Private Building Tops All City Records in 1956
Athens see record private construction spending with city permits totaling $1,037,601 for 1956. Home building accounted for about half, led by a $130,000 medical building permit in November. December total sagged to $11,925 across seven remodeling permits.
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Ohio University
Athens
Messenger
Service Safety Director
Gordon B. Gray
Mill St
Franklin Ave
Sol Rosenberg
N. Shafer
Sapp Brothers
Richland Ave
Pat White
E. State St
C. R. White
W. Stimson
Elmer Jones
Columbus Rd
Louis Shafer Dies After Illness in Ohio Hospital
Louis H. Shafer of the Fenzel apartments died Tuesday after a heart attack in his home and subsequent hospitalization. A Navy veteran of World War I, he lived in Ashland and Cincinnati before settling in Athens. He is survived by wife Georgia, son Douglas H. Shafer, stepson Charles Meyer, sister Helen Alexander, and two grandchildren. Services Friday at 2 p.m. in Calbert Funeral Home Cincinnati with burial there. Dowler Ferguson Hughes funeral home will host calling hours Wednesday.
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Louis H. Shafer
Fenzel Apartments
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Ashland
Mr. Shafer
Cincinnati
Athens
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Poston Station
K. T. Crossen Post
American Legion
the Forty and Eight
Ashland Presbyterian Church
Dowler-Ferguson-Hughes
Quiet Title Gained In Court Judgment
A quiet title to land in the Emma Roach Palmer addition to Athens was granted in a Common Pleas judgment by default against Ruth and Carl H. Tribe. The petition by Ethel Pierce Tribe seeks title. the court awarded clear title except for sewer rights retained by the city.
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Common Pleas
Ethel Pierce Tribe
Ruth
Carl H. Tribe
Emma_ Roach
Driver William Coots Fined for Driving Left of Center
William Coots aged 56 of 83 N Shafter Street was fined 25 dollars and costs after a State Highway Patrol complaint led to a Municipal Court appearance on Wednesday for driving left of center.
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William Coots
N. Shafer St
State Highway Patrol
Three Partition Suits Filed In Common Pleas Court
Milton Nuzum sues five defendants in three partition suits over more than 400 acres of Carthage Township land with oil and gas leaseholds. The wells allegedly underperform and parties dispute operating expenses. land may be set off or sold. Defendants include Virgil Hixson Gallipolis Sarah Koehler Pomeroy Frank Nuzum Athens William McCoy Opp L D Robinson Cairo W Va.
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Common Pleas Court
Milton Nuzum
Carthage Township
Virgil Hixson
Gallipolis
Sarah A. Koehler
Pomeroy
Frank Nuzum
Athens
William McCoy
Opp
Ala
L. D. Robinson
Cairo
W. Va
Shelterin g Arms Hospital Notes
A list of admissions and births appears from Shelterin g Arms Hospital noting new daughters for multiple couples including Ernest Rowland Athens Harley Full Jackson Dean Boat Athens Marcus Powell Athens Route 3 Perry Biffle Albany Route 1 Milford Warner Athens Walter Rose Corning and others. The record also lists several patients admitted such as Mrs. Monroe Vermillion Athens Route 1 Mrs. Jack Robinson Athens Route 4 and Lorenzo Johnson Fort Worth Texas.
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Ernest Rowland
Athens
Harley Full
Jackson
Dean Boat
Marcus Powell
Perry Biffle
Albany
Milford Warner
Walter Rose
Corning
Monroe Vermillion
Jack Robinson
Cecil Gwinn
James Deeter
Stewart
Shirley Nelson
Carpenter
William Bolin
Sherd Hostetter
Reedsville
Dick Fulton
Lorenzo Johnson
Fort Worth
Texas
Worley West
James Stedman
New Marshfield
Hamilton fined for disturbing the peace in restaurant fight
Robert Hamilton, 26, of Elliot Street, was fined $25 and costs in Municipal Court after pleading guilty to disturbing the peace by fighting. Police arrested him in a Court Street restaurant, jail records show.
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Robert Hamilton
Elliot St
Hamilton
S. Court St
Review of 1956 Athens area highlights
December 1956 events include Fair board electing Wayne Wingett as president and tentative 1957 fair dates, city council changes, Kroger expansion talk, new permits and car sales data, weather records, a pressroom fire delaying a newspaper, ground broken for Galbreath Memorial Chapel, county deputy appointments, sheriff’s death, political endorsements, and winter weather milestones with snow preceding year end oaths of county officials.
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Fair Board
Wayne Wingett
Frank Cross
Kroger
Mercury
Galbreath
Foster Bean
Max Valkinburg
Nelsonville
Athens County
Athens
Board of Elections
Fred Weber
Council
George Bateman
Republican Patronage Committee
Sherry Gilkey
United Appeals
Ohio U and city schools reopen after vacation
Near zero temperatures greet students as about 6800 Ohio University students return to campus and 1400 city pupils resume morning classes. OU semester schedule runs with final exams by Feb 2 and second semester starting Feb 6. Temperature records show lows around single digits to mid teens across local stations.
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Ohio University
Mr. Swinehart Rites Planned
Funeral services for Leo Morris Swinehart 56 a former Hebardville resident who died unexpectedly at work in Columbus will be held at 1 p m Thursday at Dowler Ferguson Hughes funeral home. He is survived by a brother Reuben R Swinehart a sister Mrs Rolland McPherson and two half brothers Cletus and Edward McPherson. The Rev C L Wooten will conduct the services and burial will be in Alexander Cemetery.
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Leo Morris Swinehart
Hebardville
Columbus
Dowler-Ferguson-Hughes
Swinehart
Reuben R. Swinehart
Rolland McPherson
Millfield
Cletus McPherson
Canal Winchester
Edward McPherson
C. L. Wooten
Alexander Cemetery
Athens man receives five day jail and fines for DWI
Harry Walls, 54, was fined 225 dollars and costs and sentenced to three days in jail for driving while intoxicated. His license was suspended for one year. He also got 75 dollars and costs and two more days in jail for driving while his license was suspended from an earlier offense.
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Athens
Man Fined and Bond Forfeited In Municipal Court
Harold Sams, 22, of Athens Route 4 forfeited a $30 appearance bond after pleading guilty to intoxication charges. Elmer Mitchell, 35, of Mill Street was fined $50 and costs after pleading guilty to intoxication charges.
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Harold Sams
Athens Route 4
Elmer Mitchell
Mill St
Brooks Divorce Granted by Common Pleas Court
Edna L. Brooks is granted a divorce from Edward N. Brooks by decree of the Common Pleas Court. Married in 1932 the couple have three children with the minor placed in the custody of the plaintiff. The decree also awards the plaintiff property in the Allendale addition to Athens.
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Edna L. Brooks
Edward N. Brooks
Common Pleas
Allendale
Athens
Athens De Molay Chapter to Meet at Masonic Temple
Athens Chapter Order of De Molay will hold a meeting at 7 00 p m Thursday in the Masonic Temple.
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Athens
Order of de Molay
Masonic Temple
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