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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1947
Page
3
Pomeroy and Point Pleasant business heads told Meigs County veterans that full employment prospects exist in the tri county area. They described forming the Tri County Industrial Foundation to attract new industries to a 500 acre WVOW site and 3 000 acres offered to farmers.
Mayor George Howell issued a proclamation designating March 10 through 16 as American Legion Week. It urges citizens to join Drew Webster Post in observance. The Legion, founded 28 years ago, has long served veterans, children, and community projects through its posts.
A Pomeroy church page lists services across many denominations. Syracuse Nazarene with Rev. Shea hosts 9:30 am Sunday school and 10:45 am worship, revival nightly through March 16 with Rev. Vernon Shafer. United Methodist led by Rev. Bitters with 9:30 am Sunday school and 10:30 am sermon on Jesus' Failures, plus 6:30 pm Youth, and a conference March 16. Rosary of events includes Christ, Episcopal, Baptist, Lutheran, and Free Methodist congregations with varied service times and Thursday Lenten services, plus Thursday lectures and Catholic-like observances.
At the Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce meeting five new members were enrolled by Fred Crow Jr and James O'Brien. President R L Jacobs said the membership drive is under way. The housing and rooming situation was discussed as homes were found for key men coming to erect the first unit of the new 20 million dollar Graham Station power plant in Graham Station West Virginia.
Middleport High School reports forty students eligible for the honor roll this week. Thirty three are girls and seven are boys with the Junior class leading at sixteen honorees and the Freshman four. Listed honorees include Emma Jane Buell Ida Lee Hartley Fred Hoffman Sally Schaaf Katherine Bachtel Juanita Bolin Carolyn Clark David Diles Thelma Ebersbach Rosemary Fisher Hazel Hawkins Beulah Howard Roland Karr Mary Montgomery Mary Lou Smith Frank White Joan Wood Ettamae Burrell Dorothy Chase Jean Clark Harry Featherstone Joan Gilmore Marie Greenlee James Haggerty Marilyn Knopp Iris Palmer Ruth Pratt Mary Rollins Kenneth Sauer Mary Thomas Colleen Waddell Lee Smith Jane Bailey Sara Hartley Anna Howell Madeline Johnson Joan Karr John Kircher Virginia Schaaf Maxine Smith.
Mrs Howard Ewing and Mrs George Faris hosted the March meeting of the Amateur Gardeners Club at the Ewing home on Main Street. President Eleanor Schaaf announced an earlier March 26 meeting. Plans for the Spring Flower Show were discussed with Mrs A A Dillard as general chairman. A St Patrick’s Day contest awarded an African violet to Mrs C E Blakeslee. Attendees included numerous local members and guests from Charleston.
Marriage licenses issued Tuesday and Wednesday in Meigs Probate Court include Andrew J. Cihag 24 Akron and Henrietta Mollohan 24 Portland Clifford Rockhold 26 Long Bottom and Hattie Baker 17 Reedsville Jack G. Jarvis 23 Cutler and Betty Jane Porter 21 Pomeroy Howard Kenton Ramey 23 Wadsworth Ohio and Judy Thompson 21 Pomeroy Dale W. Nibert 21 Apple Grove W Va and Nancy Jane Dial 21 Racine Lawrence Hamilton 38 Marshallville Ohio and Gertrude U Butzer 40 Dexter. FRIDAY MARCH 7 1947.
In Meigs County veterans learn of Ohio Power Company's planned $20,000,000 Graham Station plant at Graham Station West Virginia and its potential to draw industry. Speakers urge veterans to register with USES, pursue jobs through channels, and support Blue Cross enrollment in Pomeroy with mass meetings planned.
Pomeroy Herman Beards Meigs clerk of courts reported February receipts from the Meigs Title Office. Details include 104 certificates of title totaling 145.50 59 liens notations 17 70 34 memo titles 8 50 47 cancellations of liens 14 50 140 applications 35 five certified copies 3 75 with total receipts 224 55. Of this 160 15 goes to the Meigs treasury and 64 40 to the state. Also 17 new trucks sold and 29 new passenger car titles issued in February.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Adams buy a house and a store building in Lock Eleven on Route 7. They plan to move from Kaylong, sell their Kaylong home, and open a grocery store in Lock Eleven. Adams works as a barber in Point Pleasant.
John Motley Pomeroy was arrested March 5 by Pomeroy police on a warrant sworn by his wife Wanda Motley charging intoxication. He was arraigned before Mayor George Howell and fined $5 plus costs.
Joseph H. Farrar files for divorce from Ruth Anselmi Farrar in Athens County Ohio Common Pleas Court Cause No. 18939 on grounds of gross neglect of duty. Hearing set for April 18 1947. last known residence for Ruth Farrar listed as 1200 Frenchmen Street New Orleans Louisiana. Attorney John W. Bolin represents the petitioner.
Mr and Mrs Dale Roush of Columbus hosted the Turner family on Condor Street. Buck and son Robert left for Cincinnati for Buck to enroll at Cincinnati College of Embalmers. L D Davis and her sons Robert and Lorenzo traveled to Pittsburgh after Claude Davis was badly injured at a steel mill. Claude is recovering. Mrs William Bartels of Rock Springs sprained an ankle in a porch ice fall. Several Pittsburgh residents attended the wedding of Margaret Lallance in Middletown. Katie Schorn improved after Sheltering Arms Hospital surgery. Mrs Helen West and Mrs Charles Pfarr were called to Zanesville for their sister Mrs Walter Nutzling. Mrs Birt House plans to return from Vallejo to Pomeroy soon.
Senior High honor roll shows many girls while Junior High lists three boys Charles Haskins James Morris and Billy Taylor all seventh grade students.
Middleport High School students rehearse for two concerts on March 30 and April 13. The Girls Glee Club directed by Miss Lois Cecil performs March 30 in the high school auditorium. The Middleport School Band led by H. B. Krinke performs April 13 with Ben Philson assisting on The Risen King cantata. The program features sacred numbers including Malotte Pray-er Were You There Adam The Holy City and Hallelujah Chorus and the band will showcase Victor Herbert Favorites Swinging the Ingats and new instruments recently purchased.
Pomeroy official Herbert Shields outlines available conservation practices for Meigs County during the year. Contouring, stripcropping, sod waterways, tree planting, lime, fertilizer, and farm ponds are among listed options. Cooperators must sign up by April 1, 1947 and may call the AAA office or request the farm plan by mail to qualify for ACP payments.
At a Meigs County meeting on Monday Dan Hartinger moved to grant Rutland Township trustees permission to buy a motor road grader with all three commissioners voting yes. A building committee for the County Home was formed with Manning D. Webster W. O. Crow Leslie Keeler and Fred Shifler named.
Local church notices list Sunday services for First Presbyterian First Baptist and Heath Methodist, with times for worship and Sunday school. Mentioned are a regional ministers retreat in Marietta launching The New Life Movement and guest pulpit by Rev H A Rothrock while pastor attends Cincinnati series through March 16.
Mrs Harmon O'Brien of Pomeroy has been named director of the Pomeroy Youth Center. The Adult Board chair Mrs C F Tompkins announced she will begin duties Saturday as the center opens with a full recreation program for local teens. Frank Vaughan, PHS youth leader and center president, said the Youth Board will meet Thursday at Senior High School. Center hours set 8 p m to midnight.
A sales dinner sponsored by Packard Motor Sales Co. for mechanics of Middleport Gallipolis and Athens was held Wednesday at the American Legion Hall. Paul Short of Cincinnati and officials from Charleston West Virginia and Detroit hosted at the Mary Jane Coffee Shop for the men.
Two reviews were presented at the Middleport Literary Club gathering held Wednesday at Mrs. Cedric Clark’s home. Mrs. T A May reviewed The Cherokee Strip by Marquis James and Miss Bess Sanborn read No Life for a Lady prepared by Mrs. Frank White. Mrs. Co P Dutton presided.
Mr and Mrs Will Drury of Glouster visited Wednesday with Mr and Mrs C B Forrest and Miss Vesta McCoy. Mrs Carroll Swanson and her children were overnight guests of Mrs C F Hawkins on Wednesday. Mrs Swanson came for...
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