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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1951
Page
7
Five members answered roll call at the adjourned Wednesday session. Ordinance 447 sets the clerk’s pay at 1020 dollars per year from January 1, 1952, a ten dollar monthly increase. Ordinance 448 sets council pay at five dollars per meeting, up to 24 meetings per year, up from three dollars. Both ordinances were declared emergencies and passed to take effect in 1952.
Ferndale Church of Christ will host three weeks of programs as pastor Ed ward Carpenter Jr. is away at Butler Springs. On Sunday evening August 5 the Glouster Youth Church of Christ presents the Gospel Ship program. Guest speakers Hugh Sweeney appear on August 12 and 19.
The Bishopville church will hold annual homecoming on Sunday August 5 with all day services. A noon basket dinner follows morning worship. Homer Vian will preach both services and the afternoon program features singing special music and talks of days past. Rev Daniel Teater will speak. Public invited.
Reverend John Devol pastor of the local Methodist Church will attend the Ohio Pastors school at Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware starting September 3. The program run by the Ohio Area Board of Directors and the General Conference Commission trains ministers with examinations on the Conference Course of Study. Last year about 500 ministers attended.
Oakdale Church Sunbeam Class met in Memorial Park Glouster for July with attendees Rosa Love Faye Nott Geneva Jewell Georgia Barnes Sarah McClellan Della Loomis Virginia Moore Darwood Jewell and Edward Moore host. They socialized and enjoyed a wiener roast. Next meeting will be hosted by Pearl Loomis.
Local notes list visits by Ada McPeak and several Holtzclaws from Missouri and Ohio to Redtown and Columbus. Roy Strausbaugh of Redtown came to Columbus to see his ill father-in-law Harvey Sharp. Families travel from Mansfield Lynchburg Toronto and Chillicothe for weekends and ROTC training updates.
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