https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/d0dd130e3120c53e408d4ed8b38ff3d0.pdf cf80cec61968441a0fe01553ab82c71d PDF Text Text . . - Jns'rt today hails Middleport's.200 years . . Ohio :Lottery \ Cincinnati improves record Pick 3: 8-5-2 Pick 4: 9-9-3.0 · BuckeyeS: 6-14-15-26-36 Sports ·o n Page 4 •• • .. a1 Yo'· 41. NO. 14 entine -~ Pomeroy-Middleport, Ohio, Wednesday, July 2, 1997 Clllll', ~ v.lley Publ18111ng c:omp.ny . A chance of ahowera . and thunderstorms tonight, Iowa In the &Oa. Thursday, sunny, leas hu1111d. HI hi In the BOa. I '. 3 Secllano, 80 Pogn, 35 cern. A Q-.,netl Co. N-.,eper · ' I I I II I Meigs communi,ties plan for holiday celebrations ... In Middleport, a patriOtic parade, Fourth of July celebrations !1fC live entertainment and fireworks are planned for Middleport, Racine, and on tap for the fourth, beginning with Rudand on Friday, including parades, the parade at 6'p.m. · entertainment · and .other special The p!ll'ade , will form on Ash observations. Street, and will lake in Beech Street, Line-up for.Rutland's parade will General Hartinger Parkway and Sec~ at 9 a.m. at Depot and Brick ond Avenue, ending at Dave Diles streets, with the parade starling at Park. . 9:30 a.m. For more information, Libby King, a 1997 graduate of conlact Ray Willford, 742-21 03; Meigs High School, will be honored Kent Eads, 742-2257; Kip Grueser, as Middleport's "Celebrated Citi742-2935; Danny Davis, 742-2372. zen." Libby is a descendant ofJarnes Parade winners in various cateSmilh, Middleport's first senler. r> gories will be announced at noon. Awards will be presented for the Big time wrestling matches will be .I best entries in the parade at the park, held all p.m. at Fireman's Park, with the Bloodwar WreStling Alliance. becue and home-made ice cream beginning at 7 p.m. Trophies will go Bingo will also Starl.at I p.m. starling at II a.m. at the fire station. to the best theme, the mostjiilrtillic, Karaoke with MBS recording The Racine Area Community best marching unit, best bicycle, best I arlist Jeff North and Star Bound Organization will ha.}'e children's equestrian unit and best walking · ADULT SUPERVISIONThese chlldren wlll enjoy sp~~rklera as of their Fourtli pf July unit. Entertainment will begin at 2 p.m. ganies starting at no.r.i in the park. celebration, but they have learned to rely on adults to haiJ! them keep their fUn safe. Rebac• Children are encouraged to decorunning thro~gh 5:30p.m. . The Racine Youth League will sponca Klein, 8, her mother Becky, and brother Thomas Klein, 2, are joined by Angela Carter, 9, In addition, lots of games for chil- sora home run derby at II a.m. at the rate their bicycles and ride in the Ariel"Nltz, 5, and her mo1her Tammy NIU as they demonstrate llllfe sparkler use. parade, and those living along the . ' dren will be going on throughout the park. Allen Pape is in charge of the. day including a dunking booth ran by derby and can be contacted al 992- parade route arc asked to Oy their flags in keeping with the patriotic the Rutland Youth j:.cague. 3380. Renegade, a ICX:al band, will per· . The Big ·Bend Farm Antiques naiure of the event. Bob Gilmore ·is in charge of the form ~try and ltght rock mustc at , Club will have an antique tractor pilll parade, and can be reached al 992-, . 6:30 ·p.rn. followed by ftrcworks 8c! at Sf"!'~ill Park at 2 p.m., witlta l\id6128. No registration is involved . . IO:J9, ~·"!· :. ~ •. - • .' . . ~ ,- die liill:for'J"'Il at 'l, p.m. For more In lc'eejliiig··wJili iiidrbOII, 'fOili •'"tr!foiiiiarion contiid Dallal Weber , ·· llint:naliiifttiirlntltrdillg:lhe·'Bii' beef sandwiches w:m be on hand with club presi~nt, at 742-3020. ' zling Dolls, Swinging Seniors, Big By BRIAN J. REED dents. The U.S. Consumer Product . • Never allbw a child to handle oth~ rtems tnc~udrng hqt ~ogs, slopThe Racine Area Community Bend Cloggers and Sweet Mountain Sentinel News Staff· · Safety Commission has ~stimatcd explosive fireworks. The average ' py JOCS, c~tton c:andy a_nd tee ere~. Organization's annual Frog Jump Sound will follow the parade in the All fireworks, even innocent- that :j 16()() injuries in 1996 were the ,I age of injured persons is 13 years, . In Racme, the days celebrattc;>n _ .!"ill be held al 5 p.m. with prizes park area. The variety show is under looking sparklers, can be dangerdirect resull of.fireworks and rheir 'Sparklers and other novelty itcnis wrll begm wrtha parade starltng .at_IO awariled in rwo age groups. In for- rhe direction of Sharon Hawley, Rae ous and as Independence Day mishandling or malfunctia~·. should be used . under the closest a.m. Line-up wtll be at Southern Htgh mat ion is available from Aaron Gwiazdowsky and Tom Dooley. 1 Experts recommend viewing of approaches, officials are reminding adull supervision . . Special vocal performances are School.~ 9:15 a.m., followed by a Young at 949-254~ . public fireworks displays, rarher • Always wear glasses or safe.Oag-nustng ceremony at 9:45 a.m. Entcnainment will be on the park planned by Pam, Neece, Jason Riley, · usentoobserveextremecaution in using them. . than pulling on amateur shows. ty goggles when lighting fin;,.. . Anyone wanting to ~nter the stage s1aning al 2 p.m. and continu- · Monica Zurcher, B.J. Smith and Last year's tragedy in Lawrence Both Racine ·and Middleport have .works. Even spectators should con· Marlane Slaats. parade should conlael Manlyn Pow- ing to 10 p.m. A fireworks display County and resulling legislation included fireworks displays as part sider wearing prorecrive '' gear. During the festivities: the U.S. · ell at 949-2676. . will begin at 10 p.m. Among the relating to fireworks sales notwithof their Fourth of July festivities. About one-fourth of those injured Post Office staff from Middleport Terri Carsey of Lone Oak Farm . groups expected to perform are rhe standing, local celebrations will no Consumer fireworks now each year are bystanders. will be in charge of the equestrian Big Bend Cloggers. Swinging will make available a s~ial bicendoubt include some of the firereferred to as 1.4G fireworks, for- · • Never put firecrackers in tin unit. Entrants can call her at 992- Seniors, High Country Band, True tennial postmark, designed especialworks still available in relail stores, merly known as "Class 'C"' firecan' s, clay pots, or bottles that can ly for the celebration. 2800. There will be a..Lards in this Country and Sounds of Country. as well as fireworks purchased works can be· legally · sold by a shatter under impact and scatter Concession spaoes arc available at category. Craft booths will be ser up at the elsewhere. Many states still make licensed wholesaler or ,manufac. fragments like shrapnel. All parade winners. will be· park and anyone/wanting to reserve a cosl of $10, and can be reserved by firecrackers· and other explosive turer, but cannot be used in Ohio. • lgnhq fireworks one at a time, announced at the Star Mill Park a space can contact Dale Han ar949- calling Nancy Cale at 992-5438. . devices available to the general Firecrackers, .boule rockets, and never ignite them indoors. A display of fireworks will wrap slage at noon. 2656. Any other questions about 'the public. · Roman candles, skyrockets, faun• Place a bucket of water near- · The Racine Volunteer Pi~ Depart- event can be directed to Marilyn up the Fourth of July Bicentennial According to Ohio Fire Marshal tains and missiles ard examples of 'by to pur out'fires or to douse fireprogram, beginning at 9:30p.m. nlent and Auxiliary will have a bar- Powell or Kathryn Han. James McNamee, Ohio law prothis class. The buyer must Slate, in · works that don't work: writing, tharthe items will be tak, • In the event of an eye injury, hibits mbsr fireworks. There are lhrce classifications: en to a designated out-of-slate do not touch the eye. Immediately trick/novelty, items, such as address within 48 hours. They seek emergency trealmcnt. sparklers; 1.4G consumer firecannol ·be legally discharged in Bottle rockets caused the most works; and 1.3G display/exhibit Ohio. eye injuries last year, with 67 perfireworks. 1.3G fireworks , known as· cenr, followed by firecrackers , Only the novelty items. which ·"Class 'B'" fireworks, arc sold Roman candles and other explosive ldsp iqclude snakes, smoke-procxclusivcfy to licensed profession- devices. ducing items and loy trick devices, al exhibitors and are nol available Experts recommend that very are legal for use by consumers in for sillc to the public. young children not be allowed ro Ohio. Those who dci usc novelty fire- hold ~parklers when lit. A special "Even though these fireworks works at home shOuld follo)V some can or othel safe container should are ·legal, users should be extremesimple safety guidelines: be kept nearby 10 itold sparklers ly careful when igniring any of • Usc only legal fireworks. once they arc extinguished, since them," McNamee said in a news · They are printed with rhc manu- sparklers . remain very hot to rhe release issued Tuesday. "All fire- . facturer's name. address and a cau- · touch for a considerable time after works have rhe porential to maltionary label. · , they go out. . function." • Read all warnings and instrucWhile lit, sparklers can reach In the U.S. each year, approxitions carefully and follow them to temperatures of up to 1,800 marely 2,000 eye injuries are lhe the letter. degrees, hot enough ro melt gold, direct result of fireworks acci• Only usc fireworks outdoors. · McNamee said. Middleport, Rac;ine and Rutland set I I I activities~ parades for this Friday , ' .. 1 ' 1 pa" . A_, _the 4th approac~es, firewotks~.SSfety sfreS$Sd,, ~ OHIO REPRESENTATIVE - Eleven-yearold Joshua Smith racenUy attended the National Wild Turttey F8daratlon'a second annual Porter Wagoner/JAKES Conaervatlon Field Days National Event June 19-22 In Edgefield, S.C., Smith waslllilitc:tad to raprallllllt Ohio at the all-expanaaa-pald avant The youngater showa soma of theltema he brought beck with him. ~Racine 11-year-old repr.esents Ohio '> ........... OPEl SAtt-6 :at NWTF's .annual youth fie1d days · A Racine area youth recently returned from an all-expenses paid trip to the Nalional Wild Thrkey federation headquarters in Edgefield, S.C. . ' Joshua Smith, II, a sixth grader at Syracuse Elementary School, was. selected to represent Ohio at the second annual Porter Wagoner/lAKES Conscrvalion Field Days Nalional Event held June 19-22. Smith is a mem~ of JAKES , the In addition, participants were instrucred on archery, black ·powder James, Joshua parlicipaiCd in numer- shooririg, sporting .clays, air gun ous activities . including firearms training and fishing . They also training, idenrification of plants and observed the demonstration of a animals, survival. conservation, rocker net used to capture wild wildlife food plots, turkey calling, turkeys for research iJr for relocation programs. reptiles and phO\Ography. Joshua also brought back plenty of '!}ley learned arrowhead chipping complimentary items including caps, and met six-foot, six-inch tall mounrurkey calls, hunting backs and videotain man Dalton "Huggin' Bear" Haltapes. brook. NWJ'Fs youth group. Accompanied by his father, I I I I With m·otion of Voinovich's pen, welfare reform program to take effect in M~igs ' I What changes are in store for personal responsibility for getting a Meigs County's welfare recipients? ' job and remaining employed is sig- · With Gov. George Voinovich's nificant, benefiting both recipients signature on welfare refoim legisla- and taxpayers, according ro Michael tion, the issue, which has been vig- Swisher, direcror of the Meigs Coun· orously debated, highly planned. and t~ Departmenl of Human Services. According to Swisher, job opporlegislaled in the General Assembly and in Congress, has becoll'tj: law in tunities, rather than a lc~rhy appliOhio. cation process. will be the first order In Meigs County and across the of business when most unemployed ·state, the new policy will be called adults come to his departmenl for "Ohio Works First." ,. help. Beginning Oct. I, unemployed Along with the work requireadults in low-income families will be ments and obligations for 1panici· . required to work, receive training pants, Ohio Works First wDI offer ·and/or education in order to receive support serviCes rhat, in most cases, cash benefits. Along with work are viral for success, SwiSher said. requirements, time limits will be Participants and their families arc . a11aehcd to cash bene!its- for most, ~ guaranteed health care coverage, as · a limil of three years followed by a1 well as subsidies for child care. To least two years off the program. help in the transition to work, they are Ohio Works. Firsl's emphasis on · also provided with these slime health • oarc and child care benefits for up'to 12 months after leaving the program. "Gone are the days when an isolated crisis in a person's life 'requires full enrollment for public assistance benefits," Swisher said, noling that through the companion Prevention, Retention and Contingency program, those with one-time financial needs, such as for car repair or recovery from a home fire, are given help to bridge their income gaps and avoid ongoing cash benefits. Every resi.dent of Ohio. not just c!llknt or previous welfare recipientsi are eligible for help under this program. Local governments and DHS agencies have added responsibilities as well, Swisher noted. "Local officials are"quick to point (ContinUed on Page 3) • \ .., . �\ CotnnJentary ' !/ednesday, July 2, 1197 • 111 Court .. ..... '--Oft Olllo w::::~· July 2, 1111 & . . . . By JIICk Andino!• .into law, and pus Mceain-FeiniOid the dellli of reform. The IUiiUI quo, · .... ..., Mallr by the day we celebrate the liirth at of coUne. favon illculllbenll. This year's celebralion of lnde- our democracy •• July the Fourth," lnlidcn 1111 us thlil- version pendeuce Day should rille hollow for Clinton said then. of campmp fUWICe reform - tai- .. our eleaed leaden, wbo -IDythinl butindependentfromtheinflueaceof lup contributors who sreue their political m.:hines. Think lbout that this weekend as A Gannett Co. Newspaper politicians scramble to parades and uy to prm nt themselves as lllll:r-day Wuhingtons and Jeffenons. 'For as ROI HI L WINanT the fireworts die out on the evenin1 Pullllll« of July 4, !0 will yet another deadline for restoring some sanity to the way political campliJIII are funded. IIAAGAMT LIHIW In his State of the Union address ea..... a......"...lllillll' five months ago, Presideni Clinton said that blockina the torrential flow of special-interest money into feeler· - .. ,.IO!tu:w: "11 ~.: .al ·campaiJIII was one of the most lltllllljl_,_,..... ·-•-• . .. .... , ' important pieces of business facing Itt - . JILl . . . . f l l - . a.: · .., CMit the country. ..,!*'*~!.·~·IIU~:·~"!!~'-!!:61 ~.,_~,---------·;........;·___. _J Hechallen...,.mem....._ofCon· ·"""" JRSS to join him and "commit ourselves tonight before the eyes of America, to finally enacting bipsrti- · san campaign finance teform." 81.....21111•,.. . . .2117 .:l,· By Jack Anderson and Clinton entitled to a little funk these days . . J·•n uo"•r u ,.., flv He went on 10 say that the bill. cosponSOied by Sens. John McCain, R· Ariz., and Russell Feingold, D-WIS., reached "across party lines 10 craft tough ud flir" reform. "You know and I know that delay will me.n the death of reform," the president said. Of course, now that the blindinJ · swirl of revelations lbout theDemoc· rats' c11J1118ip finance abuses hu slowed, delay is probably just fine WI'thCI'mton. Wh y chanae a syslem that hu benefited him ud will ben· . elit his chosen successor, fund·rlis· er-in-chief AI Oore? Most Republicans, given their :::...-=,_ -"'.,.-._ --·-,.... •...,.. •-y-:-.,.=== ::: ": . , ., -..,II<.._ L By WALTER R. IIIIARS AP 8&*:111 Corn 1p andlnt . r lored ala.., the liaCI of the McCalaFeinaold biD - will problbly ru:h the Senate flpor this month. M~n hu been talkiag for p!OIIIhs with Majoricy Leader Trent Loa, RMiss., about a compromise that would brina the bill up for a vole. One nf the Jut slickiDJ points is how tO cunaillllbor union iDoney - wbil:b flows mlinly 10 Democrats - while also n:strictina corporate contribu- '* lions. McCiin-Feinaold, and pirallel House .leJislation spoDIOftiCI by Reps. Christopher Shays, R.Conn., and Martin T. Meehan, D-Mw., would fix some of the worst features of the exiltina syslem. It would eliminate the "soft money" loophole that allOWl huge toDu.,..tiOIIS ....... . 10 be g:v· · en ostensibly for "party building," then routed with a wink and a nod to specifiC candidlllcs. . It would bu contrlbutions from AccuWWIIe~ on races and free polilicUas from the . endleu money c:'-that the current systemrequiresoflhem. lndoi•JSO. it would level the playiiiJ field beiween incumbeii!S ud cballenJen · ·lllllllhus, hopefully, end the silly drive toww term limits. While hope that it will pus in the immediate future seem dim, an emetJing movement at the stale lev· el shows that people recop,ize the problems poled by special lnterelt DtODe)' - and that they have sub, Slanlial interest in n:form. A number of slales'have passed or are considerin& "clesn moaey"le&· . islltion that provides public fundiiiJ · for state candidales who apee to spendina limits .00 forswear lnldi· tiona! fund ri'isinJ. · Such legislatioa wu recently passed by Vennont'slepillllnlllll .__. · 10 Ia by 0o H __, llio·w v, .volen ow..u . Dean. a'" Democnt. Maine approved a limil• law by ~Cferen­ dum in 1996. Simi11r meuures are under discussion ia 12 Oilier stales, including North Carolina, Wisc:msift 1 ~~"~Le~t~·s~w~ork~~IO~&~e~lher~~to~wn~·te ~·~Conaress. party~~·s~m~lljOn~ · =-·~ty~ift~both~~bouses~~~o~f , I~t,,!•:nc!:D,Iinois.In Connecticut, "clea ,bipartisan campaign finance are not much bothered by ~c:orpotate~~:sourc:es~~~~~~~~~~nonc~~iti~zen~s~ would Iowa- the amount of spendins proposal was narrowly in the le'psllhlre recendy, it is expecledto be resurrected. Here in WashingtoO, Ellen Miller lirecendy formed Public Camplian, a non-profit orpnization devOied tn promotins "clean money" reform. For more than a decade, Miller had headed the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks the flow of special interest money: to candidales. Survey's conducled by Public ,Campaign have shown support for :"c:lean money" reform in New York City and in Idaho, MLISSILChusefis, Michiglli and Missouri. The f1et that clean money is catching on is lestamcniiO the pow· er of an idea. And 10 the fact that fll' from the While House and the Capi· 101 people are willing to do the grunt work 1of democracy: orpnizina. ~ir· culating petitions and contacting their represeatatives . A few months ago the powers on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue were feigning that same 5011 of commitment. But_as Inclependeftce Day approaches, they unfortunately remain shielded to the c:onuptina syllem that helped get them elected in the ,lim place. "~ OOJDI-0... tM AroJT TO 'l'Rif'A'{ UAND AT 'MINIMAU~~ !ManSfield le1 • IND. ) . .. ) . r • IColumbusl86' ,f '"" su::::y Pt Cloudy Cloudy Mabel B. Pickens :Less humidity forecast ., .f or region on Thursday Mabel B. Pickens, 105, fonnerly of Clifton, W.Va., died Wednesday, July 2, 1997 at Rocksprings Rehabilitation Center, Pomeroy. Arrangements will be announced by the Foglesong Funeral Home, Mason, W.Va. . The Ohio Department of Health has issued new or revised fish con· sumption advisories for various bodies of water throughout the state including the Ohio River. . · ODH suggests Ohio River anglers eat no more than one meal ·a week of largemouth, smallmouth or spotted bass and sauger;·one meal a month of white bass, freshwater dntm or hybrid striped bass, or six meals a year · . of flathead catfish. Channel catfish and carp are not recommended eating. The adv:sory are due to the contaminants PCBs, men:ury and Chlor· dane, according to ODH. . . Low bL~Ckground levels of mercury were found in nearly all of the 2.000 samples tested from various bodies of water. Therefore, women of child· bearing age and children 6 and under should eat no more than one meal of fish per week from any Ohio body of water. · . "You ~an have the health benefits of eating fish and help reduce your nsk by follow:ng the·gu:delines in these advisories," said Bill Ryan, state health director. "These meal recommendations are based on the best data and methods for assessing health risks, and should help improve public confidence about eating sport fish in Ohio." · Road closed for emergency work Rutland Township's Beech Grove Road (T-447) will he closed between Romines Road (T-9) and Jacks Road (T-46) beginning ioday until further notice for emergency road work. . #~sue II training sessions slated Training sessions for Round 12 of the 18th Public Works District State Issue II Program will be held Aug. 4 at ihe Holiday Inn, Marietta. "I:wo training sessions will he held: 10 a.m. to noon and 6:30-8:30 p.m. Topics include preparation of applicatioos for Round 12, infonnation on loans and loan assistance, and minority business enterprise participal,ion requirements. .. County, township, city, village, water and sewer district officials are eligible to participate in the program by calling the Buckeye Hills-Hocking Valley Regional Development District at 614-374-9436 by July 25. Issue napplications will he distributed at the training sessions. The deadline for submitting applications is 5 p.m. on Oct 3. ' By The Associated Preas ' A cold front will sweep the clouds out of Ohio skies tonight and produce Pomeroy police report on accident :a fair day for Thursday. .No citations were issued following a two•car accident on Main Street . Lows tonight will be in the 60s and highs on Thursday in the 70s, except in Pomeroy on Tuesday afternoon. · Mark. Eua Rhonemu_s, infant son of ,Mark Elwood and Cindy J. Fryfoale for extreme southern Ohio where the mercury wj.U hit the 80s; the National William Smith, 31, Point Pleasant, W.Va., was stopped at a stop sign. Rhonemus of Shade, d:ed Tuesday, July I, 1997 at Riverside Hospital in ·weather Service said. (. . · · John Mullins, 68, Athens, did not see Smith's vehicle and struck Smith's Columbus. · • Some· Fourth of July fireworks displays could be dampened by rain on car in the rear. No injuries were reported. Beside his parents, he is survived by a brother, Shaunn Bmon of Shade; Friday. The extended forecast includes a chance of showers. · The record-high temperature for this date at the Columbus weather Sill· paternal grandparents, Alfred C. and Patricia G. Rhonemus of Aberdeen; and 'tion was 98 degrees in 1898 while the record low was 48 in 1988. Sunset maternal grandparents, June and Mary Jane HILipOid of Parkersburg, W.Va., and David L. Fryfogle of Live Oak, Aa. •tonight will he at 9:04 p.m. and sunrise Thursday at 6:08 a.m. Private graveside services will be held Thursday at the Ebenezer Church Weather forec:ast: (Continued from Page 1) benefits from the state, and failure to • Tonight... A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some thunderstonns Cemetery near Aberdeen, with Monsignot,. Donald Horack officiating. No vis· out that while. perfonnance require· meet the benchmarks will result in .may contain strong, gusty winds. Fog late. Lows in the upper 60s. Wind itation Will he observed. Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Vincent DePaul Society, ments and· time limits apply to indi· local sanctions. becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 40 percent. "Ohio Works First will change the viduals receiving assistance under · Thursday ... Mostly sunny. Becoming less humid. Highs in the upper 80s. in care of Christ the King University Parish, Athens Ohio 45701. • · Ohio Works First, the program con, culture of public assistance from Thursday night..-.Mostly clear. .Lows in the mid 60s. tains important performance bench- that· of a program preoccupied with · Extended forecast: marks of its own for the ·county eligibility detennination, paperwork · fourth of July... Partly cloudy. A chance of thunderstonns during the day. Donald CUes Steph~nson, 52, Racine, died Wednesday, lilly 2, 1997 at ·department and local government," and process to one that rewards the Highs in the lower 80s. placement of unemployed into jobs Swisher said. Saturday.:..Panly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s and highs in the lower the Overbrook'Nursing Home, Middleport. 8~. .. He was born OcL 5, 1944 in Middleport, son of the late Vivian Smith JohnIf those benchmarks are sur· that they arc likely to keep," Swish' •Sunday... Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s and highs in the lower 8~. son and William R Stephenson Jr. He attended the Nazarene Church and was passed, counties receive financial er said~ · a member of the American Legion Post 128, Middleport. . He was a Vietnam veteran and retired from the U.S. Navy with 20 years service. He is survived by his wife. Shirley A. Hudson Stephenson; a son, ·Don The·following land transfers were Scipio parcels; i Andrew Stephenson of Racine; brothers, William R. Stephenson of Penn· recorded recently in lhe office of · Easement,. Mary R. Porter to : sylvania, Eugene Stephenson of Colorado, and David J. Stephenson of Cal- Meigs County Recorder Emmogene Ronald B. and Diana S. Carpenter, ifomja; a stepmother, Mamie Snyder Stephenson of Pomeroy; and several Hamilton: Sutton; A 33-year-old Middleport woman Gillilan pulled over a vehicle on Rut- aunl!l, uncles, nieces and neph~ws . Deed, Nonna Evans to Sandra K. Deed, )l:athleen 0 . Cecil to Keilh was sentenced to five years in prison land Street. The driver said he was He was preceded in death by a brother, John Stephenson. Williams, Lebaqon; E. and Carolyn J. Se s, Middle· Monday for the November, 1996, going to get a babysitter to watch a ~Memorial services will be held at a later .date. Arrangements are by the Deed, Harfel Corp. to William port; beating of her 9-year-old son. child while another child was taken Fisher Funeral Home, Middleport. Buchanan, Orange tracts; Deed, CarrOll Mildred JohnTammy J. Bush ·plended guilty to to the hospital, according Middlepon Deed, Dille L. and Dorothy M. ' son to Valerie Giles, Pomeroy tracts; a charge of child · endangerment Police Chief Bruce Swift. McGraw to Carl D. and Regina Easement, Terry Life to Robert C. "before Meigs County Common Pleas - - Officers responding to the scene Simpkins, Racine; and Pamela L. Botts, Olive; Coun Judge Fred W. Crow III. found. the battered boy and called the Richard Allen Wright, 65, Ravenswood, W.Va. , died Tuesday, July I, 1997 Deed, Jal!k W. Carsey to Violet Deed, Edith Buchanan to Robert Crow sentenced Bush to a definite Meigs County Emergency Medical at Ravenswood. Lee, Pomeroy; ·· C. and Pamela L Botts, Olive; "tenn of five years in the Maysville Service, Chil~ren's Services and the Born Nov. 3, 1931 in Cowen, W.Y~ .• son of Carl R. and Virginia Wright Deed, Richard D. and Patricia A. Deed, Daniel E. Shestina to Don· Reformatory for Women, the ma~i- Meigs County Prosecuting Attor- of Cowen, he was an electrical engineer at Kaiser Aluminum Chemical Corp. Manzey to Richard D. and Patricia A. aid Keith and Deborah Schumacher mum allowable sentence. ney's Office, Swift added. and Ravenswood Aluminum. He was a master Mason of Camden Lodge I 07, Lewis, Columbia; Manzey, Scipio 'parcels. Prosecuting Attorney John R. Lentes earlier presented a series of and a member of the First Baptist Church of Ravenswood. . Deed, Esther Mae Mays to Steven · Lentes said the boy was taking a bath photographs taken after the incident In addition to his parents, he is .survived by his wife, Laura Geraldine "and was beaten after he got "mouthy." showing a young boy covered with Wrigh; two daughters. Mar.~ha Lynn Tucker of Charlotte, N.C., and Lora·Kay W. and Denise L Bunce, Chester; Deed, Charles Butterworth to +le was struck with a lelephone, swollen bruises and abrasions to the ·Emerson of Parkersburg, W,Va.; a son, Richard Bruce Wright of Charlotte, Charley M. and Candie Evans. punched, slapped and kicked. he face and back. N .C.; two grandsons; and a sister, Barbara Bollinger of Charleston,·W.Va. Columbia parcels; 'added .. The child is now residing wilh a Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday in the Roush Funeral Home in Deed, Ellsworth J. and Ann F. " Middleport officers ' discovered relative, Lentcs said. Ravenswood. with the Rev. Kenneth Miller officiating. Burial will follow in Holden to Anthony Ray Montano. ' the incident when patrolman Tim the Ravenswood Cemetery. Friends may call from ~oon to 2 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Mark E. RhonJ!mus Welfare reform-program Donald G. Stephenson Meigs land transfers posted Local·woman sentenced for beating young son · Richard A. Wright :Actions to end marriages filed The following actions to end mar· riage were filed recently in the office of Meigs County Clerk ofCouns Larry Spencer: Dissolution asked - Cindy Lynn Fields and Joseph Richard Fields, ·both of Pomeroy, June 13. 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(Published wilh permission) (USPS 153-960) .Mr. Clinton: Welcome to the discussion I have some suagestiO!'s for Mr; Clinton and Dr. Franklin: I . What we need more than talk is· a time-out. For a period of one year; we should all JO about our jobs itt routine fashion, refusing to define each other by skin color. We should treat everyone equally, as basiC: morality and the law demand. we, should. all, black and white, quit blamin1 race for every problem and simply respect each other. We should · tell David Duke to stuff it and Jesse' Jackson to. get a real job. 2. Nothing I can think of would be' more conducive to racial harmony. .than a program of compulsory natiOih ·al servi~. Requiring youns citizens of every economic class and eyery skin color to pull a hitch in the military, or in some civilian equivalent, would inspire more empathy than all the jawboninJ in the world could,_ achieve. Take it from a person wbo shared time, tents and canteens with n':any of different cultures, !here is · nothing so leveling as livina together. · '!1 W.VA. llpelld: · What would I be apologizing fqr? I am n01 a racist. I abhor discrimination. No one with whom I associate •• no one with whom I have ever -- . . :...... ··•tiS condoned slavery. I certainly do 1101. My anceators, so far as I know, did not. AccordinJIO fam· ily legend, the Spears were sailors and shipbuilden who mipted soUth Ifrom Massachusetts and seuled in Muyland. One male in my maternal p1115dmoiher's line fought for the Union in the Civil War and was severely wo11nded. There are tens of millions of white Americans wlio share my atti· tudes. We feel grea1 sorrow tl!al people of different color are discririli· nated against. But. how could we, with any dearee of intesiity, apolo,gize for something we did not do?. To some agitators. not even an !apology would suffice. They believe that black Americans should be ptljd billions in "regamtions." As if half a million deathS in a w• fought. in larp part. to purae the nation of slavery ~ounts for nothing. Edna Lena Foster, 94, of the Plants communitx near Racine, died 1\:escjay, July I, 1?97 at the Overbrook Nursing CCntcr, Middleport. · Born May 28, 1903 in P.arkersburg, W.Va., daughter of the late George L. and Electra Ann Sayre Wolfe, she was a homemalcer and a member of the fanner Plants ,United Methodist Church, where she served as a Sunday Sj:hool teacher and P':an:st and was act:ve, along wtth her late husband, in keeping the church budding open for community services. . . She was also a member of lhe Racine United Methodist Church. She is survived by five daughten and sons-in-law, Mary Jane and Matthew Cm of Colu!"bus, Margaret D. and Carroll Cleek of Columlius, Edna Glee "Dee" and Richard Ted Grindley of Columbus, Joy Anne Ellis of Simi Valo ley, Calif., and Miriam R. and Dale Compliment of Raleigh, N.C.; two sons and daughters-in-law, George Charles and Virginia Foster of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Waid K. and Shelba Foster of Marietta; and 19 grandchildren, 25 great· grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Cross Foster, in 1977; a great-granddaughter, Lauren Anne Musser; a great-grandson, Cody Williams; and a half-brother, Walter Spencer. Services will be 2 p.m. Sunday in the Racine United Melhodist Church, with the Rev.' Brian Harkness officiating. Burial will follow in the Letart Falls Cemetery. Friends may caii_Saturday from 2-4 p.m. at the Cremeens Funeral Home in Racine. · · The body will lie in state at the chun:h one hour l:efore services. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can he made to the Racine Unit· ed Methodist Church, Racine First Baptist Church or the Mount Moriab Church of God. ~ I• .(f ., Clinton's use of.kids is shameful town meetings, and he appointed an The . main thing Bill Clinton's "advisory board" to give him guidBy TM Aleocllad Preu ance. The chainnan of this panel, . Today is WCdnetday, July 2, the•l83rd day of 1997. The110 III'C 182 days great race debate is aoina 10 accom- retired Duke University historian plish, I fear, is to make everyone left in the ye,r. · • · madder. · 'foday's ~shlishl in History: -I'm already disturbea'ind the colOn July 2. In6, the Continental Conaress passed a R!Oiution that "these United Col011ies are, and of riaht.• ought to be,l'ree and Independent StaleS." · loquy hasn't even begun. Let's start with Clinton's premise, John Hope Franklin, had this to say: On this~: which is specious. The time has "I'm n01 su11esting that town meetIn 1566, French astrologer, physician and prophet Nostrlldamus died in come, he told a San Diego audience ings will solve the problems .:. but I Salon. mid-June, to launch "a areat and am suggesting that a national conIn 1881, Plesidenl Garfield wu lhot by Charles 1. Gu:reau at the Wash- in unprecedented conversation about versation about race and etl:nicity has ingCon ni~ sta;on; Garfield died thai September. race." not occurred in our history." In 1890, Cong¢ss passed the Sherman AntilrUII Act. Unl'ftCedented. Did you get lhat? Where in the name of Martin In 1926, the U.S. Army Air Corps wu created. 1be fact is, this nation has been Luther King Jr. was this man 30 ye::rs tJ: .I937, aviator Amelia Earhart and naviptor Fred Noonan diuppeared ·. engaJed in a robust dialogue about a~o? Indeed. it is an insult to Dr. · over the Pacific ~n while at~emptinJIO make the lint round·the·world nee since the 17th century, but our King's memory to hear a prominent flight a! the eqiiiiCII'. ' president has somehow not beard historian claim we've never dis· In 1947, 11!1 objtct ~hed near Roswell, N.M. The Army Air Force lat· j about it. He missed the.Civil War, the ~ussed race. . er insisted it was • weather balloon, but eyewimeas accounts aave rise 10 Emancipatiotl Proclamation, the 13th ' Anothei thina that upsets me is the ~J¥1lulation it pliJI:t have been an ali~n sp:lcecnrt. · and 14th Amendments 10 the Consti- idea of apologizing for slavery. A In' 1961 , 1tlthor Emcst Heminaway lhot himselflo death at his home in . tution, Brown vs. the Bpard of Edu- · dozen legislators have offered a bill Kt,~hum, lcWJo. • cation, the momentous civil rights 'that would accomplish this and Clin· In 1964, ~sidllntJohnson silned into In a sweeping civil ripu bill laws of the mid· '60s, and the ~m- ton says he is mulling it over. pafled by ConJIUI. ~ er Commission appointed by Lyndon I aslc: Breathes there a sane and ln 1976, the Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherendy Johnson. \ civilized penon in these Uniled crvel oruniiiiJII. .. . To stimulate the dlicussion, Clin· States who believes in the eliSlaveIn 1994. a' USAir DC-9 crashed in poor weather at Clill'lolte-Doualu IOn called for a year-long series of mtnt of human beinas? ln~emationallillport in Nor1h Carolina, killina 37 of~'' people aboard. Edna L. Foster • ?"'!hi' By JOHph Spetlr Fish consumption advisory)ssued MICH• . '·.JI . Local News in Brief: Thunday, July 3 WASHING'ION - PresideDt Clinton problbly is .entitled to a funk about now, or perhaps a touc:ll of malaise. Ev~ so, he says he's upbeat. Heuys it's the R&publicans wbo dna thinp down. . · · Clinton hu taken two direct hits from the Supreme Court, the Republi· cans are tailorina taX-ell terms that won't suit him and Whitewater prosecutors are said 10 be getting personal. ' The economy and Americu confidence in the future is up, but while be boasts .of the beat showiDJ and outlook in years, Clinton lamented wliat he describes as the lemon·suckin&. neptive mood of some __.., in Willh:ngton. . .,.....,... He ~·t use n - . of people or political pllties. But his GOP larJel wase~L · . "There are people in Washington-I,think that it really makes them sad that America's doing so well," he told a Demociatic fund-nisinJ rec;epdon in Los Anples last --:"· "They wlke up eYel)' day uyinato think of some way to put us down, this whole c:ounuy, and get us back to beiiiJinJfY and mad with one another. · "And I just keep trying to get everybody to look on the bri&hl side and iO furwud," Clinton said. · , . He didn't always sound that way. "Afler all this lime in Wuliington, I •ttl!.remember back before I inoved ll:ere when I had a life," dinton slid. · · ... And I expect to have a real life when I leave." Two Supreme~ rulinp may complic_ate life before then. One ruling last week foo:ed White House lawyers to y:eld to Whitewater prosecutors and tum over DOles ~ ~. meetinas with Hillary Rodham Clinton. An ell'· lier one was against --ng a sexual lwessment lawsuit aaainst Clinton until be is out of office. On Wednesday, The Washington Post reporled that Wbilewater investiJaAude•w 111111 Ju Moler gators have been looking into Clinton's ~elationships with women when he wrlten fer Ualted Fabire ·was governor of Aibnsas. 1Mkin1 people in whom he might have con lid· IS)'IIIIIble, Inc. ed on dealinp in that case. It t~rned such inquiries date from the earliest days of the While· '----------:-----------~------"'----~---_; Wiler lnVeSIIgataon, but the Post report stirred Democntic protests and led proscc:utor Kenneth SlUT 10 deny be is investisatinil Clinton's personal life by interviewing potential witnesses with whom he may haVe been associ· ated.,Another problem, either way. _ · After ~ns JliSIIP of a plan to balance the budget by the y- 2002 least one member of the president's to drink that youna people simply Jive a aun to a minor. By JOIIph Pel kiM Clinton and Congress have a bot summer of hiQiina alad on taXei, "I want every adult who buys a Am I the only one who's grown Council of Economic Advisers. "The don't need. Nothing good can come ing cub- and ~edic~ pro~isions. The president has said be won't sign a of it." aun to see that sian and think lbout tired of President Clinton's shameless incremental health-risk reduction for bill that doesn t fit h:s read1n1 of the bargain he struck earlier with RepubBut there is no evidence wltal5oit. before they give a child a JUD ihat habit of using "chilllren" 10 defend more stringent standards is small," liciD conaressional leaders. . ever to support Clinton's wild claim cOuld wind up in png violence, "the practically every public policy he Clinton talked ~~ the Washington mood as he helped nise campeign that kids will stan swilling gin or president declared. money for Deti1ocratic Sen. Bllblra Boxer in San Pnncisc:o and Los Ange- advocates? It's as if he thinks he's the Joseph Perkins • vodka or rum just because a Tan· But how many law-abidins adulu les, praisina her enthusiasm, and sayina it contrasts with attitudes amana second coming of Gecqe Washington; a lauer-day father of our coun· according to a memo written by Ali· queray or Absolut or Bacardi com- are walking into pn s10res, buyin& , too many people in govemmenL · mercial airs on television. Indeed,• fneanns .and tumina them over to cia Munnell. " try. : "I have done eveiyth;ng I can .as president to heal the kind of divisive SJ,Jc estimated that just one of the that is the conclusion of Morris E. children? Probably not even one-half Name an i~sue - any issue .. and : destructive political climate that has come 10 dominate too much of the dis: new rules will cost as much as $60 Chafetz, founding director of the percent of the more than I million the president claims 10 have anived : course in Washington." he said. National Institute on Alcohol Abuse . new pns that are sold in this ~oun. Republicans, of course, don 'I see it that way. "He acts like a spoiled brat," at his position because of his pro- billion a year, while providing bene- and Alcoholism, a division of the try each year. . fits of$ I billion or less. : Se~; ~nt ~·the mljority leader, slid 10 days ago, c:omplaiaing about found concern for the well-being of Department of Health ' a nd All of which prompted National U.S, Munnell, a liberal economist, : Cl:nton s poslbilli on the GOP taX cw that Democrats say is too tilted toward America's 70 million or so youngRifle Association spokesman Bill sters. As to those folks who differ · would no doubt agree with critics of Human Services. · the wealdly. "He thinks be's got to have it his way or no way." In a recenl, ·widely published comPowers 10 chide the president for his the new clesn-air standards thar there . . Clin~n slid that the spirit in Washington ~y be more imponantlhan with the president pn an issue •• well, mentaty, Cbafetz nOied. "There is 1101 hollow gesture. "Do not stand up and they must not love kidS as much as are far more cost-efficient ways to tdeoiOII~ debtlles .or~ differences,~ IUQe&led that it isn't very good. a single study, not one study in lbe talk abow stopping youth gang viahe does. . .reduce health risb fo:' the nation's He said the economy IS the SUOIIJCit m a pneration, the crime rate has United SlateS or inllmllionally, that lence by thruwing a card at people," That's preciSely what the president children. . dropped. welfare rolls are down. "And yet, there are really still people in credibly connects advertising with an he said. "Give me a break." ' insinuated this week when he Yet, her boss·· the president·· is Washington who seem like they're mad about it," Clinton said. It is sophisuy for President Clin' announced his support for new clean- movina full speed ahelllj with imple- increase in alcohol use or abuse. Any Clinton accused, them of IJyina 10 "drive a stake into the spirit of the air standnrds. "I approved some.very mentation of the onerous new clean- assertion or assumption that alcohol · ton to fr:m:e every public-policy American people" for short-term political advantaae. ads increase use or abuse is fantasy, matter as ·a children's issue. He docs stron1 new n:plations today that will air standuds in the name of kids. It was not his lim ventu~e into political piychology. In 1995, when his this not !tecause offatherly conccm be sOmewhat ·controversial," said Kids are also the pretext for the not fact." own political fortunes were in doubt, he said that pan of his job as presiIt also is a fantasy that, by more for the nation's kids, l:t:t because be ·dent was "llying 10 Jel people out of their funk." A poor choice of words, Ointon. "But I think kids ought to he president's regulatory jihad aaainsl heavily replating sales of firearms to fipres its the best way to dencct healthy... the distilled spirits indusuy. he said later, pronouncing himself an oplimist. . But the debate is notlbout healthy He's peeved with the rapscallions law-abiding adults, the government opposition to his policies. His latest diagnosis sounds a bit like Jimmy Caner's wamins of "a criBut if the president puts .forward kids. It's whether the benefits of the because they decided late last year to wi~ curb juvenile aang violence. sis of the American spirit," in 1979. It came to be called malaise, a word But that didn't stop the president sound policy, it ought to be defensiDraconian new regulations endorsed abandon their SO-year-old volunlll'Y ' stricken from politicians' dictionaries after it was turned apinst Caner by from issuins an executive order this ble on the adult merits. He ought not by Clinton justify the extraordinary ban <in television advertising. RepublicaJ:s who said what was wrong wasn't the nati'onal mood l:t:t the pres· monlh requiring the nation's 112,000 need to hide behind kids. costs. Some 2SO ·members of "Liquor has no . business with new ident. · · J-,h PedJ'M Ia a colllmalst Congress, 27 governors, 1,000 may· kids, and kids have no business with federally registered aun dealers to post signs and distribute wriuen for the S... Dlqo Unloe-Tribune on, and assoned stale and local govliquor," the president preached. EDITOR'S NOTE- Walter R. Man, Yice praldent and ro!uilllllst "Liquor ads on television would notices waminJ each and evety pn 111111 • - b i t o r for MSNBC•. emme.nt officials do not think so. forTheAwodated..._,IIM,epartedoa~·rtt 1"-GDIIIIII•Il-'LIIIIpolprovide a message of encouragement purchaser that is a felO!:y to sell or Their sentiment is shared by at llia fer more tliaa 30 yean. 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For more infonnation call Jean Wright, 992· 3573, or Marge Reuter, 992-3812. _ Star Grange Star Grange 778 and Star Junior Grange 878 will meet in regular sesBeaver reunion The Beaver family rcuni6n will be sion Saturday with a potluck dinner held at Star Mill Park in ~ac ine on at 6:30 p.m., followed by a regular July 12. The meal will begin at 12 meeting at 8 p.m. The Junior Grange will have inspection. All members are noon . urged to attend. Reunion commillee The Theiss family reuni on com· Board Or Publi~ Affain . mittec will meet at David and Mick· The Syracuse lJoard of . Public ey Kucsma's home at 8:30 a.m. on Affairs office will lie closed Monday Tuly '4 to complclc ·plans for · the and the regularly scheduled meeting will be held Tuesday; ? p.m. . Meigs EMS runs Units oflhe Meigs County Emergency Medical Service recorded four calls for assistance Tuesday. Units responding included: CENTRAL DISPATCH . 4:10 a.m., Rocksprings Road, ·Pomeroy, John Goeglein, Holzer Medical Center; 7:08a.m., Ash Street, Middleport, Flora Gibson, Pleasant Valley Hospital; 8:46 p.m., Pomeroy Pike, Shelly Sinclaii. Veterans Memorial Hospital, Pomeroy squad assisted. POMEROY 8:08 a.m., Osborn Street, Rebecca Ward, VMH. MIDDLEPQRT FIRE STAT.ION July 7, 1997 . Skin Testing 4:30·6:30 p.m. July 9, 1997 · Skin Test Reading 4:30-5:30 p.m. TUPPERS PLAINS FIRE STATION """"".....~""""',...,. July 14, 1997 . Skin Testing 4:30-6:30 p.m. July 16, 1997 ·Skin Test Reading 4:30-5:30 p.m. This ad could save you1unnecessary loss and expense Bring your jewelry in for a ·FREE inspection. Most repairs are done on premises. Prompt Service July 21 , 1997 . Skin Testing 4:30·6:30 p.m. July 23. 1997 ·Skin Test ~:leading 4:30·5:30 p.m. CHESTER FIRE STATION -·-·- Stock n~porte er• 1h• 10:30 a.m. quotea provided by Advell of Gafllpolla. • REEDSVILLE FIRE STATION Au~u_st 4, . ' 1997 · Skin Testing 4:30-6:30 p.m. August~ 1997 · Skin Test Reading 4:30·5:30 P·"!· PUBLiC WELCOME Fireman, EMS. Churches, Fair Workers. College Students, Businesses, Food Handlers, Ch ildren Entering Kindergarten. CUP AND SAVE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE • �Sports. Wednesday; July 2, 1997 :Jhe Daily Sentine! Burba kills string of losses as Redfdown Brewers 9-1 By JOE KAY CINCINNATI (AP) Th~ Cincinnati Reds were the only team in the major leagues without a complete game - until the American League's worst road team arrived. . The Milwaukee Brewers helped the Reds rid ·themselves of their unwanted disti~~Ction 1\Jesday night in a way that left manager Phil Garner fuming . Dave Burba, who had trouble getting anyone out ill June, pitched a three-hitter for a 9-1 victory and the Reds' first complete game of the season. Burba (5-11) allowed two singles and a double, walked two and struck out four as he did an interleague about-face. The right-hander went 04 in fi•e exasperating June starts with a 10.23 ERA. "People don't know what I went through in June," Burba said. "It's which failed to stir much interest. no fun when you stink." The Reds are selling reserved seats The Brewers know what he at half-price for their second intermeans. They fell to 12-29 on the league series, but anracted crowds road because they couldn't hit Burthat were slightly below a•erage ba or stop Joe Oliver;,a former Brewboth days. · er who hit another homer to stan a The gate on Tuesday was 21,264, seven-01n seventh innins. Terry one night after the opener drew Pendleton's grand slam completed 19,866. A series against the Chicaso the Reds' biggest inning of the sea-· White Sox last month averaged son. It was difficult to tell what Gar- 33,343. Tuesday's game was· tied 1-1 ner was more angry about: Oliver's going into the se•erith as Burba and third homer in three days or the Jose Mercedes (3-4) matched each Brewers' way of making the doWnother. Hal Monis singled with one and-out Burba loo'k like a dominat• out and Oliver hit the first pitch ing pitcher. · "We're the worst at that," Gamer a hinging slider over the middle of said. "I've never seen a club that can the plate - for his sixth homer. .He 's hit one ill each of his last be so good againSt a 2.00 ERA David Cone and so (terrible) against a guy three games. a first for his nine-year career. He drove in three runs for a that's struggling." The Brewers have played poorly 4-3 win Monday night over Milin the first two games of the series, (See REDS oa Page 5) • IN TIME - Ml'-ulull first beHtn8n Antone Wllllmn1011 1lldetl Into. the beg to retire the . Clnclnnltl Red•' Terry Pendleton In the flret Inning of Tuelclay'• game In Cincinnati, where By The Al•ocleted Pre•• Call it dialing long distance. Or going yard. Or playing long-ball. Whatever the latest slang for a home run, the Detroit Tigers hit five Tuesday night and I I in two victories over the New York MetS. Detroit won 14-0 Monday night and took an 8-0 lead Tuesday night before ·settling for an 8-6 victory that .ended with the bases loaded with Mets. . Bobby Higginson Jed the homer barrage, hitting three Monday night and tying a major league record with his fourth in four at-bats in the first inning Tuesday night. Brian Hunter was on base for · each of Higginson's four homers, s~tting the stage for big innings. ~ "It's hard to believe Hunter's a .240 hitter and Higginson's not going for the home-run title," Mets manager Bobby Valentine said. Higginson's streak ended when he took a called third strike in the third inning from Mets starter Bobby Jones (12-S). the Reds won 9-1. Second• lltar,411eds flret baM coach Ron Oetlter ejected for arguing the call. (AP) . · wa• YOU'RE OUT- Cleftland C8tcher S.ndy Alo, · ·lllllr lays down the ...Iller for 1t1e out on HOWltan'• Derek Bell et the plalll In the~ Inning CINCINNATl .. :....3~ 46 .431 ct.iuao ..................n 49 .-402 Baseball Easttm Dhbien •' ....,,•• .....•• ; Wtllem Di'f'lllon San Franc:isco ...... ,.4, 35 .51J AL standings , .-.' r.1! Balriii'ICW'e' .............. 52 I. lsi. Ia -~15 .41<6 14:1 Octroil ...................37 42 .468 Bolton ................. ,J 7 44 457 16 27 New York .............. 46 )4 ToroMo ................. J 7 4l .6~ I" · . ~)9 Chicaz:o .................-40 40 .300 "" Milwaube .............37 41 KanJM Cily .............:ltl 42 MiniiCIQia ..............J~ 4!1 ·" '• '· • ... • s.an~o ' ' .461 .4)8 6 8 Wltllnl Dt'liskln .................... 411 :w .m ~~., b~~d:::::::::::::::::~~ :~ :~ .•: .SIS 4 1~> .438 7 .439 11 Transactions RHP Heath Ttmmennan ro minor-leaaue contracts. BOSTON REO SOK: ActtvAicd RHP Jim Corsi (rom tht: \.S-duy disabled 1111. Oplioncd RHP KerT}' lAcy lo Pnrt..cket of I~ lnlernOIIional Lt::ague. NEW YORK YANKEES : Named Lonn Troll vice presidem and aeneral counsel Auloradng TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY : Named Solrona Winfrey director of publk relations. Baseball American W&ut ANAHEIM ANGELS : Sisnec.J SS Brad 8~. RHP R)'Qil CummtllgS. OF Sieve Ha_Jins. SS-CF Kei•h Medosch and . SEATrLE MARINERS: UpUOIIc .. RHP Bob Wokou to Tacoma oflhe PaLific COilS! Lcap:ue . Recoiled RHP Josiru M:mzomillo from T:.coma. NatkJnial IAape ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS : Loanei.J LHP Mnrk Davis 10 Tunon of d~ PCL. FLORIDA MARLINS : Sigm:-d RHP Aaron Atkin, RHP Jame1 Garvin , RHP , Drew Shield• and RHP Gaise Thomas; , 1 . INF Oris AJuilll. INF Jesus Madruo and INP homes Washington; artd OF Bri:J.Jl Reed and Of lAvon Wal~ and USIJned rhem to Fon Myera of the Oulf Coast - L.ea!ue. Sianed RHP Blair Fowter, RHP Scon Hendcrsan and RHP Cory Lima: INF Matt Erickson and INF R011 Gionet: OF Olriooophet CJJrt, OF Rhodncy Dan· aldiOII and OF Mnnh«'w Schnabel: nnd C BrMdon Harper ancfC A.lu Mell:onion and miped lbem to Utica of 1he New York·Penn. l.ca&tte. Si&oed OF Jon HeinriL:hs.Wid asliJned him to Kme County of the Midwcsl L.co.&ue. Sig.ed RHP James MtGownn. HOUSTON ASTROS: Wai>t(i) SS Pat UAach for the pwpo51: of siving tum hi5 tmcondilional rclensc. Ao.: tivntc:tl OF Bob Abfeu from the 1~-day disabled li s1. Oft ibll.'C• )'CIIr i,.'tlii!OII:l ~ , ~ilt Football Natklnll Foot... IIIAaiiiUC Rob Sclb~ to il onc· ycilr contr;ac+. BUFFALO BILlS: Si&n~ OT Jamie prcs+l.lent. NEW YORK ISLANO'ERS: At:rt"Cd Nnils. MIAMI DOLPHINS: ~ igncd CO TLT· rell Duo.: kley to a two-year contmcl ellita:nsioo.· rHILADELPHIA EAGLES: SiJ,ncd WR Antuwa.n Wyau 10 a 1wo-year conlrocl nnd RB-KR IJcrrick Withcnpoon In a one-ya:ur contract. TAMPA. BAY BUCCANEERS :· Baskelball . _, ~AKOLINA HURRICANES: Nallll.·d ~i~ ~idx:rg _ aame ni~:th• ~~l'luiuns anl.l promntmns ;tos+slimt NASHVILLE : Numcd Jack IJillcr ARIZONA CARDINAL~i · Si~U~d Ul 1 ern1 ~ Thomas at 992-7376. Sports physicals for any athlete interested in playing sports at Me1gs High School for the upcoming school year can take their physicals on Friday, July II from I to 4 p.m. at Veterans Memorial Hospital. 1o wilh LW Mike Hn\ltth. LW Jim Sturm ancJ G Wilde Aahcny. NEW YORK RANGERS : AJ!rLocd In tcrnJJ wi1h Colin Carnrbcll. cu:n:h. m1 a muhiycur a:onlr~1 . ST. UlUIS ·BlUE.''i: Ack:;llll.'t.l G Jun Ca.\ey. 0 Trent Yawney . 1: SL..-@in Mnn1L-sMl and FRob PcaBam WASHINGTON CAPITALS : Nanll.>d Agrcc:d In 1em1~ With CH AI H:trri ~. WR Mike Bad.mmt p.trHillll! '· ••' · \t:ma!. New Meigs Marauder head boys' ~; t· I •' ·: •• •• •• '••· ..:I ,. t' ~: .,'I•,'·•• . ' ••• •• •• :: ' I ., I •'• . •••,. •,. ..' 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Jay Bell hit orie off of him on Friday night. ... Mercedes struck out in both at-bats. Milwaukee pitchers are 0-for-10 with six strikeouts in NL parks. ... Cincinnati had gone 87 games without a complete game .... Reds first base coach Ron Ocstcr was ejected by umpire Larry Vanov<t_ for arguing a call at first'in the first inning.. Ken Griffey replaced h1m. · '-l' d( l l'SS c.W, W+lham~ ).1). 1 :\.'i fl m. Sns C.l.lr,.hclt 6- 5), X ·O~ p.m Culur.Min CRuz{). 7} al Tu;u; IOiivL.,. 4'J), K:)!i p.m , Sullie rl .uwc 2· 1) Ul S un , Uu~I_U {Smtih 2· 1J. 9:05 JJ.m Oakl:.rnd CIU,h~ ()..1) at San Frandso.:o (Gwdn.:t" M--4), IO:(t'j p.m. Los A11~~lc' (Nomo 1-11 al Altllheim (Willson 7 -4 ~. 10:~ p.m. · Any boy who took pan in the 1997 Mi~ Bartrum Football Camp and had his picture taken Wjth Bartrum can pick it up at Meigs High School on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Indians .. _<Continued fr~m Page 4J g('l .!lld ' IH Hht ' lwl\\t't'll ,1 llt't' Thursd•y '• Kll"""' ' ' waukee, the team he played for in 1995. "I guess there's a little incentive, being out there against guys you used to play against," Oliver said. "I love Phil Gamer. \love him so much, I want to beat him." Garner just wants to get Oliver out. "We can't make a pitch on Joe Oliver," Gamer groused. "I'm going to tell them tomorrow to just throw it.down the middle and see how far he can hit it. r've been telling them not to give him something to hii:.and they throw it down the m1~dle . Pcndleion 's fifth career grand siam off Bryce Floric. who has giv. en up grand slams in each of his last two appearances, completed the I0batter inning . The rest was up to Burba, who had not gone more lhan live innings in any June start . He went the diStance by distancing himself from all Oetroil8, N.Y. M1.1s6 Bos10111 9, Aorida l Piusbur&h J. Chicago White So.l 0 CINCINNATI 9. Milwl\lkcc I All:una J, N.Y. Yukees I Baltimore4. Pttilidclphia I 51. Louis 2. MiMH<ICI 0 CLEVF.l.AND K. Houstoa 6 ""'""-··...... _,.,.,_. 360° Communications ~- - .. !~::::.i::u~:~~e~-:~~~;~1~~~ the smallest victory margin of any ' Sto~~ a~~~~~~~~~ the camp, call r~~!i ~:~:~~d on :~il I~ to RedS ... (Continu~d from Page 4) .'ienlde 13. Sllll Fmnci~o 4 •• •• double to David Segui in the fJrst and a so1o homer to Randell Whi~ in the second. AnceJs 4, Rockies 1 Chuck Finley won his first game since May 31 , Tim Salmon went 4for-4 and Jim Edmonds homered for Anaheim at Colorado. The Angels, who snapped a sixgame losing streak in interleague play. also got a solo homer !rom Luis Al[cea. Finley (4-6) stopped the Rockies on three hits through six innings before giving up a run in the seventh. Cubs 6, Royjl)s 1 At Chicago. Shawon Dunston had three hits and Ryne Sandberg drove in two runs as the Cubs hand.ed Kansas City its fourth consecutive loss. __ Doug Glanville added a solo homer for Chicago, and Frank Castillo (5-9) gave up an unearned run and five hits in eight innings for the victory. Athletics II, Padres 6 At Oakland, Dave Magadan. ,Jason Giambi and Scott Brosius hit · two-run homers as the A's rallied to beat San Diego. . Oakland trailed 5- I before scoring three times in the ,seventh and four runs in the eighth on the homers by Giambi and Brosius. Tony Gwynn, elected an All-Star starter, bad two RBI 'Singles Kanos' second homer of the game and 18th of the season - after Mike Piazza's ground-rule double put the Dodgers up 4-3 in-the sixth. Raul Mondesi hit his.17th homer two pitches later off Julio Santana (3-4). Karras ·also homered twice when the Dodgers played at Seattle on June 14. ·Darren Dreifort (3-0), pitching in relief of Tom Candiotti, blanked the Rangers on two hits'forthree innings before Tndd Worrell worked a score: less ninth for his !'7th save. Red Sox 9, Marlin's 2 ,Troy O' Leary was 3-for-4 with three RBis as Boston bounced back from its error-filled opener against visiting Florida. A night after the Red Sox committed four errors to help the Marlins win the first meeting between the two teams, the Red Sox had 14 hits and 11 walks. · Expos 2, Blue Jays 1 Jeff Juden took a no-hitter into the eighth and finished by giving up two hits in 8 113 innings as Montreal edged Toronto in front of the first sellout at Sky Dome since 1995. Jdden (10-2) outdueled Roger Clemens, allowing a leadoff hbmer to Shawn Green and a one-out single by Orlando Merced in the ninth before Ugueth Urbina got the last two outs for his 15th save. Clemens (12-3) gav~ up an RBI NLstaner. He will be on the NLteam forthe ninth ~traight season. his 13th overall, but missed last xear's game because of injury. ' "I told Barry in San Francisco (last week), '1 don't think I can catch you, man.' This is a shocker for me," said Gwynn, voted to the starting lineup·for the lOth time. Elected 10 the NL infield for the July 8 game at Cleveland were Houstqn first baseman Jeff Bagwell (1,494,752),Astrossecond baseman Craig Biggio ( 1,161,610), Cincinnati shortstop Barry Larkin (1,160,651) and San Diego third baseman Ken Larkin, selected for the niiuh time in I 0 yean; , will miss his third All-Star game because of an injury. He strained his left calf June 16. "I have flexibility. I just don't ' have the strength," Larkin said after taking batting practice Tuesday. "I can't hold my body weight on it." Atlanta's Kenny l.,ofton -- ,j The Indians chased Chris Holt (7fipd out the ground rules," Hargrove 6), who got the 'first two batters i~ the s,id. "Usually when th~ ,ball .gets seventh inning. buried under the bench 11 s a dead Jim Thome doubled and Ramirez ball but here it's not and we should walked before Alomar singled to have known that." load the bases. Williams then singled . The Indians were out of their eleoiT relie•er Jose Lima Jor two runs, ment in the unfamiliar NL ballpark. and after Brian Giles singled, Fer"There's not many games like nandez singled off reliever Mike tltis one," lomar said. "We've s~en a f~w. ~ere you ma~e an err~~ Magnante for two more runs, making it 7-6. and eve thing starts falhng apart. Ramirez made it 8-6 with a solo Bog r · took advantage of homer in the ninth into the left-field Ramirez's hesitation. upper deck. It was only the eighth "It was kind of nice to see the ball homer to ever reach that level in the sta'y under the seat," Bogar s81d . "·That's part of interleague play. Astrodome. Plunk (3-2) pitched I 213 innings T~ose guys didn't seem to underfor the victory. . stand the ground rules. They had to "This is why Cleveland always g 1 ~ 1 the ball from under th~ seats_. I jft kept looking at Cubb1e (thnd ·stays at the top of their division, " bilse coach Mike Cubbage) and kept Astros manager Larry Dierker said. "They hit so well. They may n'l,t run ntnning. . fast and do a Jot of the little things • "The umpire waved for him to go but they can hit." gr~t it an\! he didn' t go get it. ·~ '· Miami was named for the Miami Indians who once roamed southwest Ohio before being marched to Oklahoma. The university's administration said last year that th~ M;ymi Tribe had asked the school to stop using the name by the end of the 1996-97 academic year. The tribe said it was concerned that some people perceive the term as a racial slur. On Tuesday, one of the few visible reminders of the heated debate about ·the name change was a partially tom-off "Redskins forever" sticker on a parking sign. In off-campus stores, it wasn ' t easy to spot merchandise bearing the RedHawks.logo. Where it was avail- , able, the new moniker was· a slow seller. In May, several Miami alumni dropped a lawsuit aimed at' forcing the school to continue using Redskins as a nickname. · The.lawsuit accused the board of secretly discussing the proposed nickname chan~e. TOOHOT1 Cool Off With Our Laree 5eleeticm Of Bo~And­ Window Fans · - (2,174,613) and Colorado's Larry Walker (1,732,886) were selected along with Gwynn (1,603,730) in the outfield: Lofton, an AL starter the past three seasons when he was with Cleveland, is disabled because of a pulled left groin muscle, but is eli_ gibl~ t~ he activated Friday. _ _ Tony's Carry Out ·wmbeopen · Friday, July 4th as nICI\name ' National Hockey Lf•llut . BOSTON BRUINS: Sij!.lll!U LW K~n Buurnjan111.-r to;- thrt-c-yent c~mlm~: !. . o.:ontn..:L Mia.mi . 'University 'Reu, ..JHBWAS Hockey s.-.N ANTONIO SPURS: Agreed to ll!rtns whh (i Aver~ Juhn~on on a thn..-c- repeated their titles. Piazza will be appearing for the fifth consecutive year, his fourth straight as a starter. "I'm really looking forward to this one just as much as any one I've ever been to," he said. "It never gets old for me." Tony Gwynn, San Diego's seventime NL batting champion, overtook a..Jonts Nigca Carter and DT Anthony IJcGmte N•loral Bnll•lhall AIS(II('ialion OIARLOTIE HORNETS. Signed G Oa.vtd Wesley. ond straight season. The Los Angeles Dodgers' catcher, the MVP of last year's All-Star game, received 2.626,213 votes, 888,127 behind the AL's leader, Seattle outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. For the first time ever, the leading vote-getters in each league , A volleyball camp will be held basketball coach Chns Stout has from . Monday, July 7 until Friday, · announced dates for the 1997 boys' July 11 at Meig~ High School for all basketball camp. The camp will be 1 area girls entering grades 7-9 this opeo for youths entering grades 3-8 U 1 I" fall. · , this fall and will run from Monday, j, 1 Thecampwillrunfr(lm9:30until July 14toFriday,July 18from9a.m 11 a.m. daily. The cost is $25. Each until noon daily at Larry R. Morri• j, camper will receive aT-shirt. son Gymnasium. Send $25 and shirt size to Meigs The cost of the camp is $45 per , High School varsity coach Riel< Ash . camper and includes five days of at P.O. Box 126, Syracuse, Ohio instruction, a camp t-shirt and group OXFORD. Ohio (AP) - The 45779. Campers can also register on lectiues by guest speakers such as Miami Redskins are no more. the first day of camp. University of Rio Grande head coach Tuesday at midnight, the Miami · Earl Thomas and former Marietta ·university Redskins became the . The American Cancer Society College Mpst Valuable Player Jeff RedHawks, ending a 66-year tradiwill sponsor a .golf tournament on Caldwell. tion. Thursday. July 10 · at the Me1gs The Marauder boys' staff and curThere was no fanfare and no \ County Golf Course. Teams will be rent varsity players will instruct protests. In fact, few seemed (o· selected by a bhnd draw and entry campers on various basketball fun- notice that the mascot officially fees include lunch and dinner. Entry damentals such as shooting, ball hanh ed . fees are $42 for members of the - aling,- passing, individual an~ team c atg s · · be . d course .and~ for non members defense and overall fundamentals of eli~na~t~~ ~~J~f!~e~i~~~·am~ : Any interesll!tl"golfers can call Jim the game. h' h h h 1 had ed s nee Montre~~12. Toronro I Chica,O Cubs 6. Kansa1 City I Anaheim 4, Colorado I Oakland A, San Oi~o 6 •• '· ' J :'i COiorodo ................ 43 ' 40 L.os Anae~ ...........40 42 SmfDieao .............. J6 46 5 i~t Local snorts items ..._ r Tuesday's scores ., • .474 .:'119 •' r:;.1 ·~ J~ AMheim ................ 42 :49 ' 6'h Ctnllnl DlwWon CLEVEL.AN0 .......41 of Tunday'• game In Houston, where the lndiJin• won H. Home umpire Kerwin Denley malull the call. "i from the minors May ~ \. Alex who lost four straight before beating Rodriguez hit a three-run-homer and the visiting Phillies twice. Russ Davis added a two-run shot for The only run off Erickson (11-3) the Mariners, who bave homered in 7 1/3 innings was unearned. four or more times in eight games Pirates 3, White Sox 0 this season. Jose Guillen's two-run triple in ' Braves 3, Yanl<ees 1 the seventh broke a scoreless tie and Atlanta won for the first time in Steve Cod1c:e pitched eight shutout six tries dating back to last year's innings, lifting Pittsburgh over visitWorld Series as Ryan K.lesko, ing Chicago. . benched for most of the Fall Classic, Cooke (6-9) gave up five hits and hit a two-run homer in support of dida't allow a runner past second Denny Neagle (12-1). • base. He ·was lifted after Frank The Braves, who dropped the · Thomas' leadoff single in the ninth, final fotir to New York last October and Rkh Loiselle got three outs for and lost 1-0 in 10 innings at Yankee his eighth save. . .Stadium on Monday night, improved White Sox starter James Baldwin their interleague record to 3-5. The (5-9) took .a shutout into the seventh Yankees are 4-4 going into loday's 1 inning for the second consecutive series wrapup, a matchup of Greg start. Maddux and Dwight Gooden. Cardinals 2, Twins 0 Neagle gave up one run in 7 213 Todd Stottlemyre struck out I 0 innings before giving way to Mark and allowed five singles in seven Wohlers, who recorded his 18th scoreless innings, and Tom Lampkin save. • hitatwo-run homer as !10st St. LOuis Orioles 4~PbUIIes 1 beat Minnesota. Randy Myers got his 300th career Stottlemyre (7 -.5) allowed no save in relief of Scott Erickson as Thins runner past first base until Ron Baltimore handed Philadelphia its Coomer and Roberto Kelly singled eighth consecutive loss. ·with two ou~ in the seventh. LainpMyersbecametheninthpitcherin kin homered in the founh after major league history with 300 saves. LaTroy Hawkins ( 1-3) hit Roy_ce Myers. who has 26 saves this season, Clayton with a pitch. joined John Franco as the second . Dodgers 6, Hangen 3 left-bander with 300. Eric Karros had his second twoLenny Webster and . Rafael homer game in interleague play, Palmeiro homered for the Orioles, leading host Los Angeles over Texas. · By RONALD BLUM really is exciting," Piazza said after NEW YORK (AP) - Mike Piaz- "'""!'iiial voting was released TUesday. za once again got the most votes in Piazza wasn't sure why he's so faq balloting for the NL All-Star popular. • team. Barry Bonds got the biggest "I guess there are a lot of Italians surprise - he was left out of the out there," he said Tuesday after he 1taning'lineup. became the National League's lead" I'm just really honored. and it ing All-Star vote-getter for the sec' pen, if you're on a streak, you just manage to get a hit," Alomar said. "It helps. When you're 0-and-3 and coming to the plate and you know it's your last chance, it really makes you bear down." The Astros' big inning started when Bogar hit a line drive down the right-field line that rolled under the bullpen bench. Indians outfielder Manny Ramirez belie•ed it was a ground-rule double, and Bogar circled the bases for an inside-the-park homer. "You're supposed to know stan-. dard. procedure at ~ny ballpark you (See INDIANS on Page Sl error by shortstop Omar w(juel and a wild pitch by Eric Plunk to take a 6-3 lead. But in the seventh, Sandy Alomar got a hit for the 27th-straight game and Matt Williams and Tony Fernandez each had two-run hits, as the · Indians ra,llied for an 8-6 victory Tuesday night. Alomar's 27-game streak tied John flaherty for the second-longest hitting streak for a catcher in major league history. Benito Santiago set the record of 34 in 1987 with San Diego, and Aaherty had his 27-game streak last sea5on for the Padres. "Streaks are just thing~ that hap- "I was just looking for~ perfect pitch," Higginson said. "I was aware of it (the record). I just couldn't do it." The M~ts scored four in the eighth and two in the ninth before Todd Jones finally got Bernard Gilkey to hit a game-ending fly out with the bases loaded. "That wasn't too good," Tigers manager Buddy Bell said. a while, we couV·'tstop the blee_'ng. 'And whllfl tha. happens, the hit 1ng becomes contagious." . Hitting was certainly contagious for the Tigers early as Travis Fryman homered immediately following Higginson's first-inning homer. Bob Hamelin hit a three-run homer in the third inning, Damion Easley hit a solo homer in the fourth and Curtis Pride hit a solo homer in the sixth. The major league record for homers by a team in two games is 13. . Brian Moehler (6-6) won his second straight start, allowing three uneariled runs and seven hits in 7 J/3 innings. Marlnen 15, Giants 4 Rookie Jose Cruz Jr. drove in a season-high five runs with a ~air 11t homers as Seaule buried visiting San Francisco. Cruz, the third pick overall in the J99Samateurdraft, has eight homers in 26 games since he was brought up The Dally Sentinel• Page 5 .Piazza gets most votes of NL All-Stars; Bbnds won't ·start l·n dians use seventh-inning rally·to defeat AstrQs 8-6 By MICHAEL A. 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For more information call the Holzer Health Hotline at 1-800-462-5155 �/ ' • ' I • Pomeroy • Middleport, Ohio Wimbledon fourth-round action ends · . ; . / _Ttlree German men reach quarterfinals; Fernandez loses By STEPHEN WILSON man led 7-6 (9·7), 6-7 (7·9), 7-6 (7· WIMBLEDON, Ensland (AP) .S). - While Germany and Britain have Wi~ Greg Rusedski already made big bJealahroUBhs at Wunble- ~h to the quarterfinlla, a victodon, the Americans have bit a low. ry by He111111n would put two British 11uw German men have reached men in the final eight for the ftrst the quortetfinals for the first time in time since Mike Sangster and Boba Grand Slam event in the Open era, by Wilson in 1961. and Britain is poised 'to have two But the Brits can't match the Ger· players in the final eight for the ftrst mans, who have Boris Becker, time in 36 years. Michael Stich and Nicolas Kiefer in · Pete Sampras was the only Amer· the quarterfinals. icali - man or woman -left in the Stich beat Mark Woodforde, 6-4, draw. He led Petr Konla 6-4, 4-2 in · 6-7 (3· 7), 6-3, 7-S; Becker overa fourth-round mateh suspended by powered Marcelo Rios 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 darkness Tuesday night. (7-S); and Kiefer upset thinl-seeded Even if Sampras advances, it Yevgeny Kafelnikov 6-2, 7-S, 2-6,6. would be the fewest Americans in 1. the quarterfinals since 1913. · Stich, making his last Wimbledon "It's unfortunate, but I think that appearance in his retirement year, everything goes in cydes, 8(1d this would love nothing better than to was just a bad year for ~U.S. . win the title to prove that his 1.991 here," said Mary Joe Fernandez, the triumph was no fluke. He is teJ11ptlast American woman in the 'foeld, .ed to retire immedialely if he wins. after her 5-7, 6-4, 1· 5 loss to lana ' "I would love to win the towbaNovotna. ment and say, 'That's it, that's the While Sampras was set to resUme best way to finish it,"' he said. today against Korda, Britain's Tim Kiefer, 19, is a protege of BeckHenman was looking to pick up er and a memher of his German where he left off against defending junior team. The two have have spo<.hampion Richard Krajicek. Hen- . ken every day during the tournament I I DIVES TO VOLLEY- The CHCII Republic's Jane Novotna dh1" to malrlt • volley agalnat Amarlca'a Mary Joe Femanclaz during thalr tourttwound match on Wlm111edon'• No. 1 Court Tueeday. Novotna'e th,.....Ht victory I'IICiuc.d tha Amerlclln entrin In the tournament to -.(AP) to discuss strategy. iand No. 4 Majoli vs. Kownikova. "It's funny to .ha~.a pupil in the In the bottom half, the quarterfiquarterfinal, too," Becker said. "I nal matchups pitted No. 3 Jana talked lo him before llllll:hes and he Novotna vs. Yayuk Basuki and No. : goes out and bealS the whole world. 8 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario vs. ~ I jusl hope that he stays on the Nathalie Thuziat. ground for another couple of days." ! Hingis and Sanchez Vicario did· : There is even the possibility of n't have much time to rest. They : the two facing each other in the semi· played doubles together until 9:30 ; finals. p.m. Tuesday in a match that was • "He's the boss of the junior suspended at I(). 10 in the third set team,'' Kiefer S!lid. "To play against against Chlnda Rubin and Brenda . him and maybe 'to win against him ... Schultz-McCarthy. · I want to win against him here, but Appelmans. who lost 6-1 , 6-3 to I still have two more matches. So Hingis in the fourth roulid, is con· · we' U see." vinced the Swiss star has what it to •First. though, Kiefer will have to takes to win the tournament. Not , get past Australia's Todd Wood- only because of tier shots and timing, bridge. Becker loolced on course for but because of her attitude. a quarterfinal showdown against After their 66-minute match, Sampras. Hingis told Appelmans, ''I'm happy The women's quarterfinals were it was a quick match because I have set fot today, with half the contes· to play two more doubles matches." tants under the age of20- 16-yearAppelm'!.nS said she wasn't olds Martina Hingis and Anna offended by what could be seen as an Kournikova, I 8-year-old Denisa arrogant remark. . Chladkova and I 9-year-old Iva "Of course, she has a lot of conMajoli. fidence," the. Belgian said. "She's The teen-agers are all in the lop the No . .1 player in the world. Mayhe half of the dra!' and will face each without that attitude, she wouldn't other: No. I Hingis v~ . Chladkova, ·get to be No. I." Columbus shopowner parts with $306,_ 130 for Gehrig's uniform . . COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Stiil, with items of this magni· Would you give $306,130 for a 60- tude, there are always questions year-old piece of flannel? about authenticity, Bowen said. Last weekend, a consortium of "Everything has been five investors bought the uniform researched," he said. "Everything is Hall · of Farner Lou Gehrig is correct. The foremost e~aminers in , helieved to have worn when he made the country have examined it. and it one of the most famous speeches in is the uniform that hi: wore." sports history. Jeff Idelson, spokesman for the Gehrig, .dying from a rare nerve National Baseball Hall of Fame and disease, said goodbye to New York Museum in Coope~town, N.Y., said fans in a moving speech at :Yankee the museum has numerous items that Stadium in 1939. tell the story of Gehrig's career. His voice echoing, .Gehrig told Gehrig hit493 home runs and had the packed house, "I consid<;r 111}/self a balling average of .340 during a the luckiest man on the face of the career that spanned from· I 923 to earth." 1939, all with the Yankees. · David Bowen, one of the _ Called the Iron Horse, Gehrig investors and co-bwner of Cool played a then-record 2,130 consec· Stuff, a Columbus autograph and utive games, a mark broken in 199S memorabilia shop, called the uni- by Cal.Ripken Jr. form one of .the most significant "Cenainly. Lou Gehrig was one pieces of baseball lore in exisrence. of the most noted players in baseball "We look at it as a million-dollar history," ldelson said. "His reasons uniform " within several .years, for leaving the game were unfortu-· Bowen said. "It's certainly the great- nate but cenainly historic . Having est speeCh ever delivered in the his- any uniform Mr. Gehrig wore any· tory of sports. We see it as gettins a time in his career is to be cherished." bargain." Bowen said he expects the value The uniform was purchased of the uniform to climb sharply as ·through Robert Edwards Auctions o( awareness about the long-storedHoboken, N.J. Bowen said he and away item )lrows. his friends were bidding against a He said 1he recent sale of a doctor who was called away to Honus Wagner baseball card for sursery late Saturday ev~ning . . $600,000 indicates how values can Otherwise, Bowe~ saod the uno- climb rapidly once tl number of colform may have heen lost as quickly lectors become interested. The winning bid for the uniform as a fly ball in the lights. "Some days you just get lucky, " was $266.200. plus a IS percent fee he said. "He was beating us to death to the auction house. with his bumps." . The idea to bid on the uniform Bowen, also president of David came quickly EtiQay night over dinbowen & Associates, a Columbus ner at Bowcn'Shome. advertising firm, was joined in the "We staned talking about this p11 rchaSe by Curt Boster, co-owner auction," he said. "I was saying how of Cool Stuff, and a Naples, Fla,,pll· I thought the uniform is the finest lector, Dan Darr. singlc·piccc of memorabilia in all of · Two other area men who a.<ked sports. Eventually. a couple uf not to be identified also were part of friends asked: 'How much are you in the consortium. forT I gave them a number, and they Bowen said the auction house said: 'Let's play."' was selling the uniform for "a · Bowen said the uniform will be worlp-renowned collector" who put on display for a period of time at obtained the uniform directly. from his store. The uniform is expected to Gehrig's wido.w, Eleanor, in 1971. arrive in Columbus within a week. ments. Stadiums in Cincinnati, · Cleveland and Columbus have used such funding, said City Commis· sioner Tony Capizzi. Parking at the stadium will be limited and the transit authority hopes to transport some of the pro. jected SOO,OOO baseball fans to the games each year. 'ftte city and the Downtown Dayton Pannership are attempting to bring a Class A professional baseball team to Dayton by 1999. They also hope to get financial support· for a stadium from the state, Montgomery Co-unty and private investors. Today, City Commissio~ is scheduled to vote on a memo of. understandins with the prospective team owner-lhlit would establish the framework for a '15-year stadium • lease. I = I· ADOLPH'S tape. Holyfield required 15 stilches.Jo repair the gash in his right ear that caused blood to flow down the side of his face. . "It's not. ever going to look like a nonnal ear," said Holyfield's attorney, Jim Thomas. " He and his wife, Janis, have both kidded about it. It looks somewhere between a Vulcan and a Doberman ear." Holyfield said Tyson's punishment should be severe enough to 4eter other fighters and he doesn't think a one-year suspension would lie enough. A federal law that took ' ,. I~ ' It I' . . I' '1' 4yMi,!'r 'l''r 'l''r 9 Ann landers ~, Installation of officers for . the 'ftM beginning July I and runnins to June 30, 1998, was the priiiCipal onler of buSiness at the Middleport· Pomeroy Rotuy Club meeting on Monday night at the Heath United Methodist Church in Middleport. Elected president for the new year was John Anderson. Other offu:ers elected were Dave Snyder, vice-president; Randy Hays, secretary; Karl Kebler ·W, treasurer. Charles Blakeslee, senior club mem· ber, served as the installing officer and called attention to the Rotuy International theme for 1997-98 of "Show Rotuy Cares for our Coll)munity, for our World and for its People". . ' Parting President Hal Kneen thanked all the club members for their siapport and participation during the past year. He was presented a t.!uy l. .,,95· :: , • ,.,. I' ;: · Alfred United Methodist Church hosted a "welcome back" dinner 'tor Pastor Sharon Hausman on June 22. Present for church services and dill" ner were Kathy, Stacie IIJl(l Alan Wat~ son, Osie and Clair Follrod, Marilyn Robinson, Bettie and John Taylor, Nellie Parker, Richard, Florence and Tim Spencer, Dave and Mary Jo Bar· ringer, Charloue Van Meter, Susan Pullins, Victor Bahr, Sarah Caldwell, Nina Robinson, Russell Archer, Sheila Whitlatch and children, Melvin Tracy. Gertrude Robinson, Janice Weber, Gary and Brenda John· son Thelma Henderson, Pllil Boyles, Joe' D. Boyles and tamily, Debbie Brooks and Tyler. all local; Ray and Kate Rodehaver Wellborn. Fla.; Lori Morri~on, Caldwell; 'Mike Weber and Jessica Wood, Gallipolis. Charlotte and Warren Van Meter n:tumed recently from a western trip. They visited her sisters in Mon· tana and Wyoming: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Fomsirom. Mr. and Mrs. Don Shanders, Mr. and Mrs. :rony Joska and Charlotte's aunt, Charlotte Gross, and attended the wedding of Theresa · Fornstrom and Matthew . _ Haas. STOCK ••• ST.OP IN FOR THE BEST DEAL! M·Th 9·5; Fri. 9·6; Sat 9i4 .. . •·:v::::~~~~= 42123 St. Rt. 7 Tuppers Plains, Across frolll ·Far111e.rs Bank ' \I to the S1epdad whom they adore. A great deal depends on the qe of the child when the.stepdad moves into the picture. Younaer children ' adjust much more tasily than teenagers, and of course, the intensity of bi11emess on the part of the ex· wife can be a major factor as well. When divorced people attempt to nish each •Other by turning the pu children qalnst their. ex-spouses, the results can he horrendous because it is the children who suffer. They end up confused, insecure and · unhappy. "? . Deer Ann Landers: You recendy printed a letter from a nurse who said she was tired of being asked for WednHday, July 2, 1917 . page7 . . ' Recent visitors of Dave and Mary , Jo Barringer were Larry alld Shirley ~ R,oush of Winter Haven, Fla., and Jim • Pooler of Columbus. · A barheeue was held for Bobby Keaton at.the home of his parents, Pal ; and Bob Keaton on June '22, honor· : ~ his paduation from !!astern Hip : , School. Many local friends and rela· l lives attended. Coming f~ were • Kelley Bemaciak and Mlldtson from • Panna. .. Jorn Taylor is recoving from , recent eye surgery. Wilma Henderson is now home recovering from a recent infection. Eleanor Boyles, Belpre, Richard and Florence Spe•cer, Sandra Massar, Phil Boyles attended the funeral of Eleanor's brother-in-laW: Bob Mor· gan. at Grant5ville, W.Va.,. on June I 8. This week Eleanor and Philip Boyles attended the funeral of a cousin, Fred Sturm Jr. at Grantsville. in nhurry... .TRY CLASSifiED~ RMLn"l IIIVIRS.- . numbers. But no matter how nicely I state my position, it always sounds rude and ungracious. Sometimes I wonder if I'm inyited to these events so I can provide free entertainment. How can I aracefully get out of play· ins? - Louisville Lulu D~ar L~.lu : Mic~ael Feinstein, . wh<>•s a !n~nd of m•ne and one of . the best p~anosts around. told me that w::. ':, ·~ asked ~0( P~Y hathappeparlle: n w. •t•s a) guesh w. •c qune o, en • e somp1y says, "Toni ht is m ni ht off, and I am really g enjoyi:g ~yself. Do you mind'" That puts an end to it.. · Send quelllone to AM Landen, ippf'Ceiaied what she did for them nor did they ~iproeate in any way. I, Ctu_~ sympathn:e woth her because I m m the same boat. I am a professional musician and enjoy my work as a pianist immensely. I llso lead sins-alongs, provide background music or sing · and play as a soloist The problem is that when I receive an invitation to 'th • 'I fri nd 1 an event WI ~amo Yor e. s, am always. dragged to the plano and expected to P!ay. I am trapped there for the remamder of the evenong, taking requests from the guests -- all for free . CIWIIII'I SvndiCIIIe, 5m W. cI have tried refusing to play or tuty Blvd., Suite 700, Loa Angelis, agreeing to _play only one or two . C.IH. 80045 ~. "('11 ' j I ,• ~ .....~.> / medical assistance, equipment or other approved expenses for authorized applicants. The original funding soun:e specifiCS that money shall be used to provide assistance to children 18 or under or to those whose men· tal capacity is doeume'nted u beins ,18 or under. Applicants must show just cause for their requests for assistance and verify total family expens· es and income. Those wishing to request assis· ' · tance may contact Sheets at PO BOX 722 or Susan Oliver at 1'0 BOX 686, Pomeroy OH 45769. Guests at the meeting included James Sheets, husband of Mrs. Sheets, Mark Cin:le ofW1chita, Kan., grandson of Chutes Blakeslee, and Becky Parsons, daughter of Bernard Fultz. Ladies llf the chun:h served the dinner. ROTARY OFFICERS - lllddleportoPomeroy : · vll:e-prftlclant; ChuCk BlaltHIH,Insta:=; ~ Kibler Ill, treaaurer.. Sa~ fromAnderlon Knaen, outgoing presldant, John • Rotllry Club ufllcen tor tha 11117-18 year..,. lnltalltd Monday night. ShoWn .., tdllitdlng ~111ft: ...., ttayw, wallq, Dtve anYclar, SOPHIE GUINTHER Guinther birth announced Kenpy and Meg Guinther of Racine·announce the birth of a baby girl, Sophie Marie Guinther, on June II. She weighed 8 pounds, 12 1.1 ounces and was 21 112 inches long. She was welcomed at home by a sister, Chelsea. Maternal grandparents are Paul and Dorothy Ambe11er of Syracuse. Great-grandmother is Marie Rea and paternal grandparents are the· late Guy ~ Wanda Guinther. Alfred news notes •. Starting ·At plaque for his WOiit by Andenon who thanked bim for his outstanding ler· vice for the past year. In pointing to the new year, Andenon ubd the niemben to continue their ICtive support for the club and its projects and pallieularly asked for the members to ~ out and cncourqe new membenbip. It was pointed out that Lloyd Bllll:kwood of the club has been deugnared as an · assistant to the district governor and will provide closer communications with four adjacent clubs in ihe dis· trict. In other business. Jennifer Sheets gave the annual report for the Meigs County Rotary Children's Fund which is financed totally by locll funding. · '(!le PI!JIIOSC of the fund, acconling tO'siieeis, shall be to supplement family resources for the provision of The July 4th celebration wu disHal Kneen, Meip County Exteneussed when the Racine Area Com· sion asent, presented a pictorial slide munity Orpnization met June 24. · show of RACO's four ~nual flower "Freedom in the COIIntry" is this festivals. Members selected plio. year's theme. The parade will start at tographs for their booth at the Town 10 Lm. aiid monetary awards will be and Country Expo·to be held Sept. 20 siven. Parade chairman Marilyn . and 2 I at the Rock Springs Fair Powell can he contacted at949-2676 Grounds. for more information. I~ was rtported !hat a, drop off~~The group will sponsor children's lectto,n of canned food, nDI!·penthgomes starting at noon in Star Mill- able 1tems and IIIC!newy Jtfts held Park and the fourth annual frog jump ~ntly fm: the Metas County CoopWill be held at Sp.m. with senior divi· erauve Pansh Food Panll'y was sue· sion prizes of$100, $7Sand $50 and cessful. ~ JI'I!"P commended the junior division prizes of $40, $25 and commuruty for. 111 support and rec$10. Entry fees for the two divisions ognized Ann Zirkle fm: her help. . are SS and $3. respectively, Rent·• ~~ ~as voted~ retun the Ofllanl· frogs will be available. For more zauon s clues at $5 per quarter. information, contact Aaron Young at Twelve ll)emhen and one guest 949-2545. attended the meeting opened by PresThe aroup will also have a food idenl Kllhry? Hart. Ball gave booth with lemonade and taco-in·&· • the secretary s report 1ft the absence bag. of Lillian Weese andAnn Zirkle, JI~ve . 1be group voted t<l pun:hue a the treasurer's report, both of wh1ch new cooker/roaster and David and .were approved . . Ann Zirkle donated stainless steel Rev. Aaron Young gave the bless· ' spoons for use in the food booth. ing hefore the meal and the Pledge of New brackets were made for the Allegiance was led by David .Zirkle. patriotic banners, it was reponed. The The ne~l meeting will be held July 22 banners are to be placed throughout at Star Mill Park. the village soon. •· , :: $164'5 father wbo abandoned tbem and free medical advice by friends and their mother, and are ICially devoted · acquaintances. She said they never RACO discusses upcoming holiday • .r when our younaest daugltter graduated from college, and he didn't bother to ~~:knowledge the invitation to her wedding. Now, 12 yean laler, Jlll:k is fulh · · filling bis en- of aailina IFOUnd . My new. uaband ts wonderful the world. He lllllried a )lirl the . ~tth my children,_and they all love same qe u our dau~Juer, and they h!m. My pndchildren .are hts: and have three small o::bilcWn. 1bey have vtce versa. I know from expenence ...... 1.· · and -"' ~foot that a woman can find another hus.....n tvtn& .....ng on a band and go on with her life but we boat for the Jut fo~ Ye;ars- He eaeh set one real father, ~ when seems happy, .and I WI~ ~:·well, that father walks out, it is truly aban· bu~ the sad )Jilt of Ill this 11 at my donment, no matter bow old you are, children, who ae wonderful. adults, and the empty spot in your heart have no father. After all the1r yean · . · hiki -~ ater ..... stays empty forever. .. M.H. m f o campmg, DJ .... w -•mg Mob'! 1e, AI a. together, he is gone. We have a 15year-old pandson who Jut saw his Dear Mobile: While some people grandfather when he was 6 yean will agree with you, many will not. old. 1be two younger pndchildren I've heard· from a good number 'of have yet to see him. He wasn't there readers who don'tloolr. kindly on the Rotarians install new officers 43----~---------------~ ... bility and ne1iloil to "expaienCe Ufe." I tbouabl our marri.,e perfect and was clevalllled Dear Ann Lutders: You recently discussed the stins felt by youn1 children who have been abandoDed by a parent. I would like to take the topic one step further and include ADULT children wbo experience this abandonment "Jack" and I had been married for 31 years when he decided he wanted to to on to bigger and heuer things. We were very youna when we married and had four children. He ~aid he felt trapped by responsi- I SUN.' :SAT. 10:00 AM • 10:00 PM.• 992·2556 1, •~"''I' 'I'' ~· i SJ24's Wagon Wheel · . AQults who experiet:lce feelings of abandenm~ent by parents • MVRTA OKs $2M donation to build baseball stadium DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - The effort to bring a minor league base· ball team to Dayton has received a' $2 million boost. The Miami Valley Regional Tran· sit Authority voted Tuesday to kick in $2 million toward building a base· ball stadium in Dayton. , The . Dayton City Commi~sion was to vote today on underwriting up to .$13.1 million for the $20million project. The transit authority has applied for a special federal transponation grant to cover its contribution, but would use a combination of other federal funds and local revenue if the grant doesn't come through. The federal transponation grant money can be used for bus shelters and park-and-ride lots for baseball patrons, handicap ramlls· road . realignments and other omprove· ' ' Commissioners appeared effect Tuesday requiri:s all other a one-year suspension would be unswayed by TYson's apology, States tO honor any suspension the enough because championship fight· ~!though they applauded his decision commission hands do\1/n. · ers frequently take that much time to seek psychological help. "Most boxers only fight one time off to prepare for their next fight. "Something bad happened in the a year," Holyfield said: "He (1Json) "He would have to get in·excess ring. The apology doesn't change probably needs a year qff to get him· of a year," Hazzard said, adding that what happened in the ring," said Dr. · self better anyway. ·He probably a five-year suspension would effec· Elias Ghanem, the commission needs the rest. The penalty is prob- · lively end Tyson's career. chairman. ably going to have to be' a little more The WBA supervisor for the fight · Tyson didn't appear at the com- ext~nsive than that." rr said he has recommenped to the mission's emergency hearing, which . What about a lifetiMe ban? association that Tyson be banned for drew a ·crowd of several hundred "A lifetime ban wouldrlt be too life. people to Las Vegas City Hall. His much," Holyfield replied, "but lhe "I've not waited for any decision trainer, Richie Giachetti, was the commission will have ·to make that from the Nevada Stale Athletic Comonly member of Tyson's camp in decision." mission," said Leonard Read, who allendance . Holyfield said Tyson attempted to also is chairman of the British BoxTuesday's meeting was more pro- call him twice Monday, but the ing Board of Control. . cedural than anything, with the com- champion wasn't at hmne. While a "Tyson was a guy who lind been mission setting into molion under personal apology woll@ be appreci- world champion · before and knew Nevada law the formal proceeding. ated, Holyfield said it's going to take about all the disciplines and limitaTyson would ordinarily have 30 more than words fpr Tyson to tions of the game at the top level - • days to respond, but his attorney, redeem himself not a second rate boxer doing it at \ Marty Keach, said the boxer would " We have peoplli1 who' ll say some out of the way stadium. waive that right. "Tyson knew he was on the whatever it takes," Holyfiek! said. "I "It's his desire to move forward think it was good for him to at least world stage, he knew il was being in this matter as expeditiously as pos- come before the people and apolo· screened to milfions, and people see· sible," Keach said. "We're obviqus- gize. I think that helps; )'think now ing his ev!lf)l , move. And there he ly going to ask for some reason and his actions have got to follow." was, bitinf Holyfielil ' riot' one!~ but judgment. He also wants to fight · Holyfield said he would not twice." again. That's what he does for a liv- attend next week's hearing, which is ... A bill mQved forward in the ing. That's what his whole life is expected to feature testimony from Nevada state Senate on Tuesday that based on." others involved in the fight and from would allow the commission to sei?-C Before voting to go ahead with TYson himself. a boxer's entire purse for ring infracthe formal complaint, commissioners ''I'll be in Africa," said Holyfield, tions such as biting, with the money watched a taped replay of the fight, who le,aves Saturday for a. tour of going to a fund for abused and including slow-motion replays that South ~frica. neglected children. The measure was clearly showed Tyson biting HolyNew Jersey boxing commission- prompted by Saturday night's inci. field's right ear with 38 seconds left er Larry Hazzard said he didn'tthink dent. in the round, then snarling an obscenity at him. ' After the light was stopped for about two minutes, action resumed rr---------------------~ and Tyson bit Holyfield's left ear. "He bit me again," Holyfield could be heard exclaiming on the LAS VEGAS (AP) - Suspend· ing Mike Tyson from boxing could prove far more costly. for the former heavyweight champion than the $3 million Nevada boxing regulators could fine him next week. TYson has been an amazing money-making machine in the 27 months since ·he w~ released from prison, earning a reported total of SI 40 million for si~ fights. That would dry up if Nevada box· ing commissioners impose a SUs· pension of any more than a year, .which appeared increasingly likely after they met Tuesday to vote to go forward with his penalty hearing. · "We can do anything all the way from doing nothing to banning him for ·life," said Dr. James Nave, a commission member. Though commissioners refuse to say what the penalty might be, it fig •. ures to be more severe than the oneyear suspension that Oliver McCall faces for quitting in the ring against Lennox Lewis in February. "Quitting is quilling," commission member Dr. Elias Ghanem said. "Biting is different than quilling." Tyson's earning power has surely diminished not only because he bit Evander Holyfield, but because he lost to him a second time. But he still would stand to make several million dollars a fight if he was allowed to continue fighting. TYson turned 31 on Monday, and his boxing skills. also would likely deteriorate under a suspension of any length. The commission voted Tuesday to suspend Tyson pending the hearing ·and to go ahead with a formal complaint, which Tyson said he would not contest. His nearly S30 million ·paycheck remains in the ' hands of the commission. All five commissioners declined . to say what they thought the appropriate penalty for Tyson would be, but they can fine him a m~imum of tO percent ofbis putse, or $3 million, · or suspend him from bo~ing for however long they want. The New York Times, citing a person close to the commission, said t.oday that Tyson will probilbly be barred for at least 18 months and "mayhe longer." Dally Sent.inel . Suspension could hurt Tyson more than fine By TIM DAHLBERG Th~ By The Bend · Wednetday, July 2, 1997 NEW STYUST • Tllom Pow.ellis • new stylist at llle Both uf ·You Styling Salon In SyraCUH. The 1997 Melga High School cosmetology - • gracluata Jolnal hla mother at the aalon. 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Emotionally it is extraordinarily. difficult to -Succeuftd ·home care for a&ia& tors - the geriatric population . is · Pllfi!Dl ~ulres teamwork " increasing, and older people have a h Quesbon:. My mother is in failing disproportionate percentage of dis· ~allh, and I m afnud that soon she aboh!Jes. Addttiooally, the changes in , :~til no longer be able to continue to health-care delivery and insurance :ltvc aloqe. _She wtll probably come rules that put an emphasis on "cost 1111d live wuh us. I know from the ellperience's of our friendS lhat it can be difficult caring for a parent in one's home. Do you have any suggestions -that could help us? .. Answer: Caring for a loved one with a disability at home is an increasingly common situation. 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You can't stop the disabili· ty causing illness in your loved one, ' ·------ The Dally Sentinel • Page 9 and you are physically and emotionally burdened by providing-the care. Depression is very common. This is due, in part, to the emotional strain caused as care giving demands restrict one's perfonnance in other roles of spouse , parent, worker, etc . F eelings of guilt and grief typically are present, too. The burden of care giving can be eased by a diverse support network. c 0 mmunI. ty c Ien a Those whose support system is made f h Ih · up o aseem eattoYd m1x family be of Cfriends· and on the th ho d st. hare dgovers, o er an • w o epend almost exclusively on other family members ofte h d"'!i 1 . theor n 0ave 1more 11. tcu'b"lty managmg .. c mp ex responso 1 • noes · Remember that it takes a team effort to care for your mother. You Will certainly need guidance and dsupaport rf~om her physician. WEDNESDAY POMEROY •• Tobacco vendors CHESTER Ch MIDDLEPORT .. Middleport . meeting Wednesday I P m in Met· •s Club meeto'n W--d ester Garden w.es1eyan Hormess Ch urch' mission- county Common Pleas • -Courtroom · g g e nesday 7·30 p m . at home of Clarice Ia- .' . G . . ary visit, Pam and David Ferrell serv- Meigs County Courthouse. Topic: speaker will di scuss me;;~:~erj 1uest tng m Alaska, 7:30p.m. Wednesday. Changes in tobacco sales, alcohol a Pants. soles. · · EASTMAN'S 211iera j~~;;;,y-·~ USDA CHOICE BONELESS FRESH GROUND BEEF Chuck ................... $1 FRESH 1 49 $ ~. Stokely's Vegetables 99¢ Groun·d. Bee · t·........ lb. .. ~ UmH 12, add. purch 39e 14.25-15.25 oz. ¢ ASSORTED OSCAR MAYER . 11.2oz. $169 '$299 Fun.· Paks •••••••••••••• Pork Chops .......... ~ .. BONELESS TOP LOIN • . . Bln:hfield · The .descend;mts of Sam and :Milvina Birchfield reunited June 29 at the Henderson, W.Va., Communi· ·ty Center. 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Antique and restored automobiles, farm equipment and other types of vehicles""' welcome as are area' fes tival. queens, fire department and parade Iqvers. ·The parade will line up at Wilton Elementary School and proceed down High Street. The reviewing and judges' stand will be on Main Street. Card shOwer A card shower will be held for Carl Barnhill of Tuppers Plains who · will observe his 93rd birthday Friday. Cards may be sent Carl at P6 BOX 93, Tuppers Plains OH 45783. This.Week . ' HAGAN . 1ce Cream............ · sa · 29·· ·Powell;s MORTON . .. .. Super KEEBLER . . . _. · "'1' 139 · o · . Value SilIt111es•••••••••••••••••• . 1nners .........::':"... . · . .. sqt.pall 15-16oz. . . Monte Squeeze Ketchup Van Camp's .Pork & Beans 280Z. 16 oz. I 89¢ 6.75oz. $ $200 Au Hamburger Dill Chips ~z. Free Cash I Stop In The Store For Details · ~aturday, tt• 'I .. oft \ ·, . .... . . . · ' . July 5, 1997 ......... - ~ .. - . ~'-·- · .Attending were: Kenny and Lois Wyant of Pomeroy; Jean and . 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J!HertM!t • • ._, Hoppy 5ena a Wri~ 1943 TlleLealherBumers,l94l Bonler.l'llrol, l 943 follow 111e Bond, 1943 Colt Coandes,.l943 1he Human Comedy,, 1943 We've Never Been Uc:lted, 1943 lleyoad 111e Lui Frontier, 1943 Bir 20, 1943 t:Jouahboys in lrellnd, 1943 CorVeae K-22S, 1943 Aerial au.-, 1943 Lone Sill' Trail, 1943 Faile Colon, 1943 The Dancina Millen, 1943 Riden of the Deaillinc, 1943 Qy Havoc, 1943 Ourtt flo! 1943 .Joluony .Doesn't Live Here Any More. 1944 When~ Marry, 1944 The Girt Rus~. 1944 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, 1944 NeVada, 1944 · Weot of the Pecos, 1945 The Ssory of G.l. Joe, 1945 nu the Bncl of1lme, 1946 Undercunau, 1946 The Loc:lte11946 Plusued, 1947 Crossfire. 1947 . Desire Me, 1947 Out of the Past, 1947 • Radleland the SUanaer. 1948 · BloodontheMoon.l948 The Red Pony, 1949 The BiJ Sleal, .1949 Holiday Affair, 1949 Where0angerl.ives,l950 My Forbi<lden Past,,I9SI His KindofWoman,l951 The Racket. 1951 Macao, 1952 One Minule to Zero, 1952 The l..jlsty Men, 1952 Second Chance, 1953 Angel Face, 1953 While Witch Doctor, 1953 She Couldn't Say No, 1954. River of No Re1um, 1954 fuckoftheCal, 1954 Not ua Stnnj!el', 1955 The Nigh! of the Hunter, 1.955 Man with the Gun, J95S ForeiplntriJIUC, 1956 · Bandido. 1956 Heaven Knows, Mr,.AIIison, 19S7 Fire Down Below, 1957 The Enemy Below, 1957 Thllllder Road, 1958 The·Hunten, 1958 The Angry Hills, 1959 The Wonderful Country, 1959 ·Home F11111J the Hill, 19(i() The Sundownen, 1960 The Ni&ht Fighters, 19(i() The Grass Is Greener, 19(i() The Last 1lme 1 Saw An:hie, 1961 Cape Fear, 1962 The Lonaest Day, 1962 Two for the Seesaw, 1962 The Lilt of Adrian Messenaer. 1963 Rampage,J963 Man in the Middle, 1964 Wh111 Way to Go! 1964 Mister Moses, 1965 The Way wm 1967 El Dorado, 1967 Villa Rides, 1968 Anzio, 1968 5 Card Stud. 1968 Sec..t Cere.mony, 1968 Young Billy Young. 1969 , The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, 1969 Ryan's D.iuahter, 1970 Goilll Home, 1971 The Wrath of God. 1972 The Friends of Eddie Coyle, 1973 The Yakuza, 1975 Farewell My Lovely, 1975 Midway, 1976 The Last 'JYcoon, 1976 The Amsterdam Kill, 1977 . Matilda, 1978 · · The Big Sleep, 1978 Selgeanl Steiner (also called Breakthmugh), 1979 Aaency. 1981 That Championship Season, 1982 The Ambassador, 198S · Maria's Lovers, 1985 Mr. Nonh, 1988 S~l988 Cape Fear, 1991 MidniBflt Ride, 1992 Thmbstone, 1993 Woman of Desire, 1993 Back Fire!, 1995 TV mlnlsules: TheWindsofWar,l983 North and South, 1985 War and Remembnnce. 1988 I · NEW YORK (AP) ·- Berry Gonly Jr. is aetting bliCk to basics.. The Mocown founder sold half his slake 1n the sona pubbshmg company thai owns more than 100 charttopping classics like "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "My Girl." · EM! Music Publishina paid $132 miUiotl Tuesday for half of the Jobete Music Co. and its sister company, Stone Diamon~ Music Corp. Oo.nly formed Jobete Jn,1959 as an -!flhate to the Motown company, whtch he sold in 1988. Gordy started as a songwriter and composed hundredS of songs, including the Jackson S's ''I'.II Be There." He shaped the careers of Motown greats such as Diana Ross, Smokey . Robinson.and,Stevie Wonder. , He'll concentrate on.lV specials . for the 40th Motown an~tversary next year, as well as a SJICCtal about the Temptations. LOS ANOELBS Roben MitchiQI! ·is rold to HoUywood was as , rough-and-tumble u any of the mavericb he played in more llw! I00 Westerns, war movies and dramu. He driftecl into actina from a aritty life similar tolhatofthe characters he went on !9.JIIay. He was arrested for vaanncy ')s • youns man, and claimed to have dug dirches, cleared swamp brush and buih raids while serving lime on 1 Gccqia chain gang. , He escaped II)CI eventually hopped a freiaht car to Los Anaeles. Mirchum, who wu a star for a half-«ntury but never won an Academy Award, died in his deep Tuesday at his Santa Barbara County home ROBERT Mn'CHEM after a yearlong battle with emphysema and lung cancer. He was 79. • Just a week earlier, he had begun Cassidy Westerns. In 1943, he beaan : radiation treatments. appearing in war movies such as · From a menacing ex-con in 1962's "Oung Ho!" "Corvette K-22S" and · "Cape Fear" to a private eye in "We've Never Been Licked." . "Farewell, My Lovely" in 1975, He played a crewman in 1944's : Mitchum wu a prolific actor who "Thirty Seconds over Tokyo" and 1 · earned his ticket to statdotJI. But he villain in a Laurel and Hanly feature. · eschewed alitz and glamour. · He even appeared in a musical West~ · "He was a legend, a giant, bigger em. than life," said Bruce Dem, who coHis star rose in 194S when he starred with Mirchum in 1982's received his only Academy Awanl "That Championship Season." "I nomination, for his role of 4 Walk- • was lucky enoaah to work with him. er in "The Story of 0.1. J(/C." • •. He WJ!S alway• at the top of his · "After the war, suddenly there : aame." was this thins ~. ualy heroes, so I On sc:rcen and off, Mire hum was started going around in profile," he hard-drinking and surly. Over the once remarked. years, he told so many tall tales ahout His hero status was in danaer his youth that it became hard to son when he was arrested in 1948 forpos- . . out the 11111h. session of marijuana at a friend's : . He was proud of his humble home. beginnings and talked of jobs as a After serving 60 days in an honor prizefighter in Sparb. Nev., a coal fann, he bounced back to say: "It's miner in Pennsylvania and a laborer just like Palm Springs without the in Chico. BHore he Jot into acting he riffraff." worked in an airplane fac\01')'. . His popularity with producen and His arrival in Los Angeles aboard · the public soared after his return to a freight car in 1937 was just anoth- film beginning with the 1949 film, • er scene in the drama Ill lived every "The Red Pony." day. He remembered JC!Iina off at the Mitchum's last picture, "James • Santa Fe freight yanls. Dean: Race with Destiny," set for . "Five Mexicans were under a release on Sept. 30, also. stars his : water tower with 3 gallons of wine," · granddaushter Carrie Mitchum. His · he recalled years later. "They called scenes were shot in late 1995. ' me over, gave me some wine and told "I was impressed because you : me how to aet out of the yanls. I could tell he was weak even then, yet : thought, :Jccz, a welcornina .,.cy for fire came to his eyes when the cam· · the bums! This is home!"' eras began rolling," said writer-assn- : He was born Robert Charles ciate producer Dan Sefton. : Duran Mitchum on Aus. 6, 1917, in Mitchum is survived by his wife : Bridgeport, Conn. of S6 years, Dorothy; his actor sons, · In 1937, Mitchum headed for James and .Christopher; daughter, : Loilg Beach and became involved in Petrine; five grandchildren and one : local theater at the urging of his sis- step-sranclchild. ter Julie. In 1940, he married his The funeral will be private and : childhood sweetheart, Dorothy Mitchum's ashes will he S<:auercd at ; Spence. ' sea. · He was cast in eight Hopalong • TH OF IULY FOOD BUYS t ·IRON HO·RSE- ranchers, farmers and loggers - and they don't cotton to panhandlers. I just WB!'I our people to stay away from them," said County Judge Fred Rodgers. Rachel Carnahan, who works in her mother's beauty shop. wasn't deterred. She tool: a load of elk and venison to the Rainbow crowd. "We didn't pass a person who didn't wave and say, 'Peace and love,"' CHARCOAL s I J gg s iO LB. .LB. .,.,-. EACH CHUCK COMBO PACK Sentinel ENGLISH STEAK COMBO PACK 29 •GROUND CHUCK ·•ENGLISH STEAKS LB. HILLSHIII s 89 LB. EYE OF ROUND STEAK SMOKED OR s 99 POLISH SAUSAGE s • 79 LB• ~· LB. FUN PACKS c s 81 ' 99 MAYER 69 ' LB. 1 LB. 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The JI'OIIP' aii'CIIdy provided the dNJ, mifepriii9De. to I ,000 women in clinical m.Js in Rochester, N.Y., Bellevue, Neb., Burlinaton. Vt., Kalispell. Mont., New York. San Francisco and Seattle. With new funclina l'rom the John Mcn:k Fund, the nonprofit Jl'OUp plans to announce lddilional siteS in New York, 'texas, Maryland and Aorida. ARMOUR VIENNA SAUSAGES fARMS · ,. Notice: Swisher & Lohse Pharmacy Is authorized to fill your prescriptions with your ·n ew Group to give 9ut Express Scripts prescription card. abOrtion pill to women · You only pay the c9~pay. __ . NEW YORK (AP) - A small If you have anY, questions, please abortion-riahts JfOUP is plannina to make the abortion pill available for see Chuck, Ken or . Ron, You~ free to 10,000 U.S. women in research trials as a stopaap measure Swisher & Lohse Pharmacists. We until the drul can .6e distributed nationally, The New York nmes welc.ome your prescription reported today. Lawrence Ladei, president of the business. ..,New York-based Abortion lljgh!S SEEDLESS GRAPES ROYAL OAK CHUCKS K ROAST STEAK. COMill ~"the SWEET CALIFORNIA RED OR GREEN C Rainbow Family gathers for 25th reunion "What we share here is just beauOCHOCO NATIONAL FOREST. Ore. (AP) -As a cold dawn. broke tiful, beautiful IJlagic," said SIIITR over Indian Prairie, a loud cry Sunshine from Lisqucti Island, bounced off the psy ~ills apd fil- British Columbia. "Some people say tered , through the tall ponderosa they come to the gathering and their cheeks act sore ftom smiling." pines. · In nearby Prineville, a timber and "WE LOVEYOOOOOUUUUUcattle town of just'' 6,000 people, not UU! COME HAVE SOME PANeveryone iJ smiling at. the tie-dyed cAKES!" was the rallying cry Tuescrowd. day morning at t~ 2Sth national "This is a working ·county gathering of the Rambow FI!JIItly. ; Its hippies, old and new roam. from sathering to Jlllhering to stoke tht 1960s ideals of peace and love. The kitchens that feed everyone .for free have been cooking around the clock to make sure none of the .11,000 people in thi~ forest encampment goes hungry. They:rc been trickling in all month. And twice as many people are expected for July Fourth, when the · · group thai evolved from the '60s counterculture back-to-nalure movement will pmy silently for world peace. The Dally Sentinel • Page 11 .' By VICTORIA liM :~n~;::i~~::g<t'::;:- ._Gordy getting back to the basics I Pomeroy • Middleport, Ohio AIIDClllld , _ Wllllr ner- The Canadian rescan:hers found that one in every five older drivers was taking benzodiazepines, deapi~ . pacb&e insert warnings to avoid these medications when operaltng a motor vehicle. Ray said the U.S. rate of use among the elderly was probably the same at the tim~ but has declined_ somewhat since then. Wednesday, July 2, 1997 .. Robert Mitchum, . actor .With toug~-guy :i image, dead at 79 - Tranquilizers are linked to higher accident risk in elderly residents ,, CHICAGO (AP) - Elderly drivers wbo like V.Jium or ocher commonly prescribed llanquilizers are more likely to JCI into serious ICCidcnts, a s!Qdy found. During the first week of tnnquilizer use, the risk was 4S pcn:enl higher lban it was for ocher elderly drivers, and afterwlld it was lbout 2S percent higher, rescarchen reported in Wednesday's issue of The~ of the American MedicaiAssocillion. Valium belongs to a family ·of d111gs called benzodiazepines, which are amon1 the most frequently ~ scribed medications to relieve vousness and insomnia in the elderly. The downside of the druas besides their tendency to be habitfanning- is that they delay reaction time and can cause drowsinesa and confusion. Abruptly ~opping the regular use of benzodiuepincs can be danaerous, causing hallucinations, seizures or convulsions, said s!Qdy co-aulhor Samy Suissa of McGill University in Montreal. He said a doctor should always be consulted before discontinuing thedNgs. In the study, only long-actina benzodiilzepines. wedru . re linkedftito driving risks. Such gs are e cctive for up to 30 or40 houn, while shortacting ones may last as little as two hours, Suissa said. Long-actina benzodiazepiaes include V.Jium (cli•"'P""'), cion· ) 1 azepam (Kionopm , c orazepate (Tranxenc),c~a~xide(Librium,-Librax). fl,...zepam (Dalmanc) and nittazepam~ No elevated ri was linked to the short-~M:tina : . ..aljiruolam (Xanax), . bromazepam, Ioruepam (Ativm), . oxazepam (Serax), tern.,,...,_ (Restoril) and triazolam -.-(Halcion). One expert DOl associated with the study, Wayne A. Ray of Vanderbik University School of Medicine, said . · even short-acting benzodilzepincs should be avoided among the elderI Y· All benzodiazepincs CID impair reaction time, and the short-acting dnlgs have been linked to gaps in short-term memory and hip-breaking falls, he said. The study involved 5,S79 drivers ages 67 to 84 who were in injurycausing crashes in Quebec from 1990 to 1993. The subjects were compared ) .. OPErt Z4 HOORS 7 DRYS fl WEEKI il ' The Abovt llllonaadinl WUIIIt UMd I• Ad SUbmitted By: '· . l Old Fashioned .., . SERVICE VALUES... With Today's .I • lj • �• v Page 12 • : Wednesday, July 2, 1 Pomeroy • Middleport, Ohio The Dally Sentinel • Page 13 . Pomeroy • Middleport, Ohio ... ' The Dally Sentinel Condemned killer offered- no 11th hour confessi · By TED BRIDIS Patton also warned thai Aaaoclated Prep Writer McQueen's death stands as a " grim EDDYVILLE, Ky. -In the houis remi~r" about tlie dangers of drug before his execution, condemned abuse. McQueen allegedly was under killer Harold McQueen tillked quiet- the influence of Valium, whiskey and ly in his cell with a volunteer mini$'- • marijuana when Ms. O'Hearn was ter about forgiveness and about his ·. shot. concern for·fellow inmaf!'s on "death "The case of Harold McQueen row. shows us that a life of drugs leads to. But his minister said Tuesday that a life of crime with death as the ultiMcQue.en offered no eleventh-hour mate end," Patton said. confession to him for the 1980 s\tootIn his . 0\" ,., final statement, ing of Rebecca O'Hearn, a young · McQueen apolc.&i£ed to his victim's clerk at a_convenience store in Rich- family and to his own family, and he mond who died during a robbery. urged his supporters to continue to McQueen, 44, became the fll'St fight against the death penalty. inmate executed in Kentucky in 35 McQueen spent the time preced· years. He went to his death early ing his execution in an 8-by-10-foot Tuesday in the state's electric chair cell in the same building that housed with his body rigid, fingers sudden- tile death chamber. He spent most of ly balled into fists, his hands red- those hours talking with Paul J. dened. Stevens of nearby Dawson Springs, Gov. Paul Patton, who denied a a prison volunteer whose own daugh· plea of clemency, said Tuesday he ter was murdered in 1969. believed ·~there . is room for legislaThe two shared McQueen's last tive debate" over Kentucky's use of meal, a pair of cheesecakes. the electric chair rather than lethal "That's the way he is, a big injection. sweets eater. He loved Twinkies," Stevens remembered. "After we ate, he WaJ1ted to share it with everyone who was there, all the guanls. They ate some cheesec.ake, and he left Jt for them. Told them he wanted them to have it " , Ellactly what was said during that quiet time in the cell alone with McQueen became public only Tues· day. Stevens talked with The Associated Press from his modest living r.oom, recounting how McQueen hours earlier had spoken of forgive· ness over the 1980 shooting. Stevens did not watch the execution. "He was quite concerned be never could get forgiveness from the O'Hearn family, but he understood," Steven~ said. "The last thing he said was, he asked' to apologize to them, and he's done that several times. "He understood why they didn't gi_ve him forgiveness, that ~y wet¢ sun upset. But he was hoprng they could." McQ~een also expn:ssed concern about his 3d fellow death row inmates. After the eKecution, SteVens visit.C:d each of them 10 announce McQueen's death and to distribute McQueen's leftover sn~ks. "Some of them were crying, mosdy for ihe loss of Harold," he said. . But Stevens said McQueen offered no confession 10 him. In the days prior to the execution. defense attorneys argued that McQueen's 'balf·brother, Keith Burn~ll. actually shot Ms. O'Hearn, and that McQueen . had accepted blame.to prole(I hlm. Burnell was sentenced 10 20 years. A priest administered last rites to McQuee~. Public Notice Public Notice were vio18ted." On another topic, prosecutors reque~ted a delay of the .first of the four trials since defendant Edward F. Moore pleaded guilty. Jaclc A. P~llips plans to plead guilty Frid&y. •• IIJG-: 2 malt Beaglet: male -~ 2,100 volts into McQueen,.~'-.J His body te~ violendy, sud· · denly. His fingers clenched into tight fists and a small wisp of vapor escaped from the wet sponge and electrode attached to his right calf. A brown leather veil covered his face from forehead to mid-chest. McQueen was pronounced dead at 12:15 a.m. CDT, i McQueen's body was turned over to his family early Tuesday, leaving the penitentiary in the back of a non· descript hearse. A spokesman for Lakes Funeral Home in Berea said McQueen's services will be private and declined to release details. Public Notice Public Notice PUBUC NOTICE ·county Auclllor'a Olllca NOTICE PUBUC HEARING from July 310 July 14, 111117, OH THE IIEIGS COUNTY ba!WMn the houra ot 8:30 BUDGET FOR 1llllll e.m. 10 4:30 p.m., Mondey A bUdget helrlng lor the through Friday. DIX'I ..-.cling !lloal ye~r 1. General Fund, encllng DeMmber 31, 1lltlll, $3,183,1311. will be hekl on July 14, 11t7 2. Dog. Kanntl, $15,000. at the lltlga County 3. Child · Suppon CoiM'lleelonen' · Office.. Elliot cement, ~.ooo. 4. Public Aaalatance, Pomeroy, Olilo from 1 p.m. 10 2 p.m. The IJ2.-,oo, -rdenta or Melgl c-ty E·a tata 5. Real are tnvttall to provide •··· ..m.nt. $253,650. .written ancl or~l commenta 6. Auto Llcanae & qunuone Gitaollne To, $3,520,487. and Uk concerning the bUdgal 101' 7. Human Sorvlceo the curnnt ft8cal ye~tfl. I'UIIdlng Bond Rtllnment, Below ta e oummary of $123,052. the entire budget whlall Ia County Home, avellellla lor public $122,200. lnepacuon 11 till Melge . 1. So!l & Wiler, $87,171 . Lawyer: .leader's concern ignored eou-. MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) lion Services division in Cladsburg. -A magistrate who rejected MounThe government said the investitaineer Militia leader Floyd :'Ray'' galion began two months after the Looker's motion 16 suppress bun- Oklahoma City bombing when mili· dreds of recordings failed 10 address tia members disciiSsed tine targets Looker'sFin;tAmendmelltconcems_, incluoing the FBI center. The other his lawyer said. targets were not named. Bill Cipriani, Looker's lawyer, Cipriani said the investigation objected Monday to the magistrate's began earlier when Okey Marshall recommendation against suppressing Richards Jr. joiqed !he militia with , the tapes and against granting a hear· the FBI's tacit approval. ing on Looker's claim of "outra· "In this case, the government had geous" government conduct. no evidence whatsoever to believe Cipriani said the government that any member of the Mountaineer investigated the M~ntaineer Militia Militia was i.ivolved in any form of without evidence of any crime. criminal activity prior 10 the activities "Simply put, the government vio- of the paid informant Okey Marshall lated (the law) by beginning an Richards," be wrote. investigation·without the prerequisite Cipriani wrote that Richanls pridevidence of criminal activity, and fur. ed himself on his marketing prowess !hermon:, began lilt investigation of a and ability 10 ."sell crushed ice to group of individuals who were mere- Eskimos." ly exercising ibeir right to free speech Richards made mOle than 400 tape and association," Cipriani wrote. recordings ~t led to charges of plotCipriani wants hundreds of tapes ling to manufacture explosives, · m8de by_ a government informant bringing explosives across state lines thrown out. He also wants a hearing and providing resources for a terror' ·on his motion to dismiss all charges .ist attack on the FBI complex. . on grounds of outrageous conduct. The seven we~ .arrested after U.S. Attorney William Wilmoth Looker attempted to sell for $50,000' had not seen the motions Tuesday and photograph copies of FBI center bad no comment, spokeswoman blueprints oj)tained by a firefighter. ~ Fawn Thomas said. Wilmoth planned Cipriani contended Richards to address the motions in court, she planted the seeds of criminal activisaid. • ty, goaded defendants to action and U.S. District Judge Frederick · even provided money when neces· Stamp Jr. in Wheeling will have the sary to ensure crimes were carried ' final say on the moti()ns. out. . · Looker and six others with militia "It ts not the role of government ties wen: arrested Oct. II on charges -to manufocture crime," the lawyer including an alleged plot to blow up said. ''In this case, it was done and the FBI's Criminal Justice lnforma- the defendant's rights to dae process Stevens prayed for McQueen inside the death · charltber, as McQueen shut his eyes ! tightly. McQueen carried the rosary beads that had belonged to Stevens' own murdered daughter. After the prayer, the minister told McQueen: "I love you, son. I'll never forget you." "I love you, father, " McQueen answered. · Less than one minute later, with the death chamber empt)' except for McQueen, three anonylftQus execu· tioners behind one-way glass pressed plungers simultaneously - sending 40 llale & llmale Sholtle, ..,.... 10. Mental Retardation/· Davalopmantal Dlablllllta I I ~, Mulberry Hetpts, Pomeroy . ' 1:00 t'f'u blic 14. LlttM Control, $75,000. 15. Es;r•ncy Medical Sttvlce, ~7. 18. Common Ptaao Court Community Correctlono, sso,ooo. 11. Youth Subsidy, $35,000. Sarvlceo 18. Emergency Medical Service Tntnolara, $72,000. H. Community Dtvalopmont Block Gr~nt, 985-4422 Malgt County Floodplain Varlanee Bootrd will hold e Variance Hearing July 3, 111117 at 2:00 P.ll. In the Molga County Commie· alonen Office, MHtlng Ia - n to the public. , llelgoCounty Floodplain lllnllgar EIIMrdWany (7) I, 2 2tc , P~W~Ur! 110 Court St . 112-4119 •Ol2!/lll!llfn ·r. · J~!.~!tr=er Work Guaranteed Free Estimates Providing QuaHty Residential ~joe:.~~ and fts.tlst -·•res· on older ..- ·- '""' • 24 Hr homes SerYkl 1614) 592_5025 " 1 $200 REWARD For illfon~~~tlol leading to the ...est and cDIIYidlon of the persons who broke Into the A-fra.. oH .' 6111n Reedsv•. Call Meigs Sheriff 992-3371 ESTIMAT~E$ 985-4473 . 7/22/lln ' . FllEE LociiArH YOUNG'S SEilYKE ·=~A~dd=ltlona (<"\.. oEJectrlcll ofloollng ..m.~or • Pt.... blng . . 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Children'• Servlcaa (7) 2; 1TC . ISO, $400,000. TU-10811, 12• $140,814. Emngancy. t 3. Public Notice Managomant Agency, 1130,000. Tuesdays aaclThursdays Serving from 5:00 • S:4S Donation $4.00 for meal Melgo County The following cases were settled last week in the Meigs County Court of I . AT MEIGS CoUNTY SENIOR CENTER CommliiiOnttN Operation, St,4l511,347. :Meigs County Court Judge Patrick H. O'Brien. . . .Fined were: David L. Bates, Ocala, Fla., speed, $30 plus costs; Barbara L. Dickens, Daytona Beach, Fla., speed, SSO plus costs; Keith A. Kinzel, Syracuse, seat belt, $2.5 plus costs; Jami J. Anderson, Springfield1speed~ $30 plus costs; Jenny L. Belcher, Hudson, seat .belt, $25 plus costs; Dav1d L:> Vance. Pordand, seat belt, $25 plus costs; Crystal Sellers, Long Bottom, seat belt $25 plus costs; Kirk A. Turley, Racine, speed, $30 phis costs; seat belt, $25,plus costs; Jared E. King, Shade, underage cons4mption. costs, 10 days ·jail suspended to one day, 40 hours comm•1nity se':'ice, three years proba· tioil; disorderly conduct, $20 plus costs; Joseph P. Hill, Pomeroy, speed, $50 plus costs; Donald J. Steinmetz, Middleport, driving under the influence, $850 plus ·costs 30 days jail suspended to .10 days, one-year operator's license suspensi~n. two years probation; drivingundet financial responsibility action suspension, $150 plus costs, 30 days J81l suspended to 10 days concurrent 'with DUI; expired tags, costs only; child endangerment, costs ohly, _30 days jail suspended to 10 days concurrent wi!h DUI, two years probation; Charles Ritchie Jr.. Racine, disorderly conduct, $100 suspended to $50 plus costs, ·one year probation: James E. Milliron, Middleport, do'!lestic violence, costs. 30 days jail suspended to two days, one year 'probation, restrammg order issued; Alonna J. Grimm, Middleport, speed, $23 plus costs; Wilham E. Kauff, Pomeroy, driving under suspension, $150 plus costs, five days jail and $75 suspended if valid OL pre~ented w\tl!in 90 days; s~ed, $25 plus costs; fictitious plates, costs only; Bnan R. Nnz. Pomeroy, fwlure to conlrol, $10 plus costs; . . . ... . Danny R. Stamper, Galhpohs, speed, $26. plus costs; P~~l W. Lew1s, Racine, criminalbtspass. costs, one year probatton. _three days Jatl suspended. restraining order issued; Jason-Counts, Syracuse,_cnmmal trespass. costs, one year probation. three days jail suspended, restraonmg order tssued: fa1l~re to control, $10 plus costs; Curtis R Storms, Dexter. expired <_l{)Crators lice~se . $150 plus coSIS, five dllys jail and $7.5 suspended 1f vahd OL~rescnted wtth· in 90 days;' one year probation; James R. Deal, Reedsville, no OL~ $150 plus costs five days jail and $75 suspended 1fvahd OL presented wtthtn 60 days; one year probation; · Roger D. Thompson, Rutland, seat belt, $25 plus costs; Robert A. Lecp. er, Beverly. speed, S3Q plus costs: Roger D. Thompson, Rutland, illegal bac_k· ing, $50 plus costs; Larry L. M1tch Jr., Mtd~leport, DUI: $850 plus costs, 1odays jail suspended to three days, 9Q..day OL suspension, one year probalion. jail and $550 suspended upon completion of residenliallreatment program· James Morgan, Albany, DUI. $8SO plus costs, 90-day OL suspenston, 10 m,'ys Jail suspended to three days, one year probation, jail and $550 ~us­ pended upon completion of res1denual treatment program; dnv1ng under suspension. $200 plus costs, one year probation, 10 days j:"l suspended to three days concurrent; no insurance, costs only; open contamer, costs onl_y; Eric E. Ferriman, Athens, DUI, 90-day OL suspenston, 10 days Jail ~us­ pended to three days, $850 suspended to $.550, costs, o~e year probatoo~ ; driving under suspension, $200 plus costs, one year probauon, 180-day vehicle immobilization, 10 days jail suspended to three days concurrent; Charles McCloud Jr., Middleport, DUI, $8.50 plus costs, 30 days jail.suspended to · to days, 90-day vehicle immobilization, one year·OL suspensmn, two years ·probation· Robert R. White, Berea. K.y., speed, $30 plus costs; Leonard D. Blosser, Bidwell. speed, $30 plus costs; Ivy L. Davis, Gallipolis, speed, $30 plus costs; Robert L. JOehl, Lancaster, s~. $30 plus costs.; . . Matthew A. Cochenour, Cambndge, speed, $30 plus co~ts; _Joe ~- t:Jrsa. Fairmont, W.Va., seat belt, $2.5 plus ~osts; Ernie F. Chaffin, Cmcmnab, sJ1CC<i. $30 plus costs; Donald T. Long, Columbus, speed, $30 plus costs; Juhe A. McGuire, Langsville, speed. $30 plus costs; Phyllis A Johnson , Shade, speed, $30 plus costs; David 1. Wooldridge, Bidwell, over weight, $661 plus costs; Michael D. Lewis, Mason, W.Va., seat belt, $30 plus costs; William Hllm!on, · · Racine, speed, $30 plus costs; William Deem, Coolville, seat .belt, $25 plus costS; William D. Howard, Rutland, speed, $30 plus C'!$ts. EVENING MEAL DUMP TRUCK S181,ocio. 114-742-3181. �\ 4' WedniiMJ, July 2, 1117 P~ •Middleport, Ohio Pomeroy • Middleport, Ohio The Dally Sentinel• Pege15 ·.AII.£YOOP ~. PHILLIP ALDER NEA Cro11word Punle 40 -lt. 1..- •• 41 .,_, 44 Crr.pu pt. ....................... · 1 DIL ~aUt; .......... 410hloollv 11 ~....;.., : : : · • cq. 11il:"- ............ ffo..t c.tl • 10. 4 4·fMiiiy yard aalo. 408 S.C:ond SC.. Muon. .-.~y 2·& 11-? UtM bit ol ..e<Jthlng. II rwln, .-.1, 7, e, lllh. • 711 .. • K Q J 11 I 67 '2 V.fd Sale. 230• Madison Awe. • Q 5I 9 K J 10 5 12noon Wed 1D 12noon lhlr. Artllquot. ~....... ' . . .. •• s 2 lloldll 9 ,\.1 I •• 7 6 A K Q J 10 --1 1 FlAtlSPOFlTATION ----.Houlehold T~ote Tacoma Sopcl,'l -~~---- Abtolute Top Doller: All U.S. Sl~ ver And Gold Coins. Proofteta1 DilmondL Andque .-ry. Gold Goods Rings, Pra-.1830 U.S. Currency, Sloriina. Elc. Acqul- .-ry • IH.S. Coin Shop, 151 S.C:Ond ~~=-=~~ ~~~~--~~------~--: BARNEY PAW U TAKE YOilE NAT II N.C. a-. ....... IIIIi&-lo l'1lollllll .......... DOWN 111&1 . ' : M I I ' a - 111111CIIplctt,n ,.clt. 2 '40alllmhul31 'fllla-' 3 C I !loll baclr · tlmbll' .... • l'laalle- ........... ..... Weal Noo1ll •• I N'l' Pua Pua .. I NT But Pica All pua Opening lead: • 2 OFF AT TH' TAILIII Not the right captain ..•• or ·admiral .awrw. Odfpala, 114-441-2142. AnticiUH. lumiN........ clliM., ccNns, toys, lampe. guna. toolt,i estatH; also appr~~lsalt, Otby Motlln, 814-11112·7"'· ~all Vulnerable: Both Dealer: South Toba- water bed plantL 304. 1.1ERCHMJDISf Ulndlgo• · . . 1'yp[ "' dl¥llll 33-Ant&IM • A.l 7 wanted to Buy 22 uol:aw. ....... le ~lp :M Endlna ' • Al'l•- .• II 90 . 14 '111M • v.& . . . . "' 11 " - D"'inn .... 11, u 1 eo t.M~~ec.on 17-11 ..... 11 1NI1Ic . . . 11 . _ .... 30 lu;lan llCion ..,.. 21 Ilea lltn 12 0111111111- . Wednesday, July 2, 1997 By Phillip Alclw Lord Nelson wouldn't have made a good brid8c player, at lela not in his Battle of Copcnhqcn mode, when be said, "l have only one eye; I have a right 10 be blind sometimes· -I really do not see the sipal." Good defense ~equires the defend·m to sipal and 10 pay attention and .to draw the right conclusions. Today 's deal is asimple eumplc, but some pairs go wrong because they don 'I signal or watch or count. · West leads the spade two asainst ·three no-trump. With seven winners (one spade, one heart and five clubs), South need$ two diamond trickS ...; app~~~endy an impossible assisnment South should win the fnst trick {if the lead of the two is honest, the suit must be splilliris 4-3, and SoUih doesn't want'a heart switch) and lead a diamond immediately. {Cashin1 the club tricks fint gives even the slccpi· est oppol\ents extra infonnation.) West must duck"and note his part· ncr's two. Being East's lowest dia. mond, this shows an ndd number of cards in the suit. If it is a sinsleiOn, West cannot kill the diiunond suit, because declarer will have four. So, West assumes the two is from a tine· card holding. This means South start· ed with two diamonds {5·3·3·2). West wins tbe SCC!IRd round of diamonds with his ace, cashes his spide winners, and exits with a heart (or club), defeating the conb'IICt. ' Some Wests would duck two rounds of diamonds on a liow-can·it· cost basis. They learn the enor of their ways when South immediately IUDS for home. FRANK A: EARNEST If YOU viAtiT TO Jf TOl-l> TtfAT Mit. lAO-IS 1$ IJtiJ.VAILAI~f. p,ess Otlf· '-., If YO\J viANT TO It TOLl> ~il , .. " t! ~IS Af$1ST ~riT 1$ UriAVAILJ.J~f. PllfSf ~ 1880 Chavy Carol.., air, au· IOmallc. II~ • - eondillon InUld ..~ 88,000- ...... $21186. 8l+te2-8824. 1QIO Dodge Daytona 2 Daora. Rot!. 5 Spood, Air, Cruloo, Tilt, ~ts H.1Pl tor Rent ovr.1E~IT SF R 1! IC ES no · 70,000 MilL Excellont Condlllon, 1978 Jet Boat 22ft. 480 Ford mo· n;ooo, &l4-44M552. "" wr oaiiot. Allklng $5;500 oao. lttl Doc!ao Dynnly 82,000 MillO, loaded, u .aoo Or Boot Oftlr. 014--25&--tm. IDOl Dodge Spirit t04K Runo Good, Woii-Malntalnod, $2,500, .,.... 12i1 Help wamed i ... rwo..... n !§ •• 7-Z, ,.THE 750 Boats & Motors for Sale . ~ l,._ O£mlt-r..IJl£t\IU. '10 ~IU'IO to. 'NT Plft£ (,(l.fmt.! t 00 t()T I Ttl£ ~T l:x.A~l 'ttl)~~:. IOPIIIIIOM OM EGlUI~T,t Ol4-·11922or304-8J5.5113. 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Clphlre&=···-by t,.ula campos , 'VUIXII . 448-4015. .:.:;.,---:'-:--:--:-::--=-~-=--: I Budget p f lc. Tran amiss ion'· Qlli1. e1..,..,.onn. make'any such preference. llmitellon or dieCrimlnolion.' (Strlaua. lnquirlea Only.l) 814- ~ ~....,~~~~6'TI:....Tl_;;,.;.17-f G Complete 1.995 Sarurn SC2, Automatic, Air, AM~M Cauena, Trunk 2.8 Fronl Wheel Drive Engine, Rileuo, 112.500 Cal Mer 5 P,M. New Headgaaketa, 1250. Nag. Cruise, 14x70 2 or 3 Bedroom, down. $186/mo. Only 11 Homea, NitrO, WV. ~4 · CELEBRITY CIPHER . n8W HMct or IVpalra. Ma~11f l]. cenaed electrician. Ridenour • Electrical, WV000308, 304-875· "' July 3, 1997 .. The w11tderlust within you may be patified in the year ahead in both. your physical and mental realms. Exciting developments m likely the more you move around. . CANCER (June 21-July 22) · Sllisfaction is probable today in Q1811ers in which you play a signifi· . cant role. Be Jllllienl, because you have to ovCICOme some reU· . ~nee by usoc:illlls. Know where to '! lqok for romance and you'll find iL . LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Friellds and 1:0worken willflJliR' cillle you more if you don't attempt to. upstaac tbem. Keep a low profdo IIJd make a move for the back bum· . a today. VIRGO (Au&- 23-Scpt. 22). •y 1788. I ' are JULY 21 �... '' ' I I j .... - ,. , . / "·! l. . ·. -:- ' ••••; ' ' ..... '• ...,._ .i ' . ,• ... .Jl i .. .;;"\' . ,~ -,..- . ; . ~- . ' ,, ' I ... -< I I. lET lORI fOR r Y8UR MONEY ' _, ., .- J * • ' '•. • I, : S.'" , ~;' ' ' '· . ~- r ... .. . ' i ' .. . .... ~ •, •" ' ~,., .. l ;, ' ' (l ' '....... .. '• '· . Jiahdbag ~ ridr . - lrf.tuotg aab F.nub Jruitage nf tip CBlybt ~i&er'• u ~ibble-pitrt" Jubliadhtn of _The Daily Sentinel Pomeroy-Middleport, Ohio July 2, 1997 • Prlce ·$1.50 ... -~ ( • .' I :. ~ ~·.. ., � https://history.meigslibrary.org/files/original/7ed82b84133d8155dfa7c100fd15d81c.pdf 0ce7e6f72f02e628d21fe02aaab9cc74 PDF Text Text ... '' ' I I j .... - ,. , . / "·! l. . ·. -:- ' ••••; ' ' ..... '• ...,._ .i ' . ,• ... .Jl i .. .;;"\' . ,~ -,..- . ; . ~- . ' ,, ' I ... -< I I. lET lORI fOR r Y8UR MONEY ' _, ., .- J * • ' '•. • I, : S.'" , ~;' ' ' '· . ~- r ... .. . ' i ' .. . .... ~ •, •" ' ~,., .. l ;, ' ' (l ' '....... .. '• '· . Jiahdbag ~ ridr . - lrf.tuotg aab F.nub Jruitage nf tip CBlybt ~i&er'• u ~ibble-pitrt" Jubliadhtn of _The Daily Sentinel Pomeroy-Middleport, Ohio July 2, 1997 • Prlce ·$1.50 ... -~ ( • .' I :. ~ ~·.. ., �Middleport Bicentennial E4ftion, July 2, 1997 • Pqe '111rie . Pap Two • Middleport Bkeatemalal Edltloa, July 2, 1997 Bi~entennial · activities began wi~h. events in April A ~mmittee of Middleport res- dleport's founder, James Smith, and ide.nts has taken on tl{e impressive his present-day descendants. The las~ _o_f o~anizing a variety of . Orlando Colwabo Orchestra of aettvtues an observance of the Clarksburg, W.fa. provided dance 200lh anniversary of the founding music for the event, which was of Middleport. · attended by some I SO people. The committee consists of Mary Next on the bicenter,mial agen. Wise, Tom Dooley, Brenda Merritt. da is a special July 4 celebration, Donna Byer, Susan Baker, Rae . which will include a patriotic: Gwiazdowsky, Nancy Cale and parade, a v~ show featuring Jeanette Thomas, who also serve local talent, · fireworks. on the board of the Riverbend Arts . Entertainers committed to per- , Council, based in Middleport. forming for the event are Dazzling' The bicentennial cqmmittee_ Dolls, Swinging Seniors, Big Bend began its celebration in April, with Cloggers and Sweet Mo11atain a gala dinner/dance to honpr Mid-. Sound. Pam Neece, J~o_n_ Riley,. Monica ZUn:her, B.J. Smith, and Marlane Staats will be the featured vocalists for·the event The U.S. Post Office in Middleport will offer a special pictorial cancellation at Dave Diles Parle on the Fourth. Those w111ting the Clllcellation may bring their own stamped envelopes, or get the stamped envelopes at the cancellalion site. These can also be ordered 30 days after the event through the post office. ' Middleport Native Robert . DeLay a noted sculptor who now reside; in the Columbus area, has for PROCLAMAnoN MADE • Govei'IJor George Volnolvlch r.cently pr111nted Mld~lejport with a proclam-.Hon In honor of Ita bicentennial, urging all Ohio reeldenta to Join In the . celebration. Pl.ctured with the proclamation are Mar:y Wise or the Bicentennial Committee and Mayor Dewey Horton. · wide display of religious artwork in the churches of Mi~leport and Pomeroy, culminating in an informative lecture. DeLay's work will be displayed throughout the month of September, according to W'tse, although exact locations and a list of participating churches have not been confirmed at this time. Aguided tour of historic homes and other buildings will wrap up the celebration in late OCtober. According to Dooley, eight buildings, including the former Van Duyn home, now occupied by Helen Bodimer, the home of Paul and I..aiJ!'i~ Reed and the Presby- terian Church are definite stops the guided tour. The tour will focus im the · torical significance of the · ings, rather than architecture decorating. Middleport resident Gilmore has designed a logo, which will be used in conjunction with the celebration, and attractive "welcome" banners have been installed in the village business district to add to the festive atmosphere. . · · The Village of Middleport has committed $3,500 in funding for the year·~-~!~bration. PICTORIAL CANCELLATION· Thla apeci811y-cllalgned can- CIIIetlon will be Introduced on July 4 at Dave Dille Perk, by the ataff at the U.S. Post Office In Middleport. The canca!llltlon will al10 be wallable at the poat offlc:e during regular houn for 30 daya after the Fourth of July Clllbratlon. ~- .. -- --~ ·- ~ ... -~-- . ........~·;..--......' ".,_ ...-.·. ·~-;..-,- .. .- First settler James Smith buried there Pioneer cemetery presents lesson in history and Geographical Encyclopedia. In his book ,Hardesty describes Benjamin Smith, Jr., then about80, Reading the epitaphs on tombas having a "memory remarkably stones in the Gravel Hill Pioneer Cemclef)' in Middleport is a lesson clear and strong." He had been a · in history. la~er and a one-time postmaster It is in this silent place that stoor'Middleport~ . ries unfold about the village's earSmith related to the hist9ry ly settlers for it is there that the first book publisher the story of his settler, James Smith, and many of grandfather's trip down river from his descendants are bun'ed. Marietta in the spring of 1797 and Located on Page Street in lowhis settlement on the bank of the Ohio River about a mile above the · er Middleport, the Pioneer Cemetery, is the oldest of the three burmouth of Leading Creek. The location has been deterial grounds in Middleport. · mined to be near where Fisher · "James Smith, New HampFuneral Honie is now located, the shire, Lieutenant N. H. Militia, same place where in the 1800s Revolutionary War, Jan. 6; 1944 John Grant built a house which was May 8, 1817" is the inscription_on later sold to Captain William Hapthe flat monument at the grave Site. lQnStall, and then in the 1930s to Bart Rawlings and Bob Coats for a funeral home. James Smith came down the Ohio on a flatboat with his family which consisted of five children, three sons, Benjamin, James and • John, and two daughters, Catherine and Jane. A fe'w days after landing · they built the first cabin in what would become Middleport. The family had come in 1793 from Roxbury, Mass. to Marietta but as the Indian war was then in progress, Hardesty states, "the PJ:O" tection of the defenses at that pomt was the best and only security from the tomahawk and scalping knife of the stealthy and treacherous foe.n . The family stayed there until 1797 when they left Marietta 111d landed April IS at the mouth of Leading Creek. While ~ojourning in Marietta, Benjamin Smith, Sr. THE PIONEER CEMETERY on Page Street Ia Middleport'• had married Amy Barker and on oldeat cemetary and the location of the grevea of Jamn Smith, Aug. 27, 1797, their son, John M. flret aettler, and many of hie cluc:endanta. The first burial In Smith, was born. It was reported the cemetery waaln 1816. that he was the first white child born in Salisbury Township. ·from Culj,epper County in Vuginia Jones laid out in lots the town IN MEMORY of LL Jamal hll dHcanclantl erected The same year, according to and settled at the forks of Leading from Mill Street to about where is ,_!!,.•r and hie informlfiion provided to Hardesty, Creek. The following spring today the Pom~~oy corporation 1 markM noting hla Hf'VIct In the Hamilton Kerr came down the riv- line, and that secuon wa~ mcorpo~ltlon 11 a pioneer and flrat Httllr of Mldd..._. ~~~~D:!'!a~v:id':~Th~o"" mas~an ~d!fam ['!il~y::Jam=:·:·v::led er and settled near the right bank of . rated as Middleport on . J~ne 7, 18SS by the county com~ss10ners. Leading Creek. . Later in 1798 Benson Jones The section from Mill Street arrived in Middleport, and it was down was called Sheffield and was his nephew . Philip Jones, who laid out by Dr. W.B. VanDuyn and some years iater became the pro- Benjamin Smith_ in 1837, first prietor of all of the presenttown of being called Vmton and the~ Middleport above Mill ~t. changed to Sheffield when 11 .Philip Jones was the Ylrst trea- ~arne known that another place surer of Meigs County, 1819 (the m the state was called Vinton. year the county was organized) to Mi~dleport and Sheffield were 1820; and then went oil to serve a consolidated on Jan. 27, 185~ and term which expired in October, the entire area was called Mtddle1824 as a co,unty commissioner. · port. By Charlene Hoeflich Se:slhi81 News Staff · Nearby is another matker erected some years later by his descendants which describes him not only as a Revolutionary War soldier, but as a "Pioneer and First Settler" of Middleport. Surrounding the site of James Smith's grave are many tall tablet tombstones bearing the name Smith. They include that ofthe first settler's son, Benjamin Smith, whose son, Benjamin Smith, Jr. provided historian H. H. Hardesty with material on his family and their settlement in what years later would become Middleport. The information which Hardesty obtained from Smith was published in 1883 in Hardesty's Historical M BICENTENNIAL COMMrrTEE ·TheM community-minded ~ of 1M Middleport Blclntllnnlal CommlttM have planned MVen~l ac;11v1ttea ~at.~~-. long celebration. They are, front, Jeenen. Thomaa, Donna Byer arid - · , WIU. -1 Back Brwnda ..... Rae Owiu.dowaky, Tom Dooley and Nancy Cale. Susan ,,JlWr J1 nc»t plctubld, but ~ ..u.. , , , , . , .......,., · . DESCENDANTS RECOGNIZED· Several area realdents are direct delcendanta of Jamaa Smith, founder of Middleport. They were recognized and presented certHicates by Brenda Merritt, center· representing the Rl'verbend Arts Council, at the · Founder'• Day celebration. Pictured accepting her certificate from Merritt Is Betty Sayre. Other descendant• recognized from the left are John Blake, Frank Blake, Ann Rype, ~adley Faulk, nm King, Carol King Brewer, Bob King, Lib~ King, and T. J. King. 1n Mf:wll.on , •• • 0 t ' I .' �Early·history Of village recalled ~aluting. ~ibblepnrt ®n ;Dts .~iuntennial 1797-1997 ~ ·· TOny's ·carry Out September 20th & 21st 221 MJIISt Saturday 10-5 p.m.&: SWlday 10-5 p.m. 992·2929 FealuriiJ8• We Salute Our Friends In Middleport . During Its Bicentennial . •N- C... a 1'radt Dllplay •Aidlqae C.... .•Good Food •Bone. . •Bert. a Dried Flowen •U.e Emert•'•-• •Cnft. •Aidlqae , _ ,.........,., •to-relal ExhiW.. of all ldnda ·~. Sbowa a O.playa (Toya, Qalha,'Pam~ Conteet, Dot Show) •bode AnlmU. •Flea ~ . •Aidlqae Traetor .PnJI& AND MORE- SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE! . Sunday Mol'Din8 Worship Service- 10:00 a.m._ FREE ADMISSION . FREE ADMISSION For More lnfoi'IIUidou C.Os Co-CINd==· ~J Bacldey, 992..S293 RIDENOUR SUPPLY ·~~·- I 1 IW ~ .... 99J.;6696 R-~5 Becky Beer, Work 992-6696, 992-5860 lllfloor SPfle• AMeloe Lewt., 992-2924 O.rdaor SPf'C• .t C~..._ Jim W~ IJ85-4372 AJ11iqu 'lhleror .t E,.._IIIIN• DUpt.,. Weller, '74.2-3020 CaQ I S)ate Route 248 985-3308 a- c., o.n- • eongra~ul~tiO":S }Vli~dlepon Proud to be a part·of flOUr past and of your future 'Jour }Vleig~ eounty Republican Elected Officials e~J~~t~Gf~elle Hlllfllltoll, ]tllelgs eotmtfl Recorder .}IG~~cfl P•ur et~~~tpbeU, /tllelgs e~11 t4Mdltor . Hoilwud E. 'Jrtlltk, }tllelgs eo•.crr.swer .. .. . R~rt e. rJuclc, ]tllelgs C!OWitfl ProbGte f]IMI. . l:tul'fl e. Spe11~, }tllelgs eONIItfl e1eric: of eowts · . f . Patrie O'Brle11, /tllelgs eONIItfl e~ 7udge Dr. ~,_ fflmter, /til. D., }tllelgs eOIUitfl eoro~~er . J.retl . . ' w. erow 999, /tllelgs eONIItfl .eOMitloll PletU 7ut1ge Jred Hoftmtu~, /tllelgs eONIItfl eOittlttlsslo11er leobe~ H. E'CISOII, }tllelgs eONIItfl ettght•r Tile followlll& was a school _ , wrtctea In lbe 1870. by Mill lela Vu ·Duyn tmd publilbed Ia die Metp c-ty N-. She Died • her -rees two of Middleport's early ldden who were, at die time of bcr wrftiaa, w~ lllhmced In ap. completing a scene, that would who fi!St taught in the little school- down their lives for the country deliers and some of the school furhave struck the eye of an artist. house, the young ideas of our par- they loved ·so well. Eight of the niture. The spring and summer monthl; ents "how to shoot," was Henry number that returned came back Instead of giving up, in despair, glided swiftly and pleasantly by, Barton. with arms in slings, crutches and as their first inclinations directed; The succeeding years brought · empty sleeve. each day bringing some new disthey went to work like so many No drawback whatever seems beavers, almost before the embers covery of the inexhaustible riches such an increase of population that of the · surrounding forest; and they began to talk of building a to effect the advancement of Mid- had thoroughly cooled, to rebuild when August was waning, God church, which after the preliminary dleport, it triumphs over and rises it. And it is to-day, stauncher to all blessed them with a little son, to months of talk and waiting was above ever disadvantage. It has ~. then before.. It cer· whom they gave the time honored erected by the Christians, more been visited by several destructive tainly. is more fire-proof, as the Early in March of the year name of John Smith. he was born familiarly know (sic) as Carllpbel- fires, the most important one of lat- slate roof, iron cornice and cupola 1792, a young man started, in com- August 27, 1797. Meanwhile, win- lites. That church stands to-day, a er years being the Crystal Flour are proof. Thus we see the place has. not pany with his father, from the lit- ter, with its hardships was advanc- fair monument of their earlier Mill, which was at best, rather a dilapidated affair, and the sur- been deterred in its advancement exertions. tle town of Roxbury, Mass., for the ing. The little town of Middleport rounding buildings~ by any of the misfortunes that have wilds of Ohio. Their life for the next few Out of the ashes rose the large was laid out by Phillip Jon~. on befallen it, but bears right onward He sllirted out, like many months was rough, lonely and perwoolen mill which has gained a his own propriety, some years after like-• another before him, and as many ilous enough to satisfy the most reputation even in the outer world "The youth. who bore 'mid sn<iw Sheffield. That part of the town another has started since, with ardent admirer of yellow backed high hopes of finding or rather lay- literature. The wolves prowled by which lies below Mill Street, was for its fine production; also the ana ice A banner with the stranger ing the foundation of his fortune. night, and the bears became such then called Sheffield, and that part handsome bricks opposite. The next destructive fire swept away device, Excelsior!" The name of this young man finn friends with their swine that above, Middleport. In, or about the the buildings on the comer of Coal Middleport is fast becoming was the ordinary one of Benjamin they not infrequently carried one year 1858, they were consolidated and .Second Street, which were known in the outer world for more Smith: that of his father -- James off in a loving embrace, before the under the name of Middleport, The decidedly inferior to the massive reasons than one. fJrSt manufactory was built by Smith; but be the name so ordinary astonished eyes of its owner. . First, for its rich and abundant or even so romantic, he was, The monotony of their lives was t1lillip Jones in 1847, and from that block that now stands in their . . mineral productions; 5econd, for its notwithstanding, the · founder of somewhat broken by the arrival of time forward the whir and clang of stead. But the direct calamity of all extensive manufactories. MiddleMiddleport: David Thomas, and his family, machinery has never ceased. The c;ame last -- when the pride of the port now boasts eight ' churches, As I have already stated, they from Culpepper County, Va., who town revels no more in peaceful place, the school-house, was seen two printing offices, two banks, started from Massachusetts in settled in the vicinity, on the creek quiet. The beautiful hillsides, the in flames, the people were filled forty-three stores and groceries, 1792, whence they proceeded on which now bears his name. His their then perilous -- wearisome &rrival was followed the succeed- dense forests, the verdant banks . with consternation and despair; nine manufactories, and last, but . journey to Marietta. Arriving at ing spring by Hamilton Kerr and that marked the course of the riv- when the shrill cry of "fire!" rang not least, one of the finest public that place they took refuge in the family, who settled on the farm er, have all been swallowed up in out on the clear morning air, and schoql buildings in southern Ohio, block-house where they were com- now owned'by T. C. Fesler. Thus the vortex of improvement and they saw those terrible flames from the tower of which peals forth pelled, through the hostilities of the these three families lived miles advancement. Where the verdant creeping like a thing of life along hourly the bell of a town-clock. Middleport boasts all this, and Indians, to remain five long -- apart, yet calling themselves neigh- hills once sloped from the river, the roof, they stood paralyzed. weary years. They were five years · bors. The following year 1798, now stands the manufactory Nothing could be done, the flames more, it boasts a respective railroad of doubt and uncertainty; hardships Benson Jones came and settled on wreathed in columns of smoke. · were beyond their · reach, they -- But I shall leave the future of and privations; but with all hope the property which now belongs to Where once reigned peaceful stood idly watching them destroy, Middleport, for, I trust, a more and expectancy. Like every thing R. R. Hudson. He brought with silence now strikes discorc;lantly on in a few hours, the worlt of months. competent historian to speak. earthly these five years drew at last him his nephew, P. Jones, who was the ear the sound of all kinds of Meantime the pupils had . If I have erred in any of my escaped from the'buming building, to an. end; and the occupants of the destined to take an active part in labor. During the late war Middleport block-house began to talk of leav- the advancement of the little viland the fears of anxious parents statements .it has been through with characteristic alacrity, was were quelled. The reaction taking ignorance; for my facts have been ing, to find homes for themselves. lage. During the time of waiting, Years passed. Nothing has among the first and foremost. place· they stood idle no longer, gleaned from the imperfect memSmith the younger, met and won occurred in the village of much When "Father Abraham," called for both men and women, set to work ories of two aged men who are fast the mythical--mystical creature, importance during the years which · 75,000 me11. Middleport respond- with all the energy of desperation, approaching, "The valley of the · the chan- shadows." his "Fate," in the person of a Miss have intervened, except that the log ed without a munnur, and when the saving the Amy Barker, who with her friends huts have been exchanged for neat call resounded for "three hundred so been staying in the block- . fnune dwellings, the occasional thousand more" and the whole . arrival of an emigrant. the wedding country was trembling to its very ng the .latter part of their of some stray pair oflovers, or the foundation. again she responded. stay, they were wedded and start- . death of some well beloved neigh- Many a noble father and brave son ed hopefully out. in March 1797, to bor. Time rolled on with all the went out detennined to lay down · his life, if God so willed it, in begin the battle of life together. A monotony of a tread-mill, till the defense of his country. There was 'weary battle it was for the fJrSt few year 1836, when the place put on scarcely a home in the place that years, and many were· the jl~ a look more of life than heretofore, was blessed with brave- sons, that ships theY endured uncomplam- by the opening ofa store by Van-· had not offered them up a willing ingly. They erected a rude hut, ~ Duyne & Smith. The store was of sacrifice to their country's honor the site of which the home ofM1ss nondescript character, being limit- and safety. In the 80's when population was er on a wire which a bucket Sophia Allen now stands. eel to no particular kind of goods • Almost every serviceable man high and business was booming, was suspended. Though this home was rude and -just such a store, in short, as you in the place had answered to the Industry was thriving during unomimented, and their priva- will find in any country village lo- distressing calls for aid ·from their steamtx,.ls were the main means of transportation. that period and a large steel mill tions many, in summer they fared day -' a store where you can pur- bleeding' country, and those at The articles of commerce were was operating at Middleport, along well. They were•the boundless . chase any thing from a toothpick to home remained not idle. hoop holes, railroad ties, coal salt, with several coal mines, and other resources of nature, to which they a cooking stove. The place grew There were aid societies applied not in vain; if their hui was more rapidly after this, the event of fonned, in which time was not barrels, and tan bark, according to industries. Edgar Ervin's history, 8lxl people "It was the day of the derby hat rude it was situated in a perfect the day. spent in idle .chatter; but busy seemed satisfied to live with mud ' and the horse and buggy, when Ede{l; the scenery around .was The following year, (1837) the hands kept time with busier roads and one room school hous- labor was cbeap . and living was . wildly picturesque and beauuful. town was laid out by Van Duyne & thoughts that were too sad for utter- es. cheap," wrote Ervin. There was the little hut situated on Smith and the name of Vinton was ance. Mothers sewed, shedding There were no paved streets in But then came the railroads in • the very edge of a boundless given it. But the next year, (1838), tears over garments made for the Pomeroy or Middleport in 1880 about 1890 to start competing with wilde.._ss, majestic trees spread there being another place in the hospital sufferers, not knowi!lg the when the county had its greatest the river traffic. ir protecting arms around the~ state of the same name, it was while, but that they would be the population - 32,325. By 1910 hard surfaced roads every side, all points of the hori- changed to Sheffield. The year burial clothes of their own darling Ervin described the streets as were being built to accommodate zon were marked by hills whose 1837, forms an era in the advance- boys. Every one worked, from the almost impassable in the winter the automobile, which indirectly very ruggedness gave them a pro- ment of the place, as there was a dear old grandmother to the "Wee time and dusty' in the summer time. led to the decline of the populalioe tecting look; at their feet the beau- school-house erected and a post- toddler," for even baby fingers There were no water works at as residents discq.vered a broader tiful Ohio glided by, out o~ ~ v~ry office opened. The name of the could "pick lint." . · that time, tho historian wrote. and range of opportunity waiting· in · depths of which the Virg1ma ~l.ls dignitary that fust officiated as Post · Of the boys that went out so many people dwelled on the river cities. seemed to rise, fonning a viVId Masier, was Elias Cole. The name willingly fourteen of them laid and drew their water from the rivcontrast to the s~lln.&.rive!,_ll!l4 of~ worthy "knight of the rod," · e scene in ·1880 rrom I ' �. Congratulations ·M iddleport ~ibblepnri ij!rnpqies & me~s Village·hali10ng-standing seat of gove·r nment From red brick structure much·the way it sits today with a cupola above the nonhem face of the building. Today Middlepon Village Hall houses the police, water and . income tax depanments in addition to the clerk-treasurer's, mayor's and council offices. The jail now houses up to four prisoners and a second-floor apanment houses a resident dispatcher who also feeds the prisoners. Also located on 'the second floor is the clerk-treasurer's office. An annex later added onto the building now houses the water office. At one time, the fire depanment was based in the building in the section now occupied by the tax office. Horses were kept in the adjacent C. A. Densmore Livery Stable. The building which housed the livery stable still stands today, across from the existing ftre depan.ment. ' ·Jrnub tn he a parlnf ~ibblepnrt~ s 20Dtq Jear C!Ielehrat-inn BIRCHFIELD FUNERAL HOME Rudand, Ohio . 742-3222 The current location of Birchfield Funeral Home was once R.H. Rawlings Funeral . Home and Dodge Car Sales. Rawlings moved to Middleport · in. the late 1920's. We at Birchfield Flineral Home feel that we are a' small of the MiddlepoJ:t history, and enend out Congratulations to ,Middleport on its Bicentennial Celebratibn. part 190 N. SICOi'ld Ave. · Middleport -~128 Conaratulations Mi,..eporl on ~r B....,._nilll . . C.lelwation ' 0 EBERS Hufuing and Fishilig Supplies Racine, Oh "Play Your Lotto Numbers" at Ebers 949-9200 ADOLPH'S DAIRY VALLEY Wishes Middleport Congratulations on Their Bicentennial .Celebration! · VILLAGE HALL, located at the lnt.rsectlon ot Race Street and Third Avenue, has survived numerous hardships Including savaral major floods since Its construction eometlme 1876. The bulldlnghouses the pollee department and jail, water department, clerk·treasurer's office, mayor's office and village council chambers. The one-story annex at left was added at 1 later date. · before By JIM FREEMAN ·Sentinel News Steff Perhaj,s due to the recreational Every house or building used or occupied by as a "house of ill fame" or for the purpose of assignation or prostitution would be held and deemed a publil! nuisance with the responsible person being fined not less than $50 nor more than $100. Pomeroy, OH 570 West Main CONGRATULATIONS RUTLAND BOTTLE GAS .CO. WISHES THE BEST TO MIDDLEPORT . ' ·-------.. ... More laws were passed on Dec. 18, 1905, reading "it shall be unlawful for. any person to keep any wine room or rooin in which wine, cider or intoxicating liquors are taken to. be drunk otherwise than by the family occupying said room or.house." MIDDLEPORT = ON ITS · .200th YEAR ANNIVERSARY! TRI·COUHTY. FDRD '"'· RUTLAND BOTTLE GAS CO. 1-800·837·8217 2. STANLEY,~~ CI1Y OFFICIALS. on Your 200th Anniversary "Six Locations TO Serve You" We're Here To Serve You With A Better . Idea . By 1. RUSSELL. ALDERMAN. 3. SWISHER, MARSHAL ~yOwned ,('1:\.. COUnt •• .~ 9i#d .' Cit SOUTlf THIRD VILLAGE FATHERS.- The above photos taken . around the time of Middleport's centennial show the village aldermen · (now village · council), mayor, clerk and marshal, along with the .village hall. "J' PHONE 992·2196 AfiODLEPOR1" • o"' HERBERT GRATE 4. RAi.STON, MAYOR S. CARTWRIGHT, CrrY CU!RK 6. McEIJIENNY, ALDERMAN 7. MORSE, ALDERMAN 8. CARPENTER, ALDERMAN ·. 9. MIDDI.EI'ON; ALDERMAN 10. JAS. BOGGESS, ALDERMAN 11. STANSBURY, AlDERMAN 12. RJ. GARDNER, ALDERMAN DAVID GRATE . ' ·~j • ... ....... .. ···-·--- - _......,.___ ,. ____ . . . .__ . . . . . . . , . ....... . . . . . . . . - - - · · · . . . . . . . • Laws were also passed against vagrants, mendicants, streer beggars an common prostitutes. An~­ one with no known place of residence or lawful means of suppon risked, at best, being esconed to the corporation line, or a stay in the Middlepon Jail. These laws were funher modified after the begin. ning of the Great Depression to ----------·-·---·~4 Furthermore, it "shall be unlawfill for any person being the owner or or in the care, custody or control of any house, building, room, booth arbor, tent shed or other building of any kind of chai-acter to allow or permit the same to be used as a place for the assembling or· meeting of prostitutes, harlots, or licentiqus or dissolute persons of either or both sexes, or to allow or permit any kind of rioting or reveling, drunkenness or intoxication, or gambling, in or upon his or her premise or in any house, building, room, booth, arbor, tent, shed, or other building of any kind or char..acter of which he or she may be the owner or of which he or she may have the care, custody or control·. Violations were punishable by fines of $25-$100. And yes, it is illegal to spit on the sidewalks. Ail act of council passed on July 7, 1924, made it illegal to spit on village sidewalks · or on the steps leading to any public buildings, or on the walls or floors or stairways of any public 'building. ,· . ' �, '~ '' Blcelltellllial Jaly l, 1J97 Families of interest... the early .years The Hartinger& Considered a prominent pioneer family of Middleport was the Harlingen whO fii'Stlived on Leading Creek and later moved uptown to a spacious house on ·Third Street. William B. Hartinger, descendant of the family which came to America from Germany in Colonial limes, was the first of several members of the family who became professionals -- physicians, dentists, orchardists, engi. neers, and public officials. Dr. Daniel Hartinger, son of the settler, practiced medicine for over half a century in Ohio and West Virginia riding horseback thousands of miles to treat sick people. He serYed in the Civil War and after returning taught for a time, was county treasurer, served on Middleport town council and on the Middleport School Board. Dr. •and Mrs. Hartinger were the parents of three sons, Dr. Melvin I;Iartinger, a dentist, who practiced in both Middleport and Pomeroy, Dr. Delbert Hartinger, who joined his father in a medical practice in Middleport, and 'J.E.D. Hartinger who graduated from law school and then for yean was Meigs County engineer. The Harlingen built the house on South Third in the mid 1800s. Members o{ the family resided there until the late 1960s when the final Meigs County family member died. At that time the house was '· tom down. J 1' , , , , , · , - ,·, ,f fj 1 'J ·' ' . : r ,' JI ' r'l'i. •fi'•' ~t. , When utilities came to,town OLD FREIGHT DEPOT - The old freight depot building located at Dive Dllee Peril on Front . Street waa rMtored eevetet years ego by the village. An adjoining panenger depot wee tom down. The atet1on wea cloaed In the early 1950s, marking the end railroad MIYic:e In the village. . or , Diles Park located on former site of C&O Railroad station Dave Diles Park, named after Middleport native and former sports broadcaster Dave Diles, on Front Street, was formerly the site of the Middleport Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Station on the bank of the Ohio River. It was the last ·of three stations which formerly took care of passenger and freight business in the village. Before being vacated in 1953 it was used for freight alone, although old timers of that time recalled the several trains which made daily runs to Columbus and the 'tong lines of passe!lgers waiting to buy tickets for the excursion trains, with one to Columbus every posed abandonment of the railSunday during the · summer roads, because. of the inconvemonths, and numerous excursions nience of having to go to Pomeroy to Cheshire where "camp meet- . freight station, which was to absorb ings" were held. the local station, and also because ' The highlight of the day was of the lack of prestige, which they reached in early evening, when the felt would follow if Middleport "Hocking" pulled in at the station. · were to lose the station. The platform was lined with • The portion of the rail station townspeople who waited ·to see . standing today was restored severwho was r~tuming from "the city", al years ago by the village. The and favorite item in the local news passenger depot was tom down. was, ."Returning on' the evening The Columbus, Hocking Valley Hocking Valley RR train was Miss and Tol~o Railroad was sold to -- who has been a guest in the CapChesapeake and Ohio. It ran from · ital City." Logan to Pomeroy daily. Elmer· Businessmen protested the proWhite of Pomeroy was the last The Sansbury Family Jessie Smith Sansbury who lived many years in Middleport, was the mother of Eleanor S. Schaaf and the grandmother of Virginia Lu Schaaf Koehler, Sa,lly Eleanor Schaaf and Jon Martin Schaaf, was a direct descendent of James Smith, the first selller of Middle- · . port, as well as seven other pioneer ~~!~.! families of Meigs Couruy. The family's ancestors go back to the Smiths, the Sansburys, the Ledlies, the Matthews, the Vinings and Whaleys, all early settlers of Meigs County. ................... . r By JIM FREEMAN Sentinel News Steff In the old days "running water" meant the person wanting a drink had fetched a bucket and was "running" to the well. For those of us alive today, it is easy to take such conveniences as running water, electricity, gas, sewer and telephone for granted ... all the while forgetting that before the · tum of the century, these accom·modations were available to OJlly a very few. II is hard to imagine Middleport during its first 100 years of exis- • tence, growing from a scallered settlement to a thriving community and village, all without the benefit of the utilities mentioned above. In the varioOs mills and manufacturies, fires fueled by wood and coal produced the needed •energy while workerS\ toiled by the light of the sun or under oil or gas light. Away from work, the residents . heated their homes and cooked ·over coal fires . Sooty oil lamps provided light until the advent of gas or electric lighting. Since light and heat were only produced by fire, disastrous fire s were not uncommon . For Middleport residents,· the years surrounding the turn of the century marked a time of drastic change, for it was during this time that residents began to literally "see the light" with the advent of mod. ern utilities . · On July 8, 1892, · council approved selling bonds for the construction of sewers in the village, an action it undoubtedly felt would make the blistering southeastern Ohio summers more tolerable by eliminating open cesspools and outhouses in much ofihe community. . . In 1914, village offlcaals approved advertising for bids for construction of the Grant Street sewer district specifying 18-inch vitrified sewer tile. Property owners along the affected route were levied at the rate of 54.49 cents.per foot of frontage . · The next foray into the modern era was recorded in the village ordinance book on March 15, 1895. At that meeting, the Anthony Telephone Company of Cincinnati was given permission to "erect and maintain a telephone, telegraph and fire alarm system." The or.dinance authorized the company to instal( wooden poles or posts and connect a central telephone exchange in the vtllage y;uh "such business houses, factones, offices or private residences therein as may desire sajd connection:: On March 14, 1899, council granted permi;sion toW. E. Stansbury to operate a telephone system in the village. Electricity came to town on May 24, 1898, when village fathers granted the right to Oeorge Pfarr of Pomeroy and George E. Cowey of Middleport to erect, maintain and operate a system of electrical distribution . A related ordinance, passed the same day, made a contract with Pfarr and Cowey, reft;rred to as the Mutual Electric Light Company, to light the streets, avenue.s, alleys and public places of the vall age for a period of five years begmnmg Oct. I, 1898, for $600 a year. The 65 lights were to be turned on all night and every night except dn cloudy or foggy nights when the lights were to be kept bummg whenever reasonable needed fo~ public use. . · Rates for residential and commercial lighting and · for power were further clarified on May 9, 1914. Residential lighting cost 9 cents per kilowatt hour with a discount of I cent per KWH if paid on or before the tenth of the month followi11g that in which the current was consumed. The first house in the illage with eleCtric service was reportedly the house on South Third Street in which Arthur Strauss, husband of the late Beulah Strauss (a granddaughter of George Pfarr) now resides. George Pfarr was assisted in the business by his three sons, Eh, Arthur, and Dana~ and the. power was generated' by a g~ engt~e station with one generating umt and a distribution system, This was AiJ done in a building located at Main and South Second Avenue. At · a taler date some lighting power was fumished by another company which received its power from a salt plant in Pomeroy. In 1914, . the Mutual Electric Light Company was purchased by the Ohio Electric Securities Company. This company was ·comprised of various small companies which had consolidated. Over the years, small companies consolidated with large companies until May 13, 1937, the Columbus Railway Power and Light Company, the Southern Ohio Electric Company, and the Ad.ams County Power and Light Company merged into a new corporation, the Columbus and Southern Ohio • Electric Company. TodaY, Middleport is served by American Electric Power, the parent company of Columbus Southern Power, with the bulk of electricity generated by huge coal-fired plants such as the nearby General 'James Gavin Plant in Cheshire. On April ~. 1903, D. H. Foster was granted a franchise to install natural gas lines in the village. On June 4, 1904, similar permission was given to A. I. Carr and John B. Downing Jr. fgr the purpose of providing heat and light. T\)day the village is served by the Columl)ia Gas Transmission Corporation. It appears that the first ' water systelll in the village was the Pomeroy and Middleport Water Supply Company. On Dec. 13, . 1909, the village formed a contract with the company to provide fire hydrants for protection against fire, flushing streets and sewers and filling street sprinklers, watering . troughs and drinking fountains . The existing water department was formed in the late 1960s from the privately owned Meigs Water District which served both Pomeroy and Middleport. It was· about this time the existing sewage lagoons were constructed below Middleport at Hobson on the site of an old American Indian village. The villages purchased the water district from Rodney Downing and then divided into separate Mlllual FJedric LiPt C..,U,, Middleport, Ollio ~ . .. ... Total •.... Disc't if Put by . Tlaia Relllioa . Ill: Lut Readitr Ill I. W. H. Coosalll<ll .. ~ I. W. H. Full Rate At 0 I. W. H. D. LOW Rate At .. .. ____ Total Disc't if Put bJ .. ... ...... . ....... Jut. RECEIVED P THE LIGHT BILL- Shown Is an early "light" bill dated Jan. 11, 1915, for the Thomes Middleton residence. The $2.64 bill from the Mutual Electric Light Company of Middleport re~ec;ts 33 kllowetthoura at 9 cents per 1<\YH- Including • 33 cent dts. count for prompt payment. The bill a~ms even lower In comparison with today's electric bills when one considers that the, Middleton family had seven children, three daughters and four sons, rQSidlng In the large, flve:bedroom home on Cole Street. water departtpents. The systems · systems, the· Big Bend Water Disare still connected and occastonal- tricf, have bee!\ discontinued. (Much or the above inrorrna; ly share · water as the situation tion was first published in the demands. Meigs County History Book, Volume One, in 1979, rrom inCorRecent plans to deyelop a new mation submitted by the recentwater district ·combining the ly deceased Beulah Strauss.) · Pomeroy and Middleport ·water d HEATH .UNITED M~THODIST CHURCH The "Church by the Highway" is proud to be a part of Middleport History. Proud of our NeigLLors In Middleport · During its Bi«:entennial Lao'i Cruise and Travel Pomeroy 202 West Second 992-4233 ..... ... ... "'..--.. ._ ................._' ... ...... ......... . . . . . . ............. .... ........ , . ). 1797-1997 Middleport had "telephonic . communication" with.' Pomeroy, Racine, and Rutland and "telegraphic" service with Athens and Gallipolis · in 1871 , according to Hardesty's History. It was noted that the line to Gallipolis was put in operation and an office opened in Middleport on Dec. 11, 1871. Walter Branch was the "faithful and accommodating operator," it was reported. .... "' , , Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July l, 1997 • Paae Nine Middleport 'Firsts' The first settler was James Street. . . A 'I 15 1797 The first religious soctelles Sn'th u,pn' . the The first white child ·born in organized in the town were . Middleport, and probably the first Society of Christians and the Soc•.in Meigs' County, was John td. ·ety of Methodists. Smith, Aug. 27,1797,to Benjamin The first · railroad was the Smith, son of the first settler, and Colum~us, Hocking Valley and Amy Barker Smith, in a log cabin Toledo. The fli'St general store was operon the bankS of the Ohio River. The first store was opened by ated by George Wameldorff on Dr. W. B. VanDuyn and his father- Rutland Street in 1847. The first exclusive grocery store in-law, Benjamin Smith, and styled Van Duyn & Smith. It was located was kept by George Wameldorff, on Front Street. Sr. at the head of Second Street in · The first school was opened in 1857. . 1837 with Henry Barton as "knight The first worker in silver and . of the rod." gol!l was Philip Huber on Second The first post office was opened Street between Walnut ~ Rutin 1837 and the .first postmaster . land. was Elias Cole. The first ice cream "saloon" was The frrst physician was Dr. W. operated by AI~ Gardener who B. Van Duyn, who married Eliza- was the first to "season and crysbeth Smith, daughter of Benjamin tallize cream for the town folk." He Smith and granddaughter of first was located on Rutland Stree~ settler, James Smith. between Sec;ond and Front. The first mill in the city was the . The first newspaper printed in Grant Mill. · Middleport was established in The firsi inn was kept by Jacob 1865 by D. D. W. Davis. The first .fyltz on the comer of Second and number of his paper was issued Rutland Streets. In· the late 1830s~ Nov. t, 1865. It was called the and 1840s, he came down the riv- Middleport Gazette. · er in a boat and sold from it some The first eourt was held · in grocerie.s and liquors, then.decid- Middleport, probably in a farm ed to operate an inn in Middleport. house. "Evidently Middleport The first drug store was kept by expected it to be continued in this . Hugh Kennedy on Rutland Street town and always felt that she was which was then the principal street deprived of it by some unfair of the town. means," wrote Edgar Ervin in ~ first man to sound the Ervi~s History of Meigs County. "music of the anvil" was a Mr. · Soufte: 1891 Bus~ Review· Davis, -'so located on Rutland or Meigs County .: . .... t , �.' Mklclleport BlceateDDial Edltloa, JDiy 2, 1997 • Pqe Elena Page na • Mklclleport,Bic:eateDDial ~tloa, July 2, 1997 rt's EMS one of·Ohio•s first Middl · CONGRATULATIONS MIDDLEPORT ON ITS 200TH ANNIVERSARY Congratulations Middleport On Your 200th Year FIRST sQUAD· TheM 12 members of the Middleport Emergency Squad received lt8teWide attention In 1938 u Meigs County Chamber of Comnierce Meigs County Thurism 788 NORTH SECOND 992-8481 MIDDLEPORT, OHIO· Proud to rJe 14 Part of }Vllddleport , During Its rJlcentennlal . (614) 992-2239 788 N. 2nd Middleport, OH 992·5515 Salutes Middleport's 2 -0 0th ' Quality Print Shop , _ . 238 West Main St Pomeroy 992-7942 • Since l948 Mill St. Ohlo'a first volunteer emergency unit. They ere kneeling front, Steve McElhinney, left, and Tad Bolin; and atandlng, · Bred Hudaon, Paul Swlaher, John Vroman, Dwight Frost, B. F. Parma•, Jake Turner, and beck row, James Lewis, Tom Milia, Dave Jenkins and ·CharlnWiae. Meigs County Ecomonic Development 992-3345 Anniversary ·Middleport .. .• EYE· OPENING . Crow'• Steak HoU.e was 1tarted in 1957, by Thomas H. Crow, D.D.S. and his two aona, Robert H.' and Thomas D. Crow. The facility was remodeled fro~ a gasoline station with the capacity of 13 stool• and two bootha resulting in a total · seating ~apacily of 21. . m ' Earl'y 1960, Kentucky Fried Chickell was added, and Colonel Harland Sanden rolled up hia alee'vea and iJ:astructed this part of the reataurant. A drive-in facility wa8 also added this same year: In 1961, a dining room aeating 49, was added. CROW'S FAMILY RESTAURANT POMEROY, OH PH. "2·'5432 Featwlng ~ "~'~''""·•a·• ·• .'1 ,'l'l•m.: VISION CARE · Tired of straining to-see, splitting headaches and a constant feeling of fatigue? Stop squinting and . make an appointroent to see us soon! · • • Family Eye Car~ • Treatment of Eye Disease ·• No Line Bifocals • • Safety Glasses • Contact Lenses • All typesi Free Trial Dr. A. Jackson Bailes Optometrist 288 Upper River Road Gallipolis, OH 614-446-3300 Iii •• . 224 E. Main · Pomeroy, OH . ·614-992-3279 was built from the chassis up by the men. and the New York Centtal made a. tremendous contribution, whether the officials knew it or Dot. BY CHARLENE HOEFUCH Sentinel Newl St.fl It was Aug. 2, 1937 at a meeting of the Middleport volunteer firemen that Henry Hennesy made a motion to buy a first aid kit. With that motion and the action that followed, he set off a move which resulted in the birth of Mid.dleport's emergency squad. 1be firemen's action that night -- 60 y~ ago -the beginrung of today's sophisticated Meigs County Emergency Medical Ser.vicc. EMS Administrator Bob E. Byer believes that Middleport actually had Ohio's first emergency squad. While another depanment in eastern Ohio lays claim to being first, Byer feels that outfit was really a mine rescue squad. Regardless of which was first, Middleport's squad became _the leader in early emergency me<hcal service work in the Ohio River Valley, according to Byer. . A big boost in the interest in emergency work came because of the Depression and the Works · Progress Administration {WPA) at that time. A history compiled by Byer shows that Arthur W. Hoover, WPA teacher and Red Cross instructor, began formal training in first aid for 12 volunteer firefighters. · The purchase of a boat and motor followed the drowning of two grade school students when their boat capsized between the Main Street 'landing and. Clifton, W. Va. was The next important purchase was an inhalator which provided oxygen for use in cases where the patient was having difficulty breathing. It wasn't until 1950 that the Middleport squad began transporting patients. Until that time, when the men responded to a can and the patient needed transportation to a hospital, a funeral home ambulance was used. + . . The growth of the squad was gradual, step-by-step as !Ooney allowed. The first aid kat was placed on 'a new equipment tru_ck that also carried firefighung equipment. That truck was the product of a lot of what Byer tenns "midnight requisitions" at the New York Cen- . tral Railroad Hobson Yards. When FIRST AMBULANCE • It WUn't until 11150 th8t the Middleport E1Mf11'11CY Squad trans~...-..__~· Until that time; business was slow in the ~ ·(road's runenl home ambulancea were uaad after the aquad meri'lbera admlnllterad first .ald. Showii With the van which wu repair shop, men could fou_nd c:onvwt.c~lnto an ambulance are atancllng, from '-ft. ·Jim Daniela, Patsy Murray, calvin Reichman, Elmer BurM, Tom Milia installing cabinets on the wpa"" wayne GibbOns, .a nd lcnMIIng, Mac McKinley, P. Bradbury, Louie Ellla, John Vroman, Charlel Karr, Sr., Ed ment truck. · · . ~ - !~"'. H~!':~f~.f!ul!,~·~~ ~~~~~: F.~~ ~-Bob~~~·. . . · . . • • • . . • . •.••. .Jn fact, the ipccial ~~~. ..•. . c. ' \ ',, �,. MEIGS COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICE 1895-1997 CONGRATUlATIONS MIDDLEPORT! ~ The present Meigs County Public Library system has emerged from a long line of history in libraty service. The first movement toward establishment of a p_ublic library f"cility in Meigs County was made at a Chautauqua planning session held oil Oct. 1, 1895. Some early records, however, indicate that Pomeroy Library trustees were meeting in the· 1850s~ However, it was not until after that Chautauqua meeting that a library eommittee was organized and a "book reception" planned. The committee planned several entertaining programs and events as library benefits with the admission being contributions of books. On Dec. 1, 1898, the Pomeroy Library Association was incorporated with eight charter members. · The board of education, under the Ohio law passed on Feb. 16, 1898, provided for a levy of three-tenths of a mill for free public and school library purposes. They also turned over to the trustees of the public library, the collection of the school library, consisting of 600 volumes. New books were purc:based, a librarian employed and a library in Pomeroy opened as a .~lie library on Sept. 15, 1900. . From there the coUection was taken across the street to rooms above the-former Fanners Bank building on Court Street, now occupied by The Daily Sentinel, and later to an upper room in the city ball, then l(lCated on Second Street. It reportedly was also located at one time in a small white building behind the Episcopal Church. It was about this time that funds became available through the Carnegie Foundation. If towns could supply the lot and if citizens pledged one-tenth of one percent of its tax revenue, the foundation would provide the rest. A contract was awarded on July 11, 1913 and construction began on August 14. The cornerstone wu laid on Sept. 8 and the Pomeroy Carnegie Library, located on Second Street was completed on Jan. 19, 1914. · The Carnegie building housed the Pomeroy Library for 75 years. . A siinilar situation occurred in the building of the Middleport Library which was constructed With Carnegie funds and completed in 1912. · 1\vo years before that, the Ohio State and Ohio Valley Libraries Association began bookmobile services in Meigs County, continuing that until1990 when the Meigs Library board purcbased its own .bookmobile. A contract with the Ohio Valley Libraries Association was continued for the Books by Mail Service to Meigs Counlians. · a Jn August of 1980 the libraries beame a county district library !mown as the Meigs County DistriCt Public Library. . In 1986, when legislation created the Library and Local Government Support Fund (LWSF), the .Meigs County Library began to enjoy growth for the first time in many years. The coUedion grew, the services grew, and the library soon outgrew its Carnegie building which was located on a site where there was no on the bones. The hones were ' trained to respond to the bell and Middleport's fire department ·once ~ssed up would head for has a long IIICl varied history . the fire. The · hones would go beginning, no doubt, with the idirectly tO the fire, and it was necforming of the village in the early 1easuy to wnp the hose around a 1800s. 1 post or hydrant to prevent the henFew penms are IIOUnd today to . : ea from pulling the pumper. hose recall the days of the hone-drawn lnd all down the S1rect and the men steam pumpers, hose wagons, and having to carry the hose back to the bucket brigades. In Middleport hydrant. . these apparatus were pulled by · · Stories are told of the horses, horses. At first two grays were used · which were also used on the and later two sorrels named Frank streets, that once the fire bell and Prince. began to toll, the horses would Although few records exist h~ for die fire house, leaving the today about the 19th century Midstreet crew to run after them toward ' dleport Fire . Department, it is . the fire house. known that a SO-man fU'C depart· There were good times and bad ment did exist in 1874, known as ,. , times in the early fire department. Vigilant Fire Company No, I -horse drawn pumpers, wagons atld ·--.:...-....------' with meetings being held in the FIRE HOR&e.S ·Before the garage bays, iind the members sitall. The firSt fire department, prior advent of motoNfrlvllfl fl,... ling on the dirt floor and in the' winto this, in all probability, was a fighting equipment. the Mid- dow sills It wasn't until 1939 that bucket brigade, as in many other dleport Fire Department a regular -\Reeling hall was estabcommunities. relled on hoi'M-drawn equip- lished u!J'Iairs over city hall. · According to Sheppard's Midment. Here the lat8 Harlow With ~ coming., of the motor dleport Directory of Jan. IS, 1874, Swlaher poaaa wHit two vehicle anlt a series of changes fire department membership trained fire horlll,' named coupled with a major fire in the included George Wormeldorff, "Frank" and "Prince•. The ·. area of Rutland Street, there president and fire chief; J. C. · anlmala alao aarved double became a new era in the history McCready, vice•presidetit ·and duty I I work hOraaa for the ~d development of what we know · assistant fire chief; A. Calderwood village. tOday as the present Middleport Jr., secretary; Lewis Hugg, treaFire Department. · surer: John R. Jones, messenger; It was in 1930 when Middleport house tolled out the wards. The Joseph McKnight, engineer; Dr.~­ got its first motor-driven fJre truck. H. TJdel, pipeman; L. M. Fountam, horses were kept in the C. A. DensThis followed a bam fJre, in the more Livery Stable net to the fire pipeman; E. WatsOn, fireman and area wheie the mayor, Jim Harley, John Lindsey, driver. This fire house. The horses, rigiclly ~!lined, lived. t-{ayor Harley s~ a camcompany is believed to have been were ready to go when the fire bell paign, walking the streets, to gath- . sounded. The harness was held on in existence in 1872. er funds for a motor-driven fire 1bere was no siren in those a track and with the sound of the truck and recruiting men for the alldays, and a lirge bell atop the fire "alarm", the harness .was lowered · ByBOBBYER fire~=-- room for expansion. A building fund was established by the library trustees and in Oc:tober of 1988, ground was broken for the new Meigs County Public Library builJling on West Main Street in Pomeroy. On Sept. 25, 1989, the collection was moved to the new site and on Nov. 5, 1989, the formal · dedication was held. After that, the Middleport library was renovated and redecorated to better serve patrons in that community. Steps toward making libraries more accessible in all parts of the county have under consideration by the Meigs County Library Board of TrUstees for many years. · Plans were fmalized in 1996 for a branch in Racine, and on ~3, 1996 ground was broken on the former 'I)'ree-Pickens pr~yat 'l)'ree and Fifth Streets. An old carriage house on tlaCj)roperty was incorporated into the plans. 1\vo wings were added~ bring overall space to approximately 3,000 square feet. The $367,000 project has now been co~pleted and an open bouse was held Sunday, June 29, 1997. A branch bas also been incorporated into the Eastern Local School District's construction and· renovation project now underway. It will bC located in the new elementary school addition, have approxiDllltely 4,000 square fee~ be ~taffed by a librarian, and be available for use not only by the students, but the general public. Board funds are paying for the area of new construction to be used for library servicea along with the cost of all furnishings. Anticipated completion date is S!=ptember, 1998. been -. . MEIGS LmRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES - Curreat members of the Melp Couaty Public Ubrary Board of Trustees are left to rlabt, ~eated, Mary Kay Yost, leefttary; Patiida Holter, preslcleat; Patricia MIDI, vice president; aild ataad.... Waacla EbUn, OVAL repreaeatative; C. E. Blakealee, Robert Crow, ...t_P oqlu Hqater.. . . • . . .. , , . , : · flrefighttn ahoWn In thla1838 photograph are, from left: 1938 FIREFIGHTERS· Mldd~ Steve McElhinny, Sid Ruaaell, John Vroman, Tom Milia; front, Nick Henneay, B.F. Pa::- ~Kinlq Charlel Raybum, Qeolge Hoeflich, Tad Bolin, Leo second raw, Ray McCe::"ucerhlnny· bedc, Jaa 1\Jmer, Bred Hl.llbon, Guy Ceraon, Jimmy Seerla, Dwight FWroat.l nldentlfled Oe~ld Jenldnl, Paul SwleheJand.F.red-Um~. . . . Lelia, Charlel se, u . • . . ,. • ,, EARLY TRUCKS • Shown •here are two early vehlcln · belonging to the Middleport Fire Department. At right Ia the depei bi,.,rt'l flrat truck, a Ford Model A open cab pumper pur· chaaed In 1930 and an early .-..cue truck.. From this modest· · collection, the' ctepartment haa exp~~nded Ha Inventory to Include aaven vehicln Including a 65-foot cuatom aerial plat· form truck. . It was on Aug: 14, 1930, the fire could obtain' such a piece of equipdepartment met in a special session ment in the middle of a war. The and voted to purchase a "Prospect story told is that li deal was made Fire Fighter", with all memberS by then-Senator Tom Jones of signing the · contract, including Middleport that of the fire trucks Mayor Jim Harley. . being built- by the Supthen Com- . The new truck was a Model A pany for the U.S. Navy, one would Ford open cab pumper and was-the be diverted to Middleport. Thus the main fire fighting piece of equip- vehicle, when delivered, was white ment for Middleport for 14 years. trimmed in black and gold and It wasn't until1939 when a second build on a Dodge chassis. piece of equipment was purchased · This vehicle was believed t.o be and then this truck was mainly to the first fire truck in Meigs Counbe used as an equiJtllent truck to ty with a two way radio, thanks to carry extra ladders, lioSc and first John Werner. The radio, A Motoroaid equipnicnt. (See related story Ia "LINK", also exists today, minus on Middleport's first Squad. the mike or head. One thing about Following the purchase of the the "LINK" radio was that ii was new pumper, a problem developed . run by a motor to give its tubCs the Within the department. that remains power to transmit. The motor put a mystery to this day. On Oct. 17, a real strain on the other electrical 1 F De components, so much so that you 1930,1hc MidiJ eport Ire part- had 'a choice to talk on the radio, ment met in another special ses- . run the head lights or blow the s,ion, this time to n~·ze and elect officers. That ting was siren. Never any two at the same presided over by M or Jim . tim~nother fire engine ·was . Harley, who also increased the membership from IS to 2S mem- acquired in the latter pan of 19SO bers and charged the ticw officers and was built from a convened with the task of recruiting. coal truck, a 1948 Chevrolet. This . R. A. Miller'was the fire chief truck was purchased by the fire from 1930 to 1934 and William department th(ough solicitations Lowe followed from 1934 to 1938. and donations. Following these two men, chiefs . In the spring of 19S6 a "tanker" . only served two yeats until 1972 was put in service by the depart· when Robert Byer was elected and ment. This truck was actually built served from 1972 to 1976. Bol! by 'the firemen after purchasing a Fisher and Tom Darst served two chassis from the. Ford Garage (Pre· different times as chief, Fisher . ston Motors) and acquiring a tank from 1968 to 1970, and from 1976 from the Standard Oil Company. It to 1978, and Darst from 1960 to took many weeks of hard work and 1962, and 1970 to 1912. Jeff Darst, . determination by the members of the son of Tom Darst, had the the ·fire department before this longest running record as fire chief much-needed piece of equipment for Middleport, having served from was ready for service. It was used 1980 until 1993. primarily in rural fire fighting During World Warn a need was since it offered a much-- need~d seen for better fire fighting equip- water supply. ment. A bo1i(l issue was passed and As time went on and the bell finally onDec. 31, 1943, the new was replaced by a siren and the 1942 white Dodge fire pumper .siren by pagers, more and better arrived in Middleport. This fire fire fighting equipment was needengine still exis~s todllY an~ is ed to meet the demands of the ., awaiting restoration, housed m a increase in fire calls and the everprivate garage in Middleport. . changing times of the village of · There is a story told of how this Middleport. small village in Mei gs County (Continued on Page 15) .I _,. -----------···-· ............... ............... . ...... •..• • �~~llllt. ; Congratulations · Middleport On Your 200th Anniversary ~~ Gifts~ Candles • Tin Pins • Lotion • Cards Soap • Wreaths • Music • Bears Rabbits • Gourmet Food • Coffee . · · • Historic Qowntown Pomeroy • Pomeroy ' ~~~ EsU995 Antiques • Folkart • Sugar .Run ~s Mulberry Ave. Middleport VFD originated with 1874's 'Vigilant Fire Company' 992·2115 , ~on~tatulation~ «o eur ~eigbbor~ anb .1'tienb~ Jn ;flibbleport on ~beir •icentennial Jlleckp &Jim anber.on &: 6t~ 992-7696 Saluting Our Cfriends in·Jy(iddleport on Its 2ootfi !Anniversary . Andersons FUINRUIE, APPlWICES, TV'S, FLOOR COVUING 992-3671 DOWNTOWN POMEROY, OHIO ers (Continued from Page 13) ----.. .. ihcreased The use of radio equipment as well 811\1 gave the "keepers of the siren" a better means of communicating with the firemen while on a call. The Olarles R Karr and Herbert Gilkey families were the siren keepers for many years, answering knocks on their door and phone calls at all hours of the day and' night from people in need of help. A bond issue in 1959 gave the department the funds needed to replace the '42 Dodge pumper and later a tanker was purchased to replace the home-made tanker. It wasn't until 1980 that the department received its flfSt 1,000gallon-per-minute pumper, which is still in Sc:rvice today. Cost of this fire engine with its equipment was $95,335.45 -- far exceeding ~he . cost of any two of the previous fire trucks. The fire department added its second engine, a 1,500-gallon-perminute custom pumper in 1986, and a 65-foot custom aerial platform in 1992. This brought the full complement of mobile equipment for the department to seven vehicles. Middleport at the present time has a command car, two squad vehicles, a 4-wheel-drive brush truck, a 1,000-gallon-per-minute pumper, a 1,500-gallon-per-minute pumper and the aerial platform. EARLY BEGINNINGS. Horses belonging to the early Middleport Fir• Department ware originally housed In the C. A. Dens· more Livery Stable adjacent the fire house and vlltege hall. , · These vehicles are located in the Hobson Depot, the pictures on the issues and other fund raising David Hoffman and Assistant Chief Larry Byer, has a memberpre_sent day fire house which was office walls and in the albums events. Without this backing, the ship of 30 men and women, crossdedicated on May 13, 1973, when show the many fires, early mem- Middleport Department wojlld not trained in first aid and fire fighting. the first of two parts of the new sta- bers and the baskets for the needy have the equipment and facilities Some are certified as emergency lion was built. Four more bays . that were distributed by the fire , they have today. medical technicians and ·parawere added to the present fire . department for nearly 40 years. Many fires ha~e been extinhouse in 1983, making it an eight- · Funding, today, for this type of guished since the days of the hors- medics, manning Ohio's first vol- • bay station, complete with meeti_n_g fire department is very.expensive, 'es and steam pumpers; the bell and unteer fire department emergency room, kitchen and shower factb- even with all volunteers. The Mid- siren have been replaced with squad, all willing as their prede· ties: dlepon Fire Department · has pagers and the "Keepers of the cessors were 125 years ago to Although the present station is · _always had~ backing of the dt- Siren" are gone, giving way to the come out in all kinds of weather, day or night, to help their fellow modem, it still .has a link to the izens of Mtddleport who have. county's·central dispatch center. past. The flag pole in front of the turned out f~r· its c~icken barbeToday's modern ~quip~d man. station is the one that stood at the cues, fish · fries, levtes and bond department, headed by Ftre Chtef 212 E. Main Pomeroy Proud To Be a-Part Of. Meigs .Cou·nty SA:.L, UTING OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS IN · MIDDLEPORT DURING ITS BICENTENNIAL . Congratulations Middleport on Your Bicentennial· The Catholic Church of Pomeroy has been a part of Meigs County since 1839 when four German Catholic families arrived in Pomeroy to accept employment in coal mines operated by Pomeroy and Co. They were soon joined by other Catholic families, and were served by a visiting priest about three thnes a year. Ii was not until1849 that 11: group of 46 persons banded together and the local church was founded. Reliable records indicated that five baptisms took place in the first church b~ilding on October 14, 1849. The original building served the parish for the next 50 years. The men of the neighborhood had cut the. trees from the village hillsides, sawed them into boards, and constructed the building on the same site on which . the new and larger church was built in 1898. · . As we . at Sacred Heart Parish-d>tepare to celebrate the lSOth anniversary of the parish and the tOOth anniversary· of the present church, we congr,~tulate Middleport on its bicentenn~al. - From Your Friends at ... CONGRA111'· 4 TIONS ON zoo YEARS (304) 173-5721 ' (304) 773-5900 Located 1/4 Mile North of Pomeroy-Maaon Bridge Maeon,WV• ., .... . :- • SACRED . . T CBIJBCD POMEROY, OH. �..... - • Mlddlepart . . . . . I I ir.dltloa, J1!1)' 2, 1997 o ' l i . ~ ' ' ... 1 , ' ' • .' t '· .. •' • ' ' • I ' I • ' • ' > I I ' I . •' ... . Middleport BlceateDD181 Edltloa, JuiJ 2, 1997 • Pqe SeYeateea . ;·. The Vaughan name is not new to the grocery business in this area. Before 1910 Walter .Vaughan began delivering groceries-and supplies to the homes and farms around Meigs County for the Ewing Grocery Company which at that time ·was located on Front Street in Pomeroy. . Today The Vaughan Famlly Business. Has Grown Into A Major Area Supermarket,_Still Serving The · .Residents Of Meigs, Mason and Gallia Counties. in Here Walter Vaughan prepares to drive the team ud wagon a ~ . Fourth of July parade. A famHy owned and operated su~. offering the best of service, quality and price, to the people of ou~ community .. From this picture of Walter and the wagon was .derived the Vaughan Family's current logo for advertising ·purposes. As a note of special 'intere~t and recognition, the team of horses · used as models for the Vaugh_an logo ~as owned by Hank Douglas and used to·pull tlie . ' Ewing wagon replica in parad~s. · . L.~: Richar«l Vaughan, Ralph Jones, Marvin Roush, Here are ·a f.ew of the dedicated employees of Vaughan's Lewis B. Vaughan, EmiU Fowler. In the late 1930's, Walter's oldest son, Richard, decided to m~ the grocery business his life's work and accepted the position of Meat Manager for the Evans Grocery Co., 2nd Street, Po~eroy, in the building currently being used as a vtdeo store. . · Current Vaughan's Store ., L-R ~alter French ud RichanP'Grandpa" Vaughan, Sr. " Then in the early 1950's, Richard II began his career as a meat manager with the then world's largest grocery store, .The .A&P Tea Company. This time period proved to the "adolescent stage" for what we now consider · the Supermarket Industry. • ' 4 '. 1 o • I l • I \ . r �Middleport BicenteDDial Edition, Jlily l, 1997 •.Page Nineteen Little remains of the great Hobson ·railroad yard Everyone At Rocksprings Rehabilitation Center · Would Like ·To Extend Congratulations To .Middleport On Its.200th Anniversary Of Middleport During Its Bicentennial 36759 •Rocksprings Rd., Bl;tOOKs-GRANT CAMP NO. 7 · ·~ SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF \ THE CML WAR OF MIDDLEPORT . (Founded J8nulry, 1111) Honors the Bicentennial of Middleport, Ohio and the memory of · Mlddl.. epotvvtrt Poet 1125 Gr11nd Army of , the Republic . (Founded 1881) Ceder CrMk Circle LediH of the Gr11nd Army of the Republic of Middleport · and · Middleport 290 North Second Pn1m•rnu . The local Middleport corpa of Women's Relief Corps by order of Keith D. Ashley, Commander Congratulations Middleport · · On Your zooth Anniver$11~ The Hobson railroad yard is a er building holds ice for caboose lonely place today, haunted by the refrigerators. A roomirig house and ghosts of an era from the early store and garages for workers' cars · 1900s to the 1940s ,when the rail are relics of the once-prosperous complex was busy and noisy and past of railroading. provided jobs for some 2,500 men. Imagining Middleport and Those were the days when puff· Pomeroy with street car lines, train ing steam engines carried people depots, and freight stations is hard and products to city markets. Hob- for today's generation. A 1908 rail· son , just south of Middlepon, was road map shows Ohio with 92 rail· a division point. Crews were roads and 60 street car lines. change<lthere and freight shuttled Some railroads are about to die from one train to another and cars . in southeastern Ohio, after a long and locomotives maintained. illness caused by poor management · More than 1,000 men were· and competition with truckers. The employed in the shops and round· . tracks from Coming, also one of house. Another I ,500 men worked the railroad tenninals in its day, to as trainmen on the lines from Point Pleasant have been upgrad· Columbus to Charleston, W.Va. ed since Conrail took over the for· · No more do you hear the once· mer New York Central Railroad. familiar sound of "all aboard" or But other lines are being abanthe hissing engines for the eight doned by the Chessie System. passenger trains leaving Hobson In the early · days. small com· Depot daily. The cavernous round· . munities were linked with the rest · house. where engines were of the country by good rail service, repaired, the yard office, the pas· creating a prosperity that Meigs senger depot and the ice house are County has never equafed. People only memories to retired railroad· enjoyed trips to Charleston, W.Va., . Parkersburg, W.Va., and Colum· ers. A small block building houses bus, as easy as going next. door, lockers for the trainmen and anoth(Continued on Page 21) HOBSON DEPOT ·Above Ia a phoJograph of tha Hoblon Rail Depot as It appeared In Its heyday. Standing In front of tha atructura ara Thoma• Middleton, Fred Moore, Fread Hochlna and Clarence Colby. · · Trudy MarshaU, Paula Harris, Uz Smith, Lois Eblin SHEAR ILLUSIONS ·' Nails, Tanning and Hair 293 South Second 1 Middleport · 992-2550 Happfl ·ljirthciay }Vliddleport Congratulations on the 200th anniversary of the Miaaleport settlement. May Midctleport alwafdS continue to be a garden spot along . the Ohio t<iver- A spot known for its frienctly, outgoing people always ready to lena a helping hand to neighbors- II town of "Dear Hearts and gentle People". Our entire staff extends be?t .wishes for a wonderful year as fdOUr residents obser\;e the 200th birthday of the community. Veterans Memorial Hospital 115 East Memorial .Drive · p~~~r~Y. ..·......... ~ . -..... ~ ..... . Proud to. a part of Middleport. During its Historic 200th . An.niversary · .9Lcquisitions !Fine Jewe{rg 91 Mill St. Middleport 992'-6250 her beside ateam engine 1185 of the New York Central Railroad at Hobaon ara: In the engine, G.G. "Gladwin" Werner; engine STEAM ENGINE 1 • Shc;:n left, William "Bill" Hawley Worley Howell, A.A. Dlnatd, Clarence A. Price, Arthur "Pap• Swlaher, Charles Graber, L.W. atepa, Bonney Mitchell; •taJ' ~rke Cohen Leater Boice EmorY E. Gordon, Jacob • Jake" Burkett; kneeling, from left, Robert M. "Bob" White, Ben F. Turner, Probaaco, Joe TU.rner. Cha Jeoha WyKincaid 'Lawrence Bing, Charlea White, Edward "Ed" Stiles and O.T. Ohlinger. Clarence J. "Mac McNee1• n · ' ... "' .. .. .. ' . .. " " ( tr!m . ............... .. • • .. w .. . ... �SALUTING ·MIDDLEPORT ON ITS BICENTE . • Fisher Funeral Home, Inc. Bruce R. Fisher·purchased the funeral home in May 1989 from James N. Blower. In 1992 the Middleport facility· was expanded to accommodate a 1500 square. foot chapel and was updated to be completely ·handicapped accessible. In 1994 the facility was incorporated .and due to business growth a second funeral · dir tor and embalmer was hired, Jame . R. Acree, Jr. A second .___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _;..__ _~..;__;_.:.,J chapel was b 'It inj3bmeroy, OH and MIDDLEPORT CHAPEL opened in 1997. ~is new 9000 square · foot facility will accommo.date the needs of Meigs County and is managed by Mr. Acree. . . ·· The dedicated staff members of Fisher Funeral Home, Inc. include;· Bruce R. Fisher; President M. Thomas Dooley, . ·. · J PO~ER~HAPEL 164 South Second A•en.-e Middleport, 08 41760 6 t 4-991·5 14. ' Bruce R. Pbber • Director Vice-President/Secretary{freaau(er James R.'Acree,·Jr., Funeral Director/Embalmer Larry "Pete" Johnson Heath Hud.son Ruth Ann Boyer · ;J 'J 190 Eut Main Street · Pomeroy, OH 41761 6 14-991•1444 lama R. Acree, Jr · Director ·Little ·remains of the great Hobson railroad yard (Continued . . . from Page 11) T&OC(ToledoandOhioCentral), . · A· revolution came in 1953, Mc1gs had only to cross C&O and B&O, and finally the when diesel engines took over the Ohio.River by ferry ~t to take New York Central, later known as from the steam engines, cutting the the Baltimore and Oh1~ to Park- Penn Central and eventually Con- time to six hours or less hauling 90 e~burg for the day. Oh10 Umve~- rail. to 100 cars. The same firemen who s1ty st~ts traveled ~o Athens daiThe Hobson area was first formerly made $3 a day were then ly by tram from Mtddleport and served by the K&M (Kanawha and up to $20 a day. Rutland and the Rutl~ baseball Michigan) with Coming, Gallia The tate engineer Lawrence teams traveled by tram to out-ofCounty and Point Pleasant as terMilhoan and h'IS crew broug ht the town games . I ,..., __ . . . 1111na1s. n I 890, the \..narleston and last steam locomotive into Hobson 'Res1dents of southeastern Oh1o Gauley Railway Company was Yards. Hobson fed the trains from could ~eep ~p ~1th the. m~re cos- purchased. Virginia to Columbus and to the . m~pohtan life ~n. the b1g c111es by The freights carried coal, per- Great Lakes, where ore and coal bemg able. to v1s1t frequently. ishable ~oods, chem!cals, feed and were delivered. The railroads not only ~ a everythmg from ma1l to coffins. A The railroads be an oin large payroll, but they created Jobs large part of the revenue was from downhill w'-•n g g '"' new h'ghg 1 waswere . . . . . m boardmg houses, restaurants, the ma1l dtspatched by every built and trucks took o;er the hotels and busmesses to serve the day. Every depot had a d1spatcher mail, perishable oods and coal. and hts family. and employees who trundled out !o The automobile t!k away the pas. Middleport had a ;MeA, ~ the .baggage .wagons. A tram . sengers, and the lines closed, one center for trammen who latd ove~ · requ1red an engmeer, fireman, con- by one. between runs. The street cars ran m ductor, flagman and head· brake· (The above article was written front of the YMCA for conve- man . by the late Beulah Jones of Midnience of workers. It was a meetIn the early 1900s, railroading dleport sometime in the late 1960s ing . place where railroaders was hard work and dangerous. In for an area newspaper. She was the enjoyed swapping "Casey Jones" . 1917, a fireman received $3 a day daughter of a railroader.) stories about wrecks, tunnel inci- for shoveling coal to keep the dents and other tales. steam engine rolling, with no extra Railroads produced ·the "call overtime pay . WATER TANK • In th11 boy" who made the rounds day and , The engine was open to the uncllted photogl'llph of the night, cajling men to work when weather, and a hot day added to the Hobaon Rail Yard, five unidentified women end telephones were not common. He heat from the boiler. Trainmen had one unidentified men pon · had to give the trainmen at ,least to walk the tops of the moving cars. on the atepa of 1 water two hours notice that they were At one time, it required 36 tons tank, uaed to replenlah being called for a run. of coal for the run to Columbus and ateem locomotive• Railroaders sprinkled their con- from 15 .to 30 hours to make the belonging to the Klnawh11 versations with such terms as tnp hauhng 60 cars. Years later, and Michigan RIIII'Oid. K&M (Kanawha and Michigan), 200-car trains were common. ~ou.nuans · · . . · . ~tn ra1lro~er The Ohio River Bear Co. collectible handmade bears Congratulations on your Bicentennial Celebration! The Ohio River Bear Company began in 1987 as a home based/one person operation. Through the lasnen years we have grown so much , that we have outgrown OUl' quarters 3 times and now employ numerous people. Ohio River Bears ilre shipped all over the United States as well as Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea,·England, & Canada. Our bears are · stilllOO% handmade right here in Middleport,.Ohio. . . ( 253 N. Second Ave., Middleport, Ohio 800-813-4055 l0-5 Mon-Sat V1Sa, MC, Discover, American Express,·layaway ~J·~~~~~~~~~~.-~~..~~..~~~~~--~--_.__________.......................................................--~--.J �~· Pqe Tweaty-Two ·Middleport BkeateDDial EditloD, July 2; 1!197 ·Congratulations :Middleport 'Proud 'TO '13e !A ~art Of :Middleport, 1Juring Its 'Bicentennial James L Schmoll, O.D. G.O. :Schmoll Hardware &Appliances Doctor of Optometry 443 Hartinger Pkwy _ 155 N. Second Ave. Middleport, Ohio Middleport, Ohio Phone: 614·992·6545 "-one: 256·J 1981·1997 1932·1963 The Schmoll Family We Street car served ·:bend communities in earl-y 1900s . Proudly' .. Salute MiddlepOrt On Its 200th Annhtersary VALLEY LUMBER. . ' - SUPPLY COMPANY 4.7 Years serving the Midd~port Community 555 PARK ST. MI.,DLEPORT, OH. SWISHER·LOHSE PHARMACY We have been serving this local area sinte-1946. It has been a great pleasure serving you and we will continue to do.so in the future. By JIM FREEMAN cars were packed with as many as In the early part of the 20th cen· 152 people with some hanging tury, the little Ohio River village of ont9 the sides. Middleport shared one thing in In 1910 there were no improved common with larger, more affluent roads in the county except for short cities like San Francisco or St. spaces in the incorporated villages Louis -- a street car line. of Pomeroy and Middleport. One The Ohio River Electric Rail- can QJliY imagine the chaos oil way and Power Company was Middleport's Second Avenue, Main constructed just before the tum of Street in Pomeroy and Third Street the cenUlry and canceled its pas- in Racine as the electric street cars senger service on June 26, 1929, mingled with horse-drawn buggies leaving with the Great Depression. and the newer "horseless carThe dark yellow cars, numbered riages". 20 to 27, ran on a one hour and 20 But as roads improved, the pubminute schedule from the Hobson lie found automobiles a more conTrain Depot, up Second Avenue in · venient and inexpensive way to Middleport. througli Pomeroy and travel, forcing the street cars out of up to Racine where they stopped at existence. the Drake Hotel. At first the street The invention-of the automobile cars went only from Middleport to preceded the good roads and was By JIM FREEMAN Transportation, particularly rivRacine. · the cause of the people voting taxThey performed a vital' service es upon themselves to build these er transportation, was crucial during the early years of Middleport, since roads weren't the best and roads and maintain them. there were few automobiles then, Prior to the street car, up until so named because the community and coal miners and railroad . the mid 1880s, Middleport resi- was considered the "middle port" 'employees rode the cars to and dents had the option of riding a between Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. It was at Middleport, it was from work. stage coach line to Athens. During 'the summer, open air The coach ciuried both mail and . said, where a boat heading downcars were used and provided not passengers. Four horses were used stream from Pittsburgh would meet just a means of transportation, but and the teams were changed at another boat working upstream a leisurely ride along the Ohto Riv- each stop, where fresh horses were ·from Cincinnati -- taking into · er. For young couples of the day, ready to replace the tired ones, account the greater speed of boat · the street car, a bag of popcorn and which were stabled and cared for heading downstream. The earliest means of transstreet car ride to Racine and back until the next change. constituted a big outing. This change of teams was but a portation was by the Ohio River Each car. required a conductor matter of minutes and to meet the via rafts, flatboats and just about and a motorman. The men who required schedules, fast driving anything else that would float until worked on the cars are all gone was necessary, and skilled drivers the advent of steam-powered boats. Pic;!neers traveling the Ohio usunow, but in the 1960s Roy Kasper were employed. · ally used canoes while flatboats ·recalled when it was necessary for Today, Middleport is connected were used for transporting whole condu~tors to wear "dusters" over by blacktop with the. rest of the families, produce and goods down their uniforms because of the world and looking @head to conthe stream. When necessary to 'crowd of miners riding home cov- struction of a new Ohio River move goods and people both up ered with coal dust. bridge; but in looking back, paying and down the river, keelboats were The car line had its troubles too. five cents to go from Pomeroy to · as some jumped the. track or Middleport. or 14 cents. to Hobson utilized. Beginning in October. 1811, smashed into each other d'!e to seems like a real bargam. mixed schedules. Sometimes the _,_ _ _.., with the voyage of the "New Orleans" -- the first steamboat to River crucial to early 'm.iddle' port • ' .,.}( ~- pass down the Ohio River, the his· Ohio River has become an imporiory of the Ohio River was domi- · tant source of recreation. Most nated by steam-powered vessels summer weekends find the river which carried both pas.sengers and alive with vessels ranging from freight. personal watercraft (commonly For more than two generations called jet skis) to large, palatial from the early 1800s, stearn'pow- houseboats ... all sharing the busy ered boats provided the most waterway with thi: large towboats. dependable transportation both up Other popular boat types include and dow.n the river. During the Civ- ··• -pontoons -- great for those family il War, the Ohio River.was used to getaways and barbecues -- and transport soldiers. fishing boats. This means of· transportation Middleport now boasts two boat eventually proved to be one of the launching ramps, one along Lead. ing Creek off of Page Street (now Today, boats of all kind~ con- largely unusable due to accu1nutinue to ply the Ohio River; from lated mud and silt) and another small pleasure boats to powerful along the .:>hio River off North diesel towboats pushing barges· First Avenue. ThiS' ramp features a full of coal and other produce, the roomy new parking lot and a dock beautiful Ohio remains an impor· making it easier for boflters to get tant artery of commerce. in and out of their vessels. But the glory days of the stem This year, boaters along the and side-wheeled steamboats carOhio River will be greeted by a ryi.ng ·passengers and goods from large 8-by-16-foot sign reading town to town are long gol'e• and "Welcome to Middleport -- The the boats no longer stop at the Middle 'Port' Between Pittsburgh "middle port" on the Ohio. and Cincinnati", "Calliope Playing However in recent years, with Appreciated", it adds. improvements in water quality, the ~--------------~~~~ -· Congratulations . Middleport, Ohio On 200 Years! ' Since 1922 EWING FUNERAL HOME MULBERRY AVE. POMEROY KenMth McCullough, R. ijii, Chari• Rltlle, R. Ph. . Ronald Hanning, A. Ph. Mon. thru sat. 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. SUnday 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. PRESCRIPTION E. Main Friendly Service PH. 882-2855 Pomeroy, Oh. Open Week Nights 'till I SECOND AVENUE • Thla undated photograph of Mlddle- port'l SecOnd Avenue (a~...mtv taklll from a building on Mill Street) ahoWia car of the Ohio River Electric Railway IIKI PoW- ny working Ita way ~~nang horee-drawn buggies and aldiWalka on Ita way .to the H~on Tnlln Depot or Recine. • , , ·. Com :..1m: RIVER TRANSPORTAnON • Big bolts... and aniall bolts like the one shown above, have all played a major roht In the history of Middleport. Big boats, like the one shown on. an old post card, top, carried peuengera and freight all along the Ohio River, while people used smaller bolts to crou the river (before the construction of Ohio River bridges), for fishing or aimply for recreation. .. �· Page Twenty-Four· Middleport Blcenteanlal Edition, July l, 1997 Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July 2, 1997 • Page Tweuty·Five ( Histo_ r ic homes enhance Middleport entine e .. By CHARLENE HOEFLICH s.nttnel News Staff ~./Working To Preserve The Historic Past and Helping To Develop The Progressive Future of Meigs County Newspaper Histocy•.• The Daily Sentinel, the only newspaper published for Meigs County and dedicated to serving the best interests of .its citizens, has a record of constant grow~h since its inception over 48 years ago. · · It was in 1948 that the Sentinel, Pomeroy-Middleport, was transformed from . a weekly to a daily newspaper. , The obstacles of competing•against out-of-county newspapers- that at the time were serving the majority of daily paper customers in Meigs County -were many. ·To say the least, The Daily Sentinel had its "lean years" en route to becoming Meigs County's No. I newspaper. Today, however, the circulation figures tell the story. From about only I ,500 customers in 1948, The Daily Sentinel ha.s grown to a daily distribution of over 5.,500. Circulation of The Daily Sentinel is more 'than five times greater than the Meigs circulation of any other newspaper distributed daily in the county. Not only has The Daily Sentinel grown steadily during the decades, but it provided the basis for the formation .and expansion of the Ohio Valley Publishing Company that purchased the Gallipolis Daily Tribune in 1959 and the Point Pleasant Register in .1969. The Sunday publication of OVPC, the Sunday limes-Sentinel, had its birth more than 30 years ago and now has a weekly circulation of over 13,000. OVPC also publishes a weekly newspaper, Tri-County News/River Currents, successor to the Mason County News. · ' · · From October, 1977, to December, 1995, the Ohio Valley Publishing Company was · owned by . then Greenville, S.C., firm of Multimedia, Inc. In December, 1995, . Multimedia was purchased by the Arlington, Va.-based Gannett Company, the paper's current owner. While many people played important roles in The Daily Sentinel's growth, the . contributions of longtime OVPC President and Publisher Richard S. Owen and the late Chester A. Tannehill, editor of The Daily Sentinel and Executive Editor of the Sunday limes-Sentinel for many years, were obviously most significant. Tannehill died in February of 1978 while Owen retired as publisher and president of OVPC newspapers effective December 31, 1978. Robert Wingett currently serves as publisher of OVPC newspapers and Charlene Hoeflich is general manager and city editor of The Daily Sentinel. Wingett is a nephe~ of E. A. Wingett of Racine who was manager when The Sentinel was transformed from a weeki y to a dai Iy newspaper. The Sentinel is the successor of The Democrat which was first established in 1888 . by C. I. Barker. Later t.hat same year, Judge Charles E. Peoples began his editorial work on The Democrat and then purchased the business in 1889. At the same time, there were two papers published in Middleport, The Herald and The Republican, as welt as another paper, named The Telegraph, i·n Pomeroy. The· Telegraph was owned by E. S. Trussell who also owned and operated Pomeroy's first electric plant. Racine, in 1888, also had a new spaper, The Tribune, owned and edited by 1 W.: G. Sibley, later to become a newspaper writer of national recognition. In 1909, Judge E. W. Peoples became affiliated with The Democrat and worked with his father until the paper was sold in 1919 to J. E. Carleton, wbo also served several years as Meigs County probate judge. Judge Carleton, a great ~ncl~. to The ·Daily Sentinel's present publisher, had begun his newspaper career in 1900 with The leader, a weekly newspaper published in Pomeroy from 1898to 1917, Judge Carleton owned the paper until he died in 1940 and his late wife, .Mrs. Edna Carleton, served as publisher for several years until the paper w~s sold in about 1941 to Robert Roush. Upon America's entry into World War II, in a display of national unity, the name of the paper was changed to The Sentinel. . The paper was then bought in 1951 by the firm that became known as the Ohio Valley Published Company. Mr. Owen began his over 25 years of service with OVPC in 1952. . The paily Sentinel was the 18th newspaper to.come into existence in Meigs County since it became a county. The very first newspaper to be published in the county was the Meigs County Telegraph, a weekly which was printed from 1851 to 1859 . / ... · ..• ~ .,. ' obert Wingett Publisher 1978-Present / • _.the last descendant of VanDuyn to live in the house. Benjamin Smith was the son of James Smith who came to the · mouth of Leading Creek from Marietta in 1797. James Smith and his family of five children, built the first cabin in that part of Meigs County. Benjamin Smith married Amy Barker and their son, Benjamin, was a longtime Middlepqrt attorney and postmaster. . The Downing House The handsome old brick home on Middleport's North Second Street, The Downing House. was built in 1847 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 20-room house with an elevator served as the home for several generations of Downings as well as the offices for the family The Grant House William H. Gran~ and his wife, businesses. Esther, children .of pioneer fami-. In 1815 the Samuel Downing lies,. were married in 1842. In 1849 family left Maine, came to GalGrant went to California as part of lipolis, and then on to Meigs Counthe Gold Rush and amassed a small ty three years later. They lived first in Scipio Township before moving fortune. · On his return to Middleport, he to Middleport. In 1868 a son, Rodpurchased a.la'rge tract of land in ney, moved his family to Middlethe village, and on that tract he port, and bought the lots on which built a large' home of unusual the historic house was built. cement construction , a large flour The famiiy has an illustrious h.istory of several generations being mill, and a church. . The church housed the local reared in the spacious house. Rodney's son, Major John B. Swedenborgen congregation startDowning, spent 27 years as a pilot ed by Johnny Appleseed, a friend on the river and operated his own of Mrs. Grant. The congregation boats on the Mississippi between met in , the Grant home until the New Orleans and St. Louis. He )JYaS church was constructed. The mill credited with being one·of the skill· comfortably supported the Grants ful pilots who trained Mark Twain for many years. in his river days and is mentioned · During the siege of Vicksburg in the author's book, :"Life on the in the Civil War, William Grant Mississippi." . He and Samuel · used his steamboat to transport slaves to freedom in Ohio, settling · Clemens were longtime friends. Giving up his river piloting, many of their families on his own Major Downing founded the land. In recognition of this service, Downing Insurance Agency in Middleport named Grant Street in 1868 and openED up an office his honor. The Grant house was built in adjacent to the house. His grand1852 and · was· placed on the son, Rodney, joined him in the National Register of Historic insurance business in 1916. Places in 1978 because of itS archiSince the death of Rodney tecture and history. . Downin~. Middleport's last mem-. The mill stood by Jhe levee at ber of the Downing family to reside in the 150-year old house, the end of Mill Street approxiMary and Osby Martin have lived mately where Family Dollar now there. Sirice 1989 the Martins have stands. The Church still stands resided in· the house having come beside Vaughan's Grocery. The Grant children were promioriginally to be companions to the nent as well. Their daughter, Calielderly. Downing who died in 1993. fornia, became a noted teacher at The house, now owned by the Cincinnati Conservatory of Martha Johnson of Louisiana, · Music. When she returned to Middaughter of Rodney Downing, is dleport in her later years her music for sale. · room was the bay window room of The Van Duyn Place · the Grant home. Her sister, EJecta, The Van·Duyn Place, located on taught at the New Ch1,1rch AcadeSouth Second Avenue .in Mtddlemy in Philadelphia. Julia married port, now the home of Helen Bod· businessman and county treasurer, imer is one of the oldest in the vtlJames Boggess. Son, William, lage.' It was built in 1852 and became a pioneer farmer in Kansas remained in the Van Duyn famtly and Lucy taught in Middleport for more than a hundred years. schools. The land -on which the ho1,1se The Grant home remained in was built was purchased from the family until the 1940's when it Benjamin Smith, son of the was purchased by pharmac tst, founder of Middleport, who owned Garen Stansbury. much of the land in Southeastern Debbie and Mike Gerlach purchased the house from the StansOhio. Elizabeth Smith, daughter of bury family in 1976. Benjamin, married Dr. W. B. Van Duyn, son of John Van Duyn and The Davis House Jeanette Boudinot, who ~as the The North Third Avenue prop. adopted daughter and mece of . erty, for years referred to as the Elia~ Boudinot of early Amencan Davis home and now owned by historical faille. . Bob Fisher, was built in 1860 by Dr. w. B. Van Duyn, first physt· the . Brown family on land purcian in Middleport was the great-. (Contlnued on Page 27) ' grandfather of Mrs. Paul Fre~ch, • ... -...' I . J I i i The Davis House ' �• ~lJl•' Edidoa, July :Z, 1997 Historic· Best Washes to ··.Our Friends and NeieJa•ors In Middleport On ·Jts zootJa Anniversar~ WARNER HEATING & COOLING Chester Oak Hill Rd. Pomeroy Chester State Route 248 985-4222 _. ._tions To-Our Frlends In Middleport On Your Bicentennial . G&M FUEL COMPANY 43070 State Route 124 985-3301 Guardrail • Fence & Sign Erection Phone: (614) 992-6451 FAX: (614) 992-3074 .- P.O. Box683 Pomeroy, Ohio 45769-0683. MBEJDBE "Equal Opportunity Employer" 992-5111 . .9l.s :Mitlafeport Cek6rat'es Its ~outufers of200 · , , •.. ,.,.,~. · ('~·'"'' '' ~ ·· <{ CONGRATULATIONS MIDDLEPORT! i THE HAPTONSTALL HOUSE . What was once the stately home of Capt. William Haptonstall with the front overlooking the Ohio River is now the Fisher Funeral Home. The house was built in the late 1800's by Samuel Grant, a Middlepon pioneer and in its original style was southern colonial archi-· lecture with open porches on both the first and second floors. Haptonstall, a riverboat captain, was the second owner and he and his family lived there for many years. After Capt. Haptonstall's death the house was vacani for some time and deteriorated in many ways. The 1937 flood left it filled with mud and debris. • Ban Rawlings had been in the funeral and harness business with other family members in Rutland. ln 1927 he left the Rutland business and purchased the DeMaine Funeral Business in Middlepon. It was Jocat~d near the rear of the Peoples Bank building. Roben' Coats came to work with Rawlings in I93Y and in 1938 they formed a pannership and purchased the. former Haptonstall propeny. They remodeled the house, added six rooms, built a porch with tall stately pillars to make a new entrance, this time facing Second Street and operated as RawlingsCoats Funeral Home for many years. The Van Duyn Place HISTORIC HOME • Alexander H. Murray built this stately two-story brick structure at 606 South Second Avenue In Middleport In 1830. He was a great-great-grandfather of Harriet v. Hall who visited In Middleport In the fall of 1991 with Dorothy (Mrs, William) Morris who has resided In·the house since 1959. The original owner died In 1879 and the house was sold that · same year to Elizabeth Scharf. • · c_ongratufate THE MIDDLEPORT FIRE DEPARTMENT !for Over Yl Centurg ofServices to tfie o/iflflge of!Milfdfeport and tlie Surrounding Ylrea. • 1-~l,,, ,,. , _, ( chased from Phillip Jones. • The house featuring pillars on the porches of both the first and second floors was purchased by Tom Davis from the Browns and he and his descendants occupied it until 1961 when Bob and the late Jean Fisher purchased it. Over a period of several years, the Fishers completely refurbished the brick structure. According to Ervin's history, T. H. Qavis and his new wife came to Pomeroy in 1859. Being interested in business and civic affairs, he served on council, the school board, and as a county commissioner. He became involved in the wholesale meat and grocery busi, ness. That took him to a study of refrigeration and after stpring natural ice for a time, he was the first to make artificial ice in the area. That marked the beginning of the Davi~ ke Co. which operated in a building on West Main Street near the Pomeroy-Middlepon corporation line. Mr. and Mrs. Davis· were the · parents of II .children. Their third soil, Thomas H. Davis, Jr. followed the profession of engineering for some years and then returned to Meigs County to handle the business of the wholesale meat and ice business. ' The Fisher family carne to Middlepon in 1926 and C. 0. Fisher, father of Bob, oper~ted a grocery store downtown for many years.ln. 1940, he was elected mayor and served in that capacity for 20 · years. . Wouf{L.~fJ'o .J ... from ryear$ Yl.go·We . •.· Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July :Z, 1997 • Pqe Twenty-Seven Jt!)£1) THE FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEER .. EMERGENCY SQUAD !first In 0/i.io Cefe6rating 60 ry'ears of Continuous Service 1937-1997 !MI£UjS COfi9(pYI£MI£9{(ji£9(C'.YS'£9{tVICES CE9£~;u, t])ISPJ4-'rcH I£Ms 1£M.ft LI£PC The Murray House Proud to be a part of you• •• A shoe store in this location for over 125 years. n; SHOE PLACE Middleport Q hiO L--~~------------------------------------~--~~ .. .w. .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~·~ -~ -~~ ~~~d ~ .. ' ,... Mu!Dmy 1ft'IJfits ..,PommJ!J, Oliio ~- ··~··-. - -.... ·wishes the Village of Middleport Organized in 1876 and The Meigs County Museum Located at 144 Butternut Ave., Pomeroy , r }rancis Jlorist · The Meigs County Pioneer and Historical Society, Inc. Congratulates Middlepovt on its 200th Anniversary Museum Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 1:00-4:30 p.m. For information: Phone 992-3810 .......... r • ., • • • • • • • • •• ... ------- Good Luck .on its Bicentennial Celebration. . · 352 E. Main Pomeroy, Ohio 992·2644 · �• BlcnteaDial EclltiH, Jaly l, 1997 CONGRATUlATIONS MIDDLEPORT Congratulations .Middleport Fr8m George and Mary Stewart At Neaded amD"'f the hilla, HoUy HUllnn _, bWlt inl836 ~it tlae oldeat home ill Pomeroy. Pomeroy, Ohio ·4S769 • (614) 992-5657. •Antique & Period FIU'ftialainp •4 Worlcin&' Fireplace• •O,.;p.all9tla Celllruy Goa Street Lamps • Heart Pine FloorlnB •TrcuaqWI Outdoor SitW.W Areaa. Breakfa•t i1 ter~~ed in one of OJ&r two flinin6 roo1111. The menu rG"'fe• from d0111n-laome country 1tyle I breakfmt to coldemporary laealtla CORICWUI meal. Mi~dleport•s busi·nes~ ·By BRIAN J. REED Sentinel News S1lltf The 1800's were "boom years" for small businesses in Middleport, with retailers and service providers operating numerous succdsful enterprises in the village's business district. Retail businesses, like Rathburn's Department store, Sauer Sisters Millinery, Rowley and Reed Hardware, and The Big Three were among the successful retail establishments. But Middleport's business history also recalls a silent movie lfouse, Edward Lark's collar and belt factory, and the R.H. Rawlings Sons Co., founded in Rutland, but . successful in · Middleport selling farm wagons and tack. The same finn was later a pioneer in the auto, mobile industry. The John B. Downing and Son Company was a successful insurance business, still in operation today in Pomeroy as DowningChilds-Mullen and Musser. · ' The · Home Laundry Co. and · Besserer's · Meat Market used ho~-drawn wagons to deliver throughout the Middleport community. As motor cars came on the seene, Home Laundry Co. w~nt to trucks to delivery laundry. Robinson's Laundry and Dry Cleaning operated an outlet on the On Your 200th Anniversary Featurea: Holly Hill Inn 114 Butternut Avenue Pomeroy · 41300 Laurel Cliff Rd. 992-6691 ·From The Offices CONGRATULATIONS · Of MIDDLEPO.RT ON YOUR Little, Sheets and warner, 200TH ANNIVERSARY .· Congratulations Middleport on · our Bicentennial Celebration! 213 E 2nd ·ccr r .. :,, ..• ;t; ,., ":!', .. ;• .. •. ' •. : :J ... , · ~·.. · ,~~: .~ .. t . ...... .·r -, .. t .. Middleport BlclllteDIIIII EclltiH, Jaly 2, lfJ7 . . . . .........,. . . I 992-6689 "Proud To Be A Part Of This Area" KENNETH R. Un CEUIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT 992-7559 . POMERO~ OHIO 2161/2 EAST. MAIN (later Central ·Trust and now a branch of Peoples Banking ;vtd Trust Company of Marietta) are the documented banks in Middleport's district boomed in 19th century history. · • First National Bank was taken down wiih the Marine Dock Company, a fleet service operation, , when that company went bankrupt in 1878. Several private investors were also left penniless in the demise of that company, which at • one time employed a large nwnber of men, and had a payroll of over $800 per week at its most prosperous. · ~· THE "T". Thll HCtlon of Mill StiNt, known •• the 'tl," · hal been the loCation of many buelneuea, Including Rlthbum'a Department Store, ...,. at the fer rl'f!:.ow the Mlddlaaort Department Store, 1 alieni movie ,• reateureni;81 ,._..,,and a number of drug etorea. DELIVERY SERVICES • Home dellvlf'IH were a common alght In historic Mlddliport. The Home Laundry Co., owned by the Joachim family, ofllf'ed pick-up and delivery of laundry from Ita location acrou from .Klng'a Hardware. The company' a dallvery truck Ia pictured above In front of the Joachim hOlM on South Third. Home Laundry Co. used horM drawn wagons before the advent of alltomobllea. Fresh meata from the C.F. ~ Meat Market were delivered to homes throughout Middleport with the buggy shown below. · · "T." D. C. McCracken, tonsorial artist (barber), had a shop on Mill Street. , · The 'R. F. Reeves operauon tiansferred passengers and baggage, and Wells and ~mos was a successful nursery busmess. In 1874, tile Grant Brothers erected a steam grist mill with four· 'I run of stone, .,W some years later· purchased the Cryst!ll Mill. The ' company was reorganized in 1874 and was renamed the Middleport Flour Co., merchant and custom millers and manufacturers of the leading brands of "Harvest Home." "Little Duchess." and "Roller A." Rathburn's Department Store, based in Rutland, had a thenmammoth store on the "T." It was later renamed Middleport Department Store and was operated by the Boggs family for many years. A dep~t store continues to operate in the same locauon. Druggists have played an important role in · Middlep9rt's retail economy: Dr. J. DaviS, H. Kennady, and W. V. Lasher in the 19th century, and'Max Roller and James Martin (who purchased J3ar· ton's drug store), Stansbury 'Drug Store (which was known for me~­ icines made in-house) and Dutton s Drug Store, later purchased by Fruth Phannacy, in this century. . A variety of sample houses and taverns lunch rooms, and restaurants oPerated In Middleport. The Mary Jane restaurant, on the "T," is remembered as one· of the more stylish dining spots in Middleport PHARMACIS'f"ROLLER. Malcolm "Max" Roller Ia pictured during the early and mtd- 20thc~n- at Roller's Drug Store which he operated on the "T" with James MILLINERY - When beta were Sauer Sisters tury. . N . 1 Martin Martin's widow aold the store to Dale Dutton In the MIUinery was a popular shopping Pictured are Ada Jobes, Fox's Bank, The Fmt auona · , • · ··owners Mary and 'Emma Sauer, and MabetGrogan. ~ 't"k and Citizens National Bank -~~960,:_•.,·_ _ _ _ _ __..,_....... - -......_..._...,._•._..__.., .... ,,.,.,. . -...........,.,.,,,. - .... ..._, ...,,..~ ..~---•···~ ...... ' • ' ' ' Congratulations Middleport on Your Bicentennial Celebration. Thank you for supporting .our business. w~ look forward to serving you for years t~lcOme. • pnmamv ,..902:.&378 112 W. M~~.~ .. ... ·.·.· . . .-.,'f'.·: .......,"":': l.' .l .l ,.- ... •' .. SHINE ON. · Columbia Gas congratulates Middleport on its Bicentennial. ~~ ,....- COIJJMBIAOAS The Natural Choice ' http:llwww.columbiaenergy.com .. '·'· ,, • �. . . . . . ·"'1· '' i .II 'T "f ' : · Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July 2, 1997 • : Ad slogans froin Middleport's.past .,___ Congratulations From Everyone at The program from the 1915 Sunflower Millstrels lends ~gbt Into business climate of Middleport at the t~e. The approaches that blgb-mlnded merchants took to attract sharp business are In sharp contrast to those of the 1990's. ~·:ophristy's B- M-F 10 am- 6 pm Sat 12-8 • Sun 12-4 Grooming 8-8 Mon-Sun Kennel Care 7 Days a Week · Diamond Dogfood 9f we don't have it , we .c;an get it. · MARY JANE COFFEE SHOP • The Mary Jane Coffee Shop, loc:atecl on the comer of Middleport's "T, • wea a atyJish end popular dining ntabllahrnent. A allent movie house was In thle locetlon earlier In the century, end the building next door wee "G·r ogen'e, • which offered ~•nd~ooMya~ti~P_-._·----------------------------------------~~ .992-4514 Middleport, OH f"aMI~ £r~ta/l(lfel(( $;tft1tiLLI't 1 > Pets 204 N. Second Ave. Paae Tblrty..()ae eel(~ OPBNING SOONf Billiards, Video Games, Pizza, Uve Music, More Congratufations Rathburn's said their store was the place to buy Walk-Over bigb button sboes. Tbe Union Baker on upper Second Street, whose proprietor was Martin Oblinger, offered prompt delivery on all size orders of homemade bread, pies and cakes, lind c:alled on niSidents to "watc:b for our wagon." .. "Let us take care of your piano for you, for our charges .are nominal and we positively guarantee our work," said tbe ad of Jas. T. Lewis & Son located on Mill Street In Middleport. The store bandied 'musical merchandise. 1 Owners of tbe Talbott Wholesale Grocery Co. described tbeir business as "distributors of best quality groceries at lowest prices." "We don't serve microbe sundaes. At out fountain eacb glass and spoon is washed in fresh hot running water. We bave DO sink fun of stagnant germ laden, greasy water. Tbis is worth remembering when you feel a thirsL Tben again, we 'serve Cline's Ice Cream and the best of syrups and fruits. Some advantages, yes?" Tbat was the · message of tbe Davis'. Drug Store, "The Rexall Store", In Middlepo.,. · The Stansbury Drug Co. wbicb described itself as "tbe big drug store on tbe comer" annoonced tbat a car load of paint bad just arrived, and they bad the right paint materials for every paint· ing purpose. "Wben you want a good and lasty sblne go to Manley's ShinIng Parlor," read an ad from C. N. Manley. Berg and Berg offered Morning Glory Brand bams and bacon •• exclusively. Tbe Curtis Stof!l promised "1 00 cen1.1, in sboe value for every dollar spenL" · · Marvin DeMalne, a funeral director and embalmer, offered private ambulance service and also sold furniture. Customers were reminded·"for a square deal," they should buy their groceries at tbe F.B. M u r pby MarkeL For fashionable outfits, Lewis and Coe offered "a big line of popular bloomer suits", sizes 8 to 18. A. J. Mayer at tbe O.K. Barber Sbop advertised cleanliness -~ "all razors sterilized before using." The Gem Theatre announced an "entire c:bange in program for tbe summer, one sure to surprise our patrons." Covert Baldnc Co. acJvertised that, In addition to manufac:· :Mitftffeport! 1ifll 20 BRICK PLANT· Thla brick plant Wll one of several menufllcturlng bull,...._ In 19tiH:entury Middleport. Thle photo.wee taken In 1893. The only pereon ldentllled 11 T1ylor Cecil Grogan, pictured far right In the • k row. fJL9..[.9{Jo/T.~fll!R5 "FROM EVERYONE AT "~ Dr. H. D. 'Brown, DDS Inc. _, . . . THE BIG THREE • Cosmetics, dry goode, dra11 goode, notions, carpets, shoes 1nd grocerlel could all be hid It the Big Three. The building now houses Quality Print Shop. The etore was billed In • period newspaper 11 hiving •exerted • strong Influence over the dry ..Jods trade of Meigs County. • The two-etory brick building, cvnsldered Middleport's finest at the time, was built by B.E. Talbott, In two sections. The aerne 1rtlcle ateted that "Its honorable methods of dealing with the public, combined with Its push and energy, has kept It In the front r1nk and built for It one of the best trades In Southern Ohio." , · "Your Neighborhood Dentist." 200~ W.IWI turing mother's mU~ bread.and Purina wbole whalt bread, tbey made Parisian Ice cream cones. Tbe French Dry Cleaning Co. described Itself as "expert dyers and cleaners to tbe trade, with fine sUks and fancy gowns a 11pe· c:lalty." . Tbe Big Tbree reported being named tbe "exclusive agents for Ladles Home Joumlll Patterns and Jackson Corsets." Coe's Opera House offered Society Drama Serial Pktures every Monday eveidng. Adults, 10 cents, cbUdren, 5 cents. "Tbe Ford will always and under all conditions 'ramble right along' read tbe ads from Day and Hogue wbo described the car as the "blgest value In automobiledom today." · Chambers Grocery advertised tbat tbey were the sole agent of Chase and Sanborn teas and coffee. Tom F. Lewil Clotbler called for a "heart to heart talk with men about clothes" nodng that "b~ing weD dressed isn't a matter of price bat of getting correct fit and appropriate style." R. A. Miller, contractor, lo<·ated on Third Street opposite the Ubnry, deic:ribed himself as the "lumber man", with a promise to aelllaaaber cheaper tban any otber dealer emphasizing tbat this wu "not bot air." JDUI POMEIOY, 0110 45769 614-992·2171 01 614-992·2317 ' . .. ....... . ' . . ... . .. '"' . . . . . Jl ..... l �Blceat=·bl • ~ I , ;' Bk:eateaalal Eclltloa, July l, 1!197 II ' -. '. •• .. .~- -·-'- ~-re~ •· ..... ;.3!· . . ·.. ~ : .~ . . ... - ·- .I ~ -- \ .. . •-. .. ~··itt: . -~· · ' ... •. A ---.. , ..t''·4·· .. ' . ... • /1" J .' r • ,,. ~ .. . ' 1. .. ... . .. .,' I o,..,,o . . .4 r RIVER ·- •• ·•·• .. • • t, t. • .. • .. . . . . . . . . . . . f .. • ' • ' -- • •• f ' ...... •• .. .l li �Pap Thirty-Four· Middleport BkeateDDial Editloa, July 2, 1997 Middleport Bk:eateaalal Edltloa, July 2, 1997 • Pap1blrty.Five Review highlights 19th century bus·iness climate Village site of several monuments to war heroes The_Business ~eview ofMei_gs County, published_in 1891, casts an interesting light on the ~anety of busmesses found m Mtddlepon at the UIIJe. The businesses ranged from the . By JIM FREEMAN Meigs Countians listed who made Meredith Jenkins, Harold S. Jones, The village of Middleport is lib- the supreme sacrifice." Harry Jones, David J. Joseph Jr., erally sprinkled with monuments to Listed on the monument are: Arthur E. Kaylor. Philip E. those who have answered the calls World War I '· Frank Alkire, Killinger. ·Clarence William to arms this century. Charles V. Baumgardner, John . Knapp. Aoyd E. Koblenz, Robert The oldest. monument consists Bennett, William S. Bissell, Landaker, Kenneth R. Matlack, of a gazebo, cannons and other William Clouse, Fr.ink L. Colwell, Howard S. McCloud. Arthur objects at Stewan-Bennett Memo- Alben R. Dorst, Cornelius Feeney, McDaniel, Ottie McGraw, Herben rial Park adjacent' the ¥iddlepon Albert Harper, Orla Hecox, John A. D. McNamee, Albert D. Miller. Post Office on Mill Street. Hetzer. Curtis V. Howell. Ira R. Charles E. Miller, Hoban M. NeiA plaque in front of the gazebo Hysell, William KaiT, Samuel J. son, Windell L. Nelson, George E. reads: "May 30, 1927 --Dedicated Mathews, Clive Price, Norman M. Pankes, George H. Parker, Bruno J. to soldiers and sailors of Meigs Reed, Gideon M. Searls, Eddie Pierotti, Millard W. Prince, George County in all wars." Snedden, Luther D. Suthers, Kin· Pullins, John E. Radekin, Clarence · The gazebo, with an eagle on .ney Thompson, Allen Townsend, H. Reed; David K. Reed, Lewis W. · top and cannon inside, were first Drew S. Webster, Jasper Whaley. Rockwell, Harley L. Rood, Carl E. installed at the Pythian Park where Otis L. White, Lewellyn Daniels. Roush. Harold W. Russell. Harold Imperial Electric is now located. George D. Hutton, Ira C. Jones and S. Sarson; Dean Anhur Sayre, The structure was moved to its cur- Clyde Price; Edward J. Schoono•er, Ted Scott. rent location in the late 1940s. World War II -- Malcolm C. Manring T. Styfrie~. Jewell P. Famed Medal of Honor recipi- Allen, John P. Andrews, Lawrence Sinclair, Edward R. Skinner. ent and World War I hero Sgt. A. Baker, George L. Bearhs. Samuel W. Smith, Wade Dale Alvin York reportedly participated Chester R. Bell. Charles S. Ben· Smith. Gilbert Spencer. Clair E. in .the dedication of the monument nett. Floyd E. Blake, Te!l Spires. Chester F. Steward, Chester in 1927. · · Blazewick, James W. Doring, 0 . Stobart, WilliaiTI M. Swanger, An Ohio historical marker i.n Edgar 0 . Bradford, Earl C. Brown, Charles R. Swindler, Maurice J. front -of the Middleport Village George D. Burson. James Allen Thorton. Dana E. VanMeter, ·Hall honors Army Private First Canodc. Howard L. Collin~. Sid- William D. Venable, Lewis I. Class Edward A. Bennett and ney A. <;:ook, Kibble L. Cowdery, . Walker. Paul J. Ward. Charles D. Army Staff Sergeant Jimmy G. John William Cowie, Howard M. Weed, Leo D.'Wells, Denver WhitStewart, Medal of Honor recipients Crary. Charles R. Crislip: Elmer C. tington. Calvin F. Will; Ray A. from Middleport. ' Dailey, Jake M. Dailey, Thurman Wolfe. Leonard E. Wood; James Bennett, who retired as a major, L. Dailey, Paul H. Damewood. Wylie, Carl W. Lewis, Ernest · received the Medal of Honor for David H. Davidson, Robert H. Lynch. George F. ·Parker, Worley action against Germans in World Davis, Luther Ditm, Thomas E. Jacks, Cecil Neighbors; War 11 while Stewan received his Duerr, Waller R. Dunfee, Danny S. Korean Conflict -- Vance E. WAR MEMORIAL- The Middleport War Memorial located in medal as a result of combat against Dunn, Emmett A. Eastman. Horace Brinker, Earl Blswick, William P. Stewart-Bennett Park originally raated In lower Middleport. Tha communists during the Vietnam Farley, ' John C. Fisher, William Friley, Warren S. l(eller, Derrill B. gazebq, with Its eagle on top and cannons, was first used at War. Stewart received his medal Fish, Alexander H. Fogle, Albert Sayre, Holly B. Scarbro, .Gail W. the Pythlan Park (where Imperial Electric Is now located) and was moved to Its present location adjacent tha Middleport Post posthumously: Stewart Field at Franz, · William J. Freeman Jr.. Smalley, Cecil J. Smith, John F. Office In tha late 1940s. The plaque raada: "May 30, 1927 Fort Benning, Ga., was dedicated Oval A. Gandee, Fred Gears. Thomas, Foster H. White, Anhur F. Dedicated to aoldlera end aallora of Melga County In all wera. • to his memory in February, 1968. George R. Gibson, George M. Wise; The story, according to savaral laglonnalras of Feeney-BenA granite marker in front of the Gillilan, Max Gorby, Robert L. Vietnam War-. Jarnes D. Brew· Feeney-Bennett Post 128, Ameri· Greathouse, Charles Harvey er, Richard Genheimer, Thomas R. · nett Poat 128, American Laglon, Is that World War I hero and can Legion, along Mill Street is • Hauck, George w: Hayman, Hen- Lind, Ronald L. Manley, William ' Madel of Honor recipient Sgt. AlVIn York participated In the dedicated to those Meigs Coun· . ry H. Hermsen, Rodney D. Hines, P. Neutzling, Jimmy G. Stewart, . dedication of tha monument In 1927. tians who died in wars. Nyman Hogue~ Charles A. Hun- Larry R. Stoban, RalphM. Triplett, The plaque reads: "In Memory nell; Gerald J. Hysell. Robert M. William Tuttle, Archie Hayman, of those who served and these iackson, Herman L. Jaynes, .David William L. Pickens. ~~--~~~~~~~~ sale groceries, I; retail groceries, 8; general merchandise, 8; hardware, 2; harness, 2; hotels and restaurants, 6; insurance, 3; jewelers, 3; laundries, I. .' predictable, such as dry goods and grocery outlets, to some surprises, like a cigar manu· Book stores, I; boots and shoes, 4; brick manufacturers, 2; carriage manufacturfacturer and art shops. ers, 1; cigar manufacturers, I; clothing and furnishings, 2; liquors, 8; livery, 4; marble works, The breakdown in the review li~tse following businesses: agricultural imple- I; meat markets, 3; merchant tailors, 4; millinery, 3; musical merchandise, 2; newspapers, me~ts, 1; art _stores, 2; bakers, 3; banks, arbers, 3; blacksmiths, 4; confectionery and 2; notions and toys, 2; photographers, I; physicians, 4; planing mills, I; printers and pub· f~uts, 2; denusts, I; dre_ss makers, 3; drul! , 3; d~ goods, 6; flour and feed, 2; flouring mills, ' lishers, 2; sewing machines, . I; stoves and tinware, 2; tinware, 3; and miscelhineous, 17. 1, foundnes and machme shops, I; retatl furmture, I; furniture manufacturers, 1; wholeThe total businesses operating in Middlepon, according to this document, was 140. , BIRO'S EYE VIEW· This view from a picture polltcllrd ahOwa tha Ohio fi!W: ar and part of Mlddlaport's buainesa dlatrlct. Tha polltcllrd wu purchaaad and . mellad by vlaltora to Middleport In 1929. .. . TURN OF THE CENTURY- Thomas Jafferaon Gtlrdnar (1845-1910) Is plctured In downtown Mlddlaport around tha tum of tha century. Tha pk:tura waa takan from tha wr\ ' AS MIDDLE.P ORT CELEBRATES ITS BICENTENNIAL-• ... THE MIDDLEPORT FIRE QEPARTMENT HAS SERVED THE VILLAGE FOR OVER A CENTURY • OF SERVICE AND THE·FIRST FIRE DEPARTMENT VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY s·Q UAD IN. O.HIO CELEBRATING-60°YEARS OF CONTINUO.US SERVICE. . ·WE ARE-PROUD .TO SERVE YOU! . . ,. \ ! ' I' .( . I \. '\ . . . • .• . . . ... 0 • • .. .. - - MEIGS WAR DEAD- Thla granite marker located In front of tha Feeney-Bennett Post 128, Amarlcan Legion, dlaplaya the names of 168 Meigs Countlana who diad this century In the aervlca to their counf!Y. Tha marker was erected in 1989 and beara the nemea of Meigs CounlY i4Wv1cemift Wtio dMKI~n World War I, World War II, the Korean Conflict and the VIetnam War.. MEDAL OF HONOR MARKER • This plaque In front of th~ Middleport Municipal Building honors the village's two Medel of Honor recipients: Army soldiers Staff Sargeant Jimmy G. Stewart and Private First Class Edward A. Bennett. Stewart received hla medal posthumously after he was killed fighting In Vietnam while Bennett, who later ratlred as a major, received his for action during World War II. The plaque was Installed In 1983 by the Feeney-Bennett Post 128, American Legion, end by the Ohio Historical Society. .. �- -, ,., t "rat .iln;tlfl~ trt_.,.,.,...to Blceateaalal King Happy 200th Birthday · 405 North Second Avenue, Middleport, OH Serving the Middlep·ort Community Since 1952! ' Paint - Plumbing .: Electrical Hardware - Tools - Lawn & Garden mOMTHE . MIDDLEPORT DEPARTMENT STORE Happy 200th! 4_. . 61 992 5020 • Mon ·Fri. 8:00-7:00 p.m Sal. 8:00 • 5:00 p.m. ~ 1:00- 4:00p.m. .Congratulations on our Bicentennial Celebration DairLJ Queen SERVING THE BIG BEND COMMUNITY SINCE THE EARLY "1900's" MIDDLEPORT I \' 1....-i l:;iiiill Is proud to be part of ~ ~ Middleport History. 992~'3322 ON THE "T" Hours: Mon.-Sat. 10:00-6:00 Friday nue:oo PM •• 992·3141 Happy Anniversary, Middleport f(om. ' The Meigs County Democratic Party and your elected Democrcitic officeholders: -Prosecuting Attorney John Lentes . -Sheriff James Soulsby ..county Commissioner Janet Howard - County Commissioner Jeffrey Thornton I Mll!1"itlhiM • tt.\.th ii i llll"<"l • l, 1997 • Middleport l~ys ·claim to two . . Medal of Honor recipients art's company which was manning · had beert dragged away. The wounded whom he gave his The Medal of Honor is the high- a defensive perimeter in Vietnam. life to protect were recovered and The surprise onslaught woundest award for valor in action against ed five members of a six-man evacuated. an enemy force which can be The citation reads: "Sergeant bestowed upon an individual serv'- squad caught in the direct path of Stewart's indomitable courage, in ing in the armed fort:es of the Unit- the enemy's thrust. As a result. SSg. the face of overwhelming odds. ed States. The village of Middle- Stewart became a lone·defender of stands as a tribute to himself and an port claims two such recipients·: vital terrain -- virtually one man inspiration to all men in his unit. Edward A. Bennett and Jimmy G. alone against an enemy platoon. Refusing to take advantage of a His actions were in the highest tra· Stewart. ditioQs of the United States Army The Medal of Honor is gener- lull in the firing which would have · and the Armed Forces of his counally presented to its recipient by the permitted him to withdraw., he try." President of the United States in elected to hold his ground to proStewart' Field at Fort Benning. the Congress. As a result, the tect his fallen comrades and pre- Ga .. was dedicated w Stewart's . medal is often called the Congres- vent an enemy penetration of the memory in i 968. company perimeter. sional Medal of Honor. · As. the full force of the platoonPrior to the Civil War, few milsized main attack struck his lone EDWARD A. BENNETT itary decorations were awarded Edward A. Bennett. an Army since they were considered too like position. he fought like a man pos- private with Company B. 358th the titles and awards given in Eng- · sessed: emptying maga-zine after Infantry. 90th Inf. Division. was land. In addition, fighting for one's · magazine at the determined, on- advancing with his company a>ross country was considered a duty. not cliarging enemy. The enemy drove open ground on Feb. I, 1945. to something one did for awards or almost to his position and hurled assault Hecj(huscheid. Germany. decorations. However. it became grenades, but SSg Stewart deci- just after dark when vicious enemy obvious that some actions were so mated them by ~etrieving and machinegun fire from a house on far above and beyond the call of throwing the grenades back. the outskirts of the town pin.ned duty that recognition was merited. Exhausting his ammunition, he down the group and caused severTo date, a total of 3,427 Medals crawled under intense fire to his al casualties. of Honor )lave been authorized. wounded team members and col· Bennett began crawling to the with Army men receiving the lected ammunition they were edge of the field in an effort to majority of these high decorations . . unable to use. flank the house, persisting in this GENERAL JAMES V. HARTINGER ' Far past the normal point ·of As is often the case, a soldier USAF RET. maneuver even when ·the enemy who receives the Medal of Honor exhaustion, he held his position for gunners located him by is unlikely to come home. The four harrowing hours and through machine the light of burning buildings and _ extreme heroism required usually three assaults, annihilating the ene- attempted to cut him down as he claims the recipient's life. As of my as they approached and betore ~::s~ for the protection of some April7,there were only 169living they could get a foothold. ·As a result of his defense, the recipients of ihe Medal of Honor. Reaching safety, he stealthily company position 'held until the Middleport native retired Air Scholarship awarded at the United made his way by a circuitous route arrival of· a reinforcing platoon Force General General James V. States Air Force Academy. At West JIMMY G. STEWART to the rear of the building occupied Point, as a result of the .General One of those who never came which counterattacked the enemy, by the German gunners. With his ·Hartinger served in three wars and being a three-time Lacrosse Allhome was Army Staff Sergeani now occupying foxholes to thoAeft tre!lch knjfe, he kille<t a sentry on held ranks from private to sergeant American and in the LacroSSe Hall Jimmy G. Stewilrt of Company B, of Stewart's position. After the . guard there and then charged into to Four-Star General. of Fame, the General James V. counterattack, his body was found His many accomplishments 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry, 1st. the darkened house. include serving as commander-in- Hartinger Trophy is annually preCavalry Division (Airmobile). in a shallow enemy hole where he In furious hand-to-hand strug- chief of the North American Aero- sented to West Point's Most Valu· had advanced in order to add his Stewart was born Christmas Day, fire to that of the counterattacking gle, he stormed about a single room space Qefense Command able Lacrosse Player. which harbored seven Germans. (NORAD) and first commander of 1942. The National Security Industriplatoon. Eight enemy dead were Early on the morning of ~ay found around his immediate posi- Three he killed with rifle fire, · the Air Fore,: Space Command. He al Association presents the Gener18, 1966, a reinforced North Vtet· tion, with evidence that 15 others another he clubbed to death with was known as the "Father of Space al James V. Hartinger Space the butt of his rifle, and three oth~~~~~~ attacked StewMedallion annually to the -person Command." ers he dispatched with his .45-calAs a career-long fighter pilot who contributes most to our iber pistol. with over 5000 flying hours, he nation's space; effort. The citation for the award, pre- flew the F-86 in the Korean war In Middleport General sented by President Harry S. Tru- and the F-4 in Vietnam. Hartinger has been recognized on man on Oct. 30, 1945, read: "The . General Hartinger's military numerous occasions. In his honor Ofearless initiative, stalwart combat decorations and awards include the the park in lower Middleport was ability, and outstanding gallantry of Defense Distinguished Seryice named Hartinger Park and the Private Bennett eliminated the ene- Medal, Distinguished Service adjacent street, General Hartinger my fire which was decimaiing his Medals, Legion of Merit, Distin- Parkway. Several family members company's ranks and made it pos- guished Flyin~ Cross, Air Medal still reside in Middleport, and the sible tor the Americans to sweep with eight oak leaf clusters, Air General returns periodically to visall resistance from the town." Force Commendation Medljl and it. Bennett, who was born Feb. II, Combat Readiness Medal. Re is 1920, retired from the Army as a also a recipient of the Korean Since his retirement, General tllajor on Feb. I. 1965, 20 years Tangil Medal. He holds honorary Hartinger has served on boards and after the action which earned hil" doctorates in military science and has been a consultant, speaker and the Medal of Honor. He died May law. · . moderator in spreading the word 2. 1983. . As first Commander of USAF that "our future is in space." A. Space Command, General Hartinger recently wrote a Hartinger was recipient of 'ihe book, titled "General Jim Hartinger General Thomas D. White Space . -- from One Stripe to Four Stars." Provided by Bob Gilmore Legion Post . I28. The post was In those early years, the men Trophy and first recipient of the Now retired and living in ColIn tate 1920, members of Com- named "Feeney-Bennett" after drilled and bivouacked at Pythian Master Space Badge. He was giv- orado Springs, Hartinger in his pany c of the 37th Ohio Div!sion . Cornelius "Pete': Feeney and John Park, located on Park Street in the en the Space Command "Order of book details personal recolleCtions began meeting in regular sesstons, Be~net!, both Mtddleport men who lower end of the village. Captain the Sword", highest award pre- about his youth in Midqleport, his although the precise date of thetr were ktlled m World War l. Tom W. Jones was the old Com-, sented b'y non-commissioned offi.- education and sports activities in first meeting is nOt recorded. The first commander was J.E. pany C commander and Firstl,.ieu- cers. the Middleport schools, and his On Feb. 20, 1921, tile group Harley and the first adjutant' was tenant Harry Bennett and Second In tribute to him there is .an ' military career which spanned five · 'E!!!'!-=!!~ered..·~· ~!~!.." ~~.;.~~' _;~.:......,..:..:....:.~:.._: '(CoQtlaeWj OA P111 at}- - . "'.11t"teal8tnetal-ft~¥.itaninger· •deades. • ~ ·~ ·- By JIM FREEMAN M•ddl _I epo rt_nat•IV8 :'::th . _e , r. of Space Command . • a.mWAirr ' American Legion Post 128 chartered in 1921 . ' �•• ... Pqe Thirty·Eipt • Middleport Blceateallial ~tioa, July 2, 1997 Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July .CONGRATULATIONS MIDDLEPORT ON YOUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY . ,.----Patriotic . d' ' STEWART~ DENNETT I I PARK DEDICATION • On May 23, 1997, as a part of the Memorial Day Services, the Mill Street Park next to the Mid.dlePort Post Office was named and dedicated as the "Stew· art-Bennett Memorial Park" in honor of Sergeant Jimmy Stew· art and Major Ed Bennett, Middleport's two Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. ' .' Since opening the doors to the public on 08cember 4, 1904, on Court Street, the Farmers Bank has become the oldest independently- owned financial institution in Meigs.County. A charter was granted in the name of the Farmers Bank and Trust Company on August 6, 1904, by the Superintendent of Banks' of the State of Ohio giving permission to issue five hundred shares of stock that represented a total capital of $50,000.00. · The following group of men held their organizational meeting on August 9, . 1904, for the purpose of choosing officers and directors. The directors chosen were w. F. Reed, George H. Parker, Dr. J.. W. Hysell, Dr. L. F. Roush and Thomas Turnbull. The officers chosen were: W. F. Reed, President; Thomas Turnbull, VICe President; George Parker, Cashier. In 1921 the name "Trust• as replaced ·by the word "Savings• in the name of the bank. · ,.. Tt)e bank had steady growth from the beginning and r~ached the first million in deposits in 1943. During the history of the bank it has had five presidents, namely, W. F. . Reed, founder, Theodore T. Reed, Sr, Theodore T. Reed, Jr., Paul E. Klees and Paul M. Reed. · In 1963, plans were made for the construction of a new facility. In 1965 the property located on Second Street thru to Main Street was purchased from A. A. Knight d.b.a. Pomeroy Motor Company and seven buildings were torn down; in 1967, plans for the new facility were approved, and in 1968 construction began on what was to become the future home of the Farmers Bank. The location of the bank remained on Court Street until it moved to its present location at 211 West Second Street, Pomeroy, Ohio, on April1, 1969. Total deposits were $9,000,000.00 on April 1, 1969, when the move was made to the new building as compared to over $69 million of May 1, 1994. In May, 1987, the Farmers Bank acquired, through purchase, th.e Tuppers 'Plains Branch of Bankpne. This purchase represented the first branch of the ' Farmers Bank and enabled us to better serve the needs of Meigs County. To better sei'Ve the customers, the bank purchased its own in-house data · . processing system in March, 1990, which offered major enhancements to our customers. Continued growth made it necessary for the blink to undergo a major renovation in 1992 ard further customer service enhancements were made in 1994 with the expansion of the three-lane drive-thru -facility and the installation of an automatic teller machine (ATM) making it t!Je county's first. The first week of December 1996, the Bank celebrated its 92nd Anniversary of the Bank with the grand opening of the new branch facility at 164 Upper River Road, Gallipolis, Ohio. This second branch offers a full se.rvice lobby . with two loan offices, three teller windows, two account representative desks and a three-lane drive thru with an (ATM) autom'atic teller machine to IMII&er serve our customers. In addition to those named above, the following have served as directors of the bank over the past ninety years: J. W. Franz,' W. H. Osborne, Loft Jacobs, W. L. JohnSon, M. C. Hobart, F. P. Wisecarver, C. D. Reed, Helen A. Turnbull,. Theodore T. Reed, Sr., Ruth McCroba, Aten Shain, George H. . Lasher, F. G. Mutchler, D. Curtis Reed, Alma F. Parker, Bertha L. Lasher, Cedric W. Clark, J. Edward Foster,' Harold Smith, E. Robert Schellhase, C. Wayne Swisher, Leslie F. Fultz, Fred W. Crow, Jr., Dr. Fred A. Carsey, Jr. and Theodore T. Reed, Jr. The present directors of the bank ·ani: Paul E. Klees, Thereon Johnson, Ben. H. Ewing, Richard C. Follrod, Douglas W. Little, Paul G. Eich, Ferman E. Moore, I. Carson Crow and Paul M. Reed. The present officers .of the bank are: P<!ul 1;. Klees, Chief Executive Officer; Paul M. Reed, President; Jon P. Karschnik, Executive Vice PresidentQperations; Roger W. Hysell, Executive Vice President-Cashier; Donna Schmoll; Assistant Vice President. and Joanne Williams, Assistant Vice President. "\bur Bank~4t... Bank Fs . &Farmers Savings Company .. Member F.D.I.C. . l.........,........ - · Routt 7 · P.O. Box 339 ,.,.,, Plaits, OH 45713 614-667·3l61 '211 West Stcollll Str•t P.O. 8ox626 P...oy,_OH4S769 614·992-2136 . I . t' J " I I ~ c'• ... . · · · · ~ L-~· · ' ·. .... . •• Llt!·' r.... - .......... ..... ... . ................. , _., # .......... .. 11 - -~ ... .. , .. , 1'..,' ... ., t ~ ...... . . . . . . . . , .. . . ,,..., . . . . . . .... , . t . . . ... .' ' I' I I • I J I American Legion Post 128 chartered in 1921 �. . . ... .. - ' , : h&e Forty • Middleport Blceatemalal Edltioil, July 2, 1997 · ~ ~ C9ongratulations . middleport rr 1-t a p p y 2 0 0 t h " Best wishes to Middleport on its Bicentennial . From your friends at ,---....._.. . STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES . HOME OFFICES • BLOOMINGTON, ILUNOIS Hillside Baptist Church . Mike Swiger . I Agent 149 S. Third Ave. Middleport, OH 45760 • Off.: 614·992·6685 Res: 614·992·63~6 ~/lit~~-~-~, .~ ~ ~ ~~· ' ~Dear Friends and Meigs Countians, . . '1M . . - . . . O..m,.,u{ Cmtu '"a• 'P,J""B ,w,., u '1"" . · As pastor of Hillside Baptist Church I would like to introduce to you. our church which is located on State Route 143 just off Route 7. We are an llmlependent Fundamental Church. We have been in Meigs County since Nov. 1989. We believe we are an outstanding_church with a lot .to offer to the Meigs County residents and surrounding area. We invite you to come and worship with us in our services which are: Sunday Sayre 'Brown, wife of tM unter's founaer, 'Dr. !J{aro(a 'Dana 'Brown. '. Tfu inner ci.rcu, representative of tlii fetter •o• in tM Over6root • Center namt, is fully endosea to s!f111DoCue tM protectt.tf environmtnt School at 10:0,0 a.ni. Morning Worship at of tliis 6eautifu£ litaftn care 6uifaing ana i'ts aesign ana construction 11:00 a.m. Sunday Evening Service at 6:00 p.m. and Wednesday Evening at 7:00 p .m. t~ ac.commoaatt every aspect of tlit Maftli care natfs of a 21st Century · sk_illta ana intmndiatt care nursing facility. · · . . · We ·have many ministries and we are proud to Tfu _outer ci.rcu, representative of tM utter •c• in tM Over6rook_ • present them to the public. Center namt, if open on tM riglit sitfe -nr--sgm6ofizt tlit center's ~ The Sunday School Dept. is outstanding and we have very qualified teachers ground invitation to resitknt pat~nts, tlitir families ana fiUntis, as wtf( as a{{ in the word of God. Our Junior Church Dept. of 'Meigs County ana surrounaing areas, to visit, use ana enjoy tfit consists of S rotating teams. The ages are 3superior ana 6eautifu£ facilities ana orountfs of tlit center for 6otli 10. It 's the little people's church with an tlitir fttaftli care ana community nutfs. atmosphere created just for them with Tfu inner ci.rcu uses tM color grun to signifi.J !ife ana tfit unter's lessons, games, crafts, snacks and lots of fun commitmtnt to tlit lita{tli of its resiiU.nt pat~nts as wtf( as tlit growtli and love. tM community of wliicli it is now a part. Tfu color colonia£ rea of ·We also ha~e a bus ministry. The buses ~M figure representing tlit an:liit;ctura{ appearance of tlit -coverea entranu to tM new center was dJosen (o !ignifi.J tM so{itfity ana safe pick up the children and adults who need a ride to Sunday's services and return protectta environment of tlit a{{ 6rick_structure a.S wtlf as tlit co(oniaf them home safely. Mritage of tM area. Another ministry we have is a Music Ministry. We have several singing groups '11ie struc~ure's figure lias 6un pfau at tlit to'P o+ tlitgreen /ii({ ana which include The Hood Family, The Partakers, The Humphrey Family, The M 'J HBC Choir and The HBC Trio. Soloists are Gary Jones and his son Josh Jones. t mtantkring wattrway to refuct t/it center's focation liigli a6ove Other ministries in our church are the visitatio h Ltatfing Creek_.ana ~lit ntar6y Oliio 1ljv.u. mi.n istry which has been a blessing to our hearts. n program, a nursery orne . '11ie two 61rt4 ur alternating co(ors are intenaea to 6t s!JflWofic of As we are led by the Holy Spirit to perform the great commission (j~ h 1 tM cent~r's tornmi_ttmtn~ to _tfit spirit of[rttaom .in,tliis!reat co~~try • before us, we ~re so thankful to all the peop.le whom we have me~ over the ;:a:. of o~~ ~ weU ~ lts aea~eatwn to provitfmgfUa{tli care m tM sprnt of ~ As we head mto the future we are trustmg God for many more wonderful · Cfiruttan conce~n a~a open wd~o~ t~ ~(( wli'o enter its aoors ~~experie~ce~ as we do His work toge!he~ here i~ M~igs County. As.you well know T't/Jaiakss of tfitrr rau, creta ~r _natwnaf ongm. . Soul-Wmnmg has always been a pnonty of Htllstde Baptist Church. It has been · Ovtr6rook_ Center liopes to affirm its own ·!J{eritage witfi tfit , our concern and goal to win the lost at. any cost. · RJrowfetfge tliat its litaft/i care practice ana goals for its community~ M~wife Betty and I and our church cordially invite you to visit us at any given must 6t acfr~vttl witli aignity) compassion ana respect for fiuman Cife. semce. We thank you for your support, your contributions and your kindness ?; •• -- . · 333 PAGE STREET • MIDDLEPORT, OHIO 45760 • (614) 992-6472 · . . , ,. Bicentennial Edition, July Z, 1997 - ' , • toward us. May God richly bless you in your endeavors. D J R A p ' r. ames . cree., astor ~-~·~-~-~--~~----------------~ Middleport had as many as SIX newspapers in its .earlier years living persons who worked in the of the Independent before it offices Sentinel·News Staff Much of the history of Middle- became a daily paper." Mrs. port is culled from the pages of its Thomas wrote in a letter to the edi· newspapers: The Meigs County tor of The Sentinel in 1948. "When I entered the Indepen·· Herald, the Meigs County News. dent office on my first day. about the Meigs County Press, the 1905. a very timid girl of about 17 News/Republican, and later. The years of age, I met first Artemas Middleport Argus and The MidWilliams. who I remember was dleport Review. then forem;m. a veteran printer at Heavy on society notes of inter· est, with retail advertising domi- that time, and who has long since nating the front and other pages. passed away." "One of the editors was C. A. the newspapers of the late 19th and early 20th century provide the Roberts. a retired schoolteacher of · Meigs County. and a foreman was reader with a glimpse into the Gild· the kindly and beloved Ward Hart· ed Age of Middleport. ley. · George Wise, F.C. Russell, Eli "The girls at the time I began Branch, Charles and Oliver Hartley and J. W. Dumble all tried their my work with the Independent hands at newspaper publishing in were Helen (Weed) Hinkle. Minnie Middleport during the late 19th and Rae, now Mrs . E. G. Morgan, of Eaton. OH., Zelda Loven, now early 20th centuries. II was the Herald which appears Mrs. Earl Malone, of Cincinnati, to have published for the longest Mrs. Laura (McKinley) Saunders, .period of time, from around 1880 of Athens. Grace Hall. who mar· through 1894. Featuring society ried Robert Buell, and passed away news from Racine, Salem. Rutland, a few years ago at her home in . Pomeroy, and even areas as distant Elyria." . "Others who worked for the as Antiquity and Letart, the Herald lndepe, n· Independent and Daily was published by Wise. and, later, not mentioned by Mr. dent , Russell . Serialized 'fiction, such as Houdasheh. were Jessie (Persons) Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scar· . Ward, Viva Stevens (deceased), let Letter" provided "light" reading Maud Grueser, Ethel Garland. to sJbscribers, and advertising was Avery Roberts and Jacob Williams. treated as seriously, and as promi· now of Orlando. California, the lat· ter a foreman, Mrs. Martha Bryant, nently, as news copy. No photographs appeared i~t now of Columbus, Etnma Roscthese newspapers, although draw· ' berry, now Mrs. Thomas Ryan, of ings accompanied some of the Mason City, WV, and George Hoemore elaborate advertisements for flich. still in the business." "I remained at the Independent businesses and products. oiTice for six years and was there In this day of electronic dis· when it was changed over into the semination of news, via sources . Daily Independent." like the iniemet, not to mention the "A few of the small boys who sophisticated means of publishing started out on that first day proudly newspapers today, it is easy to for· as carriers for the Daily. were get the arduous tasks faced by the Albert Grueser, now a popular reporters, editors, composers and other newspaper staffers in tum-of· pastor of the United Brethren Church of Logan, Ohio. Another the-century Middleport . Typesetting, composing (the was El za Gilmore, Sr. of Pomeroy, creation of advertisements). layout and a third, Charles Houdasheh, and printing were all done by (deceased) . brother o( Harry hand . Newspaper offices were Houdasheit, who was one of our dusty, and the smell of printer's ink nicest foremen of the later years at the Independent. " was prominent "Many arc the happy memori~s The transfonnation of The Sen· I have of those days fm I guess I · nel, a weekly, to The Daily Sen· liked the smell of printer's ink, 'in 1948 prompted veteran · because for thirty years I wrote the ""'"Pr Harry Houdashelt and Mar· Minersville news column for the garel L. Thomas , a one-time combeginning with the Indepapers, )l'osihg room employee, to reflect pendent and ending when the Tritheir days at The Daily Indebune· Telegraph changed hands pcn,dellt in Pomeroy. While these for more several years ago, and newspapers were Pomeroy· writing the Min· than ten years both Houdashelt and Mrs. ersville news for the Athens Mes· Th<)m:>< worked on Middleport · nevvsp;apers as well . Mrs. Thomas senger, .discontinuing two years the Middleport Repub- ago." ·· one of the mo!jl.e~iting mem· and Houdashelt published Mi•ddl•ep<Jort's most recent newspa- aries I have of the newspaper Middleport Review" dur- office was the time the Middleport the World War II years, with Bank I think they called it Fox's from Vernon Weber, Bank:·closed its doors for a short time. Excitement ran high in the amc>ng others. "I I am one of the few editorial offices and composing By .BRIAN J. REED ~. ----···-· ·--------·- .. - room doors were locked to keep out the curious public. for it was not generally known what was going on. but Mr. Turnb,ull . at that time editor. had all the facts of the story and material was being prepared by the news writers for a grand 'scoop' on the other newspa· pers." · "One of the highlights of my career as a compositor or type-set· ter. (all done by hand at that time) . was when I was· pennitted to set a full page Elberfeld's ad all by myself. The foreman. Will Thomas, who later became my husband, gave me the and told me to do itto suit Hav· ing become acquai'nted with all the different point type and various type-faces~ during the yeai's I had been working. and with an old copy of the ad before me. I finally accomplished the task and was the proudest girl in the office." "I also learned to print on the small hand-press and many hundreds of cards and other Sltlall 'jobs' came from t~e effort." "One of my tasks was to feed Lhe newly printed papers into the 'brand' new folder. and on several occasions was invited to stand by the side of Lhis same foreman on the top step of the big, high press and feed the new sheets of_p~per· onto the large inked fonns below." "About 1910 I quit the Daily Independent and later went to work for Mr. Charles A. Hartley and Oliver Hartley when they began publishing the Middleport . Republican." "Helen Weed also left the Daily and went to work for the Hart-· leys, also Mrs. Bryant. The Hart· leys, father and son. were two of the finest men that I have ever known, and never once' in the years that I worked for them, both at the Daily Independent and Republican, did I ever hear them say an unkind word to the girls in their " \ t . NEWSPAPERS - The Argus ·and The Middleport Review, pictured here, were two of several newspapers In Middleport during the early and mid-20th centuries. They were both published .,Y Harry Houdasheh, who also worked on The Daily Independent in Pomeroy. • .,.. ..... . . ., NEWSPAPER OFFICE • This unidentified Meigs County newspaper operation li typical of tum-of-the-century newspaper offlcea. Typesetting, composing and printing were all performed by hand, and women were not an uncommon sight, performing .much of the typesetting and composlnrt work reQUired. ' ·-·--· .. - -· ~ -... ,. -·..... . . . . .... . · �.. _Page Fo~·T.w.o. • ~lddle~rt- Blcentenalal Edition, July 2, 1997 ~ . 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Long Term Care Unit · ~ • 24 Hour Emergency Room Service • .' ' , o ' I 0.. 4 o 1 I I 1 ') I 0 J • ' f '· 't • I • t ' Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July l, 1997 • Page Forty-Three HOLZER MEDICAL CENTER ~ ·--- . ••••••• Special Care Unit Skilled Nursing Facility Unit 1• Home Health Services "Going The Extra Mile For Your Good Health" Home Health Servic~s For more in/ormation ca/1992-21 04 Phone 682-7711 24 Hour Emergency Care Sports played a key role in small village of Middleport for players in 1927, the response ByBOBBYER Middleport had r.nany claims to was over and beyond what . was fame during the early years,. from expected. Although this team did not meet its independent baseball, softball : and bas~etball teams, from the the expectations of some, it was the Hobson Yards to the Ohio Valley beginning of a dynasty under League team, to the high school Coach Battyn and began an era that teams, all playing a key role in the is pointed to with pride. Five out of · the next seven years resulted in sports of this small village. . As the town grew and began to Middleport's winning five football settle as we know it today, the .high and two baseball championships school and other athletic teams and a basketball championship. Coach Battyn did not coach in carved their name in history with 1930, having to return to Ohio·Unisome records and feats that still versity to secure more credits for stand. his teaching degree. Charlie Coffey Early football, softball and took over and the 1930 team con· baseball played on the "Pig Iron" tinued the championship road. field at the Pythian Park, location Having won the football cham· of today's lmperial Electric Compionship in 1929, the 1930 football pany, and later at the Pearl Street facility gave the early residents of t~am scored a total of 442 points to this Ohio River town something to their opponents 7, winning over talk about and a place to spend an one team 100 to O.The losing team evening or Sunday afternoon , will remain anonymous for coilr· watching some of the areas finest tesy·~ sake. However, Ike Ne·at, a players, as amateurs and semi-pros. Middleport team member in 1930 Six man football was played in would probably be glad to tell you those early years, but little is about the game. Middleport had six known about their records and how touchdowns called back during long they were around. It is known the rout, as the officl'al, Clyde Batthat a player died while playing tyn, was still in a teaching mode for footbal, and for a while the sport better years and games to come. was not played in high school at Battyn returned in 1931 and two Middleport or Pomeroy. From 1925 until 1967 the high years later built another champion school teams from Middleport won team that won the championship games everyone thought they three years in a row, 1933, 1934 would 'lose and in turn lost games and 1935. In 1935, Middleport, everyone was sure they would under Battyn, beat a classy Colum· bus South Team 18 to 16 that set WIR . The Yellow Jackets, as they · the stage for Battyn to move up the were known, won everything from ladder. Ironically, Clyde Battyn left nine football chamoionships to a Middleport in 1936 to coach at state baseba11 cham.;ionship, clos~ Columbus South. ing out their football history in One of the stori~s told about the 1967 with a dramatic come from 1930 team is the game played on behind victory in the final minute icc on Thanksgiving day. Leading of play. only six to 0 at the half. a g~,test of .The name Yellow Jackets, the team that day made a quick trip became well known In those 42 to Rathburn's Store and purchased years in Southeastern Ohio and tennis shoes for the Yellow Jackets, will always have a place in the who responded in the second half hearts and minds of those students with 36 more points and a 42 to 0 who would, to this day, wear with victory. The guest Clyde Battyn, pride the colors of orange and who was on break from his studies at OU, had came to the game as black. Several coaches through the moral support for intern Coach · years left a legacy for those that Coffey. followed . These coaches built The 1930 team .was honored at . moral character within their the Thanksgiving Day game in . charges as well as top notch ath1939 making a three way celebra· letes and students. tion for the Village of Middleport. Clyde Battyn was one of these Day was always Thanksgiving coaches, and when he made his call INDEPENDENT TEAM ·In the early 1900alndependent sports teams were popular. This 190809 team was sponsored by a Middleport tailor by the name of C. H. Oclenba~rVThose Identified areln front left, Charln Watson; Middleport, Charles McMaster, George , (first name not given) McMillan, and Clifford Russell, and back row, Mr. Dunn, Jed Hartinger, and Odenbaugh. 1 The Thanksgiving Day game from making the big leagues but all a big day in Middleport as j~,tsl gave it their best shot because that's about the whole town shut down to came to an end in 1959 when the the way they were taught by 1heir head for the football field and the hist game was played, but a faith· coaches, teachers and parents. annual clawic betwe(•n Middleport ful few turned out on ThanksgivAnother coach that was very ing Day in 1960 to "bury the hatch· and Pomeroy. instrumental in encouraging these et" of this once famous rival!;t'. young athletes was Forrest Bach· In 1939, besides honoring the This tradition had grown to the 1930 team. the town dedicated point that most of us thought of tel who spent six years coaching at their new football stadium. This Thankslliving Day as the day to Middleport and left behind many facility was built by the Works Pro- give thanks for our many blessings, memories of fair play, hard work, gressive Administration (WPA) at and the traditional football game. sportsmanship and outstanding a cost of $30,000, and is the pre· The game ha~ become one marked work with young people, in sports, sent home field of the Meigs Local with color and all the pomp and studies, and church. During those six years his footJunior High teams. The riew high circumstance of a London parade. ball, bll$ketball and baseball teams school had been finished in 1937 It was a day to meet old friends and received many championship honby the WPA and 'the stadium was make new ones. ors and was acclaimed by fellow just another of the many projects Middleport High School sports coaches, officials and sports writaccomplished in Middleport by ·saw many championship team~ ers as one of the smartest coaehes this government program. built by coaches and players that of his time. loved the competition of athletics, . lllere are many stories that can and the partnership it buitr. Its bas- be told of the many fine athletes ketball and baseball teams made a from Middleport and the teams mark in Southeastern Ohio as well they represented. One athlete even as its football teams. , became a Four Star General and The basketball and baseball has a park and a street named in his teams placed several trophies in the honor within the village. cases at Middleport High School Athletics played a big part in the before they were finished, winning ,development of Middleport and league championships in both rank near the top of the claims to sports as well as the district and fame fot this small village in added a State Class B Runner-up Southeastern Ohio. Just as this baseball trophy in 1950 and a State fame has lived down through the Championship in 1957. years, it is hoped the athletes will ~;.::10:=-:a:...~:.·.·.:.:...I Several players from this small be talked about 200 years from school started their way to the now by those who continue to 1906 . SUNDAY AFTERNOON PRACTICE • Pictured as they enJoyed an afternoon game In baseball · big leagues but never believe that those who came before .,. Doocl McMaster, Harry McMaster, Jim Marain, Eldo Jonas, Howard Fle~her, Will Domlck, made the big time . Injuri~~~J,t.~-UW-fl>J_Ibsm:_who fol; Cltc!e Roush, Tom MiddletOn, and ClarertC!."!i~~9!1; - . ..... "" • ...,.... r•·· ., ...... • • • • • • • .. rneiffi •tlliJTltfS"' ~n'V'e1irea some lowed. . 4 , �Editloa, July l, 1997 • Saluting Miaaleport during its. ~icentennial 1191-1991 AMERICAN GENEUL LIFE and . ACCIDENT INSUUNCE COMPANY , . ' Life • Medicare • Cancer • Fire • Health • Accident • Annuity, IRA • Mortgage Rocky Re · McDonalds 423WeetMaln Hupp, DeCeUe e Agent ·Box 189 Middleport, Ohio 45760 .(614) 843·5264 Pomeroy 992-5800 ;fflibbleport . ®n~our · -~itentenntal' ed from Middleport High School, ending an era for the Middleport school system. In 1970, the consolidated Meigs High · School building at Rocksprings was opened; and the high school building in Middleport was convetted to the junior high school building still operating at that site. The current elementary school building in Middleport houses primary grades . . ' · AB ·Cutting.Cellar INSURANCE Pomeroy 992·3985 80 Race'et. SO ACHIROPRAOOR IS REALLY A FAMILY DOOOR? Middleport 992-4247 Serving since 1964 . Meigs Couniy . Congratulations · on 200th Anniversary Middleport . CENTRAL BUILDING • Thla photo of the flrat high achool In Middleport waa taken ahortly after It waa opened. It waalat· er rap11cec1 by the building now hou•lng the Meigs Junior High SchOOl. EARLY SCHOQL. A three atory brlck·achool building, hilualng elementary and high achool dlpartmenta, wu built In 1117 on the 1118 of the preaent Middleport poat office. A aepll'ltl "coknd achool" and another elementary building for whltlatuclenta ..,. al...ady In operation at the time thla building wu opened. 1 • HERE school later moved into the building now housinl!)he Meigs Junior High School. The Works Progress Administration allowed for the construction of MiddlepOrt's stadium. located adjacent to the current junior high facility. For a time. this stadium served the athletic programs· of Middleport and Pomeroy. In 1968. the last class gradual- Merrf Anulla17~ Jana • • • I es. 'S WHY. .. new two-story building for black superintencient of Middleport's students, known at the time as the schools. The school for "colored" "colored school," and a similar students was i(affed. for the most building for white children, locat- pan. by blacl> faculty. ed in the lower area of town, in the In 191 S. the cornerstone was area of Park Street. The Park Street laid for the new Middleport High building is still standing. School. which is now known as the The new school was divided "Central Building." This facility into four departments: primary. . was, for several years. used as an secondary,, grammar and high administration .center for the Meigs school. At the time of the new con- Local School District. The high struCtion, ·Rev. H.B. Scott was the . 1797•1997' & ASSOCIATES 108 Mechanic St. In 1867, construction on Mic!dlepon's new sehool building was completed. Described as "large and commodiOus," the three-stOI}'. I ().room facility was located at the foot of Middleport Hill. at the site of the present post office. The building was constructed at a cost of $40,000. At the time the new building was constrUcted, two other schools were operating: a WeAre Proud To Be A Part of Middleport Durinelts · ~t~t Wi~be~ WILLIAMS Middl.eport schools rich in history Dr.N.P. Kimt • • • MO.t people think of doctor• of chiropractic aa aPec:lallata In treating health problema of the back and aplna. And they are, for chlropractora have been extremely effective In rallevlng pain and getting people back on their feet without drug• or ~~. . But doctor• of chiropractic do more. They dlagnoae to determine whether other lllneuea may be related to atructural problema, which often 11 the caM. Chlropractora take an lnterut In your total health and well being. And If I problem Ia Indicated which requlrea apeclallzad treatment, the doctor of chiropractic will refer you to the appropriate h,.lth apeclallat. You can ·depend on your chiropractor aa 1 health 8dvlaor for every member of your family Happy Anni11ersary Middleport •• MEIGS COUNTY CHIROPUCTIC CLINIC .Facemyer (614) 992·2161 Producers of Quality Lumber and Veneer 963 l•••r•l H•rtl.f.r P•kw•r ••••• w. 10111501 . " llhhllepert, Olllo DR. I. P.IIMI L U M B E R 31940 Bailey Run Rd. C. Rutland, Oh. o: 992·5965 =':'"ont: ::.~.: -:oo' ~:..:.::1 now reataln the lobby at the rerncrv Junior High SchOOl. , . SCHOOL BELL" Thll bell II :: port RRST HIGH SCHOOL· The corneratone for Middleport' a flrlt high achool building W81 put 1n place In 1115. Thll building Ia now known 11 the "Centrltllulldlng,• and for eeveral ~,. heM!~ ~ ~lnlltflt!ve operation• of the Melp Local Sch«!!O Olatrlct. . . ........... ._ ....... . ., ................... ., ... _lr' .............. ...... ,........ •• • .. ... ....... ' .,, ~ �. ;; , ,,, ,. Pilat Forty.Slx • Mlddleport Blc:entennlal Edition, July l, 1997 .. ,.. .) . Middleport Bicentennial Edition, July :Z, 1997 • Page Forty-:seven Middleport Lib·r ary ·harkens back to.· 1908 History of -the Middleport opened. Donations and benefit enterLibrary goes back to September, 1908, when a small group of peo- tainments were given. A concert ple met allhe home of Miss Emma was given by Mrs. Clair Graham Rowley, a teacher, and chose sev- Stewart Daniels and another by en ·persons whom they recom- Mrs. Edith Hudson Lord. Both mended to tl>e school board to were natives of Middleport but then lived in Columbus. A total of compose a libra. y 'board. The seven were: the Rev. W.L. $131.83 was realized from the Gladish (pastor of the Church of two concerts.· · This amount carried the library the New Jerusalem), Prof. A. W. McKay. Miss Nella Calderwood, along until March, when it received Miss Emma Rowley, M~. Dan S. the first appropriation from the Lewis, Mrs. Edgar Ervin and Mrs. board of education for the year D.B. Hartinger. 1909< The amount was $357.64 . The school board appointed This bought a few books and paid those seven persons as a library the current expenses. board and it became their responAt that time the board began sibility to acquire ·both books and . corresponding with the Carnegie funding for a facility. Corporation o( New York with The first step was an entertain· · regard to a building. · menl and 1\ook reception in Coe's It was during these years that Opera House, then located . over many libraries were being buill all what used lO be Evans' Market. · over the United States. The public was invited and admisCertain stipulations were necsion was a book or books. essary: one was that Middleport The result was about 200 books pledge to the library a yearl~ which were stored by laniern light income of one-tenth of one percent that same night in a vacant room of of its taxable property which Dr. Hanlin's office until a suitable amounted to. $750 and the other room could be secured. that Middleport furnish a suitable Miss Emma McQuigg of site. Pomeroy became librarian and the After the village agreed to these Middleport Public Library was conditions, the corporation agreed ., , '' ' ' ~ -· '· • •' to give one percent of the assessed valuation of property in Middleport for a building. The valuation was $750.000 so the corporation gave $7.500. With no nioney available for purchase of a lot. a house-to-house canvas Was done with the result that enough -- and some to spare · - was raised. The lot was bought off Emma, Ida and Augusta Van Duyn at a cost of $900. With the pledge and the lot in its possession, the library board next secured the service of Charles P. Kircher of Athens as contractor. Mr. Kircher cqmpleted the building in the fall of I 912. By December the books were at home in the new library. Middleport had received a real Christmas gift made possible by the generosity of her own people together with that of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. · Three months later. a catastrophe occurred --the 1913flood with five feel of water on the main floor. Miss Cora Cook, now Mrs. Arthur Stuan of Charleston, W.Va., was librarian. By her efforts. and with the help of two men. the Henrys of Clifton. the books were stored in the anic and the furniture was moved to the Pres~yterian Church. . The Rev. I.L. Dungan, at that lime a member of the board, through a photo taken when the flood was al its crest and a leller, persuaded the Carnegie Corporation to come to the library's aid with $600, the approximate cost of repa1rs. In January, 1937, came another flood similar to the ·one 24 years before except il lacked 12 inches of being as high. The books were again stored and the furniture raised a linle higher than the flood of 1913. In 1966 the Pomeroy and Middleport libraries came under one administrative district known as the Meigs County District Library. Funding was changed in 1986 by the Ohio Legislature and now tomes through the Library and Local Government Support Fund. CLASS OF 1107 • Graclu8tlng from high 1Chool wila a major accompllah- ptlat",menta. Plctl,ridleft to right ere Byron Grlmea, (no flrat nama) Mluch, Aclda ment In the •rtv 11C10a. Only four Mlcld..,_. atuc1enta complelad the requn. · Flllher, and George Berg. · · menta In 1108 and thla formal ~ waa held to r.c:ognla lhelr ICCQino ( . WE SALUTE YOU· ON YOUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY . . . .' . ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON - Getting al~sed up and going to the library on a Sunday aftemoon"'Wils a common thing for Mldclleport women. Photographed on the library steps In 1913 just a year after the building was completed, ere from the left: Gen Sherman, Vashti Aetcher, Dorothy Bryant, and Marg Davia. This photograph was found In the collection of Pat Mills, daughter of Mrs. Sherman. l. . From primary care to specialty care. pediatrics to geriatrics. Pile--ant V.tley HospitAl has·a .. faml~ of professionals·" for all your healthcare needs. And to keep you healthy, we have a unique range of fitness programs available at the Welln~s and Rehab Center. • Our first pd~rlty has alwa~ been to take .CAre of our ' patients - to &lve people the tl'eatment tbtey need. . It's at the heart of our ~lsslon of community service and It . , compels us to be the healthcare provider of choice. 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Religion played a vital role in the lives of the early settlers of Middleport. · While religious services were held in homes and business buildings during in the early 1800s, as the population increased, congre· gations grew, and churches were built · The directory of 1874lists nine · churches: Presbyterian Church at the head of Colli, with the Rev. H. B. Scon JlS pastor; The, Free Will Baptist Church, Sixth and Palmer, with the Rev. T. H. Drake as pastor: The Methodist Church, Third between Main and Lincoln, Rev. C. H. Warren, pastor; Christian Church, Walnut and Fourth, Rev. Hiram Woods pastor; New Church, Walnut, lower Pomeroy, witll no regular pastor; Wesleyan Methodist Church, corner of Second and Diamond, Rev. William Raybould, pastor; U,niversalist Church, comer Fourth and Main , Rev. T. H. Druley, pastor; E pis copal Church Society, with services in the Universalist Church, Rev. C. P. Maples, pastor; Baptist Church (colored) adjoining the school buUding. on Mill, Rev. James· Ferguson pastor; The A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, comer Fourth and Elm, Rev. J. H. Bell, pastor. Today Middleport has 16 churches. succession of pastors and in 1896 nized in 1861, but due to the Civ· under the leadership of J. H. Rick- it War, the building was not con• man, the "vestibule was complet- structed until 1866. The lot was ed,the church papered, stone curb- purchased at the comer of Sixth ing put around the lot, and debt to and Palmer Streets from Waterman Palmer and a 30 x 50 feet building the tower paid off." A noted Biblical pastor,. Rev. was completed and dedicated Oct Strauss pastored the church from 28, 1866. It was known as the Freewill 1901 to 1904, and it was reponed that the church during his paStorate . Baptist church imtil1912. In 1916, prospered spiritually .and numeri· it was incorporated as The First callv. Baptisms were held at the Baptist Church~Middleport after joining the Oh1 Baptist Conven· lower landing of the Ohio River. The Sewing Circle, which later lion. According to church reco~ds, became the Missionary Society, was organized and the first presi- the church grew rapidly and in dent was Kathryn Hudson, grand- . 1909 had added a hundred new mother of the late. Helen Harper. members. To accommodate the growth, First secretary was Bertha Owens the old building was tom down and Jackson. a new one started. World War I In the mid-1920s the chur.ch the work on the new builddelayed was completely remodeled, a baseing and church services were held ment was added, along with new in a 1~1 movie house and in the .pews. Numerous other improve- · Central School building until the ments have · been made to the building through the years under . church basement could be finished. The new building was com- . the leadership of many pastors and pleted and dedicated debt free in through the dedication of the mem1923, records reveaL bership. Of interest in the church's hisFor the congregation there have tory is a contesi which took place been many events to remember, · but, as stated in the church history in 19~. The Baptists joined the Meth , Presbyterians and the "far outweighing the struggles and sacrifices of the past have been the · Church o Christ in a contest involving primarily the men's many accomplishments and the classes. The Baptist men won the commitments to Christian living." contest with an enrollment of 225. · Pastor is now Gilbert Craig, Jr. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN HEATH UNITED METHODIST The First Presbyterian Church Heath United Methodist . of Middleport was organized ori Church, known as the "Church May 27, 1855, with a charter by the Highway" due to its toeaMT. MORIAH BAPTIST lion on busy Third Avenue, is The Mt. Moriah Church had its membership of 25, but the history carrying on more than 150 years beginning in a building on the hill goes back to 1845 when it is of Methodism in Middleport. near where the Middleport Post recorded Presbyterians were The brick Gothic structure Office is now located .. sometime among the Christians who formed Union Sabbath School Class for spans the years from Methodism's a . in the mid-1800s -- and was called Sheffield and Middleport. humble beginning in a small frame the First Colored Baptist Church of No regular pastor served the .. house in Coalport (upper MiddleMiddleport. · 1859 port) to the present edifice located church until 1865. Between It was located just off Mill · and 1861 the lower room of the on Third and Main. The history of Street near where the old high church was constructed. This room the church can be traced from its school stood, now the site of the for all church services until · appearance in the village someserved post office where between 1837 and 1849. the building could be completed. The earliest records of the con~tory goes that dissension The Civil War made further conThe gregation go bilck to Aug. 15, 1874 arose in the Coalpon house and the and list the organizers as Rev. struction difficult, but by 1869, the congregation dedicated the upper congregation split a few. years tatStarks and Rev. James Ferguson of the church. er. The group that left bu1lt a frame auditorium who was called to pastor the structure on the present site which The church bell, still in use, was church.• The records show that "the purchased for $125. It was not new was purc)}Bsed •from Waterman Palmer. tw!Was _w1th the encourclerk of this church on the hill was but had been used.on a riverboat. 1900 the an glass windows in agement of Unah Heath after In a white man by the name of P. the sanctuary were installed at a whom the church was named. Hugg, who also owned a drugstore . cost of $50 each. At that time, also Records show that · the early near Second and Cole Streets." :;peautifully fres· years of the church were not easy. the ceiling was In December, 1878, ihe church coed." That fresco was later cov"Strong prejudice existed in the purchased for $500 from James ered and more recently uncovered town and comm\lmty agamst Stewart and Emma Stewart the real Me~odism with its. 'grace, for all,' estate on which the present church duri~g some repair work. Andrew Camegio, known for the Amen comer, the anx1ous is located. his contributions to the building of seat,' and its robust singing ofWesThe cornerstone for the new · libraries, also helped the church ley hymns;" one historian wrote. building was laid in 1878 under the The church outgrew the frame auspices of the Blue Ridge Lodge purchase the pipe organ, still in · building and the present brick of GWC ofF of Midlllepon, assist- use. The cost was $1,100. In 1914 an addition was built church of Gothic architecture was ed by lodges from Point Ple~nt and Gallipolis. Rev. P. H. Withams, onto the building and the distinc- built in 1906 containing three large stained glass windows; memorials pastor, gave the principal speech tive an glass canopy was added. The Rev. Kris Robinson has of members. for that ceremony, the church his· been pastor of the church since · Records note that the church tory records. 'l1IRe years later, in 1881 at the 1990. was plagued by loss of funds when dedication services the name "First' the MiddlepOrt Bank failed and FIRST BAPTIST Colored Baptist Church of Mid· twd disastrous flood occurred in The First Baptist Church of 1907. Despite the problems, the dleport'' was changed to "Mt. Middleport, currently pastored br church was completed and the Moriah Baptist Oiurch." The next several years saw a the Rev. Mark Mouow, was orga- dedication took place in Septem- '- THE Mt. Moriah Baptist Church was organized sometime In the mid-1800's and the congregation's first church was on the hill above where the Mlddlepor1 Post Office now stands. The present church was built In 1878 at the comer of Main and Fourth. ber, 1907. The Rev. Vemagaye Sullivan is the current pastor. vices. The.tlarsh realities of unstable families, social turmoil, and the lack of Christian training led the . church to construct a Family Life Center containing a large kitchen and banquet area, additional clas.srooms, a gymnasium, and a walking track. 1be center also contains a stage with lighting and sound systems for audiences up to 500 people. AI Hartson has .pastored the churc;h for the past 14 years, and Bill Frazier, youth minister, has served the congregation for five years. MIDDLEPORT CHURCH OF CHRIST The hist(>ry of the Middleport Church of Christ spans more than .150 year bul always focused on .the_ needs of the entire family unit. Because of this focus, the history of the church is a history of growth in the congregation and the building. The church was founded during the Restoration Movement in· 1838 at the head of Walnut Street. By 1889, the church outgrew its building so a new church was conASH STREET structed at the current location. FREE· WILL BAPTIST God's family continued to grow Middlepon's Free-Will Baptist at its new location, and by 1914, it Church marked the bicentennial was necessary to increase the size year of Middlepon's founding wlth of the sanctuary and to add more the construction of a new church Sunday School classrooms. These building under the leadership of its additions led to more growth in the · pastor, the ~ev. Les Hayman. Located on the comer of Ash congregation. To accommodate this increase, another addition was and An Lewis Streets, the 104 l!:Y · built in 1971 containing even more .60 feet structure was used ror tile .classrooms, a fellowship hall, and · .first time on Easter Sunday, · an overflow area. · when the 191 people who came By the 1980s, it became obvi- wouldn't fit into the sanctuary of ous th11t one minister could hot the old church on an adjacent .lot. handle all the needs of such a large The free-will Baptist church . congregation. A youth minister was established in October, 1964 was added to the staff. To seat the by Rev. Noel Herrmann -and his growing number of memberS on wife Edith Herrmann. 1be first serSunday mornings, it also .became vices were held in a small rented necessary to have duat worship ser(Continued 50) on·Page �f'llle Fifty • MlddleJIOrt Biceateaalal EcUUoa, July l, 1!197 ·' Bicentennial Edition, July l, 1!197 • Religion .a major role in lives of Middleport residents (ConUnuecl from Page 49) er Baptist Association raising most OLD BETHEL FREE WILL for the county and opened Tiny HOBSON CHRISTIAN of the money for the work, and Mr. Old Bethel Free . Will Baptist Tech in May, 1983. There was a FELLOWSHIP and Mrs. Lawrence Smith of Church was built in 1901 and was Hobson Cljurch of Christ in great response from the communiClifton, W. Va. donated the bell. ·a Methodist Church for over 50 Christian Union was built in the ty and several hundred children The Rev. David Bryan pastored years. 1930's. · have received a traditional educathe church from May 1985 to Due to a decline in · the One of the first pastors of the tion boost by attending Tiny Tech. August 1995 and it was during that . Methodist congi'egation the church church who described it as a "fun-· Through the years the congretime that the Hoffman lots beside was closed in the 1950s and damental blessing soul winning gation has provided a strong Sunthe church were purchased and a remained empty un_til it was place" was the Rev. Everette day School program and provided new church building was complet- repaired and reopened in 1984 by DeLaney. transponatioit to and from 1the ed. Current pastor of the church is Rev. Noel Herrmann and a conchurch. Home Bible study courses Several years ago the name of the Rev. Richard Oliver. · gregation of Free Will Baptists. been taught in homes across have the church was changed to Hobson Regular Sunday and midweek . Christian ~llowship Church, hold- •the county to educate those outside · REJOICING LIFE services are now held at the church. ing fast to the same fundamental the congregation. Programs to give The Rejoicing Life Church ·of direction to youth have been car- . doctrine as before. Middlepon held its first service on The church is currently without " ried out by the church. Jan. 13, 1980 in the old Middlepon A special project of the congrea pastor. FAITH CHAPEL OPENBmLE bpkery on Nonh Second Ave. gation for many years has been Faith Chapel Open Bible MIDDLEPORT. · It was only a shon time before parking cars at the Meigs County Church was founded in July, 1994 PENTECOSTAL that Lawrence Foreman, while sitFair. The dedicated membefS give ting in a local restaurant in by Rev. Michael Pangio, whose Rev. and Mrs. B. L. B.arrett 11n entire week to working on the · PomeJoy; said that God spoke to ministry has spanned more than 20 carne to Middlepon in the middle · project, many taking vacations him about starting a church. The years over several countries. 1950s from Huntington, W.Va. to from their jobs to assist in the For 10 years he pastored aneth- establish a Pentecostal church. first pastors were Bob and Marsha church fund raising project. Hollies. At that time the congrega- er church in Middlepon. Now JivAfter holding services in two Presently the directors of the tion consisted of 20 people. Today . ing in Youngstown, he founded different locations they finally congregation meet on a monthly Faith Chapel Church as an exten- located propeny at 873 South basis to work on ways of better there are 120 members. In I 983 .the churclr bought the sion of his apostolic ministry. The Third Ave. as permanent residence serving the community. Op Sept. 7, the congregation · old adjacent McMaster's hardware resident minister is Rev. Richard for this congreaation. building and then in October, 1987 Vermillion. will celebrate the 16th pastoral Holding services in a building anniversary of the Rev. and Mrs. HOPE BAPI'IST purchased the old Royal Crown only large enough to house 30, 'they Hope Baptist was started as a . Bottling Company across the Baker. "Despise not the day of small built a one floor structure next door missionary arm of the French City street. After extensive remodeling -beginnings" was the motto of Faith that would also house Sunday Baptist Church and the Rev. Bob- ' the congregation mowed into its Chapel as they began the ministry school classrooms and . a larger CHURCH OF THE ?YElkins was the pastor. new facilities in early11988. NAZARENE in rented facilities. Now the church sanctuary. Due to health reasons, The fmt Sunday of April 1976 ~wrence Foreman and Mike has grown and purchased its own The church was founded in the Barretts resigmldllhe church to fBW the stan of Sunday school and Foreman pastor the church. . building at'tbe comer ofThird and Rev.-and 1928 on Locust Street (now Gen. Mrs. Knittle. ,vorship services at the home of In August of ' 1986 Rejoicing Ash Streets in Middlepon. Hartinger Parkway) where Dr. · Knittle saw the congregation rastor Elkins, corner of Seventh Life opened a Christian School. James Schmoll now has his optomThe century old building has through a time of great church etry office and the firSt pastor was f!d Main Streets. Today the school employs three growth resulting in the construction The Howell propeny on Grant full-time teachers and has 33 stu- housed various organizations and of a second floor with a new sanc- Rev. Perry Rood. itreet was purchased and the first dents in grades kindergarten businesses through the years. 'The tuary. After II years as pastor, he There are few early records of ftrVice there was held in OCtober through 6. Patty Asbeck is the church is in the process of repair- resigned and the Rev. and Mrs. .the church history, but as nearly as l976 with the Rev. Quinton Rose administrator of the school which ing the historic ·structure to Clark Baker took over the ministry. can be determined through conpreaching the revival. The house is entering its 12th year of opera- improve its appearance in the comIn 1983 the congregation saw a versations with members who were munity. ~as remodeled with the Blood Rivtion. need for an early learning center (Continued on P-ae 51) hoUSe located at what is now the parking area behind the Faith Chapel on Ash St. The church moved.to the current propeny located on the comer of Ash and An Lewis Streets several months later when it was offered for sale. A small four-room house there and two large lots were purchased from the VanCoony family living there. The little house was modified to three rooms. One large room became the sanctuary and the two smaller class rooms. ·A concrete block building was built in 1972 and additional land was added to the church's property. The steadily growing congregation out grew the building necessitating the construction of the new church on the back lots. The concrete block building has now been tom down to make larger parking area · Motto of the church is "You are a visitor once, the next time you're a pan of the family." ' a • ' THIS picture of the Men's Clasi at the Middleport Presbyterian Church was taken In about 1915. .Religion a·major role in -uves _ o f ~iddleport residents (Continued from Page 50) June 19, 1966. The dedication ser· there at the time and tlje few.exist- vice held by District Supt. Rev. ing records, the church moved to Harvey S. Galloway: In March, 1996 construction 5 18 Pearl Street after a few years. Later its home was on South began on the present church at the Founh St., where the American intersection of Grant Street and Legion Post now makes its home. Gen. Hartinger Parkway under the It later moved back to Pearl Street, leadership of the current pastor, and plans were formulated for the Rev. Greg Cundiff. The first service was held in the church on building of a new church. Construction of a new church at August 4, 1996, and the dedication 556 Beech Street was beguri in the service was conducted on Oct. 6, summer of 1963. It was designed 1996 with Dist. Supt. Dr. Richard by local architect Ruth Gosney and Jordan officiating. The new location is much largconstructed by volunteer labor. er, (6,700 sq ft), with paved parkRev. Roben F. Styers was instru· ing space for seventy-five cars. The · mental in the church construction sanctuary will seat 160. There are effort, as was Rev. Clyde Bartlett, five Sunday School rooms and a pastor at lhc time of the dedication, nursery along with the secretary's office and pastor's study in the east wing. The west wing is a large fel- · lowship hall and a kitchen. Membership stands at 58 and growing. Ah emphasis of the church is missionary work. . ... VICTORY BAPTIST INDEPENDENT On Nov. · 19,. 1977, the Rev. James Keesee, just fresh out of the Massilon Baptist College, moved with his wife and seven children to 1\Jppers Plains and began holding church services in their living room. At the same time he started J&L Insulation to suppon his family. TIE THE MEl~ CO HEALTH DEPARTMENT FABRIC SHOP • 0 Wouft{ .Li~ fJ'o '£~tend Congratulations Would Like To tTo ::Mit£ifeport On Its .\'_~ •• " -~ ... -- f}Jicentennia{ CeCe6ration. '· · IN 1822 MYeral of the·churches I Middleport had a contest io He who could enroll the molt In the men'a claues. The Middleport First Baptlat·won ttie cOnteet wllh 225. Here Is pictured the Men's Cless of the Middleport Church of Christ • • .. 1, ................................. 1 , ~. , , •• ,,. ' ' . 1 ~J f( o# 4J_•- 1 -1 . .·\•;•,_,,'.,'·,,·.-, .. , ... '.'i•'~ :.a.•-~·-• -------~ ••• --- .. -~---·~•-r• .,_. .. ,.,. . __ ·'··· ' . .fltr.,Jtf'a.•.rr•"* ... ..,.~ .. ,._. ... _ , , •• , , , ., • . . . ..,..,,.,. .. ,...., .,. . . ' Stop By For All Of Your Sewllig Needs 110 W. MAIN · The years were good to the Keesee .Association. · family and in 1994 Rev. Keesee was able to tum the business over · MIDDLEPORT HOLINESS . to a_son, an~ begin his full time The Middleport Holiness mmtstry. . Church located at 75 Pearl Street The history of the Victory Bap- was built in July, 1977. tist Church goes back to 1980 Rev. Odell Manley was pastor wheri the Keesees purchased the at the time of its begin!'ing. The Nonh Second St. and Bryant Place Rev. John Neville has been pastor propeny on which the church now since 1992. stands. In 1993 the propeny at Ill At thai time the old LeMaster Pearl Street was purchased for use Feed Mill o~ the propeny was con- as a church parsonage. vened into a church. Services were conducted there from 198 I to 1987' MIDD...EPORT when the new church was built COMMUNITY with some help of the Baptist Sam Anderson, pastor. Builders 'of the Southern Baptist 992·2284 Congratulate ·Middleport On Its Bic~ntennial Celebration! 614-992-6626 8to4 Pomeroy, OH �·l"ffl ~ vhtf. "~lriPJ1 h'r"'~'""''" l"tntr.IIJI>it1· nw"f-'rlltl"Sl.,.. ' . Middleport floods: A pictorial history· ' .A-.-·· ...-------------1 '907--~........._ _ _ _ _...., • Middleport Blce•tennlal Edltioa, July 2, 1997 • Pqe F1fty·Tlane Middleport floods: A pictorial history ....---------1913 (continued) \ .. ca Cl) lr----~-1937-----, ~ . . I' 1807, 1813 encl1837- thoee wwe yeaN the ordinarily tnlnqull Ohio River ceme lntQ town. On or around Mey 28, 1807, the river crested In MiddlepOrt .. 61.5 ... - enough to flood the downtown ...... The two greet floocle of 1813 encl1837 uw the Ohio River riM to 18 fwt, llelahb a yet unmatched, . Flood etage In Middleport Ia 52 fMt a compei'H to 48.5 IMtln Pomeroy. / ';( Cl) ...... "T . J: ~ "'~·-· ""'"·· ,.'i ., l'< ...... ~· Cl) '( ....d ::\ ,. ~ "~ ... -~ ,, > .0 ~1· ~ ··-.; <:.~ C) c -c J-~ ~<). ' ; <;'-.: • • M I.&J a.t.tteo-a"1; THA,., ...~-~ • 1~ Eaat Secotld Street .. . ' '• ' ,. ··-0 o· -u. • Pomeroy tl24ttf ··~··"·-~·~ . ~ ... VIew of North Second Avenue with Mlleonlc Temple (Temple .Theater) on right. VIew looking up Mill StNet from porch Iabove Martin-Roller Dl'ugetare (1837). �Organizations flavor Middleport•s past BY CHARLENE HOEFUCH Sentlne~ Newa 8tatr The many social, literary, and fraternal organizations which sprung up in Middleport during the early 1900s added flavor to the lives of those who lived there •• particularly the women, most of whom were stay-at-home wives and mothers. . · They turned to literary and music clubs, as well as civic and ·•· - service groups to find their niche, to develop intellectually and socially, to gain recognition among their peers. It was a time when women joined with other women of similar interests for activities which not _,...,_.- .........!"..'"''.,._....,...~-· ,.__ · YMCA- The Young Mln'a Cbrlatllln Aaeoclatlon ftourlahed In MiddlePort In the ..ty 1100a under the eponaorahlp of the K & M Railway. The YMCA building W118 on North Sacond StrM1 ·1n • bul!dlng which lallar burned near whent the Ohio River S.r Co. Ia now locnld. only enriched their lives, but those the end of the club year in May, a · of their families. community program was.presentProgram books from those ear- ed. ly literary and music clubs tell a On May 8, 1931 the Women's story of e)\tensive presentations on Music Club presented their junior the part of large memberships. musicians in "Mother Goose's May One of the village's oldest Festival". Ruth Entsminger was enrichment societies was the Mid- Mother Goose, Anna Mar~aret dlepon Literary Club, organized in Hayes was Mother Hubbard, and 1894 and still active today. Jack White was in the role ot Old Meetings for the past I 03 years King Cole. Thirty-seven children have been held on alternate had parts in the musical pre5entaWednesdays from October to May. tion. Masonic lodges were among the Membership was limited to 45 active members and the Constitu- earliest. fraternal organiZations of lion called for book reviews to be Meigs County, some going back to not less than I 5 minutes nor more 1825. The Middleport Lodge was than 30. chartered in 1866. Jennie Bradbury Hanlin was the In 1913, Evangeline Chapter first president. 172, Order of the Eastern Star, was . Another popular organization instituted and Julia Grant Boggess was The Women's Music Club of · was elected wonhy matron, and Middleport which was organized in John Reuter, worthy patron. The 1923 and continued for many years chapter was granted its charter on with great cultural contributions to Oct. 26, 1904. the community. Among active fraternal organiThe constitution adopted at the zation of Middleport in those eartime the club was organized lists as ly years was Fides Lodge, Knights its objective "to develop the musi- of Pythias, which produced for cal talent of its members and to many years the Sunflower Minstimulate musical culture in Mid- strels. dleport." · The Young Men's Christian First officets of the club were Association, sponsored by the K & Norma Hecox, president; Mildred M Railway, had its headquarters on Kerr, vice president; Julia DeMine, Nonh Second Street and was a secretary, Elsie Chambers, treasur~ popular gathering place for Mider, and Vesta McCoy, choral dim:- dleport's young men. tor. These groups, and others, with That first year 55 Middleport goals of contributing to the culturwomen were on the roll of active al and social climate of the commembers. munity marked Middleport as a The club was noted for encour- highly desirable place to live in the aging junior musiciaJ!s. and ()f\en at early 1900s. . Middleport Literary Club celebrates a century of literature "Why stay we on this earth unless to grow," by Browning is the mono of the Middleport Literary Club which organized in 1894 and has been active for the past I03 years. · With an objective of "mutual · improvement and culture of its members" the club has mel all · those years, uninterrupted, on alternate Wednesdays from the ftrst one in October through the end of May. Its goal has been to provide an first presidenl was Jennie Bradbury atmosphere for the intellectual and Hanlin. social growth of its rnembers and Listing of lhe presidents has the encouragemenl of enterprises been a traditional part of the proto beuer the community along lit- gram booklets so lhatthe names of erary and social lines. all I 03 presidents remain familiar On Oct. 2, 1994 the club cele- to current members. brated "A Century of American LitThe club colors are two shades erature" al the historic home of of green, the flower is the carnaJeanette Thomas with a silver tea. tion, and the song is "America." Several of the members 'came in Members are elecled by secrel perioo costuming lo represent past ballot with a two-thirds majority presidents of the club. Many for- being required. mer members and/or their descenPrograms through the years dants, from across Ohio, and as far have been preserved by several away as New Jersey and Califor- members. Pal Mills is the owner of nia, came for the centennial cele- her mother's collection, Mrs. R. M. bration. Sherman, whose books dale bl!ck The original constitution of the to the mid-twenties. The earliest club remains virtually unchanged book still in exislence is for the since it was adopted in 1894. Th~ 1913-14 club year. held Easter egg hunts for the children, had charge of the Easter Seal sale, worked with the Meigs County Crippled Children's Society, contributed to the swimming pool, and spol)sored athletic and academic recotnition banquets . It has also been active in the Rotary International education activities, including fellowship and exchange sludent programs. Vickie Spencer was lhe club's first Rotary graduate fellow. She went 10 the University of Bielefeld in Germany to study linguistics. · Under the leadership of Jennifer Sheets, the student exchange program has become very active. This year's outbound students have been Mike Parker who went to Costa Rico and Mica Haynes to Denmark. Alma Loaiza returned in May to her home in Mazatlan, Mexico after spending .a year in Meigs County. Hal Kneen, Meigs County Extension Agent, is the current president of lhe club which calls on its members to practice the four- . way test: I) Is it the truth? (2) Is it' fair to all concerned? (3) Will it build goodwill and better frieqdsbips? (4) Will it be beneficial to all concerned. • ., • • • • • • ,.. .... ~ ········~··· ~ OLDEST MEMBER • Helen Coaat Hayes Ia the oldest In y~rs of rnemberahlp of the Middleport Literary Club. She joined the club in 1932 and has maintained continu· ous membership since then. JD AUTO SALES EGG HUNT- Service projecta heve always been an Important part of the Middleport-Pomeroy Rotary Club progeam. From the Mrly 1140s to the ..ty 1110s the Club~ an Eutw egg hunt and hundreda of.,. children came. In the ..ty ,_,. It wn held at the park beside the . poet office. Latar It moved to General Hartinger Pft. Thla plctuw. .... during the early 1HOa at the Eutlir egg hunt held In the Pllrk near the poet office, now s•wart Bam.~~ til..., Park. .... ·-----· , .... ., ·-. II~ em Middleport Rotary Club organized 68 years ·ago It was on Feb. 11, 1929 when the Middleport Rotary Club members met for their charter meeting in the Knights of Pythia hall in Middleport. Officers elected that night were J. H. Grate, president, Tom May, . vice-president; Paul E. Bean, secretary, and John Downi,ng, treasurer. , Other charter members were Harry R. Barnes, H. E. Cooper, Thomas H. Davis, Rodney Downing, Ralph M. Howell, E. F. Maag, R. A. Miller, Charles F. Rathburn, B. H. Rawlings, M. C. Roller, Otis Hugh Stewart, and Curtis B. smith. The Club has been in continuous existence since that organi~­ tional meeting. In 1954 the name wa~ changed to MiddleportPomeroy Rotary Club and all Meigs Countians became eligible for membership. Through the years Club meetings were held in several different looations but in May 1945 they were moved to Health. United Methodist Church. now the "per" manent" home of the local Rolary Club. All through the years the Rotary Club has remained dedicated to community and service projects. For ~ than SO years the club PORTRAYING PAST PRESIDENTS· For the centennial celebration In 1994 memberaln perl· od coatuming took the peraona of peat prealdenta. Included In the coatumed group were .from the left, Phyllis Hackett, left as Flora Grimes Talbott, 1904-05, atanding taft; Pauline Horton as Jennie Bradb.u ry Hamlin, first preaident, 1894-95; Maxine Coata Gaskill, •• Elizabeth Hartinger, 1911-12; and Pat Holter as Margaret S. Hobart,1906-07, ...ted; ~nd atandlng, from the left, Jeanne Bowen as Beulah Burdette Jones, 196G-61; Betty Fultz aa Clara Crary Hen· neasy, 1929-30; and Sister Fidell~ Bell aa Helen Smith Lloyd, 1963-64. • •. ,. .. ., ..,, .. ~ ...... .: ..... - ...... .;-'!'.:•,.,• ........ !'.,., ' ••• ·~-.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .., . .............. ' .. " ................ " . . . . . . .$ •..r. . . ••. 'would .e to Congratulate Middleport on its Bicentennial Celebration! 500 Ptfaln St. Pomeroy, Oh 4 992-7322 Ministerial A~soc.latl~t'\ Standinc to1ether: -for the cause of Christ W orkintJ totJether: -to make our community a better place to live because .of Christ. Loo.kift& together: -wiih an unwavering hope to life eternal in Christ. The Middleport Ministerial Association exists for the .purpose of exalting Jesus Christ. �Middleport Blceateaalal Edition, ORA'rORIO PERFORMED • Felix MendeiSiohn'a Oratorio "Saint Paul" wea per· formed II the Preabyterlen Church, May 30 end 31, 1.1 07 under the direction of 0. H. s-ert. Myrta C.lderwoocl wee the orgenlaL One of the original progr11111 Ia In the collectloil of Pet Milia who had relllllvea In the performance. Sopranoa - • Mra. Edger Ervin, Mra. D. s. Lewis, Clare Davia, C. A. Crary, Mra. Gerald Malcolm, lubelllfyeall, Hettie Flaher, Elale Middleton, Edith Hartinger, Mettle Ewing, Eunice Probat, Mra. J. W. Wolf, Dorothy David, Emma Sauer, EIIDbelh Samervllle, lola Chappelle,\ end Clara Crary. • • In the alto Mellon were Let· Bea-er, •Nennle tie SomervAie, Mra. J. W. Hoback, Core Cook, Edith Walla, Mra. M. A. Oemelne, Hannah Owena, J. B. Burnell, Lucy aogge.., Dee McNaughton, Clare Maeg, Lilian Lewla, Reed Stark, end W. H. Sterk. · lenora _ . D. c. Oevla, John Zelaler, Carl A. Hoff· man, Fred G. Davia, s. L Fermer, Jonathan Burnell, end beSiea were D. s. L-la, Robert Burnell, T. F. Lewla, J. \ • c ·as .. a.. CD .. c w· B. Burnell, Heritage ~----·-· ~Ia, Byron Grlrnea, Horner E. Cook, Guy Thompaon, end .._._--.-;....t. _ Arternaa Wllllema. E4RLV 1900 MINSTRELS· The Sunflower Minstrels, produced locally, were the rage in entertainment lri Meigs County during the early 1900's. The tra~ltional minstrel circle and orchestra wore satin costuming of a colonial design. The shows were staged in the former Coe's Opera House on the corner of North Second and Mill, and then were presented at the Pomeroy Opera House. The minstrels were produced by the Fides Lodge No. 21, Knighta of Pythias. · _ Minstrels, the early 1900s entertainment rage . ,. :.··0;\' (r, ' ''11, 1' I,' , l :,~JI ':I iV('r (//if/. i !1', )r J!J 1.·7· · BUNGALOW PARK· Located in upper Middleport Bungalow Park waa was the location of many activities. In what was described as the "reunion saaaon• the park waa open daY and nigllt. On a souvenir post card from Mildred Wlggina, the park Ia deacrlbed as a place for band concerts and "moving• picture• where old Sotdiel,l were admitted free. The Sunnower Minstrels .pro· James E. Ha~ley had charge of duced by members of the Fides properties, and Herbert Chambers Lodge No. 21, Knights of Pythias, handled tickets. · Middleport, had their beginnings J. B. Downing, Jr. was chairabout I9 I0 and for many years man of the 19 I 5 Olio, a variety provided entertainment in the Bend program called the "Bingville area. Chautauqua", which followed the Those early minstrels were pre- minstrel. Making up the Bingville sented al Coe's Opera House, cor- Band were F. G. Hunker, leader; J. ner of Second and Mill Streets in A. Mayer, cornet, H. R. Barnes, Middleport, and then moved to the aho; C. M. McMaster, snare drum ; Pomeroy Opera House for shows. A. L. Conway, tuba; 0. H. Rust, . The early minstrel shows baritone; W. L. Willock, slide troll)· opened with a parade downtown bone, and J. G. Lewis, bass drum. where hundreds of residents lining Making up the "Famous Chaulhe streets. The performers were in tauqua Quarteue", · introducing costumes, many· designed and "soul-stirring harmony and musical made by Mrs. David E. Darst of extravanganze", were Heritage R. Darst and Darst Costumers in Mid- Lewis, Henry Hennessy, James dleport. Lewis and Earl Middleton. A program of the 1915 season The closing number listed in the - th~ fifth annual season -- lists 1915 program was "Darktown Tom F. Lewis as director of the first Camp Meeting:" It was followed part, and Ferd G. Hunker, director with this statement: "A characterof the second part. istic sketch of times gone by with A 12-piece symphony orchestra no reflection cast on either religion under the direction of Prof_ Jas. T. or race, but clean amusement Lewis accompanied the perform- gleaned from events as we have ers. Robert M. Dawson was inter- c · .loctor. David E. Darst was li sted as ound them . Every effort has been made 10 eliminate anything thai in costumer and stage manager, Hen- · the least manner could be conry Hennessy "'i!S the electrician, strucd as sacreligious." BILLARD PARLOR • The Wellington Billiard Hall located on North Second Street near Mill, waa a man'a place. Women weren't allowed Inside. W. B. Peterson waa the proprietor. ~~!~~F!O:R~A~PICTURE • The man trying to pull the cart, unidentified, smiles for the photographer aa Tom Middleton, Jr., left in the cart, and another unidentified friend sit back and enjoy. ' t:.\ . \f. ·. ...... 1- A DRIVE • Gen Middleton Henry Hennesy and Dorothy Bryant Harley, left to right, ware out for a drive In a touring car .w hen this picture waa taken. It probably waa about 19151n one of those Forda advertlnd by Day and Hogue of Middleport •• the . "blggeat value In automobiledoma today." An ad in a Sunflower Minstrel program pr~ claims that "the Ford will always and under all condition• "ramble right along. • NOVEt ANNOUNCEMENT • Parading through a town was a way of letting rMidents know about upcoming events. This group moving up Rutland Street carrying signs which spelled out "tonight" were app~~rentty announcing a show to tau place that night. The Rutland Street .,.. was t~te'locatlon of many buslnHMSin Middleport In the Mrly 11001. I •••• a .0 I .. '• ········ ···· ' ~ -"·"·-····· ··'" ' .......... - -. �. <. Pap Ftfty-Eigbt • Middleport Blceatellllial Edltloa, July l, 1997 ---The circus came to ·town. --~ r • t t ' I f .. ( • I ._ '· • <' •· I ' ~ f ( I I Middleport Blceateaalal Edltloa, July 2, 1997 • Paae Ftfty-Niae - - - - - - - - O n a Sunday afternoon-------- The Circus Parade' lilllilio~~;ii,;,o;,;.;....J • . It waa always exciting when the circus came to town. Anlmllla, some moving down Second Street In ornat. circus wagons, others walk· lng adorned with lavishly . decorated throwa and costumed rldera, attracted eight· ...,. from around the area. The circus train arrived at H6baon and then the animala and performers pat'IK'.acl through town before the ahowa were presented. · In their Easter boo nets The • mUSIC ·man ·. Pro.ud To Be A Part Of Meigs County! . (.()PYIIIGHT 1!190 · THl KIIQC;lR CO '' At Kroaer, we know everybody is price conscious these days. We Invite you to ~ompare our everyday prices acainst any other food store tn town. tn our Meat'Department, you'll find over 200 kinds and cuts of meat, lneludinc U.S.D.A. Chotce Grain Fed Beef, Sll~r Label Fresh Pork Grade A Poultry, as well as. Choice Lamb, Pnme Veal, and ' tlonestly fresh Seafood. In our Deli·Pastry Slloppe. we have salads. chees~. lunchrneats, as well as. hot foods like fried chicken and a full ltne of fresh·baked I) breads. donuts. cakes. and pies. In the Produce ~nl, we have lite frahcll and fiiiCII qualil)' fnlitallld veachlblcl in Meip County. We've btken. our proCiucc out of lite pecUIC• 10 you &etiO 1Ciecljllll What you Willi. • we·re makinc a ptedp. too. A Pledle to you and to all our neipbors. we·re 80ifll to continue ,io offer you the kind of food store ln which you expect to sh~. Were makl~l it our business to see that you and your famtly are never disappointed with. our . · service. quality or vanety. , • • ' .' • . ' . . ,... f ~ • l ..., ... I . / "Music 'buffs' are not for a season or even a generation. There may be a difference in sounds and popular preference for the m,oment but music is music, and way back 'when' Middleport had an Opera House and music was quite the thing." So wrote f!Jrmer new\paper woman Beulah Jones in a story on Middleport musician, Professor J. T. Lewis, who was given credit for many concerts and musical events which took place in the village before and near the turn of the <;en· tury. Lewis was the father of Lillian Stieff, who was also an accomplished musician and well-known in Middleport music circles. It was Lillian in her declining years that Jones interviewed for an arti- . cle on the illustrious Professor Lewis. Professor Lewis was described by his daughter an an all-around musician, equally at home with classical music or a dance orches' tra. He often gave concerts in Coe's ' Opera House, located on the "T' in ' Middleport, Members of · his orchestra were .Jake Mees, Miss Williams, Berta Osborn, Ed Giboney, and Ed Roush, violins; William Michael, Dane Collins, home McMaster, clarinets; Carl Semple and LOus Goets, trumpets; Fred Ohle, cello; Dan Jones, bass viola; Dick Davis, trombone; Ethel Ping, piano, and Charles Gardner, drums He alsO' had a dance band and many times this included his daughter Lillian at the piano, and his son, James, on the drums. - �Pille Sbty • Middleport BlcaJfMplel f.dldoe, J..,, 2, 1"7... . . • ··~~... • ;' '' 1': • 4 OPEN BOUSE July 4tb so am· 6 pm •Glamour Shots • Walk-ins Welcome ) •High School Senior Pictures Boan• Children • Families T-S 10-6 • Engagements. · • Call for appointments On Sept. 26. l908 Thomas Mid. dleton, a mining engineer, who came to Middleport in 1904 from England, made this entry in his journal: "County local option elec· tlon held today and the drys had a majority of 6SO votes and all saloons in the county will be closed." In the weeks before the vote, a book of "Local Option Songs" containing parodies on familiar tunes written local people was I I Saluting Our · · Neighbors In Middleport on Its : Bicentennial . DOWNING·CHILDS, MULLEN . MUSSER INSURANCE our accomplishments make us proud . to be your energy partner. We're AEP, the same company you've come to know. And your partner for continued success into 21st century. Y me . Serving The Middleport Area · ·For Over 30 Years. We Are Happy To Be APort Of The Historical ·. Bicentennial Celebration. ls Proud To Be A Part Of . Middleport's 200th Birthday! 992-3055 Wishes Middleport . The Best of Luck on its 200th .Year • by Becky 992·3667 · Middleport, OH . .. "Big John" & Bonnie .JOHNSONS VARIETY STORE. Celebration. 112 W. Court St. 992·9985 . Anniver~. ary and VIDEO RENTAL MIDDLEPORT, OHIO 992·23411 \ ·. CongrtJfultJfion.s CO"GRfiTOUITIO"S MIDDLEPORT ZOO YEARS :.~------------~----~--~--~-----------·--~--~ ~, Racine ·Home National Bank CLASSIC CUTS 318 N. 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REMEMBERED - Mergaret Sauer of Middleport, right, pic· tured heN with her alster, Mery,la 1enMimbered In Melga County for her dediCIIted work with the Women'• Chrlatlan Tem- · CROSS POiNTE APARTMENTS . The last verse of the "The Last Saloon Must Go", written by I. L. Dugan to the tune of "John Brown's Body" called for the populace to: "Gird up for glorious battle then, in this heroic day, And Sing as we go marching on, to vote it as we pray, 'Till comes the wondrous morning when the happy land shall say, The last saloon has gone." Conarablldou on 2110 Powerful Years • 992·3381 finn. Officeholders payls established . ~~~~~~~~~~~-----­ ag~ of innocence? ' Middleport East Second · ~l '!'t ..,,.~ ... ,~, tr•· 'l"i t,ll if~ • 't',...·~ · ·;,!! · ~=- 1908 vote closes saloons · Speel1l lr•n• Opening · 271 N. Second Ave. • ,· Congratulations Middleport on .Your Bicentennial Celebration. From your new Photo Fmnds at . "INNOVATIONS" Photography Studio. .. ( _...:' : ' /. ; ... llleelatenlll Edldoll, .Jt!lt 2,'1.997 · < • · Your. Home Bank For Hqme People .)... .... . , .. ~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · - .. .,.- ..... If . . ...... <r . . . . . . . . -. - . ...... • ~-.-· • ..- . . . .. . . . . . . - · ... .. . . > �199'7 Hackett Roofing , Proud to Salute Ohio Inc~ on 200 IJears Would like to Congratulate ·:Middleport 011: · its 20otfi !Anniversary . Celebration. . ' • ' .. ' . . . Middleport Bkeateoolal Edition, July 2, 199'7 • Pqe Sixty·Tbree . Bicentennial celebration scenes .· . ~ !<, . a.monument, a memory • As symbOl of living memories, as .enduring tribute, a monument stands forever. Consultation,·No Obligation Our company thanks tfie community for tfie o.pportunity to serve :MiddlepQrt since 1977. I , · .: · · 'I'fiank you [ocal/g owned and serving the · ' area since 196? 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Mr. and Mrs. Oren Kyger of Gallipolis, for• front, and Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Wlae of Middleport enjoyed the music of the Orlando Columbo Orchestra at the . dinner/dance held In honor of the descendants of James Smith In April. Some 150 people attended the event, held at the · American Legion Hall. Bob Gilmore's original logo, center, was designed to ayrnbollzetheputand g:.=;.,ofla~:~~~ community. Mid· dleport Poatmaa· James tar . Sundquist Ia pictured below with a · glass mural, which formerly uaed to hang In the Peoples Bank buildIng. The twopaned mural will be modified by George Harris and Install~ above the service counter at the post office by Wayne Neff. It features a stylized map of the Ohio River Valley, with river-related artwork highlight· .ad. An unveiling and ceremony reception are being planned for July 4, prior to the Bicentennial Parade. The post office also plena to offer a special pictorial cancelle· tlon In Dave Diles Park on Friday. (See related mate- end FLAGS IN.PLACE • Red, white blue banners provide a friendly welcome to Middleport, as the village celebrates Ita birthday. Here, Chuck Kitchen !natalia o.n e Of the flags. Also pictured are Mary Wlae, Myron Duffield, Tim King, Dick Owen ' and Bill Swisher. r----------:----------1- -, .I ,. a ~ . LC;e;,. . ? • 0 . M . . l ddl . eport ~ ,._ 1 ~....r ~ ("''lllllllt. ~ r~ ..; ' ! • '-e • . · . """'.1 ·· • . .' I The Rejoicing Life Church and . Christian School is. proud to. be a part of .. the Middleport Commillrlty. We are here t,o serve you. ' Pastor Lawrence Foreman invites you to worship on . Sundays at 10 a.m. and Wednesday ·at ·7' p.ni.. 500 N. 2nd Avenue- Tilt on,.-2,) · · • · · · · · · · · ~ · · · Middleport 992-6249 ~----------~~~----------' • �'Ohio-Lottery Reds sweep series With Milwaukee Super Lotto: 15·21·23-30-45-47 Kicker: 54 860-3 Pick 3: 2-9-3 Pick 4: 1·7-8-3 Sportt on Page 4 Moally clear tonight, Iowa In the lower 60a. lndependanc;e Day, cloudy,_ chance of show· era. Hlglla 11t11r 80. · • ent1ne 2 Section•, 18 PlfiH, 35 eonta ..... NO.. Pomeroy-Middleport, Ohio, Thursday, July 3, 1997 01117, ONo lllllt.y Pullllllllng c:omp.ny A~Co.NiiWIFipH Pool to reopen Friday ~ Middleport facility now holds water By JIM FREEMAN Sentinel Nevis Staff While attempting to open Middleport Pool last summer, village offi· cials noticed one remaining problem. It didn~ hold water. But now the pool is filled with water and is expected to be open Friday for the first time since 1993. The pool was scheduled to be open for, the 1996 summer season . after major renovations were com. pleted to the 43-year old stNcture, . but inadequately sealed cracks along the edges of the bottom surface of the pool failed to hold water. . .. ' ' PlleefihiJ•fOIII' • Mldclleport BkuftMiol Edltloa, JIIIJ 1, 19f7 ... overhaul of lhe electrical system and steel reinforcement around the pool. tors found that metal INsses sup- Anew steel and concrete deck extenporting the outside of the pool had · sion for sunbathers was added to the · deteriorated, accord_ing to Mayor south side of \he pool, behind the existing kiddie pool. Dewey "Mac" Honon. . . SAFE SHOPPING - Chool8 your favorltn for your Fourth of The new deck extension will Sc:rve Preliminary eslilnates to repair the July cookout picnic, but retiiiRiber 10 keep perllhable foocla ..t. · ly. Roy and JennHer Brtnldey ahoppld for fresh 1111111ts at ·Powpool were set at $80,000 ancleventu- two purposes, with the top to be.used ell'• Super-Yalu In Pomeroy, above. Freah meats should be takally rose to about $100,000, but vil- for sunb•thers and the area under the en home Immediately and relrlgerltiMl. lage residents and businesses raised deck to be used as a new shelterhouse more than $50,000 _and a grant .was for the_park, according to Honon. seemed from the Ohio Department of · · A new sand filtration system was The pool was closed when inspec- CfJ.Je 9lre Cf>roud Cfo 93e Oeroing Widdlepo~f cpuring Cfhi.s 9/i.sloric 20Qlh ?fear Oj9t.s Cfounding .. <· In the pOol wt,ll better than when It WIS first butlt 10 1953,. By BRIAN J. REED __ Sentinel News s~ . If you are planning to pack the picnic basket or fire up the backyard grill over the upcoming holiday weekend, you should he mindful of.food safety guidelines, especially since the weinher is expected to he typically hot. Hot !Veather increases risk of food spoi Iage, so picnic baskets should be · kept as cool as possible. Insulated coolers help decrease the risk of spoilage, · as do baskets which contain something cold. . · . . • soning, according 10 material provided by the Ohio Slate Universily Ex ten· · sion Service. · Mosl commercially prepared mayos and 'salad dressings con1ain salt and · an acid navoring which actual slow bacterial growth. Actually, mayonnaise added to food slightly prevents food poisoning. Mayonnaise should never be frozen. however. · Mayor Dewey Horton, Rae Gwlazdowskl, Belb Sllven, Saadllaaurelll, Dennla Bockw•a, derk, ud Jolla . NeviUe. Nol plc:lured Is rouadlman Mlck Chtldl. ' ' . 9fnd CWe 9/re E ooking Cforward Cfo Oeroing the Cfiesidenfs 9ls.CWe 9iead9nfo Cfhe , Slrex/ .2 00 etJrs. • ....... ' ., . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. • - .. ... . ' Keep hoi foods and cold foods cold. When purchasing meats and other perishable ilems, make the market your last. stop, especially in the summer. Make cenain that the perishables are the last item you buy, and get them right into the refrigerator or into the ice chest or insulated bag you're taking to the picnic. Perishables should never be left in a ,l!,ot car while you run other errands. . . . · When preparing food, cleanliness is a mus1. Clean hands well befoo: working with food , lf'you're cooking outdoors, and hot water is not available, use wet handy wipes instead. To avoid salmonella and other food-borne bacteria, wash hands carefully after working with.raw meal or poultry and bef~ue !landling other food. . . When serving, never reuse utensils, plates or bowls used with raw food. If you plan to grill out, remember to take what you know about kitchen cleanliness to the grill. A grilling surface should be very clean before food ts placed on it. .· Becky Baer, home extension agent for the Meigs County Agricultural E•tension Service, said that many outdoor cooks operate under the assumption ihat the.flames and high temperatures that come with a barbecue grill llfC sufficient to kill germs. That, Baer said, is a dangerous assumption. Grill users should consult their owner's manual for specific cleaning tips. Grates can be easily cleaned by soaking them in very hot, soapy water, followed by a thorough wiping wilh a damp cloth. As an added precaution, Baer recommended covering the grill with new aluminum foil he fore the grate is in place and the fire is lit. · Cleaning a grill shonly after it has been used and cooled makes the job ea5ier but grill grates should be cleaned before each use. Ha~ling summer leftovers begs caution, as well . Perishables should be returned to a cooler or refrigerator as soon as the meal is finished. They should .pot be left 0111 during swimming or hiking. The passenger area of a car is much cooler than the tNnk. If you were gone no more than four or five hours, and your perishables ; were on i~ except when cooked and served, you should be able to save the leftovers. · Sentinel -to publish Friday The Daily Sentinel will publish an edition on Friday, July 4. The business oft"ICC will be closed Friday and Saturday, and will resume 1101111a1 hoiB'S on Monday . ., •' • ~ .I ,. • • • . Among the repaus was a complete Contrary to convenlional wisdom, mayonnaise is not a bad warm-weath· r Other changes at the pool include installation of new chain-link fenc· ing, repainting of the structure, removal of the· wood frame slairs which led to the top deck ofthe pool, and replacement of the milin steps to the pool deck with steel and concrete steps. Most recently. the Pool People of . Pomeroy closed the joints running around and across the bouom of !he poOl with a synthetic sealer, replac;· to fill the pool because the sealer had to be wet before it would expand and fill thejoints, Horton said . · "This time it filled in about 24 hours," he said. · They stoned Tuesday around 4 a.m. and finished around 2 ·a.m. Wednesda~. he said. Around the bottom of the unusual above-ground pool, Honon showed where water had leaked out during attempts to fill it last year. The • ' et' picnic food, and adding ilto salads does not increase !he risk of food poi- ~, $1 oo·,ooo In renovatlona. Mayor Dewey "Mac" HortOI\, above, polnta to one area - the drain - that pre1ented problems during the renovation . H t h #•d th 0 0 .I ay wea er . . ,::===~~,.~~'::~~~·-~~=·~;~::;~ ;;:::~~~=~~~=~~ ' ~-~r ~. ood sa ~et y· . many~· ~ ca. llS·-~ ~ulation 0~ V' A cold drink, a small plastic dish filled with water and then frozen, or a freezing gel designed specially for keeping lunches cool all help keep food cool and fresh. ' . What foods are best for take-along picnic meals? Commercially precooked : meats like corned beef and bologna are good choices, as are canned meat ; and poultry, whicb can be opened and eaten immediately. Other meats, such as fried chicken, can be packed into a picnic basket, but only if kept cool. Fresh, firm produce travels and keeps well, and washing_it well before ; , packing helps to remove soil you can see, as well as bacteria, viruses and insecticides you can't. · ) ' POOL TO REOPEN- For the first time alnce 1883, Middleport Pool Ia holding Wltllr and ewaitlng the splashing antlca of IIWimmera. VIllage offlclala are hoping to reopen the pool on Independence Day following mora than spotsaredrynow, !epointed. icals each year, with constant recir- years to seal sailing ships). shape for opening. We,dn<OS· and refiltering the water The repair cost around $8,000, day found him and others stockin!( up mthepool-savmg the vtllagemon- according to Honon. ey over the haul. In the past it took about 48 hours on last minute supplies and cleaning. Storm leaves area outages in Its wake Meigs County residents might have thought they were seeing Fourth of July fireworks two days early as a powerful thunderstorm swept through the area Wednesday night, knocking down trees and intenupling electrical service. Powerful lightning lit the night sky and strong winds caused damage to buildings and power lines, especially near the Gallia-Meigs county line. A tornado, or a wind shear, touched down in the Cheshire area, causing lhe closure of State Route 7 in the Little Kyger community due to 71 trees being downed by the winds from the Gen. James M. Gavin Plant to Little Kyger. Robert Dyer, director of Meigs County Emergency Services, said loday that a regulation National Weather Service rain gauge used at the EMS offices in Pomeroy reflect· ·ed a half-inch of rain last night, while . a similar gauge in Syracuse showed · that .4 inch ofrain fell there. . Left in the dark Were 3,()()7 CUS· tomers of American Electric Power, formerly Ohio Power, affected by a power outage at approximately 9 p.m. That outage affected all customers served by AEP's Pomeroy substation, and was caused by a substation line damaged by high winds. Aboul I ,400 Columbus-Southern ·Power customers from Mason to Camp Conley, W.Va., and Pomeroy, Syracuse and Racine were also affected. According to Clarence Robson, -AEPs district line supeFYisor, restor&· tion of service was hampered by trees and the steeple of the Spillman United Methodist Church in West Colum· · bia, W.Va., being wrapped up in power lines used by the Rutland substa· lion. Customers served by that substation , 69 in all, also experienced out· · ages. Those CIISIODimllive in the area from Bradbury to West Columbia. Both CSP and AEP service was restored at approximately 1: IS a.m .. e•cept for power to 360 customers· · served by the Addison substation in the Cheshirt ma. Their power was back on around 8:30a.m. this morning, Ro.bson said. The Rutland Volunteer Fire Department reported to the Dexter Road resideace of Robert Varian after a tree falling on an elecqic line, (Continued on Pllge 3) ..... -· ~ -• ' ,.. - ...- ----· ·~ FIRE SCENE- Shown here are the remalna of the Tareaa and James Eaklna residence on Collegil Road, Syracul8. Mra. Eakins daahed back Into lhe burning hoUM to rescue one of her children In the early moming structure fire. '• Mother saves child from burning Syracuse residence early today · By JIM FREEMAN Sentinel Newa Staff Amother's heroic action saved the life of a 2-year-old girl trapjled in a burning house in Syracuse early today. Acandle being used for light, after a thunderstorm knocked out electri· cal service to the area; apparently slarted the blaze that destroyed the Teresa and James Eakins residence at 1422 College Road, according to a Syracuse Fire Depanment repon. A neighbor, Pam Theiss, thought the electricity was back on when she first saw the glow of the Hames, but quickly realized tbe one-story house was on fire. The family exited the burning structure, witb Mrs. Eakins giving the youngest child, I0-month·old Sarah, to her husband before disappearing back into the house for the next-toyoungest child, Tara, said Theiss. She brok9 out a back window'and passed Tara to a rescuer, stripped off her buminirtop and then went out the window herself, Theiss said. · Mrs. Eakins was transported by the Syracuse· Squad of the Meigs County Emergency Medical Service to Veterans Memorial Hospital 'in Pomeroy for treatment of seconddegree bums to her atms. according to the repon. . The home was totally gutted. After the fire was extinguished, about the only thing left undamaged was a pair of porcelain praying hands. Left homeless were the Eakinses and their two lxiys and three girls, ages 12 years to I0 months. Firefighters responded to the scene around 12:20 a.m. and left around 3:39a.m. The Pomeroy VFD assisted with a pumper truck. The children stayed with Theiss until being laken in by a relative. This was .the second fire for them, Theiss said. "They've got an awfully brave mommy." shC added. l Lightning strike causes fire at Gavin Lightnins struck a 25-foot !all · . morning lhat lightning struck 1he step-up transformer at the Gen. James transformer on Unit 2 of the plant at Gavin Plant in Cheshire, Wednesday approximately 9:20 p.m., during the night, burnil)g for over two hours and huge storm thai hit the tri-county causing extensive damage. area. In addition, during the course of The hit caused the transformer to fighting the fire, mineral oil con· catch fire, sending billows of black tained in the transformer traveled by smoke into the air. Firefighters from · storm drain into the nearby river. the plant brigade, as well as the MidPhil Moye, AEP Corporate Com· dlepon, Pomeroy and Gallipolis fire munications spokesman, said this departments, battled the blaze for ·: over two hours before bringing it under' control. . Moyc said tl1e transformer containe~ mineral oil. whi,ch)Juring the course of fighting the fire was lakcn by storm drain into the river. He said crews immediately set out to control the spill by setting "booms" into the water. · Moyc said a team from th·e plant, (Continued on Page 3) � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 07. July Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Newspaper Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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