Girls Don't Look Like Wrestlers but They Like the Fight Game
Francis H. Klein profiles two female wrestlers Jo Ann Mullennex and Dot Dotson at Middleport High School stadium, noting their backgrounds, injuries, and dedication. The piece contrasts their appearance with wrestling skill and reports crowd reactions including a controversial moment involving manager Bob Wallace during a main event with Edmond Francis.
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Francis H. Klein
Middleport
Jo Ann Mullennex
Dot Dotson
Middleport High School Stadium
Boosters
Jo Ann
Arizona
Reynoldsburg
Dot
Lakeland
Fla
Mildred Burke
Larry Chene
Chene
Edmond Francis
Francis
Bob Wallace
Junior Choir Featured In Mt Moriah Music Program
The Mt Moriah Baptist Church Junior Choir gave a special music program at the Baptist Church of Morgan on Sunday afternoon with Miss Virginia Nelle Winston as accompanist. Rev Nyle D Bordwn of Mt Moriah and host minister Rev M W Hill also took part.
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Middleport
Mt. Moriah Baptist Church
Baptist Church of
Pythian Association To Meet in Jackson
Members of Fides Lodge No 210 Knights of Pythias and Pythian Sisters will gather in Jackson tonight for the Pythian Association meeting. They will assemble in front of Smiths Clothing Store at 7 p m for the event.
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Middleport
Fides Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Sisters
Theythian Association
Jackson
Smith's
Middleport Baptist Society Meets with Bake Sale Planned
The Baptist Missionary Society of Mt. Moriah Church met at the home of Mrs. Arlena Reese with Mrs. Kathryn Payne in charge. Plans were made for an all day bake sale Sept 27 at the church to fund the church tree fund.
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Middleport
Baptist Missionary Society of
Margaret Cordell
Rodney
Nellie Winston
Geneva Webster
Lakin
Florence Richards
Reese
Legion Auxiliary Members Host Home Gathering
Mrs. C. R. Young hosted the Lewis Manley Post Auxiliary at her home on Friday evening with assistance from Mrs. Nelle Winston Miss Virginia Nelle Winston Mrs. William Smith and Mrs. Arlena Reese. A chicken dinner at Mt. Moriah Church was planned for later with a public token to be announced. Guests included Mrs. Margaret Cordell of Rodney and Mrs. Geneva Webster of Lakin. Fried chicken and hot rolls were served.
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Middleport
C. R. Young
Nelle Winston
Virginia Nelle Winston
William Smith
Arlena Reese
Lewis Manley Post
American Legion
Mt. Moriah Church
Margaret Cordell
Rodney
Geneva Webster
Lakin
Remark About Mrs Griff Russell and Family Plans
Mrs Griff Russell and daughter Mrs Ly ston Sewell travel from Colorado Springs to Cincinnati for hospital work with family support. The note hints at a yants gathering in Colorado Springs prior to departure.
Hair Stylist and Model Visit in Middleport
Middleport reports Mrs. R. Pomatt i, recently recognized in a magazine for hair styling, visited with her parents Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Gardner. Pomatti, a beautician from Benson, New York, was accompanied by her model Mrs. Carrie.
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Middleport
R. Pomatti
Rita Carrie
L. O. Gardner
Pomatti
Ben ¥On
N. Y
Carrie
Olive-Orange PTA Elects New Officers At First Meeting
Tuppers Plains Olive-Orange PTA opened the school year at the high school. Officers named include Eloise Connolly as president Celia Collons as secretary and Mamie Headley as treasurer. Committee chairs were set for Program Membership Hospitality Publicity Music Recreation Magazine Sales Budget and Finance with several members appointed to each.
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Tuppers Plains
PTA
Eloise Connolly
Celia Collons
Mamie Headley
Phyllis Shields
Bonnie Brown
Grace Pickens
Eloise McCutcheon
Carl Barnhill
Ethel Arbaugh
Claude Woodward
Ida Dorst
Agnes Hill
Elizabeth Lyons
Cleta Loehler
Dorothy Robison
Onita Cole
Mildred Caldwell
Violet Christy
L. C. Baylor
Nina Robison
Sarah Caldwell
Ruth Richmond
Phyllis Newland
Helen Woode
Garrett Christy
Aloise McCutcheon
John Shank
Joseph Connolly
Linsey Lyons
Homer Cole
Lucy Kim
J. S. Davis
Nellie Parker
Celia Collins
Heath Methodist Church Lines Up Evangelism Mission
Heath Methodist Church begins steps toward the Ohio Evangelistic Mission with a dedicatory prayer by Rev. Louis A. Bangerter. The mission follows the Laymen's Evangelistic Institute event at Delaware and will start November 14, with Bishop Hazen Werner scheduled to speak at a mass meeting in Chillicothe. The church assigns committees and leaders for planning, promotion, visitation, publicity, and youth activities.
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Middleport
Ohio Methodist Evangelistic Mission
Hazen Werner
Ohio
Heath Methodist Church
Evangelism Committee
Louis A. Bangerter
Heath Church
Harold Woodgerd
Bangerter
L. W. McComas
Diane Reichman
Vernon Weber
W. W. Hayes
Emerson
Pomeroy Grange Notes Outline County Meeting Plans
Pomeroy Grange met with Mrs. Fred Leifheit presiding. Plans discussed for the all county meeting sponsored by Pomeroy Bend Grange on Thursday at 8 p.m. at Pomeroy Junior High School with state master and Mrs. Bryan Frederick expected. Members arranged Home Economics duties and social refreshments.
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Ohio State Grange
Home Economics
Amos Leonard
Winding Trail Garden Club Hosts Evening Meeting
Pomeroy group held at president Mrs. Dale Smith home with honorary member Mrs. Dayton Will present. Yearbooks discussed for future distribution. a Flower Show invitation for Sept 17 at Rutland Methodist Church was read. Hidden Birds contest won by Miss Emma Lietz. prizes awarded for games and traveling prize went to Mrs. John Terrell.
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Benton Penn
John
Twin Nieces Shine on WSAZ TV Talent Hour
Jane and Janet Rayburn twins of the late Carl J. Rayburn appeared on the TV Talent Hour Saturday morning telecast over WSAZ TV Huntington West Virginia. They are daughters of the late Carl J. Rayburn and granddaughters of Mr and Mrs T Rayburn of Point Pleasant Virginia.
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Pomeroy
Jane
Janet Rayburn
Albert Gloeckner
Wsaz-Tv
Huntington
W. Va
Carl J. Rayburn
Rte T. Rayburn
Pt. Pleasant
Rev and Mrs Walker Seek Seminary Study in Tennessee
The Rev and Mrs Walker missionaries in Haiti have returned to the United States and will study at a seminary in Tennessee after visiting relatives in Cedar Grove W Va. Mrs Walker is Lucille Settle a niece of Mrs C H Wise Sr. N Third Ave.
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Middleport
Walker
Haiti
United States
Cedar Grove
W. Va
Tennessee
Lucille Settle
C. H. Wise
Third Ave
Newsmen To Meet In Columbus For Ohio Press Convention
Top brass of Ohio newspapers will gather in Columbus Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the annual convention of the Ohio Newspaper Association.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Newspaper Association
Goodyear suspends 92 workers after unauthorized strike
An unauthorized strike at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber rim plant in Akron Ohio led to 92 workers being suspended for one week. The action follows a Friday stoppage that closed the facility.
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Akron, O
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co
Mary Shrine Meeting Admits Three Candidates At Pomeroy
Mary Shrine of the White Shrine of Jerusalem met in the IOOF Hall with Missith Maude Young and Everett Tracy presiding. Three candidates were ceremonially admitted. An invitation to Friends Night in Athens on Oct 7 was read along with news of the supreme shire session in Milwaukee the week of May 3, 1953. Members from Lafayette Shrine Gallipolis attended. refreshments followed.
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Pomeroy
Mary Shrine
White Shrine of Jerusalem
IOOF
Missith Maude Young
Everett Tracy
Athens
Milwaukee
Lafayette
Gallipolis
Club Dinner Set With Pot Luck at Midport Park
Pomeroy-Rocksprings health club plans a pot luck dinner at Middleport Roadside Park on Thursday. Members will depart Rock Springs Methodist Church at 11 a.m. for Middleport.
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Pomeroy
Rocksprings
Rocksprings PTA Hears Invitation for Monday Meeting
The Rocksprings PTA invites all Rock Springs School members and interested residents to attend a Monday evening meeting at the school. The event aims to discuss school affairs and related activities.
Visits and family guests attend Columbus social events
Miss Winifred Raub of Cincinnati arrives to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Raub. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. Homer Taylor of Columbus and Floyd Bentz of Gillette Wyoming visiting their relatives Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bentz of Racine. Mrs. J. S. Clark stays in Columbus with Mrs. J. E. Smith. The group attends a First Church of Christ Scientist convention on Broad St and a luncheon at the Seneca Hotel. Ed Hite and family join a party in Columbus for grandson Eddie Hite’s first birthday with cake by Mrs. Claude Evans. other relatives from Pomeroy attend.
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Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Donna Ruth Russell
Naomi Overturf
Janice Lyman
Rhea Ann Ghears
Emma Jean Wells
Emmett Manley
Corrinne
Bill Miller
Randall Manley
Randy
Akron
Jed Stewart
Short Fourth St
Charleston
Bowen Property
Clarence Golkey
Columbus
Flossie Daniels
Newark
Hartford
W. Va
First Baptist Church
Middleport
Larry Rice
Ohio State University
Middleport High School
Hylda Rice
Delbert Rice
Robert Priddy
Germany
Sgt
Priddy
Opal Turner
Bob
Dunbar
Howad Stitts
Ohio Association of Garden Clubs
Dulcie Young
Alice Johnson
Robert Granson
Pittsburgh
Clifford Steele
Laura Steele
Lyle Seeger
Faye
Robert
Smith
Spring Ave
Pomeroy
S. Third Ave
C. L. Wood
Woods
Kingston
W.va
Wood
Faye Roush
Ohio University
Josie Turner
Laure
Cliff
Milton Hood
Mill St
FE. S. Ellis William Hubbard
Dayton
Harold Hubbard
Richard Palmer
West Jefferson
Manuel Stupeck
Richard Davis
Julie Mitch
June Seines
Ann’ Rupe
Dorothy Greenlee
Shirley Miller
Adrienne Mills
Carol Bachtel
St. Joseph
Meigs General Hospital
Dora Harter
Winifred Raub
Cincinnati
Joseph Raub
Raubs
Homer Taylor
Floyd Bentz
Gillette
Wyo
Henry Bentz
Racine
W. O. Barnitz
J. S. Clark
J. E. Smith
Franklin Ave
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Broad St
Seneca Hotel
Ed Hite
Eddie
Ernest Hite
Claude Evans
Evans
John Weeks of
4 H Couples Prepare For Festival Rehearsal
POMEROY Darwin Bryan state director of Farm Bureau youth activities will meet with Meigs County youth council members at Racine High School for first rehearsals for a folk dance festival to be held November 24 at the state Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Columbus. Eight couples will be selected from listed members of youth councils to represent Meigs County with similar groups from 25 counties attending at the Neil House.
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Donna Holter
Dorothea Salser
Loretta Davis
Alice Fisher
Shirley Stobart
James Carnahan
Lowell Salser
Gerald Powell
Larry Roush
Gordon West
Charles Carr
Gerald Swartz
Junior Salser
George Theiss
Joe Thoren
Neil House
Mrs. Stella Stuckey rites held in Middleport
Funeral services for Stella Mae Stuckey 43 died Saturday at Meigs General Hospital were set for 2 p.m. today at Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home with burial in Middleport Hill Cemetery. The Rev. O. H. Cart officiated. Surviving are husband Pearl Stuckey Story's Run a stepdaughter Mrs. Everett Hughes Columbus a sister Mrs. Rena Keller Parkersburg a brother Ernest Lee Smith Seattle in the armed forces.
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Middleport
Stella Mae Stuckey
Meigs General Hospital
Rawlings- Coats Funeral Home
Middleport Hill Cemetery
O. H. Cart
Everett Hughes
Columbus
Rena Keller
Parkersburg
Ernest Lee Smith
The
Armed Forces
Seattle
Meigs County Land Transfers Timeline of Property Shifts
Meigs County transfers list multiple deeds across Ches ter Mid dleport Olive Pomeroy Scipio and Sutton townships. Names include Newell Maiden Humphrey Pfarr Enzenauer Hysell Knopp and others with parcels ranging from eight to 75 acres and various lot transfers.
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Harry L. Newell
Lucy Newell
Arthur Orr
Chester Township
Elmer Maiden
Rose Maiden
Charles W. Fergusong
Thelma L. Ferguson
Middleport
Charles E. Humphrey
May Humphrey
C. Barnett
Olive Township
J. H. Pfarr
Clarence W. Pfarr
Weldon Pfarr
Pomeroy
Thomas Wells
Lyde W. Hysell
Leona R. Hysell
Sci
Kathleen G. Roush
Dallas A. Roush
Fred Roush
Beulah Roush
Sutton Township
E. R. Hollon
Shirlie Hollon
Giles Hysell
Bessie Hysell
Victor S. Hysell
Mary Hysell
Harry L. Knopp
Myrle Knopp
Bertha Carl
Harrisonville
Meigs County Jaycees Stage Get Out The Vote Drive
The Meigs County Junior Chamber of Commerce opens a non political Get Out The Vote campaign for the November 4 general election following a successful primary effort. Howard B. Mullen says the effort stresses voting to preserve American freedoms.
Pomeroy Volunteers Respond to Smoke Filled Ohio Power Building
The Pomeroy Volunteer Fire Department and emergency squad answered a Sunday night call to the Ohio Power Co offices on Mulberry Avenue. A furnace had been lit earlier and filled the room with smoke, prompting residents to contact responders.
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Pomeroy
Reproduction in Living Organisms
Living things reproduce by division into equal parts, by budding, by spores, or by sexual reproduction. The text outlines multiple modes of reproduction across organisms.
Pomeroy County Farm Bureau Women to Host Tea
The Meigs County Farm Bureau announces its seventh annual women’s tea for October 3. John Heiskell says speaker and venue not yet set as committees organize decorating registration and reception refreshments. The Farm Bureau Women’s Chorus will hostess. Athens County Chorus may perform.
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County Farm Bureau Women’s Tea
Pomeroy
Meigs County Farm Bureau
John Heiskell
Heiskell
County Women’s Activities Committee
C. F Blakeslee
Henry Wippel
Charles Theiss
Homer Holter
Clarence Murray
Eugene Atkins
Joe Thoren
Harold Carnahan
Paul Winn
Dorothy Carr
Roy Holter
Henry Well
Grace Furhee
Donald Mora
Ma'tie Circle
Do. Anderson
Willian Harmon
Ollie Thoma
Felix Alkire
Samuel Michaels
Leo Story
Ruby Halliday
Mary Hamm
Farm Bureau Women’s Chorus
Athens County Farm Bureau Women’s Chorus
Drive Helps Post Project Grows Support in Meigs County
A Meigs County Post magazine sales drive sponsored by the Post and Veterans of Foreign Wars funds bonus gifts for the Post. Russell Bailey says two folding wheel chairs two hospital beds two walkerettes and four pairs of adjustable crutches will be loaned to area residents in need. The VFW thanks contributors and notes strong magazine sales.
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Middleport
Meigs County Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post
Russell Bailey
VFW
Patrolman Hudson Returns to Duty in Pomeroy
Patrolman Franklin D. Hudson returns to work for the Pomeroy Police after being struck by a motorist on June 21. He will handle office and radio calls while Chief Walter E. Wolfe is on vacation, continuing to use crutches from his injuries.
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Pomeroy
Franklin D. Hudson
E. Main Street
Hudson
Walter E. Wolfe
Mrs. Robert Morris Taken to Hospital
Mrs. Robert Morris of Middleport was transported from Meigs General to Holzer Hospital by ambulance Sunday night. Emergency Squad members provided oxygen during transit. Gallipolis Hospital officials reported she is in satisfactory condition with no polio indication in the attending physician’s diagnosis.
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Pomeroy
Robert Morris
Middleport
Holzer Hospital
Meigs General Hospital
Gallipolis Hospital
Office hours set for social security rep in Portsmouth
Elliott P. Goslee field representative from the Portsmouth Ohio SSA office will hold regular office hours at Portsmouth City Hall from 10 30 to 1 30 on Wednesday September 17.
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Pomeroy
Elliott P. Goslee
Portsmouth, Ohio
The
Social Security Administration
Pomeroy City Hall
Mrs. Freda Moore 54 Dies After Illness in Ohio
POMEROY Mrs. Freda Mae Casto Moore 54 died Saturday at Meigs General Hospital five weeks after husband Ne,l Moore. She leaves parents Sherman and Casto of Pomeroy and children Betty Mossman Cincinnati Eulah Seidenable Columbus Ruth Hyser Latecia Moore both of Pomeroy. A brother Clarence Casto Pittsburgh and sister Alta Jaycox Columbus plus five grandchildren. Member of Pomeroy Church of Christ. Funeral 2 PM Tuesday Ew ing Funeral Home Riverview Cemetery burial. Friends may call.
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Pomeroy
Freda Mae Casto Moore
Meigs General Hospital
Ne)l Moore
Sherman Casto
Betty Mossman
Cincinnati
Eulah Seidenable
Columbus
Ruth Hyser
Latecia Moore
Clarence Casto
Pittsburgh
Alta Jaycox
Moore
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