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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1955
Page
5
Glouster Church of Christ hosts a youth gathering featuring families from Glouster and nearby communities. The Rev BK Teater presided as guests shared meals, prayers, and fellowship. Attendees included the Spears and Alderman families with extended relatives visiting from Athens and Columbus.
Pauline Myers principal of Glouster Elementary announces that kindergarten pupils will report to the school on Wednesday instead of Tuesday as previously announced.
The Massachusetts Health Department reports polio cases at about ten times the 1954 level with a one day high of 136 and a following 93 new cases. Activity centers in the Hynes Memorial Hospital polio ward in Boston where more than 60 iron lungs operate, shipped to the city by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Lantz of Broad Street are visiting relatives in San Lorenzo California with their children Diana and Charles. Commandant Boyers in the Medical Corps will be stationed at a naval air base in Cuba and serve as chief of medicine at the Base Hospital. The family plans to move to their new home in a few days and the children will enter school in about two weeks.
Chauncey Bob Jackson and Don Poling reported Sunday at the Ohio State Fairgrounds where Boo will play trombone and Don a baritone horn in the all boys band. They were accompanied by Bob’s parents and Don’s mother. The parents watched the first practice session of the band and reported there would be 314 members.
A garbled message outlines travel from a person named Mise Merie Dan Mina Helen Brown of War to Wilmington and Vienna. It hints at spending several days then continuing the journey. The fragmentary text lacks clear dates or definite destinations.
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