Bowmans Suspected in Pomeroy Kroger Hold-Up
POMEROY Sept 18 The first daylight unmasked hold up in 25 years hit a Kroger store here just before noon with two bandits stealing about 180 dollars. Police tie the robbers to the Bowman brothers and Vance Miller linked to the Athey incident. A blue car, third man hidden in the car, and a careful escape plan are described. Police raid Meigs and Athens County hideouts, uncovering camps and shell casings. Local officials announce further suspected dens across Meigs Morgan and Columbiana counties as they pursue the gang.
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Pomeroy
Kroger
Oliver Geary
Mariearlywine
Geary
Bowman Brothers
Vance Miller
Athey
Wil Jock
Bowmen Brothers
Hobson
Portland
Bowmans
Miller-Boggess Rang
Athens County
Neal
Floward
Meigs County
Washington County
Lemuel Boggess
Marietta
Boggess
Carleton Hollow
Morgan County
Columbiana County
Steubenville
Peace Evangelical Church to celebrate 25th anniversary
Pomeroy officials report Peace FE Evangelical Church will mark 25 years since dedication. Celebration runs November 9 to 12 with out of town members and former pastors J. D. Bretz of Doansville Ohio and Rev. L. G. Weber of Chillicothe among expected speakers.
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Pomeroy
Peace FE
Local News Briefs From Meigs County and Salem Township
July last spring, a former clerk of courts in Meigs County, living in Baltimore Ohio with his son John, is reported in feeble health. J F Nelson, a New York Central passenger brakeman, returned to his Salem Township home to hunt squirrels and was injured after being thrown against a barn by a cow, breaking an arm and sustaining bruises.
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Ohio Fuel Gas Supply Company
Pomeroy
Will DeWolf
Syracuse
Ora DeWolf
I. W. Crow
Meigs County
Chester
Tuppers Plains
Peter’ Gloeckner
Gerald Kindle
Frost
Katurah Kaylor
Frost R. D
S. W. Gilmore
J. K. Kaylor
Trevy Kindle
W. A. Race
John
Baltimore
Ohio
J. F. Nelson
New York Central
Salem Township
Middleport Retailers Attend Athens Convention
W H Juhling and I A Bean of the Middleport Rutland Rathburn Store attended the retail dry woods and shoe convention in Athens after traveling from Middleport on Wednesday.
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Middleport
W. H. Juhling
I. A. Bean
Middleport - Rutland Rathburn
Athens
Fire damages salt works plant in Pomeroy
Fire destroyed the Buckeye Salt Plant buildings in Pomeroy’s Second Ward and damaged the Kidder home Friday evening. Firemen confined the blaze after a swift response, preventing spread to Crawford foundry and sheds. no insurance coverage reported for the properties.
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Pomeroy
Roy Kidder
Parkersburg
Big & Reel Foundry
Buckeye
Crawford
Claude Darst
Kidder
Banquet Held for Indian Refining Distributors
Dr. A B Bingham distributing agent for the Indian Refining Company hosted a banquet at Elmhurst Tavern in Pomeroy for 100 distributors clerks and other employees serving Meigs and Gallia counties last evening.
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Pomeroy
A. B. Bingham
Middleport
Indian Refining Company
Meigs and
Gallia Counties
Elmhurst
Three fined in Mt Olive potato theft case at Pomeroy
Carroll Parr Herbert Southall and Grace Werrick were arrested while stealing potatoes from Karl Grimm at Mt Olive Lebanon Township. Parr Southall and Werrick were fined with costs. all unable to pay remain jailed in Pomeroy. Meigs County reports typhoid modest presence and a burial near Middleport for G W Harper.
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Pomeroy
Carroll Parr
Herbert Southall
West Liverpool
Karl Grimm
Mt. Olive
Lebanon Township
I. W. Gilmore
Grace Werrick
Southern state motor trip visitors stop in Middleport
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McClaskey and children from Marion, on a southern state motor trip, visited relatives Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Simms in Middleport with a camping outfit. Conrad Schall plans to move to Pomeroy to teach orchestra. Mrs. James Faulkner and daughter Jean visited Charleston, and Mrs. W. H. Juhling hosted a bridge gathering in South Third Avenue.
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Middleport
Hugh McClaskey
Dan McClasky
Marion
Stanley Simms
Conrad Schall
Pomeroy
James Faulkner
Jean
Charleston
W. E. Faulkner
W. H. Juhling
Bridge Club
South Third Avenue
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Pomeroy Bend and Meigs County
A. Hartley
STAPE
Messenger
Norman Durst
Haney
Goodrich
Haney-Goodrich Co
Court Street
Federated Congregations
Salt Works
Bayer Aspirin
Bayer
G. W. Harper
Pomeroy Precinct
Warren
Lavonia Bennett
H. H. Bennett
Meigi
Samuel
Harden
The
Carnegie Institute
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute of Technology
American National Theatre
Morocco
Legion of Honor
France
Aden
American Tobacco Company
Samuel Harden Church
Church
American Tobacco Co
Elberfelds
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