Upturn in Building Activity Noted in Pomeroy
POMEROY reports a strong rise in local construction with the new post office project leading activity. Ebersbach interests rebuild the W Main St garage, add a white brick service station, and lay a street level business room under moved apartment blocks. The Knights of Pythias remodel a brick corner residence into a meeting hall while new homes arise on Main St Terrace and Lincoln Hill with several other projects underway.
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Pomeroy
Newst
Second St
Ebersbach
W. Main St
R. V. Ebersbach Ford Agency
Sycamore and
Knights of Pythias
K. of P. Lodge
Lee Rudisill
John Duerr
Ed Stark
Harry Ohlinger
Lincoln Hill
Gridders Visit City for Meat Dinner Stop
Morris-Harvey College football party and fans arrived in Athens as West Virginians played the Bobcat Reserves. They wandered Middleport streets waiting for 40 steak dinners at the Mary Jane Coffee Shoppe while Canada Britain and the United States report per capita meat consumption at 140 pounds.
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Middleport
Morris-Harvey College
Athens
West Virginians
Bobcat
Mary Jane
Canada
Great Britain
The
United States
Opening of Squirrel Season Sparks Tall Hunting Tales
Meigs County hunters prep for squirrel season as stories grow taller. Squirrels reportedly plentiful. night officer Fred Swatzel recounts a rabbit hunting tale where he repeatedly retrieved the same rabbit, winning the day with one actual catch.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Fred Swatzel
Swatzel
Six o'clock September Supper hosted by Heath M. E. Church Class 12
Invitations go to Class 12 members for a six o'clock September Supper at Miss Frieda Faehnle’s home on South Third Avenue Wednesday evening with hostesses Mrs. M. W. Essex Mrs. D. S. Harold Mrs. Lawrence Milhoan Mrs. Frank White and Mrs. Roscoe Wise as assisting organizers. The event marks the class fall activities start.
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Heath M. E
Frieda Faehnle
S. Third Ave
M. W. Essex
D. S. Harold
Lawrence Milhoan
Frank White
Roscoe Wise
Racine Tops Bradbury In Thrilling Ohio Valley Game
In a rain delayed clash at Pythian Park Racine defeated Bradbury 9 to 6 after trailing 6 4 late. Swan and Leonard teamed for Racine while Pullin and Koehler worked Bradbury. Next Sunday a rematch at Pythian Park will feature an announced visiting team.
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Middleport
Bradbury
Racine
Ohio Valley Baseball League
Pythian Park
Racine, Swan and Leonard
Hemsley
Pullin and
Koehler
Shafer takes new post with Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric
Chauncey Clifford Shafer, long employed in Bridgeport, Conn., weekend guest of his parents in Chauncey, left for Columbus to join the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. He will be closer to home on weekends. Also cited are flight certificate holder numbers as of July 1, 1938: 1149 airline, 6556 commercial, 981 limited commercial, 9352 private, 478 amateur, 1560 solo flyers.
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Chauncey
Clifford Shafer
Bridgeport
Cordell Hull
State Department
Washington
U. S
Victory Sunday Celebrated By Churches of Christ
In Meigs County the Churches of Christ held Victory Sunday at Rock Springs Fairground with about 500 attendees. Rev. C J Sharp of Cincinnati delivered The Church Jesus Dreamed About as music by the Middleport High School Band and a county male quartet accompanied hymns. A mass communion led by Rev. J P Miller featured several ministers. Bible School attendance peaked at 413 with average Sunday School 328 during the 13 week campaign.
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Middleport
Churches of Christ
Meigs County
Rock Springs Fairground
C. J. Sharp
Cincinnati
Jesus
Middleport High School
Gordon Harris
J. P. Miller
Bradbury
Don McMillin
Harold Delph
Reedsville
B. H. Morris
Pomeroy
Holman
Tuppers Plains
McMillin
Church of Christ
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlights Local Visits and Travel
Local residents attend conventions, visits, and weekend trips across Pomeroy and nearby towns. Families travel to Russells Point Indian Lake and Columbus. several members attend gatherings in Zanesville Athens Parkersburg and Toronto area. Social circles include the Coates, Chase Neutzling Sommerville and many others with hospital and nursing notes.
Food relief items in Chauncy to be distributed Wednesday
Federal relief commodities will be available in Chauncy at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the City Building. The items include flour raisins prunes and rice. Direct relief recipients and old age pensioners are asked to call Wednesday. In St Louis thirteen mothers have met since 1912 to promote school spirit. they began a clue now continued by grandmothers.
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Chauncey
Chauncéy
ST. Louis
Books and magazines sought for Chauncey schools
Chauncey Dover schools seek community help to improve their library. Residents are asked to donate usable books or magazines for the high school or grades. Paul Fiske will arrange pickup. Officials want fiction dictionaries encyclopedias biographies travel sets science and other good magazines to classify repair and shelve.
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Chauncey
Chauncey-Dover
Paul Fiske
East Millfield Revivals To Continue This Week
Revival services at the East Millfield Mission will continue through Wednesday night with further notice to follow. Miss Dorothy McKinney, Chauncey, and Roberta England of West Virginia Training School Heights W Va, lead the meetings. The all day Sunday session drew many visitors. preaching in the morning with praise and music in the afternoon. Public is invited.
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Middleport
Howard Byers
Virginia
Maryland
Byers
Ella Byers
S. Third Ave
Sylvia Fowler
Mont Howell
Grand Rapids
Mich
C. E. Smith
Harrie Marie Smith
Paul French
McConnelsville
Dahlia Pauley
Eleanor Lee Roush
Pauley
Mt. Vernon
Opal Taylor
Leonard Taylor
Broadway
Taylor
Columbus
Bettie Wise
Roscoe Wise
James Askren
Bellefontaine
Clarence Frost
Paul Smart
Parkersburg
Cecil Evans
Dorothy Higginbottom
Camden-Clark Hospital
Chauncey
East Millfield
Dorothy McKinney
Roberta England
West Virginia Training School
Heights
W. Va
Woman's Bible Class To Meet Wednesday
Postponed Loyal Woman's Bible Class of the Church of Christ will gather Wednesday at 1 30 p m at the home of Mrs John Shafer. Hostesses include Mrs Rice Thomas Mrs Burg Johnston Mrs Lloyd Pendergrass and Mrs Carl Shafer. Class president Mrs Carl Shafer will lead with lesson by Mrs Pendergrass and program by Mrs Guy Brookins and Mrs Thomas Hamilton. All church women invited.
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Chauncey
Loyal Woman's Bible
Church of Christ
John Shafer
Rice Thomas
Burg Johnston
Lloyd Pendergrass
Carl Shafer
Spears Returns From Columbus Hospital
CHAUNCEY Walter Spears of the Floodwood plant was stricken at work and rushed to Grant Hospital Columbus. His stomach ailment improved with treatment and an operation was not needed. He is at home with wife Elsie Spears and sister-in-law Martha Shafer helping with the children. CHAUNCEY Mrs Noah Harvey hosts Esther Class at M E Church Ellis Ave Tuesday at 7 30 p.m.
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Cecil Bolin
Fourth Ave
Homer Russell
I. E. Miller
D. E. Miller
Lee McComas
David Entsminger
Paul Smart
W. R. Saxton
John Zerkle
Richard Horden
Roy Barnes
C. F. Tedrow
Columbus
Ella Harry
Harry
Charles Asa Bradbury
George Lee Beards
Athens
Clarence Howell
Richmond
Ind
Roger Kittle
Glouster
Kittle
Margaret Boice
Jess Johnston
Middleport
George Childs
William Standall
Nelsonville
C. A. Emmish
S. Fifth Ave
Chauncey
Walter Spears
Grant Hospital
Elsie Spears
Spears
Martha Shafer
Noah Harvey
Esther
M. E. Church
Ellis Ave
Church Conferences Begin This Week in local Parish
CHAUNCEY The first in a series of church conferences in the local Church of Christ parish will be held Tuesday at 7 p m in Trimble with Rev. Grant Holman Coolville as conference leader. The second at Taylor Ridge Wednesday at 7 p m will also have Rev. Holman. The third at Greens Run Friday at 7 p m will feature Rev. Leland Goodman Nelsonville, and the final Chauncey meeting will be held late in October with Rev. O W Williams McArthur. The events are for all church and Sunday School officers leaders teachers and church workers.
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Chauncey
Church of Christ
Gilbert Courtney
Trimble
Grant Holman
Coolville
Taylor Ridge
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Charles Gloeckner
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Prospect Hill
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Akron
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Woman’s Bible
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