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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1954
Page
2
About 500 to 600 spectators watched roughly 100 horses and riders in 12 events at the Meigs County Riding Club show at Rock Springs Fairgrounds. Winners in each class received trophies and rosettes, with placings shown for pony and horse divisions across multiple events.
An advertisement claims Emerald offers rapid, affordable relief for fiery itching skin when other methods fail. It promises genuine results with bedtime application and a money back guarantee, sold by all druggists.
Multiple church and civic groups announce meetings in Middleport. The Heath Methodist church hosts speaker Mrs. Harry Smith at 7 30 p m in the sanctuary. Other gatherings include the Fire Department Auxiliary, Presbyterian Women, Baptist church teachers, and Ladies Bible Class with various hosts and times. A reunion attended by Hawley family members from Long Island and nearby towns is noted.
Guests in adult attire surprised Karen McElhinney on her 12th birthday. Mr and Mrs Robert McElhinney hosted in their basement with Halloween decor. Janice Zirkle won a prize. many relatives and adults attended and helped serve cake ice cream drinks and nuts.
Four members of the Middleport Business and Professional Women's Club traveled to Gallipolis for the district meeting. Mrs. Edgar Reynolds led a workshop on education and vocation and health and safety. Mrs. Horace McElhinney chaired the host committee and attended the membership workshop. Mrs. Kenneth McElhinney spoke on international relations and Mrs. Wesley Fry led the legislation workshop. The opening session was at the Masonic Temple with lunch at the Lafayette Hotel. Helen Reisinger spoke as Ohio Federation of BPW first vice president and Mary Nicholson Snyder presided as district director.
W. F. Hawley of Salem Center hosted a reunion on his farm Sunday attended by four generations. Included were James B. Hawley of Middleport and James E. Hawley of Logan with his three children.
Mr and Mrs James Elliott and children Janet Bob Bill and Marcia of Pittsburgh visit Mrs Elliott s uncle Clifford Steele and aunt Mrs L O Gardner in Middleport Since Saturday Sunday Mr and Mrs Gardner host a dinner at their farm home Guests include the Pittsburgh party Mr and Mrs Robert Gardner Columbus Rev Howard Ruppelt Clifford Steele Mr and Mrs Carl Owen Middleport and Carla Daune Owen Columbus
The newly organized Junior Hi choir led by Mrs. Paul Smart presented morning worship music at First Baptist with Jean Bennett as organist. Sixteen members wore white robes and black stoles and performed Fairest Lord Jesus for their first appearance.
Mr and Mrs James Pullen hosted a Sunday family dinner in Middleport for the birthdays of their older daughter Susan and Mr Pullen's father A R Pullen. Guests included Stephen and Stephanie Pullen Mrs A K Pullen and daughter Jerry and Mr and Mrs Lyston Pullen from Charleston.
In Middleport the birthdays of Mrs Beulah White and Mrs Pearl Hoffman, employees of the Martin Restaurant, were celebrated recently with gifts from the management and fellow workers.
Middleport celebrates Lynn Daniels eighth birthday with a theater party hosted by Mr and Mrs James Daniels followed by refreshments at Jack s Dairy Bar. Several friends attended the celebration.
Word comes from Pomeroy of the serious illness of Mrs. Cora Roberts at the home of her son Grant Roberts in Point Pleasant West Virginia. Mrs. Tom Hennessy is staying there to help care for her mother and Bob Roberts of Pomeroy visited over the weekend to assist.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Haines announce the birth of a daughter Beverly at Green Memorial Hospital on Saturday October. The couple also have an older daughter Kathie. Grandparents are Mrs. Lewis Koehler Sr Middleport and Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Haines Groveport. Great grandfather Irvin Koehler New Lexington.
Chicago police ticket writer Jack Muller says Mrs. Epstein hit him after he attempted to ticket her for illegal passing. Judge Samuel B. Epstein accuses Muller of striking his wife in the jaw. Muller is excused from duty pending investigation.
Mrs. Arthur T. Davis of Alliance keynotes a membership tea for the Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter DAR at Mrs. Irving Karr Jr home in Syracuse. The talk covers DAR history since 1890 and its current youth education program, highlighting 6600 students funded by scholarships and farm and homemaking instruction for youths, with emphasis on health and patriotism.
Jean Smart of Middleport a Denison University junior is chosen as delegate of the Ohio Baptist Youth Fellowship to the Baptist World Alliance in London next July. The OBYF funds a drive to send her abroad. She is OBYF vice president and serves as citizenship committee chair for the national BYF and youth rep for the American Baptist Women's Home Mission Association.
The Meigs County Riding Club will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Rock Springs Grange Hall. Officers will be elected and square dancing will close the social hour.
Mrs F J Anderson hosted the Senior Progressive Study Club last Tuesday evening with Mrs Blanche McAfooes absent as president. Miss Merle Danford presided in her stead and club donations were approved for the Ohio Memorial Forest Fund and the Pan American Fellowship Fund.
Albert M. Andrews 97 of Glouster died Saturday in Huntington West Virginia after a life spent mainly in Glouster. A WWI veteran he served as a Navy fireman and Army Signal Corps sergeant. Survived by three brothers he was a longtime American Legion Post 414 member. Military funeral Tuesday at 2 pm at Blower Funeral Home with burial in Glouster Cemetery. Legion members to meet at Legion Hall at 1:15 pm.
MIDDLEPORT Teachers Recognition Day was observed at the Bible School service of the Church of Christ. Roedel Steffy presented gifts to Rev. and Mrs. Fred I. Gardner and numerous teachers including Mrs. Edward French Homer Rice Mildred Hawley Mrs. William Bradford Mrs. Ige Meinhart Mrs. L. R. Wiley Mrs. Lionel Boggs Mrs. Georgia Wehring Phyllis Gothard Margaret Boyer and Mrs. George Childs. A duet by Cash Bahr and Janis Childs, with Mrs. Chester Erwin at the piano, provided music.
Mrs. Robert Jeries formerly Doris Palmer of Meigs County earned national honors in a Washington DC bridge tournament in August and has competed this week in the Columbus Fall Festival Bridge Tournament at the Seneca Hotel alongside local social circles.
The Jacksonville Methodist Church official board meeting is moved to October 20 from October 13. The change affects church leadership and schedules for all members and attendees.
The Women's Society for Christian Service met at the Methodist Church with Jacksonville and Trimble WSCS members as guests. Devotions were led by Mrs. Charles Sweeney and the Chillicothe district president Mrs. D B Green led the program recounting the national WSCS assembly held in Milwaukee. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Richard Guinther and Mrs. Thomas Williams Jr.
The Loyal Daughters Class of Glouster Church of Christ meets Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the church social room. Frances Thomas and Mrs Evelyn Bailey Muerer hostesses.
The WSCS of Jacksonville Methodist Church will meet at the church on Thursday evening. A church kitchen shower will include salt and pepper shakers and dish cloths.
Mr and Mrs W W Wallace returned from Dayton after time with their son in law DeLoss Wallace and daughter William Leadbetter of Atkins St. He was taken to Holzer Hospital Gallipolis for observation with daughter Thelma White of Athens. Mrs Ernestine Turvey and son Eddie visited Dayton. F D Kinney returned home in Columbus after illness of his father in law Grant Wallace. Mrs Kinney stays with her father at Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens.
Four weekend accidents in Pomeroy area cause extensive vehicle damage and one hospitalization. Leota Lynch, 65, Cheshire Route 2, hospitalized after her car detailing 200 feet rollout following a rear strike near Hobson. James Taylor charged with drunken driving and driving without a licensed accompanying driver.
Dr Paul Chiles district superintendent of the Methodist Church taught at a training school for sub district Methodist Youth Fellowship officers held at Heath Methodist Church in Middleport. Instructors included Rev Phil Scott Rev Gordon Groby Sharon Chiles Carla Hicks Larry Cunningham Vicki Thomas Janet Morris. Churches represented included Trinity Portsmouth First Church of Ironton Jackson Bidwell Miller Rodney Gallipolis Pomeroy Apple Grove Plants East Letart and Middleport.
Donald Sayre 11 and Charles F. Sayre 13, sons of Mr and Mrs Charles E Sayre of Wolfpen, earned praise at the Meigs County Riding Club show held Sunday at Rock Springs Fairgrounds for riding steer mounts. The boys said they were challenged at first but have grown confident, riding bareback with horselike bits and bridles.
Mrs Grace Skinner Johnston of Harrisonville died at Fostoria Friday after a brief illness. A First Presbyterian Church and Business Women's Club member, she taught school 38 years. Survived by husband Thomas Johnston of Fostoria and father Homer D Troyer of Athens plus two stepchildren. Funeral plans incomplete.
Mr and Mrs Harry Saddier of Wheeling West Virginia were critically injured in an automobile accident Saturday in Waynesburg Pennsylvania. Both are hospitalized in Waynesburg. Mrs Saddier is sister to Mrs Bentz Wolfe and Mrs William Baxter both of Pomeroy Ohio.
Mr Pearl Huggins was notified Friday of the death of her brother in law James LeFevre in Washington DC on Thursday after a two year illness. Burial was held in Akron on Saturday.
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