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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1947
Page
11
State and national D A officers were honored at a Wednesday evening reception in the Pomeroy Senior High School Auditorium attended by about 100 members and guests. Eva Robson opened the program, with Elizabeth Campbell introducing the officers Hilda Bidwell Clara Runnion Pribble Wilson Margaret Datwyler Lucille Hawkins and Freda Duffy. Mrs Campbell presented corsages to each officer.
Middleport Ohio agents John Z Pelton and William Lowe reported shade river fishing was poor last week with anglers averaging one fish in 3.5 hours. Eighty six fishermen caught 61 fish in 207 hours as census data. A local program included soprano Caddie Wickham, a play The Old Acquaintance Quilt with numerous cast members, and a dessert service with carnations and decorative sandwiches.
Bertha Randolph was arraigned in Common Pleas Court on a grand jury indictment charging permitting gambling in a public resort near Reedsville. She pleaded guilty and was fined 10 dollars plus costs and warned not to gamble again. She was to be released upon payment.
Rutland High School will present Marianne an operetta Friday at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The Girls Glee Club will sing folk songs between acts. Soloists are Darlene Wolf and Roberta Price. The grade school song flute class will perform. Maxine Siders is the accompanist and Mrs Cc O Chapman directs.
Pomeroy Public Schools will retain full title to office equipment used in the defense education program. The board now holds title to a dictaphone and dictating machine, a record shaver, a Burroughs calculator, dictaphone records, 25 secretarial texts, and 20 civil service training texts. The items will stay with the office practice class.
The Bedford Thimble Club met Saturday at Colleen Hayes home with 10 members. Older girls and advisors helped with projects and planned demonstrations by Dorothy Hudwell and Evelyn Young for next meeting. Refreshments were served.
Mr and Mrs Harold Lohse hosted a Sunday dinner for Jimmy Lohses sixth birthday. Guests included Dr and Mrs Selim Blazewicz Mr and Mrs Wayne Swisher and children Charles and Barbara Mr and Mrs Wallace Bradford and children Bruce Carolyn and Neda and Mr and Mrs Mays William Bradford with the hosts children Jimmy and Jennie.
Mr and Mrs Reino Ling and son Tommy along with Mr and Mrs Ed ward Hoeflich spent Sunday in Columbus. Jean Thompson assistant supervisor of health and physical education from the State Department of Education Columbus is visiting schools in Meigs County. Mrs Byron Bing of Butternut Ave is a guest of relatives and friends. Mr and Mrs Hugh Graber of Cincinnati arrived Tuesday for a visit with his parents Mr and Mrs Charles Graber and his aunt Ella Hennessy of Butternut Ave.
TUPPERS PLAINS The Olive Orange High School senior class presents the three act comedy Missing One Pair Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. Frances F Malone directs a cast of 17 seniors including Mary Lou Sisson Herbert Osborn Leah Jean Arbaugh Walter Adkins Alice Boring Bernard Marcinko Betty Frost Joan Longenne Denzil Hetzer Argyle Deeter Gladas Bibbee Basil Jeffers Betty Larkin Henry Rockhold Helen Frost Clair Baker and Carol Van Nest.
Pallbearers for Mrs. Mary E. Nuckles included Gerald Rice Cecil Rice Gene Rice Homer Winebrinner Clyde Winebrunner and James Hines. Rev. Charles Pomeroy of First Baptist Church officiated. Interment was in Huntington with a large funeral cortege. Out of town attendees listed from Huntington Phoenix Ariz Point Pleasant Napoleon and others.
The Rev. Charles Selby a missionary spoke Sunday at the Church of Christ in Middleport. He was accompanied by his wife and Clay City Neb parents. Selby plans to depart May 30 for Manila.
A petition for divorce was filed in Meigs Common Pleas Court by Walter Ronald Barber against Alice Edith Barber, a minor, alleging extreme cruelty. A divorce was granted in Judge Edgar Erwins Court on the same day to Clarice Hanson from Jesse E. Hanson on grounds of extreme cruelty and gross neglect.
Mrs Leina Detzel was taken by Finsterwald ambulance from her Syracuse home to Martz Clinic for observation and returned home Friday.
POMEROY The Rocksprings Subordinate Grange will meet Friday April 25 at their Grange Hall with Harrisonville Grange as guests. A cookie contest and First and Second Degree work are planned.
The Rutland Garden Club will hold its next meeting at Mrs. W. O. Hall's home on Tuesday evening instead of Monday, as announced yesterday.
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