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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1949
Page
2
Nora H. Higgins sues Lawson B. Higgins for divorce in Common Pleas Court. The couple wed on August 28, 1939. Attorney Cedric Clark represents the plaintiff.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Price and Mrs. Agnes Stiff traveled from Columbus after the death of Mrs. Stiff’s brother Hance Hamilton. Funeral services were held Monday with cremation following. Survivors include three sisters Mrs. Stiff Mrs. Mary McDaniel and Mrs. Nellie Smith of Groveport and two brothers David and Nevin Hamilton of Columbus.
Pomeroy High School plans a Wednesday night parade led by the band and a bonfire pep rally to boost the Panthers ahead of the Thanksgiving football game with Middleport High School. Athletic figures and local football veterans will speak. advance ticket sales begin at Starks Pharmacy with gate tickets on Thursday from 12:30 p.m. onward.
Mason Clinic notes list admissions Glen Schneider Clifton on Nov 16 Ernest Ritchie Mason Navy 18 Mrs Clara Adams Racine on Nov 14. Births include Lewis Herman to Lewis Rodgers and wife at Letart Route 2 on Nov 16 Johnny Wayne to Wayne Adams at Long Bottom on Navy 12 and a daughter to Ernest Reed and wife on Navy 12. Discharges named include Clara Adams Wayne Adams Norman Bahr Marcellene Buehl Clarence Might and William Hoback and daughter.
Freda Mae Lawson, 23, pleaded guilty to assaulting a 16 year old in a Main St restaurant and was fined 25 dollars plus costs. Edward Hendricks, arrested Saturday, pleaded guilty to intoxication and received 5 dollar fine plus costs.
Thanksgiving services in Pomeroy begin at 7 30 p m Wednesday at United Methodist Church with Rev Lewis Berger. Rev Paul Nye delivers litany of thanksgiving. James Walker and Rev H E Harris also participate. A Salvation Army Major presides and the benediction follows doxology. A separate Christian Science Service is set for Thanksgiving morning at 10 45 in the church rooms with a Lesson Sermon on Thanksgiving.
Fifteen representatives of 4 H Club and Grange groups in Meigs County attended a recreational leadership training school at Mechanicsburg school last Saturday. Attendees include Iris Mae Rice Wilma Rice Roberta Swartz Beulah Swartz Charles Carr Geneva Nolan Rose Douglas Gloria Swindell Emerson Douglas Jean Swartz Connie Richardson Harley Rice John Colwell C E Blakeslee and Fritz Goebel.
Meigs Hospital records show births, emergency cases, and discharges. Names include Mrs Harriett Pullins and son of Pomeroy, Murl Peters of Ashland, Olan Hysell of Minersville, Mrs Edna Carson of Middleport, Mrs Mattie Sprouse of Pomeroy, and Robert Reiber of Pomeroy. Emergency patients include Howard Vining and Junior Myers among others. Discharges list the same patients plus Mrs Harriett Pullins and infant, and Mrs Edna Carson.
In Middleport a press of town events centers on the Middleport Pomeroy football clash set to decide the SEC League championship and mark the farewell of Forrest Bachtel as Middleport Yellow Jackets coach. A pep meeting, torch parade, and post game open houses cap the week leading to Thanksgiving.
Donald Mills traveled to Columbus Sunday to visit his father Ray Sherman at White Cross Hospital. Sherman, a coal operator, is reported improving after a nerve operation. Mrs. Sherman remains in Columbus with him, and Mrs. Mills will stay several days. Mills returned Sunday evening.
TUPPERS PLAINS Olive Orange PTA meets Tuesday at 8 p m in the High School auditorium. County O O Patterson will discuss school lunches.
Fifteen members of the Forest Rose Council Daughters of America Lodge traveled to Gallipolis on November 7 to attend a union meeting. Initiation candidate Carrol Dodderer from Forest Rose Council was among those present.
Engineer Max Farley of the State Highway Department District 10 will address the Pomero y Lions Club at Federated Church on Tuesday at 6 30 p m.
County commissioners Dan S. Hartinger and Charles Walburn attended the semi monthly meeting at the courthouse. Current bills were paid.
Mrs. Helen Woode, wife of farmer Charles D. Woode, is a busy Alfred-area resident. A former Chester High School graduate and Rio Grande College alumna, she taught in Meigs County schools for eight years and has spent 25 years teaching Sunday School and engaging in church work. She serves as church pianist and choir member, is Olive-Orange PTA secretary, sits on the Meigs County Home Extension Council, and has been home economics chair of the grange for two years. The Woodes have nine-year-old son Clare Burton, a student at Tuppers Plains.
In Columbus a magazine feature includes William Theobald and Kautz a Meigs County native and former Pom eroyan now a pharmacist. He and Ruth Pickens Middleport announce the birth of their daughter Barbara Jean with photographs in the Columbus paper.
Mr and Mrs Bertam Payne of Charleston announce the birth of their daughter at Charleston General Hospital on November 16. The baby, named for great-uncle Rodney Downing, adds to the family which includes grandparents Dr and Mrs R C Singleton and great grandparents Mr and Mrs John Black Downing of Middleport. The Singletons also have a three year old daughter named Lucy.
William Hamm will travel to Lima for the wedding of Miss Mary Haynes and Mr. William Barker to be held Thanksgiving Day. Hamm, a Middleport native and Middleport High School graduate, serves as best man for the bridegroom.
Middleport society column notes the Meigs Temple 153 Pythian Sisters meeting with officer elections led by Mrs. M R Sanborn. Plans are set for the December 12 Christmas dinner at Woodman Hall with a 50 cent gift exchange and a Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation read by Mrs. Russell.
Miss Vivi enne Yvonne Hand wed David C. Middleton on November 12 at Hale Memorial Evangelical Church in Dayton. Middleton is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Davis Middleton and nephew of Mrs. Walter Waddell. he is a graduate of the Cincinnati School of Embalming.
Mrs. James Baird of Lakewood visits her brother Walter Rainey during his Holzer Hospital operation. Enzo and Nellie Barsotti move to Gravel Hill property formerly owned by Nannie Agee. Duncan Falls residents Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prior and daughter Rosalie visit the Baileys on S Second Ave. Wayne Gibbons returns from Bucyrus with J E Carson and Ruth. Nolan Carson studies law at Michigan. Ben Fultz returns from Washington for Thanksgiving with daughter Gene Wyatt. Mrs. Michael Hackett and children stay with Jerry Donahee family in Harrisburg PA. Lesta Gothard has returned.
A guide advises dog owners to treat severe itching and scratching with Rex Hunters Dog Powders. Anecdotes claim hair regrowth after use, noting a dramatic improvement over weeks. The piece promotes economy-size packaging and mentions related worm capsules for diarrhea and rectal itching.
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