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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1949
Page
6
Mrs Richard Campbell, Meigs County PTA president, attended the installation of officers for the Central Local PTA in Chester. Officers installed include Mrs Howard Knight president and Mrs J M Gaul vice president. The unit has 63 members and 75 to 80 attended refreshments afterward.
Funeral services for Howard M. Crary with the Corps of Engineers will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Zachary Taylor National Cemetery in Louisville Kentucky. Crary was killed in Italy on October 10 1943.
Mr and Mrs Plaine Haskins announce the birth of a son on March 18 at White Cross Hospital Columbus. The baby is named Thomas Blaine. Grandparents are Sanford Thomas Broadway Street and Stanley Haskins Cheshire.
Wahama High School athletes receive praise after a 45 43 victory over Point Pleasant. Coaches and staff join 25 Mason Countians at the Mary Jane Coffee Shop in Middleport for steak dinners. Ralph Sayre head coach marked a private celebration of his marriage to Miss Jean Ferguson.
Norma Lee Pomeroy leads Meigs County Home Extension Council with Geneva H Nolan and Mrs. Harman to Lake White Club to plan the district meeting set for Rutland on May 4. Bruce Tom Ohio State extension specialist leads leadership training as seven counties form the new north south district 12. Sixteen counties discussed transportation in a 14 county district. The counties in district 12 are Hocking Athens Meigs Vinton Jackson Gallia and Lawrence.
Pom eroy High School senior Bennett Rice has earned an Ohio University scholarship for ranking first among Meigs County participants in the 1949 Senior General Scholarship Contest sponsored by the Ohio State Department of Education.
Mr and Mrs W H Eichinger of Rocksprings will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary with an open house at home from 2 to 4 p m Sunday.
Miss Dorothy Miller cashier at Pogue department store Cincinnati and friend Lewis Ruse spent a weekend with Dorothy Miller's mother Mrs. Harry Tate. Mrs. J. S. Rose returned from West Virginia after a several week stay with daughter Mrs. Dorothy Lange. Luella Bradbury and others visited Rod ney daughter Mrs. Robert Ball. Helen Kennedy of Middleport visited her mother Flora Bradbury. Sherald Shafer spent days with Wayne Morris of Clarksville. Annabell Sisson visited Mrs. Nina Rupe for a day.
Walter J. Stump was arrested Sunday on vagrancy charges and pleaded guilty in Justice of the Peace L. B. Higgins court. He was sentenced to 10 days in jail.
The JOF class met in the church social rooms Monday evening with Mrs Jed Webster Sr. presiding. They planned a May rummage sale and an April 20 soup dinner. Mrs Ella Bryant led devotions and Mrs Evelyn Strauss led the program. Hostesses were Mrs H Berger Mrs Verlie Gordon and Miss Lucy Gibbs.
Paul Theiss from Portland visits Letart Falls. Weekend guests include Mr. and Mrs. Victor Miller Mr. and Mrs. James Ward Charles M. Ward Rose Mary Ward and Michael Fees. Rose Mary Ward attended Harbrecht Rosenbaum wedding. W A Smith attends sister in law funeral in New Brighton Pa. Mrs Vernon Howell spends week in Canton with daughter Mrs Ross Poulton. Mrs Floyd Will and son Malcolm weekend in Akron. Mrs Will is music supervisor in Salisbury township. Mr and Mrs John Weeks have
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