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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1973
Page
19
The Stan Kenton Orchestra will hold an afternoon clinic and an evening concert March 3 at Meigs High School. A tentative schedule lists a 2 to 2:30 p.m. clinic followed by a 2:30 p.m. talk by Kenton and a 3 to 4 p.m. clinic session for students.
The Meigs County Sheriff reports two Friday accidents. In Rutland on Happy Hollow Road Everett Schuler 16 of Middleport Route 1 swerved to avoid a collision and landed in a ditch causing light damage. In Salem Gary Lee Queen’s car backed into Sonny McDonald’s corn crib causing medium damage to the car and 100 to the crib.
POMEROY The Return Jonathan Meigs Chapter DAR met at the Meigs Inn to discuss the religious heritage of Meigs County and the area’s early churches. Mrs. Pearl Mora traced Lutheran, Methodist, Grace Episcopal, Trinity, Sacred Heart, Presbyterian and Pomeroy Baptist histories from Chester origins through 1900, noting social and economic roles.
Mason Mayor Roy Harless says no action has been taken to hire a new Chief of Police since James Arnold’s resignation. The town currently has one officer on duty, Kenneth Siders, patrolling Mason.
Fifteen persons were fined and 17 bonded over in Meigs County Court Friday morning with Judge Frank Porter Jr. presiding. Speeding bond forfeitures include William Jones Huntington at 32.50 dollars and others from Pomeroy Cambridge Chesterhill Ashland Ky Parkersburg Middleport Kedron Ohio and Gallipolis Racine with 27.50 dollars each.
Valentine lore, from New Haven to Ohio towns, links love omens with gloves, butterflies, eggs, and mirrors. The piece blends humorous superstitions with local notices, including fines in multiple counties and a Meigs High School honor roll omission for Michael Bareswilt.
Gallipolis Ohio Highway Patrol reports a four vehicle incident on State Route 7 south of Route 218 at 4 15 p m involving a truck driven by Jerry L Johnson 25 Kananga pulling from a private drive into the path of a southbound car driven by Jack Alexander 56 Ashland causing him to veer and hit a northbound vehicle driven by Keith Brannen 23 Crown City Johnson cited for failure to yield with substantial damage and no injuries reported At 7 30 p m Herbert Rollins 30 Gallipolis struck a deer on State Route 124 near the Vinton County line causing minor damage to his car.
Lorena Ellen Randolph won a divorce from Jack L. Randolph in Mason County Court on Friday. William Reed Harry Tipton and Thelma Louise Johnson were dismissed in an accompanying Veterans Memorial Hospital notes item.
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