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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1954
Page
7
Funeral services for Mrs Clyde Andrews of Pome who died Monday night at Meigs General Hospital will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Ewing Funeral Home. Burial will follow in Beech Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at any time.
The Meigs Chapter of the Izaak Walton League met at the farm and clubhouse with forty five members and guests attending a fish supper. Art Day spoke on the Department of Natural Resources and its branches after a review of the agency. Harold Barnhart and Harry Osborne arranged the event and fish from Forked Run Lake fueled the supper.
Pomeroy High School appoints Miss Saralyn Harman as drum major after competitive tryouts led by director Ray Woodgeard. The vacancy in the majorette line is filled by Donna Strain. The band debut at Meigs County Fair drew enthusiastic crowds, with rigorous practices since Aug 9 naming several members: Bill Anderson, Rachel Genheimer, Billy Gibbs, Ann Icenhower, Erjene Renshaw, June O'Brien, Jean Webster and Eva Carl.
Raymond W. Larkins receives divorce from Alice Virginia Larkins in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Judge Cedric W. Clark sets the terms after charges of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty.
Harry Swan retires after 42 years on a 42 mile rural route in Lebanon Township Meigs County Ohio having driven horses buggies and 18 Ford cars earning a salary that grew with time He began at Port land after moving from Long Bottom and Akron and served under eight postmasters He recalls roads evolving from dirt to gravel and floods and runaways marking a long service with his wife and nine children in the Swan family and a lineage tracing back to Levi Swan Sr who arrived in 1829
Pomeroy Emergency Squad reported 143 calls in the first half of the year. Communities served include Pomeroy Syracuse Rocksprings Minersville Harrisonville Thomas Fork Racine Rutland Antiquity Wilkesville and Hartford West Virginia among others. A fundraising baseball game at Wahama High School will support a life saving boat for the squad.
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