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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1960
Page
4
Tickets for Rutland High School football banquet on December 8 in the grade school cafeteria are on sale through team members and students. Ohio University coach Bob Kappes will be the speaker as awards are given to the team cheerleaders and managers by Coach Jim Vennari.
Feeney Bennett Post 128 Middleport presents a 320 check to Pat Howe for the Gift for the Yanks Who Gave program to aid veterans in hospitals. Alec Blair state commander and other officials attend a chicken dinner and praise the post for its community service and hospital outreach.
The Hemlock Grove Community Institute comes Friday at the grange hall with two sessions. Afternoon program at 1 p.m. includes Bedford school students, sixth to eighth grades, and a minstrel presentation. Evening program at 7:30 features music by Denver Rice Ward Cummings Bill Clark and a Boy Scout skit. Doris Caldwell delivers a speech. W R Miller and Avis Frecker speak with slides from Europe.
Jessie C. D. Brooks 86, former Downington resident, died in Los Angeles. She was daughter of the late Wyllis and Elizabeth Dutton, widow of Otto J. Brooks, survived by daughter Marie Brooks of Los Angeles and cousins in Meigs County. She belonged to Waverly Eastern Star Lodge. Body to arrive at Rawlings Coats funeral home Middleport with graveside services Tuesday at Wells Cemetery near Harrisonville.
Community awards will be presented for participation in the annual automotive vehicle safety check in Meigs County. The public meeting is at 8 Thursday evening at the courthouse. Sheriff Robert Hartenbach and Meigs County Farm Bureau women led the effort. Mrs Virgil Hamm chaired the Farm Bureau group.
Reedsville WSCS hosts annual Christmas bazaar and jitney supper at Reedsville Methodist Church on Friday December 2 at 5 p.m. A wide range of items will be for sale and proceeds fund church improvements. Public invited.
The Middleport Literary Club met at Mrs. D B Hartinger’s home to review The Middle Age of Mrs Elliott by Angus Wilson and Lincoln Lords by Cameron Hawley. Mrs Bruce Lloyd discussed the first book about a English woman’s faltering mid life, while Mrs William Bradford reviewed the second about a modern executive.
Births listed for Mr and Mrs James Beards Pomeroy Route 3 a son and Mr and Mrs Paul Bell Guysville a son. Admitted Bertha Grant Middleport John Darnell Middleport John Sisson Pomeroy Mrs Phyllis Beards Pomeroy Route 3 Mrs Betty Bell Guysville Mrs Victoria Stacey Middleport Gene Davis near Pomeroy Discharged Robert Snowden Arthur Spencer Franklin Lewis Edith Hawk Jess Brinker Etna Gardner.
Middleport High School lists 52 students on the honor roll after the second six weeks. Superintendent L. W. Mc Comas announces the B average or higher requirement and names seniors juniors sophomores and freshmen who earned the distinction.
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