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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1950
Page
3
POMEROY A district Sunday school and BYPU Institute will be held Sunday at the Naomi Baptist church. Mrs Ethyl Riley of Nelsonville is district superintendent of the Sunday School while Allen Hampton of Pomeroy serves as BYPU superintendent.
W H Jones of the state education department reports school lunch programs are gaining ground in Meigs County. Visits with O O Patterson cite adding facilities to serve more than five current schools. Cited lunches are meal kits prepared by local cooks from surplus state food and low student costs.
Graveside funeral services for Ernest Barton aged 55 will be held Saturday at Reedsville cemetery. Barton, a former funeral director and school teacher, died at his home near Reedsville Tuesday morning. He is survived by wife Winnie fred, six children Ralph Robert John Exhurst others, two brothers John Barton and Dr A G Barton, and two sisters Hazel Higley and Carrie Schlobohn. Friends may call at Arbaugh Funeral Home and at the family home.
Middleport churches list service times and sermon topics for First Baptist Heath Methodist First Presbyterian Church of Syracuse Presbyterian Church of Christ in Christian Union and Church of Christ in Christian Union. Pivotal events include Bible school at 9 15 to 9 30 a m and morning worship with sermons on humility prayer and lent tones.
Safety pictures will be shown at 7 30 p m Thursday March 9 in the school building. A program includes folk dances by Buttons and Beans Folk Dance club of Pomeroy. Entertainment supervised by Carroll J Christopher Meigs County Safety Services chairman.
Calvin Bruce Simpson, captain on the Tom Campbell barge line diesel boat, visits with wife and son Bruce Jr in Middleport on Broadway Street. Bruce Jr turns two this Saturday. Mrs. Simpson and her mother-in-law Mrs. R. H. Folden traveled by car to Pittsburgh on Wednesday to join him.
Eighteen Past Matrons from Evangeline Chapter attended a dinner in Pomeroy with Mrs. Lillian Stieff as guest and Mrs. Stewart Hawkins delivering the Middlport toast. Curiosity Club of New Haven arranged a dinner at the Little House then saw a theatre visit. Margaret Sauer attended a Frances Willard Memorial Tea at Federated Church parish house, closing prayer by Sauer. Tony Thumb Wedding planned by Mt. Moriah Baptist Church for March 7 at 7 30 p.m. Florence Richards leads program. public invited. small charge.
Columbus report says families affording a television set cannot receive poor relief. County Welfare Director Robert P. Stith noted some households used part of relief to pay installments on TV sets.
Hamilton defended John Peter Zenger in 1735 New York City with no prior law knowledge, earning an acquittal and a lasting tribute to the Philadelphia lawyer. Arthur Littleton, chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, notes few know the term’s exact origin dating to pre revolutionary days.
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