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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1937
Page
6
Council hears a 10 week study on Meigs Water Co prepared for a potential village purchase. Alfred LeFeber presents findings. new council members and the mayor-elect attend. Purchase seems likely with backing lined up and owner John B. Downing wishing to sell.
Pomeroy and Middleport High School football squads from 1937, along with coaches, were guests of honor at a Wednesday Eagles Club banquet. The event, now annual, aims to foster friendship between the towns. Attendance reached 110 with 58 players and coaches present. Dr. E. F. Maag served as toastmaster.
Olive-Orange basketball players from Tuppers Plains won their fourth straight, defeating Harrisonville 37 to 16. The Tuppers Plains Reserves won 20 to 9, after last Saturday’s 31 to 18 win over Belpre.
The Queen Esther Class of Bethany Church held its annual Christmas party with about 25 members and a chicken dinner. Other reports note class exchanges, bridge games, library board appointments, and Federated Circle festivities with dinners, decorations, and officer nominations.
MIDDLEPORT The Pomeroy Firemen accept the challenge to face Middleport Firemen in a donkey basketball game as the second event in a doubleheader at the high school gym Friday night. Proceeds go to the Community Christmas Fund for holiday charitable uses.
Middleport officers and drill team held a turkey dinner and Christmas party at the K of P Hall. Mrs H E Thomas hosted the Middleport Literary Club with papers on Floyd Douglas Kagawa and Stuarts Chase. gifts to Delaware Reformatory girls were approved. The PTA sponsored a play Who Helps Santa Claus directed by Vesta Mc Coy with rehearsals and a tonight's dress performance. plans include a Carol Sing on Christmas Eve and semi monthly officer elections.
Middleport Na tional Junior Shakespeare Club met with leaders Mr. and Mrs. Gene Wyatt. Officers chosen include Barbara Stout Carla Clark Franklin Guinther Pauley Ann Kincaid Mary Baker Norma Jean French. Members studied Shakespeare life objectives acting terms and dramatizations.
Whooping cough and other children’s diseases run through Middleport. Lois Ann Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Smith, is confined at home on Beech Street with whooping cough. Virginia Lou Grogan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grogan, is absent from the second grade due to illness. Edward Gene Koehler has been ill with tonsillitis for several days. Miss Helen Shaw and Miss Lilian Huddy of Nelsonville visited Rev and Mrs H A Rothrock on Tuesday evening. Clarence Fealty returned home to Lexington today after a several days visit with his brother in law Floyd Koehler.
Mrs Roy Barnes led the regular monthly Heath M E Church Class 12 gathering with Mrs Lee McComas presiding. The group planned a cafeteria supper for January 14 and voted to cover the church insurance debt. Gifts were exchanged and refreshments featured festive gumdrop baskets.
Middleport Public Library announces numerous new titles ready for circulation including Finland and New Nation by Rothery and With Lawrence in Arabia by Thomas. The library serves all Meigs County, with November circulation reporting 1,740 books issued, over 600 to school children, and a full magazine selection.
In Tampa Florida 216 high school girls were surveyed and only four indicated plans to marry. The questionnaire data suggest a low interest in marriage among the respondents.
The revival meeting planned for December 13 at Weaver Chapel has been postponed to a later date announced by Reverend Green. Several local residents attended recent events including funerals and family visits as influenza illness affects the area.
Mrs Emmett Poples slipped on the sidewalk near the Schlengel shoe store and bruised herself. she is recuperating at home. Miss Minnie Eiselstein fell on the ice en route to work at the Red Anchor store and is confined to her home with a back injury.
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