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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1955
Page
2
A compact listing of Sunday schools morning worship and evening services for churches across Pomeroy and nearby areas. Includes pastors, service times, prayer meetings, and youth activities across multiple denominations.
Middleport begins Week of Prayer services at First Presbyterian Church each day 7 30 through Friday with union led by Middleport Ministerial Association. Monday Rev Howard Ruppelt presiding Rev Fred Gardner preaching and Church of Christ choir. Tuesday Rev Robert Styers presiding Nazarene preaching Rev L A Bangerter choir Heath Methodist. Wednesday Rev L A Bangerter presiding Rev N D Borden preaching Mt Moriah Baptist choir. Thursday Rev C E Hoyt presiding First Baptist preaching Rev Robert Styers music Minister’s ensemble. Friday Rev Gardner presiding Rev Hoyt preaching First Baptist choir.
American Red Cross officials said a blood unit will return to Pomeroy in February after Wednesday visit. Donors totalled 80 pints, 20 under quota, with 89 volunteers reporting to donate. Gerald R. Thompson of Pomeroy contributed a two gallon donation, newly noted.
Pomeroy Meigs County man to be inducted into the armed forces on January 9 in Ashland Kentucky. Arthur Hall of Syracuse is scheduled for induction. Five others will undergo pre induction physical examinations the same day: Howard Kitchen Jr of Pomeroy, Charles Wolfe of Syracuse, Glennis White of Minersville, Ronald Chapman and Eber Pickens of Letart Falls.
Henry Clatworthy, commander of Feeney Bennett Post, American Legion, presided at the Legion Hall on Wednesday. Charles Cochran of the Point Pleasant National Guard presented films and a report on the past Christmas civic project. Refreshments were served to 30 attendees.
Band director Earl Warnke asks band members to meet at Legion Hall South Fourth Avenue at 8 30 p m Saturday to begin their share of the blue crash town wide canvass. Members should not wear uniforms or bring instruments and will be assigned to regular districts to canvass.
A regular meeting of the Meigs County Agricultural Society is scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday at the commissioners' office in the courthouse to discuss society affairs.
Middleport mayor Sid ney Russell fined Ned Call forty dollars on a charge of intoxication.
New Zealand's kiwi is tailless with almost no wings and burrows like a groundhog. It lays a very large egg about a quarter of its own weight, has catlike whiskers, and a long beak with nostrils at its tip.
Mrs Everett Bachner led the Auxiliary of the Volunteer Fire Department in a Christmas party at Firemen's Hall with twenty members present. Gifts were exchanged and plans discussed for a travelling prize next meeting. Hostesses included Mrs C R Karr Sr Mrs Charles Murray and Mrs Robert McElhinny. A dessert course was served and Christine Whiting Parmenter read David's Star of Bethlehem reviewed by Miss Alice Cooper. February meeting set at Mrs Avis Frecker's Racine home.
Dr and Mrs Marion K Fugate and daughter hosted a family party in Middleport on Thursday evening. Attending were Mr and Mrs Frank Fugate of Pomeroy Mrs William Stoecker and son Bill of Cincinnati Miss Edith Klein of New York City Mr and Mrs O P Klein and Miss Huldah Klein of Middleport.
The Junior Choir of the First Baptist Church hosted a New Year's party at the church on Thursday evening. Decorations included a clock set to 11 57 with greenery and red candles. Rev C E H and his son John attended. Choir directors are Frances Beards and Beulah White.
Mrs Leota Gothard and son Frank hosted Christmas visitors including Marvin and Brooklyn Gothard. James W Got hard and family in Hurricane West Virginia. Jack Miller and daughters Virginia Gothard and family. John L Gothard. William Pitts Gothard in Columbus. Stewart Harris Juanita Gothard and son Dick in Middleport. One son E L Gothard and his family could not attend. Monday Frank Sharkey Lynne Everhart and Patty Sprague of Columbus visited and returned with Emily Gothard. Mrs Jack Miller and daughters stayed a week with her mother and brother.
Widdleport residents and relatives fill the Christmas season with visits and homecomings. Gallipolis shoppers, Jarvis families, McKay and Klein households, and West Virginia to Columbus travel cite a flurry of allied family gatherings and holiday returns. Local students from Notre Dame and West Virginia University came home, while others planned moves to Columbus or Annapolis after the holidays.
Middleport Alpha Omicron chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma held a Christmas party at the home of Miss Anna Maude Fehrman in Jackson after a luncheon. The program provided festive activities and fellowship for members.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Golda Hoyd and Jeffers on December 24. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. P. O. Householder in Logan. The bride wore a blue wool dress. The bride is a Brown-Zaleski High School senior and the groom a 1955 Wilton High School graduate. He works at Goodings supermarket in Athens. The couple reside near Vales Mill.
Mr and Mrs Joe White of Minersville announce the forthcoming marriage of their daughter Verna Mae White to Raymond Salser of Racine son of Mrs Eva Thomas and the late Anthony Salser The ceremony is set for 1 30 p m Sunday afternoon Jan 1 at the Racine Methodist parsonage with Rev John Elwood officiating.
Mrs. B A Dodson returns home from Akron and Columbus after weeks with Erroll Conroy and Jack Conroy families. Doris Betz of Michigan and Erroll Conroy Jr. of New York join Christmas greetings. Many relatives gather for holiday time. Kaspar celebrates 58th anniversary. others visit Morrow and Hamilton while recuperation and travel continue.
Middleport reports the Harry D. Hysell garden at 660 High Street shines with an Old fashioned Christmas display planned and built by Mrs. Hysell. She crafted a life sized church, sleigh and carolers, plus a fireplace scene inside the porch, and shared decorations with the public amid a season of extensive local displays. The village notes additional festive yards on Lincoln Street, North Third Avenue, Race Street, and the community tree on Mill Street, honoring a late village employee’s father.
Multiple local churches list service times for Heath Methodist First Baptist Presbyterian Nazarene and others. Programs include Sunday school 9:15 9:30 or 9:30, morning worship 10:30, evening sermons on various topics and youth fellowship and week of prayer services through Friday.
Michael Cunningham age 51 of Wellsburg West Virginia and Mary Jackson age 38 of Pomeroy. William Wesley Ingle age 18 of Mason and Vivian Marie Abbott age 17 of Middleport are recorded as marrying.
A special meeting of Middleport Volunteer Fire Department officers and First Aid Squad, led by new fire chief David Ohlinger, set plans for the coming year and assigned duties to members.
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