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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1966
Page
8
POMEROY A information and ticket booth for Big Bend Regatta Weekend events will open Wednesday. Staffing will be by C E Blakeslee, with hours 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily. Tickets sold individually, no package deal. Prices vary by event, with several outlets selling tickets.
Plans for a vacation Bible school shared by the United Methodist Church in Pomeroy and Heath Methodist Church in Middleport were announced at a luncheon. The program runs June 20 to July 11 with separate sessions for younger and older children and car transportation arranged between churches. An offering will be taken each session with the American Bible Society as sharing. High school helpers will assist. a joint concluding program is planned.
Middleport Child Conservation League tied for first place in the year book award at the South Central District spring conference in Gallipolis. Hobby exhibits awarded included ball point painting by Mrs. Charles Lewis and seashell collection by Mrs. John Terrell, with an honorable mention for Mrs. Robert Lewis.
A Women Society of World Service meeting is postponed to June 14. A family picnic is planned at Dr. and Mrs. Selim Blazewicz home. Candy Stripers meet 6 30 p m at Veterans Memorial Hospital. Mary Shrine White Shrine of Jerusalem meets 8 p m Friday at IOOF Hall. Beatrice Blue conducts a school of instruction. Float work for the Big Bend Regatta proceeds. Rock Springs Grange completes weekend parade Thursday night with a post meeting work session at 8 p.m.
Elmer E. Ashworth sues Ella Wippel in Meigs County Common Pleas Court for the return of personal property. In the same court Douglas G. Lambert of Rutland Route 1 West Virginia is granted a divorce from Nedra K. Lambert on grounds of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty.
Racine Grange will hold a noon basket dinner at the grange hall to mark Rural Life Sunday. A service at Oak Grove Methodist Church will feature Rev. Charles Norris in the afternoon. A regular Grange meeting is scheduled for 8 p m on Wednesday.
Pomeroy Village Council set an 8 per month rental for pleasure boats at new finger point docks to be ready by June 15. Forty stalls will be available but no caretaker or village liability, with contact through City Hall. Rentals to begin after two more readings. traffic light at Main Street and the Pomeroy Mason bridge requested.
Middleport residents report visits from Shirley Mills and granddaughter Mary in Springfield to meet her husband Shirley Mills and Harold Johnson after a week fishing at Loon Lake Jackson Michigan. Local families attended Jim Bill Hawley’s high school graduation in Walbridge and Gen and Mrs John Edwin Hull of Washington DC visited Middleport en route to a chemical manufacturers convention at Greenbrier. A dinner at Martin Restaurant honored Lucille Davis and included Elizabeth Davis Fisher and others. Dr William K Baker and wife from Chicago were weekend guests. The couple had been at Wooster College before returning home.
Six high school bands plus floats antique cars and horse entries will headline the second annual Big Bend Regatta parade in Pomeroy and Middleport with 2 30 p m start in Mason and a 4 45 p m pass to Middleport. The event features trophies for top commercial and non commercial entries plus for antique cars and horse entries.
Receipts totaling 928.25 were recorded for the Meigs County Court of Judge Frank W. Porter for May. Of this amount 96.95 paid as state fines, 94.60 for sheriff's fees, 486.91 to the county general fund, 51.41 to the county law library and 198.38 to the county auto licenses and gasol ine fund.
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