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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1956
Page
6
Logan council ends its 1956 session without final spending cuts. Mayor Francis Myers delays recommendations while consulting state and county officials and meeting with the finance committee. Debate focuses on a 20 percent water bill surcharge and a uniform parking fine plan amid budget constraints and tax levy concerns.
Hocking County high schools announced commencement dates from May 17 at South Bloomingville to May 24 at Rockbridge with Gibisonville pending. An honor society will be formed for 1957 58 and senior scholarship tests are planned for January 18. Mental ability tests will be used to shape future opportunity classes.
Logan Central Elementary School choir of 33 under Mrs. Gladys Webb presented Christmas music at the Logan Kiwanis Club. Soloists included Billy Joe King and Steve Blick. program chair Harold Bryan noted holiday meeting dates on Dec 26 and Jan 2.
In Common Pleas Court a divorce was granted on grounds of gross neglect of duty in a cross petition by the defendant. The defendant was restored to the name Sarah Campbell and the plaintiff James E. McManess was ordered to pay 75 dollars as temporary alimony.
Lydia Belle Ruble 79 widow of Harley Ruble died Tuesday at home in Dicken Addition after a cerebral hemorrhage. She was a Haydenville native longtime Logan resident and is survived by sons Lloyd M. Ruble James W. Ruble two daughters Mrs Roy Loomis and Mrs Jul Turner six grandchildren one great grandchild five brothers and one sister. Funeral services at Leonard Funeral Home Friday at 10 a.m. with Rev A N Grueser. burial in Junction City Cemetery.
More than 200 boys in the winter basketball recreation program will receive physical examinations by Dr. H M Boocks health commissioner as the health department releases. The effort promotes periodic exams for school children and introduces a new health record form to document defects in the cumulative school health file for city and county pupils.
In Reedsville Wisconsin Arthur Wagner released a recovering riding horse into a pasture three minutes after hunting season ended. Moments later a shotgun blast ended the horse's life from a slug wound.
In Maysville Ula op Ray Ward, a seriously ill farmer, received help from 14 neighbors who arrived with tractors to plow disk and harrow his land. The noisy activity, though loud, was seen as neighborliness rather than disturbance.
Logan Society Mrs Jack Tschappat hosted Sigma Phi Gamma members at Glenview Heights with a candle lighting led by Mrs Everett McWilliams and an invocation by Miss Garnet Sheets. VFW Auxiliary held a Christmas party at Pocahontas hall with gifts for Chillicothe Veterans Hospital. Among Ourselves Club luncheon at Brandt's featured a Christmas theme and gift exchange.
Beau Shertzer and Sue Ellen Call, a local dance team, leave for Fairmont to perform at the Owen Illinois Glass Company annual dinner and Christmas party. They will dance at the Times Christmas fund held Friday at 7:30 p.m. at the EUB Church theater, directed by Marty Shearn. The event includes caroling by Scouts and a gift exchange, with Mrs. Call visiting relatives.
Boy Scout Troop 252 held its last 1986 meeting at Marietta Manufacturing Company in Point Pleasant. Charles Clendenin opened with a Christmas prayer, Steve Lowe lit the troop tree, gifts were exchanged, and plans were made to buy fresh Christmas trees for sale at the troop stand near Morgan's Sunoco Service. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Charles Jenkins and Mrs. Homer Lowe. Meetings resume January 7.
Point Pleasant fire crew responded Tuesday to 809 Main St to extinguish a hall fire. A bed spread hung on an upstairs banister fell onto a hall gas stove, igniting flames that burned the spread and spread to the floor. Damages to furnishings estimated at 100 dollars. house ownership listed as Mr and Mrs Ben Franklin.
New Straitsville presents an annual Christmas concert in the high school auditorium. Gertie Mills and her granddaughter are featured, organized by Mrs Margaret Edwards. Mrs Mills is visiting her daughter in California.
Charles Dani of Woodland Hills California and Mrs. Daniels celebrate the birth of a son Charles Jr on December 2. Edna Rawlins assists as hostess at a chicken dinner hosted by Josie Stobbs with Ruth Bell and Betty Wyebl from Wellston and Rita Sayre from SI and Twila Donley from Lancaster in attendance. The fleece award winner, a Merino ram from the farmer’s Wessisbace farm near the Fairfield county line, was praised as the finest fleece seen. judges noted it could have won the grand championship if cleaned.
Two Logan men completed Army training. Pvt Verne A Watts 18 finished eight weeks of air combat training at Fort Knox KY. Sgt William H Goodlive completed chemical biological and radiological training at Fort McClellan Alabama. Lions club met at the Moose Home with guest Earl Pritchard Jones Jordan led a brief business session.
Yale uncovers the diary of Daniel Mulford class of 1804 showing weekly room rent 120 cents and annual tuition 33 dollars. The document highlights early 19th century college living costs and student life records amid other hometown notes and student updates.
Pleasant High School concert and stage band perform a Christmas program Thursday at 8 p.m. in the senior high auditorium. Features include Richard Startzman and Cora Ann Proffitt in a cornet duet and the Big Blacks Majorette dance team.
Sterling ins, state chairman of the National Infantile Paralysis Association, spoke to the Mason County Chapter at Point Pleasant High School. James Lewis presided as final payment of 9000 to the national fund was announced, funds borrowed to treat 23 Mason County polio patients. Horton Echard showed two films Look at Me and Unconditional Surrender.
JP Daugherty, elected Justice of the Peace for Clendenin District, posted a $200 bond for a court appearance after a Saturday arrest by state police. He was charged Monday night with intoxication and released.
The Mason County Chapter Mental Health Society adopted bylaws drafted by Mrs. Rayburn Mrs. Fogleton and Mrs. Jacobs at a Monday meeting Point Pleasant. The group plans to back a state move to place mental hospitals under a Commission of Mental Health. May Ruth Benmin described a “Friend to a Patient” program selecting a homeless patient from Lakin State Hospital. The Y teens at Point Pleasant High School sponsor the project selecting an elderly couple at Lakin for visits. President Egard Monroe and guests attended. Mr Ball absent due to a state meeting in Charleston.
Discharge of Mrs Luella Bush and Mrs Charles Martin. admissions include Charles D Long and Roxie Holley. Birth announced for Carl Edward Jr. Kennedy. Families named: Hogsett Willow Wood Mason Henderson Langsville Ferry towns.
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