Councilmen canvass bids for fifty parking meters
Nelsonville city officials review three bids for adding 50 two hour meters to replace the Public Square installations. The Dual automatic head bids $58.50 per unit, Miller bids $57.20 for a manual type, and a third bid proposes new works in old housing.
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Nelsonville
City Board of Control
City Hall
Earl Hilleary
Homer Adams
Harry Evans
Fort, E. Washington
Columbus
Fayette Sts
Glouster
Athens
Logan
Driver Reaction Times To Hazards in Testing
Tests show even expert drivers need more than a half second after spotting danger to apply brakes. The study underscores how quick perception must be and how reaction delays affect braking distance and safety.
Meigs County Abolitionist Home Holds 19th Century Secrets
The Meigs County home at Salem Center preserves a frontier tale of Thomas Fogg an abolitionist and prohibitionist marked by an alive or dead reward. The story recounts Morgan's raid Civil War draft era home guards and the Fogg Fordyce lineage with lasting local traces including a deer hide trunk survival and the old Virginia newspaper reward.
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Thomas P. Fogg
Salem Center
Meigs County
Lewisburg
W. Va
Virginia
Wrothg
Salem Township
Thomas Fogg
Ohio Country
Morgan
John Fordyce
William Green
Fordyce
Fogg Home
Star Hall
Fordyces
Alpha
Omega
Peace
Fogg
Thomas Foggs
Salem
Maine
Peter Fogg
Ohio
Sunday Creek Valley
Columbus
Sunday Creek
David Harkins
Home Guards
Rutland
Cecil
Clarkson
Stephen
Waldo
Vicksburg
Reuben Webb
Irena Fogg
Webb
Estella
Izetta Forsythe
Washington Thomas
Old Fore
Thomas
Cheshire
Sutton
Arthur F. Patterson Rites Set Thursday
Funeral services for Arthur F. Patterson 82 will be held Thursday at 2 30 p.m. at Fawcett Stone funeral home Chesterhill with Rev. Virgil Close officiating. Burial follows in Chesterhill Cemetery. Friends may visit the family home until noon when the body will be taken to the funeral home for services.
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Chesterhill
Arthur F. Patterson
Fawcett-Stone
Virgil Close
Chesterhill Cemetery
Nelsonville Social Notes Highlight Local Guests
The Rev and Mrs Kenneth Peterson from Burton Ohio stay with James F Shumaker and Mrs Shu maker at 391 Chestnut St. Mrs W H Hall leaves for Providence R I with son Bob Bookman for Bryant College graduation. Roy Koon of Dayton guests of Berry Rickman and Charles Burgess visiting his brother Arthur Burgess and sisters Mrs Earl Worthington and Mrs George Lattimer.
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Kenneth Peterson
Burton
Ohio
James F. Shumaker
Shumaker
Chestnut St
W. H. Hall
Bob Bookman
Providence
R. I
Bryant College
Roy Koon
Dayton
Berry Rickman
Charles Burgess
Arthur Burgess
Earl Worthington
George Lattimer
Family welcomes Lt Commander Inman state side visit
Mrs. C G Pritchard of Nelsonville received notice that her son in law Lt Commander Walter H Inman and daughter Lt Helen Pritchard Inman arrived at Pearl Harbor by plane from San Francisco. The couple had been transferred from Washington DC to Pearl Harbor and spent several days visiting Mrs Pritchard before continuing their Caribbean.
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Nelsonville
C. G. Pritchard
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Walter H. Inman
Helen Pritchard Inman
Washington, D. C
Two Local Enlistees Enter Army Air Force
In a Point Pleasant story two men enlist in the Army Air Force. Names of the enlistees' mothers were reversed in error: Billy Hite Nebbergall's mother is Hildreth Hite and William Walker Gibbs' mother is Faye McKinley.
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Point Pleasant
Army Air Force
Billy Hite Nebbergall
Hildreth Hite
William Walker Gibbs
Faye McKinley
Social News Roundup From Athens Area Families
Emily Good visits daughter at Camp Light while other locals travel for family visits. Postmaster J R O Leary and John Williams take a B and O excursion to Cincinnati. Lily McKibben, recently treated in Akron, returns home with improved condition. Kenneth McKibben and Mrs. McKibben meet her in Columbus. Guests of the Sweeney family include John Sweeney and Clara Potts. Bert Daft family and McKibben relatives host visits in Columbus and Chesapeake. Nora Egleberry returns from Columbus vacation. W G Betz visits relatives in Chiliothe.
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Cincinnati
Lily McKibben
Akron
Columbus
Kenneth McKibben
McKibben
Jeanne Sweeney
John Sweeney
Warren
Clara Potts
Nelsonville
Bert Daft
Betty Daft
Stephen
James McKibben
McKibbens
J. W. Coleman
Ruth McKibben
Janice
Gary
Chesapeake
David Thomas
Proctorville
Nora Egleberry
W. G. Betz
Chillicothe
Mineral residents gather as gas station incident tops local news
Glenn Woods recovers from facial and arm burns after a flash fire at Fletcher Sterling Gas Station in Nelsonville. Frank Braley, his mother Mrs James Braley, and Mrs Braun of Columbus visit Mineral to see friends and the former home site. Mrs Braley is 83 and her late husband was a B&O conductor on the Carbondale branch. A deck timber boxcar was loaded at the B&O Mineral yard for shipment. A Mission Church service featured Shingledecker missionaries discussing Africa work with photos. The talk covered five years in Africa and plans to return in September for six more years. Nannie Addis joined Mr. and Mrs. Emish to Athens on business. Mrs Bertha Lightfritz and Mr and Mrs Joe Buckley conducted business in Athens. Jim and Larry Shingler of Marion vacationed with Orville Shingler and Mrs V Hester.
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Mineral
Glenn Woods
Fletcher Sterling
Nelsonville
Frank Braley
James Braley
Braun
Columbus
Braley
B&o
Carbondale
B&o Mineral
Shingledecker
Africa
Nannie Addis
J. P. Emish
Athens
Bertha Lightfritz
Joe Buckley
Funeral rites held for Mrs Rose Noon in New Lexington
Funeral services were conducted in New Lexington this morning for Mrs Rose Noon mother of Miss Margaret Noon an employee of Ohio Bell Telephone Co and well known locally Local friends called at the Noon residence in New Lexington last night including Sylvia Matheny Minnie Laughlin Frances Stage and Jessie E Bakersay
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Nelsonville
New Lexington
Rose Noon
Margaret Noon
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Sylvia Matheny
Minnie Laughlin
Frances Stage
Jessie E. Baker
Thirty Arrests In Nelsonville In July Report
Nelsonville police recorded thirty arrests in July per Police Chief James Cope. Six cases went to mayor's court via the State Highway Patrol. Intoxication led with fourteen complaints. other counts included three for fighting, two for assault and battery, and two for unsafe motor vehicle operation and leaving the scene. Individual charges included DUI, disturbing the peace, speed violations, and other offenses. Five jailed pending fines and costs, two sent to city jail.
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Nelsonville
James Cope
State Highway Patrol
Scout Troop Visits Camp Wins Awards
Girl Scout Troop 5 spent four days at the Presbyterian Farm Union Furnace earning three badges Outdoor cooking campcraft and pioneer. Attendees included Shirley Byers Patty Donahey Joyce Fisk Phyllis Hall Rosalie Hartley Martha Weller Marinel Weymiller and leader Elsie Wolfe.
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Nelsonville
Presbyterian Farm
Union Furnace
Shirley Byers
Patty Donahey
Joyce Fisk
Phyllis Hall
Rosalie Hartley
Martha Weller
Marinel Weymiller
Elsie Wolfe
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Gore Rt
John William Smith
Gallipolis
John Williams
Carrie Nixon
Eatre
June Haver
Lon McCallister
America
Asphalt
Calhern
Jane Wermner
Wacre
News and Cartoon
Mary
James H. Wilson
First National Bank Bldg
Tel
Meigs Countian
C. H. Harris
Hawaii
Zaleski
Dancing Club
Cheri
U. S. Rt
Lancaster
Lornie Warner
Mrs. Rose
McGregor
Public Sq
Ick
Little Tot's
Daddy
U.S
Kellogg's
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Mandi
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