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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1962
Page
12
Garden club members visit Mr and Mrs Earl Clark staging a gladioli show at their Route 7 home, 1.75 miles south of Tuppers Plains. The Clark glads are noted as impressive. Open to the public. show ends Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Stephen Archer will celebrate their 67th wedding anniversary at home on Union Ave Sunday. He is 92 and she is 87. Congratulations are extended. The item also notes Carolyn Bell a Pomeroy High School graduate is seriously ill in an Austin Texas hospital and requests communications through her mother Mrs I H.
Mrs Josephus Pickens age 86 died Wednesday at her Racine Route 2 home. She belonged to Racine Baptist Church. Survived by five daughters Vashti Grimm Letart Falls Ruth Wolfe Racine Everell Pearson Akron Virginia Roush Minersville Wilma McClintock Point Pleasant WV Eleven grandchildren and several great grandchildren. Husband and son Ivan preceded her in death. Visitation at Ewing funeral home. Service Sunday at 2 p m at Racine Baptist Church officiated by Rev Arthur McCauley. Burial Letart Falls Cemetery.
Chester Council Daughters of America accepted one membership application with initiation set for Sept. 4 and all members asked to wear white. Eva Bailey ill. Letha Koblentz attended state council in Toledo. Federated Church youth hosted a picnic with hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, and games marking fall activities. sponsors included Rev. and Mrs. Bartels and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Jewell. Orrville and East Liverpool visitors noted. Middleport honors I. E. Miller 91 at Miller Barton reunion. 73 attendees from Middleport and Waldo. Vanderhoof family links noted.
A joint meeting of women from St. Paul and St. John Lutheran churches named Mrs. William B. Downie Mrs. Walter Schreiber and Mrs. Samuel Michaels to the nominating committee. Mickey Williams presided and the group planned continued circle meetings and an evangelism committee. The state convention was set for November 10 and 11 in Cincinnati.
POMEROY Frances A. Boggess of Middleport sues Burl Boggess for divorce in Meigs County Common Pleas Court charging extreme cruelty and asks for custody of two minor children. Judge C Bacon also grants a divorce to Anna Mae Terrell from Walter W Terrell with custody of two minors. A reception and pound party was held at Enter prise EUB Church in honor of the new pastor Rev Menzel Smith and family.
Property transfers list multiple deeds including Manning Webster and family selling 40 acres in Scipio Two to Helen Jeffers, and numerous others transferring parcels in Sutton Two Rutland Pomeroy and Columbia Two among Meigs County residents. Also notes Michael Hackett returning home to Fort Myers after back surgery and several residents hosting out of town guests in related notices.
A Pomeroy Church of Christ Evangeline Missionary Society meeting followed a church potluck in the social room. Mrs. Milton Roush presided, with a devotional by Mrs. Jerry Masters, and a sunshine box planned for Mrs. Garnet Stanley.
The Homebuilders Class contributed 100 dollars to the Middleport Church of Christ building program during a Tuesday meeting at Mr. and Mrs. Cash Bahr home. Devotions themed The Great Prayer were led by Mrs. Wesley Fry with Bud Wilson concluding. Contests and games followed led by Mrs. Ann Bailey.
Charles H Peoples underwent major surgery on Wednesday and is reported doing fine. He will remain at Holzer Hospital for several days for observation and recovery.
Joe Keyes of Chester Road asserts victory in the sunflower contest after growing a 14 foot tall plant with a bloom 12 inches across. The item asks if any challengers will contest the title.
The bloodmobile will be at Pomeroy Junior High School from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Staff invite donors with a warm welcome, albeit playfully noting a cautious tone.
In two weeks schools will reopen with classes slated for Sept 4. Middleport High School students Cheryl Fife and Jim Johnson say they are ready for the bell, while a local resident remarks on parental anticipation.
Four defendants faced grand jury charges for grand larceny in a theft of 187 dollars and personal property from Helen Ebel. Judge John C. Bacon sentenced William B. Pryor and Gerald B. Deem to one to seven years in the Ohio Reformatory Mansfield. Linda Deem and Dwight Davis received one year probation.
Mrs Homer Holter of Pomeroy Star Route was guest speaker and demonstrator at Twilight Garden Club hosted by Mrs Elmer Wickham with Miss Ada Hoskins as hostess. A message from regional director congratulated the club on honorable mention for its yearbook. plans were made to visit Clark Gladioli gardens. Refreshments served to members and two guests.
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