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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1956
Page
9
State Highway Patrol reports in 1955 seven fatal motor vehicle accidents in Vinton County, up from two in 1954. Patrolmen Edward Sheets and Raymond Travis drove about 70 000 miles in 1955, 56 000 in 1954, with 129 auto accidents, 42 personal injuries, 87 property damages, and 950 warnings issued on a Hamden Allensville curve.
Near Albany farmer F B Arbaugh owns 600 acres sprawling across Vinton Athens and Meigs counties. He dutifully pays taxes but must visit Athens McArthur and Pomeroy to complete semi annual payments. County extension agents from all three counties offer farming advice that sometimes conflicts. Arbaugh represents the fourth side of the issue.
Prepaid sales tax receipts in Vinton county totaled 1638.16 last week, up from 1047 in the same week last year. Collections since July 1 amount to 31142, compared with 25236 for the same period last year.
Funeral services were held in Columbus for Jacob McCatherne 80 a former Hamden resident who died December 27 at his home He is survived by his wife Hilda two daughters Ethel Phillips Chillicothe Opal Markham Carpenter two sons Dana and Bernard Columbus He was an uncle of Willie West and Delbert Pearce and others in Vinton County Burial was in Columbus.
A fragmented note reports that over four generations only male offspring were born to the Arbaugh family, leaving a pattern of male heirs in the farming lineage. It mentions the generation by generation succession and the absence of female births in the line.
David A Dowell 38 of Logan was disarmed by State Highway Patrolman Edward Sheets after firing at a Meeks ville tavern window on Route 75. Dowell sat in his car with a loaded shotgun on his lap and a loaded automatic rifle on the floorboards as he was arrested and held in Vin ton County jail pending charges for discharging a firearm across a state highway and related counts.
The first 1956 suit in Vinton County Common Pleas Court was filed Tuesday by attorney E. C. Motter. Plaintiff Tommie Wright sues defendant James R. Haines for $225 in money.
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