relief for sweaty feet itching toes and odor with a 30 cent guarantee in 24 hours if not pleased.
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Quick's
Cut Rate Drug Store
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlights Local Visits
Pomeroy social notes record a flurry of visits and travels among residents. Homer Roush of W Va visits grandparents in Forest Run. many others from Chillicothe Columbus Cincinnati and Indiana visit Minersville Rutland and Pomeroy. Heirs, relatives, and friends attend hospital and Labor Day gatherings across several towns.
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Homer Roush
Follensbee
W. Va
Forest Run
Robert Steel
Chillicothe
Ethel
Clara Garland
Minersville
Virginia Googlein
Columbus
Arthur Evans
Bidwell
Mary Thomas
Henry Eggie
Beatrice Eggie
Walter Mercer
Bellview
Jesse Custer
Marcella
Charles McCallum
Rosedale
Ind
Norman McCallum
Crawfordsville
John McCallum
E. Main St
Fred Shackleton
Middletown
Frederick Reibel
Reibel
A. C. Jones
Main St
Pleasant Ridge
Marion Radford
Chester Zerkle
Fred Leifheit
Tiltonville
Labor Day
George Buffington
Lois
Joan Buffington
Dayton Thomas
Zion
Chauncey Shumaker, Jr
Wendel Frecker
Seek More Books for Famous Ohio Library
Middleport report on the Ohioana Library Association collecting works by Ohio authors for the Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial. Lists 15 authors including Ambrose Bierce and Return Jonathan Meigs, with county committees and a September 24 meeting in Columbus. Constable Bert Dodridge is seriously ill in Middleport. son Harry Dodridge travels from Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Famous
Ohio Library
Middleport
Martha Kinney Cooper
Ohioana Library Association of
Ohio
Northwest Territory
Columbus
Myers Y. Cooper
Cooper
Constable
Bert Dodridge
Chestnut St
Harry Dodridge
Dexter Social Notes Highlights Local Guests and Openings
Dexter Social Notes lists visits by Opal Musser and family from Springfield to the Amos home, H C French arriving in Pasadena after a Santa Fe trail themed trip, and multiple regional arrivals and departures. It notes school reopening with Miles Nelson as principal, Martha Romines as teacher, and Manda Russell hired as janitress, plus several residential moves and family news.
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Dexter
Opal Musser
Springfield
W. R. Amos
H. C. French
Pasadena
Cal
David Dye
Mr. French
California
Walter McMorrow
Dayton
S. C. Cook
William McMorrow
Garnet Dunfee
Rutland
Helen Cook
Upper Darby
Robert Livingston
Doug Chaney
Charles Nelson
Holly Glaze
Mina Wise
Iva Weaver
Columbus
Claire Blizzard
Middleport
S. S. Minor
Wednesda
Dana Williamson
Ironton
Vivian Fast
Billie
Elmer Dent
Charleston
Lewis Saxton
Malcolm Davis
Gallipolis
G. B. Davis
Miles Nelson
Martha Romines
Manda Russell
Mary Delaney
John Delaney
Kananga
Douglas Sigler
Anthony Harmon
Robert Sauer
Sigler Fames
Labor Day Legion Affair Draws Big Crowd in Middleport
MIDDLEPORT Meigs County’s Labor Day celebration at the Rock Springs Fair grounds drew a good sized crowd. The Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion sponsored a home-coming bean dinner praised as one of the best in years. Veteran cook Tad Bolin and Gordon Wolfe prepared the meal. Everett Davis led the celebration as chairman. proceeds fund the Christmas Community Fund.
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Middleport
Meigs County
Rock Springs Fairgrounds
Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion
Tad Bolin
Gordon Wolfe
Everett Davis
Dexter and Davis visitors tour West Virginia sights
Mr and Mrs Ed Minx Columbus Mr and Mrs Race Davis Side Hill and Mr and Mrs Emmett Davis Dexter Mo tored to Apple Grove W Va Sunday to spend the day with Ruth Davis sole living aunt Mrs Martha McCarty 90 blind cheerful and alert reminiscing of schoolmates teachers and friendsVisitors admired West Virginia mountains and toured Pt Pleasant and Gallipolis including Cornstalks monument and oldest house with early settler possessions
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Dexter
Ed Minx
Columbus
Race Davis
Side Hill
Emmett “Davis
Apple Grove
W. Va
Ruth Davis
Martha McCarty
West Virginia
Pt. Pleasant
Cornstalk’s Monument
Gallipolis
Unusual death of gray squirrel on Rutland farm
On Sept 2 Norman Will found a gray squirrel hanging from a yellow willow tree on William Nichol’s Rutland farm. A branch was fashioned into a noose and the animal dangled about fifteen feet above ground on the end of a large limb.
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Side Hill
Norman
William Nicholson
Rutland
Pomeroy Garden Dahlias and Local Moves
A nine foot tall dahlia grown by W S Spencer of Minersville RD Nease Settlement has 31 buds and blooms this season. Mr and Mrs Ray McCutcheon moved from Will Singer farm to Coolville. Mrs Anna Bailey traveling visitors will visit Coolville then return near Long Bottom. Two cars damaged in a Monday collision on New Lima Road near Rutland. Sam Swartz and John Swartz the drivers. Covert Baking Co truck of Middleport wrecked on Pomeroy Racine Road near Min ersville hitting a pole and four guard posts.
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W. S. Spencer
Minersville
R. D
Nease Settlement
Ray McCutcheon
Will Singer
Coolville
Anna Bailey
Ford
Long Bottom
Pomeroy
New Lima Road
Rutland
Sam Swartz
John Swartz
Covert Baking Co
Middleport
Harley de Vol
Pomeroy-Racine Road
Curtis Jenkinson
Detroit
Ford Automobile Plant
Cleveland
John Sauvage
Alton Snow
Frances Hoffman
Carl Hoffman Jr
Mary Cook
Ivan Pullins
Akron
Pullins
J. T. Lighter
Albert Faehnle
Frieda Faehnle
FE. M. McCarty
EF. A. Yountz
Middleport Garden Club notes and social updates
Mrs Walter Harris hosted the Middleport Garden Club with ribbons awarded to Mrs J B Downing for two arrangements and Mrs W G Huddleston and Mrs Harris for their old fashioned containers. New members joined. delegates named for the state convention. a guest lecture by Harry O'Brien planned in Pomeroy. Local residents and travels listed, with after-summer activities and schooling updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Walter Harris
James Harley
John Duerr
Harry O'Brien
Pomeroy
Garen Stansbury
Marriage License Notice and Local Social News
Application for a marriage license by T. Rolland Cowie and Louise L. Burford printed in a Columbus paper. Local visits include Easter and Julia Russell from Miami and Chicago respectively, and guests at the Clarks' Sunday dinner. Nurses training entry and weekend visits of Pratt family noted.
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T. Rolland Cowie
Pomeroy
Louise L. Burford
Jefferson Ave
Columbus
Labor Day Guests Gather at Young Family Home
Mr and Mrs Albert Young hosted Labor Day visitors from Cincinnati including the Cammerers Burns Wahle and others and their families. Virginia Russell departed for Columbus to enter office training school. Bureau of Public Roads reports show 50 percent of traffic on city streets 33 percent on state highways and 17 percent on county and township roads.
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Harold Lohse
Shelby
Cora Dell Seines
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Miss Seines
M. H
Ralph Pratt
West Lafayette
Mr. Pratt
L. H. Pratt
Albert Young
Labor Day
Pleasent Ridge
George Cammerer
John Cammerer
Ed Burns
Chester Wahle
Cincinnati
Henry
William Young
Robert Morris
Hank Young
Dwight Parker
Baby
Don Holter
Virginia Russell
Columbus
United States Bureau of Public Roads
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Pace
Meigs Fair
Laurel Hysell
South
Pomeroy Gop
Fishbaugh
W. Union Street
Pomeroy Social Notes
Henry Fick
Terre Haute
Clyde Rose
Indiana
Margaret Neutzling
Rollin Neutzling
Anne
Meier
Henry Rasp
Rock St
Mr. Meier
Philip Meier
Brick T
Mable Freeman Sears
William Freeman
Bierce
Ambrose
Bicknell
Emeline L. Violets
Campbell
Jas
Edwin
Coombs
Anna
Linmere
Davis
John Merrill
Masteries
Dunn
Waldo Hilary
Donald G. Mitchell
Holt
Byron Webber
Hoyt
Wilbur Franklin
Jones
Thomas Jesse
Larkin
Stillman Carter
Poffenbarger
Lydia Nye
George
Fort Randolph
Sibley
William Giddings
Stark
Slenzo Rosecrant
Wilson
Ralph Byron
Babson Institute
Meigs
Jonathan
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Athens County Savings & Loan CO
Lostro Bldg
Athens, Ohio
Dexter News
Legion
Middleport Social Notes
Robert Flesher
Lewisburg
Greenbrier Military School
O. P. Klein
Frederick
Hawns Nest
Scenic View
White Sulphur Springs
Bob
Greenbrier
Ray Singleton
Nancy
Singleton
J. B. Downing
Dale Braley
Seville
Mr. Braley
James Stevens
S. Third Ave
Braley
Sarah Idle
Neil Cooper
Frank Vroman
Vroman
Virginia
Albert Logan
Clarence Frost
Delno Brett
Ida Williams
James Albert Singer
James Singer
Dale Dutton
Bloomington
Ill
Mr. Dutton
C. P. Dutton
Marshall College
Earl Feeney
Peter Feeney
Mildred Feeney
Zanesville
Burford—Cowie
Douglas Byrd
Lelia Russell
Ewing
Clarks
Cedric Clark
Will Hobart
Frederick Reed
Winnetka
Lenore Hobert Kent
Michael
R. O. Fowler
Richmond
Carla Clark
Hobart
Eunice Reed
D. Curtis Reed
Will Reed
Shorrs & Myzas Tobacco Om
Tito
Chesterfield
Paul Whiteman
Paul Douglas
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