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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1946
Page
6
Middleport and Pomeroy marching bands will join in national anthem and flag raising before the Thanksgiving Day game at Middleport Stadium. The Middleport Junior Band under H. B. Krinke will perform a 15 minute pregame set. At halftime both bands rejoin for a joint halftime showcase. Phillip Bley directs the Pomeroy band.
Meigs County hosts a Farm and Home Labor Show on January 10 inviting farmers and homemakers to display labor saving devices and equipment. The Meigs Extension Office urges participation, while the Farm Building Clinic led by Ohio State’s J. D. Blickle trains on foundations drainage chimneys and safe framing.
Mrs Gerald Schuster of Lincoln Hill fell on steps Tuesday morning and was rushed to Boice Clinic in Middleport. X rays showed no fracture.
Mrs. Cora Bennett was announced as installing officer at a meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary. The Messenger account of the annual installation on Sept 24 omitted her name. Bennett is a member of the Fee ney Bennett Post Auxiliary of Middleport.
Townspeople alumni and students join the Middleport High School Marching Band for a 9 p m pep session on Mill St across from Dutton Drug Store. The march runs to Rutland St and Second to Mill with a bonfire piling wood and a cheerleader led display before the Middleport Yellow Jackets face the Pomeroy Purple Panthers.
The Finsterwald ambulance carried several patients to Holzer Hospital recently including Mrs. Ran Might of Rutland Mrs Charley Gray of Rutland and Mrs Likens of Rutland.
Local social notes show J C F Class of United Methodist Church in Pomeroy meeting in Bethany Parlors with Mrs Dwight Parker as president. Daughters of Union Veterans plan Christmas gift boxes for Meigs County widows with 16 survivors. Varying birthdays celebrated. Christmas party set for Dec 23 at Mrs Pearl Reynolds Gravel Hill Middleport with gifts to exchange.
Meigs County officials inducted the Memorial Hospital Board at the Meigs Courthouse with Judge Edgar Ervin presiding. New officers include Charles McMaster as chair, Manning Webster as vice chair, and Leo Vaughan as secretary. The board will seek building sites and funds while pursuing a federal survey for hospital needs.
Middleport stores buzzed as housewives stocked for Thanksgiving. Families plan homecoming dinners with turkeys sold at varying prices. Three Middleport homes and two in Rutland will receive turkey under the annual award from the Middleport Volunteer Firemen. Recipients include Mrs. Eleanor Schaaf Mrs. Guy Reynolds Mrs. Gertrude Chase of Middleport and Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Nelson of Rutland.
Patricia Moore acting by Visa Russell sues George H. Moore in Meigs Common Pleas Court alleging gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Also noted is attendance at Salvation Army vacation bible schools totaling 378,614 children last year.
Mrs. Florence Smith hosted a dinner at the Mary Jane Coffee Shop honoring former Pomeroy resident Mrs. Jessie Clifton. Attending were Mrs. Edith Hartinger Mrs. Effie Warren Mrs. Harriet Russell Mrs. Elthe Willoughby and Mrs. Cora Roberts.
Mrs Ralph Zino and daughter of Cincinnati visit parents on Spring Ave. Many local families host and visit relatives in Columbus Newark Parkersburg and Wilmington. Attendees include McElroy Wippel Neutzling Karr and others with trips to Ohio State University and attendance at the Ohio State Michigan game.
Pom eroy and Meigs County residents will attend a Union Thanksgiving Service on November 28 at 9 a.m. in the United Methodist Church Pomeroy. Rev James Walker of the Church of Christ Pomeroy will speak and the Adult Youth Choir of the Methodist Church will be featured. The Pom eroy Council of Churches sponsors the event and members of all denominations are welcome.
Middleport Literary Club meeting set for this afternoon at Miss Bess San born's has been postponed. President Mrs. C. P. Dutton announced the new date is December 4.
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