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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1964
Page
10
Pomeroy Village Council approved a 1964 appropriations resolution totaling 592 710 for expenditures in various funds. New councilman Rob ert G Hysell attended his first session while Leslie Fultz began another term.
Syracuse Pack 237 hosted its Christmas meeting in a local school auditorium with Cubmaster Olin Knapp leading. Scouts decorated a tree, presented parent gifts, and collected a welfare basket for a rest home while Den 1 and Den 2 members performed and assisted by several parents and den mothers.
A Monday string of ice related crashes hit Pomeroy and surrounding routes. Vincent Dabo was taken to Meigs Memorial Hospital after his car went over a wall near Dr J H Donovan’s home and several other collisions were reported on Butternut Ave Route 338 and Route 7. Charles Workman lost teeth in a Route 7 pileup and was treated. Fred Peet avoided injury after a slide. Edward Young and Marion Runyon were cited after a minor Eagle Ridge Rd crash.
The annual Christmas program at the Presbyterian Church in Syracuse began with congregational singing and prayer led by Mrs. Pearl McBride. The primary class, Rosetta Lisle as teacher, performed recitations and songs. a play titled Christmas Eve at the Bryson's featured Rosetta Lisle and others. Santa Claus visited after, giving candy canes to children.
Miss Sarah Bechtle, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Bechtle, enrolled Monday at Columbus Business University for a 12 month secretarial course. A 1963 Middleport High School graduate, she recently served as honored queen of Bethel 62 IOJD and resides at 1683 Summit Street.
Three minor accidents were investigated by Middleport police Sunday. Carson Lingerfelt 43 of Letart West Virginia was cited for traveling against traffic after hitting a parked car owned by Morris Neutzling. Damages were minor and he was released after posting a 25 bond.
Meigs County farmers must apply for new barley tobacco allotments by Feb 15 at the Meigs County ASCS office in the Masonic Temple in Pomeroy. Eligibility requires ownership and operation of a farm with over 50 percent income from agriculture, and tobacco experience in at least two of the prior five years. The farm must be the sole tobacco allotment holding.
The Rio Grande Association hosts a women’s tea at Middleport First Baptist Church on February 3 with the theme Tell Missions. Association president is Mrs. Donald Boone and a missions program on South India is planned for February 23.
Meigs County records show transfers and affidavits of transfer among Dixon, Russell, Postlewait, Miller, Piper, Knotts and Welker families. Parcels in Rutland and Salem Two shift among relatives in routine property dealings.
The village of Pomeroy shows total funds of 223 415 64 as of January 1. Operating funds balance 13 708 73. Receipts December 13 552 43 and expenditures December 8 355 13. Other funds balance 209 706 91. Total of all funds 223 415 64.
Meigs Memorial Hospital notes show Mr and Mrs Robert HArden Racine welcomed a son. Admitted Vincent Dabo Pomeroy and Esther Varian Clifton W Va. Discharged Walter King Kenneth Lawson Mrs Ronald Bailey and son and Edith McCoy.
Eddie Guin chaired a church dinner for United Methodist men. Miss Lydia Ebersbach presented Holy Land slides after the meal. Leo Crew led a follow up business session. Woodrow Hendrix of Syracuse was fined 75 dollars and costs for driving an overloaded vehicle. Reeder Charles Houck, 32, of Parkersburg West Virginia, and Mary Helen Harris, 21, of Long Bottom, obtained a marriage license.
Pomeroy notices the death of Clara H. Coen 30 Sherman Ave Columbus on Friday January 3. She was wife of Pearl Coen a mine official killed at Sunday Creek Mine Millfield in 1930. Survived by brother L. J. Heiner two nieces out of state and Bernard O. Black Zanesville. Funeral at Denton Donaldson Kuhn 1302 E Broad St Columbus burial Green Lawn. Heiner and Mr and Mrs James Clatworthy were in Columbus Sunday due to death.
Middleport retiring board member Bruce Lloyd was guest of honor at a dinner Monday night at the high school hosted by Superintendent L. W. McComas. Lloyd served 12 years and did not seek reelection. successor Cash Bahr was named.
Pomeroy police arrested Robert Lee Ralls of Tucson Arizona and Dennis Lee Bowman of Myerstown Pennsylvania for a $30 theft at Duds and Sudson on Main Street Monday. The pair confessed and the money was recovered. Preliminary hearing scheduled before Mayor Charles Legar.
Mrs. James Beards hosted a Sunday dinner party for her husband’s birthday. A decorated cake and gifts marked the celebration attended by Tim and Scott Beards, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dill, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wildermuth plus their daughters Sandy Cathy and Teresa.
A roster of patient and staff names appears in Meigs General Hospital notes. Floyd Williams, Betty Howell, Carrie Condon, Roy Parker, Crella Mc Haffie, Howard Stewart, Bertha Hulbert, Ella Russell, Essie Mossman, Gertrude Boyce, Clarence Jones, Osa Boggess are among those referenced in the document.
Middleport guests including Village Council finance committee members Wayne Gibbons Gene Harris and John Zerkle joined Mayor Lee Smith and former Councilman William Childs for a Sunday turkey dinner at Grate View to discuss the 1964 appropriations.
Vicetines Meigs Temple and Pythian Sisters meet at 8 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday respectively at local halls. The Middleport Athletic Association gathers 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the high school cafeteria. The Odorus Council Daughters of America plan Thursday night at Miss Evan Jessie’s home with Mrs. Olan Goodwin hosting. Pomeroy Band Rosters to discuss spring Cleveland trip and guest conductor for March concert. Nancy L. Smith files for divorce from Frederick J. Smith in Meigs County Common Pleas Court seeking custody of one minor child.
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