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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1948
Page
2
Meigs County tax books remain open for the rest of the week as collectors work through the season. Collections to date total about 158000 dollars with an additional 2000 dollars expected. Clyde Millhone serves as treasurer.
The January report from the Ohio State Employment Service shows 1807 contacts made, 62 new work applicants, and 228 applicants interviewed including 152 veterans. Active February on file totaled 390, with 26 women and 225 veterans.
The Rev. B. R. Smith and the Rev. A. H. Wright conduct the service for Mrs. Melvina Jackson at Mount Moriah Baptist Church. Special music was provided by soloists Effie Mac Ven able and William Caldwell. Pallbearers included William Winston and others. Burial followed at Middleport Hill Cemetery with out of town relatives attending.
Meigs County commissioners ordered the prosecuting attorney to prepare resolutions for a November ballot on issuing bonds for a Meigs County Veterans Hospital. The attorney will consult the Cleveland firm Squire, Sanders and Dempsey for legal fees and actions. A declaratory judgment suit was authorized regarding Soldiers Memorial Hospital funds and their use. Also, rents for R D Seyler houses were reduced for November to cover high water bills, and a Dark Hollow Coal Co tax overpayment of 398.40 was to be refunded after a survey showed mining had ceased years prior.
Danny Rosenbaum of Pom eroy Lincoln Hill is a member of Capital University Chapel Choir and will perform Sunday at 8 15 p m in the Pomeroy Junior High Auditorium The Rosenbaums other son Donald sang with Capital Men’s Glee Club before Navy service and is now at Ohio State Tickets are on sale at Stark's New York Clothing Shop and Marguerite's Shoe Shop
The Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce met at the Riverview Restaurant to discuss correcting Main Street sewer condition and enlisting state highway aid. A committee will coordinate with city council as two years of arrangements with Pomeroy Cement Block Co. for river gauges near completion and the highest gauge to be visible from all directions.
Virginia Lu Schaaf daughter of Mrs Eleanor Lansbury Schaaf S Second Ave was pictured in Columbus paper as she joined 39 Mt. Carmel Hospital School of Nursing students in capping ceremonies The Rev John P Skalke Aquinas High School spoke at the event Sister Nichol as presented the caps
A mob of about 10 000 Sicilians reportedly stormed the Friendship Train in Messina to seize American gift parcels. Signs blamed Truman era policies and called for parcels, with women and children said injured in the rush as Communist posters were read. The clipping was sent by a relative of Mr. and Mrs. E M Gill for publication.
Albert Russell and Patrick Lochary left Wednesday to attend the funeral of Erwin Chamberlain in Caldwell Ohio. Surviving are his wife Alice Mary Chamberlain daughter Forrest Racey Caldwell son Dewey Chamberlain Tulsa Oklahoma and a grandson Richard Chamberlain Tulsa.
Meigs County has issued seventy four kennel licenses, County Auditor Perry Riggs said. Dog tag buyers face a one dollar penalty, and total tag receipts reach three thousand seven hundred sixty five dollars to date.
Five year old Rush Philson son of Mr and Mrs Ben Philson sustained a severe chin gash after a fall on the ice. He required several stitches to close the cut and attends Central School kindergarten.
Middleport and Pomeroy will host the Izaak Walton League minstrel produced by Ed Condon. Jack Cowie, a Meigs County newspaperman, returns after years away to serve as interlocutor for the opening show next Wednesday with a repeat in Pomeroy Thursday. He adds Southern angles to the production, praised as the best in the series.
Robert Lee Arnold infant son of Mrs Doris Arnold of Minersville admitted February 2 and discharged February 4. Cheryl Alberta Searls infant daughter of Mrs Betty Searls admitted February 2.
Meigs County veterans service department will be closed Saturday February 7 while Director Henry F Searberry and Deputy Director W D Stewart attend a Columbus school on processing bonus applications.
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