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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1956
Page
2
More than one hundred members of First Presbyterian Church and guests attended a Thursday family night at MIddleport. Lewis H. Sauer chaired the event with John Fultz as entertainment chairman and a buffet planned by several church volunteers.
Middleport High School eighth graders under Mr. Weiher present a program featuring tap dance Betsy Wolfe Maida Roush vocal solos Diana Stumbo accompanist Lynn Buchanan reading Barbara Stiles comedy skit Earl McKinley clarinet duet Marianne Woodgerd Janice Richards Bonnie Rathburn comedy dialog Earl McKinley piano duets Diana Stumbo skits Ronnie Wilt Thomas Moore Ann Wallace Cora Wilson June Wickline panomime Bonnie Van Cooney with stagehands Harvey Whitlatch Thomas Schoonover Larry Mitch Jerry Spires Herb Owens H D Bell John Booth and promoters Carolyn Wilson Ruth Farmer.
William Thomas Evans 29 of Portland was fined 5 dollars and costs in Justice F. E. Dunfee’s court on charges of reckless operation of a motor vehicle.
Date free listing of church services Sunday school times prayer meetings and worship schedules across Pomeroy and surrounding towns including Sacred Heart Kingsbury Road Dorcus EUB Syracuse Church of the Nazarene and many others with weekly services and midweek prayers.
The Senior Shakespeare Club met at Mrs. Tompkins home to plan attending the Federation of Women’s Clubs convention in Columbus next week. Members listed include Ethel Garland and Phil Williamson among others. Programs featured flowers and fertilizers with talks on insects and a spring verse roll call.
The Second Ward Women’s Club held a 6:30 p.m. potluck at the wardhouse on Wednesday. Mrs Gardner Mankin, president, led the gathering with games and prize awards. A traveling prize was donated by Mrs.
Mrs James Pomeroy welcomed the Nifty Stitchers Sewing Club to her home on Wednesday. A hostess gift was presented by the group and the traveling prize, donated by Mrs Carl Moore, went to Mrs Jack Warner. Refreshments were served.
Sew Rite Sewing Club met at Mrs. Don Kennedy’s home and planned a skating party for May 9 at the Skate Away rink on Chester Road. Mrs. Donald Collins won the door prize and a games prize. The next meeting will be May 23 at Mrs. Elmer White’s home.
POMEROY The Racine PTA announces its next meeting for May 7 with officer installation and a silent auction item each member should bring after the business session.
The Rock Springs Grange will hold a sewing and baking contest at 8 p.m. on May 10. A Pomeroy Garden Club meeting set for May 7 at Mrs. J. O. Roedel’s home is postponed to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 8. The Peniel Class of the First Baptist Church meeting for Saturday evening is indefinitely postponed following Billy Lee Bailey’s death.
Mrs. Betty Roush presided as president and host at the Letart Falls Methodist Church Golden Rule class gathering. Ora Hill led devotions with Ruthe Ann Hill coordinating the program. Plans for a charity auction at the next meeting were approved and 16 members and guests enjoyed refreshments.
The abstainer kangaroo rat does not drink water after leaving its nest, surviving entirely on moisture from small, juicy tubers until it dies.
Judge John C. Bacon names Linnie Crary administrator of the estate of the late Herve W. Ritchie of Long Bottom and Howard C. Hull administrator of the estate of the late Mary J. Hull of Scipio Township in Meigs County Probate Court.
A compact schedule lists services for multiple churches in Middleport and nearby towns. Details include pastors, Sunday School times, morning worship, sermon topics such as The Green Cathedral and What Are You Doing Now in Heaven, choir and youth activities, and midweek meetings across churches like Church of Christ, First Presbyterian, Nazarene, Moriah Baptist, Union, Salvation Army, Holiness, Grace, and Pomeroy Baptist Association events.
Mrs. leo ce l es was taken to Mason Clinic for a virus infection. Mr. Searles has recovered after a recent illness and is home from Holzer Hospital. Mrs. Alice Williams returned to Akron Wednesday after visiting her mother Mrs. Emmett Cray. Dr. Kathryn Poindexter, visiting Columbus, has returned home. her sister Mrs. Sadie Story of Toledo visits. Grace Methodist Church services drew several Middleport residents including Mr. and Mrs. Noah Haskins and others.
In Landrum South Carolina firefighters tried 250 gallons of water to fight a fire at the bottom of a 96 foot dry well used for garbage disposal. A family mattress and coal ashes sparked the blaze before a building contractor extinguished it by dumping six truckloads of sand.
The Pomeroy office of The Messenger will move Saturday morning to new quarters at 302 W. Second St. near the Kroger Store. The remodeled and redecorated space, owned by Henry Ewing, is prepared for occupancy by The Messenger. The telephone number will remain 531.
Bud Shaffer of Ewington Route 1 sues Virgil Good near Wilkesville for 990 dollars claiming payment for a saw mill plus 3 dollars daily rent. A second suit in the court of appeals involves Harold Duckworth and Eura Largent appealing a probate decision on Emma Duckwort’s last will and testament.
Funeral services for Billy Lee Bailey 13 who died Wednesday morning in Columbus will be held at 2 p m Saturday at the Trevey Finsterwald funeral home. He was a pupil at Central Grade School a member of the Chester 4 H Club and belonged to the First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Beech Grove Cemetery.
John Marr 62 died Thursday at his Racine home. Survived by wife Daisy Delpha Griffith Marr sister Anna C. of Parkersburg W Va and a brother in South Carolina. Funeral 2 p.m. Saturday at Racine Baptist Church with Racine Post 602 American Legion in charge. Burial Letart Falls cemetery. Friends may call at residence.
Twenty five contestants will take part in the annual teen age road eo of the Meigs County Junior Chamber of Commerce on the upper parking lot in Pomeroy. Frank Jennings, chairman, said today. First prize is a $25 cash award plus a plaque and state competition berth. Second and third prizes are $15 and $10 respectively.
Meigs County retail sales tax receipts increased about 1700 for the week ending April 14 compared with the same week last year. The weekly report by Roger W. Tracy shows totals of 526.80 versus 2,805.49 for the week ending April 46, 1955.
Carole Goff daughter of the Rev and Mrs L A Bangerter was chosen to model at a style show funded by a Zanesville sorority. The event will be held at the Municipal Auditorium on April 18 featuring two student nurses from Bethesda Hospital Zanesville.
Chester Grange will visit Columbia Grange Friday evening to present a program for members and guests at the local meeting.
Middleport Loyal Women's Class of the Church of Christ met with Mrs. Will Reynolds in charge. Mrs. Minnie Gilmore led devotion and 33 visits to ill persons were reported. Hostesses included Mrs. Gilmore and several others. dessert was served to 20 members and guest Fred I. Gardner.
Mrs. W W Hayes was elected president of the Margaret Williams Afternoon Circle of the WSCS at Heath Methodist Church with Mrs Hattie Smith as president and other officers named. The meeting covered study book chapters on Christianity in the Orient and included letters from missionaries in Pakistan plus plans for future programs and a May Fellowship Day.
The Fortnite Club gathered at the home of Mrs. John Fultz with Mrs. Gerald Anthony as co hostess. The group planned the next meeting for May 10 at Mrs. William Walters home. Anna Howells birthday was celebrated. Attendees included Robin Mills Mrs James Roller and daughter Kathi Anne Crestview Fla Mrs Roller a former member Barbara baby daughter of Mrs Anthony and Anita Marie daughter of Mrs Fultz.
Mr and Mrs Shirley Mills attended the funeral of Mrs Bernard Gassling in Cincinnati a cousin of Mrs Mills. Gassling died of a heart attack and the couple planned a further visit before returning to Middleport.
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