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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1948
Page
3
Mrs. Alice Flanntegan, a nurse, resumed duties at a Parkersburg hospital on Sunday after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Schwartzwalter in Syracuse. The brief item notes the home visit and return to work.
Pomeroy mayor D A Canaday will file his petition today to run for Congress in Ohio’s Tenth District. Endorsed by district committeemen at Ironton on Jan 4, he campaigns as an independent Democrat focused on small business, farmers, and labor, aiming to raise living standards. Bert House was missing due to illness but improving.
Forty one members of the Church of Christ from Huntington attended a youth banquet at the Sixth Avenue Church of Christ in Huntington. The event drew 200 attendees and featured the newly organized orchestra conducted by Dick Wiley, with pastor C. BE Shepard among the drivers and several chaperones.
Pomeroy Drew Webster Post 39 American Legion holds an open house for area veterans Monday at 8 p.m. Commander Denver Thomas announces topics include processing bonus applications. Good Conduct and Victory Service medals will be issued to U S Army representatives from Parkersburg and former servicemen with discharge copies. Army personnel will show movies and refreshments will be served.
Church school leaders travel to Pomeroy for the Meigs County Church School Training Conference second half at the Federated Church. Rev. DeLoss Smith of Racine Methodist Church will teach the course Recreation in the Church.
Mrs. Florence Bush announces no gathering for Meigs Temple No 153 Pythian Sisters Tuesday evening. The next meeting is scheduled for March.
Tom H. Pomeroy Leifheit Naylor Run was brought home from University Hospital in Colum bus via Ewing's ambulance Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Donovan Allen of Buffalo New York are staying three weeks at their Miami Beach Florida home after the opening of Mr Allen's new Chevrolet agency and service room in New York City. He hosted 200 press members there before traveling south.
Despite heavy snow and cold, merchants report strong buying day with many shoppers stocking up for the weekend. The Liberty cinema reopened after a gas heating change while First Presbyterian and Heath Methodist churches closed Sunday due to gas shortages. The river froze with pedestrians crossing Mason side as Middleport Roadside Park hosted skiing and sledding and a hillside bonfire drew locals.
Funeral services for Perry Graves 72 who died at his home on S Fifth Ave will be Tuesday at 2 pm at the Church of Christ with interment at Cheshire Graves Hill Cemetery. C E Shepard pastor will officiate. Graves was a retired car inspector for the New York Central Railroad and had been ill for a long time. He leaves two daughters Mrs Henry Fultz and Mrs Harold Long both of Middleport and 10 grandchildren.
James Bailey and Denver Frank left for Youngstown to seek employment. Clarence Baker visits relatives in Columbus. School closed for several days due to slippery roads. Mrs. Arthur Morarity and son Larry visit Mrs. Leroy Morarity in Middleport. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bailey guests of Eddie and Mrs. Young in Pine Grove. Mr. and Mrs. Will Moore of Clay Mont visit Arthur and Paul Orr and Minnie Orr. Visitors at the Orr home include Celivan Circle and family.
Miss Fay Bailey returns from Grapeland Texas after months with her aunt Mrs R C Crump. Maxine Pickens and Billy Williams of Ohio University are home for a between semester vacation. Russell Barr of Pittsburgh visits with his parents on Reedsville Route One. T F Dye of Joppa spends Sunday with Mr and Mrs A A Het zer. Funeral services for 84 year old Mrs Melissa Boring held Feb 1 at Church of Christ with Ross Swindler Parkersburg officiating.
PTA sponsored a Wheeling radio show on January 21. Charles Sargent stays at his late father’s home to manage farm work until the sale. Dwight Hines on leave from the Navy visits his mother Mrs Grace Hines. Chauncey couple Mr and Mrs James Hooper visit Mr and Mrs Fred Hooper. Mrs Clarence Friese with her father H S Burson of Athens. Mrs Sadie Hawk is seriously ill. Mrs George Fulton.
In Pomeroy Mrs Rosie Ohlinger admitted January 29 for operation and Ruth Emma Smith admitted January 25 for operation. Freddie Clark injured in a wreck at the Pomeroy Mason bridge Saturday night was discharged Sunday at 1 pm. Middleport teachers and officers of the church school meet at the First Baptist Church Tuesday at 7 pm at the home of Mrs Charles Bennett with a business meeting and prayer service Wednesday evening.
Middleport notes show Mrs Walter Crooks to host the February Amateur Gardeners Club meeting with Mrs Arthur Strauss assisting. Valentines will be exchanged and roll call is Valentine sentiments. Mrs Ben Philson to present program material. Franklin Delano Richards birthday party was held for a junior high group of Richards relatives in honor of the late President. Donna McDonald organized the surprise event at her uncle J B Downing’s office with ice cream cake candy and drinks at the Purity Shop. twenty boys and girls attended. Adjusted for clarity and period tone.
Mason Mason Sunshine Class of the Methodist Sunday School met at the home of Mrs. L. E. Thomas and planned refreshments for the chamber of commerce event. Several local residents and visitors are listed as having been served. Also noted are hospital stays, births, moves, and recent visits among Mason area families including Mrs. Eliza Metcalf Mrs. Thresa Linkour and Mr. and Mrs. Perry Hesson.
Mrs. John Cooper died January 26 at the Strausbaugh home, with funeral and burial January 29 in Radcliff. Survivors include Mrs. Earl Arbaugh and Clyde Cooper of Wilkesville. Grandparents D. E. Wood welcome a daughter born to Leo and Mary Davidson near Pomeroy, named Wilma Jean. Twin boys were born January 26 at Holzer Hospital to Eister and Mary Matheney. Wilkesville High School hires Theodore Boring to fill a vacancy. classes resume January 29 after a short closure.
The Middleport Garden Club will host a tea on February 12 to honor Mrs. Thomas M. Wolfe of Athens, president of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs. Mrs. M. L. French will open her home for the event, with members of the Amateur Gardeners Club as guests.
The Jolly Bunch Sewing Club met at Beech Street home of Mrs Orin Smith Friday evening with Mrs L D Diles assisting. A hamburger fry was planned as part of the gathering.
The P.M. Club will meet Thursday evening at the home of Walter Crooks with Mrs. Charles Murray as co host.
The Variety Guild will hold its Thursday evening meeting at the home of Mrs. Charles Neal on S. Third Avenue.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Darst now reside in Akron where he works at Western Auto Supply. Mrs Darst visited her mother in law Beulah White Darst. Calvin Bruce Simpson of Pittsburgh joined his wife Gladys Folden at the Folden home Locust Street. Mrs Minerva Childers and daughter visited E H Burdette in Leon who is reported seriously ill. Mr and Mrs Robert Allensworth were Columbus visitors Saturday. Mr and Mrs Joe Savely and daughter Susan returned to Akron after visiting relatives in Athens for the Savely Peoples wedding.
Preliminary plans for World Day of Prayer to be held Friday February 13 at First Presbyterian Church. Ecumenical service themed The World At Prayer with The Lord's Prayer as study basis. Participants include leaders from First Presbyterian First Baptist Heath Methodist and Church of Christ with listed coordinators and others to be named.
Meigs County land transfers list multiple deeds including Lucille E Norris to Charles and Hazel Jones Sutton parcel Joseph Soltesz and Effie Soltesz to Charles Eblen Jr and Nellie Eblin Salisbury Everett L Bachner and Kathryn L Bachner to Joseph Soltesz Jr and Effie Soltesz lot 33 Middleport Sophia Parker to Wesley E Schatz 26 acres Fred De Wees to Harold E Swartz Salisbury Clara E Stahl to Clemente Menchini and Gina Menchini lot 490 Pomeroy Edgar R Vale Betty Vale Robert Hysell Ann Hysell to E J Hill Mary M Hill lot 68 Middleport Homer A Cole Onella Cole to Clyde V Watson 2 acres Orange Mary J Sapp to Emma Eblin Salisbury John Headley to Homer Headley Middleport Addie Headley Myrtle Comstock Thomas H Headley to Walter W Bunce Pearl M Bunce
Mrs Melvina Jackson 86 of Middleport died after a year long illness at her Liberty Lane home. A Mount Moriah Baptist Church member and Auxiliary to the Lewis Manley Post American Legion she is survived by three sons Fred Middleport David at home Douglas Rendville and four daughters Laura Young Middleport Cora Young Eric Pa Kathryn Braxton Cincinnati and Goldie Evans Cleveland. The body was moved to Laura Youngs Hudson Street residence where friends may call.
Nearly five inches of snow fell from Saturday afternoon to 2 a.m. Sunday. Mayor D A Canaday said streets were nearly cleared by Sunday evening but curbs may need shoveling to aid parking. Roof snow began melting Sunday afternoon as temperature dropped to 14 degrees on Court Street.
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