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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1963
Page
6
The B. H. Sanborn Missionary Society at Middleport First Baptist Church displayed 14 dresses made by each circle for girls on the Oklahoma Indian Reservation. The group voted to donate 15 to the school lunch program for needy children and heard a letter of appreciation from Bacone Christian Center for a box of materials.
The Hughes family plans a January visit from Madrid where Lu cille Hughes Owens and her husband Warrant Officer Charles M. Owen with their four children Sandra Barbara Kathryn and Michael will fly to McGuire Air Force Base New Jersey January 16. They have lived in Spain for almost three years and will travel to visit Mr. and Mrs. Hughes in the States.
Mr. and Mrs. I C Glicken with three children visited Mrs Lena Leake in Taylor Ridge. Numerous relatives and friends from Somerset Athens Chauncey Columbus and Jacksonville gathered for dinners parties and Christmas plans. The Taylor Ridge Church of Christ Ladies Aid to hold a Christmas party with a $1 gift exchange.
Plans are set for the annual Pomeroy Band Party at 6 pm Saturday in the junior high auditorium. The Band Boosters revised committees with Maxine Arnold chairing kitchen and Elma Russell co chairing. Decorations hostesses and waitresses are listed along with cleanup and service volunteers. The winter concert is announced for December 18 at the junior high auditorium. A next meeting is set for January 7 with hostesses named.
A sequence of Sunday and weekend visits ties together families from Columbus Gallipolis and Akron. James and Diane Bable joined Mrs. Bert Bable in Columbus while relatives from Pomeroy Middleport and Brookville gathered for Thanksgiving with the Lloyds Bastiami and Ketchka families. A birth announcement notes Robert Brent Houdashelt born at Holzer Hospital with grandparents in Pomeroy and Columbus.
Mrs. Eleanor White reports the holiday gathering as families from Vinton and Columbus visit relatives for Thanksgiving. Names include Richard Riegler and Rickie, E. E. Hartsook, Clinton Lambert, Anna Higgins, R. B. Poling, Lawrence Long, Lynn and Arlene, Leo Lanier family, Hubert Lanier, Kenny Lanier, Marshall, Marjie, Cleo Lanier, and Lester Waugh family.
Plans for a Christmas candlelight communion service were made by the Syracuse First United Presbyterian Church Session. The service is set for 9 am on December 22 and follows discussion of the church’s 90th anniversary observance in June. The January 19 congregational meeting will present 1964 officers.
Judge Frank W. Porter fined eight defendants in Meigs County Court. David Lee Russell of Pomeroy paid 25 dollars and costs for no operator’s license and 10 dollars for speeding. Charles D. Stone of Rutland paid 5 dollars and costs for parking on the highway. Alice M. Wolfe of Racine paid 10 dollars and costs for failure to yield right of way. Kermit Walton and Patrick Wood of Pomeroy paid 10 dollars and costs each for speeding. John Scarbrough of Racine Route 2 paid 10 dollars and costs for unsafe vehicle and 10 dollars for using a farm vehicle commercially. James Robert Priddy of Rutland paid 65 dollars and costs for an overloaded vehicle. Jay Hall Sr. of Cheshire Route 1 paid for failure to yield right of way.
The notice lists multiple parcel transfers in Salem Two Pomeroy Scipio Two Salisbury Two Rut and Bedford Two Olive Two Sutton Two Sut ton Two Chester Two plus a court result in Middleport. Woodrow Chapman 30 Patriot was fined 10 dollars and costs on intoxication. John Oiler 24 forfeited a 25 dollar bond in the same court.
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