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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1949
Page
6
Milwaukee hosts the National Girl Scout Convention in progress with attendees including Mrs. Bennett Chapple of McGee Ave. from the local area. Visitors arrive from West Alexandria and Sidney to visit relatives in the region.
Members of the local Ohio Music Teachers Association will present pupils in the first fall recital on Saturday November 19 at 3 30 p m at the Girls Club. Piano vocal and violin solos will be seen by R B Ramsdell Mrs C J Hughes Miss Marguerite O Malley Mrs Paul Ruth Miss Luis McClellan Mrs E H McCandlish Mrs E L Phillips Mrs Robert S Sutton Miss Pearl Walburg Mrs Homer O Weikel Sister Frances Miriam Mrs Harold Conn Mrs V G and Miss Ada Louise ee chairman of the affair Admission is free and the public is invited.
A brief notice offering help on insurance questions and directing readers to consultant Fa Jones Life Underwriter at 601 Savings & Loan Bids or by phone 72-5381.
Returns from a recent benefit party staged by Women’s Auxiliary to the Salvation Army are in the Day Nursery richer by $260 Mrs Richard Marksbury general chairman for the benefit has announced A paid worker Mrs Pearl McCarthy has been appointed However as in the past the services of volunteer workers will be needed
Delta Chi Sigma and rarity members met in the YMCA director's room for a business meeting to plan a Christmas project with several items completed. Mrs H E Lawson and Mrs Douglas Barrett will report at the social meeting this month. November social will be formal initiation for new members with hostesses Mrs Robert Lyons Miss Marguerite Rose and Miss Vera Fugate. Sigma Phi Gamma sorority met in Barnitz room at 7 30 last night to announce November social hostesses for the event at the home of Mrs Gene Weidner on November 28 with Miss Marilyn Schwall Miss Eleanor Shartle Mrs Harold Bach and Mrs Weidner assisting. Members plan to sell candy boxes for Christmas. Decorations committee for the international convention will meet Tuesday evening at 8 with Mrs Ray Welsh.
Elk Creek Grange members will meet tonight at 8 30 at the grange hall for the regular meeting. The program includes two movies and discussion of the organization’s radio program.
Dr Hazel Morgan addressed the University Women's Club on UNESCO. She defined UNESCO as the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization with Paris headquarters and described its aim to foster world peace. She urged practical steps like student exchanges and library support to aid other nations, warning the US not to be merely a donor but an active participant.
Miss Betty R Riley daughter of Mr and Mrs Berlin Riley of Brookville C and Frank E Havens son of Mr and Mrs John Dunwoodie of Middletown were married Saturday November 12 The Rev H A Rothrock officiated at the German Town Methodist Church parsonage at 3 pm Only Miss Mildred Dunwoodie and Mr George D Shaffer attended After the ceremony the couple left for a brief honeymoon in Lexington Ky
Graduate Regents Women of the Moose postpone their meeting to November 2. Pythian Sisters sew all day for a bazaar with Mrs J L Livzey of Woodlawn Ave and a covered dish. C I C class of West Middletown Church meets November 18 at 8 p.m. at Mrs Melvin Ireton’s in Monroe Ohio. Busy Bee Sewing Club meets November 16 at 2 p.m. at Mrs John Hoskins 2009 Central Ave. Girls Club hosts a home makers clubs benefit bridge on Thursday evening at 8 with tickets at the door. A prize and refreshments will be served.
Mrs. J F Seibold and Mrs M Fitzgerald organized a Thanksgiving themed gathering for Otterbein Sunday School Class at the Seibold home. Vice president Mrs Walter James led devotions and President Mrs Ray Weaver ran the business session. Prizes went to Mrs James Mrs W S Conklin and Mrs K Blossom. A lunch followed the program.
Weather forecast calls for continued cloudiness and cooler temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Overnight low around the upper 30s, with today’s low near 34 and morning readings around 38 by midmorning.
Trenton's new Cub Scout movement met at the home of Mr and Mrs Clyde Bailey to plan the annual program. Nineteen boys are enrolled in two dens with den meetings Thursdays at Mrs Marion Murphy and Mrs Charles Taylor homes. First session December 1 at Trenton School.
Dayton Ohio AP reports County Treasurer Chester Myers and staff used a mass telephone reminder to 600 delinquent taxpayers after the November 1 deadline. About 95 percent apologized for the oversight and paid the taxes due, illustrating an effective prompt. A separate note mentions a new magnetic process claim to extract gold and silver from low grade ores.
Two Marian Martin sewing items present Christmas patterns for bib apron and dress styles with yardage, transfer instructions, and illustrated fit. Offers pattern 9091, price details, and a call to order from Marian Martin at The Middle Town Journal. Includes a Fall and Winter Pattern Book teaser with free pattern and a weskit idea.
A Polish mother, Leokadia Rolbiecki, gave birth mid at sea aboard a Scandinavian Airlines plane en route from Prestwick to New York. The baby girl is the second transatlantic birth in a month, with the aircraft described as a flying nursery containing several young children and babies.
Homer Leffler of the McCoy Lefffler Funeral Home will deliver three speeches this week before districts of the Ohio Funeral Directors Association. Leffler will speak on Funeral Service Planning at Sydney tonight Springfield tomorrow night and Cincinnati on Thursday night.
The sentence asserts that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the Austrian national anthem. No reliable attribution or document supports this claim. Mozart wrote pieces for courts and sacred music, not an officially adopted national anthem.
Mrs. Jennie Winchell, 77, mother of Walter Winchell, fell from a Doctor's Hospital 10th floor room after a nurse left briefly. Her body was found on the 7th Street sidewalk. The death is reported as either a fall or jump. Walter Winchell was en route from Miami to NYC.
Three crewmen rode a crippled B 29 with one engine aflame to a safe landing at Salt Lake City airport. Ten other crew members parachuted to safety earlier. First Lieut. William Eckles of Provo piloted the four engine craft down from 25 000 feet over Wendover Utah on the way to Spokane. Co pilot First Lieut. Carlyle Townswick Des Moines and Master Sgt. Richard Denning Springfield Ore stayed aboard with Eckles. Fire crews extinguished the flames shortly after landing.
The Longview Social Service League announced a Saturday party for county patients held by the Longview Sunday school class of Mrs. R A Hill. Twelve board members met at Mrs. George Smith's home for a business session as the group grows to a 400 membership with 100 credited to president Mrs. Norman Trisler. Roy Whitesell elected assistant treasurer and Rowland Hinsch appointed corresponding secretary to fill the unexpired term of Mrs. Eugene Fishbaugh. New member Mrs. C W Crawford of Middletown Hamilton Pike joined. Mrs. Trisler thanked Middletown organizations for gifts to the December party, noting 65 dollars and substantial clothing and game donations. After the meeting, members wrapped presents for the December party.
A. C. Neff, vice-president of Armco Drainage and Metal Products, was re elected national director from Ohio for the Ohio Society of Professional Engineers. He noted bills on Truman’s four point program were distributed to chapters and asked for opinion before December. About 200 Miami Chapter members and guests enjoyed a chicken dinner at the Peerless Pantry in Miamisburg followed by a Dayton Power tour.
Frederick W. Schneider 62 a maintenance foreman at Gardner Carton and Board day died at his residence 514 Garfield St after an illness begun Sept 7 He lived in this city since 1913 and worked 36 years for the paper company He is survived by widow Irene two sons Charles and Frederick III of Middletown a brother Howard of Excello and three grandchildren Services Friday at 2 pm at McCoy Leffler Funeral Home with Dr E R Turner officiating Burial in Woodside Cemetery Friends may call at the residence from noon Wednesday until noon Friday when the body will be taken to the funeral home for service
Rick Pelfrey aged 62 formerly of Middletown died Sunday at 5 30 am at the veterans hospital in Lexington Kentucky after a 20 year hospitalization largely in Dayton veterans hospital He served in the US Army from November 5 1918 to December 1919 as a private in Battery D First Regiment Field Artillery and re enlisted in Middletown June 1920 discharged March 1921 He is survived by two sons William G of Mt Sterling KY James Lester of Dayton three daughters Mrs Sara King of Sandusky Ohio Miss Irene Pelfry of Means KY and Mrs Mary Ann Gross of Mt Sterling KY three brothers Reuten and Millard both of Middletown and General of Chicago four sisters Mrs Mary Bell Powell of South Lebanon Mrs Polly Willoughby of Excelio Mrs Emma Harris of Franklin and Mrs Nettie Hale of Middletown and six grandchildren Military services under American Legion Post 216 will be Thursday at 230 pm at Joseph R Baker and Son Funeral Home with burial in Soldiers Lot Woodside Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Wednesday.
Cyrus Metzger, 65, of 16 Summit Street, Lebanon, died at 7 30 a m today at Middletown Hospital after being confined since Sunday. He is survived by a daughter, Corwin, of Lebanon. The body will be taken to Wakaponeta, Ohio, by the Riggs Funeral Home for services and burial.
Mrs Mary Margaret Herr 70 of 219 Aberdeen Dr died early Monday. A solemn Requiem High Mass will be held Wednesday at 9:30 a m at St John s Church with burial in Woodsid e Cemetery. Special services will be conducted today at 7:30 p m at Schramm Funeral Home by the Married Ladies Sodality. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Wallace Adams, president, welcomed guests as Russell Dole, resident engineer, explained the dam and tunnel layout of the new power plant near the area. He illustrated construction progress with a talk and slides.
A real estate listing highlights an open house today from 5 to 7 p m and again from 9 to 10 p m at a regional residence, inviting buyers to tour the property and discuss features with agents.
Samuel H. James 60 died Sunday at his daughter Mabel Williams home in Williamsburg Ohio. Funeral arrangements set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at McCoy Lefler Funeral Home with Rev Fletcher Shoup officiating. Burial will be in Woodside Cemetery. Memorial rites were conducted tonight at 7 at the funeral home by the Brotherhood of the Calvary Methodist Church. Friends may call Tuesday 2-5 and 7-10 p.m.
Dr E B C Sill a Princeton Road physician for 58 years died Sunday at Mercy Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage. He was born March 12 1865 in Butler County and trained at Cincinnati Medical College. Services were private Tuesday at Proesche Funeral Home with Rev Robert A Byler officiating. Remains went to Cincinnati for cremation and burial in Woodside Cemetery Middletown. He leaves one son Carlyle Sill.
Funeral services for Oscar Daugherty of Lebanon are listed with details continued on page 12. The notice notes interment to follow and mentions arrangements by a local funeral home.
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