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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1959
Page
2
Eighteen Meigs County Junior Chamber of Commerce members with eight Royal Safety Club helpers delivered two sacks per family containing 75 to 100 pounds of food plus chicken fruit candy and nuts. Toys were distributed including new items from Jaycees and renewed toys.
The Middleport Church of Christ hosted its annual Yale program with a candlelit Silent Night sung by a vocal quartet including Richard Wiley and Cash Bahr. Readings, solos and piano pieces by Jennifer Lohse, Mrs. Chester Erwin, Judy Wiltermuth, and others complemented a Christmas program directed by Mrs. George Meinhart.
Middleport WCTU organized a Christmas clothing drive for 13 children at the Meigs County Children's Home. Gifts were placed under a lighted tree during a party with a Christmas program and carols led by Miss Margaret Sauer.
The Heath Methodist Church junior youth fellowship will meet at the church Tuesday at 6 30 PM to go Christmas caroling. They will return to the church later for a party.
POMEROY five area choirs will present Christmas music over three evenings starting at 7 tonight at the community Christmas tree in the upper parking lot. The Sacred Heart junior choir opens, followed by Wahama High School glee club with the Eastern School District area choir from 7:30 to 8. Next evening the Middleport First Baptist Church choir performs at 7:30 and the Federated Church choir from 8 to 8:30. The event is part of the Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce program led by Paul Casci and is free to the public under the theme Put Christ in Christmas.
Middleport Volunteer Fire Department prepared about 90 food boxes for needy families to be distributed on Christmas. The drive collected items during the season and the boxes include meat, staples, vegetables and fruit for complete meals. Committee members Kenneth McElhinny Russell Mills and Bob Byer led the effort at the Bachner store building headquarters with about 300 dollars raised for perishables.
Heath Methodist Church announces the annual Christmas program with children to assemble at 6 30 p m and the program set to begin at 7 p m chaired by Mrs Charles Asa Bradbury.
Mr and Mrs Scott Staples of Rutherford New Jersey hold 8000 rocks not in the garden but in their house. Staples is Rutherford s tax collector and treasurer and collecting comes natural to him.
A Santa visit highlighted the annual Sunday school program at the United Methodist Church in Pomeroy. Beginners and primary groups performed songs and readings with soloists and a toy band, while the fourth through sixth grades presented recitations and the story of light.
At the village Christmas party in City Hall two long time employees retiring January 1 were honored. Mayor Charles Legar spoke and presented Charles J. Werry a 25 year Pomeroy Police Department patrolman a watch and Otho Murray cemetery sexton and street commissioner a fishing rod reel and a $15 gift certificate. A potluck dinner followed.
Deputy Sheriff Howard Frank reports a Route 124 Rutland accident Saturday at about 11 p.m. when a car driven by Jack Morris, 19, of Dexter Route 1 skidded and overturned in a field. Morris was arrested for driving while intoxicated. an emergency squad call was canceled.
The Bradford Church of Christ will stage its annual Christmas program at 7 30 p m Christmas Eve at the church. At 6 p m Wednesday the church youth group will carol and then visit Mr and Mrs James Reed of Middleport Route 1 for a business meeting and Christmas party.
Mrs. Arnold Richards led the Mt. Moriah Sunday School program with participants from primary and intermediate groups including Donna Boyd Paula Gomez Sherri Powell Delago Powell and Sally Powell. Adults Fred Jackson Nellie Winston Mary Sharon Bertha Jackson Myrtle Warren and others recited read and performed. Reverend Nyle Borden closed with remarks on Christmas.
Christmas party of the ladies auxiliary of Feeney Bennett Post 128 AMERICAN LEGION will be held at 6 30 p m Tuesday at the hall Members are reminded to bring items for a Christmas basket for a needy family and to bring cookies or sandwiches for the refreshment hour
Ohio lawmakers publish a clarifying summary of a 1946 Meigs County hospital bill. The act authorizes Meigs County to spend levy funds for a public general hospital to be started by 1962, dedicated to veterans, with trustees merging into county hospital trustees and funds renamed to the county hospital building fund.
Heath MIDDLEPORT Congregation fills the church for a Christmas candlelight service in memory of the late Rev and Mrs Robert Bishop and Mr and Mrs Edwin Cook. The service featured carols led by William Everson with organist Mrs C M Hennessy, scripture read by Rush Philson, and Rev Raymon Konkright delivering the message.
Mrs. Addie Autherson 64 died Saturday at her Syracuse residence. Funeral services were at 2 p m at Ewing funeral home. Surviving are children Junior Grace Maywood Emma Frances Rena and others. nineteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Two sisters Anna Clark and Matilda Walters also survive. Rev Artur McCauley conducted the Racine Baptist Church rites. Burial in Broad Run Cemetery Graham Station West Virginia.
The Twilight Garden Club of Pomeroy prepared two table arrangements and two door arrangements for the shoppers lounge, an arrangement for the Pomeroy Public Library, and 30 small arrangements for Meigs General Hospital. Members also gave gifts to patients at Gallipolis State Hospital for Christmas.
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