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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1952
Page
2
Middleport two garden clubs present the Sixth Annual Flower Show October 4 and 5 at Heath Methodist Church basement with seven classes from hall to kitchen. An educational seeds bulbs and garden display and a junior division join a state contest entry with an accredited judge.
Middleport MYF re organized after summer vacation with Diane Reichman as president and Lois Ann Smith as secretary among officers installed by Nan Moore. Katharine Bachtel serves as adviser. The group planned a wiener roast at Syracuse Roadside Park with 40 attendees and chaperones John Hawkins Jr and Charles Murray.
Mrs. Leo Beeson was elected president of the Middleport Garden Club succeeding Sir John Duerr. The group met at Mrs. Garen Stansbury’s home as they planned a Sixth Annual Flower Show co sponsored with the Amateur Garden Club for October 4 and 5 at Heath Methodist Church. The show will feature photos of show arrangements and reports from state garden club events.
Dr. W. K. Baker and family of Oak Ridge Tennessee with Mrs. Jack White and family spent a week in Middleport. Dr. Baker attended a conference at Cornell University Ithaca New York and presented a paper at the American Association of Scientists meeting. Jack White joined his family for the weekend and returned home with them.
Pvt. Don Payne left Sunday for Camp Stoneman in California after a leave spent with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Payne and grandmother Mrs. Kathryn Payne. Mr. and Mrs. G. C. Reed of Wichita Kansas were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Pickens. The Pickens family and guests visited Walter Reed in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Gallagher and son Gary from Charleston spent the weekend with the latter's son.
Middleport Rutland Garden Club sponsors a flower show at Rutland Methodist Church on Wednesday Sept 17 open to the public noon to 9 pm. Outside clubs must place entries by 10 am. Mrs L J Heiner is general chairman. Miss Selah Seidenstricker heads the refreshment committee. Mrs Theodore Smith of Lancaster will judge.
Pallbearers Jacob Wise Russell Rice and Edward Werner carried out funeral rites for Mrs. Pearl Stuckey at the Rewlings Coats Funeral Home. The Rev. H O Cart officiated with burial at Middleport Hill Cemetery after her death Saturday at Meigs General Hospital following an emergency Friday admission.
Jack and Mrs. Bechtle move Jack's Dairy Bar to a cinder block building built behind their Race Street home. The shop shifts from Everett Bachner's former N Second Ave meat market and grocery space, to the vacated room at Coal and N Second Ave.
A garbled OCR fragment lists multiple monetary amounts including 415,238.00 and 815,238.20 with stray decimals and unit tokens, plus an unclear 6970.8 and a 92 Leis entry, yielding no verifiable event or entities.
Mayor Sidney T. Russell issued a proclamation endorsing the Forget-Me-Not Day Drive by Disabled American Veterans chapter No 53 in Middleport on September 20. The sale supports emergency relief, employment opportunities and rehabilitation services for deserving war time disabled veterans and their dependents.
A Meigs County squirrel season opening draws out of town visitors including Carroll Meadows of Columbus and Mr and Mrs Frank Rice of Toledo plus Mr and Mrs Ernest Thomas of Akron and David Jenkins visiting Hockingport to hunt with his uncle Walter Owen. Early showers gave way to heavy rain causing hunters to return home mid morning as success varied from one to a few shots.
In Pomeroy court Monday night Mayor Delmar A. Canaday fined Emil Elliott of New Haven West Virginia five dollars and costs for intoxication. Glen Lawson was fined five dollars and costs for leaving the scene of an accident. Patrolman Charlies Werry filed the first case and Patrolman Lehew the second. A thirty day suspended sentence of twenty five dollars and costs for Norman Hysell of Pomeroy on petit larceny was announced.
District Five Farm Bureau Women’s Activities Committee schedules a meeting Thursday at Jackson. A Dempsey Fruit Farm tour and viewing Jackson Apple Festival activities are on the agenda with Meigs County attendees Mrs Homer Holter Mrs Don Anderson Mrs Henry Wippel Mrs Ollie Thoma and district secretary Mrs J M Gaul. Local organizer John Heiskell accompanies the group.
Cunningham family announces the birth of a son, Allen Ray, to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Cunningham at Mason Clinic on September 12. They also have son Jon and daughter Betsy Ann. Mrs. Cunningham is Lois Ann Roush formerly. Grandparents are O. L. Roush and Homer Cunningham. great grandfather E. L. Zuspan of Mason.
In New Lexington and surrounding townships, probate filings report administrators accounts totaling 5245.96 receipts and disbursements, inventories valuing assets up to 15 000 with real estate noted. marriage licenses issued to several couples. lawsuits overhead include partitions, divorce petitions, and a $127.63 debt action. Real estate and title transfers list parcels in Thorn Two and Harrison Two, plus several transfers to Doris Baker and Paul Ortman.
Meigs County land transfers listed include Elijah W Hill to Wallace Hill parcels in Sutton Township Harold Chase and Onide Chast to Fred Chamberlain and Marguerite Chamberlain lots in Middleport Harold V Watson and Helen Watson to Vance E Millhone in Orange Township A N Benge to Woodrow R Wilson and Elsie B Wilson parcels in Scipio Arthur J Arnold and Virginia a Brook to W C Lee parcels in Scipio WC Lee and Nora Lee to Arthur J Arnold and Mildred E Arnold parcels in Scipio T Spurlock and Mildred H Spurlock to Charlies May and Julia May 40 acres in Columbia Alice Weber Dodson to Marion G Parker and Violet M Parker nine acres in Chester George R Ball and Mary Ball to W C Slater and Shirley Slater Russell to Esther L Russell White one fourth in Rutland Frank L oGebbel and Helen L Goebel to J E Hoge and Lola A Hoge one acre in Olive Township
POMEROY A total of 691.40 was collected Saturday in the annual tag day for the Pomeroy High School marching band with pledges to be collected later. A parade with the band plus the Emergency Squad police and firemen opened the tag day and a concert was held by the band to aid the fund.
Freda King sues George Clifford King in Meigs County Common Pleas Court for divorce on gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty and seeks custody of four minor children. In a separate suit The Ohio State Grange Mutual Insurance Association of Newark seeks $687.39 from William Bailey of Reedsville, alleging Bailey caused damages when his auto struck the Miller home on Route 248 and that Bailey failed to maintain and control the vehicle and trespassed on the Miller property.
Meigs County veterans urged by C J Rhodes to contact the local Veterans Service Office at 110% Court St for West Virginia bonus applications before the December 31 deadline. Eligible veterans must present DD 214 and can receive 190 20 or 300 based on service length and location. The new GI Bill for post June 26 1950 service is in effect with education benefits different from WWII GI Bill. discharge before August 20 1952 may begin training by August 20 1954.
A dedicatory service at First Presbyterian Church in Middleport featured two gifts: a grand piano from the home of the late Judge and Mrs. Edgar Ervin and an electric refrigerator from Mr. and Mrs. Peter Stace. Trustees accepted the gifts as Lewis Saver Jr. spoke for the group.
The Meigs County Board of Education will hold a regular session at 7 30 p m Saturday in the office of county superintendent O O Patterson.
Mt Hermon UB Church in the Texas community will observe homecoming next Sunday with a program conducted by Rev. E H Shelton of the local school. The event will begin at 5 30 am followed by a basket dinner at noon.
Mrs. Nettie D Cowdery hosted the WSCS of Reedsville Methodist Church. Plans for election day lunch, a bazaar and bake sale were set. Pot-luck noon meal included Savilla Barnett Laura Ruth Maude Buckley Rose Thomas Iva Masser Clara Masser Eunice Sprague Jerushia Shumway Della Ruth Hazel Buckley and guest Mrs Arthur Hetzer. Next meeting at Laura Ruth home.
Mrs Elizabeth Vigar visits with daughter Mrs Earl Shuler and relatives in Meigs County. Samuel Ray Calvert remains at Mount St Mary Hospital for one week then moves to son Coward Calvert in Pomeroy. Sue Boedeker leaves for Louisville as junior high schools close. Rev W F Sodt and C Shindel of Gahanna stay with Mr and Mrs Fred Langiotz and hunt in Meigs County.
Portland elementary school will host a Hill Billy Show this Friday at p.m. in the schoolyard with refreshments sold by the PTA. PTA plans include building a stage grading and seeding grounds and buying kitchen equipment for the lunch program. About 100 meals are served daily. An eighth grade assembly featured a program and plans for an operetta a band class and softball teams were discussed.
Micky Sherman prominent coal operator and former Athens resident is reported in critical condition at Holzer Hospital after entering the facility on Saturday.
Meigs County Farm Bureau Youth Council organizers announce a meeting at Charlies Carr home near Alfred at 8 p m Wednesday to form a new council. The Alfred area already has 65 members across two councils and invites all interested youths to attend per John Heiskell the local organizational director.
John J. Leifheit, engineman fireman, serves aboard the attack cargo ship USS Arneb in the North Atlantic with U S naval forces during NATO exercise Main Brace. He is the son of Mr and Mrs John J Leifheit of Union Ave.
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