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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1956
Page
4
Pomeroy reports stressed but functioning local and long distance lines on Christmas Eve. Chief operator Dorothy Jenkins notes lines busy from 7 p.m. with 6000 local calls and 500 toll messages from midnight to midnight, fewer than a typical day. Operators reduced staff to allow holidays off while maintaining quick response where possible.
Middleport residents shared Christmas with relatives in Groveport Athens Zanesville Reynoldsburg and Dayton while others hosted kin at home. The extended lists of names and places reflect a districtwide holiday season of travel meals and reunions.
Glouster Society hosted a Christmas party for the Loyal Workers Class of Hollister EUB Church with 27 attendees including members and visitors. The Bishopville Missionary Society held a Christmas program at Miss Lena Davis’s home with new member Mrs Merl Petticord and a luncheon. Nearby, Garnett residents Jo Dell and Roy Ann Garnett spent Christmas week with Mrs Barnett’s family in Kentucky.
Relatives learn of the death of Mrs. Guy Heald Grace Heston at Weatherford Oklahoma last Friday. A former Glouster resident she lived with her parents Bert and Grace Heston until marriage then moved to Oklahoma and later Columbus. Survivors include two daughters in Oklahoma a son Hector Heald in Washington DC and two sisters Mrs Mary Baird and Lucille Heston. Funeral services were held in Weatherford Sunday.
Middleport reports two veterans leave stores to become full time homemakers. Lily Grimm Hubbard, eight years as Evans Market cashier, and Lane Clay, five years heading A and P meat department, resigning with replacements planned. Mrs Hubbard to leave after vacation, Jan 1. Mrs Clay effective Jan 21.
Chauncey Society members hosted a home Christmas party with greenery and candle table decor. The event included a lighted tree gift exchange, carol singing, games, and prize awards. Guests included Miss Sandra Glab, Gary Bickley, and Dana Mourne recently from Graceland College Lamont. The Chauncey Church of Christ held a Christmas program at the County Home Chapel with garden club arrangements used for dining and mantles.
Chauncey Mr and Mrs Thomas Hamilton entertained with a Sunday pre Christmas dinner. Their guests included Hull Kittle of Glouster. They left Wednesday for Lakeland Florida to spend the winter. Christmas dinner featured Mr and Mrs Charles Harper of Corning with Mr and Mrs Tom Mills of Columbus.
Local news brief from Athens referencing events and notices on Thursday December 1 1956. Includes community updates and brief notices typical of a midweek edition.
A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Lewis Young Middleport. Ethel Hawk Middleport. Admitted Mrs Pearl Jacobs Pomeroy Mrs William Houdashelt Syracuse William Wallace Pomeroy. Discharged Mrs Paul Casci and infant daughter Middleport. Charles Yonker Letart W Va James Young Clifton W Va Ray Roush Syracuse Ralph Radcliff Middleport Tom Neutzling Middleport Cassa Rose Minersville Aaron Kelton Pomeroy Helen Black Middleport.
The Pythian Sisters will gather Wednesday at 7 30 p m for a meeting with a potluck lunch served.
Members meet at 8 p.m. in IOOF hall then travel to Jacksonville to pay respects to the late Madge Harry.
The Orpah Class of the Glouster Methodist Church held its annual Christmas dinner with 19 members and one guest Miss Wilma Ferrer. Teacher Miss Mabel LeFever received a gift. Afterward the group attended a cantata at the high school.
Mrs Charles Guinther of Columbus visited Mr and Mrs Richard Guinther and Mr and Mrs William Stephenson over the weekend and Christmas Day. Henry Fydroski of Detroit spent Christmas with his mother Mrs Mary Fydroski. Mr and Mrs Paul Dale of Dayton were Christmas visitors to Mrs Essa Cairelli. Ronald Tompkins of Baltimore Md and Mrs Tompkins visit Mrs Tompkins parents Mr and Mrs Lawrence Colbert. Mr and Mrs Ed Noon of Columbus visit with Mr and Mrs Harry Vaughn and Mr and Mrs Tom Noon. The Rev and Mrs Roy Bar
Middleport social notes report Night Patrolman J R Neal and Mrs Neal visiting Pomeroy as guests of Mr and Mrs Harold Hinkle for a birthday dinner observed for Mrs Neal on December 26. Neal is on vacation this week.
Mr and Mrs B F Parmalee visited Huntington to share Christmas with Mrs Luda Meadows Parmalees mother and other relatives described in the society notes.
City Patrolman John McKenzie reports parking meter income rose over three weeks with 316.75 collected last week, 311 the prior week, and 262 the week before. Oslo, capital of Norway, is noted for heavy forest cover and a historic expansion on New Year’s Day 1948. Australia claims the world’s largest earthworms, with giant crawlers four to five feet long and weighing a pound or more.
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