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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1950
Page
6
There will be a social on the lawn of the Alfred Methodist Church Friday evening. Homemade ice cream cake and soft drinks will be sold.
County Agent C. E. Blakeslee announced Meigs County Junior Fair prize winners across 4-H and FFA divisions. Recipients include Wilma Rice, Virgil Windon, Robert Sayre, Gary Dill, Lois Bolen, and many others with trophies and $5 awards in categories spanning sheep swine beef cattle dairy horse and poultry. Educational booths and demonstration teams were recognized, with clubs such as Jolly Star Alfred Sr. Cloverettes and KMD receiving honors.
Mr and Mrs Fred Vandall of Holland Michigan announce the birth of a son on August fourteenth named David Eugene Mrs Edw Hysell Condor Street Atlantic City reports the famed boardwalk is eight miles long and sixty feet wide
Due to the death of Mrs. Elias Ball mother of Worthy Master Emil Ball the Rocksprings Grange meeting is postponed from August 24 to August 31.
The 1950 Nicholson reunion was held Sunday August 13 at the state roadside park on Route 33 near Darwin. Norman Will was elected president for 1951 and Seth F Nicholson was elected secretary treasurer.
562 X rays were taken by the National X Ray Surveys at the Meigs County Fair last week. The unit was set up in a large tent and operated under the supervision of the Meigs County Tuberculosis and Health chapter led by executive secretary Mrs. Ben Philson. The county will not host another X-ray survey this year.
In Wilkesville Auxiliary Hall on August 16 the flower show hosted 218 entries judged by Mrs. Clyde Alexander of Vinton, Mrs. Ruth Barber of Vinton Township Garden Club, and Mrs. Henry Bobo of Albany Garden Club. High point winners were Mrs. James Jackson locally and Mrs. Albert Caster for visitors. Hamden’s Town and Country Garden Club attended. The Wilkesville Garden Club, led by president Mrs. William Cottrill, counts 38 members and traces its origin to 1936.
The Community Youth Fellowship will sponsor an ice cream supper in the basement of the Morning Star EUB church on Friday.
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