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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1957
Page
15
Trimble Township Jaycees plan Teen Age Road-e-o with a written test at Glouster High School on May 15 at 2 p.m. Driving tests follow June 2 at the park. Prizes include a trophy and 20 10 5 dollars for three boys and three girls. Officers will be elected May 15.
Glouster Holy Cross Fr Anthony Nickle leads May devotions with Friday 6 30 p.m. Masses Sunday masses at 8 and 10 a.m. Confessions 6 30 to 8 p.m. Saturday First Communion class members will receive Holy Communion at 8 15 a.m. Sunday. Other churches list times for worship study and youth groups. Local leaders include D K Teater pastor of Church of Christ and Rev Norman E Dewire at Jacksonville and Trimble Methodists. Seventh-day Adventist sabbath school at 9 30 a.m. worship 11 a.m. with speakers Robert and Stephen Craig.
The county commission met briefly and approved payments from the auto gasoline fund totaling 1662.60 and county funds 566.07. Welfare bills approved include 10242 Aid for Dependent Children 533.50 general relief 1193 Aid for the Blind and 2223 Aid for the Disabled. April dog warden Pat Reichley report received and filed.
Land transfers recorded in Trimble Township involve Bernice Carter to Clifton L. Kloh for Lot 190 in Jacksonville and Cambria Mining Company to Mrs Helen Leach for 138 acres in Glouster. Harold E Showers transffers real estate in Glouster to Vinnia Motter. Hazel J Losey to Vernice De Wees for a lot in T C Wright's Addition to Glouster. Ernest Shonborn to Goldie Shonborn for 1.24 acres in Trimble Township. Elizabeth Roback to George E Delong for 0.15 acre in Trimble. Myrtle Roberts to Arthur Taylor for real estate in Glouster. Fannie B Hines to Myrtle Roberts for real estate in Glouster.
Glouster Young People's Church of Christ will depart Sunday at 5 15 p m for an undisclosed destination for a wiener roast and outdoor vespers. All young people invited. Attendees bring wieners and buns. dressing and drink provided. Register at the church Sunday morning for transportation.
Logan graveside services were conducted Thursday for the infant son of William and Loretta Mollihan Stewart of Columbus formerly Union Furnace who died at birth in St. Ann's Hospital Columbus. Rev Fr Charles P Foy officiated and the burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery.
The Junior Progressive Study Club meeting scheduled for Monday evening is postponed until May 13 at Mrs John Cunninghams home. The Chit Chat Club meets Tuesday at 7 30 p m at Mrs James Andrews home with Mrs Foster Sayre as co hostess.
Miss Margaret Crawford reports her sister Josephine White of McConnelsville was taken Monday to Good Samaritan Hospital Zanesville for surgery. She is in room 310. Mr and Mrs Curtis Moore of Akron visited Mr and Mrs Albert Hall while Mrs Harry Cooper of Dayton stayed with her brother John Dyer. Florence Descentiva returned home Saturday after wintering in Dayton with his son and family.
A dense listing highlights church services across Logan and nearby towns. It notes pastors, Sunday school times, worship and sermon topics, choir rehearsals, youth activities, and daily or midweek meetings at numerous congregations including First EUB, Zion Lutheran, Union Furnace, St Matthew, and more with times ranging from morning to evening and special notes on evangelistic services and radio broadcasts.
Union Furnace High School will be represented at the final district state scholarship tests. The team includes Michael McGhee algebra 1 Marvin Mc Daniel general science Carl Shrush geometry Margaret Mc Clain bookkeeping Kay Smith English XI and William Mc Gathey social science. Tests will be held Saturday at Ohio University.
Junior Class presents the play Quit Your Kidding a fast moving comedy Friday at 8 p m in the Union Furnace Gym under Russell Wolfe’s direction Cast includes Kay Smith Ann Sheets Marvelae Armstrong Janice Edgar La Donna Wolfe Barbara Hall Kenneth Gabriel Marvin Six Ronnie Turner Dick Sickles Ronnie Brown and Margaret McClain with multiple character roles from Camilla Dusenberry to Evelyn Buford
A mother daughter party of the Women of the Church from St Matthew and St John Lutheran churches drew 160 attendees at First Methodist Church. After dinner, group singing and readings followed, with presentations by Michele Scaparrotti and others.
The Webb Summit Farm Bureau Council on Rural Life will host Rev. Carl Wetherall presenting Working with God on Sunday May 26 at Webb Summit Methodist Church. A 12:30 p.m. potluck lunch precedes the program and the public is invited to attend with personal table service and a dish to share.
Laur elville Route 2 boy, 16, who ran away April 23, has been located and is held at Batavia in Clermont County. His mother travels to Batavia to bring him home as probation officer George Johnson notes hearings likely.
Logan Miss Minnie Bowen and Armand Houk announce the junior high music festival program in the high school auditorium. The 2:30 p.m. program features seventh grade and eighth grade choruses, freshman girls' glee club, and the junior high band with varied classical and folk pieces. Public welcome with no admission charge.
An 18th century United States landscape was largely wilderness with topsoil about nine inches deep. Modern conditions show soil roughly six inches thick, indicating a loss of about one third of topsoil since colonial times.
Kay Smith and Clayton Rose, first place in Ohio temperance contest, will take a six day trip to Washington and eastern sites. They travel June 10 via Chesapeake and Ohio Sportsman coaches, with visits to James Monroe and Thomas Jefferson homes, the University of Virginia, Skyline Drive, Washington landmarks, a banquet, and a return route through Virginia.
Murray City High School sophomores and freshmen toured Columbus on April 24. They visited the State Capitol Building the Columbus Dispatch and the Ohio State University Museum during the trip.
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