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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1951
Page
6
Editor notes Miss Lee is Meigs County pen friend chairman. The piece recalls how home demonstration council linked American homemakers with German and English pen friends. It describes education, world citizenship, Christian democracy, and how personal exchanges foster empathy, reduce prejudice, and promote peace across nations.
POMEROY Senior boys at Pomeroy High School heard a Navy recruiting officer, Chief Engineman Cluff from Huntington, West Virginia, speak at 2 pm on April 30. He answered questions on Navy life and education opportunities and will interview interested youths at the Pomeroy Public Library each Wednesday from 11 am to 3 pm.
Pomeroy Junior High hosted 62 county eighth graders for Visitation Day. Principal Charles S. Gibbs welcomed guests, with a Student Council led program including readings, songs, a skit The Dude and the Cowboys, solos and duets, and a piano march. Visitors dined with students then attended afternoon activities featuring Girls Glee Club, athletic showcase, and a Pomeroy High Band concert. County students from Bedford Laurel Rocksprings Sacred Heart Syracuse and Hill attended with numerous named pupils listed.
Charles Theiss of the Meigs County Services Unit announces artificial insemination service will be provided daily during inseminator transition. Cris Smith, Scioto County inseminator, will take calls 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. each day starting May 5 at the Meigs County Extension Office. Walter Brown resigns to join Sylvania plant but will continue riding service until Smith arrives.
Meigs County Clerk of Courts reports April receipts totaling 521.50. Virgil V. Brown states the county share is 358.45 and 163.05 goes to the state. Monthly activities include 435 certificates of title issued and 181 len notations.
A report from Richard Harold Rawlings in Philadelphia states Harriett Barr Rawlings underwent a rare heart operation and is convalescing satisfactorily. Surgeons expect a full recovery from a condition once thought to leave her a semi invalid.
There will be a quarterly meeting at the Alfred Church Sunday May 13 at 2 p.m. At 8 p.m. the same day the MYF will present a Mother's Day program.
Captain and Mrs H W Craig Jr and daughter Carol Lee left for Las Cruces New Mexico after a three week visit with County Commissioner H W Craig and family. A Sunday dinner honored the younger Mrs Craig's birthday with Dr Charles Crow and family and C D Crow of Racine among the guests. Captain Craig, in the Air Force, is stationed at White Sands Proving Grounds New Mexico.
MIDDLEPORT The Well Baby Conference will be held at the Middleport Public Library Thursday afternoon from 1 30 to 4 00 p m The clinic is for well babies under school age in the county and will be conducted by a Meigs County physician and health nurses free of charge Immunizations are offered and considered vital The Child Conservation League assists as co sponsor to provide the service
Willis Ell McCune of New Haven was fined five dollars plus costs for operating a motor vehicle at excessive speed on Route 7. He was arraigned in Mayor Sidney A. Spencer’s court Tuesday afternoon, with the charge verified by the State Highway Patrol.
An official Alfred Church board meeting will be held Wednesday evening May 9 after the prayer service. Charles D. Woode serves as chairman.
Mrs E G Probst retires after years of service as librarian at the Middleport Public Library on May 1. She formerly spelled Sara Davis, attended Marietta College two years after graduating Pomeroy High School in the 1890s, and credits a Marietta English instructor for her love of literature. She contributed as a WPA project writer and did book repair work at the library, succeeding Miss Alpha Sommerville.
POMEROY Thirty six seniors from the Tuppers Plains and Chester schools will depart Sunday evening for Washington D C and Annapolis with chaperones. Chester High School supplies 20 seniors and Miss Helen F Smith. 16 Tuppers Plains seniors travel with Mrs Maxine Whitehead. A chartered Greyhound bus transports the group, returning early Wednesday morning.
Meigs County Retired Teachers Association sets next meeting for Saturday at 1 PM in the Federated Church basement rooms. Members will bring a copy of the McGuffey Reader. Miss Della Windsor and Mrs. Everett Tracy will present special parts from the book. E C Saunders presides.
POMEROY The Meigs County Pomona Grange will meet Friday at 8 30 pm at the Rocksprings Grange Hall. Work will be put on in full form. The Ohio Valley Grange will entertain and serve refreshments.
Alfred The Alfred Sunday School collects sales tax receipts with proceeds to be shared with the Methodist Youth Fellowship. People with stamps to donate may give them to Nina Robinson Sunday School secretary.
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