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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1952
Page
8
Nelsonville residents contributed about 500 dollars to the polio drive during a nighttime porch light canvass. The drive began at City Hall with fire and police sirens, and most homes were ready with donations as solicitors called. A full report will be issued after all district tallies are in.
Ohio State Senator C Stanley Mechem of Nelsonville filed petitions with Fairfield County elections to run again in the 14th district. He has served five terms and chairs the Finance Committee while also serving on rules and taxation. Mechem ran unopposed in three prior primaries and operates shoe stores in Nelsonville and Athens. He is a Nelsonville native with a long local life, married with three children and two grandchildren.
Tri Psi Loror iy will hold a rummage sale on Saturday starting at 9 a.m. in its second floor apartment rooms on West Washington Street.
Two cars damaged one person treated for minor injuries and driver William Mills cited for unsafe operation after Mills turning left from Jefferson onto Poplar St collided with Wes Kinsey on Watkins St Nelsonville Route 1. Mrs Kinsey taken to Mount St Mary Hospital and released. Mills pleads guilty pays ten dollar fine and costs.
George Johnson, a local driver, pleaded guilty in Mayor Paul Galvin’s court to operating an overloaded truck on Route 691. The 17,060 pound drive axle load exceeded the 14,250 pound limit by 2,810 pounds, resulting in a $25 minimum fine plus costs and $1 for each 100 pounds of overload, totaling $53 and costs.
Annuay luncheon of the Hyperion Club will be held at the home of Mrs Cecil Shafer E Franklin Sr Saturday at 1 p m Miss Martha Morello Pan American student at Ohio State University Columbus will speak.
Mrs Ralph Cox Miss Carrie Cox and Mrs Adda Hohenadel will host a dinner meeting of the Circle of Ruth Monday at 6 p m in the social rooms of the First Presbyterian Church.
Funeral services for Maggie Nisley 75 who died at her Logan home will be held at 2 p m Saturday at Leonard funeral home The widow of C H Nisley she is survived by sisters Emma Mast Columbus and Lydia Walt Lancaster and half brothers James Reedy Logan rural route and John Reedy California The Rev Paul D Holtzen will officiate and burial will be in Forest Grove Cemetery Lancaster
Electric service will be shut for 15 minutes in Nelsonville Sunday morning for repairs at the sub station. Power will be off from 8 a.m. to 8:15 a.m. Local consumers only will be affected.
Mrs. Bertha Lehman, 72, died at her home in Oreville on Monday. Her last rites were conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Oreville EUB Church by Rev. Clyde Hinton. Music featured Miss Sueanne Snyder and Mrs. Ned Harmon with Miss Barbara Boyd at the piano. Burial followed at Smith Chapel Cemetery.
The Band Boosters of Buchtel will hold a bake sale in the Mayor's Office Saturday beginning at 1 p.m. Funds support the band and related activities. Local residents are invited to contribute baked goods and attend.
Church notices list Sunday schedules for First Methodist Fort and Short Streets Christian Fort and Short Streets and other local churches. Ministers Nelsonville: Niswander Long Angle Evans Lloyd Evans Pilgrim Holiness Raymond Simpson share times while Keith B Hall speaks in India and at union services.
Logan area churches publish weekly schedules. Methodist led by R B Wilson attends worship and youth activities. First Presbyterian with Henry L Carr offers sermons and class sessions. Trinity Lutheran under Paul D Holtzen conducts worship and choir. Church of the Nazarene with Roy E Klingler lists Sunday school and evening services. St Matthew with Paul N Warner notes services and evangelism events. Gore Circuit posts Sunday schools and youth fellowship. St Oh n and Grace Lutheran coordinate joint evangelism events in Fairfield County.
Admitted Virgil Longberger Glouster Route 3 Clarence Warren Nelsonville Route 2 Mrs Nellie True Gore Dismissed Fred Wolfe Nelsonville Mrs George Ferguson Corning.
Hal Boyle surveys changing attitudes toward retirement arguing many cling to work into old age. He notes varied expectations from 30 to 69, warns retirement can feel like a loss of purpose, and parodies a policy of forcing early retirement while urging continued work to stay engaged.
Funeral services for Lt jg Paul Francis Griffith 26 of the U S Navy who died Thursday aboard USS Klondike will be held at 2 p m Monday at St Mathew Lutheran Church Hunter Street Survivors include his parents Mr and Mrs Walter Griffith Gibisonville a brother Carl Griffith Houston Texas and a sister Mrs James W Storer Wilmington Ohio Friends may call at Heinlein Funeral Home Saturday A military service will be conducted during burial at Oak Grove Cemetery
Influenza waves sweep Hocking County forcing West Logan to discontinue classes. Green Elementary Haydenville and Union Furnace also close. About 35 percent of West Logan pupils are absent. other towns report rising or steady attendance. Carbon Hill reports 48 of 189 absent as authorities plan to keep school open for Friday senior scholarship tests.
Sylvia Warren of 418 Bowen Street, Logan, received a check for 132.50 from Messenger Accident Insurance for a porch collapse injury sustained last October. The policy offers broad coverage for accidents anywhere at any time with hospital benefits and time lost from work.
Logan and Carbon Hill high schools hosted scholarship tests for top seniors in the county. About 40 Logan students competed under George E. Carr supervision with Gerald O. Devol and others in charge county wide. Certificates awarded to those in the upper 25 percent.
Logan filings show 709 unemployment claims for the week, up 31 from the prior period. Of these, 641 had been unemployed a week or more, and 68 were new unemployment claimants, with January weeks showing higher new claims and January average at 533.
Nelsonville locals hear of a stag party at the Elks Club tonight with euchre and card games. Oyster stew will be served as refreshments and television fights are planned for 10 p.m.
A list of services from numerous Glouster area churches includes Bible schools and worships at Glouster Church of Christ, First Baptist, Ferndale Church of Christ, Bishopville Church of Christ, Jacksonville Methodist, Trimble Methodist, Millfield Methodist, Glouster Methodist, Jacksonville EUB, Hollister EUB, Trimble West Side Church of Christ, Redtown Free Methodist, Mt. Carmel Free Methodist, Seventh Day Adventist, Oakdale Church of God, Hemlock Church of Christ, Hooper Ridge Church of Christ, Shawnee Mission, Concord, and Jehovah’s Witnesses with schedules for Sunday school, worship, communion, prayer meetings, and special programs.
The First Baptist Church hosts an all day program with Sunday school at 9 30 a m and devotional service at 10 45 a m. Rev Frank C Cleveland delivers the morning sermon at 11 a m. Lunch is at noon followed by an afternoon program at 3 p m with music by the Rendville choir and visits from ministers and deacons.
Rev. John Devol attended the Ohio Pastors' convention in Columbus and helped in the funeral services for Mrs. Glass at the Sharpsburg Methodist Church at 2 p.m.
The Rev W H Strausbaugh pastor of Woodsfield Free Methodist Church and director of youth evangelism in the Ohio Conference spoke in Crooksville Redtown and will speak in Pomeroy this week. He is staying with his and his wife parents in Redtown and Morristown.
Nelsonville residents are invited to a rummage sale by the M. M. Club at Central School starting at 9 a.m. Funds will support club activities.
Glouster personals cover Evan Martin returning to Redtown from Columbus, improving illness of Mr. Martin, and Rosa Tate and Joe Svajda both recovering at home. Joe Chapman also returns from Moundsville. Simons Beal of Millfield visits family in Redtown as do James Andrews guests Clyde Kasler Helen Linscott Marilyn, Hazel Antle, Warren Easler and others from Trimble Heights Athens and nearby areas.
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