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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1949
Page
6
Jon Webster, three and a half, son of Mr and Mrs Jed Webster Jr, was bitten on the cheek and head by a neighbor Ralph Likens dog while playing in the Likens yard Monday afternoon. He received medical care and is under observation as the dog remains under quarantine for rabies signs.
E J Strauss won the village clerk nomination in a Meigs County primary with 195 votes as 492 cast overall. Dale E Smith led council nominees with 347, while Richard Vaughan and Olan Goodwin placed. Mayor Sidney Spencer ran unopposed and Ralph Spencer was unopposed for treasurer. The light vote total was the lightest in Pomeroy’s history.
A safety service notice urges a daily tip for home upkeep. The message stresses cleaning the heating plant and making repairs, discarding junk, and hauling old cans and furniture to the dump to prevent disaster in a farm or home.
Jane Singer of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church was crowned queen by Mrs. Charles Smith district supervisor of Guilds of Baptist churches at Naomi Baptist Church. The May Day meeting of Mt. Moriah Guild drew 50 representatives from Glouster Rutland Gallipolis Rendville Middleport and Pomeroy with soloists and luncheon following.
Mrs. Helen Sinclair Shade a son admitted Oscar Thomas Cheshire medical Edward G Moore Middleport surgery Mrs Norma Goodwin Pomeroy Charles Jewel New Haven W Va surgery Nora Stitt Cheshire medical Linda Lou Graham Racine medical Sandra Durbin Hartford W Va tonsillectomy Discharged William Geophart Clifton Mrs Arthur Ebersbach Pomeroy Mrs Richard Folden Middleport William Conant Minersville
Mr and Mrs Ray McClure and daughter Mary moved Tuesday in their trailer from the Stumbo property on Sixth Ave to Point Pleasant. Mr McClure who was former chief of police here is now on the police force in Point Pleasant.
Middleport High School music students travel to Capital University for the state music tests led by Supt. L. W. McComas and staff. Carla Owen earned a 2 or excellent rating with her flute, Glenn Glaze attained a 2, and June Seines received a 3 for her flute. Accompanists Emma Jane Buell and Patricia Kennedy earned B and A ratings respectively.
Middleport coach Edgar Roades and 16 Parkersburg baseball club members dined Tuesday at Mary Jane Coffee Shop while en route from Huntington to Parkersburg. The Big Reds beat Huntington Central 6 to 4 in an afternoon game at Huntington.
Books added to the Dr. George Lasher shelf in Pomeroy Public Library during April include Wildlife for America American Conservation Coming Age of Wood Biology for Better Living Ohio Trees Conservation and Citizenship Deserts on the March Elements of Soil Conservation. Contributors listed: Dr. Charles Holzer Sr Guy Suters H B Pickett N W Compton Mr and Mrs Charles E Blakeslee Southeastern Ohio Regional Council Olive Orange School Teachers Carl Bilikam and the Pomeroy Garden Club.
Dexter couple Mr. and Mrs. C. E Stout hosted a dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Yeager of Monroe Washington. Yeager relatives from Ohio and Washington attended along with noted Stout family members from Columbus Waynesburg Pt. Pleasant Pomeroy Albany and Athens.
Otho Steele aged 70 of 680 Collingswood Ave died Monday at home. Survived by wife Blanche Steele sisters Stella Hoffman and Florence Bauer. Funeral and interment at Glen Rest Memorial Cemetery. Mrs Hoffman accompanied by L. D. Hartinger George Reynolds and others.
Meigs County AAA office in Pomeroy reports a May 20 1949 deadline for farmers who did not grow wheat in the last three years to file a request for a new farm wheat allotment for 1950. The notice applies only to those who have not completed Farm PMA 532 W acreage report.
George Daniels, former county auditor, has resumed duties in the same office as deputy after several weeks of illness.
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