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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1947
Page
3
Athens reports the first heavy snow of winter lasting about six hours and totaling over two and a half inches. Officials say crews are plowing and cindering Routes 50 33 and 7 to ease hazardous driving. Several accidents occur including a Buck Stith collision. Buck fined five dollars and costs for driving on the left side of the road.
Athens County Commissioners approved 1000 tons of crusher run limestone at 1.50 per ton with 5 cent early payment discount from Dixon Brothers of Albany for southwestern county roads. They also authorized 55000 board feet of creosoted pine planking at 124 per board foot and 40 oak ties at 3.75 each from Baker Wood Preserving Co. McArthur, totaling 8070. Bills total 10149.40 with highway maintenance 9741.09. payrolls for late Oct and Nov and aid to Dependent Children 228.13. General Fund 160.24. Last week bills 33065.33 included 28882.77 highway costs and 3792.65 dog damage claims.
A hospital note lists several admissions including Betty Enlow Athens major surgery and Dan Morrison Athens major surgery with Walter Ervin and Florence Justin also listed for Athens. discharges include multiple patients from Athens and surrounding towns such as Robert Stivers and daughter Pomeroy Earl Seeland and daughter Albany and others from The Plains Sugar Creek McArthur Guysville and Jacksonville with various family mentions. The record preserves names and towns of patients admitted or dismissed.
Funeral services for Edward Carsey 68 who died Sunday at Sheltering Arms Hospital will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Dowler and Ferguson funeral home with Rev. Fred E. Lachs officiating. Burial follows at W. State Street Cemetery. Friends may call after 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Sheriff George Bateman announced the arrest of brothers Carlos Edmund Corky Dickens 24 and James Nub bins Dickens 20 of Sugar Grove and Charles Bus Dexter 27 of Coonville for breaking into Tad s Bar on the Kimberly Carbondale Road last week. A small radio and other merchandise were recovered and the trio confessed to the break in. Charges will be filed Tuesday with possible mayor s court arraignments for the younger Dickens and Dexter.
Henry H. Humphrey, 85, Ohio University Class of 1884, died in St. Louis. Born near Coolville, he and three brothers were OU graduates. Humphrey earned an MS in electrical engineering from Cornell in 1886 and an MA from OU in 1887, later serving as a consultant and former leader in regional electrical organizations. Funeral plans were not announced.
Two minor crashes were logged by city police. Mrs Madge FE Taylor of Stewart had a dented front fender and radiator after Ralph E Burson pulled from a curb on S Court Street at about 11 40 am. A. D. Cline of Albany struck the left front door of a sedan driven by Mrs Gordon K Bush of Athens on S Court Street at about 3 45 pm, damaging the door and denting the Cline car’s front fender.
Local churches announce pre Christmas events including a 7 30 p m Salvation Army children’s party open to the public and a Christmas Eve candlelight service at Nazaren e Church Wednesday at 7 p m A Wednesday night prayer service at Athens Pilgrim Holiness Church has been canceled to allow members to spend Christmas Eve with families per Rev O M Awe pastor
Clifford Weiss files for divorce in Common Pleas Court against Eileen Weiss of Nelsonville. He cites gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty. Married in 1944, they have a 9 month old daughter, custody requested.
Paul E and Ann I Addington of Canton transfer a 33 foot section of Lot 7 Trimble to Wayne W and Coral L Border of Trimble. William H Reefer transfers Inlet 306 Curriers Addition Athens to Florence C Reefer.
The Kiwanis Club formal inducts two new members Warren Cooper and Carlos Thomas and rejoins Ott Wagner and Samuel B. Erskine bringing total to 72. Plans discussed for 1948 officers January 5. Members donate about 20 dollars for Athens County indigent children's Christmas gifts. Carols were led by Joe Thackrey with his son John on piano.
Common Pleas Court decrees in favor of John Bayus in his suit for recovery of an automobile allegedly his. The defendant Mike Brozak held the car unlawfully, and the sheriff had restored it to Bayus under a court order before the finding.
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