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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1946
Page
9
In Middleport Ohio the annual freshman dunking ritual extends to girls this year as Sophomores stage a bathrobe parade. Freshies wore bathrobes over clothes with bathing suits, braided hair, and half face blacking, bearing insults like I stink and B. O. Plenty. Peanuts were exchanged for scoffs as four groups sang to student body.
POMEROY Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star met at the Masonic Temple. Miss Maude Grueser reported on Grand Chapter proceedings. Officers for 1947 were elected: Margaret Blaettnar worthy matron, Fred Blaettnar worthy patron, Carrie Nye associate matron, Everett Tracy associate patron, Elia Bryant secretary, Greta Price treasurer, Norma Parker conductress, Virginia Edwards associate conductress, Maude Grueser trustee. Three candidates initiated. Installations planned for December with a potluck dinner at 6 p.m. beforehand.
Vegetable cookery demonstrations are being given this month by farm women’s clubs. Discussion leaders include Mrs. J. Milton Lewis, Mrs. W. L. Roush, Mrs. Paul McCoy, Mrs. Reginald Archer, Mrs. Ernest Rairden, Mrs. A. T. Carney, Mrs. Hugh Barr, Mrs. A. P. Roush, Mrs. T. Bert Roush, Mrs. John Watterson, and Mrs. C. S. Dabney.
Meigs County Meigs Farm Bureau reports 308 families joined in the Oct 29 one day drive, with 60 new members. Annual meeting Oct 26 at Rocksprings Grange Hall featured remarks by D R Stanfield and Harry Guthrie. Delegates named to Columbus. ten trustees listed. ten point program includes rural schools and coop expansion.
POMEROY The Pomeroy Garden Club met at the home of Mrs Theo L Smith Peacock Ave Nov 4 with 18 members and two guests present. President Mrs Jacob Elberfeld led the business session as discussions centered on plans for a civic project.
A fire at Edgar Allensworth’s brooder house on Mill Street in Middleport at five a.m. Wednesday was detected by Russell Mills of the nearby Covert Bakery. Volunteers arrived with a fire extinguisher and found about 20 baby chicks smothered by smoke.
Margaret V Pomeroy Cundiff filed for divorce from Edward William Cundiff in Meigs Common Pleas Court on November 6 alleging extreme cruelty and gross neglect as grounds.
Delma Ellis was granted a divorce from Guy Ellis in Meigs Common Pleas Court on November 1, on grounds of gross neglect and extreme cruelty.
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