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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1949
Page
7
Robert Willard Pomeroy was fined 25 dollars and costs and sentenced to five days in county jail on a driving while intoxicated charge. Justice Percy L. Peoples handed down the sentence after an early Sunday morning collision with a second car driven by R. C. Randolph on Route 680.
Mr and Mrs Lorain Sterrett entertain Mer and Mee William Bankhead of Etkina West Virginia as visitors at their home.
Opal Whitlatch files suit for divorce from Lawrence Whitlatch in the clerk of courts docket. Case filed Tuesday by attorney John C. Bacon for the plaintiff.
A series of Meigs County land transfers lists transfers of acreages and parcels among residents. Names include W. E. Dailey, Max Crabtree, John Hudson Lowery estate, Roma and William Kelley, Emmett and Bertha Maniey, T. H. Lasley, Joe Boyd, Waid, Anna G. Halliday, C. B. Hendrick, Roam Black, James Weber, Robert H. Roush, Charles E. W. Downie, Maybelle Tedricks, Robert and Hilda White, George A. Meinhart, William Mathewson, Don Mathewson, Gordon J. Hoce, Ebba Hoce, Marcella Phillips, Charles Walburn, Mabel Walburn, and others, with parcels located in Pomeroy, Middleport, Syracuse, and Chester.
Meigs County farm people invite friends and neighbors to the annual Grange Farm Bureau picnic on July 14 at Rocksprings Fair Grounds. Boss Johnston WLW will speak. Events begin at 10 am with games, pot luck dinner at noon, and a 1 pm afternoon program followed by Grange softball games.
Funeral services were held for George Boice 73 of the Southern Hotel Columbus who died Friday at Mt. Carmel Hospital. Interment followed in Union Cemetery. Boice a former Ohio attorney general aide and real estate operator was linked to Mt Sterling and Cheshire churches and lodges. He is survived by his wife Bessie Fargo Boice and sister Minnie Lyle. Unroe Funeral Attended By Relatives After Wendell Unroe Killed In Car Crash.
The Youth Fellowship of the United Methodist Church hosts an ice cream social on Lois Ann Campbell home lawn to fund Lan caster Camp Institute attendance July 24. Twilight Garden Club picnic at Charles Ward home on FE Main St next Thursday at 6 pm. Great Bend WSCS bake sale at Paul Reegle's store Saturday at 1 pm. Roecksprings Grange meets Thursday 8 30 pm.
Attending a Lake Hope reunion Monday were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beach and son Richard, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bing and children Gene Ernest and Roberta, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Van Inwagen and son Jerry, and Mr.
Willard Butch Durst a five year old from Pomeroy becomes the first city boy to enter The Messenger bicycle and tricycle racing program. He is eligible for the 30 year old tricycle race at Rock Springs Fairgrounds on August 17 part of thirteen events for 3 to 12 year olds in The Messenger area with newspaperboys' races limited to 12 to 17 year olds.
Numerous visitors from Columbus Mansfield and Grafton gathered at homes of Radcliff Bacus Clyde Pierce and others over the holiday weekend. Homes welcomed John and Pat Canode Delbert Truman James Barber Harvey Roof Francis Cottrill J E Racus and many relatives including the Barnes Pierce and McLaughlin clans. Helen Gomer Bowen announced her daughter’s marriage to George W Martin performed July 2.
A list of names including Mary Anne Greaves and Janet Smith accompanies Mrs. Paul Nye as counselors to a camp. Besides the girls, Theo Smuin and other local men such as Gerald Wildermuth Leo Bryan and Delmar Canaday join the group visiting Wheeling.
Ten charter members gathered at Tuppers Plains High School for the Olive Orange PTA. They distributed membership cards and manuals and voted to skip August meetings, planning the next gathering for September 12 with Mrs. Helen Wood, secretary, handling card distribution.
Mrs James Dawson and Mrs Wayne Watts of Columbus spent a weekend with Mrs Will Meyers of etee and Mrs FE Koehler of Pomeroy. Lena and Katie Gath visited Denver Carman and family at Peach Fork. Others spent Sundays at Buckeye Lake. A Bermuda trip for Francesa Sapp is noted along with several local homecomings and relocations.
The Pomeroy Morning Star Youth Fellowship Class met for a picnic at Portland Park on Sunday. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Walde Spencer Mr and Mrs Clark Ihle Charlie and Phyllis Ihle Mr and Mrs Eldon Kraeuter Leda Dolores and Robert Kraeuter Mrs Bertha Holter Lester Bailey Jimmy Dorothy and Donald Bell Elsie Singer Mr and Mrs Delmar Hammond son Jimmy Roger Greaser Wayne Roush Charles and Dorothy Yost.
Jane Howell tent heard a report on the Department convention at a regular Monday night meeting in the OOF Hall. President Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell presided. Mrs. Hez Root delivered the report and the next gathering is set for July 25 at the home of Della Stahl in Laurel Cliff.
The Sacred Heart School Alumni Association reschedules the ice cream social to August 25 due to Meigs County Fair opening day, moving from August 18.
The Pomeroy Girl Scouts attend Camp Molly Lauman in Lucasville Ohio this week. Twenty seven local scouts participate with about 65 girls expected. Activities include swimming nature study camp craft and recreation with Lucy Amsbury Patricia Atkins Sylvia Atkins Linda Atkins and others listed.
Huntington hosts guests of the Lohans as Richard Vaughan visits County Superintendent C C Chapman. Vaughan, a World War II dive bomber vet, recently rode to New Orleans. Walter Vaughan and sons George and Robert spend Sunday in Xenia. Harry Oblinger heads to New York on a Red Anchor buying trip. Families and relatives from Butler, Tenn, Kingert, Va, Ulling, W Va, and Athens are noted with picnics and visits.
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