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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1956
Page
5
A holiday weekend traffic roundup records two minor injuries in Ashton and Colum Pleasant area incidents. Maggie Stout, 69, and Tena Winkler, 7, sustained slight injuries. $950 total damages reported.
West Virginia 4 H clubs wrap a successful year with a state roundup at the 4 H roundup. The 1956 state land judging contest included 19 counties and about 75 contestants. Nicholas County won the hat judging team with a top scorer close to 385 set in 1955 by Ann J Lynch of Monongalia. Summers finished second as the next five teams trailed closely.
Social notes list guests visiting families including Mrs Myr tie Welker Mrs Esta Lewis and Mrs Sherry visiting kin in Huntington and Bidwell. Also two men posted bonds after arrest for drunkenness and felonious assault while a 4 H group invited to a centerville meeting with refreshments served.
Three purebred dairy cattle sales are planned in West Virginia. Guernsey sale is at 2 p.m. Tuesday Sept 11 at State Camp Jacksons Mill conducted by West Virginia Cat New Club with secretary J B Maxwell. Ayrshire sale at 7 p.m. Sept 11 at same place, sponsored by West Virginia Ayrshire Breeders Association and managed by Bill Carpenter. Holstein sale Sept 19 at 12 30 p.m. at the state fair grounds in Lewisburg conducted by Holstein Breeders of the Greenbrier Valley. Contact Houston Moore in Lewisburg for details. These sales offer dairymen Future Farmers of America and 4H members chances to buy registered calves, heifers and cows many due to calve this fall.
The Heights Evangelical United Brethren Church will begin evening services at 7 30 p.m. instead of 8 p.m. this fall and winter, effective this past Sunday. Rev. Roy McCoy, new pastor, and his family move into the parsonage on N Main St. Sunday morning service plans were to be decided September 23 whether to keep a unified 9 45 a m service or switch to separate 9 45 a m Sunday school and 11 a m worship.
Charles Mercer notes that TV viewership figures from Sindlinger & Co and Trendex spark debate over what percentages mean. About 27 percent of total sets showed activity during conventions, with Trendex estimating 45 percent in use. Study bases include 12,500 interview calls across 15 metro areas.
Henry Pre describes autumn hardy chrysanthemum care noting watering, pinching, and disbudding to maintain color and sturdy stems. Mentions aphids control, staking tall varieties, testing soil moisture by leaf color, and past gardening advice. Also includes community notices from Poston and local visits and events in Athens and Columbus.
A Hartford Methodist Church gathering in the church rooms honored Miss Bertha Jenkins, bride elect of William Purcell of Alhambra, California, with refreshments served to a large list of attendees. Other items note WSCS meeting, visits by numerous McKnight family members, and regional social events including a Batey reunion at Grove and guests from Bluefield, Huntington, New Haven, and Naples.
A parade of visitors and movers fills Albany area notes with names like Maxwell, Carter, Stintson, Van Dyke, Gilliogly, Ratcliff, Pugh, Whaley, Trainer, Watkins, and Murphy. Residents travel between Columbus, Zanesville, Buckeye Lake and other nearby towns, with several moving to new homes or visiting relatives. Five students return from Future Homemaker’s Camp at Camp Muskingum, while a German guest plans a three month US stay. A spinach salad recipe ends the column.
A New York advertisement touts a healing substance called Preparation H that claims to relieve pain and shrink hemorrhoids without surgery. The ad promises healing ability and money back guarantee at your druggist.
The Fifth Circuit judge race pits Oliver Dennis Kessel, Republican, against Jacob M. Harper, Democrat, as the November 6 election determines the seat left vacant by the death of Judge Lewis H. Miller. Harper serves temporarily in Mason County while Kessel won the GOP nomination over William H. Bardin 22 to 16 at the GOP Convention.
Girdler Co awarded a contract to build a 1,500,000 steam power plant at a West Virginia site by next July. The plant will supply 10,008 rounds of steam per hour for Goodrich Gulf’s synthetic rubber venture. Girdler, a division of National Cylinder Gas Co of Chicago, announced the project.
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