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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1967
Page
3
Chester Lindsey Lyons announces receipt of state letter extending the water district signup deadline to August 3 at 8 p.m. Customers can join as water users by paying the $50 tap fee during preliminary engineering or original signup. tap fee rises to $200 thereafter. Local contacts listed for signups.
Middleport readers note guests and relocations across families. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Richard visit from Iowa, now in Henderson Kentucky, with church friends at a Willis Anthony farm cookout. Additional gatherings include the Thomas, Mayes, Covert, and Rhea families, plus the Simonses moving to the Baptist Church parsonage and giving their first sermon.
The Smith-Cape hart Unit 140 of the American Legion Auxiliary met at the Legion Hall with opening prayer. Delegates to Girls State, Sandi Gibbs and Sue Bumgarner, were introduced and reported on their activities. The girls thanked the unit and refreshments were served.
Middleport emergency squad rushed to Zuspan Hollow Road at 9 07 p.m. for Kenneth Madden with food poisoning and took him to Holzer Hospital by Rawlings Coats ambulance. Earlier, at 3 50 p.m., the squad responded to Middleport swimming pool where Beech Sr. Coates Jr. struck his head and was sent to Dr R R Pickens for treatment.
Forrest Bachtel son of Mr and Mrs Forrest L Bachtel of 315 S Fourth St Middleport will play Leo Herman in A Thousand Clowns at Mount Union College this summer. He previously appeared in The Threepenny Opera Camelot Stop The World I Want To Get Off and Guys and Dolls. The Winding Trail Garden Club plans an annual picnic at Hidden Lake in Pomeroy on Wednesday with a 6 15 p.m. meet time in the upper parking lot. Am-Vets will hold a flower sale Friday and Saturday in Pomeroy and Middleport.
Admitted Tanova Hill Valparaiso Indiana Mary Pickens Racine Homer Goeglein Pomeroy Bertha Hobstetter Pomeroy David Michael Pomeroy Ronald Coats Middleport. Dismissed Greg Thomas Maude McMurray Clyde Whited Terri McDaniel.
Miss Debbie Jo May was honored at a surprise birthday party Friday evening at the Rutland Church of Christ. The social rooms were decorated with pink blue and white streamers. Gifts were given by her grandparents Mr and Mrs Roy Snowden and her aunt Mrs Homer Parker assisted by Mrs Bruce May and Mrs Roy Snowden. A decorated cake from her grandparents was served with ice cream and refreshments. Karen Sutherland won the door prize during games.
Middleport resident Don C Becker among 241 students at the CUNA School for Credit Union Personnel on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus. Becker is office manager for Kaiser Aluminum Employees Federal Credit Union in Ravenswood. Also named are Martin McGravey Jr 19 Middleport laborer and Alberta Lee Varian Pomeroy student.
A homecoming gathering for Mrs. Bessie Graham and Mrs. Janet Graham brought together many relatives from across the region. Attendees included Arlie and W M Price of California and Tennessee, Hubert Price and family from Tyler Mountain West Virginia, Edgar Young of Three Mile West Virginia, Lena Pauley and son of Wheelersburg, Ernest Lowe families from Akron, Roy Lowe and children, and Darold Graham of Lexington Park Maryland, plus two Graham sons Carl Sampson of Greenville South Carolina and Darold Graham.
Pomeroy council gave second reading to commissioning of street repairs at $30,000 and approved the 1968 budget. Active fund receipts total $121,387.79 with $116,125 expenditures. inactive fund receipts $36,450 with $25,410 expenditures. Mayor Legar reported $366.05 receipts for the month and the police report was accepted. Depositories named for two years and a contract for 650 feet of 14 inch fire hose under $1,000 was approved.
Meigs General notes list individuals including Lina Curtis of Racine Bessie Humphrey of Athens and Harold Hy sell of Pomeroy. Details unclear due to fragmented OCR but records mention these persons in hospital context.
The Rev Clyde Bartlett his wife and daughters Martha and Becky leave Middleport for a Roseville pastorate near Zanesville after several farewell events. Friends from the Willing Workers class presented a money tree and gifts at a home gathering. A Sunday service honored them with flowers a lamp and a table arrangement. The Bartletts dined Monday with the Middleport Ministerial Association at Bob Evans near Gallipolis with Rev Max Donahue Rev Howard Ruppelt and Mr C E Ruppelt attending.
An afternoon collision on Salem Street Rutland involved two cars. David Rice drove west and turned left onto Larkin Street, and Joan Eads 30 of Rutland struck the Rice car. Both vehicles sustained medium damage with no injuries and no arrests.
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