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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1947
Page
2
Scouts from nine counties will join the Kootaga Area Council Camporee at the Athens County Fairgrounds June 6 to 8 led by Ed ward A. Goodwin. Athens Chauncey and Glouster bands plus 40 troops will march in a parade on June 7 and evenings will feature campfires and demonstrations.
Joseph Fields a 25 year old former Army medical corpsman and Mason City WV native attends the University of Oklahoma as a sophomore in the College of Education majoring in science. He runs a 30 acre Shade area farm with cattle hens calves and pigs while his wife Pauline manages the home and chores. Fields balances classes work and farm life noting a new calf is due next month and he even delivered a calf himself last year.
Herbert Palmer Dutton, 60, of Dayton and former Athens Countian, died Sunday at Good Samaritan Hospital after a three week illness. He founded Farm Bureau Insurance, led Athens County Farm Bureau, married F Estelle Goddard in 1928, and is survived by two brothers. Funeral services set for Dayton Whitmer Funeral Home and Dowler Ferguson in Athens.
Bath Sheba Crippen died Sunday night at Stewart at 77 after an extended illness. She lived with her sister Nina Townsend and is survived by sisters Clara Place and Maud Hughes of Coolville and nephew Homer Place of Marion. Friends may call at White funeral home until Tuesday noon. Services Tuesday at 2 p.m. by Rev. Guy White at the Townsend residence. Burial in Bethel Cemetery.
The Cincinnati Construction Review Committee approved 44 projects on Friday under the Office of Housing Expediter. In Athens, Lawrence G. Worstell received permission to complete a $1,475 storefront for Gibbs and Radford tenants, and Robert H. Wakefield was authorized to build a $4,000 repair garage on Richland Ave near the existing Wakefield garage.
The Athens Grange will confer the third and fourth degrees Wednesday evening at the Rome Grange meeting, it was announced yesterday.
The Civil Service Commission announces exams for geologist posts nationwide at 2644 to 3397 dollars yearly and laboratory mechanic posts in Washington DC area at 1954 to 3397 dollars yearly. Geologist candidates need a geology degree or 30 college hours plus experience. no written test for mechanics. Veteran preference waives age Limits 18 to 62. Local secretary W H Oldfield at the post office provides full information.
The Athens County Teachers Association will hold its last meeting of the year at The Plains High School Friday at 2 p.m. Herman Ellis, president, and Glen Hanes, county superintendent, will lead business and announcements. A recreational program, reception, building inspections, and refreshments follow, with several named participants.
Salable hogs 2 500 weight ranges with gains to 50 for barrows and gifts and sows up to 25. good to choice hogs at 140 160 lbs 21 24 dollars and higher weights up to 23.00. sows 16 18 dollars. Cattle active with stronger prices. steers and heifers up to 25, cows and bulls firm-to-25 higher. Featherweight yearlings and heavy steers cited. cows and medium beef cows 13.50 15.00. Sheep small offering, strong, good and choice lambs 107 lb at 23.00.
Egg grades include U S A large 53 and 51 plus U S B large 47 with extras No 1 and 245 standards 1 and 240 current receipts No 1 quality and clean 41. Poultry weights listed heavy fowls roasters broilers and fryers with assorted pounds and prices. Butter wholesale prices show 1 lb prints at 65 65 66 percent butterfat premium 61 regular 58.
Five persons injured in a Sunday night Route 50 crash west of Amesville. John Starkey of Marietta in critical condition with a severe brain concussion. Leonard Starkey 19 and Lewis Sams 20 less seriously hurt. Pauline Donaldson 25 Athens suffered ear laceration and possible fractured pelvis. Carl Morris 18 Athens released after head arm and leg cuts. No arrests.
Athens County farmers cooperating with the Soil Conservation District are trial sowing Elsberry Brome grass with alfalfa and clovers this spring. Participating are John Sheridan Frank Pugh Edwin R. Wagner Merrill Chase Emmett Hulbert Earl Johnson M. H. Grinstead and Spud Seel. The crop costs about five times a timothy sowing but is supplied at no cost by the Soil Conservation Service with Ohio State University and the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station at Zanesville. The project compares brome grass as hay and pasture and its use as a sod crop to prevent erosion. Each farmer seeds brome with legumes on one or two acres, adjacent to timothy or orchard grass with legumes, or to legumes alone. Bromegrass suits mixtures with alfalfa and ladino white clover for hay or pasture, with sod left for several years.
Local hospital notes list new births in Athens and surrounding areas including a daughter for the Cunninghams and Caster, plus a son for the Ingram family. Admissions include major surgery patients Van Voorhes and Riley and accidents for Keirns Donaldson and several Starkeys. Dismissals feature families from Athens and nearby towns ending with Hartley and Price.
Sheriff George Bateman announced an investigation into the destruction by fire of a large straw stack on the Lewis Humphrey farm on Hockingport Road. Authorities believe careless smoking Saturday night led to the stack being ignited and totally destroyed early Sunday.
Three drivers were fined by Mayor Franz Woodworth after arrests by the State Highway Patrol. Robert Coburn of Portsmouth was fined $10 and costs for speeding, Reed W. Baker of Toledo was fined $10 and costs for unsafe operation, and Donald E. Sinnett of Coolville Route 1 was fined $5 and costs for insufficient lights.
Chester and Mary I Mohler sue Homer ONeil and John Jones also known as Red Fouts in Athens County Common Pleas for $500 alleging a purchased car on Jan 22 was guaranteed defect free but proved defective. Plaintiffs say its value dropped from 1250 to 750.
Robert Lynn Bumgardner age 25 of Nelsonville and Beulah Myree iCoakley age 22 of Nelsonville obtained marriage licenses in the city. Proceedings highlight local filings for couples seeking union in the area.
An auto left its parking spot near the Buick Co. on N. Court Street and rolled into the Green and White Restaurant at 80 N. Court Street. The crash shattered a plate glass window and bulged the south wall. no injuries were reported and only the left headlight was broken. The car belonged to Elmer E. McClanahan of Athens Route 4. The restaurant was operated by Dwight and Edna Junod and was closed at the time.
The Youth Hostel Committee met with the state committee at the Waterloo Game Preserve near New Marshfield. Harold Sauer announced plans to build a new hostel on the preserve this summer for high school and college groups. Blueprints by Thomas Larrick. Attending were Prof. W. C. Batchelor, Mr. and Mrs. Butterfield, and Elsie Druggan.
John William Llewellen aged 14 months son of Mr and Mrs William Llewellen died Saturday morning at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a brief illness. Survived by parents grandparents Roy Llewellen and E A Belcher great grandparents Oscar Llewellen Guy Dinsmoore. funeral Tuesday 2 pm at Christian Church New Marshfield with Rev Miles E Hoon. Burial in New Marshfield Cemetery. Friends may call after 6 pm today at Roy Llewellen residence.
A trash blaze behind the J. W. McBride home at 25 Central Ave. prompted a fire call Sunday morning. Chief C. A. Parker says children started the fire but no damage occurred. Early Monday Athens firefighters responded to a second incident at the Lancaster and Columbia intersection for a Mercer car sighting that revealed no fire or damage.
Kenyon College will resume flying and ground courses next fall after a five year lapse with Robert M. Morgan in charge as flight instructor and director of flying at Port Kenyon. Morgan, a former 8th Air Force pilot and Ohio University graduate, has taught aeronautics there the past year.
William O Handley of Wheeling West Virginia was fined ten dollars and costs by Justice Carl Parker at Tuppers Plains after a State Highway Patrol arrest on a speeding charge.
Athens County ranked third in Ohio for rabies in 1946 with 42 positives from 60 animal heads examined at the state health lab in Columbus, behind Clark and Summit counties. Health Director Heer says vaccination and stray-dog elimination are urged while statewide cases and proposed emergency powers loom in Columbus.
G E Walker 65 of Athens Route 5 was found guilty by Mayor Franz Woodworth after a Saturday hearing and fined 5 dollars and costs. Shirley Hickman 22 of Walker West Virginia was fined 5 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to an intoxication charge.
Light rain continued Monday as the Hocking River stood at 5.05 feet and still rose, observed by Mrs. C N France. The temperature reached 51 degrees at 10 a.m., after dipping to 45 overnight, with .51 inch of rainfall noted and Sunday’s high temperature not reported.
Edwin Katilo of Lower Campus collided with Ted Zmijewski of 16 Oak St on University Terrace. Police Chief J B Grogan said the damage was slight.
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