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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1950
Page
9
Pomeroy Federated Circle will meet Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the church. Mrs John Lawrence will be devotional leader.
Point Pleasant senior high plans a 1 15 p m Friday street parade along Main Street from the Junior High to start homecoming festivities. A football game with Williamson High follows at 8 p m at Sanders Memorial Stadium with crowning at halftime.
North Side will gain two new homes after city permits issued by Building Inspector Austin Johnson. J. B. Couch will build a five room frame house on Lincoln Avenue above 26th Street, while Vitus Hartley will erect a six room frame dwelling on Mt. Vernon Avenue above 26th Street.
A Middleport Ohio Eta Phi of Beta Gamma Phi rushees social featured a Canasta session led by Phyllis Mullen with prizes for Betsy Ebersbach Velma Rue Phyllis Mullen and Sara Moore. The column lists numerous regional visits, travelers and family news from Meigs County including Cpl. Robert Gilmore’s camp transfer plans and Mrs. Elizabeth Workman’s Groveport return.
Progress has been made widening the road on the half mile of Letart hill Route 33. Landslides had narrowed the section to one-way traffic. Bozo and Ritchie are the contractors rebuilding a five mile stretch since mid August.
POINT PLEASANT The Rotary Club meets at 6 p m at the Moose Club for a dinner meeting. Warren T. King managing director of the city Chamber of Commerce is scheduled to review the 1950 farm youth show and outline plans for the 1951 edition.
County Soil Conservationist Lionel Smith notes farmers line up for Western Soil Conservation district equipment. A bulldozer moved from Floyd Rayburn's farm to Ed Fry's near Letart to build ponds roads drainage ditches and creek channels. A grader shifted from Mason to Jackson County and the ditcher will aid a grass waterway near Upper Flats. State engineer Glenn Baker checks county planning in the terminal building.
Open house is planned Saturday at 1 p m at the county Republican headquarters 623 Viand Street. The Republican Women's Club will provide refreshments. Candidates Hubert Ellis EF Reed George Rairden John Wheaton John E Brown and Vernon Jones are expected to attend along with Mrs C P Stout president of the county Republican women.
Two men were jailed and fined on intoxication charges in Pleasants County after arrest Monday. Clyde Preston faced non payment of a $5 fine and was committed to jail. James Po feet received ten days in jail and a $10 fine. Robert Sturgeon was released on an appearance bond after a DWI arrest by Mayor John Clay Hutchinson.
Ravenswood Cpl. John W Patterson son of Mrs Lola M Patterson Ravenswood Route 1 has been wounded in action in Korea according to the defense department.
A tentative preliminary hearing before Circuit Judge Lewis H. Miller on the legality of a school wage scale has been cancelled. The scale terms were rejected by bidding contractors at a recent meeting related to the New Haven school construction by contract labor.
The Point Pleasant Women's Club opens its first season meeting at the Presbyterian Church at 8 p.m. Friday with guest speaker Warren T. King, city chamber of commerce director, discussing citizenship. The evening includes operatic selections, a reception for new members, and final festival preparations for Saturday at the central school yard and Moose building.
The Pt Pleasant Carpenter's Auxiliary 529 met at their hall with Mrs. L. W. Holley presiding. Plans were made for a Halloween party on Oct 30. New member Mrs Lillian Belcher joined. The next meeting is Oct 23 at 7 30 p m at Mrs Lillian Robbins home on Main St. Otis Noble and family announce the marriage of their daughter Eula Jean to Dorsie Eugene McCoy at Henderson Methodist Parsonage with Rev Haney officiating. Mrs Noble wore a light blue crepe dress with navy accessories.
The first fall meeting of the Married Ladies Bridge Club convenes Thursday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. E. E. Heiner's home 1006 Main Street.
The WSCS of the Vaught Memorial Church will hold a potluck dinner at Mrs. J. S. Henderson's residence on Winfield Road on Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday dinner guests at various homes included the Shanks Pollings and Greers with extended families at Eight Mile Mason and Rupert. Mrs Buckle attended the last rites in Gallipolis. Jabez Beard traveled to Point Pleasant as an Odd Fellows delegate. Becky Bibbee sails soon to India via New York and the Holy Land. Sam Beller returns from Bowling Green Ohio. A divorce suit was filed in Meigs County Common Pleas by Willis Harper for Alice Lee against Walter Lee.
Thirty one yards of blue Indian head material arrive to make fifteen United Nations flags. Six women’s clubs and five 4-H units pledged to sew one flag each with two 4-H memberships pledging two flags each. Flags to be flown over public buildings on UN Day October 24 during United Nations Week.
Services for Ross L. Queen 98 who died Monday will be Friday at 2 30 p m at the Apostolic Church. Survivors include six of ten children Mrs Jessie White Mrs Marvin Mullins Harry Harold and Homer all of Gallipolis and Charles Queen Williamsport Ohio with 20 grandchildren. Burial will be in Pine Street Cemetery. Friends may call at Mrs Jessie White’s home Thursday. Reverend Carl Dewitz to officiate.
Gallipolis funeral services for Vena Atkinson Faudree will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. in Gallipolis with burial in Mound Hill Cemetery. She died in Hollywood Florida Sunday and was born July 2 1883 in Gallipolis. Surviving husband Willard O Faudree and brother Simon Atkinson are listed along with sons Cecil Oakley Lewis Donald.
Harold Parker Criner 47 died Tuesday morning. Born May 12 1903 in Clay Township he was the son of John Criner and Ina Unree. He married Emma rene Barcus in 1937 and is survived by his wife and children Larry Lavelle and Dorothy with sisters Fay Thompson and Garnet Begent and brothers Ernest Eugene. Funeral services will be held in the Church of Christ with Rev Lewis H Mikell officiating.
Democrat headquarters opened Wednesday morning in an office over the Capital Loan Co on Sixth Street two days after county Republicans started their office on Viand Street for the upcoming election. Mrs Nellie Brackman is the Democratic office clerk. The Sixth Street headquarters will be open six days a week until Election Day November 7.
POINT PLEASANT The Kiwanis Club meets at the Presbyterian Church Thursday at 6 15 p m for a dinner meeting and annual election of officers. Dr Leonard Riggleman president of Morris Harvey College in Charleston will speak.
Mr and Mrs Richard West and son Paul visited in Zanesville on Saturday. The Joneses spent the weekend with Mrs Jones parents Mr and Mrs Raymond Fisher. Mrs William Stoecker returned to Cincinnati after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Fugate Mulberry Ave. Herman Werry with the Smiths in Akron. John Chase and Mrs Chase hosted visitors including Allen Chase Washington DC Glenn Chase Dayton and Harold Russell Huntington WV while Mr Chase shows improvement. Alta Ann Smith and Patricia Miller of Columbus visited with Ed die Smith Wehe Terrace.
Charlotte Morgan 56 formerly of Lawrence County died Monday at her home on Vinton Route 2. Services Thursday at 4 p.m. in Ebenezer Church with Rev. Henry Kelley officiating, burial in church cemetery. She was born December 29, 1894, to Mark Aldridge and Zetta Brown. She married Joseph Morgan in 1912. Surviving are six children: Evan C. Richmond Virginia. Mrs. George Walter Rio Grande. Mrs. Everett Wheeler Vinton. Leslie Morgan Ironton. and Ruby and Virginia Morgan at home.
POMEROY John Will local manager of state liquor store 22 said Oscar L Fleckner director of the department of liquor control Columbus announced the appointment of Denver Thoma as clerk in the local store. Effective date of the appointment is Oct 10.
The public is invited to Booster Night at the Pomeroy Bend Grange this evening at 7 o'clock at the Odd Fellows Hall. An evening of folk dancing and round and square dancing is planned with refreshments served.
New Lexington residents hear a Perry County rally set for October 16 at the county courthouse with several prominent Democratic speakers. The report also notes veterans benefits, homecoming queen Norma Spradlin, rail yard dieselization, local civil defense and county clerk staff changes, and students engaged in retail merchandising study.
Announcement reports the marriage of Mrs. Zenda Coleman and Mr. George McAllister of Charleston West Virginia at Christ Church Methodist Charleston on September 27. After a Cincinnati plane trip they reside at 1 Winslow Place Charleston with the bride employed in the Selective Service office and the groom with the West Virginia State Road Commission.
Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter D A R will host a Friday luncheon at the Little House at 12 30 with officers and the board of management attending. Miss Charlene Mark state historian will be guest speaker at the afternoon meeting moved to the home of Mrs Alfred Elberfeld Lincoln Hill from Mrs Velma Feiger's home.
Miss Mildred Ohlinger, a senior at Ohio University, was honored at a Saturday night birthday party hosted by sisters Martha and Mary Ohlinger at their parents home on N Fourth and Walnut. Guests included Nellie Zerkle Hallie Zerkle and Mrs. Howard Ewing. Canasta accompanied by refreshments followed the gift presentation.
On business recently were Mr and Mrs Bert Miller of Athens Mr and Mrs Ralph Parsons of Hebron and Mr and Mrs Virgil Edwards of Columbus. They disposed
First Lt. William B. Caldwell III is awarded Oak Leaf clusters to the Bronze Star. He is the son of Col. William B. Caldwell of Le Tart Falls. The notice lists local visits, weddings planned in Washington, and community donations to the Meigs County Children's Home.
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