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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1948
Page
11
A group of youths from the Church of God joined a camp meeting at qrinafield led by Rev and Mrs Mitchell and others including Mr and Mrs Wright and Mr and Mrs Plant. Nearby Three Clubs of the community hiked to the new railroad dam area while Luncheon Corning Social Notes detail local doings.
The Evangelical United Brethren annual conference met in Columbus with Rev. Frank Robinson reappointed to his charge. His family includes Mrs. Robinson and children Paul and Peggy. Mrs Blanche Ellswick visited her children. A daughter was born Aug 27 to Mr and Mrs Jay Bernard, their fifth. Funeral services were held in Middletown for Mrs Holly McClanahan after an auto crash.
The first lighthouse tower at Cape Hatteras was built in 1798 and faced coastal erosion for 72 years. A second tower stood a mile inland after the Atlantic reached the base, followed by a third inland steel lighthouse built a mile farther.
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