Midport Labor Day Parade Echoes Community Pride
Firemen's display, parade units from Legion posts, and high school floats opened Middleport's celebration with fireworks over Niagara Falls. Miss Jean Smart spoke at First Baptist Sunday, sharing her world tour for a Baptist World Alliance conference in London and European travels.
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Tagen
Legion
Ginia National Guard
Frcm
Vlrvets
Lutte Leegue
Point Plecmat
Dheport
Fae Legion
George Rowley
Fiag
Feeney-Bennett Fost
Joe Young
Ire
Ungion
Pont Pisecant High School
CR Yoho
Middleport High School
Earl Warnke
Directine
First
Baptist
Ruven
Jean Smart
Baptist World “Alliance
London
England
Mia "Smart
Paul Sm
Middleport notes celebrate holidays with gatherings and deaths
Holiday birthdays and Labor Day events fill Middleport with family visits and meals. The Harris and Fowler families host a table with cake and roses for Janet Hasee’s birthday at her parents home, while other relatives travel from Ohio and Kentucky for reunions. A death ends a weekend visit as the McNaughtons mourn a relative, and services are planned for Biographer Stratton.
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Aidaleport
Janet Hasae
Walter Burns
Fturys
Mina
Mx Marcellene
Buell
Clifton
Shirley
Roush St Landing Creek
Rivermen Visit Spreads Across Cities and Rivers
Howell and daughter Dr Edna Knight of Bedford plus Mrs Howell visited Pittsburg and Sewickley Pa as guests of Captain Jek Way, former river pilot and author. The group included Miss Cora Curtis of Newell WVa, C C Brown of Paden City and Captain Max Gamble of Clarington Ohio. Brown donated a 100 year old Str Emma Graham freight bill photo. Gamble is Ohio river historian for the Waterways Journal.
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RRS
Howell
Edna Knight
Bedford
Pittsburgh
Sewickley
Jek Way
J Fay
Sons and Daughters of Pioneer Rivermen
Seven Arrests Reported Over Holiday Weekend
Police Chief Russell Bailey says seven arrests were made over the holiday weekend, including five for intoxication and one for petty larceny for alleged digging up of sweet potatoes. All cases will be heard tonight in Mayor Sidney F. Russell's court.
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Erica Rey
Russell Bailey
Sidney F. Russell
Birth Announcement in Ohio Family Ties
A birth notice records the arrival of a daughter to a Ne Oho corporation family in Middleport Ohio on a Saturday at a local hospital. Grandparents listed include Oliver Michael Pomeroy and Woodrow Call, with great and great great relatives named in Memphis Tennessee and nearby towns.
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Nas
Goring
Oho Corporation
Holzer Fog
Gallipsis
Oliver Michael
Pomeroy
Woodrow Call
Berglary
State of Ohio
Middleport
W. W. Bennett
NPR
Mek
Memphis
Tenn
George Mle GE Wagnerchael
John Wile Birgters
Scleonville
Mr. Wile
E. Motley
Rock Springs Methodist Rally Day Observed With Singing
Rock Springs Methodist church observed Rally Day with recitations and a Sunday program. The Mure congregation honored MF and hours with a basket dinner after a morning service led by Ray Whaley. Jeffrey Folmer Ruth Ann Bailey Sherrie Blackston Ripley Quartet performed songs including Grand Homecoming in the social room.
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Umeroy
Jesus
He "Rock
Whaley
Ij Rye
Pomeroy Community Boosters Night and Rummage Sale Report
Pomeroy activity highlights the Pom eroy Boosters Night featuring poems readings by Lewis Gruesers and a hymn by the group, with proceeds toward the Pom eroy Squad. The Garden Club will host a meeting at Martha’s Hand’s home with readings and a Joan Terrell feature. A rummage sale and bake sale are planned at the Federated Church Wednesday through Saturday. Memorial services for the late minister Vincent Shelton are noted with funeral arrangements.
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Mor- Pomeroy
Gan
Lewis ‘Gruesers
Ing
C. G. Williams Grange
Nymn
Pomeroyney Squad
Marsha Long
Pomeroy
Della
Windsor
Trail Garden Club
Mary
Martha
Joseph Struble
Joan Terrell
Liberty
Deanna Pulling
R. M. Grove
Court Grants 5962 During August For Church Roof
The Happy Harvesters of the Federated Church approved spending 5962 for a new root for the church during a Friday evening meeting at the church. Mrs. Dale Smith led the session which planned a rummage sale at a house from Wednesday to Saturday, 9 am to 4:30 pm each day. Frieda Grueser led devotions, and a round-robin card was organized for ill Mrs. Eb ersbach who received flowers. Prizes went to Miss Grueser and Miss Anne Ebersbach. Hosts served a salad course during social hour. Other notes mention county receipts totaling 9062 and state share of 200.90, council activities, and various community visit references.
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Sire J. A. Lahmon
Columbus
Mary
Susan Park
Lahmon
Jerry Pullen
Jerry's
Beauty Snap
Ann Howell
Columbus & Southern
Miss Rue Motor Co
Middleport
Wyoming
Laid Hy
Dan McNaughton Sell
McNaughtons
Hysell St
Gene Grate
First Ave
All Electric
Naughton
Meigs County
Strouder
Hysell
Sonic Temple
Orbie Parsons
Rex
Corning
Middleport Hill Cemetery
Ralph Davis
Beech Stars
Howard Mitchell
Ella Smith
M.C. Hobart
Patricia Richards
Carolyn Angel
Arnold Richards
John Bechtle
England Air Force Base
Jack Bechtles
Roger Williams
Ohio State
Middleport High School
J. le Coleman
Sidwell
Jeffrey ~ Tackett
Pikeville
Colemans
Sether Coleman
Eugene Jaan
Lerry Lee Coleman
Winona, Fink
Iris van Cooney
John Buckley
Pontiac
Aleta Lynn Russell
Anguily
Emerson Jones
Barbara
Sharon
Umenus
Roans
Olan Goodwin
A Dam Ebersbach
Magnolia Temple
Pythian
Second Ward
Merlin Russell
Rollin Beards
Alva Hite
Lucille B. Hawking
Hite
Joseph Beegle
William Killinger
Erna Jesse
Dale Smith
Fumerov
Happy Harvesters
Federated Church
Frieda Grueser
Adam Ebersbach
Roy Seyfried
Ben Neutaling
Grueser
Anne Ebersbach
Bentz Wolfe
Edward Hite
Eva Hendricks
Shot and arrests mark Meigs County holiday weekend
In Meigs County over the weekend one man was shot by a youth with a 22 rifle and taken to Parkersburg hospital. Two others were injured in Route 124 crashes and four people were jailed on charges including non support bastardy and drunk and disorderly.
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Pearl Cole
Cole
Parkersburg
Russell
Sher ‘Ff
Thich
Ding
Anger
Batty Ren
Columbus
Middleport
Pomeroy
Mise Ren
Gillian
Mega General Hospital
Me Ren
Sherif Rumell
Thomas A. Ebersbach
Portland
Paul E. Evans
Route 1
Parti
Tion
Rortlaré
Ebersbach
Evans
Leroy Bartrum
Sheriff's Department
Gerald McDaniel
West Columbia
Franklin St Wray
Sommerset
Jack Ables
Racine
No Holiday For Firemen
Volunteer firefighters faced a busy weekend with three calls including an Langsville automobile collision injuring two and a later oxygen assist for Hysell St which preceded his death. Between calls they prepared gear for the Legion Labor Day parade and hosted an open house for visiting firemen and Legionnaires.
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Lulu AE
Fire Department
Langsville
Lord Hysell
Hysell
Kanefre’ Libary’ Lee
Hen Civde
Shawyer
Harvest Festival Planned by St Johns Lutheran Chester
The St Johns Lutheran Church at Chester and the nearby Pomeroy area will host a harvest festival on Sunday September 11 in the church grove. Sunday school at 10 20 am with dinner at noon and divine service at 2 pm. Ciltford Rhodes to lecture during Sunday school hour and Rev Le M Mohrhoff to conduct the afternoon service.
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Pomeroy
St. Johns
Firefighters hampered by sightseers following truck
Firemen declared they were seriously hampered Friday when sightseers trailed a fire truck responding to a brush fire on the riverbank. One fireman warned that a major blaze could have left responders unable to help, and Police Chief Bailey noted arrests may follow for following a fire truck against local ordinances.
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Murs Ores Manaleport
Bailey
Woman Is Sentenced For Child Neglect In Ohio Court
Carmet Wil eomeroo, 31, Syracuse, sentenced to one year in the Marysville Women's Reformatory by Meigs County Juvenile Court on a charge of neglect of minor children.
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Eomeroy—Carmet Wil
Syracuse
Marysville
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Twin City Electric Motor Shop
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J. C. Roedel
Andrea Turnbull
New Haven
W. V
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Effie Thompson
Lena Hoeflich
Walter Ables
Cleveland
Dan Rizer
John Gilmore
Valerie
Lake Erie
Lucille Naylor
Franklin, Ind
Irving Karr
J. F. Mees
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Victor Miller
Julie
Charles Ward
E. Main St
Mees
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Huntington
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Robert L. Hamm
Chillcothe
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Avant — Porter Mile Ieee Sear
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Get, Cott
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Logan Monument Co
Logan, Ohio
Hocking Valley Hospital
Liberty Theatre Middle Act
Jesse James
Peggy Castle
Don Barry
Jack Bental
Snow Creature
Paul Langton Leslie Denison
Asa Tom & Jerry
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Mark Stevens
Joans
Tadult
William Elliott
Adrian Booth
Judy Canova
WAC
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Tf Robinson
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