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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1958
Page
3
A fire caused by overloaded circuits darkened city park Christmas decorations on Wednesday night in Gallipolis. Firefighters smothered a small blaze at the fuse box on the band stand and the power company cut the current. No damage to the bandstand was reported.
Clinton B Allen retired Gallipolis grocer died at his 87 Cedar St home at 5 15 am after a 14 year illness. Survived by wife Elizabeth Keefer and three children including Roscoe Allen and Goldie Head plus two grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral at Mills funeral home 2 pm Saturday with burial Pine Street Cemetery.
Eleven adults attended a chest clinic in the Gallia County Health Depart ment basement offices with the Gallia County tuberculosis and Health Association sponsoring. Four were referred to their family physician for X rays as County Health Commissioner Dr. Francis W. Shane led the session with health nurses Mrs. Pearl Hatfield and Mrs. Naomi Rose assisting.
Seventy Kiwanis members and guests attended the Gallipolis Kiwanis Club Christmas party at the LaFayette Hotel. A special bulletin honored the late Dr Narvel Howard Foster with his religious poetry. Meetings will switch to Mondays for two weeks to avoid Christmas and New Year’s Eve.
Miss Leota L. Shuler of 338 Third Ave. fractured her right arm Wednesday noon after a fall at the post office. She was taken to Warehime Clinic where the fracture was reduced, placed in a cast, and she was returned home.
Dr. Robert P. Carson represented Gallia County at the District 3 Huntington Regional Blood Center meeting held at noon in the Wilmer Tea Room Portsmouth. Paul Bliss of Goodyear Atomic Corp. chaired District 3 with Rick Desantis directing the center. They outlined plans to aid county Red Cross chapters and improve blood programs. Dr. Carson also serves as co chairman of the center's executive committee.
Crown City native Miss Loualta Johnson, 84, died Wednesday night at the home of her sister Mrs. Stanley Moore after an extended illness. Born December 16, 1874, she was survived by two sisters, Emma Moore and Mattie Sheets, both of Crown City. Funeral services were held Friday at Good Hope Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery. the body lay in state at F. L. Stevers funeral home in Mercerville after 4 p.m. Thursday.
Clarence Mulford Sr. of Cheshire, 62, appeared in Gallipolis municipal court after his car struck Mrs. Roy P. Johnson in Crown City on Third Ave and State St. Judge Jones postponed the case pending victim's recovery. Mulford posted 25 dollars bond and faces a charge of failing to obey a red light. Mrs. Johnson, hospitalized at Holzer, suffered a broken left leg and is reported in good condition.
Gallia Academy High School's Tri-Hi-Y Club will visit the Gallia County Children's Home for a Christmas party Sunday afternoon. Members are to pay 25 cents each to Karen Adams, treasurer, to buy gifts for needy children.
Walter James of Eureka, Union Barge Line employee, arrived home with his family after a 31 day vacation. He traveled to New Orleans aboard the motor vessel Lehigh and moved south to Cuttersville Missouri before boarding the Eastern to Louisiana City. He disembarked at O-Kan Harbor in Kanauga on the return trip.
A daughter born to Dale and Smith of Reedsville and a daughter to Kenneth E. Davidson of Gallipolis. A son born to Joe Vance of Gallipolis Route 1. Admission: G Edward White Oak Hill. Maryella Wright Lakin. Kenneth Davidson Gallipolis. Elmer Staley Gallipolis. Eureka Star Route. Charles Coburn Pedro Route 2. Pertina Richards Jackson Route 3. H Raynes Buffalo. Earl Pritchett Gallipolis. Dismissals include Cris Zirkle Morris Martin Rodger James and daughter Richard Louks and daughter James Stewart and son Paul Harris and daughter Noah Mauk Carroll Wymer Luella Sheets Henry Pettit Edward Hollback Andrew Fannin Kathryn Grueser Morgan Sarrett G E White Charles Yeager John Marshall Thomas Ward Loretta Leport R Powell Elijah Burns Lida McKinnis Robert Blanton Michael Williams. Blood used Wednesday one pint.
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