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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1952
Page
7
Middleport hosts a meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday in Middleport High School to organize a community band directed by Franklin Ginther. He notes graduates from this year will form the nucleus and that the group will welcome musicians of all ages to support summer outdoor concerts and local events.
Racine Racine Grange to confer first and second degrees at Wednesday meeting with second quarterly birthday party. Dr and Mrs Leonard Blakeslee and children Bruce and Rose Mary visit East Lansing after staying with relatives. Hall Frost returns with son David to Memphis for Naval Air Training after the death of his wife. Jennie Sue Eiselstein returns from Cleveland visit. Anna Louise Murray attends Camp Molly Looman near Portsmouth with Girl Scouts.
Dr. Robert Seiple and Miss Betty Bowen visited Racine relatives while others attended Eastern Star inspections in Marietta Albany and Syracuse. The Constant Builders and families shared a Portland Park picnic. Families visited patients at Veterans Hospital Huntington and Holzer Hospital.
Renovation and repair of the second and third floors of the former Knights of Pythias building on N. Second and Rutland are under way. Mrs. R. H. Rawlings owns the property and cleaning is first. changes may follow if fraternal groups rent the spaces. The Meigs Aerie Eagles have rented the second floor for social events with the first such gathering tonight.
The Rev. Charlies Thayer, 77, died June 16 in Portsmouth. He previously led Letart Methodist Church, leaving Letart years earlier for Columbus and then Portsmouth in 1924.
Announcement from Bucyrus and Middleport that Mr. and Mrs. Robert Turner of Bucyrus have a son named Michael Robert born to Pfe and Mrs. Turner. Grandparents are Luther Harris Bucyrus and Joe Turner Middleport with great grandparents Robert Lee Middleport Mary Turner Racine and Bertha Killingsworth Rutland
Mr and Mrs N W Kramer announce the birth of a daughter on June 25 in Lobback Texas. The child is named Sara Beth. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs W O Barnitz and Mr and Mrs John W Kramer. They also have a son Eric and a daughter Renata. An unrelated line notes Mars surface temp about 22 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Perry County relatives travel to Washington for Captain Ronald E. Rosser to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor in Korea. He credited with killing about 28 enemy combatants in a one man hill assault, said to avenge his brother’s death. His father works at the Misco mine.
The Pomeroy Emergency Squad was called to the home of Mr and Mrs Elmer Hysell on Thomas Fork Tuesday afternoon to aid two and a half year old Dana Ray Hysell. He was transported to a Pomeroy physician for treatment and later returned home.
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