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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1948
Page
6
John Barker and Miss Betty Haines visited Miss Elizabeth Ward this weekend for the funeral of a local resident, sharing condolences and support with family members.
Monday roll call at the Middleport Garden Club hosted by Mrs. Garen Stansbury. Officers in charge included Mrs. Walter Harris. Members prepared a paper on Fragrance in the Garden in All Seasons and discussed chrysanthemum raising. Committees for the District 11 flower show were announced.
Temperature dipped to the 60s as hunters opened the season for squirrels. Reports split on the year’s numbers with some calling the population few and far between while others cite a large nut harvest suggesting plenty of animals.
Sgt. Earl Ward, recently released from an 18 month Okinawa assignment, arrived home Monday. He visited his foster parents Mr and Mrs Archie Rumfield and then went to Red House West Virginia to see relatives.
An informal meeting at City Hall tied school needs to sewer work. The Pomeroy School Board, the Council sewer committee, and Mayor D A Canaday agreed to first complete Naylor’s Run then Monkey Run as finances allow, using equipment for four days on school property before returning it to the sewer project. Superintendent W A Smith said school work on the football field would be financed from prior funds for facilities including a pool and ag building.
Mrs J E Radekin was installed as president of the Star Garden Club at Mrs George Perry home. Officers named include Winnie Bolen first vice president and Cash Braley second vice president with Perley Nelson as secretary treasurer and Floyd Davis program chairman. The group discussed Flowers Grown in Water and Care of Canna Roots. Bolen won the mystery basket. Refreshments for 16 members and two guests were served. Next meeting at Mrs Kenneth Davis home.
Mr. and Mrs. Ersel N. Davis hosted a chop suey dinner on Nye Ave to celebrate Mrs. Davis birthday. Guests included Marvin Mayer and son Michael, Frances Scholl, Oscar Scholl and daughters Rita and Marlene, Edward Sohn, Hazel Woods and daughters Patty Susie and Kitty, Lester Knapp and children Martha Mae Marlene and Sonny Patty Davis.
A Wednesday evening wiener roast celebrated Judy Ann Barton turning six. Attendees included Dorothy Taylor Rosalee Wise Richard McGuire Ronald Snyder Harold Burt Ruby Evelyn Madeline Guy Hysell Betty Clara Mae George Molden Madeline Brickles and Robert and Betty Barton.
The Izaak Walton League invites members and families to a dinner on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Rocksprings Grange Hall for shared fellowship and community service discussion.
Mr and Mrs Charles Folwell of Parkersburg hosted J Hartenbach and Miss Sue Lehen in Mason City. Ohlingers and Hawleys on leave from Ft Meade returned to base after a three day pass with their families. William Knight sails to Oxford Ohio for Miami University. J H Eastman spent weekend in Columbus on business. Recent visitors to Bradbury included the VanMeter family, Betty VanMeter, Leonard Wilson, Junior Wilson, and William VanCooney. Stoltenbergs of Tipton Iowa arrived for a 10 day visit with Elmer Kautz and family and will visit Monroe Michigan. Carl Lee Bashan and children visited Doughty of Glouster Route 1 and Mrs Sylvia Straub of Bishopville.
Mr and Mrs Charles Baum attended the funeral for their sister in law Mrs Ed Baum of Detroit. Mr and Mrs Floyd Ridenour visited Mr and Mrs George Caldwell in Tuppers Plains. Mr and Mrs Miles Nelson hosted Mr and Mrs Ralph Jennickes and children from Lake Worth Florida visiting in Flint. A son was born to Mr and Mrs George A Wolfe on Sept 6 at General hospital. Mr and Mrs Earl Hassell of Columbus spent a weekend with Jesse and Goldia Wolfe in Flint.
Bashan Mrs Carl Lee entertained at her Bashan home in observance of the sixth birthday of her son Charles. Attendees included Connie Kay Mo rarity Mrs Mary McKay Janet Orr Meford Frederick Jr Timmie Emmie White Neal Leroy Jolce Charleann Kyle Carol Richard and Charles Lee.
Kerrs Run residents urged relief as slack coal refuse at the French Coal Tipple burned for about two weeks. Mayor Canaday and M. L. French arranged a plan to move the hot heap via a dredge boat with a dam and station a city fire truck to extinguish embers. French will finance the operation with U. S. Engineers granting permission to move the refuse to the river edge.
Funeral services for Theodore Davidson 83 who died Tuesday at his Gravel Hill home will be held Thursday at 2 pm at Silver Run Baptist Church with interment in Gravel Hill Cemetery. He is survived by his wife four sons a daughter two more daughters a sister a brother 14 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
New Plymouth residents welcomed Watter Haas Logan and Mr and Mrs Floyd Cooper of Dayton plus accompanying Haas and Cooper families. Garth Harris and John Archer guests of J D Harris, with Earl Heinlein at the Shelton homecoming. Mrs Luther Bardain visited Lancaster friends, returning with Mrs White and Misses Katie Bookwalter and Meredith Drumm.
Mary Jane Young hosted a noon dinner Sunday at the Leading Creek home in celebration of her mother Mrs. Joe Young Sr. and her brother in law Charles Asa Bradbury. Guests included Mr and Mrs Joe Young Sr Mr and Mrs Chart les A Bradbury and Suzanne Mr and Mrs Joe Young Jr.
The Rev. and Mrs. John W. Daw of Vienna West Virginia visited their son in law and daughter Coach and Mrs. Forrest Bachtel. A noon dinner honored Mrs. Bachtel's birthday. Miss Margaret Sauer, sister of C. J. Sauer, has been visiting. Brownell Avenue couples traveled to Dayton with Miss Jane Sauer and Mrs. Mary Fisher. The party joined Mrs. Hattie Fisher Smith and others in Columbus.
The Men's Fellowship of the First Baptist Church in Middleport will meet tonight at Garden Club Roadside Park New Haven for a corn roast. Cars will depart the church by 6 for corn on the cob and other food.
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