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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1943
Page
3
Government requests note no work during the day to aid the war effort. A military morning service with half mast, a full program at Beech Grove Cemetery, and speakers from local organizations. No parade due to arrangements. Legionnaires organize ceremonies at 10 a.m. with color-raising, national anthem, prayers, and taps.
MIDDLEPORT The Citizens National Bank will be closed on Monday May 31 for Memorial Day but will open this evening from 6 30 to 7 30 p m. Local business men report closures for the holiday including barber shops. Post office will be open and mail deliveries occur as usual.
POMEROY Grace Episcopal Church moves service 15 minutes earlier to allow cemetery attendance for Memorial Day. Holy Communion on first Sunday at 9. Rev Ralph Reuther says regular worship at Federated Church starts 10:20 to join Legion Memorial Services. Rev Walter Lodt Preaches at 10:30 on Precious Word from God in Heaven. Sunday School at 9:30 led by Albert Reuter.
The Churchwoman's Club of Grace Episcopal met at Mrs. Charles Baird's home with President Cedric Clark leading discussions on summer projects including a series of public card parties starting late June. Local visits and family news fill the column with several social engagements and a birth announcement for Larry Rudolph.
Burlingham Church to host Memorial Day program with Rev Ralph Reuther of the Federated Church Pomeroy delivering the address at 1 30 p m. The event includes a children s portion in the service.
Middleport High School celebrated 45 graduates from the Class of 1943 and 34 eighth graders advancing to high school. Dr. Harold Cooper urged defenders of American life and education, noting wartime stakes and urging optimism, with diplomas presented by L. D. Diles.
Middleport hosts a bridge party with Misses Hennesy Schuman White Hecox Armbruster Sauer and Catherine Hennesy as guests. Several attendees travel to Jackson for Jackson High School commencement exercises and related family visits.
Letart holds Memorial Day on Monday May 31 with a homecoming dinner at 11 30 in the Community Hall and an afternoon dedication. Congressmen Thomas A Jenkins will deliver the dedicatory address and an honor roll for Letart citizens in military service will be unveiled. The honor roll was funded by the Civic Club and public school children who collected scrap and sold it. The board will be donated to grade school and cared for by the students. Clergy and local band members will participate.
Miss Dorothy Peoples, daughter of Mr and Mrs C H Peoples and a recent Pomeroy High School graduate, will present a piano and violin recital at the Federated Church Monday evening May 31 at 8 o clock. The public is invited to hear the young artist who studied piano with Norma Lewis Hecox and violin with Prof D I Graham of Ohio University Athens.
The Recreation Center sponsored by the Community Council of Church Women will be open every night during June starting June 1. Games, singing and dancing will be supervised at the center located in the room formerly occupied by the Kroger Store on West Main St.
Middleport churches announce Memorial Day services with a patriotic theme. The Rev. H. L. Carr of the First Presbyterian Church will speak on A Just and Durable Peace. At Heath Methodist Church the Rev. H. A. Rothrock will address The Spirit of America. Youth Fellowship meets at 6 p.m.
In MIDDLEPORT the Rev. Fred Luchs of Athens First Presbyterian spoke to Eighth Grade graduates. He urged choosing future paths as girls and boys entered to processional music led by Phyllis Smart.
Meigs County 4 H members met at Pomeroy Senior High School for an Officers and Advisors Conference with C C Lang Assistant State 4 H Club leader as guest. Meigs County Agricultural Agent Do Blakeslee welcomed attendees praised turnout and discussed plans to hold more county gatherings despite gas and tire rationing.
Middleport hosts a two o clock Sunday dedication near the Community tree at Mill Street. Rotary Club president M G Brown and donors present the flag and pole will hand them to Feeney Bennett Post American Legion which will oversee the ceremony. Police Chief L B Higgins organizes the parade with Girl and Boy Scouts high school band and others. Memorial services are set for Middleport Hill Cemetery with tentative Cheshire Cemetery attendance. Memorial Day dinner is canceled due to food rationing and transportation limits.
The Rev. Sanford Mills, a former Jewish minister born in the Russia Poland region, will speak Sunday at 10 15 a m at the First Baptist Church Middleport He discusses persecution in 1914 and his current mission work with the American Board of Missions to the Jew Inc based in Columbus Ohio There will be no evening service due to the Zandels absence at church conferences in Columbus over the weekend
In Pomeroy, merchants largely agree to close Monday May 31 for Memorial Day as urged by the Retail Merchants Council. Courthouse and county school offices close, banks close, post office remains open per government orders with postal workers set to dispatch mail.
Asbury Methodist Church at Syracuse will hold Memorial Day observance with a 7 30 p m service. Men from the church in military service will be honored and Rev J L Buckley will preach on God and Our Native Land. The vested choir will sing an arrangement of Ave Maria and Hear Our Humble Prayer.
At Rutland Miles Cemetery a short Sunday morning service will precede a Memorial Day observance. In the evening the American Legion Post will attend Rutland Baptist Church services in a body led by the Rev Crabtree.
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