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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1947
Page
13
Jack Powelson and his sheep dog Roy will be featured in a Saturday radio broadcast on WLW during Everybody's Farm Hour at noon. Sheep dog trials are set for July 10 at the state experiment farm in Carpenter.
The Middleport Rotary Club concludes its year with a Friday final dinner meeting at Heath Methodist Church led by retiring president Judge Edgar Ervin. A long list of guest speakers from business, government, and education highlighted Rotary activities during the year, including community service drives and school honors.
In Middleport the 200 plus children enrolled in the Daily Vacation Bible School will walk to Roadside Park Friday morning after the 11 30 closing for a noon picnic served by women from local churches. Committees led by Mrs A A Dillard, Mrs Edgar Allensworth, Mrs Charles Bennett and Mrs Earl Knight have planned the menu and activities. Closing exercises are Sunday evening in a union service at the high school auditorium.
POMEROY The Police Pension Bill passed by both houses of the 97th General Assembly requires police departments with two or more regular full time officers to establish a police pension fund. Vernon M. Smith of the Fraternal Order of Police says retirement is after 25 years with a 50 percent pension, plus disability, widow, and orphan benefits. The state will subsidize police and fire pension systems by about $1,600,000 in the future.
Betty Jean Miller and Johnny Levis wed at Rutland Methodist Church on Sunday June 15 with about fifty guests. Eleanor Taylor and James Thomas also married at Rutland Methodist on the same day, followed by a reception at the Winn home. Visitors include Harmon, Miller, Hull, and others from West Virginia and Ohio.
A lawn party on June 23 at the Bowen home on Chestnut St honors Carolyn Elizabeth Wells, daughter of Mrs. Mary Louise Wells. Mrs. Frances Bowen Brewington assisted. children played games, received toy balloons and pale blue cups with candy and gum. ice cream and birthday cakes with candles served to Karl Beck, Sharon Jones, Barbara Jones, Christine Coats, Joan Lyons, Carolyn Wilson, Sandra Brewington, Linda Lou Helrich, Patty Lloyd, Mrs. Emerson Jones, Mrs. DaReuben Beck, Mrs. Lee McComaser, Hobson, and Fred Jackson of Charleston. This is Jackson’s first baby.
Mrs David Osler entertained for granddaughter Rosemary Milliron on her fifth birthday Saturday with yard games and refreshments. Attendees included Roxie Marie Orville and Larry Osler Linda Lee Shirley Ann and Jimmy Batey Linda Jean and Sue Little Sharon Janice Quillen Ruth Ann Betty Paul Gable Freshour Paul Bob Bailey Bill Roger Bessie Mae Quillen Carolyn Beard Sharon Juanita Harris and others.
Mr and Mrs William Besserer Thomas recently sailed from New York aboard the America to England for Oxford University sessions. He will pursue history studies while Mrs Thomas, daughter of Mrs D B Hartinger of S Third Ave, enrolls in a modern literature course. Their home is Belmont Massachusetts.
Fifty five children from the Primary Department of the Church of Christ marched in for the annual Children’s Day exercises led by superintendent Mrs William Bradford and assisted by Mrs George Meinhart Mrs Doyle Miller and Mrs Elmer Wehring. Mrs George Childs played piano. Myrna Russell and Ruby Annice Yeanger performed piano solos. Superintendent Wilbur Theobald praised Mrs Edward French for six years of perfect attendance.
Mr and Mrs William Ernest Jackson announce the birth of a son William Ernest Jr weighing six and one half pounds born at Holzer Hospital on Tuesday June 24. The mother is Norma Pierce, former. grandparents are Mr and Mrs Robert Jackson Middleport and Mr and Mrs James Yeager, with great grandparents Mrs Harvey Butch.
Social notes reveal visits and travels of Plain City residents and guests. Mrs. Almira Chittenden stays with her niece Mrs. Wilbur Theobald on S Second Ave while others visit Port Washington Boothwyn Heights and Martins Ferry.
Methodist ministers of the district were in Jackson for a conference and retreat led by Dr. E. E. Fowler, Portsmouth district superintendent. On Tuesday, Rev. W. B. Moore and Rev. Lawrence Schmidtt of Rutland went to Lancaster to arrange cottage rental at the Lancaster Institute Campgrounds. The Regent diamond was named after its sale to the Duke of Orleans, then Regent of France, for about $650,000.
Mr and Mrs Edward Corbin bought a new gas range from Coulter and Chandler in Gallipolis delivered Tuesday the range runs on bottled gas. Mrs Emma Church fell June 15 at home fracturing a hip and is cared for by her daughter Mrs Blanche Haskins at her home after hospitalization at Memorial Hospital Huntington.
Brumfield kin led by Miss Ruby De ment attended a Cincinnati ball Sunday with Mr. John Bell and others. Ernest Levisay family visited Grayson Kentucky, while Mrs Edna Gatewood called on Fred Levisay. Myrtle Haner resigns from Imperial Ice Cream in Parkersburg and returns home. Bernard May from Milton WV visited Otis Beller and family along with guests Jane Yeager Sam Childers and Rose Rossland.
Sarrah Carey won first prize at a Capitol City radio breakfast event for wearing the craziest hat. The prize was a full sized refrigerator, a detail Ed treats as a joke yet he remains proud of Sarrah and her hats. Ed accepts the novelty with quiet admiration.
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