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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1952
Page
3
White Falcon Band Boosters and families will hold a picnic at New Haven Garden Club park on Sunday July 13 at 12 45 p m. Varsity and junior bands will perform and invites extend to all attendees.
The two weeks Bible school at St Pauls Lutheran Church closed Monday with eighty seven students enrolled and thirty earning perfect attendance records.
The Live Wire Class of the EUB Sunday School met Tuesday evening in the new Mason parsonage. They voted to donate 150 dollars to the parsonage fund. Refreshments were served by the hostess to a long list of women including Mrs. R. F. Bryant and Mrs. Ruby Schor.
Floyd Carmack, a Bend Rotary member and general superintendent of maintenance at the Vanadium Corporation plant at Graham Station, spoke at the Thursday dinner. He detailed the plant’s physical features and the manufacturing processes to begin immediately.
The Jacksonville Old Settlers Reunion committee meets today at 7 p.m. The session will be open to the public and a cordial invitation is extended to all interested persons to attend.
Hari Pettit of Crooksville spent Sunday in Trimble as guest of his brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs B H Pettit and Mr and Mrs J W Herrold. he visited family during the day.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. of West Virginia asks the Supreme Court of Appeals to overturn a May 16 Public Service Commission order. It seeks fair and adequate rates and contest three PSC findings: allocation method between interstate and intrastate operations, failure to allow recovery of actual federal income taxes, and a fair value of S and P property set at 45,112,218 dollars.
The West Virginia Farm Bureau joins the Livestock Marketing Association and the American Farm Bureau in backing a federal foot and mouth disease laboratory. A $10 million House appropriation awaits Senate action as leaders testify before Congress. The disease has appeared nine times since 1870 and would threaten the US meat industry if reappearing.
Hong Kong report states official Chinese media accuses two geography texts of venomous worship of U S ideology. Peoples Daily claims one book misstates the United States leading in coal oil and iron reserves and output and first in copper zinc and lead production.
A meeting at the Point Pleasant charge parsonage in Henderson discussed the 1952 53 conference year finances and church needs led by Rev Rufus Casto. Four churches were represented and refreshments were served to many named attendees including Mrs Laula Lewis and Mrs A L Rossiter with high score won by Mrs Walter A Windsor.
Mrs Milton L Miller of Main Street acted as hostess for a Five Hundred Club gathering recently. She entertained guests with games and conversation, saluting the social circle's ongoing friendship and community ties.
Murray City notes Dean Ferrell has returned to Keesler Air Force Base Biloxi Mississippi after a 15 day leave spent with parents Floyd and Ferrell, visiting Akron Columbus relatives and others. The piece lists numerous visitors to area homes including Quinns Loper Howells and Matheny family. notes hospital visit for Charles Hise and travels to Lakeside for a Methodist Conference.
The First Friends Class of Hickory Chapel Methodist Church holds a Monday evening picnic at Gallipolis roadside park. If rain, the gathering moves to the church basement.
The Leon Homemakers Farm Women's Club will meet today at 7 30 pm in the Leon Lodge Hall. Miss Kathryn Beaver will lead the lesson titled Food Makes a Difference in the Child.
Mrs. D. C Purdy will be hostess Tuesday at 1 45 p m to the Anne Bailey Farm Women's Club.
New officers will be elected at a meeting of American Legion Post 23 on Monday at 7 30 p m in the Legion Home.
Mr and Mrs William V Grove of Burdette Addition plan a week on the Potomac near Cumberland Maryland for camping and fishing. They will be joined by Mr and Mrs Emmanuel Chaffin and children Judy and David of Huntington. Mrs Chaffin and Mrs Grove are sisters. Mrs Margaret Richards and son Johnnie of Ohio River Road returned home after attending the last rites of her grandfather John Morris at St Albans. Lt Comm and Mrs Jamee V Bartlett of Falls Church spent the weekend with his mother Mrs Blanche M Bartlett and Mr and Mrs Sam Simmons of 712 Main St. Mrs Raymond Roush of Angolia Indiana visits her sister Mrs Milton Lewis Sr of High St and also sees Mrs Bertha Wilson of Mason.
The Christian Women’s Fellowship of the Trinity Church of Christ met in the church social rooms to discuss Latin American countries studied over several months. Mrs. Fern Johnson opened with remarks and pictures, followed by a devotional by Mrs. Connie Brown and a solo by Mrs. Belle Stephenson.
William Addison McGee aged 81 died at his Hollister home Saturday night. Survived by wife Alpha. sons Fred, John, Eldon, Floyd in Springfield and Dallas. daughters Mrs. M B Grosvenor Springfield, Mrs K A Housington Springfield, Mrs A V Darling Hopedale Mass. 26 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm in the EUB Church Hollister. Rev W H Mathias officiating. Burial Maplewood Cemetery. Friends may call at the Hollister home.
Earl Edison Blake of Huntington was arrested by state police for driving without a license and fined the minimum plus costs after appearing before a magistrate. Ernest L. Taylor was cited for reckless driving and fined $25 plus costs in a local justice office on Saturday.
Valley residents depart Sunday for Camp Christian near Delaware Ohio for a week. Mr and Mrs Roy Byers Glouster take daughter Yvonne while others ship Monte Blower Terry Harvey Dennis Earl Addington and Fern Johnson. Adults return Sunday night. youths stay for the week.
Staff Sergeant Don Fulton spends a temporary furlough in Glouster with his parents Mr and Mrs Ray Fulton. He served in Germany for three years and will be stationed at an air base in Texas after the furlough ends.
The mercury reached a new high for the season on Sunday in Glouster, hitting percent degrees in mid afternoon. Rainfall stayed light with a few showers and under a quarter inch in 24 hours. Farmers warn that continuing drought could damage crops unless rain arrives soon.
Dr and Mrs J H Elias were in Columbus as guests of Mrs Frank Love and daughter Margaret. Ernest Vernon returned home from Lima after eight months away. M Sgt Leonard Willis arrived from Tampa to visit his mother Gortie Willis and heads to Omaha for stationing. William Thompson and relatives spent the weekend with his parents. Henry Phillips and daughter returned from Russell Point where he worked. Jack Russell and daughter Jackie spent a 30 day Air Force furlough in Glouster before reporting to Camp Kilmer. Mrs Russell’s relatives Robert Jewell and wife and son joined the visit.
The J T Hollie ter Alumni Association will sponsor a square dance Saturday June 28 from 9 pm to midnight in the J T gymnasium. An admission charge at the door. Music by the Buckeye Ramblers. Open to the public.
The Past Matrons Association of Thea Chapter OES met Friday evening in the Masonic Temple with Mrs. Sarah Williams presiding. The program featured readings including The Ten Commandments for the Bride and other pieces, followed by refreshments for members and one guest. Future plans note Mrs. Lillie Galloway and Mrs. Ella McDonald will host the July meeting.
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