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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1956
Page
8
The Middleport BPW Club holds a luncheon tomorrow at Mar Restaurant from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nellie Zerkle chairs the planning committee for National BPW Week decorations and favors. The group, formed in 1946 in Gallipolis, is affiliated with national and Ohio state BPW organizations. Mrs. Wesley Fry is president. Projects include hospital loan center sick room supplies and a nurse training scholarship, plus Heart Fund cooperation.
NEW LEXINGTON A sequence of probate filings appears across Perry County courts. Administrators and executors list estates of Gertrie T. Yocum, Russell B. Steen, James Steen, Nellie E. Griggs, and Robert V. Martin, with inventories, appraisements, and distributions noted. A petition to sell personal property and an order to sell goods at price are also recorded, along with estate receipts and disbursements totals. Witnesses Lillian Crowley and L. E. Crow- ley appear in several matters.
DAR Regent attends three district meetings in Ohio as state chairman, with Mrs Ralph Mittendorf directing the Southeast District session in Zanesville at St James Episcopal Church. The Captain James Lawrence Chapter led in attendance from Ironton, and Mrs Lowell Burnell of Glouster was elected historian general at the Continental Congress in Washington.
Lancaster residents and friends gathered at the Woltz home with Betsy Eliza Kline Effie Wott and several guests from Columbus Grand Rapids and nearby towns. Calls included Paul Dean Oscar Holzer Eva Taylor and Ethel Fox as Effie Woltz remained a central figure in the social visit.
The Rev Guy T Sayre resumes duties as pastor after illness with services Friday to Sunday under Mildred Rhoad and musicians from Point Pleasant. Also notes retirement information session with Perry A Riggs in Meigs County auditor office Thursday at 8:30 a m. Dr Homer G McMillen and family visiting Middleport, former church pulpit aide at funeral for A A Dillard. Feeney Bennett Post American Legion to meet tonight. reports from Coalton district fall conference to be given.
POMEROY CC Patterson county superintendent of schools and cooks from several schools attended a shade Tuesday afternoon workshop on school lunch programs serving Athens and Meigs Counties.
A second polio vaccine clinic will be held by Meigs County Health Department from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the health department offices on E Main Street. Eligible attendees include those who received the first shot from the department, including expectant mothers seeking a second dose, and minors must have signed parental consent slips.
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