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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1961
Page
3
Nelsonville project by Coakley Construction aims to finish a retaining wall at the west end of the elementary school. Depths reached 18 feet in shale with a trench extended and forms poured for a 120 foot base, backfilling nearly done and drainage installed.
Officers of the Hocking Valley Shrine 51 will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Masonic Temple at Logan to rehearse for inspection announced Mrs Ruth Rees worthy high priestess
George W. Kimes 89 of Hartford died suddenly Monday at Green's Rest Home in Mason. He was a retired salt plant worker, widowed since 1956. Survivors include four sons Wilbur Dana Archie Alfred. daughter Charlott Cundiff. sisters Alice Morrison Mary Kimes. Visitation after 4 p.m. today. funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. Rev. Guy Sayre officiating. Burial in Adamsville cemetery Mason.
Nelsonville The Order of Rainbow for Girls will meet at 7 p.m. in the Masonic Temple. A reception follows for girls who earned the Grand Cross of Color or a grand office at the Grand Assembly in June. Honorees include Mary Beth Hook, Jackie Wilson, Sue Powell and Phyllis Hartley.
Cub Pack 72 will meet at the park Wednesday evening at 6 30 for a regular meeting. After the business session an orientation for new cubs and parents follows. Boys aged 8 to 11 interested in joining Cub Scouts are invited with their parents.
Glouster Village Council will hold a regular session Thursday at 7 00 pm. The meeting will be in the Mayor's Office at the City Building.
Glouster area residents hosted guests from Parma Ashland Auburn and Detroit with a Florida trip highlighted by Cypress Gardens Silver Springs Spook Hill and Stevenson reunion. Attendees included Miss Reni Bieber from Germany Mrs Mary Ginnan Mrs Sabra Armstrong and families with trips to Lake Burr Oak OU Summer Theater and Ash Cave.
Jake Gibbs homered in the 12th inning driving in Jack Reed as Richmond beat Toronto 2 to 1. The win clinched the series for the Vees at 3 games to 1.
The Nelsonville Girl Scout committee and leaders will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Scout Little House. Chairman Mrs. Elsie Wolfe will lead the meeting and a social hour with homemade ice cream and cake will follow.
Probate reports list the Lloyd Crook estate valued at 2200 in New Lexington and estates of Walter K Blake Shawnee 17741 personal property Elmer White Thornville 6000 personal and 4000 real estate. Marriages include Self and Chaffin New Straitsville Bernard Thomas and Bessie Moore Crooksville Jack Morical and Jean Moore Columbus Crooksville Gary Henry and Mary Sidwell Crooksville Paul Wohrle and Jane Manning Shawnee Sherman Shoemaker and Phyllis Taylor Somerset.
The WSCS of Glouster Methodist Church will meet Thursday at 7:30 in the church social rooms. Hostesses are Mrs. T. D. Mce Afoose and Mrs. Ernest Byers. Mrs. Richard Guinther leads the devotional. Cancer dressings will be made instead of the regular program. Members should bring needle, thread, scissors and white material.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Shafer and children Lynn and Lee and niece Miss Janice Adams have returned from a two weeks vacation in Florida. They stayed with Mr. and Mrs. James Shafer in Winter Haven. Places visited included Cypress Gardens Marineland Daytona Beach and the Great Smoky Mountains.
A 16 months old girl from Perry County was listed in fair condition at Bethesda Hospital in Zanesville with head injuries after a pickup backed from her driveway struck her. Rebecca Sue Mears, youngest of six, was struck by her mother’s vehicle in the family yard near Six Mile Turn.
Market notes from Cincinnati show cattle and calves steady to higher on demand. steers and heifers with high choice lots near 1000 lb at 23.23 to 23.75 per cwt and 800-1100 lb ranges at 21.00 to 21.50. Cows and bulls offer utilities 14.50 to 15.50, bulls 7.00 to 18.50. feeders active with varied weights and prices.
Social notes list visits and weekend guests across several towns. Names include Mrs George Swart Albany, Miss Bernice Pritts, Rev and Mrs Fred Thorn Bainbridge MD, J S Dunlevy, Clive Hillen Millfield, Greg Mansfield, Clare Bell Leffler, James Dorr Amesville, Herman Lohse, Robert Tavan Reynoldsburg, Sue Love Albany Route, Willard Simonton, Ann Simonton, Floyd Heightland group from Columbus, Denver Lowry Mineral, Suzanne Warren Carbondale, Willard Hart Morristown, Ralph Pritts Toledo, Bernice Pritts ill but improving, Don Forsyth family Chagrin Falls, Bonkowcki Trimble, Francis Howard, James Hanson, Buddy Howard Athens, J S Dunlevy with Dunlevy family.
Haydenville Troop No 18 joined Gore Troop for a weekend camporee on L D Harris farm near Gore. Numerous scouting activities were enjoyed and Sunday church services attended at Gore EUB Church. Family and guest visits noted during campfire and fellowship events.
Mrs. Dick McDonald announces new members welcomed. The next event is a combined meeting and hamburger fry at the home of Mr and Mrs Don Mor man at 6 p.m. on August 19.
The Catholic Women’s Club will meet Tuesday evening at 7 30 in the parish hall with Mrs Ken Neville as hostess.
Valley Lodge 169 will hold a 7:30 p.m. meeting in Nelsonville with C. Roy Tomlinson as secretary. Chancellor Commander Raymond Patton Sr. said the committee report on establishing a Pi Delta Pi chapter in Nelsonville, sponsored by Valley Lodge, will be discussed.
Mrs. Arthur Wallace of Chestnut Street received word Sunday of the death of her brother Clarence Tucker in Blackwell Oklahoma. The death, occurring Saturday night, is believed caused by a heart attack. Tucker had traveled to Nelsonville in May for his brother-in-law William Powell's funeral in Punta Gorda Florida.
Athens area hospital notes list new admissions including Mrs Iva McKibben Now Wayne Kennard Logan Route vite Mies La Donna Barshert Chauncey Miss Margaret Wood Nelson ville Route 2 Miss Anna Nash New Lexington Mrs Betty Browning Athens Route 2 Wesley Love Glouster Route 1 Discharged include Mrs Webster De Pew and daughter Chauncey Mrs George Wilson and son New Straitsville Mrs Edna Stage Nelsonville William Backus New Straitsville.
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