Legion Post Meet Set For Monday At Post Home
Feeney Bennett Post 39 of the American Legion will hold a meeting Monday at 8 p.m. at the post home on West Main Street.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1950
Page
5
Feeney Bennett Post 39 of the American Legion will hold a meeting Monday at 8 p.m. at the post home on West Main Street.
Meigs County Cancer Society re elected its officers at a Middleport High School meeting. President Mrs Guy Reynolds, vice president L W McComas, secretary Mrs Nan Moore, treasurer Miss Nina B Russell. Budget and aid to county cancer patients were discussed.
Miss Charlene Marks previously spoke in October as state historian. Mrs. Bixler, Ohio Society treasurer, discussed dues allocations totaling 1.15 per capita, detailing support to schools, C A R, Ohio Room, and other funds. The gathering at Mary Jane Coffee Shop preceded the luncheon hosted by Mrs. Bennett. A cemetery inscription project and a Maryville scholarship were highlighted.
Meigs County women from Pomeroy and Enterprise churches staged a dramatic skit on the brotherhood of man tied to the United Nations during a Sunday program. Mrs John Lawrence and others performed an airliner trip to Geneva while UN missions were sung with chimes and preludes.
Middleport businessman Fred A. Shiflet finishes four new apartments in the former Coe's Opera House building at Mill and North Second. The project, begun after his winter in Clearwater, features large rooms with baths, private entrances, and hardwood floors from the original dance hall. He plans to depart for Florida after election day.
Charles W. Searles aged 30 of Middleport and Margaret Ann Buskirk aged 19 of Rutland obtained a marriage license.
Mrs Leo Kennedy was elected Worthy Matron of Evangeline Chapter Order of Eastern Star at a Thursday meeting in the Masonic Hall. Mrs Lillian Stieff presided finishing her year as worthy matron. Other officers elected included Stewart Hawkins and Vaughn McKnight among others with reports from the Grand Chapter in Cleveland.
Mr and Mrs J K Smith Jr left Thursday for Akron where they will stay with Mrs Nell Lyman sister of the late J K Smith who came from Chicago on his death. Mrs Lyman will be guest of the Smiths in Akron before returning to Chicago. Mrs J K Smith of Sixth Ave is visiting for the week.
The page lists several moves including Mr and Mrs Charles Stanley to the McMaster apartment on N Second Ave from Wood, and Mr and Mrs Robert Storey plus relatives relocating from Pomeroy. Guests visiting Frank Fugate’s family in Cincinnati and Columbus visitors are noted alongside attendance at a Navy Notre Dame game in Cleveland.
Local notes list visitors and hosts from Columbus Cincinnati and Pittsburgh with several couples and individuals spending weekends with relatives and friends in Marietta Patterson Lawrenceburg and nearby towns. Included are Mr and Mrs Dale W Hysell Mr and Mrs Narley Hysell Miss Martha Terrell Miss Mary Ruth Fisher Miss Billie Jean Barnitz Bob Barnitz Eva Simms Clara Karr Clara Grueser Herbert Dixon Susie Stiles and others. Puppets are Classifed notes explain three puppet manipulation methods.
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