Athens to Close City Schools for Christmas Vacations
More than 1200 Athens city school children will end classes Friday with vacations to January 2. County schools follow Dec 22 end and resume January 2. Ohio University students begin holiday break at noon Saturday, returning January 3.OU carol sings planned at Cutler Hall Memorial Auditorium weather permitting. Formation of Wolfe Hardware Co. Athens Inc announced with Byron A. Wolfe as president and Mrs Edith Carpenter Wolfe as VP.
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Athens City
Athens County
County
Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
Fake Check Cashed By Store Clerk In Athens
A homemade check for 38 dollars was cashed Wednesday in an Athens store. Police say the forged check imitates a medical supply firm’s expense form, with a stamping machine adding the salesman’s name and amount and red ink duplicate trademark across the top. The check bears a Mercantile Bank origin but omits the city, presented by a woman listing Fisher Ohio.
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Athens
Mercantile Bank
Fisher, Ohio
Guysville Legion Post 127 Sets Friday Meeting
The Guysville American Legion Post 127 will meet Friday at 8 p.m. at Lloyd Cope land. Commander announced the gathering for members and interested veterans.
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Guysville
American Legion
Lloyd Copeland
Police Restrain Prisoner After Suicide Attempt at Jail
City police were called to restrain Lacy T. Conner, 40, of 18% W Union, after he slashed his wrist and neck with a belt buckle while in custody on an intoxication charge. Handcuffs subdued him. he was fined 20 dollars and costs and jailed for failure to pay.
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Lacy T. Conner
W. Union
Woman Jailed For Contempt In Athens Grill Incident
Bessie Love, 58, The Plains, jailed for contempt after disrupting a hearing at a local grill. She was fined 15 dollars plus costs, and jailed for nonpayment. She had previously agreed to stay from certain grills, but violated probation by being in one again. City firemen responded to a chimney fire at 48 Columbia Ave with no damage.
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Bessie Love
the Plains
W. P. Mickle
Bessie
Athens
Mickle
D. K. Pierce
Columbia Ave
Clarence A. Parker
Logan Driver Determined to Reach Columbus After Wreck
State Highway Patrol investigated a 5 p.m. crash six miles north of Logan on Route 33. A 1950 Logan registered car driven by John Hersher skidded off the road, hit a guard rail, and overturned in a field. The uninjured driver reportedly hitchhiked toward Columbus. authorities could not reach him.
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Logan
Columbus
State Highway Patrol
John Hersher
Former Athens Woman Dies in Columbus
Funeral services for Mrs. Luella M. Yontz 76 who died yesterday at her Columbus home will be held there Friday morning. A former Athens resident she was the daughter of the late John F. Davis who ran an Athens shoe store. Surviving are her husband John two sons Warren and Charles a brother Frank Davis of Columbus and a sister Mrs. Grace Smith of Charleston West Virginia. The Yontz home has long been in Columbus.
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Luella M. Yontz
Columbus
Husband charged with extreme cruelty in divorce petition
Edwin Humphrey of Coolville faces a divorce petition in Common Pleas Court accusing him of extreme cruelty toward his wife Annalee Humphrey of Rockland. The two were married March 12 1949 in Greenup Kentucky and have one child.
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Edwin Humphrey
Coolville
Annalee Humphrey
Rockland
Common Pleas Court
Greenup
Two Men Jailed Over Unpaid Fines in City Court
Fred J. Houser and Leland Adkins were jailed Thursday morning for failure to pay fines and costs from Mayor W. P. Mickle's Court. Houser, 48, of Cutler, and Adkins, 47, of Huntington, West Virginia, owed $10 plus costs for intoxication.
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W. P. Mickle
Fred J. Houser
Cutler
Leland Adkins
Huntington
W. Va
Salvation Army Christmas Aid to Highlighted on WLW
Major Ruth Ward announced a Saturday 6 p m feature on WLW spotlighting The Salvation Army Christmas aid program with the Army of Stars cast.
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Salvation Army
WLW
Army of Stars
Ruth Ward
Patrolman's Mother Dies
Mrs Celia A Rigel 53 of 19 Fairview Ave died early Thursday in Sheltering Arms Hospital after years of illness She was mother to Patrolman Horace R Rigel of the Athens post State Highway Patrol The family moved to Athens from Columbus recently Also survived by husband Floyd Rigel who died in 1944 and a daughter Florence who died recently Services will be held in Worthington with details pending The body will transfer from Dowler Ferguson Hughes funeral home to Corbin funeral home Worthington today
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Celia A. Rigel
Fairview Ave
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Worthington
Dowler-Ferguson-Hughes
Corbin Funeral Home
Birth at Athens as Verhotz couple welcome son
Hospital notes list a birth for Mr and Mrs Robert Verhotz of Athens a son. Admissions include Edward Olds Athens and Lucile Duffee Athens. Dismissals record Mrs Frederick James Athens and her son and Mrs Bertha M Crippen Carpenter.
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Robert Verhotz
Athens
Edward Olds
Lucile Duffee
Frederick James
Athens, and Son
Bertha M. Crippen
Carpenter
Veterans urged to report moves to VA office
Veterans who relocate should notify their nearest VA office to update the Treasury. Athens VA representative Alton F. Friedel states veterans must contact the VA rather than the Treasury, with the Athens office at 6% W. State St. He notes hundreds in Athens County faced this issue recently.
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Veterans’ Administration
Treasury
Alton F. Friedel
Athens
Treasury Department
Friedel
State St
Athens County
SEO Superintendents Hear OEA Speaker
Southeastern Ohio superintendents met to address school finance concerns. Thomas O Keefe of the Ohio Education Association research department gave the principal address at the Bureau of Educational Service in Athens, with Supt. George Carr of Logan presiding.
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Southeastern Ohio
Thomas O'Keefe
Ohio Education Association Research Department
Bureau of Educational Service
Athens
George Carr
Logan
Athens Junior High Teacher Hurt After Fall
Miss Lucile Duffee, teacher at Athens Junior High School, suffered a fractured arm Wednesday afternoon when she fell exiting the school. She was taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital for treatment.
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Lucile Duffee
Athens
Miss Duffee
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Establishment of Lutheran Church Discussed in Athens Meeting
A Tuesday evening gathering in the Women's Faculty Rooms explored creating a Lutheran church in Athens. Twenty four attendees heard Rev. Paul N. Warner note existing Lutheran activity with about 275 students served by William Schmidt as interim pastor. Regular services are held at Music Hall and a Sunday School is planned for Jan. 7.
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Athens
Paul N. Warner
Logan
William Schmidt
Towa
Ohio University Lutheran
Music Hall
Thor Olson
Marian Peltomon
Roger Iabus
Neal Hessel
Frank Jones
Carl Denbow
O. W. Hollister
Athens Health Board approves 1951 budget of 22348
The Athens City County Board of Health Wednesday night approved a 1951 operating budget of 22348 equal to 1950. The meeting noted sixteen communicable disease cases in Athens County during October and November including tuberculosis scarlet fever chickenpox whooping cough syphilis and polio.
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Athens City County
Athens County
Blaine R. Goldsberry
H. G. Southard
Adam W. Brandeberry
Harry Henry
Bick
Health Department
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Nelsonville
TB Patients Warned To Stay in Hospitals
Tuberculosis veterans who leave VA hospitals against doctors orders or go AWOL to visit families during Christmas risk their health and that of others. Hospital officials urge relatives to cooperate in persuading patients with active infection to remain hospitalized.
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Veterans’ Administration
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