Meigs County considers retroactive courthouse salary cuts
The Meigs County officials discussed retroactive salary reductions for courthouse staff as part of an economy move. Deputies face possible pay cuts and potential resignations if the drastic measure is adopted, with no official action taken yet. Local clubs and pension groups hold meetings at the courthouse as part of weekend activities. A marriage license was issued to Otis Knopp and Edna Wolfe.
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Ting
Survsend
Ock
Townsend Club
Pomeroy City Hall
Old Pension Society
Townlub
Penassur Society
Taneroy
Otis Knopp
Falls
Edna Wolfe
Middleport Library Announces 66 New Books Arrive
Middleport Public Library announces 66 new books for distribution including fiction titles such as The High Road and The Heart Has Wings. Biographies include Frank Miller and Walt Whitman, with notable non fiction like The Art of Whistler and My Memoirs Edith Bolin Wilson.
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Middleport
Miss Alpha Summerville
Frank Miller
Mission Inn
Zona Gale
Horace Mann
John Keats
Hewitt
Walt Whitman
Newton
Mark Twain
Masters
Whistler
Ida M. Tarbell
America
Edith Bolin Wilson
Potomac Landing
Fairchild
Robbins
Pomeroy Personal News Highlights Local Visits
Pomeroy residents share weekend visits as Charles and Brooks family return to Ports mouth after two days with Georgia Williamson and kin on Harrisonville Road. Dale Gilkey and family from Gallipolis call on Charles Gilkey family. J W McCullough of Wright Street visits Eagle Ridge with friends. Alston Tracy, Ohio University student, weekends with E J Tracy in Ball Run. Betty Denny moves to Chillicothe to live with her mother. Ellen and Elsnora Ebersbach visit Huntington to see Adolph Ebersbach ill in Veterans Hospital. they are joined by Mary Huber and Mary Baber among friends. Tillie Hall and Norene Long of Gallipolis visit Mary Martha Smith on Wehe Terrace.
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Portsmouth
Georgia Williamson
Harrisonville Rd
Dale Gilkey
Gallipolis
Charles Gilkey
J. W. McCullough
Wright St
Eagle Ridge
Alston Tracy
Ohio University
Athens
E. J. Tracy
Ball Run
Betty Denny
Alonzo Denny
Chillicothe
Ellen
Elsnora Ebersbach
Huntington
Adolph Ebersbach
Veteran's Hospital
Mary Huber
Mary Baber
Foster Memorial Home
Tillie Hall
Norene Long
Mary Martha Smith
Wehe Terrace
Marshall McCuen
McCuen
Wanda
Helen Yarman
Don Yarman
George Myers
Shelby
Essex
Columbus
Adams
Olivia Reed
Dorothy Sauer
Hudson St
George L. Stansbury
Greensboro
N. C
Stansbury
E. E. Stansbury
N. Second Ave
J. E. Stansbury
Betty Hoeflick
George Hoeflick
Anna Lou Abry
Paul Smith
Hoeflick
The
Daily Tribune
Miss Abry
J. O Leonard
F. L. Pratt
Helen
Covington
Bill Austin Smith
Alleghany
Kail
Iowa
Cora Schoenfelt
Addison
G. Swindler
J. W. Hall
Battle Creek
Mich
Hall
Thomas Hall
Buffalo
John Kincaid
Charleston
Lewis Via
Dahlia Pauley
Charles Snider
John
Seaman
Officer Finally Nabs Red Light Crasher
Columbus motorcycle patrolman Wayne Miller pursued a red light violator after an earlier arrest attempt. He spotted Nathan P. Harmon, 30, of Cleveland, and Harmon admitted the offense before posting bond.
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Columbus
U.P
Wayne Miller
Miller
Nathan P. Harmon
Cleveland
Hermon
Church Treasurer Elected at Meeting
Simpson Methodist Church official board met with President Jesse Brewster in charge. Robert Warner elected treasurer after Theodore Bengel resigned. Meeting discussed forming a youth club and possibly discontinuing Sunday evening services, with no action taken. Bengel presented financial and annual reports, which were approved.
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Pomeroy
Simpson Methodist Church
Jesse Brewster
Robert Warner
Theodore Bengel
Meigs County School Staff Listed for 1939–40
A booklet listing all persons connected with the Meigs County school system has been completed by Miss Wilma Roush. The 1939 40 staff includes teachers in Bedford Central Northern Olive Orange Salisbury Southern and Western districts with superintendents and numerous teachers and staff names.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Wilma Roush
C. O. Chapman
Bedford
Darwin
Frank Chaney
George Sargent
Adam Hoskins
Kingsbury
Homer Midkiff
Helen Burson
Hoyttown
R. E. Whaley
Pauline St. Clair
Central
E. R. Hayes
Superin
Middleport Road Work Begins on Town Streets
Southern Ohio Quarry Co. crews started road improvement on Grant and Pearl streets plus Seventh Ave and part of N Fourth Ave. Aimed at bad conditions, the project will add three to four inches of crushed gravel and tar, with an estimated ten days to complete. The work was authorized by the village council.
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Middleport
Southern Ohio Quarry Co
Chillicothe
Grant St
Pearl St
Seventh Ave
Mill St. Hill
N. Fourth Ave
Garden Club Meets Through Resignations and New Members
A middleport garden club meeting at Mrs. M G Brown s home addressed resignations and vacancies for the yearbook. New members include Mrs Lewis Sauer and Mrs Walter Harris among others. Prizes from the Meigs County Fair were noted and a flower show report from Rio Grande was shared.
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Garden Club
M. G. Brown
Rutland St
Columbus
Dana Daniels
Alice Selby
Foster Reed
Dan McNaughton
Harley Thomas
Pythian Park
Garen Stansbury
Victor Reis
Rio Grande
Opera Bust Swap Delays Marat Onstage in San Francisco
In a San Francisco production of Andre Chenier the prop master found no Marat bust listed in the property, so he modified a George Washington bust by removing the hat and adding a revolutionary bandage. The opera continued despite the improvised prop.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Ray Minehan
San Francisco
America
Hollywood
Andre Chenier
Jean Paul Marat
George Washington
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