Prizes and Talent Shine at Middleport Band Boosters Show
Middleport hosted a Friday night Band Boosters show at the Austorium with Kate Smith Hour and parcel post sales. Parents and friends bought treats, prizes, and candy, raising 289 for boosters. Local students and Mason City performers showcased tap, baton, piano duos, dance, and song, closing with God Bless America.
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Middleport
Kate Smith
Middleport School
United States
Arthur Skinner
Band Boosters
Meigs Grocery Company
Rich Valley Dairy
Spring Hill Dairy
Miller Store
Horse and Pony Show Awards Planned at Harrisonville Fair
Six prizes will be awarded in the horse and pony show at the Harrisonville Community Fair. Events include three gaited horses and ponies, pony and horse races, musical chairs, pony races at 9 30 am, tractor pulling at 10 am, and horse pulling at 1 pm. The program features a Friday talent show and Brownie's Orchestra providing the dance music.
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Harrisonville
Misa Lois Williams
Satrday
Brownie
Orchestra
Wilkesville
DAR Members Recognized in West Virginia and Ohio
Middleport area Daughters of the American Revolution have been honored by national and state societies. Notables include Mrs James Patton of Columbus, national chairman of defense, and Mrs David C. Miller of Return Jonathan Meigs chapter, district defense chair. Mrs George Emrich of Wellston directs the Southeast District and chairs American music nationally. Mrs McClung of Point Pleasant just completed state regent duties. Mrs Lowell Burnelle of Gloucester led fundraising for DAR approved schools and writes a national report. SESQUI PLANNERS TO MEET POMEROY The Meigs County sesquicentennial planning committee will meet at the courthouse 8 p.m. Tuesday. Bucephalus was the horse of Alexander the Great in 326 B.C.
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Sesqui
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Sesquicentennial Planning Committee
J. H. Grate
New Arrival Boasts Nine Grandparents in Family Tale
Middleport Mark Franklin Vroman, born Wednesday September 9 at Holzer Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vroman, has nine grandparents counting great and great great grandparents. Grandparents listed include John Vroman and Fielding Hawkins. great grandparents include John Hawking Sr. and Mrs. Rothgeb. great great grandmother is Mrs. Vroman.
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Middleport
Mark Franklin Vroman
Holzer Hospital
Charles Vroman
John Mason
Walnut St
John Vroman
Coal St
Fielding Hawkins
Third Ave
John Hawking
Pearl St
Frank Vrooman
N. R. Rothgeb
Cheshire
Mason
Vroman
Olive-Orange iPTA Meeting Is Scheduled
The Olive-Orange PTA opens the new school year with a Get Acquainted meeting at the Tuppers Plains high school Monday at 8 pm. J S Davis Superintendent Garrett Christy elementary principal Carl Barnhill school board president will offer introductory messages.
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Tuppers Plains
PTA
J. S. Davis
Garrett Christy
Carl Barnhill
Violet Christy
Janet Christy
Dorothy Barnhill
Ruth Richmond
New UN Commander Named, Hull Tie to Local Couple
Gen John E Hull chosen as supreme commander of United Nations Forces in the Far East succeeding Gen Mark Clark. Hull, son in law of Mr and Mrs T H Davis II of Middleport, native of Greenfield born May 26 1895, Miami University graduate 1917, became four star general in 1951 after long ties to the area.
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Middleport
Eisenhower
Ohio
John Edwin Hull
United States
United Nations
Far East
Mark Clark
General Hull
T. H. Davis
Third Ave
Lucille Davis
Greenfield
Miami University
Oxford
Davis
Promotion for Clarence Spurrier Jr in Air Force
Mrs Norman Weyersmiller reports her brother Clarence Spurrier Jr has been promoted to airman second class from airman third class A-2c. He enlisted in December 1951. Mrs Spurrier, formerly Doris Dill, and Spurrier are stationed in Alaska. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Clarence Spurrier of Thomas Fork.
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Pomeroy
Norman Weyersmiller
Clarence Spurrier, Jr
Spurrier
Doris Dil
Alaska
U. S. Air Force
Clarence Spurrier
Thomas Fork
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Voice of the Theatre
Pontiac
Lex Barker
Helen Westcott
Lon Chaney
the Ritz Brothers
Jane Frazee
Robert Paige
June Clyde
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David and Bathsheba
Gregory Peck
Susan Hayward
Raymond Massey
Charlene Diehl
Claudia Zerkle
Mason City
Myrna Maag
Sandra Fultz
Alexander
Billy Young
Katrine Millikan
Athens
Gail Stumbo
Sheila Stover
Fred Lewis
Franklin Ginther
Bill Darst
Terry Galigher
Danny Sanborn
Suzanne Bradbury
Lynn Deniels
Middleport High School
Ohio State University
Diana Capehart
Rae Ann Mills
Rae Ann
Cotton Town
Carmen Deems
Franklin Gin
TOM Rae Motors
Studebaker Sales & Service
DAR
Bucephalus
Alexander the Great
Helena Rubinstein
Stark’s Pharmacy
Pomeroy, Chio
Omeroy Cement Block CO
Rock Hudson
Barbara Hale
Seminole
Robert Newton
Linda Darnell
Blackbeard, the Pirate
James Stewart
Arthur Kennedy
Claudette Colbert
Ann Blythe
Hine
Capitol
Columbia
DECCA
MGM
RCA Victor
Werner
RADIO
N. W. Compton, D.D
Court Street Pomeroy
FORD
R. V. Ebersbach
Tel
General Contracting
Racine
Pomeroy Bend Theaters
Meigs
Technizalor
Esther Williams
Fernando Lamas
Jack Carson
Charlotte Greenwood
Denise Darcel
Donna Corcorak
Bill Demarest
Barbara Whiting
Java
Fred MacMurray
Vera Halston
Robert Douglas
Victor McLagren
John Russell
Buddy Baer
Claude Jarman, Jr
Grant Withers
Myr Coakley
Pickens
Therm
Humphrey
King OF
Heat
Pickens Paint & Hardware
Mason, W. Va
Pomeroy and
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