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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1957
Page
2
The village council approved 1957 appropriations totaling 90,718 after three readings, plus a new 10 year lighting contract with the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. The budget covers general, safety, cemetery, street maintenance, bond retirement and service funds, with detailed allocations for officials, departments, and utilities.
About 50 students, sponsors, and guests attended a Twelfth Night program at Racine High School organized by the Latin-Spanish Club. Emma Lee Brewer Donna Circle Douglas Graham Phyllis Idle and others led the student activities with readings duets and skits. The event featured a clay piñata gift exchange and a post program recreation and refreshments.
Mrs Bentz Wolf was crowned Queen for a Day by Mrs Ben Neutzling at Friday's Federated Church Happy Harvester's class for 21 members. A gold crown, white cape and red bouquet marked the moment as contestants, gifts, devotions, and a class meeting followed with plans for lunch service to the Lions Club and a larger kitchen refrigerator.
Meigs County transfers include Jesse B. Hampton to Clovis E. Betts 46 acres in Columbia and Walter B. Hampton’s executor’s series to Betts 46 acres in Columbia. Ann Callaway to Zuelilia Smith lot in Pomeroy. Sherman Tillis and Kathleen Tillis to James T. and Dixie Carroll lots in Rutland and reverse. Titus E. and Alma E. Smith to C. W. and Lola Bright parcels in Salem. Chauncey Merle Ashley and Nola J. Ashley to Harry C. and Katie Hill several acres in Letart. Charles Johnson deceased to Glen G. Johnson and Margaret Brinker affidavit of transfer of land in Sutton.
Funeral services for Helen Louise Vining aged 93, a native of Rutland Township, will be held at Ewing's funeral home on Wednesday at 2 p.m. Burial will follow in Beech Grove Cemetery. She is survived by sister Nellie Morris of Pomeroy and several nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Mr and Mrs Ray Profitt and their three children lost almost all belongings in a recent fire and are now residing with relatives. A freezer with meat and winter supplies was among the ruined items as the family adjusts to a life on borrowed space.
Racine Chapter members await judging in the Homemaker of Tomorrow contest. Contestants include Genevieve Snyder Donna Lewis Donna Circle Joan Neville Avis Theiss June Proffitt Janice Webb Emma Lee Brewer Phylis Ihle and Glenna Randolph. Local winners receive pins. the state winner gets a scholarship and Washington DC trip. a national winner earns another scholarship and joins the trip. The chapter again collected about 120 for the children’s home.
After a fellowship supper in the church social rooms at 6 30 p m the Pomeroy Baptist Church annual business meeting will be Wednesday Plans for a covered dish supper are led by Mrs Burton Smith and Mrs James Stevenson president and teacher of the One Win One Class Report of the nominating committee chaired by Mrs Joseph Cook includes formation of a Board of Deaconesses and five year deacon terms Ethel Nichols, superintendent of a girls school in India, will speak at Friday missionary meeting.
The Week of Prayer began at First Baptist with Rev. R. C. Konkright urging followers to seek spiritual high places. Heath Methodist choir, under Ben Philson, performed a New Year’s anthem with W. K. Everson, and Mrs. E. S. Schaaf sang tenor. Hosts Rev. Claremont Hoyt presided. Rev. Robert Stvers offered prayer. Tonight Rev. Howard E. Ruppelt of First Presbyterian will preach and sing I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked.
Middleport watches the 102nd Ohio General Assembly as Dr. Homer G. McMillen is chosen as Senate chaplain starting his duties yesterday. A former minister and current personal relations head at Ohio Bell, he also serves as a substitute pastor in the Columbus area.
A Bradbury juvenile was cited in Judge John Bacon's court for reckless driving and obstructing a Middleport fire truck en route to Ryger on a fire call. The youth allegedly failed to yield the right of way, turned back toward Middleport, and was apprehended by officers.
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Klein announce the birth of their second son Richard Hobart on January 7 at the U S Naval Hospital in Annapolis Maryland. The baby is named for the late Richard Clark contributing to the Clark family name. Grandparents include Judge and Mrs Clark Mr and Mrs O P Klein and great grandparents Mr and Mrs M C Hobart F G Hunker all of Middleport and Mrs Bertha Flesher Hamilton Chesapeake. Mrs Clark traveled from Parkersburg to Annapolis to be with family.
MIDDLEPORT Troop 245 of the Boy Scouts of America led by Scoutmaster Robert Mills will send three Scouts George Hibbs Russell McElhinny and Karl Beck to the National Jamboree at Valley Forge Pennsylvania July 6 to 21. The group will camp on Gen George Washingtons historic site and visit shrines while learning American history. The troop trains in tender foot tests for advancement and plans to participate in a spring Scout exposition. Mills organized a nature hike to Flatwoods with two Explorer Scouts where a mammoth hornet nest was found. He proposes painless equipment funding through a scrap drive and green stamp donations with one stamp book per family.
Pomeroy volunteers from the Meigs County Fire Department collected $161 toward a $1000 Polio Foundation goal. Six firefighters staffed the Maid Street stand from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and donors chose their own amounts. The weekly popcorn sale rotates wards with Jan. 19 third ward and Jan. 26 all firemen volunteering. ©
Meigs area ministers from the Meigs Ministerial Association met at First Presbyterian Church with Rev Wesley Jenkins of Racine presiding and Rev Howard E Ruppelt hosting. They endorsed county wide laymen and youth rallies with the youth event set for Federated Church Pomeroy in February and promoted the World-Wide Attendance campaign running to Easter. A coffee interlude preceded the meeting and a luncheon followed at Martin Restaurant.
Middleport High School alumnus John Dill ard has turned his hobby into a career as an official photographer at White Sands Proving Grounds in Alamogordo New Mexico. He and wife Mrs Dillard visited relatives in Mason Middleport and with his father John Dillard and several sisters. The group also included siblings and their children from nearby towns and states.
Deputy Sheriff Howard Frank estimated combined damages of about $656 to a 1955 car and a milk truck after a Monday morning collision on Nease Settlement Road four miles west of Racine. Delmar Hamm, 34, Racine, lost control and slid into the truck driven by Howard Ervin, 25, Racine. No charges were filed.
Miss Nancy Hartley a Middleport High School graduate and Holzer Hospital alumna has earned the initials RN after passing the Ohio State Board examination. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer Hartley and works at Cabell County Hospital in Huntington.
Clyde All friend, named recently as assistant custodian at the Meigs County Courthouse, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge. Cornelia Bunch signed the affidavit alleging the incident at her Grant Street home. Mayor C. O. Fisher set an appearance bond of 260 dollars and scheduled a February 1 hearing. He was released with an agreement to find housing in Pomeroy. County authorities approved the arrangement.
A son born to Mr and Mrs Virgil Spencer of Long Bottom. Admitted: Mrs Gene Wolfe of Portland Pearl Jacobs of Pomeroy Mrs Virgil Spencer of Long Bottom Mrs Ernest Gross of Pomeroy Brad Wolfe of Racine Mrs Effie Wise of Middleport Martha Huston of Dunbar WV Mrs Lena McElhinney of Middleport Mrs Homer Jones of Middleport Mrs June Stobart of Pomeroy and infant Mrs John Workman of Pomeroy and infant.
Ronald Mc Cloud died twelve hours after birth at Meigs General Hospital on Monday. Funeral services are held this afternoon at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home with burial at Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery.
Middleport Board of Education met to elect officers and finalize plans for selling Pearl Street houses at public auction January 26 at 2 PM. Proceeds fund the new elementary project while storage funds gain $250000 in a Citizens National Bank savings account.
County Board of Commissioners met December 17 adopting wage scales for new courthouse staff with starting salaries to 175 dollars monthly and step increases. Executive secretary of the Child Welfare Board gains 6000 dollars yearly, while several other county employees receive raises and reclassifications. The board also authorized a 50000 dollar county home construction loan and notes for Children’s Home improvements, plus transfers and contracts affecting equipment, road work, and prisoner maintenance payments.
In the week ending December 22 Meigs County prepaid tax receipts totaled 9804.33, up 2219.10 from 1955. Athens and Gallia showed shortfalls vs 1955 totals, while Gallia posted a weekly rise of 1299.21 to 10610.02 but lagged year to date. Vinton and other areas also posted varying figures with mixed year over year changes.
Mrs. Fanny Field widow of Thomas Field a former Middleport resident and West Virginia political figure has died in Charleston. She served as Democratic committeewoman and Charleston city council member and belonged to the Daughters of the American Revolution and other groups. The Fields home in Middleport is now the D. S. Harolds residence and their son Emory died years ago. Mr. Field was an engineer on the New York Central Railroad.
POMEROY Army PFC Howard Kitchen Jr whose parents live on Union Ave recently graduated from the wheel vehicle repairman course at the Army's European Ordnance School in Fuessen Germany. After ceremonies he returned to duties as a mechanic in a heavy mortar company of an 8th Infantry Division regiment. He is 21 and a 1954 Pomeroy High School graduate. He entered the army last February.
A local prayer group schedules a meeting at the Episcopal Church in Pomeroy on Wednesday at 10 p m. Members plan a quiet session and молитва outreach in the community.
Stop Pain of Piles promise to relieve pain and itching instantly with Triolyte. The advertisement touts a medication that reduces swelling and speeds healing using modern suppositories or ointment. Sold by druggists with a money back guarantee and stain‑free stainless packaging.
At Asbury Methodist Church School 14 of 28 perfect attendance pins went to members from three families. Carroll Norris family members received pins with parents earning one-year pins and daughters Clarice Brenda getting five-year pins, Deborah one year.
MIDDLEPORT The session of the First Presbyterian Church met last night to discuss replacements on various church groups. The changes will be presented at the congregational meeting Wednesday night where officers will be elected and other official business conducted.
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