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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1949
Page
4
About 1000 reservations have been received for a luncheon and banquet during Sacred Heart church Centenary and Golden Jubilee. The Pontifical High Mass will be led by Bishop Massie at 11 a.m. with sermons by Mons. Murphy and deacons of honor named.
Twenty four leaders from thirteen communities gathered at Mrs. Howard Nolan’s home for a leaders training meeting in Middleport. Edith Berry of Ohio State University demonstrated sewing machine techniques and hemming zippers plackets and darning while C E Blakeslee promoted Meigs County hospital bond issue. Attendees included Mrs Gayle Price Portland and others from Rutland Rock Springs Harrisonville Tuppers Plains Dexter Danville Reedsville Long Bottom and Racine among others.
Pom eroy High School senior class hosts a dance in the Senior High School auditorium on Saturday night October 15. Music from 8 30 to 11 30 p m provided by Marlyn and her Merrymakers. A small admission is charged and the public is invited.
The newly organized staff of the 1950 Pomeroyan yearbook for Pomeroy High School has started work. Verna Osborne serves as editor with John William Blaetmar as business manager. Robert Parker is art editor and Bob Barnitz sports editor. Literary editors include Joyce Phillips, Don Ebersbach, Mary Clifford, Marlyn Swatzel, Joyce Fischer, Polly Dill and Rhea Ann Myers. Helen E Grueser and Norma Van Meter handle typing. Swatzel tracks records. Homeroom sales staff from both junior and senior highs are selling the issue.
Edward French a 20 year old bookkeeper of Middleport and Edna Miller a 20 year old nurse of Pomeroy obtained a marriage license.
Pomeroy Social Notes report the Pomeroy Rocksprings PTA meeting at the school house with president Mrs Clifford Leifheit in charge. They planned a Halloween masked party for Oct 28 and a bake sale on Oct 19 with orders via Mrs Leifheit.
Those who attended the Pocahontas district meeting at Nelsonville Monday from White Cove Council No. 134 included Sally Allison first councillor Ethel Greuser second councillor Blanche Roller prophetess Helen Miller collector of wampum Verna Hysell Della Stahl Bertha McKenzie.
Guests of Mr and Mrs Jesse Brewester Sunday were Mr and Mrs Arden Millisor and the lat.
Two year old Sherra Russell of Cincinnati was injured when a car driven by her father crashed while en route to a Cincinnati hospital to visit her mother and new baby brother. She has had a leg amputated below the knee and multiple fractures but is improving, per Max Lambert of Chillicothe who visited the child.
Pomeroy High School student paper Panthers Roar reports editor Polly Dill urges adults to back a plan for a student managed teen club to replace the former Youth Center. Officials welcome the idea as Dill seeks local civic adult counselors and broad community involvement.
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