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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1943
Page
2
Polls in Nelsonville stay open until 7 30 this evening for a municipal primary with four Republican contests and one Democrat race. Nine polling places opened at 7 40 with light early voting. only municipal issues on ballots.
Four people including two children were hurt Saturday night when a car ran out of control on Gallagher Hill near Buchtel and overturned three times. Driver Joe Pugh and passengers Leo Welch, Marian Welch, and Georgie Pugh were treated and sent home. Marian was uninjured.
Mrs. Edward Johnson of 268 Adams St. hosted a miscellaneous shower for her son Edward Johnson Jr and his bride, Mrs. Johnson of Columbus. Neighbors and friends, including Alma Ruscoe Edith Patton Georgia Grose Edna Raine and others, attended a late lunch and presented gifts for the couple’s new home ahead of their July 31 wedding.
Mr and Mrs C E Weltzheimer return from a week at their lakeside cottage with son Charles and family. Mrs Jack Sutton was summoned Monday by the jibes of her father C A Stover. Lieut Col W E Keys and Mrs Keys arrived from Columbus. Mr Stover is Mrs Keys uncle. Edna McCollister of this city, working in Mansfield, will visit Nelsonville Friday night for three days.
The Pioneer Class of the Church of Christ Bible School in Nelsonville plans an outdoor picnic at 5 30 on the lawn of 830 Walnut St hosted by Mrs L E Evans Mrs Dix Powell and Mrs Foughty. Honored guests include Rev L E Evans Bible School chief George Barrows and Miss Catherine Courtney. In case of rain the event moves to the church.
Charles A. Stover, longtime Chesapeake & Ohio freight agent, collapsed at his Nelsonville home Monday and was taken to Grant Hospital in Columbus for observation. He was accompanied by his wife and daughter Mrs. Jack Sutton, who was visiting from Dayton.
Nelsonville reports the annual home coming at New Pittsburgh Holiness Church on Sunday August 15 with an all day meeting. A noon picnic dinner is planned and services will run throughout the day. Former residents are urged to return for the event.
Fred Deer was moved Monday from St. Anthony's Hospital Columbus to daughter Mrs. Harry Ball's home at 550 Poplar Street in this city. Friends may call at the Ball residence.
Second Lieut William Bescoe of Nelsonville has been promoted to first lieutenant while at Camp Atterbury Indiana. A Ohio University graduate inducted December 8 1941 he trained at Officers Training School Florida and was commissioned in December 1942. Also Lieutenant E W Connor and wife visit his mother Mrs Emma Connor in Akron before joining him in Pendleton Oregon on furlough. Delores Lones of Canton learns Pvt Ernest Bowers of Pennsylvania transfers to Pittsburgh Cal. Pvt Roy Backus of Fort Knox Kentucky visits Nelsonville with wife and parents C W Backus.
J B Wetherholt known as Blazer of the Gulf Service Station is on a fifteen day leave. A World War I veteran, he enlisted in the Navy eighteen months ago and is on patrol duty in far off places from Cape May base. He arrived in Huntington with sisters Marie Wooster Cleo Wetherholt Belva Trotter Winnie Wetherholt for a family reunion. The absent brother J Wetherholt serves somewhere in the Pacific. Winnie Wetherholt is a pioneering businesswoman managing the Gulf Service Station and the apartment above it.
John Russell a young air cadet trainee at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville sustained cuts and bruises after diving into a shallower swimming hole than expected. He is recovering from the injuries as he remains stationed for studies in chemical engineering.
Gallia County resident Harry Day aged and well known was moved Sunday to the home of his son Clyde Day in Huntington after suffering a stroke last week. He had lived at the Wood residence on Court Street for four years. Senior Club To Meet Nelsonville The York Township Service Club will hold an important meeting this evening at 8 o clock at the Legion Building.
The Messenger reports land at Graham Station near Pt. Pleasant could host a steel mill or machinery plant, with both options seen as transformative for Mason County. Land reportedly sold for about 300 per acre, far higher than government buys for ordnance works, and local speculation links the sale to a rising local wealth and population prospects.
Gallipolis Auction Produce Market manager Harold H Kastner left for Mt Pleasant Pennsylvania to tend to his own business. With the early tomato crop and other crops declining the season is nearly finished as stated by Stanley Evans president of the company. The market will stay open until all season’s produce is cleared with John Everett Evans Jr acting manager.
Suppers stroke point Pleasants West Virginia. Mrs. E. H. Burdette of Leon is reported critically ill following a paralytic stroke several days ago.
Miss Carol Benedict resumes duties at Point Clinic after two week vacation in Southern West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. Attorney E J Somerville and sister Nora head to Columbus for several days. Mrs W J Kenny of Ohio St visits relatives in Charleston. Clarence R Schneider and Harold Somerville family on vacation at Buckeye Lake Ohio. Mrs E E Heiner and guest Miss Mary Sullivan of Sharon Pa spend Sunday with Lawrence Heiners in Rutland Ohio. Dana Rayburn leaves for Baltimore to enter Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment and is a Marietta shipyard employee. Miss Delores Ann Blessing undergoes tonsillectomy at Holzer Hospital. Emmett Fowler returns from Veterans Hospital Huntington after surgery and expects to resume work at shipyard soon. Russell Sutton on furlough from a Louisiana training camp visits Mt Vernon Ave. Aviation Cadet James M Love furloughs home from Michigan State College Lansing. Doris Johnson on vacation in Alton Ill. Dened by Miss Helen Ose.
The Friendship Class of Heights United Brethren Church will hold a chicken dinner tonight at 7 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Parsons on Charleston Road. Church members listed as assistants include Mr. and Mrs. Hale Blessing, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Noble, and others. A business meeting will wrap up the evening.
Fire department members honored Captain John Oliver of the Fifth Ward with a farewell party last night. Oliver, after 15 years of service, is accepted for Navy duty and will leave for his Virginia base today. The department presented him a wristwatch.
Point Pleasant resident L. L. Caldwell an insurance man and school board member surveys his 10 foot tomato plant bearing about 30 tomatoes with several larger specimens. He notes the season’s unusually favorable growing conditions and many gardeners report tomatoes up to two pounds, Caldwell aimed to hold the tallest plant championship.
Mrs Hazel Pickens and infant Brenda Lou were discharged from Point Clinic. Other discharges included E S Matheson Mrs Orlando Wallis and Mrs McKee Denny and Miss Opal Taylor. Clinic reports a son born to Mr and Mrs Foster Van Sickle weight 7 percent pounds and a daughter Linda Lou born to Mr and Mrs Irvington Harper weight 8 and a half pounds.
The body of Clarence Ray Markham age 32 arrived at Pliny from Uniontown Pennsylvania. He was killed Saturday while riding a motorcycle. He was a Dravo Construction Co. employee and survived by his wife Maxine Carter and three children John Clarence Amanda Jane Patricia Ann, with two sisters Mrs Homer Brown and Mrs William Birchfield.
William H. Mathews, employed at a Gallipolis Ferry area farm, was badly bruised and cut on the head with a back injury after a horse became fractious and threw him, later kicking and striking him. He received treatment and is recovering. Mathews recalls little about escaping the attack.
Paul Sayre Jones son of Circuit Clerk and Mrs. Vernon Jones of Jericho Road spends a few days with his parents before reporting for service in the Navy at a Virginia base. He worked as a tool and die maker in a Detroit defense plant, earning a wage that seems fabulous to Mason countians.
Mason County Council of Churches and Christian Education meets at the Leon Methodist Church with theme Our Share in World Peace. Activities include devotions, talks by Edworthy and Withers, committee appointments, and an evening film lecture. officers elected at 4.
The Open Door Mission of Henderson held its annual picnic Sunday in a grove on Wyoma Ridge. About 100 children and adults attended. Elder Otto Lanham of Huntington spoke at the evening meeting. Elder James E. Mikes is pastor.
POMEROY Auntie Waterman at 94 received a birthday candied cake and ovation at United Methodist Church Sunday. Primary youngsters Cynthia Tompkins and Joy Smith escorted her to the front as the choir led a birthday tribute. She spent a Methodist life, noted for merger support and church service, and wore lace with corsages in a boutique town dinner.
The Twilight Garden Club of Pomeroy will gather Thursday evening August 12 at the Mulberry Street home of Mrs. Pearl Hyssel with Mrs. Marion Radford and Miss Ada Hoskins assisting. Other local notes include visits and travels of residents and a new high school coach arriving.
B Burns, a guard on the Silver Bridge, resumes duties after a two day absence due to a back injury from stepping from the sidewalk to the bridge floor to dodge pedestrians while carrying a heavy ladder last Friday evening.
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