Sugar Run PTA Plans Sesqui Parade Float and New-Year Committees
Sugar Run PTA met at the school to approve entering a float in the sesquicentennial parade from Middleport to Pomeroy and to form committees for the new year. Officers named program, ways and means, hospitality, health, magazine drive, publicity, membership, and other roles. Charles Gibbs spoke on school children insurance and a tax levy renewal. Halloween party set for Oct 29. county council in October at Salisbury. 48th state convention in Cincinnati Oct 5–7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Middleport
Sugar Run Pta
PTA
I W. A. Gibbs
William Anderson
George Hobstetter
W. R. Carpenter
Charles Spencer
Norbert Compton
Leo Bryan
Hayman Barnitz
Albert Coates
Willard Neutzling
Roy Tracy, Jr
Chester Knight
Frank Rinehart
Charles Gibbs
Pearl Williams
Salisbury
Cincinnati
J. W. McMurray
Ted Downie
George Hobstetter, Jr
Charley Murray
Donald Collins
Fall Festival Plans Made in Pomeroy
Pomeroy firemen, allied with the Boys Club, plan a home coming and fall festival October 13 to 17 on two free parking lots. Events include beauty and baby contests and a horse pulling contest. Howard Brothers Carnival will set up. William Lehew named festival coordinator.
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Pomeroy
Howard Brothers Carnival
William Lehew
Sergeant Returns Home After Year in Korea
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker and son of Mason accompanied Mrs. M. S. Walker Dorothy Scott to Columbus to greet T Sgt M S Walker who returned from a year in Korea with the U S Air Force. The family will move to West Palm Beach Florida where he will be stationed. They will stay with their parents in Mason and Pearl Street for four weeks.
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Middleport
Charles Walker
Mason
M. S. Walker
Dorothy Scott
Columbus
U. S. Air Force
Korea
West Palm Beach
Fla
Walker
Charles Walkers
Lorenzo Scotts
Pearl St
Meigs Countian Earns Assistantship at Ohio University
Pomeroy resident Winifred Jean Lee Route 1 has been appointed an assistant in Ohio University’s Music Department for the 1953 54 school year. She earned a bachelor of fine arts degree there in June 1953. Assistantships go to select master’s students based on merit and professional achievement, waiving tuition and paying for 18 hours of weekly work.
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Pomeroy
Winifred Jean Lee
Ohio University
Engineer Leader Course Graduate Pomeroy Private Smith
Grant A. Smith son of Mr and Mrs Alpha A Smith of Reedsville has completed the engineer leaders course at the army engineers school Fort Belvoir Va. A machinist in civilian life he graduated Chester High School and entered the army last February.
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Pomeroy
Grant A. Smith
Alpha A. Smith
Reedsville
Army Engineers’ School
Fort Belvoir
Smith
Chester High School
Army
Marine Pfc Donald Coleman Stationed in Japan
Pfc Donald G. Coleman of the U S Marines, son of Mrs Helen Archer and Chester High School graduate, is stationed in Japan with the 3rd Marine Division. He trained at Paris Island and Camp Pendleton after working as a machinist in Canton Ohio before entering service.
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Pomeroy
Donald G. Coleman
U.S
Helen Archer
Chester High School
Japan
3Rd Marine Division
Coleman
Paris Island
S.C
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Canton
Ohio
C M Russell Dies at 37 in Columbus
Charles M Russell 37 of 574% N High St Columbus died at White Cross Hospital. Survived by wife Rachel and seven children, including Barbara Jean Turner Maxine Russell and Phyllis Russell. Also survived by father Sherman sister Annabelle Lehman brother William Russell and several half siblings. Body to Haydenville home of Mrs Turner. call after noon Monday. Funeral at Greens Run Church of Christ with burial at Hilltop Cemetery Millfield.
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Glouster
Charles M. Russell
High St
Columbus
White Cross Hospital
Rachel
Barbara Jean Turner
Maxine Russell
Haydenville
Phyllis Russell
Charles
John
Sherman Russell
Annabelle Lehman
William Russell
Greens Run
Ethel Russell
Youth Fellowship Officers Installed at Heath Church
In a candle light service at Heath Methodist Church Middleport Rev Louis A Bangerter installed Youth Fellowship officers. New counselors Katherine Bachtel and Mrs Emerson Jones participated. Jack Lloyd the Middleport High School senior and senior class president led the group with football ties.
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Middleport
Heath Methodist Church
Louis A. Bangerter
Katherine Bachtel
Emerson Jones
Jack Lloyd
Middleport High School
Lancaster Institute
Grate Family Plans for Bakers Fiftieth Anniversary
William Grate and children Janis and Jimmy visited South Charleston with their grandparents, J H Grate and the Bakers. They assist with planning the Bakers fiftieth wedding anniversary for September 27. Janis, a South Charleston High School marching band member, will join Kanawha County Band Festival events Tuesday.
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Middleport
William Grate
Janis
Jimmy
South Charleston
W. Va
J. H. Grate
N. Third Ave
William Baker
Pomeroy
Grates
Mrs. Grate
Bakers
Grate
Shower honors Mrs. Demosky with mint green bassinet gifts
A party in Middleport honored Mrs. William Demosky as sisters Mrs. Sherman Weimann and Mrs. Richard Bailey hosted. After gifts were opened a dessert course followed for Mrs. Eddie Dempsky and others, including Mrs. Ferne Barker and Mrs. Dana Hamilton.
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Middleport
William Demosky
Sherman Weimann
Hamilton St
Richard Bailey
Eddie Dempsky
Ferne Barker
Dana Hamilton
Rosenbaum Family Announces Birth of Son Ricky Allen
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rosenbaum of Columbus announce the birth of a son Ricky Allen born Friday Sept 18 at White Cross Hospital in Co Grandparents are Fred Rosenbaum and Dena Rosenbaum of Pomeroy and Mrs Victor Halbrecht also of Pomeroy great grandmothers Dena Rosenbaum Mason City and Ed Capehart Mason City. The couple has another child Jackie Kay age 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Jack Rosenbaum
Columbus
Ricky Allen
White Cross Hospital
Fred Rosenbaum
Victor Halbrecht
Dena Rosenbaum
Ed Capehart
Mason City
Rosenbaum
Jackie Kay
Boy Shoots Self In Rifle Accident
Edwin Boring 15 of Ashville is reported in satisfactory condition at Meigs General Hospital after accidentally shooting his right foot with a .22 rifle Saturday night while playing with the gun. Robin Sue Stivers was treated Sunday for an eye injury and discharged.
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Pomeroy
Meigs General Hospital
Edwin Boring
Ashville
Robin Sue Stivers
Robert Stivers
Vernon Sjervin dies in Bristol South Dakota
Mrs Gordon Mankin learns her brother in law Vernon Sjervin died in Bristol South Dakota from a heart attack on Friday. Funeral services will be held there on Tuesday. He is survived by his wife his mother a brother and a sister. The Stervins had visited the Mankins several times.
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Pomeroy
Gordon Mankin
Vernon Sjervin
Bristol
S. D
Stervins
Mankins
Last Rites Tuesday For Margaret Mills
Margaret Mills 76 of Pomeroy died at her home Saturday afternoon. She was a member of Syracuse Methodist Church and is survived by two sisters A D Weese of Crooksville and Mrs Clarence Roberts of Steubenville. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Ewing Funeral Home. Burial in Letart Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Margaret Mills
Syracuse
A. D. Weese
Crooksville
Clarence Roberts
Steubenville
Ewing Funeral Home
Letart Cemetery
Rutland Sailor Serves Aboard USS Gyatt In Med
Rutland resident Charles R. Eads gunner's mate seaman son of Mr and Mrs Charles E s of Rutland Route 1 serves aboard the destroyer USS Gyatt with the U S Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea during current duty.
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Rutland
Charles R. Eads
Charles E. S of
Gyatt
U. S. Sixth Fleet
Mediterranean
Universal use of surnames except royal baptismal names
Britannica notes surnames dominate in ordinary use while royalty in England signs with baptismal names only. This exception highlights traditional royal practice amid modern naming conventions.
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England
Mrs Althea Anderson Observes 87th Birthday Quietly
Mrs. Althea Anderson, age 87, marked her birthday at home with her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs M R Sanborn. She remains confined to her room due to illness.
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Middleport
Althea Anderson
M. R. Sanborn
Weekend visits and travels noted in Huntington area
Mrs. Mark Roller of Huntington spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm Roller and joined by her daughter Mrs. Charles Gibbs for the return trip. Other readers report trips to Washington, South Carolina, White Sulphur Springs, Nitr o West Virginia, Schenectady, and Peruvian area relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Roller
Huntington
Malcolm Roller
Sixth Ave
Roller
Business and Professional Women's Clubs
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Charles Gibbs
Gibbs
Karl Owen
Carla Daune
Columbus
Washington
South Carolina
Frank Triplett
Ricky
Nitro
Lewis Tripletts
Gravel Hill
Bradbury
W. J. O’brien
W. Vollert O’brien
Schenectady
N. Y
H. J. Roush
Kathryn Poindexter
George Daniels
Cora Bennett
Helen Mulford
Cedar Point
Middleport
Remo Nieri
Italy
United States
New York
Jane Welch
N. C. Welch
Welch Zeiher
William Betz
Sandra
Gallipolis
C. H. Wises
al Schleicher
Cleveland
William Ohlingers
Mary Ohlinger
Western Reserve University
Samuel Williams
Peggy
Wooster
Miss Williams
Wooster College
Pomeroy
Shower Honors Mrs. Forgoress on Spring Street
Mrs. Frank Forgoress of Spring Street was guest of honor at a Wednesday evening shower hosted by her mother Mrs. William Horner and mother in law Mrs. Steve Forgoress. A bassinet filled with gifts was the centerpiece and many neighbors and relatives attended the refreshments list includes numerous local women and several guests.
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Glouster
Frank Forgoress
Spring St
William Horner
Steve Forgoress
Orville Bingman
W. R. Balderson, Jr
Harold Brown
Daniel Teater
Freil Hemsley
C. E. Palmer
Cassie McCormick
Max Hemsley
Lawrence Malone
Charles Reed
Orville Dailey
Emmett Sutton
Anna
Monroe Michigan Car Crash Fatalities Involve Wallace Kin
Three killed in Monroe when a car carrying Benjamin I Buck father of Mrs George Wallace Jr was struck by a tractor trailer unit. Buck a Baltimore resident traveled from Canada with companions en route home from a business trip. The driver swerved to avoid another car and jackknifed before hitting the Buck car. The discovery of the victims prompted Glouster Police to seek George Wallace Jr to identify the bodies.
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Glouster
Benjamin I. Buck
George Wallace, Jr
Monroe
Mich
Baltimore
Buck
Canada
Ray Fulton
Seaman Morris Commended Aboard USS Herbert J. Thomas
Glouster Frederick F Morris a seaman and son of Mr and Mrs George Morris of Glouster Route 2 was among crew named for commendation by Cmdr William G Brown, commanding officer, for service while the radar picket destroyer operated in the Far East.
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Glouster
Frederick F. Morris
George Morris
Herbert J. Thomas
Cmdr
William G. Brown
Far East
Two Glouster Residents Enter Hospital for Surgery
Two Glouster residents Mrs. Lois Dunlap of Braun Street and Mrs. Maude Vaughn of New Street were to enter Mount St. Mary Hospital Nelsonville today for surgery.
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Glouster
Lois Dunlap
Braun St
Maude Vaughn
New St
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Nelsonville
Rothwell Club Reschedules Meeting to Noon Residence
The Rothwell Club will meet Thursday at the home of Mrs. T. A. Noon, instead of Mrs. W. R. Drury’s house as previously announced.
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Rothwell Club
T. A. Noon
W. R. Drury
Birthday dinner correction at Burr Oak Rest Home
An error in the Burr Oak Rest Home birthday dinner account was corrected. The cake was baked by Irene Wolf rather than Irene Morris, correcting the misattribution for Mrs. Galvin’s celebration.
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Glouster
Galvin
Burr Oak Rest Home
Irene Wolf
Irene Morris
Sunbeam Class of Oakdale Church Meeting Notes
The Sunbeam Class met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Loomis with Rosa Love in charge. Chapters 15 16 and 17 of John were read and discussed. Refreshments were served to Albert Love Darewood Jewell Feye Nott Bernice Lowery Georgia Barns Madge Harry Edward Moore and Miles Hoon. The next meeting will be Oct 10 at the home of Darewood Jewell.
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Oakdale Church
Pearl Loomis
Rosa Love
St. John
Albert Love
Darewood Jewell
Feye Nott
Bernice Lowery
Georgia Barns
Madge Harry
Edward Moore
Miles Hoon
Thea Chapter CBS Hosts Past Matrons and Patrons Meeting
Past Matrons and Past Patrons will be honor guests when Thea Chapter CBS meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m A program is planned and refreshments will be served at the close of the meeting
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Thea
CBS
Senior Progressive Study Club Dinner Notice
Members unable to attend the dinner and meeting at Miss Anne Williams's home must phone Mrs. L. G. DeLong by Monday evening.
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Progressive Study Club
Anne Williams
L. G. DeLong
Daughter Is Born in Chauncey at Sheltering Arms Hospital
Sgt. and Mrs. John Reeves announce the birth of a daughter Juanita Aileen on September 5 at Sheltering Arms Hospital Chauncey. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Blackford Chauncey. Sgt. Reeves has returned from Germany on leave and is back at Camp Kilmer New Jersey.
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Chauncey
John Reeves
Juanita Aileen
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Clarence Blackford
Reeves
Germany
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Chauncey Church Women Hold Program Meeting
Chauncey Loyal Women’s Class of Chauncey Church of Christ met at Mrs. Nellie Brookins home with President Kate Johnson presiding. Inez Nye led the lesson, while Elizabeth Ferrell oversaw the program including readings by Nye Schoonover Jackson Darst Pendergrass Hamilton Courtney, a quartet by Shafer Brookins Brown Bingman, and a whistling solo by Kate Johnson.
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Chauncey
Chauncey Church of Christ
Nellie Brookins
Kate Johnson
Inez Nye
Elizabeth Ferrell
Myrtie Schoonover
Pauline Jackson
Chauncey Personal Notes Highlight Local Visits
Local social items note Chauncey and Ruth Chapman hosting, Mrs Vern Mills visiting Mrs Leon Chapman, and Jim Thorne of Point Pleasant planning to return to Ohio University. Guests from Manchester and Athens share events with the Dursts Cruikshanks and Crow households, while Janice and Lowell Davis attend Ohio University.
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Rea
Ruth Chapman
Vern Mills
Leon Chapman
Jim Thorne
Point
W. Va
J. &. Dunlevy
Ohio University
W. G. Davis
Janice
Glaudia
Gwen
Manchester
L. Durst
Lowell Davis
Charlies Baile
Athens
Leslie Cruikshank
Edward Koon
Dayton
Martha Crow
Seaman Charles LaHugh Aboard USS Moale in Far East
Aboard the destroyer USS Moale in the Far East Charles L. LaHugh machinist's mate third class, son of Mr and Mrs Samuel E LaHugh of Chauncey, is listed. The report highlights his station and family ties without detailing actions or events.
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Chauncey
Moale
Far East
Charles L. LaHugh
Samuel E. LaHugh
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W. D. Edwards
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Ray Woodgeard
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Thomas Mankin
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Richland Ave
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Joe
With Tom Ewell
Patricia Hardy
Tonenleidd
SSEL
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Michael Renne
Wendy A
Roy Boglting
Valentine Dames
Mark Stevens
Jean Kent
PFC
C. M. Russell
Middleport Social Notes
James White
Harold Long
Lester ‘Bailey
Arthur Gilmore
Betty Dempsky
Iris van ‘Cooney
James Ball
New Haven
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Leonard van ‘Meter
Homer Hysell
Minnie Neutzling
Co. H. Wise, Jr
Lula Russell
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Demosky
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Frank Lovejoy
Loretta Young
SPOOK
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Virginia Mayo
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Stephen McNally
Arthur Hunnicutt
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Frederick Hazlitt
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Alfred Werker
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