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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1946
Page
8
The Pomeroy Band Boosters Association will meet at Pomeroy Senior High School at 7 30 p m Tuesday with the public invited. A divorce petition was filed Friday by Virginia Molden against David W Molden in Meigs Common Pleas Court citing gross neglect and extreme cruelty.
Mrs. L D Diles and relatives plan trips to Fresno and Los Angeles to visit children and kin. Mrs. Hennesy visits Santa Rosa. Mrs. Churchill recovering from surgery. Local hospitalizations noted for Mrs. Zerkle and Mrs. Leonard with family visits around Columbus. An industry note states one printing plant per 3600 people in the U S.
Meigs County recorder George Meinhart was elected vice president at the Ohio Recorders Association annual convention in Columbus. The three day event drew 134 county officials and featured updates to laws and efforts to preserve a unified state government. Meinhart also joined the association's legislative committee.
Pomeroy High School principal J E White announced a Federal Bureau of Investigation notice offering openings for current seniors. A. E. Ostholthoff, SAC, offered to send a bureau representative to explain roles and salaries. Posted pay ranges include stenographer 2394 dollars, typist 2168.28, clerk 1954, and under clerk trainee 1756. Students finishing in June 1947 may apply now for assignments after graduation.
Mrs. Zora Singer, 88, daughter of Meigs County pioneers Sarah Ann Williamson and John Shiveler, died after six weeks illness at daughter Lois Andre’s home in Ashland Kentucky. She leaves a daughter and relatives in Pomeroy Parkersburg and Columbus. Funeral held at Ashland with Rev C E Hawkskin officiating and interment in Ashland.
Middleport report covers a postponed Middleport Literary Club meeting at Miss Bess Sanborn home with president Mrs. C. P. Dutton presiding. It notes readings by Mrs. Strauss Hennesy Titus and replacement critic Mrs. Hartinger. birthday party for Carolyn Bradford at Brownell Ave. with aunt Mrs. Franklin Bailey organizing games and a child list. Also mentions funeral attendees from local families and Heath Methodist Evening Circle gathering at Mrs. A. W. McKay home with hostess R. A. Miller assisting.
Mr and Mrs James Souders celebrated their silver wedding anniversary on December 2 at their Main Street home. Neighbors and close friends attended a social evening with refreshments and a large silver and white cake presented by Mrs Wilbur Theobald.
Witnesses gathered as news notes the return to duty after the death of Mrs Ad, with local authorities preparing notices and potential proceedings following the loss.
In Parkersburg on that day Mrs Nan Moore led devotionals and Mrs McKay gave a paper. A dessert course was served.
The P. M. Club announces its annual Christmas party to be hosted at Mrs. Harold Lohse’s residence with assisting hostesses Mrs. Howard Byers, Mrs. Charles Gross, and Mrs. Richard Chambers. A note on the domestic reindeer traces its introduction to North America from Siberia via Alaska in 1891.
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