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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1959
Page
2
Nelsonville city recreation commission raised season ticket prices and cut summer staff to save about $1000 annually after the recreation levy failed. The pool opens May 30 and closes August 23 with new hires including a combined pool manager lifeguard and multiple guards and attendants.
Racine social notes recount Easter activities at a Baptist Church basement for girls, along with numerous visits and family gatherings. Residents traveled from Mt. Victory Ohio to Columbus and Cincinnati, with many relatives hosting Easter dinner and weekend visits across towns in Ohio and West Virginia.
The Rev. John Hannahs, Nelsonville native and Ohio University graduate, will attend Holy Communion at Epiphany Episcopal Church Sunday at 9:30 a.m. He has served in Lowell Wyoming and will become associate rector at St. Marks in Venice Florida. He will stay with sister Mrs. Ralph Barber and his wife Alice and two children. A breakfast in his honor is set for 8:30 a.m. in the church basement.
Chauncey Marshal reports that Donald C. Darton and Donald F. Young of Columbus were cited into Mayor Charles Wadley s court for driving left of center. Each was fined 13.80 dollars. Noel A. Miller of Delphos is cited to appear in Mayor Wadley s court on Saturday April 4 for driving left of center.
Rene Lang, Swiss millionaire, and his son Francis, 7, were seen in Paris en route to Switzerland after Lang said he held the boy against his former wife Marion Rothstein. Rothstein, in New York with another son Gerald Emile, 10, says custody remains unresolved while Lang claims Swiss courts grant him custody and plans to bring back the other child.
John W. Fuller of Nelsonville Route 2 was fined $10 and costs for failure to yield the right of way. Robert W. Kasler, also of Nelsonville Route 2, paid $10 and costs for unsafe operation in the mayor’s court yesterday.
Nelsonville Connett school presents Western Fantasy operetta this evening at 7 30. Refreshments sold after show with all proceeds to cancer fund drive.
CHAUNCEY The Sugar Creek PTO will sponsor a skating party at Dows Roller Rink on Friday April 3.
Chauncey Personals notes a birthday celebration in Amesville for Jerry, six, hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Byron James with attendance from the Dorr and Bruce families and other local residents. Nearby visits include Athens Route 3 families and moving plans from Athens to Florida.
Births include a daughter for Mr and Mrs John F Savel Glouster a daughter for Mr and Mrs Paul D North Logan Route 1 and a daughter for Mr and Mrs Charles R Bram lich Athens. Adults admitted include Gertrude Burley Carbon Hill Beatrice Burley Zaleski William Konkler Athens Hilda Rees Logan Simmons Beal Nelsonville Dorothy Ellis Shawnee Burgess Christman Glouster Route 1 Jay Barber Nelsonville Carlos Rutter Millfield Route dismissed include Donald Freeman Chauncey and son Harry Barber Nelsonville Grace Covert Nelsonville Jacob Shaw Nelsonville Route Doris Vaughn Nelsonville Robert Guffey Glouster Route Stella Davis Nelsonville
Nelsonville report: the annual spring concert by the Buchtel York junior and senior bands is scheduled for Friday at 7 30 p m in the Buchtel gymnasium with John Hoy the band instructor in charge
Mrs Jane Lenig ar announces the marriage of her daughter Marcia Sheffield to Theodore C Steinbrook of Columbus son of the late Mr and Mrs Clarence Steinbrook Chillicothe. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Albert Heinz of the Presbyterian Church Columbus on Feb 2.
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