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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1949
Page
6
Pomeroy Rocks-prings Grange will meet Thursday at 8 30 p m at the Rocksprings Grange Hall. Announcement by Lucille Leifheit worthy master.
POMEROY The independent candidate George A. Christy filed petitions for the office of mayor of Middleport noting a 10 to 12 year residency on Page Street with his wife and one of two children. Other municipal petitions were filed in Rutland and Racine for various offices. G H Ewing said sufficient signatures were secured on local option petitions from Pomeroy and Middleport to be filed Wednesday. Howard Gorrell filed eight petitions with 240 signatures for a beer sale vote in Olive Township.
Mrs. F. Ray Wilson led Silver Run school pupils to the Lutheran Memorial Camp at Fulton Ohio as a reward trip for memorizing 500 Bible verses. Attendees included Norma Fife Sharon Wilson Maxine Fife Donna Wells Nina Sheets Wilma McDaniel Connie Mowery Carol Mowery James Mohler Dale Hersmann Marie Fife Juanita Farley Jean Wise Mary Clark Corrine Farley.
Downtown Middleport draws pleasure seekers this week as Cunningham Shows operate at Carson's Playground under the Fenney Bennett Post American Legion. The Cavalier Skating Rink also hosts a series of contests on the park grounds.
Meigs County health commissioner Dr. W. 8. Ellis conducted a personal tour of First Ave homes in the 100 to 300 blocks to inquire about odors from garbage and debris tossed over the riverbank. Residents offered varying answers as rats were seen near a garbage pile by the railroad tracks.
The Portland Ideal 4 H Club showed three educational films at the Methodist Church including Unfinished Rainbows about aluminum Party Line a Marionette comedy and As Maine Grows on potatoes. Carroll Christopher supplied the projector. nine members with leader Charles McKelvey attended a wiener roast at the state park.
Mr and Mrs Chad Welker spent days at Troy helping daughter Mrs Esther Metcalf move. Harland Woodruff and daughter Janet with Mrs Paul Anthony from Columbus spent a weekend here. Don Watson of Wellston hosted by sister Mrs Walter McCarley. Margie and Jimmy McCarley visited home for a week. O M Stewart hosted E J McCloskey of Huntington W V. Florence Quickle's Sunday school class marked her birthday. O M Powell visited Point Pleasant for medical advice. Jack Quickle spent a weekend at home. Quickle to Columbus and Worthington. Pauline to Canton to visit her daughter. Byrd Alexander.
Coolville residents attended a Buffington Island Park picnic near Portland while others mourned deaths including Effie Ward and former pastor Rev. E. J. Williams. Leonard Runyon of Coolville died in San Diego and many Coolville families hosted visits, anniversaries, and trips to Arizona, Tucson, and Tempe. Sgt Ronald Kincade moved to Dayton after a month’s stay, and O G Brandeberry with Alfred Russell toured Niagara Falls and a Canadian vacation.
Social items from Rutland and surrounding areas list visits births and illness. Names include Thelma Michael Jean Mutchler Flora Ward Lena Pickens Minnie Wyne Gallie Langsvile Dayton Parsons Worly Reeves H. C. Gardner Charles Gardner D. O. Patterson Woodrow Hill Marion Nicholson Betty Brown. Activities include church meeting at the Christian Church basement and a Mason Clinic visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Doug las Rife hosted in Columbus and were weekend guests of the Grovers in Cheshire. Several local families including Grapes, Shuler, Watson and Roush hosted or received visitors from Parkersburg Atco Ga Newark Gallipolis and Middleport. Alice Yeanger is also noted among the attendees.
Mrs Gladys Gibson of 138 Butternut Ave announces the engagement of her daughter Frances Bacon Gibson of Columbus to Robert Neal Heyman of Columbus. Frances is daughter of F B Gibson of Columbiana and granddaughter of the late Judge C E Peoples. Heyman, an Ohio State University student, is son of the late F H Heyman of Toledo. his mother Mrs F H Heyman lives in Toledo. The marriage is planned Sept 3 at the First Community, Upper Arlington, Columbus.
At Jane Howell Tent meeting Mrs. Ethel Tedrow was honored with a handkerchief shower as she plans to move to Hamden. Della Stahl Helen Miller and Elizabeth Campbell won prizes in games. refreshments followed. Rev L S Hegnauer, Cantons, will teach at Camp Campbell Gard in Hamilton for a week during vacation. Other items note visits and trips by New Bedford, Mr and Mrs Reino Lind, Tommy Ray, Alvin Norris, Eugene, Fritz Buck and Robert, Janet, Henry Ewing Bennie and family in Columbus and Pontiac.
Pomeroy group plans a Thursday 7 30 p m meeting at Mrs James Weber's Gravel Hill Middleport with Mrs George Meinhart and Mrs Ralph Gilmore assisting as hostesses.
The P M Club will gather Thursday evening at the home of Mrs W A Gibbs on Butternut Avenue with Mrs Frank Wilson assisting as hostess.
Detroit pair Carole Spurr and Dave Laker dined with Mrs F Ray Wilson in Columbus area, joined by Sharon Wilson. Mrs Margaret Moore reports a week in Huntington and the Rev and Mrs Robert L Hegnauer plan vacation visiting relatives near Dayton and Seek. TREVEY FINSTERWALD Funeral Home ad denotes services.
Funeral services for Mrs. Harriet Baker who died unexpectedly at her Dayton home will be held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hayman in Racine Thursday at 2 30 p m Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery Surviving are two sisters Mrs Ralph Hayman and Mrs E J Hayman both of Racine and several nieces and nephews Friends may call at the Ewing Funeral Home until Wednesday evening and then at the Ralph Hayman residence
Jimmie Logan, a resident of Ash Street in Middleport, severely cut his leg with a razorblade on Tuesday requiring several stitches to close the wound. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Delmar Logan.
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