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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1957
Page
12
Plywood offers strength and convenience with indoor and exterior binders. Plan before cutting and lay out work on the better plywood surface to prevent surface damage, use sharp blades, and account for saw cuts. Veneer tapes provide a finished edge, and a lubricant can ease sticking windows without full removal.
Executors and guardians accounts filed in Perry County estates showing distributions and assets. Real estate valuations, inventories, and appraisements accompany wills probated or sought for probation. Lawsuits include lease cancellations and title disputes with United Coal Stripping Co. mentioned. road petitions and divorce actions also appear.
Patrick J. Lollo aged 23 from New Lexington and Shirley Yvonne Shirkey aged 18 from an unspecified locale appear in an early stage of a matter noted in a local record. The fragmentary text provides no further details on charges or actions.
Series of property transfers recorded across Reading Township Crooksville Roseville Pike Township and Monday Creek and Readfield Read field. Transactions include Frank and Alice Scallan to Glenn and Margaret Steen and Mary and Herman Starrett to James and Una Swingle.
Local residents from Bidwell Circleville Thurman and nearby towns hosted and visited relatives and friends for Christmas. Families including Waugh Lambert Cardwell Elliott Russell Ewing Foster Wilcox and Higgins shared time across Vinton Gallipolis Columbus Athens Cleveland Bladen and Northup with numerous extended family gatherings and dinners.
The Young People's Classes held their annual Christmas party at the church with about 40 attendees. Santa visited, gifts were exchanged, and refreshments served.
A list from Holzer Hospital records shows births includes a son to Charles and Mrs Jones in Gallipolis on December 31 and a son to Fred Propp in Apple Grove on the same date, plus a daughter to Harold Green in Gallipolis on January 1. The document also lists numerous admissions and dismissals of patients from Gallia and nearby towns, detailing medical and surgical cases and a long discharge list.
A capacity audience attended a Christmas program at the Methodist Church. A. F. Swan, Mrs. Leona Hensley and Mrs. Grace Swan attended the installation of Order of Eastern Star officers at Racine. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd McPeek of Belleville spent Christmas with relatives here. Mrs. Leona Ferrell and two sons of Medway Ohio visited twin sister Mrs. Leona Hensley. Linnie Swan.
Laurel Grange held a supper to celebrate eight member birthdays and elected a new member while contributing to the youth fund. Mrs. E W Holcomb hosted at Laurel Hall for her brother Joe McWhorter’s Texas return after a year in town and Albany High School. }
Alfred Alfreds Sunday school teachers handed gifts to children while Dins more Boyles and Hermann Taylor led worship and prayer services. The Christmas program at the new church drew 44 children and 7 adults, with readings by Ella Yost Thelma Henderson and Grace Greiner at the Grange Hall. Isola Taylor led WSCS activities at Elmwood Rest Home and organized rag rug sewing. Jan 15 meeting set at Garnet Windland’s. MYF hosts New Year’s Eve potluck in church basement.
Annabel Lanning 65 lifelong New Straitsville resident died Tuesday morning in St. Anthony's Hospital Columbus after a long illness. Survived by daughters Mrs Nelson Carlinger Shawnee and Miss Betty Lanning Columbus, son William Columbus, sister Mrs Margaret Lant Columbus, brothers John Columbus and Dave New Straitsville. Funeral Thursday 2 p.m. New Straitsville Methodist Church Rev Willard Noce. Burial New Straitsville Cemetery. Friends may call Mills and Brown funeral home until services. Pythian Sisters to conduct services Wednesday 8 p.m. at funeral home.
Mrs Ida Davis 71 died Monday at her Coolville area home after a long illness. Widow of Perry Davis she is survived by son Paul and grandson Billy both of Coolville along with brothers Guy and Elmer Dotson of Williamstown. Friends may call at White Funeral Home services set for 2 p m Thursday burial in Coolville Cemetery.
Peter Feeney, 98, died Tuesday at 3 p.m. at his Middleport residence. Surviving are son Earl of Akron and daughters Bertha Ritner Fox Lake Ill Kathleen Nissley Columbus and Mildred Berry Middleport. Funeral services tentatively planned for Friday at Ewing funeral home in Pomeroy.
Graveside services were conducted Wednesday afternoon for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Reed. The Rev. Aaron Cunningham led the ceremony at the Coolville Cemetery with survivors including sister Marsha, four grandparents, and two great grandparents.
The Modern Plumbing Co bankrupt assets go to public sale January 8 1957 at 39 Hocking St Nelsonville Ohio starting 10 a m. Items include plumbing tools office equipment a showcase gas stoves pipe fittings and two Chevrolet trucks 1974 and 1955. Inspect via trustee at Cline Building or call 32781 Athens Ohio sale cash to highest bidder final court confirmation required.
Personal notices urge better cleaning of fine sweaters using cold water. Uhlman’s offers lower floor promotions as new ads appear while old ones disappear. Quick results when you run a Messenger Want Ad by dialing 31242.
USDA salable hogs 4500 receipts mainly U S 2 3 190 250 lb barrows and gilts. hog prices steady to 25 lower. cattle 1400, calves 200 with steady to higher vealers and steady cows and bulls. sheep 200 with slaughter classes steady and lambs 18 20 per cwt.
Cattle receipts were very light due to bad weather with no real good cattle on sale. Slaughter steers and heifers were mostly utility grades with prices from 12.00 to 16.00, and various beef and feeder cattle ranges noted for cows, veal calves, hogs, sows, pigs, and shoats. No strong feeding shoats observed in the sale.
Cincinnati area farm prices for eggs and poultry include consumer grades with jumbo, large, medium, and small egg rates and checks. Poultry prices list No 1 quality fryers, hens, and old roosters by weight, plus potato prices 2.90 to 4.50 per sack.
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