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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Jun 25, 1958

Page

16

Pomeroy Social Notes Highlight Ninth Birthday Party

Patricia Lynn Koblentz celebrated her ninth birthday with a party hosted by mother Mrs. David Kob lenz and aunt Mrs. Earl Dean. The event featured games, umbrella-themed favors, and refreshments for guests including Mary Jean Bing and Regina Spencer. The note also reports hospital visits and local travel as part of ongoing social news from Pomeroy.

Sally Mora Diana Baer Mary Jo Roush Patricia McLaughlin Jackie Bahr

Seven Pomeroy Majorettes Attend OU Summer Clinic

Seven Pomeroy High School band majorettes attend a two week Ohio University music clinic in Athens funded by the Pomeroy Band Boosters. The group includes Ann Baker Marlene Scholl Jean Agnew Webster Sheila Strauss Rose Horak Connie Woodgeard and Sondra Potts. Four were named to the honor corps and performed twirling in a campus concert. Also attending were James Lohse and Bill Anderson Jr. to study their instruments.

Pomeroy Pomeroy High School Pomeroy Band Boosters Association Ohio University Athens Ann Baker Marlene Scholl Jean Agn Webster Shelia Strauss Rose Horak Connie Woodgeard Sondra Potts Miss Potts Woodgeard Miss Baker Strauss James Lohse Bill Anderson, Jr

Last Practice Is Wednesday for Laff-a-Loft Minstrel

Rehearsal for the Laff-a-Loft minstrel by eighth graders of Letart Falls Grade School directed by Mrs. Chlorus Grimm and Mrs. Eileen Buck will be July 2 at 8 p.m. at Racine High School. Proceeds benefit the Racine Volunteer Fire Department. Accompanist is Mrs. Lee Lee.

Pomeroy Racine Letart Falls Chlorus Grimm Eileen Buck

Girl Scouts Tour Gallipolis Area Visiting Park Fortification Hill

Girl Scout Troop 6 led by Mrs. John Moore and Mrs. William Collins visited Gallipolis on Monday. They toured the city park and Holzer Hospital nurses' home, viewed the roller dam in Eureka, cooked at Fortification Hill, and had an ice cream treat at a Middleport establishment on the way home.

Vernal Blackwood Holzer Hospital Gallipolis Maxine Russell Ironton Blackwood Patricia Elwood John Elwood Geneva H. Nolan Meigs County Kenneth Harris Perry Point Robert Young Youngs Harris Gladys Karr Columbus Irving Karr C. B. Weese Pomeroy Salisbury John Moore William Collins Eureka Fortification Hill Middleport

Presbyterian Women To Meet Thursday

MIDDLEPORT The Woman's Association of First Presbyterian Church will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m Dr Kathryn Poindexter will be the devotional leader and Mrs J E Harley will present program material for the social hour will be Mrs Paul Haptonstall and Miss Mary and Susan Park Mrs Clarence Lacey Mrs Anice and Miss Mar aU

Middleport Woman's Association of First Presbyterian Church Kathryn Poindexter J. E. Harley Paul Haptonstall Mary Susan Park Clarence Lacey Annice Marau

Middleport Personal Notices Highlight Local Visits and Events

Weekend guests included Mr. and Mrs. Mitch of Martins Ferry with sons Steven and David visiting P. L. Mitch and the John Seines families. Travel plans to Princeton W Va for vacation with Joe Magnotta family. Also listed are hospital updates, Legion meeting, homecoming at Mt. Moriah Church, and multiple local visits from Cleve land to Rutland and Dayton.

Robert Mitch Steven David Martins Ferry P. L. Mitch John Seines Princeton W. Va Joe Magnotta Magnotta Mitch Richard Horden Holzer Hospital Leonard Duke) Bitler Cleveland Don Mills Feeney-Bennett Post American Legion Legion Hall Charles A. Bradbury Nan Barnette Russell Hamilton Julia Williams Nina ‘Barnette Mary Sheren Second Ave Barnete Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Sheren Harriett Warner Richard Allen Rutland Richard Warner Rutland High School Ohio University Earl Lockett Parkersburg Perry Zirkle St. Joseph’s Hospital Michael Eric Chambers Orville Chambers Tommy Bill Sally Dayton Eric Robert Hill Chambers Willis Aleshire Harry Brooks, Jr Martha Watkins Hobson

Class Holds Picnic At Home of Mrs. Penn

The JOF Class of the United Methodist Church held a picnic Monday evening at Mrs. Benton Penn’s home. Mrs. Dwight Parker led as president with devotion by Mrs. Everett Thomas and an article on Fathers in the Bible. Proposals for fundraisers were discussed and the July and August meetings were canceled.

Pomeroy JOF United Methodist Church Benton Penn Dwight Parker Everett Thomas

Park meeting urged for Middleport citizens

Mayor C. C. Fisher calls all residents to a Friday seven thirty p.m. meeting at the village hall led by the Middleport Park Association to discuss completing the 24 lot recreation site in lower Middleport. Recreation Director John Thompson oversees about 150 boys in baseball with four games often in progress drawing spectators along three park sides. The group hopes a yearly fund raising plan, like Mason County, W Va, will sustain park maintenance.

Middleport Middleport Park Association C. C. Fisher Mason County W. Va Lower Middleport Fisher Park Association

Bond Issue Meeting Set for Southern Local District

A July 8 special election will decide a $347000 school bond to build a new high school and convert the present one into a grade school. A July 2 8 p m meeting at Racine High School will inform residents as district leaders plan sub district sessions and details on state aid and project scope.

Pomeroy Southern Racine Southern Local Board of Education S. A. Stein State Department of Education William McKelvey

Arrangements Listed For Mrs Graves Rites

Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Graves aged 84 are set for Thursday at 2 p m at Harrisonville Presbyterian Church. The Ewing funeral home in Pome roy reports calling hours Wednesday from 7 to 9 p m and from 1 p m until services time at the church.

Harrisonville Harrisonville Presbyterian Church Florence Graves Geneva Ewing Funeral Home Pomeroy Harrisonville Church

Pack 244 to Meet at First Presbyterian Church

Cub Scout Pack 244 announces a 7 30 Monday evening meeting at the First Presbyterian Church. Regular business will be trans acted at the meeting.

Middleport William Moody First Presbyterian Church

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