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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1947
Page
5
Herbert Fink, employed by Meigs Water Co., cannot report to work due to a knee injury. Light travels about two thirds as fast in glass as in water.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Russell hosted a buffet supper Thursday at their Racine residence for Sterio Dandakis of Cleveland Emerson Jones and Robert Jones and Harold Jones from Shade and Mrs Russell’s parents F W Jones and grandson Paul Dean.
Meigs County transfers show multiple parcel deeds in Letart Pomeroy Middleport and surrounding townships. Listed are transfers from Victoria Norris to Clyde and Alonzo Norris and from Clyde Norris to Richard and Alonzo Norris, plus other property moves among locals and families in Bedford Salisbury Orange and Olive townships.
The Meigs Probate Court issued several marriage licenses on Thursday. Vernon Weber 21 Minersville and Margaret B Milhoan 21 Middleport. John Campbell 23 Cabin Creek W Va and Gladys Riddle 28 Denzel Warren. Calhoun 30 Cairo W Va and Alma J Boyce 31 Pomeroy.
A Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce dinner broadcast on WPAR 1450 kHz will air June 9 from 6 30 to 7 00 pm. Hermann Everett Gieske editor of the Parkersburg News will speak on regional industrial development with guests and local officials. The event is organized by John Richmond program chair man and Frank B Will.
Meigs Probate Court issued marriage licenses to Wayne Hange 47 Elyria and Lenora Hoy 32 Pomeroy Paul E Garnes 35 Pomeroy and Dorothy A Burney 18 Pomeroy Melvin Cross 22 Langsville and Louise Gallion 28 Longsville Earl Harmon 22 Pomeroy and Wilda Williams 21 Pomeroy Harold Vineyard 22 Dayton and Ellen Louise Sisson 21 Reedsville Ronald Burkhart 26 Detroit and Gladys Overman 21 Pomeroy John Hansen 70 Long Bottom and Lillian Spencer 48 Long Bottom Walter R Kennedy Jr 25 Pomeroy and Pauline Spencer 23 Racine Arthur Carpenter 23 Sand Fork W Va and Gloria Marks 21 Pomeroy Walter James 24 Dayton and Betty Pierce 20 Rutland
Middleport Ohio Mrs Thomas Wolfe state president of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs spoke to the Middleport Garden Club and Amateur Gardeners Club on growing state and national interest in gardening She urged personal gardens cleanup projects community planting and support for state parks Also announced the Ohio association convention to be held in Columbus June 12 13 with a welcome by district leaders and a coffee hour finale hosted by local members
Requiem Mass for J. M. Mac McCarty was said Monday at Sacred Heart Church Pomeroy with Fr William Riley officiating. Interment followed at Catholic Cemetery. Rosary was read Sunday evening at the late residence on S Third Ave. Pallbearers included New York Central Railroad engineers and officials such as C E Smith T A Riley George Wittmer Holley Martin Thomas Hennessy and Postmaster Walter Waddell. Out of town mourners from Columbus Caldwell Tullytown Bristol Bucyrus Parkersburg joined local relatives for the services.
Middleport Public Schools report 29 students achieved perfect attendance in 1946 47 across all grades. Listed are named students from grades one through eight and high school noting individuals with continuous attendance over nine years and four years respectively.
Phyllis Mae Heilmann filed for divorce from Alvah W. Heilmann in Meigs County Common Pleas Court alleging gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. She seeks support for herself and three minor children.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Marcinko of Athens announce the birth of a seven and one half pound daughter named Rosemary. The mother is formerly Maxine Eskew. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. John Eskew and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marcinko. The couple has another child, Charles Robert.
Mr and Mrs Whit ney Ingraham of Rutland spent Sunday through Thursday at Indian Lake to attend a Farm Bureau meeting.
A report notes that nine of ten American babies are born to native parents, contrasting with twenty five years ago when over half had at least one foreign-born parent. The shift highlights changing ancestry patterns in the U S population over a generation.
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