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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1959
Page
2
Meigs County campaign chair Lloyd Blackwood reports only 1400 of a 4000 goal has been raised for April crusade. He urges volunteers to finish assignments as the national society funds cancer research education and patient care, with emphasis on Ohio projects and local public education.
The One Won One Class of the First Baptist Church met at Mrs. Harry Lee Bailey’s home with Mrs. J Edward Foster as co host. Mrs. J H Stephenson led in meeting duties and readings including a communication on the foster parent plan. May 1 fellowship day at Middleport First United Presbyterian Church was announced.
Middleport firemen faced a busy Saturday with four calls. They rescued three men after a boat overturned on the Ohio River. They then fought a brush fire on Bone Hollow Road and a tractor blaze at Langsville. On return home they were sent back to Bone Hollow Road as the brush fire flared again.
Mrs Lee Tyo will entertain the Friendly Neighbors Club at her home on Tuesday evening. The event invites members to gather for refreshments and socializing.
Booster night will be observed Tuesday evening when Chester Grange meets at the hall. Victor Bahr fire warden will show a film.
In Middleport and Pomeroy, 37 eighth graders conducted a tag day Saturday to support the Meigs County Cancer Society. Mrs. Nan Moore led as general chairman with Howard Knight overseeing Pomeroy. Mrs. Moore supervised Middleport activities.
Middleport hosts a youth caravan meeting at Heath Methodist church with district president Mike Beard and district treasurer Judy Pringle joining Rev. Charles Cecil of Wheelersburg. Devotions led by Christine Coats and Eric Chambers precede a potluck supper organized by Mrs. Robert Coats, Mrs. James Beurtington, and Mrs. L. W. McComas with Miss Sally Schaaf assisting as youth pom counselor.
POMEROY The Wildwood Garden Club will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Mrs. U S Nease with Mrs. Dwight Milhoan as co hostess.
Rock Springs Better Health Club voted a donation to the cancer fund at a meeting hosted by Mrs. Maxine Arnold. Officers named solicitors Mrs. Norman Weyersmiller Mrs. Hugh Beards and Mrs. Roy Grueser for the drive. May fellowship day set for May 1 at Middleport First United Presbyterian Church.
Meigs County Council of Religious Education named officers for the year at its meeting held at the Episcopal parish house. Mrs. Patrick Lochary was elected president with Rev. Robert Palmer as vice president and Mrs. L. D. Diles as secretary. treasurer is Mrs. Waldo J. Bartels.
Earl Haning and Sylvia Haning transfer 117 acres in Scipio Township to Fred R Beasley. Melva K Turner and Wayne Turner convey a Rinland lot to Nicholas Grueser and Margie Grueser. George E Stark and Margaret H Stark deed a Pomeroy lot to St Pauls Lutheran Church trustees. Norman Manning Kloes and June Smart Kloes move a parcel in Pomeroy to James C Kegley and Geraldine F Kegley. Ray Gorby sells 20 acres of coal in Salem Township to Ohio Power Co. Alva W Rupe and Nellie V Rupe sell 80 acres of coal in Columbia Township to Ohio Power Co. Leota Hawley transfers 145.50 acres in Salem Town to Kenneth C Wandling and Catherine Wandling. Bernard Fultz as administrator transfers 80 acres in Columbia Town to Ida M Cheadle. John W Frank transfers a parcel in Shade River Lodge to C B Hayman William L Will and Claude Woodyard in Chester.
The Pom eroy High School Alumni Association schedules the annual banquet and dance for 6 30 p m May 30 in the junior high school auditorium The banquet is alumni only with guests allowed at the following dance Tickets must be bought by May 20 from Mrs Marlene Wilson Stark s Pharmacy or the Pomeroy Pastry Shop.
Mr and Mrs C E Blakeslee entertained senior play cast members for Patricia Blakeslee s 18th birthday after a rehearsal. The party in the home economics room at the junior high included a large cake and ice cream for the cast and James Diehl Jr director.
An affidavit charging Otho Allen Jarvis with probation violation was filed Saturday in the county common pleas court by prosecutor James B. O'Brien. Jarvis had been placed on probation following charges of non-support.
Four charter members of Alpha Omicron Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma were honored at a founder's day dinner at Middleport First United Presbyterian Church. The event, presided by president Geneva Joachim, announced Marilyn Turner will perform in June. The report on the state convention was given, noting Gwendolyn Davis as state historian.
Loyal Women of the Middleport Church of Christ met at Mrs. Everett McKnight's home for their regular gathering. A donation to the cancer fund was announced. Mrs. William Reynolds led the session. readings included The Master is Coming and a review of All the Women of the Bible. Twenty-one members and three guests shared a dessert.
Middleport May 9 date set for the annual auction by the Middleport Fire Department. Outdoor sale in the Race Street area expected. donations accepted via Donald Mills or the village hall or Jack's Dairy Bar. Firemen's auxiliary will run a bake sale and sell sandwiches drinks and refreshments during the day.
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Henderson announce the birth of their son James David on April 21 at Holzer Hospital. Grandparents are William and Ruby Musser, now in Athens, and Robert Henderson of Athens. Great grandparents include Lena Pickens of Mason West Virginia Will Musser of Roseville and Lucy Dolan of Bethesda. Great great grandmother Almira Musser of Springfield.
Ted Thompson now runs Crossroads Service Center focusing on automotive body work and painting. He previously served one year as service manager at Pomeroy Motor Co before starting his own shop.
Robert Anthony Veney age 20 and Esther Loraine Grover age 18 are listed as residents of Pomeroy. The notice identifies both individuals with the same hometown and ages as part of the public record.
Rutland Junior Garden Club elected Sabra Canaday president Betty Clark vice president Dar lene Chafin secretary Etta Kay Earlewine treasurer Jean Ann Siders news reporter and Donna Weber telephone chair at a meeting hosted by Mrs. Pearl Canaday. A May 13 installation includes a hike and study of wild flowers.
Mrs Helen Wood Graber of Cleveland and her mother Mrs E M Wood of Middleport visited Mrs Wood's son C L Wood in Franklin West Virginia over the weekend. Richard Clark a Middleport schools teacher leaves May 1 for military service after receiving a lieutenant commission. Mrs Glenn Lambert returns from Cleveland where she stayed with daughter Mrs George Doolittle and family. Mrs Noah Haskins and Mrs C O Fisher suffered light heart attacks Friday. Fisher to Holzer Hospital for checkup. her daughters Sgt Sara Jane Fisher and Mrs Harold Moore of Columbus were summoned here. Susan Park, recently injured in a fall, was discharged from Meigs General Hospital and plans to return to her teaching job at Middleport High School.
The Sugar Run School fourth grade staged a surprise birthday party Friday for Mrs. Charles Lewis. Class girls acted as hostesses and served a large cake and ice cream, and Mrs. Lewis received a corsage.
Arnold Snowden was reelected chairman of the Meigs County Conservation Committee at Friday night’s annual meeting in Pomeroy City Hall. About 25 county sportsmen and farmers attended as regulations for game and fish in the county and Ohio were set to be proposed at the Cambridge district meeting on June 18. Bill Lowe won sportsman representative honors, H. E. Shields was named former representative. Athens wildlife division staff Mark White and James Lee attended, along with local game protectors Don Williams and Dolph Joachim.
The Woman's Society of World Service of Enterprise EUB Church met at Mrs. Alice Thompson's home to discuss a Lancaster convention set for April 29 and 30. Mrs. Claude Housted led the Hawaii Alaska theme program, a play was presented, and members sang This is My Father's World. A new member was welcomed, an overseas project urged saving nylons stamps and eye glasses, refreshments followed.
Rock Springs Grange welcomed two new members as Amos Leonard led the session. A Meigs County Pomona Grange gathering was announced for May 1 at Rock Spring hall with Mrs. Huber Brown in charge and Leonard presenting the 10 grange commandments.
POMEROY The first voluntary check of automobiles set for May 4 at the Columbia School for motorists of Columbia Township. Two Meigs County Farm Bureau women in each township will work with the sheriff and a deputy to carry out the check. The voluntary safety check will be held throughout May.
Fines were levied on five men Saturday night in Mayor C. O. Fisher's court in Middleport. Charles Schoonover John Larkins and Albert Hawkins of Rutland were fined five dollars and costs on intoxication charges. Harry Blank of Mason, West Virginia, also on intoxication. Thomas G. Chattin of Middleport was fined for assault and battery.
Mrs. Rodney Sauer led a First United Presbyterian Church program on expanding ideas in a shaking world. The meeting, chaired by Mrs. Harold Sauer, included devotionals by Mrs. Charles Shumaker, a missionary article reading, a prayer by Miss Margaret Sauer, and a report on the Scioto Presbytery gathering.
Sixty five members of the Rio Grande Association of the Baptist Youth Fellowship met Saturday evening at the Middleport First Baptist Church. Miss Ruth Beekman of Wellston led the business session, with Howard West conducting the devotional and Rev. Warren M. Hulburt giving the opening prayer. Slides were shown and a group sing followed in social rooms with Junior Youth Fellowship members assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Gene Coleman and Mrs. Hulburt. Representing churches were Wellston Racine Pomeroy Rio Grande and Middleport.
Bernice E. Edwards of Midreport sues Harry Edwards for divorce on grounds of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. A second suit, by Harry L. Crippen of Albany, seeks to quiet title against Esther Knopp and others at Rutland Route 1.
A receptive crowd attended three acts of Good Night Ladies at Racine High School auditorium. Senior cast members Virginia Johnson Nadine Roush Jack Cummins Harry Ours Arthur Beegle Carol Essington Frankie Chapman Charles Gaul Donna Hilldare May Alice Nease James Price Lena Neville performed with direction by Carl Weese.
POMEROY April 26 through May 1 marks Weekday Religious Education Week in Ohio to promote understanding of the non denominational program in weekday Bible classes. Window displays and invitations have been prepared to showcase class work and invite parents and friends to observe. In Meigs County nearly 97 percent of fourth and fifth graders are enrolled with parental consent. Fourth grade theme is Gods Wonderful World. Fifth grade studies The Life of Jesus.
The auxiliary of the Middleport Volunteer Fire Department will meet Tuesday evening at the firemen's hall to sort and tag items for the annual rummage sale and auction. All members are requested to assist.
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