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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1956
Page
2
POINT PLEASANT. Nellie Mayes, mother of 15 year old Danny Mayes who vanished Friday afternoon, cites a Leon resident who says she saw him in town Saturday evening with paper boys. The resident’s account is deemed the most logical lead and may place Danny somewhere.
Funeral services for Lewis Poffenbarger will be held Friday at 2 p m at Crow Funeral Home with the Rev Alvin C Young presiding. He died Tuesday in a Clifton home after years of ill health. Born August 25 1865 in Mason County he was the son of Clinton and Sara Lewis Pot tenbarger and a Pine Grove Methodist Church member. Friends may call at the funeral home. The piece notes U S population has seven times as many Americans now as a century ago.
Fourly activities mark the annual West Virginia Dairy Cattle Show at Jackson's Mill August 14 to 17. State contests lead teams to national events. a judging contest on Aug 14 sends the winning team to the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Iowa.
Mason County Farmers Home Administration supervisor Jason M. Brake told Rotary Club members the agency’s key actions require favorable committee recommendations. Since 1946 FHA has loaned to 395 farm families totaling 1.288 million dollars, with 239 loans for 635 thousand in the last five years. Principal repayments exceed 97 percent of due amounts. Visiting Rotarian Everett Evans, a Gallipolis teacher, joined the meeting at Moose Home.
Mrs Ruth Lewis presided at the Tuesday Moose Women meeting at the Moose Home Plans called for a picnic on Aug 7 at 7 pm at the home of Mrs Mabel Roush who will chair arrangements Jannette Harman was honored at a stork shower Grace Moser of Kankakee Ill attended as a guest Also mentioned is a Local family and several members of the Junior Odd Fellows attending a camp at Camp Caesar in Webster County
James E. Johnson found guilty of assault on his wife after posting bond for appeal in circuit court. He was fined $1 and costs, posted $500 bond for appeal, and a peace warrant charge was dismissed. Dale Bates and James Hayman held over for grand jury on forgery charges with $1500 bond each.
Plans for the 1956 Ohio Valley Experimental Substation Agronomy Field Day set for 1 p m August 9 are announced by WVU agronomy expert Dr G Gordon Pohlman. Fifteen experiments cover varieties fertilization weed control seed prep and crop rotations with researchers available to discuss farming problems and research results for soybeans alfalfa Ladino clover grass mixtures hybrid corn and tobacco. The event invites all interested farmers while noting a separate United States Department of Agriculture claim that coffee cannot be commercially produced in the United States due to labor and land costs.
Pvt. William S. Chapman, son of George M. Chapman of Rendville, finished the teletype operation course at the Army Southeast Signal School in Fort Gordon Georgia. Agriculture is cited as Egypt’s chief industry.
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