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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1957
Page
9
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cunningham of Nelsonville Route 2 celebrate their golden anniversary at home with family. Married April 14, 1907 in Carbon Hill by Rev. H. B. Brily, they raised nine children and now have sixteen grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
The Buchtel York High School senior class sponsors a play titled Jessica’s Journey, Friday at 7 30 p m in the high school auditorium. Tickets available at the door.
Fred Norman 75 of Glouster Route 1 died Thursday in Huntington Veterans Hospital after a long illness. He worked at Whitmore’s Greenhouse in Buchtel over 30 years and is survived by two sisters and a brother. Funeral services Sunday at Wiley Funeral Home with Rev Daniel Teater officiating. burial in Buchtel Cemetery. Friends may call Saturday afternoon. McCann Frederick Post of the American Legion will meet at 12:30 p.m. Sunday to attend.
The Mount St. Mary Hospital notes record a birth to Mr and Mrs Hollis Davidson of Logan Route 4 a daughter. Admitted persons include Herbert Carbaugh Athens Route 5 Cadet James Nelson St Algosis Academy New Lexington and several others from Athens Nelsonville Nelsonville Rutland Jacksonville Buchtel and Deanville with daughters noted for Elston Mace and John J Dugan.
A children's choir from First Presbyterian Church will perform at the Easter worship service Sunday at 10 30 a m under Rev John Lloyd Evans pastor The program includes Step by Step The Palms Good News God Is Love and a scripture reading by David Friedrich and a prayer by Ronald Hartley.
Mr and Mrs Sam Scott attended the funeral in Athens for Frank Harvey. Don Harvey of Pittsburgh and Dwight Harvey of Portsmouth stayed at the Scott home over the weekend. Airline Church Grove clearing by local men for two Saturdays. Various residents and guests mentioned including Cliff Ross excavating for a new house near Airline Church.
Francis Graham of Nelsonville Route 1 paid a ten dollar fine plus costs in Magistrate George Schoonover s court on a disturbing the peace charge filed by Theda Graham. The fine was suspended on good behavior. Arrest by Constable Maywood Byers.
The Nel sonville city clean up campaign starts Monday in the east end. City trucks will collect curb side trash Monday and Tuesday in the east end, then Wednesday through Friday in the central and west ends, sponsored by the Community Garden Club and city administration.
Chauncey and Athens native Joseph Harvey Ferrell died this morning at his Toledo home. He once operated a West Union Street grocery in Athens and moved to Toledo about 30 years ago. Survived by wife Ethel McAfee of Stewart two sons Lawrence and Bob of Toledo and brothers Woodrow Ferrell of Chauncey and Frank Ferrell of Arizona. Funeral plans incomplete.
Funeral services for William E. Hummell 43 former Athens area resident who died Wednesday at Coshocton will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. He owned the Wills Creek Boat Dock on Coshocton Route 1. Survived by wife Stella four children two brothers and a sister. Friends may call Toland funeral home New Philadelphia.
James R. Proffitt 79 a Hartford native died Thursday evening of a stroke at his home after five years of illness. Survived by wife Daisy, three daughters Lizzie McBlaine Columbus Helen Harris Portland Nellie Kohen Coshocton, three sons Elmer Charles Portland Carl Parkersburg, a foster son William Proctor Syracuse, 26 grandchildren and 31 great grandchildren. Funeral conducted Sunday 2 p.m. at Great Bend Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the residence.
A Nelsonville patrolman left a note reading Low Tire under a car windshield to warn drivers. Three motorists, thinking an overtime ticket was issued, fed coins into nearby meters as meters are checked after 8 a.m.
Among those treated yesterday in the emergency room were John Davis 59 of Millfield Route 1 with a right forefinger injury treated and dismissed Gregory Smith three years old of Marietta Road with a puncture wound to the forehead treated and dismissed David France 1 year old of 185 Myers St with chemical burns on the face treated and dismissed Kim Lindner 10 of Chauncey bitten on the left leg treated and dismissed.
Nelsonville troop 18 members Sherry Poston Becky Jo Stuart Paulette Jurgensmier Susan Allen Cinda Cannon and Carol Ann Lehman presented two large packages of new and used comic books to Mount St. Mary Hospital for child patients last week.
Nelsonville event in the Legion post home runs Saturday from 9 p.m. to midnight with Bob Holloway and his orchestra providing music Tickets are sold by Legion members at the door.
Mrs. Bessie Oiler, 49, died of a heart attack at her Route 7 home below Hobson. She had been ill with a heart ailment and hospitalized recently. Emergency Squad and a physician arrived this morning but she was dead on arrival. Surviving are nine children and several relatives in Middleport and Cheshire. Services set for Sunday at 2 p.m. at Rawlings-Coats funeral home.
Local churches in Nelsonville list weekly services from Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. to evening worship. Notable items include First Methodist under Dr F M Wentz with multiple sermons and communion, Church of the Epiphany in Ogden Ludlow, and First Presbyterian with Palm Sunday events. Union services occur on Good Friday and Holy Week activities span several churches.
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