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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1960
Page
3
Middleport will host the Evangeline Chapter 72 OES 25th anniversary dinner at the Masonic Temple on Friday Jan 22 at 6 p m. Members husbands will attend. Helen Reynolds leads entertainment. Each member brings two small gifts one for a lady and one for a gentleman.
Mr and Mrs Robert Burns announce the birth of a daughter Kathy Jean on January 11 at Levine Clinic. She weighed ten pounds and has eight brothers and two sisters. Grandparents include Mr and Mrs Arnot Jeffers and Charles Burns Sr. and Mrs Parnie McLaughlin and R A Hagerty.
Senior mothers met to plan a record hop for February 6 at the school gym and to count and prepare sales tax receipts. Mrs. William Swatzel noted pecans remain available for sale and could be bought at her Butternut Avenue home. Next meeting date to be announced.
Miss Helen Staley of Clarksburg, religion representative for West Virginia, led youth church work instruction and attended the White House Conference on Children and Youth. Mason County Health and Welfare speaker Mrs Janet Surface urged aid for elderly and underprivileged, especially children, with a bird house film shown at the Garden Club meeting. Town council discussed polio campaign. WSCS noted missionary needs in Africa. Lions Club reported Christmas gifts for 50 children and Alaska film shown.
United Methodist JOF Class in Pomeroy enjoyed a potluck Monday evening at the church. Mrs. Allen Eichinger led the gathering and Grace Campbell opened with Try Planned Neglect. Russell Boys read Greetings for the New Year, as the class voted to buy floor covering for the choir loft and white chair backs with a committee to handle the purchases.
Warning issued that the deadline for filing sales tax returns ending Dec 31 1959 expires Jan 3 All vendors must file even if no taxable sales were made Meigs vendors may obtain assistance from Charles Rathburn examiner for the Division of Sales and Highway Use Tax in the Auditor's Office at the Court House 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan 28 Bring records to substantiate the report.
Reedsville plans a soup supper for January 29 in the church basement. The WSCS met at Mamie Buckley’s home with President Hazel Mae Buckley presiding. An all day Feb 10 session with potluck at noon was announced and rag rugs to be made at the next WSCS meeting.
Mrs Dale Dutton led a Great Books Club discussion on Plutarch's Lives works Demetrius and Antony at the home of Mrs Cedric Clark in Middleport. Attending were Mrs Arthur H Carpenter Mrs Theodore Reed Sr Mrs Everett Hayes Mrs Bernard Fultz Mrs Donald Mills and Mrs Theodore Reed Jr.
Middleport Troops 221 and 2 Girl Scouts will attend morning worship at the Church of Christ Sunday meeting in front of the church at 10 15 a.m. Leaders listed include Mrs Bert Bodimer, Mrs Marion Allensworth, Mrs Frances Boggess, Mrs Paul Theiss, Mrs Remo Nieri, and Mrs Robert Schmoll. WCTU Session Friday in Middleport.
Pomeroy High School alumni banquet set for Saturday May 28 following executive board meeting at 7 30 p m in the Senior High Auditorium. Officers and members for 1959 1960 expected to attend.
The latest two way radio equipment was delivered today for installation in the emergency squad truck in Pomeroy.
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