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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1957
Page
9
Point Pleasant police report a quiet holiday weekend with only one arrest. William Watterson was arrested on a drunk charge by the sheriff's department.
Tickets cost 1.50 per person at the door or at Mary Jane Beauty Shoppe H and R Firestone in Middleport Carrick and Fruth Drugs Dee's Restaurant Ruth Beauty Shop in Pt. Pleasant.
Gov Cecil Underwood issues call for a 30 day 1958 legislative session listing 20 items of business including new road and public school programs and a budget for the next fiscal year. Major items include coal mining reform health and safety laws speeding payments to contractors and funding for Morgantown medical and dental school. He backs a statewide highway tax plan and endorses a five year incentive program to raise up to 15 million dollars annually for five years.
Funeral services for Mary Jane Fout Neille will be held Tuesday at 10 30 a m at Beale Chapel Church with Rev J P Keefer officiating and burial in the church cemetery. Neille mother of 10 living children died Saturday at the home of daughter Mrs Adeline Sayre Apple Grove. Friends may call at Mrs Sayre’s home.
One woman was admitted to Holzer Hospital and seven others treated and released after a single car carrying John Ratcliff and family collided with a vault company truck at the Pliny Mercers Bottom Road intersection on Route 17 Sunday. Ratcliff, of Dayton Ohio, said he tried to pass the truck which turned left into the car. Loranzie Baisden of Dayton was admitted. other passengers included Ratcliff’s wife, his brother and sister-in-law, and their three children.
A special New Year's Eve service will be directed by Rev. Alvin C. Young at Trinity Methodist Church. The program begins Tuesday at 11 p.m. and includes a movie showing and an informal program.
West Virginia’s employment fell from October to November, the Department of Employment Security reports. Total non-agricultural workers declined by about 4 500 to 500 000, with manufacturing down 2 800 and non-manufacturing down 1 700. Mining led layoffs, dropping 1 400, largely in bituminous coal.
Mr. and Mrs. William Otis Rainey of Bellemeade announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Linda to Charles William Benny Roseberry Jr son of Mrs Altha Roseberry Point Pleasant Route 2 and the late Charles Roseberry. Miss Rainey is a Point Pleasant High School senior and National Honor Society member. Roseberry graduated with the class of 56 from Point Pleasant High School and works for Ohio Valley Electric Corp at Kgger Creek. No date set for the wedding.
Mrs Florence Thomas 57 of Henderson died Friday night at Holzer Hospital after a long illness. She was born in Blue Creek Kanawha County and was a Presbyterian. Survived by Odell Thomas her husband two sons Thomas W Spradling Point Pleasant and Fred Spradling Marine Corps three daughters Helen Warburton Oak Hill Norma Jean Cochran Sizemore and Betty Lee Price seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. Funeral services by Cunningham Funeral Home Charleston.
Four vehicles were involved in a Sunday accident on Route 2 at Glenwood. A Kentucky license plate car sped away after sideswiping Delbert Martin Hill who was turning left, and Joseph Brumfield Brumfield swerved to avoid the Hill car and struck a station wagon driven by William Keith Withers of Point Pleasant. No arrests were reported. Holy communion will be observed at 10 a m New Year s Day at Christ Church Episcopal Rector Jerome D Rodgers announced.
A service honoring high school seniors and college students home for the holiday vacation was held Sunday at Trinity Methodist Church.
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