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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1951
Page
3
Oakdale Church of God led by Rev J B McClung schedules Sunday school at 9 30 a m and a 7 p m sermon. Zion Union Church at Alberry Ridge with Rev Leona Thompson preaches Sunday at 7 30 p m and Shawnee Mission service Friday at 7 30 p m. Seventh Day Adventist led by Kader B F Mowry offers Sabbath school Saturday at 9 30 a m and worship at 11 a m.
Daniel K. Teater will lead a GLOUSTER Church of Christ program Thursday evening titled Modern Science and the Genesis Record of Creation. He aims to contrast True Science with Speculative Science and restore the Bible to its rightful place as the voice of God in daily life.
The Glouster area churches announce Sunday School times at 9 30 a m and worship at 10 30 a m across multiple congregations including Glouster Methodist Jacksonville E U B Hollister E U B Redtown Free Methodist Mt Carmel Free Methodist Glouster First Baptist and Ferndale Church of Christ offering midweek prayer meetings and youth activities led by named pastors and leaders.
Merrill Davis, guest conductor and Jackson City schools supervisor, lauds the 330-voice chorus for training, discipline, and artistry after their Homeland performance. Seven Meigs County schools performed with uniform dress and polished staging at Middleport High School.
Meigs County transfers show numerous parcel changes. Names include Floyd A. Graves Elma P. Graves to D H Grant and Alice Grant and others in Middleport Salem and Bedford Townships. Several certificates of transfer noted for Pomeroy Middleport and LebanonTownships.
Baltimore resident Robert Tomkins returned last week from a business trip to New Mexico. He spent Wednesday night with his parents Mr and Mrs R E Tompkins and accompanied them to Columbia where he left by plane for the Marshall Islands to participate in developing a Pacific proving ground.
Richard Fisher aged 33 of Pomeroy and Lowell Veitcher aged 39 of Harrisonville received fines of 100 dollars and 30 days in the county jail in a larceny case in Justice of the Peace Percy L. Peoples court. They were linked to removing farm tools from Baxter Carlton farm on February 27 and selling them to a Pomeroy junk dealer for about 3 dollars.
Relatives report Mrs Rolla Young formerly of Pomeroy who underwent major surgery at Grant Hospital Columbus last week is in improved condition.
For March the office of Mayor Sidney A. Spencer reported total receipts of 371.79 dollars. Of this 233.99 was paid into the village treasury with 80.49 from amusement taxes 2 from turnkey service 23.70 from fines 77.80 from State Highway Patrol fines and 50 from tax licenses. Costs totaled 138.79 with 8.30 to Patrolman Russell Bailey 51.70 to the mayor and 77.80 to the state treasury.
The Christian Women's Fellowship of Trimble Church of Christ will gather at the home of Mrs. Fern Johnson on Wednesday at 7 30 p m. All women of the church are welcome to attend.
The Policemen's Ball held Friday night in the school auditorium raised 77 dollars and 75 cents for the police uniform fund.
Mrs Vina Lewis, who had been ill for six weeks at her daughter Mrs Frank Price's home, has returned to her own residence at 30 Spring Street.
Miss Lola Jean Clark a Middleport High School graduate has been named librarian at the Middleport Public Library. Judge Cedric Clark president of the library board announced the appointment succeeding Mrs E G Probst who resigned after serving since the death of Miss Alpha Sommerville. Probst had been linked with the WPA project during her tenure.
A German birthday message for Mrs. Chester Sanborn of Glouster was relayed by Sam Rocowsky in Fairborn to a Columbus station. Her son Sir Thomas C. Sanborn in Heidelberg recorded a song dedicated to her that the station played.
Mrs Eugene Jones and Mrs Gilbert Stephenson leaders of the Glouster Girl Scouts seek donations of a piano for the new troop and a book case or cupboard for storage. Those offering can call X-141 or 1-136.
Arthur Crabtree Columbia Township civil defense chairman announced 23 township residents chosen for the planned civil defense program. They will enroll in a first aid course as the initial training step. Names include Alvin Dye Dale Dye Reed Jeffers Chester Dailey Harry Dugeon Earl Starkey Henry Turner Chester Price Leo Dudgeon William Cheadle Lewis Smith Taylor Moore Joseph Wells Raymond Holcomb George A. Radekin Gerald Reeves Harry Crippen J. J. Butcher T. M. Galaway Ray Woodrum Mendal Jordan Truman A. Penn and Granville Lyons.
Pvt. Donald C Barrett arrived in Jacksonville to spend a 15 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Francis Barrett He is in the Air Force engineers and stationed at Orlando Fla He will return to Orlando April 13 He was inducted on November 1 Mrs Francis Barrett who underwent surgery three weeks ago in Mount St Marys Hospital has returned to her home in Jacksonville
Mr and Mrs Victor Paskievitch of Jacksonville announce the engagement of their daughter Clara to Michael Viktor of Detroit. Clara is a Jacksonville Trimble high school graduate class of 1947 and now works as a secretary at the Michigan Medical Association in Detroit. The wedding is planned for the near future.
A quirky entry describes the New Zealand Bweto as a hybrid table of animal and vegetable elements. It mentions a rat rene afflicted with para gitio 6 fungus ceasing and notes vegetable growths accompanying the strange device.
Evangelistic services sermons Bible study and communion times appear for Christ and Methodist churches in Glouster Bishopville Hooper Ridge Hemlock Trimble Jacksonville. Pastors include Edwin Carpenter Daniel Teater Franklin Cooley. Sunday school times range 9 to 10:30 a.m. Youth groups and midweek studies noted.
Revs. W. H. Strausbaugh of Woodsfield visit parents Mr. and Mrs Roy Strausbaugh in Redtown and Rev. Andrew McKinney in Chauncey. They plan to travel to Zanesville for the Free Methodist district conference Friday to Sunday and return Sunday evening.
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