Spooner Obituary and Local Sports Notes
The death of Henry Spooner at his home is reported with details on survivors Lawrence Spooner and two daughters Mrs. of Middleport andfraford of Columbus. Also noted are local sports results with Dexter beating the Firemen 8-6 in a Sunday baseball game at Mid-Sunday. The Whatsoever Presbyterian Church plans a meeting Friday evening and a community drive is mentioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Spooner
Middleport
Fraford
Columbus
Dexter
Firemen
Dex
Whatsoever Presbyterian Church Meeting
Marjorie Harris
Robert Harris
R. W. Harris
Heath M. E. Church
Gertrude Talbott Baker
Miami
Fla
Mrs Bradford Dies Saturday in Columbus
Mrs. C. L. Bradford died Saturday night at White Cross Hospital Columbus from acute indigestion after a period of heart disease. Survived by husband three daughters Edna Bradford Dor Schafer Rutland and William Bradford Middleport. one son. sister and ten grandchildren. Burial planned at Beech Grove Cemetery Pomeroy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
C. L. Bradford
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Bradford
Bradfords
Pomeroy Precinct
Edna Bradford
Dor Schaefer
Pomeroy
Ben Powell
Rutland
William Bradford
Brownell Avenue
Frank McNaughton
William Hartinger
Beech Grove Cemetery
Former Resident of Meigs Comes Home
POMEROY Saturday afternoon William Thomas Amos a 92 year old former Meigs County resident from Baltimore Maryland walked the crowded streets without aid. He visited a daughter in Middleport and recalled his life around Letart Falls where he worked in farming and trucking. He met Charles Kraft Civil War veteran also 92 and they talked on the sidewalk. Amos a home guard member plans to return to Maryland where his son works as a government meat inspector. His Maryland grandson fishes crabs earning about 24 dollars a day at current prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
William Thomas Amos
Baltimore
Maryland
Middleport
Letart Falls
Amos
Charles Kraft
Mr. Amos
Home Guard
Meigs County
William
Mines and repairs dominate the district scene today
Seventeen mines are marked with numbers amid renewed activity as work resumes in the district. Changes include new floors, repairs inside and out, and several residents traveling or returning to or from Chaunee Beaumont and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ha Fiske
Movp
Beaumont
Henry Props
Chauncey Area Personal News Briefs
Local residents report travel visits and relocations. Clarence Mc Cafferty and Dorothy Jane visited relatives in Columbus. Truman Hedges and wife visited Chauncey from Centerville. Grinsteads moved to Athens. Niagara Falls excursionists included Clarence and Herbert Mingus. Rankin family hosted by Chauncey parents. Max Wilson visiting Petoskey. Dr C N Sanders in Columbus. Lizzie Collins and Ruth Smith attended Daniel Tippie funeral in Athens. Henry Yankowski and Loretta Guy announce Detroit birth of daughter Joann. grandparents Thomas and Andrew Guy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Clarence McCafferty
Dorothy Jane
Columbus
Truman Hedges
Centerville
Ohio
Chauncy
Donald Henry
Victor Grinstead
Howard Brookins
Athens
Clarence Sanders
Herbert Mingus
Niagara Falls
James Rankin
Lancaster
Peter Rankin
Max Wilson
Petosky
Mich
C. N. Sanders
Lizzie Collins
Ruth Smith
Daniel Tippie
A. Guy
Leo
Louis
Sophia
Detroit
Emma Guy
Henry Yankowski
Loretta Guy
Thomas Yankowski
Andrew Guy
Bailey Run
Joann
Mrs Fulton Hosts Needy Club Members
Chauncey report notes Mrs Daniel Fulton hosting the needy club at its regular meeting last week. She served lunch at a green and white themed table. Attending members included Bertha Sanders Maybelle Mingus Eda Heffkin Edith McDaniel Ida Hill Helen Sanders Lizzie Patton Mabel Sisson Kathryn McDaniel Viola Sanders and Jessie Fulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey
Daniel Fulton
Bertha Sanders
Maybelle Mingus
Eda Heffkin
Edith McDaniel
Ida Hill
Helen Sanders
Lizzie Patton
Mabel Sisson
Kathryn McDaniel
Viola Sanders
Jessie Fulton
Rabbi Margolies Dies in New York at 88
Rabbi G. Wolf Margolies, 88, president of the Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis of America, died in New York on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margolies
New York
G. Wolf Margolies
Assembly of Hebrew Orthodox Rabbis of America
Middleport Briefs Highlight Local Moves and Visits
Middleport notices show residents relocating to Gainsboro Junior College for the coming school year and others visiting family in Columbus Cincinnati and Newark. Local guests attend church services, motor trips and attend funerals in Nitro and Charleston.
Racine Notes Foreign Missionary Society Plans Meeting
Racine area social notices list a Methodist Church foreign missions group meeting at the homes of local families including Duskey Snissin Hamm Hamm and Theiss gathering. Several residents travel, visit relatives, or host weekends with kin across Ohio and West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Gibbie Duskey
Parker Snissin
Nelsonville
John Hamm
Morning Star
Virgil Hamm
Minersville
C. E. Hamm
Dayton
Norman Theiss
Theiss
Hamm
Nease Settlement
Dana Hamm
Jennie
Ida Davies
Pomeroy
A. B. Cross
Walter Stewart
Roy Spencer
Ruth
Clarksburg
W. Va
Janie Gorslin
Akron
Afghan Jews Exiled from Kabul to Farah Village
The Afghan government has expelled all Jews from Kabul and relocated them to Farah in western Afghanistan near the Persian border, according to Davar Hebrew daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Kabul
Farah
Davar
Gridders Open Practice Over Meigs County
Pomeroy Panthers and Middleport Yellow Jackets begin football practice as the new season starts. L. Johnson leads Pomeroy with seven returning lettermen Kindle R Kloes Moore Shorn Blackwell Zirkle and Brickles. First games set for September 27 vs McArthur and September 20 at Rutland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Panthers
Middleport Yellow Jackets
L. Johnson
Pomeroy High School
W.R. Farnham
Farnham
Walter Priode
Yellow Jacket
Clyde R. Battyn
South High School
Columbus
Kindle
R Kloes
Moore
Shorn
Blackwell
Zirkle
Brickles
McArthur
Jackets
Middleport
Rutland
Mrs Harris Dies After Pneumonia Illness In West Virginia
Mrs Frank Harris of Middleport dies at her Cannelton West Virginia home after pneumonia illness. Survived by her husband one daughter Mrs Harry Miller of Cannelton two sisters Mrs Charles Tedrow of Middleport Mrs William Markell of Charleston and two brothers N B Oakes and Willard Oakes of Nitro West Virginia and three grandchildren. Funeral held Sunday in Charleston with burial there. Relatives from Middleport attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Erwin
Paul C. Jones
Gravel Hill
Denver Hysell
Past Chiefs Association
C. F. Hawkins
South Second Avenue
R. B. Laughead
Pearl McKnight
Lelia Hawkins
Columbus
Clarence Sanborn
Logan
Evelyn Stewart
Walter Howell
Fred Schultz
Nitro
W. Va
Frank Enright
Mark
Robert
Middleport
Frank Harris
Cannelton
Harris
Harry Miller
Charles Tedrow
William Markell
Charleston
N. B. Oakes
Willard Oakes
Turkish Reform Efforts Evident in Attaturk’s Adopted Daughter
Miss Zehra Aylin, 17, Kemal Attaturk’s adopted daughter, is in London to study in English schools, illustrating westernizing aims of Turkey's modernization program and the cultural dialogue around Orient and Occident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kemal Attaturk
Turkey
Zehra Aylin
London
Pomeroy sewer plans gain PWA approval and bond talk
Pomeroy officials report Sugar Run and Naylors Run sewer plans approved by state PWA in Columbus. Remaining hurdles include Washington approval and a bond issue likely around 47000 to fund the town share. Council returns to WPA projects with light local burden while road plans for Lincoln Hill are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
PWA
Columbus
Sugar Run
Naylors Run
Washington
Waylors Run
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Edward Elliot
Toledo
Waen
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Pompar Sione
Fies
United
Mrs. Bradford
Beach Grove
Meigs
Nteen Mines
Chaunwon
Hock- Kimberly Black
Luhrig
Coleege Ert Nye
Chaun
Mr. Nye
Chaunee
Middleport News
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Mary Jane
Gallipolis
Gainsboro
Atlanta
Scott
Gainsboro Junior College
R. P. Smith
Miss Frances Smith
Mary Adaline Smith
R. E. Powell
Cincinnati
Gene Hilbert
Miss Kathryn
Herbert Gorslin
Charlies Crow
Springfield
C. B. Crow
Ed Berg
Mias Hanna
Marietta
Rebecca Cottrill
Emory Ieenhower
Joe Alien
Tulsa
Okla
Cottrill
Kenhower
Zelda Icenhower
William Matthewson
Syracuse
Ellen Holter
Piana
Lincoln Hil
Urers
Athena County
Athens County
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Said County
John H. Preston
FE. R. Walker
Jurora
U. S
State
Federal
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Eft
Harold
Smith
Rich
Susan Vilas
James Bausch
Josephine McKim
Slugger
Lou Gehrig
Tilden
Sarazen
Gehrig
Dick Hungerford
Jane Fauntz
Swimming and Diving Star
Miss Fauntz
Helen Hicks
Bill Tilden
Tommy Armour
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem, N.C
BR. J. Reynolde Toe
Big Meigs County
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