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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1956
Page
2
Middleport residents praised for Haptonstall and cooperative spirit during school bond planning. Superintendent McComas outlined new elementary and high school additions, bidding timeline, and facility details while a PTA meeting welcomed leaders and planned for future construction.
Pomeroy society reports parsonage repairs and other business. Sugar Run PTA to meet at 7 30 p m Thursday with a get acquainted period. Women's auxiliary of Grace Church met at Mrs J E D Hartinger's home with 15 members. officers reported and talks on Liberia and Maine. Bradbury PTA meets at new grade school. Farm Bureau holds monthly recreation. Paul Thomas in Bradbury birthday tale. square dancing planned. Several local residents and visitors are listed with weekend visits and travel notes.
Miss Clara Faye Taylor and James Sanborn wed at First Baptist Church with Rev Claremont E Hoyt officiating. The couple, of Middleport and Cheshire, plan a home in Cheshire after a short honeymoon. both are Middleport High School graduates with Taylor a former telephone operator and Sanborn a chemistry degree holder and Celanese plant chemist.
Elected officers include John Church master and Mary Low Brown secretary. Plans for a county wide chest x ray survey to be sponsored by Perry County Health Department the state health department and the Perry County Tuberculous and Health Association were approved at a board meeting led by Mrs Bertha Levjon. The chest x ray will occur October 3 and will x ray all persons over 15 starting October 4. New Shawnee dial telephone equipment from Western Electric will be installed with five digit numbers starting with 4, exchange ready by Oct 21 and new directories issued. Other items note Aloysius Beresha teacher position in La Jolla California, Beresha family health issues and an airplane accident impact, and Leo Clark Somerset elected president of Burnt Corker Club for 1987 with officers Charles Stevens, Tom Lawson, and Herbert Molak.
District 11 Ohio Association of Garden Clubs will hold its fall regional meeting at Grace Methodist Church Gallipolis on Sept 24. Host Gallipolis Garden Club will showcase flower arranging with steps and mass arrangements. Registration 9 to 10 am luncheon at noon. reservations to Mrs Vale Gallipolis. Reibel national judge will preside and report district progress. presidents to appoint nominating committee.
Newly outfitted firing squad of Feeney Bennett Post 128 American Legion marched Sunday in the 8th District conference parade at Coalton. Members included Gene Coleman, Roscoe Ife, Don Roach, Henry Jatworthy, Gale Hysell, Paul Tonstall and Lewis Low. The district boasted top state membership as the slogan On to Cincinnati circulated.
State Highway Patrol inspected 59 school buses in Meigs County. Forty five were rated satisfactory and thirteen were deemed unsatisfactory needing minor repairs. One bus previously unserviceable was fixed and moved to satisfactory condition. Patrolman W R Davis said this year’s 18 Meigs buses show better condition than in prior years.
Clara Davidson seeks divorce from Ernest William Davidson citing gross neglect of duty in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. The action lists marital breakdown and requests legal dissolution of marriage.
A Motorist was fined five dollars for running a traffic signal on Main Street in West Virginia. The case was heard in Mayor E. F. Rob son’s court after being filed by Patrolman Ralph Sisson. Officials noted tests were suspended. Middleport group to hold rummage sale in Pratt building with Mrs. James Worthy as matron seeking donations on Thursday. Renowned violinist Jascha Heifetz, praised by critics for his New York debut at 17, began playing at age three. Israel now has 1865 miles of modern highways linking towns with Biblical sites.
Salem Center 1 Grade School remained closed all last week and Monday due to a mechanical failure in the motor that pumps water from the deep well. Officials reported the motor on the well was defective and sent a replacement from Cleveland, which was en route. the school was expected to reopen today.
The Middleport Athletic Association will meet tonight at the high school, said Robert Mills, president. Curtis Jenkinson will show a motion picture, Ten Years With the Cleveland Browns. Members and parents of football players and in high school athletics are invited to attend.
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