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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1958
Page
14
The Roller Rousers Skating Club hosts a Halloween party at the 22nd St Bowling Center from 7 to 10 pm with prizes for best and worst costumes. Admission is fifty cents. A business meeting occurred at the local roller rink and Huntington Roller Club offered skating lessons Monday night.
Physicians say mental attitude affects healing. patient confidence in the physician enhances treatment outcomes. Leave doubts outside the office to aid recovery as medicine improves and cures become more certain.
The October meeting of the women of the Presbyterian Church will be held Tuesday at 8 p m in the church dining room. Mrs Wayne Kincade will preside in the absence of president Mrs Emory Monroe. Kincade heads a nominating committee with Mrs John Hushion Mrs James McComb and Mrs H C Francis to slate officers for the November meeting. Mrs Cary H Rayburn will lead the program and give Bible study. Mrs Dewey Smith chairs Circle One and its members will be hostesses.
Mrs. F A Matchinski will host Tuesday at 8 p m at St Peter s Lutheran Church parsonage for United Lutheran Church Women of St Peter s Lutheran. Mrs. Joan Wood presides and Mrs Paul Somerville Jr leads the program on The Christian Citizen.
The Junior Youth Fellowship of Main Street Baptist Church entertained with a Monday evening party at the church. Hostesses Miss Charlene Rader, advisor, and Miss Phyllis Miller organized games and refreshments.
Orpha Rebekah Lodge No. 210 plans to initiate six new members at its Tuesday evening meeting in the Main Street lodge hall.
The October meeting of the Women s Society of World Service of Heights EUB Church is set for Tuesday at 7 30 p m in the church social room.
The Ministerial Association invites parents to join the Trick or Treat for UNICEP program. Children from Point Pleasant and nearby areas will gather at local churches Thursday evening and tour the city as UNICEP solicitors. They will collect pennies nickels and dimes and wear identification arm bands. After returning to their churches they will be judged for costumes and served refreshments.
Mary Josephine Hite's last rites draw relatives from Huntington Charleston St Albans Letart Gallipolis Waterford Ohio Fairfield Beach Japan and Clarksburg. Relatives include Glenn Gill Ophela Gill Robert O Connor Melody Kimes and Gloria Gibson among others visiting from Highland Ave.
Recent guests include Lloyd Boring of Athens and Dena and Kenneth Haning of Columbus, with Columbus and Athens visitors at multiple homes. Townsfolk hosted families from Columbus Dayton Newark Circleville Bunker Hill Snowville and Darwin, sharing weekends and visits with local residents.
Dwight Mc Laughlin Sr visits son in law Charles Trent in Columbus. C D Trotter spends a night with his mother and aunts the McLaughlin sisters. Mrs Roy Wright learns her son John Harold Wright in Navy is enroute to Japan via Formosa. Sgt and Mrs Robert Jeffers travel from Alabama to Fort Eustis Va. Jeffers served ten years in the Army. Don Kinnison and spouse plan a new home on State Route 160 north of Radcliff. Isda Marlene Pendleton to wed Roger N Allman at Christian Church Radcliff. Mrs Dan Shelton and Nancy visit Columbus with her mother Mrs C E Pierce.
Sgt W R Seal begins duty as head of the Point Pleasant state police detachment overseeing Mason and Jackson counties. Transferred from Moundsville, he has 23 years with the unit and a family of five. He succeeds Sgt Carl Nutt, moved to South Charleston last week.
Trooper Gordon Swartz of the state police joined officers on special duty Monday in Charleston as President Eisenhower appeared there.
The North Ohio Conference of African Methodist Episcopal Church endorsed Gov. C William O’Neill for re election at its closing session in Youngstown.
Hospital notes list Mrs Helen Reece of Vinton Ohio and other named patients admitted while Nancy Leach and several residents including Mrs Alva Sullivan and Mrs Eleanor Selby with infant daughter are discharged. The First Baptist Church in Providence Rhode Island is identified as the mother congregation of Baptists in the United States.
Julius V. Kapp 72 of Staff House Road died at 5 50 pm at his home after months of illness. He owned a Point Pleasant grocery for years and formerly ran the 22nd Street Bowling Center. Born February 27 1886 in Mason County he was a member of the EUB Church Modern Woodmen Lodge and Knights of Pythias. Survived by wife Dora Ellen two daughters Nellie Quillin and Dorothy Mitchell a son Woodrow Kapp six grandchildren two half sisters and other relatives. Funeral Wednesday at 2 pm Crow funeral home with Rev O H Carder Huntington officiating burial Lone Oak Cemetery. Friends may call.
The Kingdom of Jordan has a population of about 400000 living on about 5 percent of the nation’s total geographical area.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Childers of Marietta Ohio announce the birth of their first child a daughter Terrell Lee born October 22 at Holzer Hospital The mother is Terrill Crain Reynolds Grandparents include J S Reynolds 2304 Mount Vernon Ave Edgar Reynolds Sr 2402 Mount Vernon Ave and George Halfill Henderson and Mrs George Armstrong Charleston
A mobile x ray unit will tour Mason County offering free screenings. Co sponsored by the Mason County Tuberculosis and Health Association and Mason County Health Department. Stops include Ashton Baptist Church November 4, Point Pleasant courthouse November 5, New Haven Lutheran Church November 6, and Shinns Gulf Service Station Leon November 7 with visiting hours listed.
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