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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1968
Page
13
The seventh Mason County fair opens for five days of exhibits shows and livestock parades at Point Pleasant. Highlights include home show efforts by the Chamber of Commerce, church wagon gospel music by the Church Wagon Gang, Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys, and a county horse show with a horseshoe pitching contest.
Twenty one foster grandparents organized the Golden Age Club at Lakin Hospital on Wednesday. Officers elected include Mrs. Sarah Mallory president and Mrs. Frances Clark vice president. The group aims to foster close ties among members and benefit children at Lakin through social activities and monthly meetings.
Paul Karbrecht assistant vice president of Citizens National Bank of Point Pleasant will attend the School of Consumer Affairs and Finance during the summer session to expand his banking and customer service expertise.
Reida Doolittle of Point Pleasant accompanies her parents to Spencer for the Black Walnut Festival Queen competition. She will tour Beckley to view Honey In The Rock and other sights, appear on Charleston TV Friday, then resign to join the court in October. Miss Doolittle is a Point Pleasant High School senior sponsored by the Junior Women's Club. The note also mentions a Virginia banking session for 273 officers August 4 to 16 with 230 faculty from 35 states plus DC and Puerto Rico.
Two children were admitted to Holzer Hospital with injuries from home accidents. Mary J Dobbins six fractured her arm after slipping from a porch. Pamela J Simmons six fractured her elbow while running down a hill at home.
Charles Wilson of Middleport suffered a spinal fracture when a car struck a house on Jefferson Boulevard Thursday. Also injured, Mrs. Edison Brace of Racine sustained scalp lacerations.
About 300 youths attended the annual state 4-H boys camp at Jackson's Mill with ten Mason County boys among the participants. Campers chose three classes ranging from sports and career preparation to song leadership and deep-pit barbecue under the Blast Off theme. The event, open to boys 14 and older who have county 4-H camp experience, has been held since 1922. Local attendees listed include Randy Jackson and Damon Morgan Jr.
ADMITTED Wesley Williams Leon Charles Wilson Middleport Mrs Edison Brace Racine Mrs Richard Holland Point Pleasant Mrs William Baird South Side DISMISSED Mrs Harold Stewart Angela Rollins Harold Johnson Sharon Wolfenbarger Mrs Leon Thompson Carrie Green Mrs Ira Potts and daughter.
A list from Holzer Hospital includes numerous individuals and families from multiple towns such as Guysville Wells ton Bidwell Thurman Pomeroy Coal Grove Point Pleasant Crown City Gali pelis Crown City and others. Names such as Alice G Coen Catherine Nierman Mary Jo Dobbins Stephen Jenkins Pamela J Simmons Ernest Bahr and many more appear alongside relatives and infants mentioned in hospital notices.
Gallia Academy senior Tom Brandeberry of Gallipolis has been chosen to sing in the Ohio State Fair Youth Choir. He recently completed a six week music course at the University of Kansas and is the grandson of Mr and Mrs W Brandeberry of Coalville.
The Mason County 4H Horse Club will hold a fitting and showing clinic Saturday at 7 30 p.m. at Harmon Stables in Faint Pleasant for 4 11 members in the horse project who plan to show at the fair. The Mason County Fair horse show is scheduled for Tuesday at 7 p.m.
The Vinton Bean Dinner, Ohio 325, celebrates a century begun by the Grand Army of the Republic. Grady Twyman leads the current Legion Post 161 effort with a long-serving crew cooking open-fire beans for 60 cents, diners on long tables, coffee and crackers, and a nod to history from GAR days to American Legion.
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