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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1941
Page
6
Middleport schools stage a patriotic program on Feb 21 under PTA auspices. From kindergarten games to senior girls octet, acts include the rhythm band, junior high choir, choral numbers, skits, and military tap repeats. Tickets go on sale tomorrow via third and fourth graders.
A county AAA educational meeting will be held at Harrisonville High School Friday at 7:00 PM. Speakers include Wayne H. Chase County Committee member C E Blakeslee and Mr Starbuck plus Edison Hobstetter showing cattle pictures. Farmers are urged to attend to learn about the 1941 farm program and tree allotments. Deadline to appeal Feb 12 and tree orders must be placed by Feb 20 to ensure delivery.
The WPA Nursery School Mothers' Club hosted a social at Mrs. Howard Kitchen's home with Mrs. Ray Barker assisting. Prizes were awarded to Miss Mary Virginia Reibel and Miss Wilmetta Burton. The club seeks scrap lumber and wallpaper for the school in the former Swedenborg Church on Pearl Street. New officers of the S. S. Club were named, and preparations for the PTA Patriotic Program on Feb. 21 continued. Other items include engagements, birthdays, Girl Scouts events, church society notices, and visits of relatives to Middleport residents.
Racine Baptist Church members host an event at Mrs. Maurice Lott home. Rev. T T Shelton to lead Armistice Sunday service at 7 30 PM. Local families attend Nazarene district meeting in Athens. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Richard Coe Rochester PA and Ray Roush Youngstown with family. A trip to California by Beegle and Johnsons. Stella Weaver returns home after three weeks with relatives near Chester.
Meigs County Public Health League will meet Friday night at Pomeroy City Hall to discuss the skin-testing program for this year. A report on the 1940 seal sale will be presented. Those interested in county tuberculosis work are invited. The meeting opens at 7:30.
Mrs Margaret Wippel Costen recently married hosted by Miss Olga Pierotti at Second Street home. Guests included Margaret Hartenbach Ruth West Clara Sayre and others. Also notes on Mrs Thomson 88 spending winter in Gallipolis and local bankers attending Columbus convention. Junior Shakespeare Club and other local visits.
Rutland High School senior class will present Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, a three act comedy, in the school auditorium on Wednesday February 19 at 8 p.m. The play features a hayseed outwitting a Chicago city slicker and is billed as one of America's funniest works.
The Rev. Henry L. Carr pastor of the Presbyterian Churches in Middleport and Syracuse announces a young people's meeting at the Syracuse Church this evening at 7 30. Misses Esther and Ruth Leifheit lead the game and refreshment period and all young people of the Syracuse parish are urged to attend.
Racine Recreation Center hosts a Valentine party directed by Ted Hilldare and Mrs Harriett Allen on Friday February 14. Attendees are invited to dress as Little Abner characters and enjoy games and refreshments. A prior Tin Can party drew 30 children with games contests and relays.
Eva Harrison Truby, a Meigs County native who died in Columbus at 78, lived with the Longstreth family in Dexter after birth. She worked over 50 years in state institutions in Athens, Columbus, and Cleveland and accrued a sizable fortune. She was linked to the Halliday family lineage. She leaves siblings William Harrison Edith Harrison Mary Steele and Clemmie McKinzie. A second item notes Anna Davis, 81, critically ill after strokes near Morning Star.
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