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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1948
Page
3
Pomeroy shops reopen after flood with redecorating and new glass displays. Bus service back to full operation with Blue and Gray resuming tickets. Court Street pastry shop redecorates and installs new showcases. Main Street store replaces damaged flooring with concrete. Flood litter marks the townscape between Second and Main streets.
Idon Hodge admitted at Mason Clinic Charlestown April 22. Births include a son Joseph Dan to Mr and Mrs Joseph W Berry Middleport on April 22 and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Carl Clark Le Route 1 on April 2. Discharged Mrs Milton Knapp and her son from Point Pleasant.
Thirty seven Pom ery Junior High students earned B or better for the fifth six week period and were placed on the scholastic honor roll. Ninth grade led with eighteen honorees: Earl Bitters Edward Bowen Don Dailey Lily Girolami Margaret Hawley Janet Hill Don Hannel Shirley Hysell Joanne Jones Peggy Persinger Donald Quisenberry Yvonne Roush Charlotte Schaefer Norma Scholl Eugene Snowden Jean Story Donald Thomas Florence Wolfe. Eighth grade lists twelve names: John Foster Stephen Hill Harry Keig Sally Nease Betty Peoples Ronnie Smith Bill Smith Douglas Strain Cora Van Inwagen Donna Van Meter Danny West Eugene Willoughby. Seventh grade honorees include Bonnie Boyd Marilyn Sue Davis Charles Hamm Patricia Higg ins Edith Qualls Sue Struble Barbara Wehrung.
Pomeroy National Bank, first in Meigs County to exceed 3 million dollars in assets, reports deposits up by over 150 000 since January 1. President Edison Hobstetter cites a steady deposit growth through the year and notes the condition report was filed in response to the comptroller of the currency.
POMEROY The Legion sponsored donkey basketball game at Racine High School gym Friday was a huge success. About 350 spectators watched teams of Legion members and local businessmen compete.
Two Pomeroy High School seniors Joe Foster and James Lochary spoke at assembly about their experiences at the Third Annual Science Day at Athens Ohio University. They urged fellow students to start projects for next year and noted judges gave them excellent ratings for a jet propulsion motor demonstration.
Admitted Chester Newland Long Bottom medical and John Epple Pomeroy medical. Births to Mrs Kenneth Russell Racine a boy. Discharged Stanley Swan Long Bottom Mrs Orville Bratton Middleport and John D Strickland Pomeroy.
The Rev. Oscar King of Hamden Ohio will lead a Youth Temperance Week service at the Methodist Church on Sunday May 2 at 8 p.m. The Bethel WSCS April meeting featured Mrs John Deeter as host with Mrs Roy Gordon in charge of the business session and program leaders Mrs Wilbur Warner and Mrs Carl Gillilan. Humorous entertainment preceded the main program and Flamelograph pictures depicting Christ's trial crucifixion and resurrection were shown with songs. Refreshments followed for 18 members and guests.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Truman Russell is named Jay C. instead of Truman Reed as previously reported.
Charles Romine of Pomeroy was admitted to Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis on Sunday after an incident on Route 1. He is reported in stable condition and under observation by hospital staff.
Middleport observes Mother’s Day plans by Variety Guild at Evelyn Murray’s home with guests from the guild. A Gay Nineties party is set for Elsie Barnhart’s home. Loyal Women of the Church arrange a Mother-Daughter event at the church, with Mrs. Burford presiding. Literary Society reports include papers on Ohio newspapers and Teheran. final club meeting May 5 at Mrs. Titus’s home. Mr. and Mrs. L D Diles mark their 30th wedding anniversary, April 14. Mrs. Diles recovering after major surgery in McMillen Hospital Charleston and returning home on Beech Street.
Meigs County records list transfers including J C Proffitt to Paul A Wallace for 99 acres in Salem, Maude Avenal and Joseph Pettit to Bertha Lemley Ward for lot 61 in Middleport, and several other parcel changes. Transfers cover Olive Salisbury Pomeroy Rutland Vila and Syracuse areas with multiple family names and one certificate of transfer for the Wright estate.
Six Avenue Methodist Church youth group hosted an evening program at the Maxville Community Youth Group meeting in the church auditorium. A showing of the film Niagara Falls was sponsored by Harley Danison at the Maxville school auditorium.
Friends of Bert Bradfield observed his birthday at his home with lunch served. Various visitors from Jackson Dayton Racine Columbus and Indiana joined families in the area for meals and social calls. The Teen-Agers played softball at the school. William Schreiber returned from Holzer Hospital after major surgery.
Mrs. Orville Bratton and her son have returned from Meigs General Hospital to their home in Middleport.
Mrs Daisy Williams Anderslund of Pasadena Maryland spent several days with relatives and acted as hostess at a birthday dinner for her father Clark Williams at The Home Restaurant on Friday evening. The event included a birthday cake during dessert.
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe White and son Jimmy of Syracuse visited Mrs. R. S. White and Beulah during the flood. On April 18 a birthday dinner celebrated Jimmy's ninth birthday. Additional guests included Mr. and Mrs. Charles White and Texanna, and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Darst.
The church hosts an Annual Roll Call Supper on Wednesday at 6 pm with new members honored. A program titled around the table follows. The Zeta Chi Class meets Thursday evening at the church and the Young Women's Missionary Society meets Tuesday at Mrs. Charles Pomeroy’s home. last week’s meeting was postponed.
Sunday visits spread through Charleston and nearby towns as families welcomed relatives and friends including former school music teacher John Kline and several members of the Lambert, Schoen, Walters, Hawkins, Coats, Romine, and Bratton families. Many travelers came from Gallipolis, Winchester, Chillicothe, Logan, and Clarksburg.
The Woman's Music Club of Middleport sponsors the annual Junior Musicians Program to be held Thursday at 8 pm in the high school auditorium. Teachers on the planning committee include Mrs. H. E. Grant chairwoman Miss Lois Cecil Mrs. Marcelline Buell Mrs. A. R. Hecox and Raymond Maxwell. Children from kindergarten through high school will perform vocal and instrumental numbers.
Jeanne Zahl hosted a hamburger tea for Ruth McCurdy of Boston at her home on Thursday evening. Guests included Patsy Shields, Patricia Meier, Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, James Lochary, and Dick Young. An all day Officers Training Course session will be held April 28 at Church of The Good Shepherd Athens with registration at 9:30 a.m.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Hill of Dayton spent the weekend with Mrs. Hill's parents Mr. and Mrs. George Hobstetter in Rose Hill. Marion Radford with Mrs. Lily Houck Mrs. Bertha Parker and grandson Jimmie Ferguson visited in Columbus on Sunday.
List of marriage licenses shows pairs including Harry Davis and Lillian Bernard both aged mid forties and mid thirties from Mason W Va and Pomeroy with trades such as machine operator and homemaker. Additional couples include Herbert Burke and Bessie Howell from Athens and Middleport, Lee W Wears and Doris Devore, Absten and Hope Sayre, Warren Turner and Wanda Stansberry, Walter Terrell and Betty Justice, David Bledsoe Jr and Leota Lusher, Charles Bowling and Doris A Alexander, Eugene Hart and Mary Reynolds.
H V Bailey 89 died Saturday at his home 370 E Eleventh Ave Columbus. Survived by son William daughter in law Mrs Harold Gage all of Columbus. Services at Cook and Sons Chapel 1 30 p m today then body to Ewing funeral home. Burial Beech Grove Cemetery scheduled 1 30 p m Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Berry announce the birth of a son at Pearl Street on Thursday April 22. The child is the couple’s second son.
The Clock and Gift Shop owner The Clock and Gift Shop on N Second Ave was taken to Holzer Hospital Gallipolis by Rawlings Coats ambulance after a sudden illness. Visiting him Sunday were Mrs Mills Max Sanborn and Mr and Mrs C H Wise Jr Mr Mills was to be returned Monday.
Flood waters reached 55.5 feet in Kanauga but few homes were affected and the school and church remained dry. At the PTA gathering pupils performed The Pilgrims Landing while a string of visits and social stays tied local families to Ohio and West Virginia.
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