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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1960
Page
5
Bids will be sought for a 60 000 to 70 000 dollar post office improvement project in Gallipolis. Congressman Walter Moeller announced the plan. The General Services Administration Chicago office will issue invitations with bid openings set for June 17 at 1 p.m.
John F. Hamm 82 died Friday morning at his Nease Settlement home. Survived by wife Blanche, two daughters Eva Theiss Racine and Clara Grueser Minersville Route 1, son Delmar Racine, sisters Emma and Dora, brother Dana all of Minersville, three grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He was a St John’s Lutheran member, charter Meigs County Farm Bureau member, and 40-year Chester Sutton Insurance adjustor. Services 2 p.m. Monday at Ewing Funeral Home. Rev John Richardson officiating. Burial Gilmore Cemetery.
Funeral services for Miss Mae Mee Namee 75 of Murray City who died Thursday in Mount St. Mary Hospital will be Saturday at 9 30 a m in St Philip Neri Catholic Church Murray City. Father Joseph Swialski will officiate and burial will be in Green Lawn cemetery. Rosary services will be held Friday at 8 p m. Friends may call at the funeral home at any time.
Mrs Daniel Thompson hosted her Beech Street bridge club on Wednesday evening with Mrs Alex Cilo as a guest. High score prize was won by Mrs Lillian Spitznagle and second prize by Mrs Richard Seyler.
Glouster residents Mr and Mrs J Junior Evans and daughter plus Stanford Evans and Billy visited in Columbus with Mr and Mrs Caldwell. Leonard Johnson Tom Echstenkamper and others spent a weekend with George Demchak in Woodsfield before returning home. Richard Sanders visited family in Trimble and Clair Strode came from Pennsville.
Middleport residents Mrs. Bill Shoun and children have returned to Johnson City Tennessee after two weeks visiting Mrs. Shoun s parents the Rev and Mrs Fred I Gardner Mrs Patty Bastiani and her Gallipolis children visited Thursday with her mother Mrs Bruce Lloyd in town
Hospital bulletin lists births for Mr and Mrs William Burch Glouster Route 3 a son and for Mr and Mrs William Kirkpatrick Chauncey a daughter. Several admissions include Mrs Thelma Brooks Murray City and Mrs Pearl Taylor Indore Wa a along with multiple residents such as Darrell Puckett Nelsonville and Mrs Myra Millholland Nelsonville. Additional names include Mrs Anna Sweeney Glouster and Harvey Eberts New Straits ville with Mrs Bobby Coe Carbon Hill and son and others like Carolyn Lemay New Marshfield John Mark Courtney Nelsonville Jake Brooks Zaleski Vernie Bobo Athens Route 4 Wendell Keels Nelsonville and Mrs Alice Gossage The Plains.
Final plans for the Meigs County 4-H officers and advisers conference set for May 31 at Pomeroy Junior High School were announced. Sharon Jewell, president, led the meeting. An advisers and junior leaders training session for Meigs Countians is scheduled for June 6 at Canters Cave.
In Meigs County two Methodist churches, Rock Springs and United Methodist of Pomeroy, were cited as Church of the Year in their classes. Selection rested on improvements and church program while pastors included Rev. Robert Card at Rock Springs and Rev. Eugene Brown at United Methodist.
Leslie Rawson age 59 formerly of Middleport died Thursday night at Mt. Carmel Hospital Columbus. He was son of the late Delmar and Lelia Rawson and a Pentecostal Church member. Surviving are children Reba Rawlings Columbus Emmett Middleport Donald Columbus Loretta Hutchinson Le tar t W Va Robert Saxton Graham Landing Wa Patters Wright sister Catherine Millington Richwood and brother Francis Rawson Point Pleasant. Arrangements are with Rawlings Coats Funeral Home.
A full Nelsonville Elementary audience enjoyed The Galloping Ghost performed by fifth and sixth graders. Directed by Mrs. Cosgarea and Miss McKinley, the cast featured Mark Mechem, Cindy Cope, Gary Haynes, Billie Ann Bowens, David Friedrich, Mike Figgins, and Carolyn Juniper with a large chorus and square dancers.
The Southern Ohio Old Auto Club met Sunday in the Warner Building Nelsonville. A May 29 tour will depart Kroger parking lot at 1 p m. The June 1 meeting at 8 p m will be a wiener roast at Johnny Appleseed Park near Haydenville if weather allows. If rain, roast moves to Warner Building. Each family should bring own food.
One third of Finland's 130 500 square miles is forest leaving vast woodland cover across the nation. Researchers note sustainable management and conservation efforts accompany the extensive boreal resources.
Glouster Trimble Grange met Saturday with Wor thy Master Jim Parish in charge nominating Herman Jones and Maynard Sayre as delegate and alternate to the Ohio State Grange convention. Sayre spoke on Safety With Farm Implements and Tractors with additional talks on Safety With Plastics Insecticides Fire Safety in The Home and Farm Fatalities led by Dorothy Daugherty.
Grace Episcopal Church women agreed to sew one day each month for missionary work. The group met at Mrs Ted Reed Jr home with Mrs Fred Crow presiding and Mrs Theodore Ebersbach leading devotion. Reports covered the Columbus convention and Ironton workshop. Mrs Charles Holzer Jr will speak in June.
Kyger Creek High School band held its annual banquet with awards to students. John Phillip Sousa award went to Denny Mulford. Three band camp scholarships to Ohio University were awarded to Paul Athey Elva Williams and Cameron Spears. Senior keys and year letters were presented to several seniors with multiple rank advancements noted for Linda Harrison and Denny Mulford among others.
Middleport will mark the grave of James Smith, revolutionary soldier and first settler, during Memorial Day weekend ceremonies by the Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter DAR. The event at Gravel Hill Cemetery on Page Street starts 3 p.m. Sunday May 29 with a firing squad from Feeney Bennett Post 128 American Legion. Mrs James E Harley, a direct descendant of Smith, attends.
Past Matrons of Pomeroy Chapter 186 of the Order of Eastern Star will convene Tuesday evening at the temple with Mrs. E. J. Tracy serving as hostess.
Mrs. George Rupe pleaded not guilty to two forgery counts in a Thursday hearing before Meigs County Judge Emmet W. Peoples. Bond was set at $2000.
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