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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1949
Page
3
Mrs Carl Knapp and infant Wilda Jean from Leon were discharged from Point Pleasant Thursday and taken to the home of Mrs George Knapp in Addison, the mother-in-law of Mrs Knapp.
A nine member Mason and Putnam County Farm Bureau delegation traveled to Charleston to request 97S acres along Old Town Creek be set aside for West Virginia University’s pasture experiment station. They aimed to provide land for pasture experiments and met C. F. McClintic after arranging with Patteson.
Pleasant High School selects the senior class play Double Door by Elizabeth Madden. Cast includes Bob Hope Charles Chambers Shinn Virginia Sanders Bob Webb Jim Ferguson Patty Jones Dorothy Greenlee and Bill Nebber among officers and room representatives.
E Curtis Roush, about 70, died Wednesday at his Longdale home near New Haven after a several year illness. Funeral set for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Heights EUB Church Point Pleasant. Survived by wife Vesta Ohlinger two daughters Lucille and Emogene four sons Raleigh Terry and Emory.
At a POINT PLEASANT meeting, about $800 in additional subscriptions were reported for the Trinity Methodist Church building fund. Further plans were discussed with a tentative meeting set for April.
Announcement from William Steen Bergen of Point Pleasant states the spring ceremonial of Beni-Kedem Temple AAONMS Charleston will be held April 1. Bergen is among the temple’s oldest members and confirms the scheduled date.
Frank Biffle, city water works engineer, started erecting street markers. The first standard was set at Fourth and Viand opposite the city building. The project will run when staff time allows. 106 standards will hold 422 markers upon completion.
POINT PLEASANT The local AAUW will award $25 scholarships to an outstanding girl in Wahama Hannan and Point Pleasant high schools. Proceeds from a Wahama Glee Club minstrel at the Junior High School support the scholarships. Alice Ease leads the Wahama music staff. end men include Spears Richardson Gilbert Tucker Kelly Knight Gibbs.
John A and Millie Blain transfer two acres in Clendenin District to John and Virginia Faye Carpenter. Billy F King transfers No 6 Cedar and Main Streets to Bert and Laura Sayre. Bert and Laura Sayre then transfer 15 acres in Union District to Charles and Mary M King.
D E Wedge left for Coral Gables Florida to return home with Mrs. Wedge who has spent the winter with her son and daughter in law Captain and Mrs Marion Wedge. Captain Wedge is an official of National Airways Inc and served in the air transport service during the war. He has flown worldwide and once attempted the solo endurance record. After the war he joined an airline in Bogota Colombia and is now building a new home in Coral Gables. His parents plan to return to Point Pleasant about April 1.
POINT PLEASANT G A Brake of Everett Pa is expected here next week to become assistant manager of the G C Murphy Co store He will replace French Bailey recently transferred to Ashland Ky
The Chris Baier farm on Baden Ridge yielded a well recently completed by Well Completed POINT PLEASANT COLUBIAN Carbon Co. The well started producing at 90,000 cubic feet per day when connected to the line, about a mile east of Mt. Alto.
Betty Howell returned home from a Columbus hospital. Mr and Mrs W B Cross dined with Mr and Mrs Harry Wolfe near Racine as Wolfe prepares for Great Lakes work. Mrs Henry Buhler visited niece Goldie Ann Sargeant at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. Lee Jackson, OSU student, spent weekend with Mrs Jackson. Clyde Watson Akron visited family including ill mother Ella Watson. Funeral services held for Lulu Wolfe in Racine Methodist Church. Wolfe former Racine resident.
Local residents visit relatives and travel between Huntington Ripley and Portsmouth Ohio. Annette Lewis of Goucher College stays in Key West with her parents Mr and Mrs Lewis. Several families host dinners and attend visits including Mrs Raymond Adams and Mrs Mary Plants.
The Rev Robert Findlay Thomas to lead Holy Communion at 9 am with church school at 9 40 am and choral morning prayer and sermon. Evensong and Litany follow on Wednesday at 7 30 pm with guest preacher Rev G C Fohner from Ironton. Bruce Chapel also observes Fourth Sunday in Lent with church school at 10 am.
Judge Lewis H. Miller ordered three Webster Springs youths who stole Frank Tile’s car to the boys' industrial school at Pruntytown. Deputy Sheriff Tori Morrison accompanied them to Pruntytown the next morning.
Mr and Mrs Allan King of 2806 Garfield Ave have relocated to Charleston. The note mentions a business intern and industry context tied to the move confirming a relocation event and name and address details.
George Edward Van Meter who died Wednesday in Huntington Hospital will be buried at Suncrest Cemetery after services at Clifton Methodist Church at 1 pm. The Rev. W. J. Gearhart will officiate. He is survived by wife Mea Veda Van Meter of Clifton and son Harry Van Meter of Cincinnati.
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