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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1950
Page
9
POMEROY announces the Johnson family annual reunion will be held Sunday at the Worthy Johnson home on Bailey Run. Local plans note family members are expected to attend from surrounding areas.
Dr Homer G McMillen and wife return from a months trip to Ohio and Pennsylvania. He will resume preaching at First Presbyterian Church Sun. He ministered as guest in four churches including Westminster Church Akron where a new sanctuary costs 475000. The trip included visits with relatives in Canal Fulton Harrisburg Emporium Wilmington and Philadelphia.
Workmen digging a sewer along the Ben Franklin Store route near the village parking lot. The Ben Franklin building owner Theodore Ebersbach plans to add apartments in the upper floors. The repair area is on the village lot opposite the store. ADDITIONAL MEIGS COUNTY NEWS ON PAGE 2-A.
Ernest Mickey Menchini celebrated his third birthday with a party at his grandparents home on Wetzgall Street. The event featured a circus cake, red and white decorations, balloons, and favors for attending children. Guests included Donna Crow Cheryl Ebersbach Ascenath Tracy Bessie Lou Watson Susie Stivers and others. Moving pictures were made by Renzo Menchini. A string of social visits and travels by area residents followed, with residents from Saint Simons Island Ga Washington DC and New York City among those mentioned in the day’s society notes.
Mr and Mrs Hurl Hannahs entertained in Hugh Custers honor on Sunday as he prepares to receive his master of science degree Friday at Ohio State University. Dinner guests included Mr and Mrs Hugh Custer Mr and Mrs Lon Custer Mr and Mrs Victor Hannahs and daughter Katherine Jane and Mrs John Sauvage. Mrs Harl Hannahs birthday anniversary was also observed with cake and homemade ice cream.
The George Roush family annual reunion is set for Sunday at Union Camp Grounds in New Haven. Wahama High School's White Falson Band will perform a concert. Officers include Thomas Grinstead president Leland Bungarner vice president Maxine Arnold secretary and Lillian Smith treasurer.
Mrs Truman Russell visits Columbus to check on Hattie Russell at St Francis Hospital where her condition is steadily improving. The Jacobs family returns from Green Bay Wisconsin after visiting Mrs Jacobs' parents. Parkersburg guests include Mrs Ira Chanin and daughter Cathy Sue and Mrs A S Smith. Helen Beeson, just back from Alaska, visits Tom Googlein. Dr and Mrs Roger Daniels will not return to Pomeroy until Sept 11. Edward Rapp Jr and family return to San Bernardino after a visit with Ed Rapp. Ed Rapp's wife improves at home. Bowen family ends trip trips this week.
Four Middleport High School graduates and two from Pomeroy High, plus one from Reedsville, join the Holzer Hospital School of Nursing class of 22. The group begins a half week orientation, with training starting Tuesday at 7 30 a.m. and includes plans for a corn roast at Fortification Hill.
POMEROY Rose Hill PTA will hold its first meeting of the school year Friday at 7 30 p m at the school. President Albert Brown announced the gathering as a kickoff to PTA activities and plans.
The article explains that real strawberries are fruits with seeds on the outside and the inner pulp serving as the fruit’s receptacle. It notes the seeds are part of the fruit’s surface and describes the edible flesh beneath.
Dr Homer G McMillen stated clerk of the Athens Presbytery announces the Fall meeting at Gallipolis on Sept 18 with observers including Dr Hugh I Evans moderator of the General Assembly and his brother Rev John Lloyd Evans moderator of the Synod. Rev Linson Stebbins of the Gallipolis Presbyterian Church will preside.
Mrs. E. S. Schaaf of Meigs County received notice from Mrs. James Richards that the District 11 meeting Wednesday Sept 13 will host a flower show at Federated Church Pomeroy. Registration starts at 10 a.m. Attendees bring lunch. hostess clubs provide beverages. Each club should enter at least three of nine classes including all white foliage roses zinnias in pottery, metal container arrangements, seed forms dried materials and more.
Meigs County patrols arrested Guy Hayman, 33, of Long Bottom Route 2, in Mayor Spencer's court for driving a car in unsafe condition, fined $5 and costs. Sheriff Russell picked up Denver Bolin of Pomeroy Route 2 for the Hocking County sheriff and Bolin was returned to Hocking County yesterday evening.
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