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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1936
Page
3
Middleport firemen plan an all day Labor Day event at Pythian Park Lower Middleport featuring a bean dinner games contests and night events under lights. A baseball game in the afternoon pits the Firemen against Glouster in a close hard fought match with considerable crowd expectations if weather cooperates.
Meigs County Association of Columbus will hold its annual Meigs County picnic Sunday September 13 at Franklin Park in Columbus. Former residents and local attendees are expected to join, with Will C. Merritt recognized for compiling a permanent record of Meigs countians in Columbus through two bulletins listing names and addresses. Merritt visited Pomeroy Thursday.
A reunion of the Qui vey family will be held Sunday at the Burlingham church. All family members and friends are welcome to attend.
Mrs A H Rosenbaum is at St Joseph Hospital in Parkersburg after undergoing an operation for appendicitis.
Rev R C Ditter will present the Sunday morning sermon at 10 15 at the Federated Church with Sunday School at 9 00. The article notes floating islands on the Mississippi and other rivers formed by roots that provide buoyancy.
Pomeroy social column records residents traveling to Columbus for the State Fair, visits to relatives in Gallipolis and Wheeling, and gatherings with friends. It notes multiple families, hospital recuperations, and nearby excursions, including a local school principal returning from Nelsonville and preparations for a Washington DC trip by local students. The piece also mentions a school auditorium event featuring local talent and performances by Miss Jean Mees with other performers.
Miss Bettie Ketter's fourteenth birthday was celebrated at her grandmother Mrs. Mina Lowe's Locust Street home. Guests included Jean Harris, Maxine and Anna Louise Whaley, Kathryn and John Mitch, and others. Thelma Pauley of Charleston attended with Bettie and her mother. Also noted, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Turner of Pomeroy and Mr. and Mrs. Owen Watson of Racine plan a trip to Cincinnati for the Davison reunion and to visit Mrs. Fred Foss in Newport, Kentucky.
Middleport notes show John Zerkle and sisters at Kaylong West Virginia for an uncle's funeral. Von Kassler family moved to Athens. John Dillard Jr in Columbus visiting grandmother and State Fair. Clark, Hartinger families return from Cambridge Massachusetts to East. Hamer family from Washington Pa with labor day visit. McKay couple back from summer at Ohio State University. Reynolds family visitors from Cuyahoga Falls with Minervia Childers heading to Akron for winter. Frank White group returns from Washington DC. Rev Gardner and Joyce return from Erieside Eaton and will resume Church of Christ services. George Warner family drives to Columbus.
Middleport Loyal Woman's Class of the Church of Christ held a surprise party at Mrs. Pearl Graves home for class member Mrs. Minerva Childers who is leaving for Akron to spend the winter with her daughter Mrs. Bland. Childers received a parting gift as the group enjoyed ice cream and cake and social time.
Wednesday Mrs Warner and daughters will spend the week with Mrs Warner's brothers Mr and Mrs James Titus and son and Miss Jean McKay were in Columbus Thursday to attend the State Fair. Miss Jean Lama has enrolled at Ohio University in Athens for the coming school year. Twelve students from Middleport will enroll there this year, an increase over last year's enrollment. Norman and Franklin Edwards went to Columbus Thursday for the remainder of the week with their father to attend the State Fair. The father and sons will return Saturday.
Herbert Fink, long under care at Rocky Glenn Sanitarium near McConnelsville for seven months, improves and returns home with wife and children. He must rest and cannot work this winter, but physicians expect normal health by next summer.
Mrs. Vroman entertained her contract bridge club Wednesday at Walnut Street home in Middleport. Two tables were occupied with guests Mrs. Plummer Beeson and Miss Helen Beeson. Mrs. E. R. Tompkins won the high score prize and light refreshments closed the evening. From three to eight months are spent in producing an animated cartoon for the movies.
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