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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1945
Page
6
Middleport Public Library will close Tuesday August 21 and reopen Tuesday September 4 for repairs. The closure is annual before vacation time for improvements and repairs.
Middleport faces a housing and employment squeeze as the West Virginia Ordnance Works closes and the Middleport Industrial Garment Co. suspends operations amid canceled TNT plant contracts. The town previously attracted many families since 1942, including Howard Farrell, Edward McCrillis, George McGovern, Clyde Stevens, Joe Neighbors, and others who settled there during wartime expansion.
Reading page notices show a planned Home Canning Fair in Gallia area with church schedules across multiple congregations. FIRST BAPTIST details Bible school, worship times, youth groups, and vacation plans for Pastor Hakes with guest speakers and lay leaders. Grace Methodist lists Sunday worship by replacement conductors and soloist, while several other churches publish summer August services and first September Holy Communion details.
O hio Fuel Gas Company of Gallipolis announces it will host the annual Home Canning Fair in September with no entry fee. Entries from September 10 through 17 will be judged on appearance only, with $5 in cash and 120 prize ribbons across 40 classes. All entries will be returned.
Gallipolis personal items note Miss Ella Gertrude Miller visiting Parkersburg from Altman’s Department Store to spend a vacation guest of cousin Mrs Isaac Weigel. Dale Waugh returns to Eureka on 30 day furlough with wife and daughter. Mrs Robert Lovell and two children return to Charleston after visiting Edwin McCormick at Fairfield. Mrs R H Ruddell enjoys vacation from E L Neal Drugstore in Columbus with sister Downie Moore family. Mrs Robert Hardesty returns home from Louisville visit.
Sunday School starts at 9 30 am with youth direct worship and service. Youth Fellowship at 6 30 pm. Bible study Wednesday at 8 pm. Nineteen children and three adults joined the Saturday missionary program. Salvation Army Torchbearers Service Friday at 7 30 directed by Eloise Adams with special singing. | Lt Ruth Hadorn of Athens Corps to speak Sunday evening. services led by CS M Ray S. Wining.
POMEROY The third annual picnic of county employees at the Meigs County Court House was held Thursday at the Rock Springs fairgrounds. Activities included ball games, horseshoes, target shooting, music and a 5:30 p.m. chicken supper. Clerk Beards demonstrated a water divining forked stick, recalling a 35 year old site discovery with the late John Heiman. Attendees included Beards and family, Recorder, Miss Gilmore and Shain, Miss Davis, Mrs. Welker, and many others from local families and officials.
The Rev. Ralph Kuether and family return from a vacation in Michigan and Wisconsin and announce Federated Church services for Sunday August 29. Sunday School at 9 15 a m morning worship at 10 25 and an evening service at 7 30. A cordial welcome to all churchgoers with no other evening services this Sunday.
POMEROY The Junior Senior PTA plans a vacation dance for TeensAgers tonight at the Senior High Show. The dance runs from 5 30 to 11 30 with PTA mothers chaperoning. A court notice lists numerous estate accounts filed in Athens County Probate Court with hearings suspended for publication until September.
MIDDLEPORT The Ladies Auxiliary and the Volunteer Fire Company held a hamburger fry and watermelon party at Roadside Park Thursday night. Guests included Mayor CG Fisher, Miss Eleanor Roush of Columbus visiting her mother Mrs. Horton Brown, and many local families such as the McEyhinneys, Vromans, Demoskeys, Frosts, Russells, and Browns plus other residents and guests.
Funeral services for Fred Shauver age 64 who died at 1 30 a m Thursday will be at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home Sunday at two o clock interment Cheshire He was a New York Central Railway engineer with 39 years service a member of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers and the BPOE He leaves a wife Delpha two sons Harold and Pearl a stepson Robert H Chapman a brother Raymond and three sisters Friends may call at the residence tonight and Saturday evening
Pomeroy social items note Pvt Ed Coates of Fort Knox on furlough hosted at Ethan Harper cabin Long Bottom. Forty or Eight met at Legion Hall with peace celebration and a few rounds of ammunition. Dorothy Gilkey visiting grandparents Harrisonville Road with family. Miss Gilkey works for C O Railroad. Various locals listed visiting and traveling between Canal Winchester Columbus Gallipolis Pt Pleasant Hemlock Grove. A bake sale announced for Saturday Aug 17 at Pickens Paint Shop. Coates family returns to Louisville Ky. several locals golfing Athens Country Club.
The Boone County Jamboree headliners presented hillbilly music for a crowd over a thousand last night at Middleport school stadium. The Meigs Chapter Disabled American Veterans sponsored the event. A late opening produced an impromptu speech by Rep. Benjamin F Turner.
The probate court in Columbus set a hearing for August 7, 1943, at 9 oclock on inventories and appraisements related to forestry work near Senecaville Lake. The case involves Francis D White and Muskingum Conservancy District.
Transfers recorded by Meigs County Recorder list parcels and affiliations across Rutland Salisbury Pomeroy and Lebanon. Notable entries include multiple deeds, affidavits of transfer, and owners such as Hill Nelson Luther Harris Stansbury and Williams, with parcels ranging from 5 to 110 acres and specific lot numbers referenced.
POMEROY Hunting and trapping licenses are on sale at the office of Herman Beards, Clerk of Courts, in the Court House. Licenses are valid from Sept 1 1945 to Aug 31 1946. Rules require written landowner permission or tenant consent and display of identification tag on the back.
The Missionary Society of the Church of Christ met at Mrs. William Bradford’s home on Brownell Ave with twelve members present. Hosts Miss Mabel Hysell and Miss Susie Taylor led devotionals, and a report by Miss Esther Gilmore about a trip to the Emily Flynn Home was read. Guests and births, visits, and travels of local residents are listed, including military hospital assignments and social gatherings at parks and in Columbus.
Gallipolis new patients include three newborns and their mothers. A son James Sherman Fexist O born to J J Porter Jr. and wife. a daughter born to Mrs. Carl Gilmore Middleport. a daughter to Mrs. Richard Martin Wellston. Other Wednesday Thursday admissions list several medical patients in good to fair condition and two in critical condition. Discharges include Virgil Manley and others from Point Pleasant Pomeroy Wellston Jackson and Mason.
Sgt Orville Milliron returns from England and visits with his wife and children at the Oilers home, joining his parents in Leading Creek for a 30 day stay as the family is hosted with a dinner. Gen Omar Bradley is sworn in as Veterans Administrator, succeeding the 12th Army Group command in Europe.
Elizabeth Liggins an elderly Black woman died at her home 730 Third Ave on Wednesday night. She was survived by her husband sister Rachel Wood four nieces and five nephews. Funeral arrangements will be set once nephew Cpl John R Garnes arrives from Tuskegee Alabama.
Congressmen Thomas A. Jenkins will be the principal speaker at the Rio Grande Bean Dinner in Gallia County Saturday afternoon. He will be introduced by A. C. Safford, with the Memorial Association sponsoring the event to perpetuate the annual bean dinner and GAR patriotic program. Time losses cited arise from 1944 accidents, costing Ohio industry over 10 million working days per the Ohio Industrial Commission report.
Lieut and Mrs Tom Rue depart Gallipolis for Fort Knox Kentucky where he will report Saturday He recently returned to the United States from service in Germany and has been hospitalized at Valley Forge Pennsylvania He expects to be assigned as an instructor after reporting at Fort Knox
Virginia Finley Hilt files for divorce from Charles F. Hilt Jr in Gallia County claiming cruelty and neglect. The couple married July 28 1942 and she seeks restoration of her maiden name.
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