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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1954
Page
7
A meeting of the Mason County 4-H Club leaders will be held Saturday night at 8 p.m. in the High School Home Economics Building. Mrs. Emmett Mitchell will preside as hostess, and the election of officers will be the highlight of the gathering.
The Wohelo Farm Women's Club schedules a Wednesday gathering at 1:30 p.m. at Mrs Orville Sturgeon’s Hogsett residence. Mrs John Watterson Jr is named co- organizer for the event.
Leaders in Point Pleasant Mason Gallia Meigs plan a 750 member Tri County Community Concert drive with a 6 45 p.m. kickoff dinner at the Lafayette Hotel Gallipolis. Attractions signed include Angelaires on Nov 8 and Depaur Infantry Chorus on Nov 26.
Two burglaries were reported in Point Pleasant as thieves pried open a back entrance to the state liquor store and the upstairs Eagles Club on Main Street. They stole whiskey cigarets and coins from a music box, damaged the safe, and fled with several hundred dollars in currency. Deputies Griff Durbin and Gary Knapp, along with state police, are investigating.
Mr. and Mrs J P Emish hosted their nephew and wife from Phoenix. Nannie Addis visits friends in town. C V Hester attended granddaughter Diantha Lou Hester Dowdell’s Windsor Canada wedding on Oct 2. Hester family hosted Mina D Fry and J P Emish at Sunday dinner. Funeral for Myrtle Sidders attended by Mrs J P Emish Mina D Fry and Frank McDaniel. Minnie Shingler injures hand in a door incident. William Clark returns to B&O Railroad after vacation. N B Saylor and wife visit Athens. Mrs Saylor returns to Hamden to care for sister-in-law Mrs Zellman Kennard recently discharged from Helter Hospital.
Mrs. Haniah Eads of Garfield Avenue hosted Monday evening for the Past Noble Grand Club of Orpha Rebekah Lodge. Games were played with prizes awarded to Mrs. Mary Wilson, Mrs. Columbus Blount and Mrs. Violet Bowyer. Other attendees included Ms. Sarah Kimbrel and Mrs. Fannie Piatt.
A roundup of local residents visiting relatives and attending events over a weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rollins returned home from Bellemeade after visiting Mrs. Carpen ter. WVU homecoming drew several others from nearby towns, including Libby Summer, Barbara Fidler, Ann Treadway, Ruth Forbus, and more, with stays at Morgantown and weekends with Bertam Dunn.
Members and guests register for the Point Pleasant chapter of the American Association's twentieth anniversary program. The event invites community leaders and supporters to mark two decades of local service and activities.
Eight Mason County educators will join nearly a hundred West Virginia teachers in the West Virginia Educational Association all teacher chorus. The group will perform Friday at 10 am in the municipal auditorium in Charleston as a highlight of the annual WVEA conference. Participants include Sarah Roush, Garnet Kimberling, Marceleen Buell, George Kooken, Alice Nease, C. R. Yoho, A. L. Head, and Chester Haddox. The program features mixed chorus and separate women and men groups performing several selections.
The Erie Railroad reported its final eight steam locomotives completed their last trip to the junkyard. Once owning 1545 steam engines, the line shifts fully to diesel power after decades of steam operation and heavy investment in new diesels and servicing facilities.
The Huntington based University Women group reveals a long list of members led by president Mrs Eunice Beller. Committees include Education Fellowship Status of women Social studies Legislative Creative arts Membership Finance Publicity and more with various chairmen named. Meetings planned through May with hostesses and program chairs identified.
Twenty seven Greek soldiers captured during the Communist guerrilla war in Greece were returned at the Bulgarian frontier near Svilengrad on Monday. They were the first troops returned by a Soviet satellite country, as more than two thousand Greek civilians have already been repatriated from Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary in the past year.
The first long distance iron pipe line for natural gas in the United States ran five and a half miles from a well to Titusville Pennsylvania, a two inch line completed in 1872.
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