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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1949
Page
6
The Pomeroy Community Band will rehearse Wednesday evening at the Senior High School instead of their usual Thursday practice night. The change affects all members and prep for the upcoming concert.
The Adith Guild of the Baptist Church will gather at 7 30 p m Thursday at the home of Mrs Vida Allensworth for a group meeting.
A crowd of about 100 Odd Fellows and guests watched the 33 year old mortgage on the organization’s business block burn during an oyster supper in Pomeroy. John Sauvage, a 1911 joiner, was toasted by J. H. Eastman.
Middleport social notes cover a birthday and wedding congratulations for Jean and Bob Dailey Rosie Roberts and families join in the dinner with Ida Dailey as the host. Meanwhile residents share travel visits and hospital recoveries from Meigs General Holzer and Virginia trips.
Sixteen Star Garden Club members met at Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Folden home. Leona Davis led a program on die back shrubs lily of the valley indoors and flowers that live forever. Red Cross donation discussed. Nellie Nelson secretary. St Patrick color refreshments. prizes awarded for bouquet and narcissus displays. Birthday handkerchief shower for Sylva Amos. Next meeting at Mrs. Max Smith near Albany.
Telephones installed in Apple Grove. Charlie Sayre served as substitute teacher in Letart schools. World Day of Prayer held at the Methodist Church with a solo by Mrs. Jack Sharpnack. Mrs. George Hayman learned her daughter Derrell Sayre’s arrival in Japan where her husband is stationed. Mr and Mrs Charlie Sayre and daughter attended the funeral of Miss Alice Sayre in Parkersburg. Guests from Logan visited the Whites and Shanks in Letart Falls.
Mrs J B Downing returned from Florida and called a meeting of the executive committee of the Women’s Association of First Presbyterian Church. She outlines this year’s project to re decorate the church sanctuary and oversee other improvements.
Middleport executive committee of the Amateur Gardeners Club met Tuesday evening at the home of president Mrs Earl Knight on Lincoln Street. After planning sessions Mrs Knight served refreshments in keeping with St Patrick's Day.
Mr and Mrs J B Downing returned Saturday from Florida after two months at Ormond Beach. They visited their son in law and daughter Dr and Mrs Charles R Singleton of Charleston who were vacationing in Naples Florida. Mrs Victor Grim returned after visiting her son and daughter in Steubenville and her son in law and daughter in Canton. The Severs accompanied Mrs Grim. Mrs Osby Martin and daughter Shirley Patricia returned from Holzer Hospital to home.
Mrs Mina Harris shows improvement from illness while local families make multiple visits to Point Pleasant Henderson and Huntington. Attendees include Humphries Van Meter Booth Roach Rickard Long, with extended visits to Waverly Dayton Acme Parkersburg and a funeral at West Columbia UB Church. Perry Zerkle announces the birth of their third child.
Funeral services for George E. Bunce 81 will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Rawlings-Coats Funeral Home. He died Tuesday and is survived by three sons four sisters two brothers four grandchildren and one great grandchild. He was a member of the Christian Church at Bulahville and Bulahville Grange.
The message notes that the cost of service varies according to the family's choices and needs. It lists Trevey Finster Wald Funeral Home at 144 Butternut Ave with a Pomeroy phone number for inquiries.
The Galila Meigs Chapter of the Reserve Officers Association will meet at the Drew Webster Post of the American Legion on Thursday at 8 p.m. to elect officers. Joseph D. Bryan of Pom ery now serves as president and Leo Vaughan is secretary.
Funeral services for George Be Bunce 81 retired farmer will be held at the Church of Christ at 2 p.m. Thursday with interment in Cheshire Gravel Hill cemetery. Pastor C. E. Shepard will officiate. Bunce, lifelong resident of the Bulaville community, died Tuesday morning at his son Walter’s Middleport home after illness. He was a member of the Bulaville Christian Church and the Grange. Survived by three sons Walter Merrill and Max, four grandchildren and one great grandchild, plus brothers and sisters Byron Perry Mrs Ella Vance Clara Bunce Mrs Jennie First and Mrs Eula Swisher.
Village officials are inundated with complaints about many dogs running loose across the community. Citizens were promised county dog warden services. Chickens roaming properties are also reported out of bounds, with one owner warning of a potential chicken dinner if action isn’t taken.
An operetta is set for Friday evening in the Cheshire High School auditorium.
Rudy Gilmore, who gave his address as anywhere, was arrested Monday night in Pomeroy and charged with intoxication. He was released Tuesday morning with a caution to stay out of Pomeroy, and was arrested again Tuesday night by Patrolman Duckworth, now back in jail on intoxication charges.
Morse Chapel Methodist Church in Portland has organized a weekly prayer and song service each Tuesday at 8 p.m. Charles Bush was elected president and Mrs. Dwight Hoback will serve as pianist.
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