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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1948
Page
2
Arch Reilly secretary to Governor Tom Herbert and World War II veteran will speak at the Republican tea at Republican headquarters in Pomeroy Saturday afternoon. Judge Earl Titus, the Republican nominee for probate juvenile judge, will also speak.
Advice on personal finance notes how thrift preserves independence and asks readers if they practice frugality. It highlights many people live by this rule.
Middleport eighth grade pupils will stage a minstrel show on November 11 with songs and routines echoing Al G Field days. Directed by Lois Cecil, Jon Schaaf is interlocutor, end men include Billy Durst and others. Shine Girls train in tap by Hazel Hawkins. The program also features The Little Lamplighter and a Newsboys and Bootblacks act, with tickets sold by students.
The Star Garden Club gathered 23 members with Mrs J E Rade kin presiding and Mrs Kenneth Davis as hostess. Members agreed to display an arrangement at each meeting and program books were handed out.
Middleport Church of Christ marks its 110th anniversary with all day services and a basket dinner at 12 30 p.m. Speakers include Charles Sublett of Mt Mission School Grundy Va and B H Morris former pastor. Services also listed for First Baptist First Presbyterian Heath and Methodist churches with times and sermon titles.
Pomeroy and surrounding churches list service times and events for Syracuse Presbyterian United Methodist Laurel Cliff Hyssel Run Evangelical United Brethren St Pauls Lutheran Pomeroy Church of Christ Christian Science First Baptist Grace Episcopal and United Brethren circuits with Sunday schools worships rallies and midweek activities across multiple towns including Pomeroy Rutland Tuppers Plains Lottridge South Bethel Mt Hermon Letart Falls and Nease Chapel offering sermons prayers choir practices and youth programs.
Clarence Price 64 was seriously injured in a New York Central yards accident at Hobson around 6 p.m. Wednesday. He was taken to Meigs General Hospital and reported in satisfactory condition on Thursday. Price had worked 24 years with the line and was to retire next December.
Representative Thomas A. Jenkins spoke in Pom eroy and Letart on Wednesday. He forecast a straight Republican vote in Meigs County that would carry all Republican candidates and said local prospects look favorable.
George S. Hobstetter Jr. resigns as assistant cashier of Pomeroy National Bank effective Oct. 31 to become cashier of Peoples Bank in Nelsonville starting Nov. 1. He served 43 months in World War II and has worked in Pomeroy since 1934. He and his wife Maxine Eb ersbach have one daughter Pamela. The family will move after securing a Nelsonville residence. no successor named.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Dorothy Morrison and Frank B. Johnston on Thursday Oct. 14 in Logan. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. R. B. Wilson of the Logan Methodist Church. Mrs. Johnston is secretary in the AAA office. Mr. Johnston is chief clerk of the New York Central Railroad at Hobson. They reside above J&G Auto Supply on Second Ave. in Pomeroy.
Thirty guests gathered Sunday afternoon as Mrs J E White presented her piano students in a recital at her Laurel Street home. Solos were performed by Martyn Scott Sue Smith Phyllis Hawley Joy Smith Carol Ann Roush Donna Bumegarner Phyllis Googlein Carolyn White Darlene Bailey Jayvee Bailey Sandra Roush and Betty Danes. Duets featured Jay and Sue Smith Carol Ann Roush and Donna Bumgarner Joy Smith and Phyllis Googletn. Refreshments were served by Mrs White aided by Mrs Theo Smith and students.
Officers elected at the Young Adult Class meeting include Charles Swatzel as president James Roush as vice president Mrs James Roush as secretary treasurer and Mrs H A Barnitz as assistant secretary treasurer A pack a towel project was discussed and the class will meet on the fourth Tuesday of each month at the church.
Cathie Sue Chanin celebrated her second birthday at her parents Ira and Mrs Chanin home Monday evening. The event featured games and a birthday cake. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Struble and children Sue Janet Danny Martha Terrell Mrs. Henry Beaver and Mrs. Grace Campbell of Beckley West Virginia.
Ten members of the Odd Fellow Lodge and a guest attended a groundhog dinner Tuesday evening at the IOOF hall. Attendees included Lewis Vaughn Pat Wood Jacob Roller Harvey Eastman Emil Ball Richard Vaughn Robert Reibel Robert Vaughn Theo Kimes and Walter Lotterage. Guest was Mr Hobart Dillon. Dinner was served by Robert Reibel and Lewis Vaughn. Mrs William Clark Ida Casel arrived Monday for an extended visit with her mother Angela Casel and brother and sister in law Paul Casel.
Funeral services for Sgt. Malcolm Allen, who died in Germany in 1945, will be conducted at First Baptist Church in Middleport Sunday at 2 p m. Members of Feeney Bennett Post No 128 American Legion will conduct the military rites meeting at the Legion Hall at 1230 p m.
Paul Mithalyi Pomeroy Coreopolis Pa was arrested by the Village police Wednesday morning and brought before Mayor D Canaday on a charge of passing a standing school bus while it was loading passengers. He was assessed costs and a sentence suspended.
Mareeo Hill of Columbus will speak at a Rutland Republican rally Saturday at 7 30 pm. Republican candidates will be introduced and a music program planned. Judge Edgar Ervin will be master of ceremonies.
Police chief Walter Wolfe warns that malicious mischief or property destruction on Halloween will bring prosecution. Extra patrols will be on duty to curb incidents.
Mason Clinic notes Harold J. Millican Beaver Falls Pa Oct 18 tonsillectomy. Mrs Walter Raynes Winfield W Va Oct 18. Mrs Nancy Chapman Letart Falls Oct 19. Mr and Mrs Lester Dodson a daughter Emilie Jane Oct 18. Discharged Mrs John Swartz and daughter Nancy Christine Middleport Oct pt.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dill Jr announce the birth of a son in an Akron hospital. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Allen Dill Sr of Flatwoods and Mr. and Mrs. Tony Boring of Reedsville. Great grandmother is Mrs. Anna Dill of Nye Avenue.
Local photographer C H Wise Jr spent Wednesday and Thursday in Marietta taking photographs of Marietta school children for a portrait project.
Middleport class No. 12 of Heath Methodist Church met at Mrs. L. W. McComas home with hostesses. W B Moore led business and pecan sale planned at 300 pounds. Youth festival refreshments pledged and three dollar share paid. Contests led by Mrs J Hawkins and Mrs G Lambert yielded winners. Meal served for 25. Earlier October birthdays noted. Koontz home birthday party held with eight children, prizes, ice cream, cake and favors.
Bruce Koontz, son of Mr and Mrs Roland Koontz of Lincoln, marked his sixth birthday with two celebratory events. Family gathered to enjoy the milestone and share in the birthday joy.
C B Hayman executor of Eliza Hayman estate filed first and final account in probate court Tuesday. The account was suspended for settlement and the cause continued.
Hartley of the Hartley and Bennett shoe store leaves Union Ave Wednesday for a two week vacation by car, traveling through the South.
Louis Bromfield presents Malabar Farm a novelistic memoir about farming life and family at Malabar Ohio. Roy Chapman Andrews returns as a famed explorer recounting expeditions and discoveries in a companion essay titled The Explorer Comes Home.
Mrs George Lasher and Mrs R M Sherman led reviews Wednesday afternoon at Mrs L W McComas on Main Street continuing the year long theme History in Fiction and Contemporary Literature. Mrs Arthur Strauss opened the year with Feuchtwanger Prideful Destiny reviewed by Mrs Robert Coats who now presides over meetings.
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