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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1952
Page
3
Wahama students under Mrs. Alice Nease present a minstrel Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Point Pleasant Junior High School auditorium. The Lions Club sponsors the annual event since 1950 with proceeds to the Mason County sight conservation fund aiding school children.
The St Monica s Guild of Christ Church will meet at 8 p m tonight at the rectory. A Christmas program is planned with hostesses Mrs William C Bowie and Mrs William Kirk. The event will be in the dining room of the Presbyterian Church. Firemen will distribute the et ce ee ee magse.
The International Friendship committee of the Point Pleasant Women’s Club asks members to bring a toy for the fire department to a Friday 8 p.m. meeting.
Ladies robe in mosaic gold print with gold braid trim on collar cuffs and front. Features a 3%4 zipper front for easy wear and a golden sparkle button. Available in blue green or lilac and sizes 10 through 18.
Mr and Mrs Walter Bland of West Columbia West Virginia announce the marriage of their daughter to Mr Glenn Marr son of Mr and Mrs Dale Mary of New Haven. The ceremony took place Saturday November twenty ninth at Clifton with Rev W L Gearheart officiating. The bride wore a gray dress with black accessories. The couple reside in West Columbia.
The Henderson School PTA will meet on December 18 at the school to plan a Christmas program.
Mrs James Chandler visits relatives in Tenth Street as four soldiers from Fort Lee Virginia stay nearby. Sgt Otis Crookham and family travel from Texas due to illness of Mrs Crookham's mother. A busy social weekend includes gatherings with Roberta, Carpenter, Casto, Burdette and Moore families, plus hunting trips in Pocahontas and Tucker counties. One resident remains seriously ill at Leon home as others vacation with kin in Huntington and Charleston.
West Virginia soil conservation efforts show near doubling of cooperators from 1951 to 1952. In 14 districts 5,000 cooperators held 7,000 acres, a 92 percent rise, driven by the progressive planning approach allowing early cooperation and immediate SCS assistance.
Mrs Lan don Smith of Bellemeade bagged a 200 pound eight point buck during her first deer hunt in Grant County. She killed the deer at about 7 30 a m after 15 minutes in the woods near Mt Storm with her husband and the Hyatt couple, after two days in Preston County.
The annual Farm Bureau membership meeting will be held Saturday with a 10 a.m. business session at the courthouse. A dinner and special program are planned at the Moose Home at 12:15 p.m.
A daughter named Pamela Jane was born in Point Pleasant on Saturday Dee 6.
Funeral services were held today at Klinger Carpenter mortuary in Huntington for Dr. Furman H. Austin 73 who died suddenly Saturday while on a professional call at a Spring Valley Drive farm Burial took place at Ridgelawn Cemetery with the Minturn Masonic lodge in charge He had been a Huntington veterinarian for 30 years and previously worked as a milk inspector and veterinarian inspector Survivors include his widow two daughters three sisters and a sister in California
The Junior Class Play We Shook the Family Tree staged its first night at Point Pleasant Junior High School auditorium. The three act comedy about teenage problems will be repeated this evening at 8 p.m. Mrs Edward Jackson directed the production with a musical interlude including Wayne Gammon on Dixieland jazz, a vocal sextet and an all girl chorus.
Marriage licenses issued include Fred Carsey Jr age 28 and Patricia Karr age 22 from Mason. Shirley Eugene Hesson age 19 of Letart and Shirley Danbury age 16 of New Haven. Brian Rollins age 23 of Leon and Barbara Robbins age 21 of Point Pleasant. Jackson Robinson Roush age 19 of Mason and Jo Ann Sayre age 17 of Letart.
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