Middleport social notes detail local events and obits
The Middleport page lists Feeney Bennett Post initiation supper details and installed officers, includes members wives and guests, notes travels and illnesses among residents, announces a Mary Jane Coffee Shop bridal breakfast for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Drechsler, Eastern Star Friendly Night activities, Loyal Berean Class plans for missionary support, birthday tributes, church activities, parsonage cleaning plans, and local residents’ health updates, employment changes, and travels.
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Middleport
Mary Jane Coffee Shop
Paul Drechsler
Grace Episcopal Church
Charles' Baird
Republican War Veterans Meeting in Jackson Saturday
Republican veterans of all wars GOP workers and office staff are invited to a meeting of the 10th District Executive Committee of War Veterans Republican Club of Ohio in Jackson. The event begins at noon with each county scheduled for a 40 minute program. Speakers from Republican state headquarters and the WVRC will attend. Refreshments will be served at 3 30 p.m.
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Jackson
GOP
10Th District Executive Committee of War Veterans Republican Club of Ohio
Benner Jones
WVRC
Meigs Mayors Endorse Saturday DAV Flower Sale
Mayors of Pom eroy and Middleport back the Forget Me Not drive for disabled veterans. DAV posts will sell flowers Saturday with local leaders urging public support.
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Meigs
Pomeroy
Middleport
DAV
Three Hundred Plan Initiation Into Shrine in Middleport
More than 300 members of the Order of Eastern Star will join Mary Shrine in a Saturday institution at the American Legion Hall in Middleport. John H. Klein will preside as supreme watchman of Shepherds with a 1 45 p.m. start, a 6 p.m. banquet and a 7 15 p.m. ceremonial. Mrs Mary Bartlett will attend. Mrs L E Burford and Mrs Leo Vaughan lead arrangements with the banquet at local churches.
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Middleport
Order of Eastern Star
Mary Shrine
Order of the White Shrine of
Nelsonville
L. E. Burford
Leo Vaughan
Pomeroy
Middleport Light Failure Delays Local Football Game
Middleport fans crowded the roads to the stadium for the Pomeroy Chauncey clash as lights in Middleport and the stadium went out for about 30 minutes delaying the kickoff. After the game Chauncey Blue Devils dined at Mary Jane Coffee Shop.
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Middleport
Middleport High School
Wahama
Pomeroy Purple Pan- Buhners
Chauncey Blue Devils
Adder
Mary Jane
Meigs Pastors List Services For Sunday
Meigs area churches announce rally day plans for Sept and Oct. Baptist Pastor Charles Pomeroy Methodist Rev Rothrock Presbyterian Rev McMiven Nazarene Rev Cox lead services. First Baptist lists Sunday School 9:15, worship 10:15, youth 6, evening 7:30 with music. Heath Methodist 9:30 Sunday School, 10:30 service. Presbyterian Sunday School 3:30, worship 10:30. Nazarene rally day Sept 29 with incentives for new scholars. church repairs and furnace needs noted.
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Middleport
Sptember
Charles 3. Pomeroy
Ha, Rothrock
H. G. McMiven
E. E. Cox
Church of Tthe Nazarene
First Baptist
Paul
Robert Hartley
Pomeroy
First Presbyterian
William Grate
Church OF the Nazarene
I Church of the Nazarene
Pearl St
Stevens
Jasper Durst
Estella Walburn
Enrollment in Meigs County schools rises by 108 pupils
Meigs County schools show an overall gain of 108 pupils from 1945 to 1946, with a total enrollment of 3,085 this year. Southern district leads with 865 pupils, Western district up 63 to 585, Central district up 54 to 458, and Chester up 52 to ...
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
C. O. Chapman
Southern
Western District
Rutland
Central
Chester
Everett Hayes
Salisbury
Olive Orange
Northern
Bedford
Columbia
Pomeroy Plans Three School Entertainment Programs
A series of three shows for Pomery public school pupils will be held during school hours at the Junior High Auditorium with a ten cent admission. The Messick Bell Ringers headline September 27 at 2:30 p.m. featuring talking bells and musical numbers. The Allen Duo Sounds of the Air headline October 22 at 2:30 p.m. A one man portrayal of The Taming of the Shrew closes the series March 18 at 1:30 p.m.
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Pomeroy
Pomery
W.A. Smith
Messick Bell Ringers
Messick Troup
Allen
Pomeroy Junior High Auditorium
Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Local Visits and Nursing School Entries
Pomeroy social notes recount a Sunday picnic at Powers Landing near Letart with the Hazelton and Leifheit families among attendees. Also listed are Pomeroy girls entering Holzer Hospital School of Nursing and weekend visitors to Pleasant Ridge and Columbus, noting family reunions, travels, and care arrangements.
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James Hazelton
Wright St
Powers Landing
Letart
John Leifheit
Jack
Wilbur, Young
Thelma Hazelton
Vada Paulson
Joe Gibbs
Pomeroy
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Barbara Woods
Jeannine Evans
Dorothy Duckler
Rosalie Parfitt
Betty Moore
Patty Watson
Eleanor Smith
DUV District Convention to Convene Saturday
The twenty fourth annual convention of District No. 7 of the Ohio Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War will be held Saturday at the IOOF Hall in Pomero y. Members and guests should register by 9 30 am with a morning session starting at 40 am and continuing to noon. Dittmer will be served by United Methodist Church members. Mrs Caddie Wickham of Pom fery is district president.
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Pomeroy
Ohio Department Daughters ofUnion Veterans of
IOOF
Dittmer
United Methodist Church
Caddie Wickham
Pomferoy
The
Daughters of Union Veterans
Evang elist 11 to Lead Salvation Army Meeting
Eulah Thorn, an 11 year old evangelist from Henderson, W Va, will lead the Young People's meeting at the Salvation Army Friday night Sept 20. Services begin at 7 30 p m. She is hoped to appear again Sunday at 2 30 p m for Rally Day at the Salvation Army Sunday School, announced Ray Wining, officer in charge.
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Pomeroy
Eulah Thorn
Henderson
W. Va
Salvation Army
Ray &. Wining
Marriage Licenses Issued in Meigs County Probate Court
A Meigs County Probate Court list shows multiple couples awarded marriage licenses. Names include Frank C. Allen and Jennie Allen of Portland, William Yeager and Vivian Vance of Middleport, Lawrence Dodridge and Lucille Jordan of Columbus and Middleport, and others from Middleport, Racine, Amesville, Kent, Marietta, Charleston, W Va, Millfield, and Toledo. Delaware’s historic name Cape de la Warr is noted.
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Amesville
Clarence Harris
Racine
Shirley Smith
Middleport
Harold Brown
Marietta
Grace Matheny
Edward V. Wilkerson
Charileston
W. Va
Hulda M. Lehrmann
Warne Greathouse
Millfield
Gladys Brooks
Pomeroy
Jack Richard
Toledo
Dorothy Cheeseman
Hemlock Grove Garden Club Elects Officers and Committees
At Grange Hall Hemlock Grove Garden Club elected officers led by President Clarence Heaton and Vice President Ziba Midkiff. Howard Bolin named secretary with Avery Nelson as assistant. George Heines treasurer. flower judging awarded to Clara Heines and Howard Bolin. yearbook and program committees named. civic and membership committees formed.
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Howard Bolin
Avery Nelson
George Heines
Mesdames
Plans Listed or Week By Churches
POMEROY church notices list weekly services across Syracuse United Methodist, Pomeroy Baptist, Grace Episcopal, Racine Baptist, Christian Science and Salvation Army. Highlights include Holy communion schedules, class meetings, and a September Harvest Festival. Also notes a birth in Middleport.
Frank Jackson Rites Planned for Saturday
Funeral services for Frank Jackson aged 107 will be held at 2 30 p m Saturday at the Waomi Baptist Church in Pomeroy. He died after falling over a cliff near his home between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.
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Pomeroy
Frank Jackson
Hi Home
Waomi Baptist Church
Pomeroy Bend Pictures Taken for New Booklet
Paul Sherlock of Ohio Development and Publicity Commission photographed public buildings industrial establishments and transportation facilities in the Pomeroy Bend area on a clear Tuesday. The pictures will appear in a program booklet published by the Pomeroy Mason Bridge Freeing Committee with the local Chamber of Commerce.
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Pomeroy
Paul Sherlock
Ohio
Pomeroy Bend
W. A. Smith
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