Investigation of knifing at Buena Vista Road
Logan sheriff A J Waldron and juvenile probation officer Spurgeon Metzler investigated the stabbing of 49 year old Cecile Howland at her Buena Vista Road home. The assailant, 15 year old John West from Boys Industrial School Lancaster, stabbed Howland twice with a 3 inch hunting knife after an attempted rabbit hunt.
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Logan
A. J. Waldron
Spurgeon Metzler
Cecile Howland
Buena Vista Road
Howland
Lee Griner
Waldron
Order of Eastern Star installs Europa Chapter 72 officers
Visitors from Athens Logan Glouster and Crooksville attend the Europa Chapter 72 installation at the Masonic Temple in Nelsonville. Helen Wilson is named worthy matron with C. E. Washburn as worthy patron and 1953 officers inducted amid gifts and ceremonial programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Athens
Logan
Glouster
Crooksville
Europa Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Inez B. Wilson
Pearl Williams
Myrtlen+ scott
Helena McCune
Phyllis Howe
Helen Washburn
Edith K. Hardy
Retta Lenox
Mary Lines
Sentinel
Barbara Foughty
Helen Wilson
C. E. Washburn
Wilmena Mender
Roy H. Sayers
Mable Washburn
Stella Davis
Helen Oakley
Virgene Carpenter
Lucy Pierce
Peggy Ann Nelson
Lena Keeton
Margaret Hubble
Aadah
Patty Hartley
Ruth
Marjorie Stalder
Esther
Lillian Betts
Martha
Aye Elliott
Electa
Flossie Dixon
W. R. Dixon
Margaret Johnson
Holy
Little Jesus
Williams
Washburn
Wilson
Coolville Torch Delegation Presses for Natural Gas
A Coolville and Torch delegation urged the Ohio Public Utilities Commission in Columbus to back natural gas installation. The panel said it would contact River Gas Co. of Marietta to assess prospects while noting 14 gas wells exist nearby and more leases are active. Mayor John Aiken heads 1953 Civic Club efforts as district deputy grand master.
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Coolville
State Public Utilities Commission
Torch
D. P. Hawkins
Walter B. King
Willis Leadingham
Robert Ellis
Lumbus
Commission
Paul Wyland
River Gas Company
Marietta
Local People and Visits Across the Area
Kimberly Kimberly Oscar Ball and Vernice Davis of Columbus spent days with Mr and Mrs William Davis. The Prisers and Shafer family hosted in Nelsonville. George Thornton age 80 near Oak Grove recovers from a fractured leg after a cellar drain accident. Rogers near Nelsonville visited Crane residence. Mrs Robert Thompson sent to Rocky Glenn Sanitarium McConnelsville for treatment. Jack Hankison and children of Dayton visited here during the holidays. Bobby Hatfield of Columbus visited his parents in town. Ruth Newlun improves at Mount St Mary Hospital Nedsonville. Bill Brown of Columbus visited friends here over the weekend.
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Kimberly
Oscar Ball
Vernice Davis
Columbus
William Davis
Jerry Priser
Charles Shafer
Nelsonville
George Thornton
Oak Grove
Ollie Rogers
Ulyssis Crane
Robert Thompson
Rocky Glenn Sanitarium
McConnelsville
Jack Hankison
Dayton
Bobby Hatfield
Robert Hatfield
Ruth Newlun
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Nedsonville
Bill Brown
Broadwell and Chesterhill Visitors Share Holiday Time
Mr and Mrs Frank Parsons hosted guests including Clark Grubb and family of Chesterhill Roy Wogan and Charles Grubb party from Chesterhill and Albert Ogg of Broadwell. Ralph Fyock from Pittsburgh visited with Hattie Hendershot and Evalina Brill noted ill.
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Broadwell
Frank Parsons
Clark Grubb
Roy Wogan
Charles Grubb
Chesterhill
Albert Ogg
Ralph Fyock
Pittsburgh
Hattie Hendershot
Evalina Brill
Horace Parsons
Columbus
Oscar James
Sandra
Frank James
Hazel Burke
Ralph Westbrook
Marietta
Clarence Rathburn
Edith
Frank Thomas
Old Custom Chewing Cloves Dates Back 4000 Years
History notes cloves used to freshen breath over four millennia with earliest records from ancient China. The spice traveled through trade and culture, becoming part of traditional practices long before modern commerce.
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China
Frank DeLong Dies at 76 in Logan
Frank DeLong 76 of 331 Short Ave Logan died at 2 20 am Wednesday at Hocking Valley Hospital after a heart attack Tuesday He was a retired Hocking Valley Railroad signalman Survived by brother Homer and three sisters Mrs Weis Mrs Bartlett and Mrs Mellman Funeral services set for 2 pm Friday at Leonard funeral home with Rev Paul N Warner officiating and burial in Oak Grove Cemetery
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Logan
Frank
Peg) Delong
Short Ave
Hocking Valley Hospital
Delong
Old
Hocking Valley Railroad
William and
Mary Mohler Delong
Eagles and Moose Lodges
Homer
Sarah Weis
Mayne Bartlett
Sue Mellman
Lancaster
Leonard Funeral Home
Paul N. Warner
Oak Grove Cemetery
Guilty Plea Entered in Nelsonville Case
Edgar Lee Moorehead of Cambridge pleaded guilty at arraignment in Nelsonville before Mayor Paul Galvin. Police arrested him for intoxication. He was fined $25 and costs and committed to Athens County Jail for nonpayment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Edgar Lee Moorehead
Cambridge
Paul Galvin
Moorehead
Athens County
Hyperion Club Meeting Set for Saturday Afternoon
Nelsonville reports the Hyperion Club will meet at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Methodist parsonage on East Columbus Street with Mrs. Victor Pfeiffer as hostess. Mrs. Lloyd Evans will present the program and the roll call response will be Items of India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Hyperion Club
Methodist Parsonage
E. Columbus St
Victor Pfeiffer
Lloyd Evans
India
Holiday guests from Columbus and Marietta visit Nelsonville
Nelsonville diary lists Mr and Mrs James McEwen Toledo and in law Mr and Mrs W W Warren hosting a 10 day holiday vacation. Guests include Miss Helene Wilson Columbus and Dr and Mrs James H Wilson Marietta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McEwen
Toledo
W. W. Warren
Warren
Helene Wilson
Columbus
James H. Wilson
Marietta
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Frank DeLong
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Athens Messenger
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S. Court Street
Athens, Ohio
Sears Catalog Sales Dept
Sears, Roebuck & Co., Logan, C
Bromo
Konkler’s
Tweedie
Connie
Jacqueline
Arch Shoes
Yfochowus Shoe Store
Pak
Handy Family Carton
Anichor
Woodbury
Pound Prince Albert Tobacco
Helena Rubinstein
U.S.A
de Luxe
Stainfree Steel
International Lates Corporaton
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