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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1968
Page
2
Savannah Lodge 466 F and AM Guysville will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m. Worshipful Master J Lewis Winner has announced. Refreshments will be served.
About 250 people attended the Athens Lighthouse show featuring Headstone Circus and Christopher John's Fuzzy Blanket. Mayor Raymond Shepard Police Chief Fred James and Service Safety Director Dwight Robinson attended a special invitation. The Lighthouse owner Austin Laughlin calls the experience a new three dimensional sound communication. Open Fridays and Saturdays 8 to 12 serving soft drinks and chips. Nearby Nelsonville fire scorched Aren Miller's car from a short circuit on Edward Street. fire crews responded.
In Logan the Hocking County Court of Common Pleas ruled in favor of 15 Logan city school custodians, ordering the board of education to pay back wages dating to 1965. The amounts, listed for each employee, total without interest. a remaining employee, William J. Sickles, awaits a hearing. Taxes will be withheld.
Williamson reports Audie Wood eight died Sunday night from injuries after a truck-train wreck on U S 52 near Nolan. Dewey Wood eleven survived, sitting up and receiving visitors as the fifth victim and last immediate family member perished in the crash that sent a pickup over a guard rail into a passing freight train.
Dewey Browning and two family members were admitted to Holzer Hospital after a two car collision on Route 160 at 2 30 p m Sunday. Dewey T Browning suffered a fracture of the left leg while Mrs Browning had multiple lacerations and John T Browning 13 was admitted for observation.
A morning blaze destroyed a four room dwelling of Mr and Mrs Bill Whittington on Greer Road along with a smokehouse and fruit storage. The fire started around the flue after a stove fire at 6 am. The family with neighbors fought it but the Point Pleasant Fire Department could not control it.
Glouster Community Bank files a mortgage foreclosure petition in Athens County Court of Common Pleas against Edward J. Gaus, Bonnie Gaus, and Olive M. Rose, alleging a loan default on property in Trimble Township Athens County. The action seeks foreclosure on the described 23.55 acre parcel with specified exceptions and reservations, citing mortgage volume 154 page 398 and case no 24509 with hearings set by attorney Michael Molchon.
Middleport residents Mr. and Mrs. Roger Luckeydoo visited relatives in Huntington West Virginia over the weekend with their parents Mr. and Mrs. James Brewington and Mr. and Mrs. Alva Luckeydoo in New Haven. Mrs. Brewington stayed in Huntington Friday and Saturday with family. Mrs. Hood now joins her husband in Honolulu where he is stationed. Mrs. Harold Harrison and son Jeff of Cincinnati visit her parents Herman and Mrs. Bailey and plan to visit Columbus with daughter Mrs. Russell McElhinny. Gerald Rupe and family visited in Niles recently.
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