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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1955
Page
9
Alfred church announces that the Methodist Youth Fellowship plans a meeting on Monday at 8 p m. in Alfred. The note identifies CH Charge of the MYF and sets the gathering at the Alfred location.
The Business and Professional Women's Club accepted five new members at a First Presbyterian Church gathering led by president Freddie Houdashelt. Dr H M Boocks from Logan spoke on water health and unemployment compensation, with theme on sewage disposal along the river.
Delegates from Middleport will travel to Columbus in November for the National Youth Council meeting with expenses aided by the Women's Society of Christian Service of Heath Methodist Church. Three MYF members Nancy Rollee Mary Carolyn Miller and Sue Knight will have expenses shared per Mrs Nan Moore MYF counselor. World Community Day and Week of Prayer plans were announced and the Beggar's Night clothing drive for CROP is planned with Heath Church hosting later refreshments by local church women.
In Middleport a celebration for Lynn Buchanan’s ninth birthday took place Sunday at her parents home Mr and Mrs James Daniels. Games and Halloween themed refreshments were enjoyed with Jennifer Daniels and Karen McElhinny helping with activities as neighborhood children attended.
John H. McCune and Grant McCune of Rutland filed for divorce from Shirley McCune of Morgantown West Virginia alleging gross neglect of duty. The case lists both parties as minors and is entered in the Meigs County Common Pleas Court.
The Pomeroy Leader describes Edward Ulysses Waters known as Lish Waters from Meigs County as a deeply educated but highly eccentric recluse. His life includes a doorless, windowless East Shade Area home destroyed by fire and a blighted romance with a former student who later expressed desire to marry him. The piece portrays a man teased yet polite, who sought understanding, spent his final years in Athens and a state hospital after financial decline, and ends with a memory of his poignant disappointment and hope for an afterlife.
Funeral services for William J. Grapes 80 of Cheshire will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Cheshire Baptist Church with burial in Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery. The Rev. Sherley Wood will officiate. Surviving are a daughter Helen Kennedy of Akron a son Earl of Akron a son Ray of Parkersburg a half sister and a half brother six grandchildren and six great grandchildren. His wife died five months ago. Friends may call at the Cheshire residence until the service.
Jacob M. Plantz aged resident of Mason County West Virginia native and longtime New York Central Railroad employee dies after a heart attack in Cheshire route 2 Middleport area He had lived 12 years in Barto Florida with son Everett Plantz Funeral services at Ruth Community Church Ruth West Virginia led by Rev Bud Durst Burial in Childress Cemetery Ruth West Virginia Survivors include widow four sons two daughters sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren Friends may call Rawlings Coats Funeral Home until Friday at two o clock.
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