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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1957
Page
3
Middleport and Amateur Gardeners Club members note full bloom of redbud trees planted over 25 years. Roadside Park Main Street and outskirts show redbud and dogwood trees as well as crabapple forsythia and Japonica shrubs. Gardeners say flowers and trees are fuller this year despite cold weather.
POMEROY The sentencing of Richard L. Guidos a state liquor inspector from Youngstown was postponed from 2 p.m. today to Friday at 2 p.m. Prosecuting Attorney James O'Brien said Guidos was found guilty last week by Common Pleas Judge Cedric Clark of driving while intoxicated. He was arrested May 22 1956 by Patrolman Ike Neal of Middleport.
A pot luck supper at 6 30 precedes the Ohio Valley Commandry Knights Templar meeting in the Masonic Temple Wednesday evening. The meal is for members and families.
Meigs Countians travel to The Plains for the flower show school with participants including Mrs. James Titus state flower show chairman and Mrs. Robert Reibel regional director. Also present were Mrs. Garen Stansbury Mr. and Mrs. John Kincaid and Mrs. James E. Harley.
Meigs County land transfers include Lola I Bright and C W Bright to O W Meadows Jr and Ruth E Meadows for 100 acres in Salem Township and Jacob W and Ursula Green to Phillip E Long and Chris tena Mathews Long for 164 acres in Rutland.
Chief Leroy Bartrum reports Middleport parking meters yielded 203.70 in coins Monday morning after counting by the police chief.
Mr and Mrs John W Brogan of Rutland Route 1 announce the marriage of their son A2C Donald E King to Eileen Margaret Wallace in England. The March 9 ceremony at Whitton Parish Church Twickenham Middlesex followed by a honeymoon on Jersey Island. King, a Rutland High School 1955 graduate, is stationed at Denham Air Force Base.
Funeral services scheduled Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Fawcett Stone funeral home for Albert O Woodyard 80, former Chesterhill resident. He died Monday at Bethesda Hospital Zanesville. Survived by wife Ethel Farnsworth, five sons Dale Berdell Graydon John Fred, two daughters Leah and Faye, 12 grandchildren three great grandchildren and four sisters. Burial in Zion Cemetery. Rev Walter Moore to officiate. Friends may call.
Luther League of St Pauls Lutheran Church in New Haven will host the district meeting at 3 30 p.m. with members from First Lutheran Parkersburg Trinity Charleston Grace St Albans St Pauls Point Pleasant attending. Ronnie MacGlothlin is president and a social supper follows in church rooms prepared by the Purpose Class.
Funeral services set for Wednesday at 11 a m at Spencer funeral home for Nora R Dexter lifelong Belpre resident who died Monday at home She is survived by husband John a niece Grace Flynn Charleston and two nephews Sell Schoonover Parkersburg and Walter Schoonover Kananga The Rev Oren D Schaffer will officiate Burial will follow at Rockland Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home.
The Kuomintang entered 55 candidates for the 66 member Provincial Assembly and won 46 seats in the Formosa election.
General Electric officials say the replica of Thomas Edison's first practical incandescent lamp will not deliver value per penny. Ralph J. Cordiner lights the lamp, which will burn continuously on Edison’s desk in the lobby of GE’s Schenectady research laboratory, New York.
Mrs Curtis Jenkinson admitted from Millport and Mrs Iva Pearl Rayburn admitted from Minersville to Meigs General Hospital.
Massachusetts becomes the first state to enact an adoption law, setting a national precedent. The move marks a milestone in child welfare and legal custody standards nationwide.
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