Middleport Council Studies Civil Defense and Police Staffing
Middleport council discussed civilian defense penalties for noncooperation and heard a $100 grant from the county. Mayor Fisher urged ordinances with teeth, and the body pondered adding a police member while reports showed $2,230.90 in fines and labor funded police operations since March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
C. O. Fisher
Fred DeWees
Fisher
David Miller
Mid- Cleport
Riverview Cemetery
Hill Cemetery
Riverview
Middleport High elects officers and plans picnic
Middleport juniors and sophomores elected officers after school with Mary Lu Harting er as president and Franklin Ginther as president for the sophomores. Heath Methodist Class No 12 plans a Roadside Park picnic at 6 30 p m with a potluck and a meeting to follow. rain venue is the church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Mary Lu Hartinger
Fred Klein
Mary Virginia Haggerty
Wanda Thomas
Mary Lou Allensworth
Franklin Ginther
Joe Laing
Susan Allensworth
Wanda Koehler
Heath Methodist Church
Carroll Swanson
Parish Reaches Call for Pomeroy Christ Church Pastor
The Pomeroy Church of Christ ended a week of evangelistic sermons with the largest attendance. At Sunday services the congregation extended a pastoral call to Dr Belcastro to begin Oct 4. The board recommended the action and plans to rehabilitate the William Weaver property as a parsonage, ready by the first Sunday in October.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Church of Christ
Dr. Belcastro
William Weaver
W. Main St
Daniel Louden Sought For Theft of Auto
Meigs County officers pursue Daniel Louden in a new auto theft case. A car taken Sunday from Pomeroy Motor Company on West Second Street was found wrecked at Long Bottom near Louden's family home. His father Bert Louden aided the suspect and was jailed on $500 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Daniel Louden
Wanda Browne
Meigs
Young Louden
Pomeroy Motor Company
W. Second St
Long Bottom
Louden
Bert Louden
George Beards
Pomeroy Panthers Open Season September 24 at Home
The Pomeroy Panthers will start the football season against Chauncey on Thursday September 24 at the Middleport field. The game date change comes because Middleport will host a Friday September 25 game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Panthers
Chauncey
Middleport
Meigs County 4-H Delegates Attend State Congress
Marian Meredith Pomeroy of Pine Grove 4-H and Raymond Cotterill of Harrisonville 4-H were chosen as county representatives to the State 4-H Club Congress at Ohio State University. Financing comes from Meigs County Pomona Grange and Meigs County Bankers' Association. Broadcasts of congress activities on WOSU radio at specified times offer member access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Marian Meredith
Pine Grove
Raymond Cotterill
Harrisonville
Meigs County
Ohio State University
Meigs County Pomona Grange
Meigs County Bankers’ Association
WOSU
Mrs Flora Moore Dies at Bradbury
Mrs Flora Moore 77 died at her Bradbury home Sunday evening. She leaves sisters Mrs Dave Russell Thomas Fork and Mrs Charles Moore Hysell Run, brother Dave Dodson Bradbury, and three sons Walter Joe and George Moore of Pomeroy plus several grandchildren. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at two o clock at Bradford Church with burial in Bradford cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Flora Moore
Bradbury
Dave Russell
Thomas Fork
Charles Moore
Hysell Run
Dave Dodson
Walter
Joe
George Moore
Bradford
Meigs County Trustees Meeting Set at Hemlock Grove Grange
Pomeroy Meigs County township trustees invite all county candidates to a meeting Thursday evening at the Hemlock Grove Grange Hall. The event follows their regular agenda and aims to discuss local issues and candidate positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Meigs County
Hemlock Grove
Pomeroy Social Notes Funeral Guests and Local Births
Out of town attendees visited for John Arnold's funeral. Birth announced for a seven and a half pound daughter at Gallipolis from Bailey Run. grandparents listed. Several locals and relatives noted visiting, traveling or staying with families in Pomeroy and surrounding towns. Hospital, vacation, and home happenings include studies, illness, and work changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
John Arnold
A. S. Arnold
Greensboro
N. C
Earl Arnold
Bill
Girard, O
George Arnold
Arthur Arnold
Hoyt Haning
Margaret
Lena Chase
Millersport
Huber Brown
Dorothy Haning
Dayton
Robert Fulwider
Mansfield
Charles Brown
Avanell Renshaw
Bailey Run
Mr. Brown
Gallipolis
G. M. Renshaw
E. J. Brown
Mary Renshaw
Spring Ave
Postpone Nutrition And Canteen Classes
Emmett Shuler, local manager of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co., reports that nutrition and canteen classes held at the Gas Office on Wednesdays are indefinitely postponed due to factors beyond control. Miss Eleanor Cumberland has been transferred to Fremont District, leaving no successor yet. The course, a Red Cross project with company cooperation, started weeks ago, and any resumption will be announced through The Messenger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Emmett — Shuler
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Eleanor Cumberland
Home Service
Special Course Approved by Laree Group
Forty six men on the civilian defense auxiliary police rolls showed willingness to take a 20 hour training course after a Monday night meeting at the Courthouse. Emmett Schuler, named instructor, outlined the course. Captain W F Sodt praised the response and noted women will be eligible and urged enrollment for civilian defense work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Civilian Defense Auxiliary Police
Auxiliary Police
Emmett Schuler
W. F. Sodt
Service Men of Meigs County Update
Leo Vaughan Pomeroy recently returned from Ft. Sill Oklahoma after training and furlough with his father Walter Vaughan. Vaughan earned second lieutenant rank and served at Camp Blanding Florida before officer training. Charles Reuter joined the Army last Tuesday and is now at Ft. Thomas Kentucky, as son of Mr and Mrs Ed Reuter of Bull Run. Louis Harper moved from Camp Sutton North Carolina to Savannah Training Field Illinois, son of Mr and Mrs E W Harper of East Main Street.
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Guy Suter
Welch
W. Va
Electar Titus
Thelma Rossmassier
Steve Rossmassier
Roy Lansbury
Bryn Mar
John Kerwood
Pt. Pleasant
Lizzie Zuspan
Brother Bess
Dennis Gallagher
U. S. Air Force
P. Gallagher
Main St
Charleston
Rosewell
N. M
Leonard Taylor
Jack Howells
Columbus
James Mattox
Dickinson
Ernest Taylor
Pleasant
Ross
Taylor
David Ohlinger
W. P. Ohlinger
Patterson Field
Dayton
Stella Blake
Lynn Hinkle
Frances Ascher
M. G. White
Miss Blake
Hunkle
White
Clyde Kessinger
Donald
Wallace
B. F. Stout
Athens
M G Brown
Luther Boger
Thomas Longstaff
Herman Ohlinger
Daun Joan Hamilton
Oxford
Western College For Women
Ed Reuter
Bull Run
Louis Harper
Camp Sutton
N. C
Savannah Training Field
Ill
E. W. Harper
Dorsel Smith Injured in Rock Quarry Accident
Dorsel Smith foreman at a Naylors Run rock quarry suffered a crushed right leg when a heavy rock fell Monday. He was transported by ambulance to St. Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg after supervising blasting for riprap material to be hauled to the U. S. Navy Shipyard near Point Pleasant.
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Pomeroy
Dorsel Smith
Hemlock Grove
Naylors Run
St. Joseph's Hospital
Parkersburg
Smith
U. S. Navy
Point Pleasant
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THE
Athens Messenger
Ohto
Council Studies Civilian Defense
Margaret Elston
Los Angeles
Middleport Social Notes
Pomeroy Christ Church
Pomeroy Social Notes
Pomeroy Personals
Dorothy Long
Myrtle Long
Athens Road
Almira Davis
Long Home
Wilkesville
East Liverpool
Richard Campbell
Butternut Ave
Edna Bartels
Nye
George Joachim
Ben Kesterson
Mechanic St
A. C. Sullivan
Mont Clo
Hot Springs
Ark
George Massar
C. A. Massar
John Schmidt
Norma Goodwin
Second St
Dana Roush
Geraldine
John Dixon, Jr
Jack Demoss
Mac McCormick
Maude Griffith
Dayton, Ky
Susie Andrews
Enterprise
Carl Dodridge
Ernest Holter
Minersville
Wilma Holter
Dick Brown
Bobby
Marietta
Val Brown
Athens R.D
Harry Hines
Fisher St
Lewis Jeffers
Albany
Harry Davis
Canton
Gilbert Weeks
Mary Leifheit
Wright St
Ed Roper
Thomas Hennessy
Mulberry Ave
Thomas, Jr
Naval Hospital At
Great Lakes
Effie Warren
Reedsville
Geneva Humphreys
W. P. Humphrey
Walton
Dolphina Humphreys
Oliver Unrue
George Haffelt
Charles Haffelt
Clifford Barwood
Rosina Saunders
Ernest Nelson
Nelson
Hurley Nelson
Langsville
Hobart Costen
Roberta Ann
Costen
Mary Wippel
Union Ave
Paul Thomas
Jimmy Roger
Royal Thomas
Syracuse
Robert Diedrich
Frank D. Sebaugh, Jr
Brown's
Laree Group
Robert Titus
Detroit
Electa van Zandt Titus
Titus
I.E.S
F.S
Jimmy
Columbus & Southern Ohio Electric Company
Coats
Tweedroy Longies
Aes
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