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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1952
Page
3
Twenty-three applications for flood damages since 1936 totaling $215,856.05 were filed in the office of Mayor Delmar A. Canaday. Most claims are for businesses. none for private homes. One claim totals $45,900 for Pomeroy schools. Forms are available at City Hall.
Illness among several cast members forces postponement of the Tom Thumb wedding planned for March 7 at Columbia Elementary School. Two teachers are ill, music instructor Mrs. Thomas J Spurlock says a new date will be announced.
Thursday evening March 6 the Shawnee PTA in the high school building with Alma Harris presiding. Lunch committee is the fifth and sixth grade mothers and Margaret Hopkins. The Pythian Sisters met in IOOF hall with a candidate accepted and euchre afterward. Several local families visited and attended funerals, with notes on ill relatives and lodge activities.
Weekend visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meyer and others visiting Mrs. Tena Woltz. Several residents such as Fannie Drake Matt Prim Mer George Kline and Mat tie Federer were ill. Various residents traveled to Sugar Grove Rockbridge and Florida on vacation.
Floyd G. Diddle charged with gross neglect of eyes and extreme cruelty. judge Emmett W. Peoples grants divorce from Phyllis Diddle in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. Custody awarded to the defendant for one minor child.
The Christian Companion Class met at Miss Eileen Welker’s home with devotional leader Hoyt Gilley. They voted to send 60 to African Christian Mission via missionaries Robert and Mrs. Williams sailing for Africa around April 1. A kitchen needs committee was named and refreshments were served to members and guests.
Patty Blakeslee hosted the 4-H Club at Lincoln Heights with members approving a name change from 4-T Jolly Workers to the Pomeroy Benders. Plans include collecting magazines for the 4-H Camp and adding craft work. officers were elected Janet Carpenter president Sheila Strauss vice president Patty Blakeslee secretary Sharon Bahr treasurer Sandra Ingraham recreation leader Charlotte Murray health chair man Betty Hamm safety chair man Ann Murray.
Obligation Night at a Racine meeting featured a ceremony by officers with parts by Chlorus Grimm and William Stewart. Star points included Louise Chapman Emma Jane McClintock Evelyn McKelvey Beulah Stobart and Vinas Lee. A vocal duet closed the ceremony. Members set a bake sale and bazaar for April 5 at a Racine store.
The Secred Heart Guild will meet Friday evening after the Friday devotions, shifting the originally planned Thursday session to Friday.
Pomeroy edition notes the Happy Harvesters class of the Federated Church will gather Friday at 7 30 p m for a church program and fellowship.
Mrs. Larry Austin of Akron visits Mr. and Mrs. Herman Werry at Naylor's Run. Mrs. Carl N. Smith travels to Cincinnati to visit sister Mrs. Eric Anderson. Jackie West returns to Pomeroy High School after ankle injury from Pomeroy Athens game. Danny West to enroll at a Muncie business college. Cpl. Robert E. Still arrives Tadokawa Japan on birthday Feb. 23, per letter to Elmer and wife.
Mrs Mary Wilhelmi 80 dies at Pomeroy rest home. Requiem high mass is set for Saturday at Sacred Heart Church with interment in Sacred Heart cemetery. Rosary service at Rawlings Coats funeral home Friday night at 8.
Mr. and Mrs Karl Kloes of South Second Avenue Middleport announce the birth of a son Tuesday at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis Grandparents are Mrs Maida Russell Mrs Gertrude Kloes and Art Kloes The Kloes family includes four other children two sons Raymond and Sidney and two daughters Betty and Ruth Ann
Meigs County farmers must contact the Meigs County Production and Marketing Administration office in the Masonic Temple on or before March 31 to complete their farm plan for the current year, Pete Shields, chairman, said today.
William H. Pugh Jr 23 Addison and Clara White 27 Middleport receive marriage license. Chester W. Tharp 64 Circleville and Ida Mae Dorn 55 Middleport also issued license.
George Blackford returns home from Mount St. Mary Hospital Nelsonville. Lloyd and wife announce birth of daughter at Mount St. Mary Hospital with grandparents Elston Mace Scott Stover and great grandmother Mrs. Harrison Syx Columbus. Carl Stanley and daughter Joan visit Zanesville with parents John and Mrs. Stanley. Clarence Powers Nelsonville visits S. M. Dunlap.
The Athens Messenger reports a series of neighborhood dinners quilting sessions and visits. Families including Griffiths Blum Brashares Helber Matias Casto and Nihiser host or spend evenings with relatives and friends across Logan Nelsonville Utica and Lancaster in early March 1952.
Two day test suggests two remedies. First drink fruit and vegetable juice with milk and water, limit meat starches and alcohol. Second use herbal BOKETS medicine to lift kidneys, available at the drug store.
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