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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1941
Page
3
Ed Pomeroy Booster Club sponsors a public rally at the Courthouse Wednesday at 7 30 p m to discuss a $61 000 bond issue for a swimming pool football stadium and vocational agriculture building. High school band will parade and speakers will explain bond plans.
Rutland Church of Christ celebrated its 112th anniversary on Sunday October 12 with a morning talk by G O Will from Dexter Church and music by Jean Plummer and Eleanor Taylor A basket dinner followed in the basement and a two o clock program featured William Burford Dwight Brown Charles Walburn and Eleanor Taylor along with Rev Don McMillan who gave the afternoon address The day’s offering totaled 15868 with committee members Mrs Pauline Brown and Mrs Mabel Locke.
Thirteen Alpha Omicron members from Meigs Jackson and Vinton Counties attended Ohio State Delta Kappa Gamma convention in Columbus October 10 11. A governor mansion reception hosted by Mrs John Bricker featured 600 members from 57 chapters.
Page two of the Pomeroy Middle Port section carries updates on local school activities and events. Notes cover student achievements, upcoming meetings, and brief reminders from school officials.
The Pomeroy Panthers train hard after a defeat at Athens and prepare for Gallipolis. A double elimination stakes a winner and a loser in the race for the league title. Logan remains undefeated and leads the standings as the two coaches, George Blackburn and Forrest Creason, are former classmates.
Voters absent on election day may vote at the Meigs County Board of Elections in the Masonic Temple with office hours 12 30 to 3 30 p m and 6 to 9 p m Thursday Oct 30. The deadline for absent ballots is 6 30 p m Oct 30 and mail ballots to be received by noon Oct 31.
Mrs. John Philson left Saturday to visit her son-in-law and daughter in Crooksville and spent Sunday with Dr. Philson in Columbus. Mrs. Cliff Jenkins and family from Crooksville visited Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Wilcoxen. Bill Holman started work at Ebersbach Gas Station in Pomeroy. Two local gatherings and several moves noted among residents.
Mrs Norma Green Mills age seventy widow of Bert S Mills of Rutland died in a Columbus hospital on Sunday. She leaves three daughters all of Columbus. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 PM from Rawlings Coats Funeral Home with burial at Miles Cemetery Rutland.
Pomeroy Pantherettes defeat Jackettes 6-0 on the local gridiron after school. A large student crowd, including Junior High attendees, watched the lone touchdown come on a passing play with no admission charged.
Local fishers in Middleport enjoy the Indian Summer and good fishing below Gallipolis at Eureka. Reported catches include crappies jack salmon and bass. Alaska is described as having only 2300 miles of automobile roads.
The state liquor store will close Oct 20 and 21 and reopen Oct 22 at a new Mulberry Avenue site in the Carleton Building above Sentinel Publishing Co. The old address is E Main Street in the upper business block. Officials favored a location out of high water.
Mrs Elizabeth Forrest 81 longtime Harrisonville resident died Sunday at her home. Widow of C F Forrest she is survived by son Leroy Forrest of Fargo ND. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 30 pm at Harrisonville Presbyterian Church with burial in Wells Cemetery
In Middleport, Heath Methodist Church hosts a Woman's Society for Christian Service dinner meeting with the Harvest Home theme The Power That Brings Harvest Home and decorations of fall foliage. Committee members Hallie Zerkle Bess Sanborn Ida Mourning Clifford Ervin Roy Lansbury Lee Featherstone Nellie Zerkle and Lawrence Milhoan prepared the meal.
J C Fisher of Middleport, currently in Jacksonville Florida, filed the first ballot application for the November election with the Meigs County Board of Elections. The article notes his prompt, early submission and that ballots were available Saturday. It also mentions local society announcements about stamp money, paper collection, and a rummage and bake sale set for Saturday October 25.
The Heath Methodist Church Boy Scout committee led Troop 1 in a council at the church basement with Scoutmaster R. E. McKay. New patrol leaders Franklin Ginther Bill Childs Milton Smart announced cheers and songs. A drive for old paper and magazines was planned as part of a national defense effort. A board of review will be held in Pomeroy next Sunday with six Troop 40 Scouts advancing.
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