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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1962
Page
15
The Christ mas Eve candlelight service will be held Monday at 7 p.m. at the Heath Methodist Church with Rev. Marvin Dowson in charge.
Seventy residents were drawn Saturday in Meigs County to serve on January term petit and grand juries. Petit jurors include Edith Ryther, Nellie Sargent, Albert Coates, Bessie Hysell, Virginia Dean, Frank Fugate, Beulah Ewing, Marie Leifheit, Fay Pratt, Opha Offutt, W. C. Strain, Lillian Triplett, Nell Ohlinger, Hazel Wilson, Ferne Roush, Ruth Dodson, S. W. Mills, Lorands Might, Denver Nelson, Kathryn McKinney, Emerson Jones, James Crisp, Ernest Ward, Ann Coe, David Grindstaff, Homer Circle, Ray Hayman, Pauline Johnson, Dora M. Wolfe, Howard G. Roush, Albert Hill Jr, Mable Brace, J. C. Chancey, Irene Grueser, Minnie Harris, Joyce Thoren, Minersville, Miles F. McCallister, Ava Gilkey, Ernest Wood, Ambrose Flanagan, Minnie Headley, Donna Watson, Doris Marks, Elizabeth Riebel, Lottie Wallace, Everett McClanahan. Grand jurors include Floradell Grueser, Brad Russell, Wallace Bradford, William Stover, James E. Simpson, Blythe Theiss, Carl Persinger, Maggie Arnold, Richard Finnan, June Soulsby, Tracy Whaley, Deena Hauber, Edith A. Morris, Vera Holcomb, Eleanor Frederick, L. L. Meyers, Charles W. Price, Emma Newland.
Judging of this year’s home decoration contest by the Middleport Garden Club and the Middleport Amateur Garden Club honored prize recipients in religious and non religious categories. First prizes went to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smart and to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Goble, with several honorable mentions. Mrs. Marion French hosted the judges and club presidents along with civic committees to view homes in the area.
The First Baptist Church in Middleport hosted a candlelight vesper titled Ring Out Sweet Bells on Sunday afternoon. Rev. Donal A. Boone organized the program featuring bells as they relate to Christ’s birth with participants including Mrs. Cecil Bradbury at the organ and performers such as Mrs. Harold Thomas, Mrs. Allen Hughes, Ann Wilson, Stephanie Pullen, Linda Kauff, Michael Bratton, Haskle Gerry, and Crystle White portraying the Holy Family.
The Middleport First Presbyterian Church women’s association held its December meeting in the Sunday school room with president Miss Susan Park presiding. Devotions, prose and poetry readings, two vocal numbers, and refreshments were shared, with one guest present.
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