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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1942
Page
7
The sixth annual Meigs County Home Extension Achievement Day will be held April 8 at the Pomeroy Senior High School Auditorium with a buffet luncheon from 11 30 to 12 30. Local home council members will coordinate luncheon details and attendees are asked to contact the Extension Office for arrangements.
Middleport Rotary Club sponsors the third annual Easter Egg Roll at Middleport Roadside Park Sunday at 2 PM with 360 hidden eggs 100 numbered for prizes. Two dozen colored chicks await a winner. Prizes funded by local professionals. two age groups preschool and up to twelve. Meigs County Children's Home children attend as special guests.
Texas has an area equal to the combined areas of Connecticut Illinois Maine Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York Ohio Pennsylvania Rhode Island and Vermont.
Pomeroy notices include the marriage of Dorothy Clatworthy to Pfc. Lewis Long at the Pomeroy parsonage in a March ceremony. Other items report church class activities, visits, and several local residents and relatives from Middleport, Mechanic Street, Vinton, Parkersburg, Zanesville, Columbus, and beyond.
The embryo ball club, managed by Bill Walter, practices at Pythian Park in Middleport as they seek immediate engagements before the regular season in the Ohio Valley League begins this spring.
Attend Scout Meeting of Troop 48 at First Presbyterian Church with Hickory and Wolfe patrols. Bill Grate and Charles Hess led pacing and compass drill after the regular session. Softball practice set for Wednesday at 6 o’clock.
Pomeroy village council approved drafting a traffic ordinance amendment to ban parking on Main Street until noon daily except for trucks and create a one hour parking zone on business streets including Sycamore Lynn Court and Butternut from Main to Second. They consider widening Second Street, marking street names, painting Town Hall, sourcing oil for unpaved streets, resurfacing Second Street and Butternut Avenue, and seeking state aid to widen Main Street where tracks lie. A gravel spread on unpaved streets is planned if gravel is available. A rental property fee for sanitary inspections was rejected.
Franklin Edwards son of Mr and Mrs Virgil Edwards of Columbus guest of his grandparents Mr and Mrs Edward Parsons and Mr and Mrs Phil Edwards sang I Walked With the King as soloist at the First Baptist Church Sunday morning. Miss Maxine Bennett played piano and church youth under Mrs Paul Smart rehearse for Easter Sunrise service.
Grant Garrison, 77, died Monday at 10 45 p m at his home on Butternut Ave in Pomeroy He is survived by his wife Bertha three daughters Mrs August Conde of Pomeroy Mrs Rueben Midkiff of Cherry Ridge and Mrs Webster Hermon of Massachusetts and one son Arthur of Athens A sister survives as the last of a 14 child family An other sister died six weeks ago Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p m at Finsterwald Funeral Home conducted by Rev Don McMillen Burial services will be held Thursday morning at Wellsburg West Virginia
Meigs County loses another peace officer Deputy Sheriff Dave Jenkins is slated to start Friday at the Mason County TNT plant as the fifth officer to depart the force. Earlier departures included George Lee Beards Sidney Russell and Paul Swisher and Chief Robert Allensworth. Also reported are marriage licenses issued in Pomeroy to Robert Pursell and Mary Butricks and to Russell Wickline and Mabel Clark in Racine.
The eight Santa Barbara islands off the California coast are Ana Capa Santa Barbara Santa Catalina San Clemente Santa Cruz San Miguel San Nicolas and Santa Rosa.
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