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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1955
Page
3
Gallia County Burley growers voted strongly for continuing federal controls on tobacco with 96.4 percent in favor. County totals from ten polling places show high support, about five percent above the state rate, as the two thirds threshold for quotas looms for 1956.
GALLIPOLIS Gallia County Sheriff’s Highway Patrol investigated a Route 218 accident that left Joe E. Saunders 27 Crown City Route 1 hospitalized with a facial laceration and bruised kidney after his car veered off the road and struck Billy H. Hornsby 20 of Gallipolis whose car hit a barbed wire fence. Heavy damage to Saunders’s vehicle and medium damage to Hornsby’s followed. Carl S. Durie 41 of Winton Salem North Carolina was fined five dollars and costs by Mayor Northup Rio Grande after crossing the yellow line.
Church notices list multiple congregations in Gallipolis with service times and leaders. Follows Catholic Saint Adolph Golubieski and various pastors including Hershel McDonoug Vernon Shafer Luther Tracy Robert Howard Glenn M. Graham Liason H. Stebbins and more. Activities cover Sunday schools worship and evangelistic services, midweek prayers, youth groups, and broadcasts. Mentions mental health funding context but no action details.
Gallipolis city police investigated a minor accident yesterday when a car driven by Lillian M. Cheney of 9 Fourth Ave. lost control after brake failure and backed across Eastern Ave. into a car driven by Orland M. Taylor of 2030 Eastern Ave. No major damage occurred to Cheney’s car, and the other vehicle had only light damage. Ralph Arrowood of 41st Court St. was arrested on a drunk and disorderly charge and will appear in Municipal Court Friday after posting a $25 bond.
Meigs County land transfers include Christina Grueser and Agnes A Grueser transferring multiple Salisbury Township tracts to Mark A Grueser Michael F Grueser Manuel C Grueser MaxS Grueser and Mathew P Grueser. Augusta Barnhart and Harold Barnhart transfer 78.7 acres in Olive Township to the state of Ohio. Dana M Oliver and Bertha E Oliver transfer 49 acres in Salisbury Township to Walter E Ward and Norma Jean Ward. Linley M Hart and Pauline R Hart transfer 7 acres in Meigs County to Earnest E Quillen and Virginia Quillen. Clara A Baer and George Baer transfer one acre in Chester Township to Harry B Grindstaff and Barbara G GrindStaff. Jean Rose Soulsby and William Thomas Soulsby transfer 1.7 acres in Salisbury Township to Robert E Bowen. Margery B Ferlet and Tony A Ferlet transfer Lot 19 in Pomeroy to Adeline P Brown ing. Herbert E Bradfield Addie Bradfield and Eunice Bradfield transfer 64 acres in Rutland Township to Guy and Geraldine Swadley.
Santa Claus distributed about 400 treats on Christmas Eve at the Legion Hall under sponsorship of Middleport Retail Merchants and Feeney Bennett Post 128 American Legion. The civic committee led by Rodney Sauer Lee Smith Gale Hysell and Don Roach also delivered treats to the Children’s home.
Gallipolis river readings show six feet roll on the Ohio, upper gauge 18.1 feet and lower 11.1 feet, with Hinton stationary at 0.68 foot and Kanawha Falls rising 0.54 foot. Towboats report varying loaded and empty barges, several boats moving through Gallipolis lock, and two boats on Kanawha River, all lockages up yesterday except Tennessee and Solvay.
Middleport reports parking meter collections for the Christmas week reached 210 with no tickets issued for overparking on Christmas Eve following the usual custom.
Former classmates meet at Gallia Academy High School as Mrs Stella Mohr assembles friends for a reunion. The Youngs of Bloomington Illinois, faculty at Illinois Normal, hosted at Merle Jenkins home. Local residents and relatives, including families of Bailes, Myers, Haskins, Betz, Booth, Brown and Linkhorn, share holiday travel and visits across Florida, Wright Patterson and Columbus.
Mrs Zelma Northcutt former Rio Grande College faculty member now music supervisor in Portsmouth schools spent Christmas with her daughter and Harold Wiseman and two granddaughters at 74 Garfield Ave. Noah DeWitt home on leave from Veterans Hospital Dayton with Mrs DeWitt plans several months more of recovery in hospital. James P Martin and wife return from Columbus after holiday visit with son Andrew Martin and family. Caroline Knight and Lois Lers attended a Washington Court House Girl Scout reunion and counselor training at Camp.
Thirteen nurses from Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis passed the October State Nurses Board Examination and have received certificates to practice as registered nurses in Ohio. The named recipients listed by Eleanor F. Swartz include O. Janice Arledge Phyllis La Vera Dutcher Eugenia Margaret Hawes Wilma Charlene Leedy Shirley Alice Mealey Marilyn Mae Miller Adrienne Eimee Mills Julie Ann Mitch Betty Jean Kelton Plymale Anita Joann Erwin Ross Patricia Ann Rupe Ida Lou Stewart and Olivia Mae Varney.
The funeral of Maye A. Davis, former Washington school teacher, was attended by relatives and friends from across Ohio and neighboring states including S. E. Davis Columbus Margaret Spear Cleveland Helen Wiard Centerbury Walter Craig family Grove City Walter Price Dayton George Campbell Clara Davis Washington Court House Willis Davis Marion Charmis Davis New Lebanon Stanley Davis Dayton Robert M Evans St Albans Russell Wood Elgin Harold Gills Alice Griffith South Solon Ben R Evans Jackson Margaret Davis Edwin Davis Oak Hill Ohio.
Middleport Emergency Squad responded to Dale Kennedy residence on Beech Street at 12 50 am Friday. The incident involved medical aid request at the location. Local responders attended and reported no additional details available.
Mrs. Mike Wippel 72 of Pomeroy Star Route died unexpectedly Thursday afternoon while visiting a neighbor. The Federated Church member is survived by her husband Mike, daughter Mrs. Carl Fruth of Point Pleasant, son Ralph of Pomeroy, brother Dana Windon of Nelsonville, and three grandchildren. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Ewing Funeral Home with Rev. Waldo J. Bartels officiating. Burial in Chester Cemetery.
Ella Farley 85 died Thursday at a son Frank's home in Salem Center. Survived by children Dean Harvey Toledo Dora King Toronto Fern Farley Canal Winchester Fern Farie Farley Akron Kathryn Luckey Parkersburg May Farley Akron and a sister. Funeral conducted 2 p.m. Saturday at Salem Center Church by Rev Robert E Linter. Burial Nelson Cemetery. Friends may call Chase funeral home in Rutland.
The 57th annual New Year’s Ball of the Pomeroy Firemen’s Association will run from 9:30 until 2 Saturday night at the Pomeroy Junior High School auditorium. The Bob Hunter orchestra will provide music for dancing.
Meigs County retail sales tax receipts for the week ending December 17 were about 2600 less than the same week last year. The total reached 5498.73 versus 8030.98 for the week ending December 18, 1954, per Roger W. Tracy state treasurer’s report.
The Young Peoples Class of the Methodist Sunday school hosted a Christmas party at Mrs. Gladys Violet’s home. Gifts were taken to the Children’s Home, and the older group gave each child a book. Seventeen and a birthday cake centered table marked the 16 present as friends and relatives gathered from Mason, Long Bottom, Chester, Middleport and Tuppers Plains.
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