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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1949
Page
3
Gallipolis reports 43 additional reserved seats for Blue Devil football were sold Tuesday morning as public sales opened at the Libby Hotel. About 120 seats remain in the 400 seat section on Memorial Field. the team will host five home games this season.
Vernon Burkhardt district governor for Rotary clubs in Southern Ohio spoke at Farmers Hotel. He stressed Rotary International scholarships under the Paul Harris plan, noting 56 scholarships awarded and graduates spread across 28 countries giving talks on peace. He cited a growing membership of about 7 000 clubs in 81 nations and 330 000 members.
Sheriff George Ehman is to sell a baby grand piano on the courthouse steps at 10 a.m. on August 20 to settle the suit Clark Gillingham versus Helen Hughes described as tenants in common of the piano.
Grand and petit jurors for the September term were drawn Tuesday in Gallipolis in the presence of Judge Robert M. Betz Sheriff George Eh man and clerk Marjorie Rinehart. Lists include Donna B. Evans Herbert Welker Victoria Ball Miner va Warren Huntington Township and more.
Kenneth R Saunders 38 of Northup died Tuesday morning at Holzer Hospital. Services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Northup Baptist Church with Revs Earl Cremeeny and Charles Lusher officiating. He was the son of W W and the late, and the survivor of three. Interment in Mound Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the Saunders home in Northup Wednesday. He was born on Clay Lick and graduated from Gallia Academy High School in 1929. He last worked for Payne Motor Sales before illness in 1948.
Gallipolis C C Walters and Nora E Walters of Bladen seek a permanent injunction against Shirley Fisher to bar crossing their land. The petition notes Fisher does not limit his travels to the private right of way and a temporary injunction is already in force.
Lula Marie Mack 85 died Tuesday at Holzer Hospital at 1 45 p m she had been a shut in four years and cared for at home by Mrs Jessie Walker. Surviving are a son Charles Columbus and a sister Mrs J Harley Bovie Gallipolis. Funeral services Thursday at 5 p m at Frank J Wetherholt and Sons funeral home with interment at Mound Hill cemetery.
Douglas Darst and Fred Taylor of Cheshire bid five dollars and twenty one cents per ton for coal for the county courthouse and home, beating the next bidder by three cents. Other bidders listed include Dale Mulford G C Halley Garrett Watson Otto Rothgeb James M King Mining Co and Claude Winters.
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