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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1948
Page
7
The Middleport High School marching band with drum majors majorettes and flag bearers performed from the high school to the Harvest Festival on Second Ave. The Band Boosters sold food as cold weather kept attendance down but firemen expect a larger turnout by week’s end. The Junior Band will headline tonight.
The Ohio Department of Education will publish four Meigs County high school poems in the 1948 Anthology of Ohio Verse. Students Paul Bradford Racine High School Don Becker Middleport High School Jean Zahl Pom eroy High School Wanda Kes singer Rutland Ohio Poetry Day is observed Friday with programs to boost verse writing. INSPECTION PLANNED LETART FALLS Ohio Valley Grange inspection set for Friday evening Oct. 22.
Dale Roush of Mason City placed third overall in intercollegiate cattle judging at the National Dairy Cattle Congress in Waterloo Iowa. He led Ayrshires and helped Ohio State University’s team win in two breeds while ranked high in Holsteins and Jerseys. Mrs Roush is Janet Turner daughter of B F Turner of Pomeroy.
Funeral services for Mrs. James Lincoln Butcher 87 who died Monday morning at the home of her son-in-law and daughter Dr and Mrs E F Maag will be held Thursday at 2 p m at Cheshire Baptist Church of which she was a member with interment at Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery Dc E Shepard pastor of the Middleport Church of Christ will officiate Friends may call at the Maag home on Lincoln Street until time of services
LETART FALLS The Faithful Circle Sunday School Class met at the home of Mrs. Margie Hunt for a Come As You Are party. Present were Cora Webb Violet Grimm Irma Wilson Naomi Ashley Helen McDade Florence Hill Mamie Miller Alice Baker Rose McDade Elizabeth Roush Hazel Allen Caroline Miller Orpha Hill Chlorus Grimm and the Rev Charles Kirsch.
POMEROY It is announced the school board will act on the recommendation of Architect William J. Davis of Athens to purchase the Henry Koehler property adjoining the current school property. The move will allow relocation of the proposed football field and bids to clear trees and brush will be sought.
Mrs Belle Phelps of Athens visited relatives in Burr Oak and Oak Ridge Drakes and Indian Run. Mr and Mrs Cecil Dew hosted a birthday dinner for their daughter Mona Gene Wall Pool of Corning. The Rev Mrs Thompson Mr Thompson and Cora Williams dined with Mae Hatfield. Dick Post visited his parents James and Mrs Kirkbridge of Corning. Virginia Ivers spent an afternoon with Edna Post and Eva Ivers.
Middleport reports Mrs. Bertha Rutherford was transported by the Rawlings Coats ambulance to Meigs General Hospital for treatment this week.
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