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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1950
Page
7
A children's day program is planned at Laurel Cliff Church on the morning of June Lui. The event invites families to attend and participate in activities and songs led by church volunteers.
The commissioners met at the courthouse with Hartinger Craig and Walburn present and unanimously approved the sale of lot 206% in the Dabney Addition in Pomeroy to T H Lasley Katherine Bethel and Marshall Lasley. They considered a memorial for Meigs County veterans and directed legal counsel help with the project. Sealed bids for transporting gasoline to the county garage will be accepted until noon July 1 with right to reject all bids.
Middleport Meigs County campaign chair George Meinhart seeks $1000 for Weekday Religious Education. Canvassers will visit homes and businesses as ministers and laymen from county Protestant churches endorse the program directed by Mrs Thelma Wilcox.
Jennie Will Hughes 51 of Columbus died May 24 from a heart attack while shopping. She was a Glenwood Methodist Church member and Thea Court No. 5 Oriental Shrine. Survived by husband Russell W Hughes two daughters Betty Ann Frost Mildred Haag a son Thomas F Sulzberger a stepson Russell W Hughes Jr two siblings and mother Cora Will. Funeral held in Columbus with Pomeroy attendees. Burial Sunset Cemetery Columbus.
Pomeroy Grover Butler of Johnson City Tennessee was arrested by local officers Wolfe and Duckworth on an intoxication charge.
County 4-H clubs extension council and camp committee met in the county agent’s office to consider 4-H camp sites. The sole recommendation urged exploring Meigs County options, with a five member committee named to search sites starting June 19 at 9 am. Others attending included Bernard Paulsen Wayne Chase Norman Rose Mrs Geneva Nolan and C F Blakeslee.
Mr and Mrs Joe Simon of a local market plan a two week motor trip to California their daughter Mary helping prepare the journey Virginia Paulette and Madelyn the Simons younger daughters accompany their grandmother Mrs Augusta Sauer Charles Simon of Columbus brother of Joe Simon will manage the market during the absence.
Officers elected last week will be installed Thursday night when Fides Lodge Knights of Pythias meets at Woodman Hall in Middleport. The rank of esquire will be conferred on three candidates. Visitors from nearby lodges expected and refreshments will be served.
Mr. and Mrs Lionel Boggs announce the birth of a son, Jeffry Dillon, at Meigs General Hospital on Monday. Grandparents are Lawrence Hartinger and Beech Sr, with great grandfather William Rickard. Named for D. S. Harold, cousin of Mrs Boggs, who with Mrs Harold are his foster parents. The Boggs also have a daughter, Joy Patricia.
Rock Springs Grange postpones its meeting from Thursday to Friday at 8 30 p m to accommodate Meigs County Pomona Grange visitors. The Juvenile Grange will also meet Friday night.
Mason Clinic lists admissions including Mrs Elmer Jones and June Roush with addresses in Point Pleasant Letart Route 1 and Portland. Births recorded for Paul Leonard Van Meter born June 2 and a daughter to Leonard and Edward Counts on June 1 in Racine Route 2. Discharge includes Mrs Lester Putney and her son. An application to sell real estate filed by Chester Charge parsonage trustees of the Portsmouth District Ohio Conference of Methodist Churches. Divorce granted in Meigs County Common Pleas Court restoring Rosalind Beards as her maiden name Rosalind Champion.
James Rogers Pomeroy of Corbin Kentucky was arrested Tuesday by Patrolman Duckworth on a theft charge.
Jacqueline Rice daughter of Mr and Mrs Delbert Rice suffered minor injuries after a bicycle fall at Nancy Sue Rawlings home on Tuesday. Ruth Anne Edwards is improving after severing a foot cut from a bottle. Ronnie Spencer cut a knee in a recent fall and was seen out yesterday being pulled in a wagon by friends.
Daily Vacation Bible School opens in Central School with staff includes Sally Schaaf Carol Bachtel Ruth Humphrey and Edi son Baker for grades one to two. Virginia Mayes and Geo Childs for grades three and four. Leo Rus sell and Mary Ohlinger for grades five and six. Frances Chase serves as pianist and helpers. Rev Charles M. Pomeroy of First Baptist Church directs and leads recreation and serves as secretary.
POMEROY The Summer Round up for all Pomeroy children entering school this fall will be held Thursday morning at the Junior High Building at 9 a m. The Central School PTA leads the event with help from the Sugar Run PTA. A full health check up by doctors dentists and an optometrist is planned. Mrs Max Folmer chairs the committee and asks parents to support the PTA Health program by bringing their children.
William Bichman 83 a prominent Pomeroy merchant died Tuesday morning at Holzer Hospital after a two week stay. He leaves two daughters Miss Marie Bichman and Mrs. D A Canaday and his wife died in 1919. The body will go to Cincinnati for cremation with no local services. He led The Little German Band and ran the family jewelry store at Court and Main for decades until 1919.
Michael Hackett and three children returned from Miami Florida where he has been a surgical patient in a veterans hospital. He is improving from a recent serious illness. Our wide choice of prices allows every family to control the cost. TREVEY FINSTERWALD Funeral Home 144 Butternut Ave. Phone Pomeroy 285 Adv.
Probate Court notes Edwin W. Stivers is appointed administrator of the William L. Stivers estate and Sybil Ebersbach is appointed administrator of the Elmer R. Wolf estate.
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