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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1951
Page
6
Burial in Green Lawn Cemetery today for Mrs. Mary Eve Davis 85 a former resident who died Saturday at her Columbus home.
Gallipolis report shows the State Highway Patrol making fifteen arrests over the weekend, plus a Sunday crash on Route 35 near Gallipolis involving a truck driven by Andy Kozma and a car driven by Virgil Evans. Five injured, all treated and released from Holzer Hospital. Arrests included speeding fines and other charges for several individuals from Ohio and Indiana.
At Mount St. Mary Hospital in Nelsonville the Christmas spirit fills the first floor with red candles and a cross and star above the elevator. Trees adorn the lobby and solarium on each floor with poinsettias in place. A turkey dinner will be served Christmas Day for patients staff and visitors. Gifts of jelly jams and foods arrive from women’s clubs and Girl Scouts. Special tray covers favors and gifts accompany meals. The Twig of the hospital guild made favors. A midnight mass in the chapel and additional masses throughout the day are planned.
A Christmas cantata with 40 voice chorus was presented Sunday evening at the Shawnee Methodist Church. Soloists Hazel Hughes Kay Wilcox and Ella Summers performed with the youth and adult choirs under Hazel Hughes direction. The youth choir included Edward Hopkins Clarence Colvin Merle Thompson Walter Harrop Alice Brunton Rose Sarvis Shirley Marquis Eileen Garlinger Mary Jane McLaughlin Shirley Jones Nancy Colvin, with Kay Wilcox Margaret Hopkins and Helen Foster assisting the primary department program Sunday morning. Mrs Wilcox served as superintendent.
A Mount St Mary Hospital notes list births for Rodney Wilson and Philip Allen with newborns named Joseph Lehman. multiple individuals admitted or discharged including Mrs. Edward Dawley and Mrs. John Landis. numerous residents recorded at Murray City Haydenville Carbondale Nelsonville Athens and Glouster with several mothers and a daughter noted.
John Weaver of Dexter, a telegraph operator for the New York Central Railroad since 1906, died Saturday night after months of illness. Surviving are two sons Kenneth Dexter and Garland Dayton, a brother George Weaver of Georgia, and five grandchildren. Masonic services will be held at the Dexter home, with funeral Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Dexter Church. burial in Robinson Cemetery.
Kimberly Park Glenn has returned home from University Hospital Columbus and her condition is reported as much improved.
Nelsonville Jimmie Jones Post VFW announces a New Year Eve dance at their home on the west city limits. Dick Coleman and his orchestra from Lancaster will provide music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
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