Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1953-05-22
ERIE GARDENS
MRS. STEVE NOVAK
Phone 2-5484

William Morrison returned to his
D. Street home after having been
confined to the hospital for some
time. He will be under doctors
observation for the next few weeks
and is not sure when he will be
able to return to his work at E.O.D.
Several young friends helped
Beverly Macy, daughter of Steve
and Bessie Macy, celebrate her
fifth birthday with a gay party
Saturday in their West Loop home.
Games were played, then "Bev"
opened her many nice gifts. Ice
cream and cake was served to
Spencer and Barbara Throne, Oar
lene Curry, Benny and Timmy
Kendall, Chuckie Seagraves, Rog
er and Susan Moore, Mickie Pugh.
Jeffrey Deal, Marcia Brindley, and
Brenda, Beverly and Stevie Macy
Mrs. Bertha Grimm attended .
birthday celebration in honor Of
her mother, Mrs. Melvin Myers in
Gibsonburg, Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Doris Ref of the Erie Gar
dens Office Staff returned Wednes-
day from weeks visit in Boston
with her son James Reif who is
Flight Engineer for United Air
lines. Mrs. Reif made the trip by
plane.
Mrs. Carleton Easton gave a
double-birthday surprise party for
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Corwin of Toledo, in the Erie Gar
dens Community Hall on Sunday
May 18th. Mr.. Corwin's birthday
was Saturday and his wife's, Mon
day. The party was a real surprise
and the first time the family had
all been together in about seven
years. Lunch and Dinner was en-
joyed by Mr. and Mrs. George Cor
win, Mr.. and Mrs. John Denny and
son, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilbur Wilcl
and children. Mr.. and Mrs. Viii
liam Corwin and children, Mrs
Josephine Kistler, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Carleton Easton and children.
The thirteen grandchildren present
enjoyed horseback riding in the
afternoon and family pictures were
made by Connor's Studio.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sharp
were visiting relatives in Colum-
bus last weekend.
Here at 33 South Loop, we were
very much relieved when the Red
Cross notified us that our sister
Mrs. Joyce Donaldson and her
family were safe and we'll and
their newly built home only slight
ly damaged even though the Sar
Angelo, Texas tornado came with
in one block of their home. The
Red Cross is doing wonderful
job and it is certainly nice to know
that the Red Cross and people like
Mrs. Ada Hayden of the Port Clin-
ton office are ready and so willing
to help in times of disaster.
Norman Mortus is expected to
return this weekend after being
sent to work at Camp Mccoy, Wis
consin for two weeks.
Mrs Bernard Diedrich accom-
panied her husband to Columbus
last Saturday spending weekend
of shopping and entertainment
while Bernard (Von) was one of
the fifteen Port Clinton delegates
to attend the knights of Columbus
State Convention in the Neil
House, Columbus.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Nichols
son Tommie and daughter, Ginny
attended the Tulip Festival in Hol-
land, Michigan last weekend. Eight
year-old Ginny was the envy Of
the third grade class when she
wore wooden shoes to school Mon
day morning. Seems that Ginny
failed to consult her parents be-
fore wearing them and it's still a
mystery how she managed the
wooden shoes all day and even
walked home in the afternoon.
That evening, in an attempt to ex-
plain her swollen feet to her moth
er, Ginny said, "Well, know that
Dutch girls wear at least eight
pairs of socks inside these shoes
and I tried but I could only get
four pair of socks on"
Mrs. Sammie Yarbrough attended
the Genzman-Gulau wedding in
Oak Harbor Saturday.
Joyce and William Anderson are
vacationing in Michigan this week.
Did you ever see anyone as
proud as Eugene Grimm is of his
new lawn mower? And Gene has
every right to be proud since that
lawn mower is all his own and pur-
chased with his hard earned mon
ey after several years of saving for
it. At this rate Gene will be real
business man some day. He is the
fourteen-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jerry Grimm of the Gardens
Friends have received word that
the vacationing Clayton Pettibones