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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
3
Racine defeated New Lexington 31 to 21 in Lexington on Wednesday night. Rutland records show Bradford Powell home for holidays from Castle Heights military school visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. Ben N. Powell.
Racine beat New Lexington 31 21 on Wednesday night after a close first half 13 11. The Racine team pulled ahead in the third quarter scoring 12 points while holding New Lexington scoreless. Senior and junior teams and independents also had games with wins and losses.
Middleport residents announce Christmas visits with relatives in Parkersburg Racine Canton Akron and Columbus. Families from Harriman Tenn Wilkesville Kaylong and Rio Grande converge for holiday dinners and reunions with grandparents parents and siblings as schools resume January 4.
POMEROY Plans to broadcast play by play of Pom ery High School basketball games at Portsmouth and Ashland on Monday and Tuesday next week. A similar broadcast aired Athens tournament games last season. A direct telephone hook up feeds the local amplifying system and loud speakers in restaurants. Announcer T. H. Baker will again call the games if plans are completed.
Pomeroy social column lists numerous visits and holiday stays as residents travel to Columbus Parkersburg Marietta and other nearby towns. Families including Franz Hennessy Terrell Fisher Gans Stanbery Williamson Hilt Edwards Leitwiler and Casto host or visit relatives for Christmas and week-end gatherings.
Several Girl Scouts met with leader Mrs. Bob Roberts at Simpson M E Church on Wednesday afternoon and visited the Meigs County Infirmary to distribute candy and other Christmas cheer to residents. Mrs. A M Koehler and daughter Mrs. A M Cole C J Koehler and Robert Hutchinson visited relatives in Pomeroy Wednesday.
Mr and Mrs Dana L Tracy plan a Christmas dinner entertaining Mrs Tracy s mother Mrs FE Jeffers and daughter Miss Syl via grandson and granddaughter of Gallipolis and Mr Tracy s parents Mr and Mrs A Q Tracy of Pom eroy Miss Nelle Bing recovering from goitre operation at Hol zer Hospital Gallipolis will come to Union Ave Thursday Maxine Campbell Gambier High School teacher and Betty Campbell Columbus arrive Thursday to spend holidays with their parents Virgil Campbell Butternut Ave
William Morris Sanders Jesse Will were arrested Wednesday afternoon by Police Chief Dana Tracy and Assistant Chief Walter Wolfe on intoxication charges. Lester Young was arrested later the same day by Wolfe. All six are being held at the county jail after arrest. Kenneth Oiler, arrested in Syracuse for disturbing the peace, was brought to the jail, fined five dollars and costs and sentenced to 30 days.
Mrs. Ford Geyer of Roswell New Mexico is visiting her mother Mrs Quillen and sister Mrs Carl Genheimer in Syracuse. This marks her first trip here in sixteen years.
Mr and Mrs Ray Gotschall of Parkersburg visited family over the weekend to meet their new nephew Harold Eugene six weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Harold Day Gotschall. Emma Nelson ill Emma May Reed visiting aunt Mrs Sam Francis recovering from surgery at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. Belle Caster recovering Hettie Holliday and son Eugene on business trip to Pomeroy Noah Ogdin ill.
Syracuse The Methodist Episcopal Church will present a Christmas pageant titled The Message of the Christmas Candies this evening at the church. Syracuse schools earlier staged a Christmas program Monday in the school auditorium with students from all grades performing amid a silver and blue decorated Christmas tree.
Charles Wagner was hurriedly removed to Hartman Hospital at Parkersburg Monday for a head operation. He was accompanied by his wife, his mother Mrs. Lillie Wagner, and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Powell of Letart. Elmer Houdashelt has pneumonia, his brother Donald is also ill, and both are improving slowly.
U P reports litchi nuts long a staple of the Orient could be grown commercially in Hawaii if U S experiment station tests succeed. A thousand stocks of the litchi nut tree have been imported from China for study and propagation efforts.
Several members of White Cove Council Pocahontas 134 of Pomeroy visited Mrs. Kathryn Gibbs aged 86 of Middleport on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Gibbs is the oldest member of the order and received a basket of fruit. Present were Mrs Heines Spencer Roller Breuner and McKenzie.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Jenkins are the parents of a son born Wednesday. He is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. George Jenkins and Mr. and Mrs. James Osler. Paul Carmichael was called to Portsmouth by the illness and death of his uncle. Mrs. Richard Duckworth visits Nelsonville for Christmas with her parents. Harold Shover of Columbus visits Syracuse for the holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William Whitlock.
Officials held a noon Christmas dinner at Court Street Grill in farewell to Clerk of Courts Horton Brown who leaves at year end. Clerk-elect Herman Beards will assume duties as the Court of Courts office closes Friday through Saturday for Christmas.
Rev. F. C. Kreager will preach A New Page at Sunday service at First Baptist Church in Middleport. The B Y P A meets at six, with evening sermon Called and Sent. Prayer meeting Wednesday at seven. A holiday fund drive aims to raise about 1100 dollars for debt repayment and church improvements.
A 1,000,600-foot well drilled by Ohio Fuel Gag Co on the B. M. Taylor farm last week stirs leasing activity. A well is going down on the Buskirk farm with two additional locations on nearby farms.
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