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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1949
Page
10
Chauncey mayor Charles Wadley orders all dog owners to keep pets confined day and night after reports of nighttime freedom causing property damage. Dogs found at large in Chauncey will be destroyed, according to the mayor.
Chauncey scoutmaster W G Davis reports Bob Sanders and Lowell Davis arrived with 17 scouts from Kootaga at National Boy Scout Camp Cimarron New Mexico on August 6. The group plans to stay until August 25.
Chauncey Mr and Mrs Blaine Bullock announce the betrothal of their daughter Helen Louise to Rolland Slisher son of Mr and Mrs George Slisher Sr 48 E Mound St Chauncey The wedding is planned for late August.
Miss Patty Lou Shrieve returns to The Plains after a three weeks vacation in Adrian Michigan. She visited her great uncle John Poters. She is accompanied home by Mr and Mrs Lewis Potts and daughter Cindia Lou and John Potts who spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Hubert Shrieve.
Mr and Mrs Les Lie Cruikshank entertain at 68 West Main Street with guests Daniel King and son Walter of South Heights Pa and Jesse King with daughters Lucy and Dorothy of Pleasant Hill.
The household goods and automobile of the late William D. Hines, former mayor of Chauncey for 24 years, were sold at auction Tuesday at his residence 35 Converse St. after his death on June 9.
Mrs. Ida McPherson of 68 W. Main Street spent Sunday in Pleasant Hill visiting her brother and sister-in-law Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jeffers. Also visiting was Mrs. Mattie Yeager of Findlay Ohio, a cousin she hadn't seen for several years.
Sunday visitors at Mrs. Adelaide Stanley and Mr. Glenn Stanley's home in Snowville include Sunday previously noted guests Cruikshank and Mrs. Martha Crow 68 West Main Street. Additional visitors from Pomeroy Nelsonville Pontiac Mich Circle Hill Chauncey and Chauncey area attendances detailed. The court action concerns Jeanne S. Wrase filing for divorce from John W. Wrase in Athens County Ohio on grounds of gross neglect of duty with hearing set September 2 1949.
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