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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1952
Page
12
The County Education Association holds a spring meeting at the junior high school auditorium with talks from civic groups and a panel on improving school opportunities. About 25 to 30 organizations participate. morning session at 9:30 and both sessions open to the public through participants including PTA members.
The Rome Canaan School District in Athens County Ohio presents its financial report for the year ending December 31 1961. It lists tax valuations and levies along with salaries expenditures and fund balances across General Bond Rehabilitation Veterans and School Lunch funds and shows revenue totals and detailed stepwise expenditures by fund.
Mason County PTA representative Walden Roush spoke at Beech Hill School on forming a PTA. Otis Rice discussed the PTA’s role in community activities. An organizational meeting is set for March 29 at the school. Loretta McComb is the principal.
Point Pleasant board of education at a special session authorized Brown and Bowman to extend classroom additions at Point Pleasant High School and to revise Sunnyside School plans to keep costs under 450. A bids advertisement for Sunnyside construction will follow once plans are ready. The board approved $2100 for the architects and granted Mrs. Tula Jividen a leave of absence due to illness.
At Point Pleasant High School senior girls earned shorthand certificates and pins after two and a half minutes of writing with 95 percent accuracy. Speeds ranged from 60 to 100 words per minute for a list of students, and typing awards were given for ten minutes with five or fewer errors to named students including Marlene Bumgardner Beverly Wedge Clarice Rodgers Lynn Smith Mickey Whalen and Jimmy Gaskins.
The Star Garden Club met at Mrs. Floyd Davis home and the March meeting occurred at J. E. Strong's. Loren Strausbaugh and David Duffy, Columbus workers, spent the weekend here. April 9 meeting set at Emery Johnson home. Mr. and Mrs. John Bobo and Neal Dayton visited Hamden and Wilkesville. Mrs. Dora Bobo accompanied them. Walter Beckley joined the Bobo party to Florida to visit L. C. Bobo family. Funeral services for 91 year old John Lewis were held at the Presbyterian Church with burial in Vinton Memorial Cemetery. Pythian Sisters initiated five candidates. Bryan Radcliff and wife bought O. K. Rhodes farm on Yankee Street. William Cottrill moved to Worley Newsom property on Route 160. Eastern Star to hold special meeting with initiation. Bonnie DeVault and Ralph White wed at Rev. Waltz home. Kentucky residents Guy Wilkins and family visited en route to New Jersey. son Douglas is in the Navy, another son Fred at an Army base in Florida. William and Virginia McGarvey with son Fred J. were dinner guests at A. L. DeVault home.
Logan and Lancaster residents exchange visits across multiple families as Woltz relatives gather. Notable events include Emma Meyer and Ellen Bowers celebrating their 56th birthday and Lawrence Ellinger and Wave line Meyer marking their fourth wedding anniversary.
Robert L. Jones of Point Pleasant is alive despite a World War II honor roll listing him as missing. The 116th Infantry 29th Division private fought in Normandy and France, earned the Purple Heart and theater ribbons, and now lives in Mill Creek Ohio.
The Order of Eastern Star met in the Masonic Temple with Worthy Matron Alice Marie Barr presiding. A rummage sale was planned for late March at the Gardner home on Viand Street alongside a pot-luck dinner, with honoring of past matrons, past patrons, and charter members.
The Leon Homemakers Farm Women’s Club met Monday at the Leon Lodge Hall with devotionals by Mrs. Harvey Morgan and a lesson on Room Arrangements by Mrs. James Morgan. President Mrs. Everett Bissell presided as reports from the committee on a new community building were heard and a hostess group led by Mrs. Charles Holstin and others prepared the event.
The wedding of Miss Mary Ann Schaeffer of St Louis to Mr Richard Browning Windsor son of Mr and Mrs Dewey Windsor of Kanawha Street will be held Saturday in St Louis. Mr Windsor and his niece Mrs Richard Peek left Monday to attend the wedding. Mrs Windsor is already in St Louis.
At a dinner meeting C. J. Hyer was elected president for the new year. Al Biggs was re elected as vice president and Kenneth W Shaffer was chosen as secretary treasurer. The meeting was led by vice president Biggs. A film on the American Constitution shown by Robert H Ferguson. Dinner served by the Wesley Circle of the church.
Mrs Miles Dowling of Main Sty will entertain Carpenters Auxiliary members at her home Tuesday evening.
The American Legion Auxiliary will meet Monday evening at the American Legion Home with members invited to attend and participate in the session.
Mrs Ora Higgins of 2309 Jefferson Ave will host Thursday evening gathering of the past councilors of Council 63.
The Mountain Climbers 4 H Club of Gallipolis Ferry will meet Wednesday at 7 30 p m at the home of Mrs Howard Garland.
Co. M. Burris is seriously ill at home in West Columbia after a stroke this week. Carole Ann Senf, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Senf of Liberty Street, is improving after a prolonged illness. Iwis Green, daughter of Mr and
The Hill Billie 4-H club met with Leah and Jimmy Love to discuss 4-H tag sales for camp and a mailbox repair project led by Miss Peggy Blessing with assistants Lola Jean and Marlean Roush. A social hour followed with many attendees and refreshments.
The report notes multiple visits by the Cottrill and Parsons families to relatives in the area. It records the burial of John Lewis at Vinton Memorial Park after dying in a rest home near MacArthur. Other locals such as Wayne Turner and Carl Patrick are listed as business visitors, with mentions of Mr. Terry returning to work after a cold.
Mason County 4-H leaders met at the senior high Vo-Ag building with Paul Rickard presiding. They reported $47 from two bake sales and agreed to donate 10 cents per member to the national 4-H Club center, about $35 from Mason County. A June activity day and county 4-H camp were planned with committees formed and a scholarship group named. next meeting set for April 19 to finalize camp plans for July 14 18.
Bernard Hill of Elmwood escaped injury when a tie-rod failed causing his car to go over a four foot embankment in front of the Cloyd Barnett residence at Leon around 11 45 a m. The vehicle struck a telephone pole and sustained heavy damage.
The Point Pleasant Senior Class will present a three act romantic comedy Garden of the Moon on March 31 and April 1 at the Junior High School auditorium. author Arthur Jeanne also wrote Mignonette.
Rutland Rutland March 12 Golden Circle Class of the Christian Church met at the home of Mr and Mrs Richard Grueser. Victor Braley led devotionals and prayers. Ten members and three guests attended with ice cream and cake served.
Execu trix accounts filed in the Thomas E. Newman estate show receipts of 714.50 and disbursements of 1084.14. Private sale orders for Carrie A. Newman property confirmed. Guardianship petition for Richard T. McDonald. Estates of Mary Catherine Johnson, Harry P. Johnson, Fred C. Orr, Daniel H. Busch, Fred W. Combs, Jess S. Snider, and others noted with appraisals and administrators named. Marriages: Charles Bennett and Gerald Courtright. Paul Leach and Madonna Stalder. Lester Hollar and Francis Drumm.
In Canal Winchester the Canal Winchester bank sues Crawford F Pope and Geraldine Pope of Worthington with Aid Budget Co and Aid Investment and Discounting added as defendants and Pure Oil Co made a party. Plaintiff granted leave to file a supplement. In another case Gladys Riggs of Crooksville receives temporary alimony of 40 dollars weekly for two minor children.
National Gas and Oil Corp transfers six tracts in Monroe Township to John and Patrick Alster. Allen C. Chalfant’s heirs relay two tracts to Belle Chalfant. Mike Taylor transfers two tracts in Mt Perry to Helen R. Williams. Laura E. Taylor’s estate conveys a Harrison Township tract to Leola M. Moore and others. Georgia W. Pitcock transfers a Crooksville tract to Helen O. Richele. Cora M. Vandegriff holds an undivided interest in Hemlock tract. Walter Preston estate transfers 40 acres in Bearfield Township to Valnarta Preston. R. J. McGongle et al. transfer two Pike Township tracts to S. L. Van Atta. Nick Cenci and Sons Inc transfers four Pike Township tracts to John W. Taylor et al.
A vivid note explains women in Dutch Guiana habitually bear items on their heads. If asked to carry a letter, a stone is placed atop the head to weigh it down, illustrating daily endurance and ingenuity.
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