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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1947
Page
3
A Gallipolis businessman reacted to the Newark woman's crime involving a handsaw and sickle to kill and dismember her husband and subsequent burning and burial of body parts. He quipped that there must have been some ill feeling involved.
The Gallipolis city board of education reviewed a 1946 football season financial report by Supt. E E Higgins showing a starting balance of 1345.55 and a January 3 1947 balance of 1640.90. Receipts totaled 3976.87 from home games 3431.20 from away games 505.67 plus 40 from the Rio Grande Wilberforce game. Expenditures included guaranties 260 officials 170 equipment 2116.61 taxes 538.71 meals and transport 192.62 and miscellaneous 403.58. Messages announced a special meeting to discuss starting the Memorial Recreation Field with William Davis as architect from Athens.
Gallia County home demonstration agent Dorothy Haubeil invites Mrs Joe Miller and Mrs Glen Powell to assist Thursday afternoon in labor saving demonstrations. The show by the Farm and Home Labor Saving caravan from Ohio State University agriculture department will be at the Earl Moore Sales Co building on Second Avenue from 10 to 4 o'clock.
An Ohio doctor notes constipation causes discomforts like headaches and low energy. Dr Edwards Olive Tablets claim to gently cleanse bowels and stimulate bile to aid digestion, sold by druggists at 15¢ or 30¢ with label directions.
County Auditor W Emmett Slagle reports 1946 bounty payments for grey foxes in Gallia County total $1046 for 523 foxes killed. Some claimants misinterpret feet required. four feet must be delivered. Payment follows sheriff affidavit and certification. Pelts once reached $6, now around $2 each.
The Gallia County Holzer Hospital lists admissions including Mrs A G Voelker from Wellston Mrs Edgar Cunningham Pomery John Griffin Gallipolis Jesse Eads Middleport Pierce Hensley Wellston Linda Reese daughter of Floyd Reese Gallia three month old daughter of Jesse McGuire Northup Mrs Basil Farnsworth McArthur Mrs Thomas Steele Jackson and Mrs Charles Sayre Pomeroy Daughters born to Mr and Mrs James Burton Wellston Mr and Mrs Edgar Cline Crown City and Mr and Mrs William E Wagonrode Vinton Those discharged include Mrs Clarence Petrie Frank Brown Paul Douglas Brown Mrs George Williamson and daughter Mrs Oliver Keil and daughter Mrs Clarence Mulford and son Mrs Roy Kincaid Mrs Paul Wyant Mrs E M Cox Mrs Raymond Freeman and Mrs Frank Pierotti.
Gallipolis reports eighteen year olds registered with the Selective Service office in December and January as announced by Miss Gail Russell. The list includes Irvin Betz, William Nelson, Everett Racer, Bobby Simms, Ray Cremeens, Moran Kiser, Robert Ramey, James Hackworth, James Montgomery Jr, Calvin Duncan, David Smith, Paul Miller, Junior Birchfield, Paul Saunders, Basil Holley, Robert Glenister, Louis Davis, Otis Johnson, Ely Sparks, George Woodward, John Hartsook. Those discharged in December include Franklin Wright, James Baldwin, Albert Ehman, William Skaggs, Thornton Johnson, William Mullins, Donald Lewis, Kenneth Hill, Delmer Skidmore, Harvey Rollins, James Lewis, Robert Brown, Harold Worth, Jack Ratliff, Harold Davis, Charles Smith, James Betz Jr, Clarence Kirby, John Lambert, Corbett Patterson.
The Rev. Linson H. Stebbins of Kinsman near Youngstown will speak at the Presbyterian Church Sunday morning in Gallipolis. A vote will follow to invite him to become resident pastor. The church has been without a pastor since last July.
Gallipolis residents are invited to a 7 p m showing of The Last Days of Pompeii sponsored by the High School Language Club. Miss Martha Hes son, Latin and English teacher, serves as club advisor.
Sheriff Hatfield follows a British Consulate note about a mariner who wed in England and vanished after listing Gallia County as his former home. Deputies are tracing the missing man.
Gallipolis will adopt Trees for Tomorrow in conservation and forestry courses. Superintendent E. E. Higgins announces the book covers history of trees forest farming and wood use for classroom study.
Gallipolis, Jackson, Ironton and Wellston in District 28 show 75 percent HI Y Club registration. The figure comes from a letter to Supt. E. E. Higgins from the Ohio West Virginia YMCA.
Gallipolis officials designate Mrs. Frank Wetherholt and Mrs. Harry Hurn as delegates to the state DAR conference in Columbus for March. Alternates include Mrs. E Gills Mrs. L R Hall and Miss Anne Hill. Mrs Wetherholt also named delegate to the national DAR congress in Washington in May with Miss Anna Simmerman and Miss Hill as alternates.
Gallipolis locks report 13 coal barges and one fuel barge passing at 12 30 p m the Ashland down at 1 35 p m nine empties the Buchtillite up at 11 15 a m seven steel one coke the George M Verity up at 2 p m four empties Paragon up Wheeling dam 14 Dauntless down 12 55 p m four benzol C W Talbott at 1 40 a m with one cement two coke Lehigh down at Benwood West Va at 1 45 p m with four steel two empties National up at Marietta 10 35 a m Titan down dam above Huntington 2 30 p m Wishard down 12 40 a m two coal Pete down 1 05 p m Huntington locks Blaske up 3 40 a m Portmouth Republic of Pittsburgh up Augusta Ky 6 55 a m six loaded five empty On Kanawha Somet down Marmet locks 10 30 a m eight coal barges Winfield locks Shearer up 7 30 a m one fuel Barrett up 12 35 p m six empties Joe Cook down 2 p m two empties.
Gallipolis reports show an average of one arrest per ten motorists stopped by the State Highway Patrol. Since January 1, 52 warnings have been issued in the area but only five arrests have been made.
Gallipolis reports the engagement of Geraldine Ruth Ward daughter of Mr and Mrs Wesley F Ward to Lowell E Swisher son of Mr and Mrs Leo Swisher both of Cheshire with the couple planning marriage in the near future.
At a Monday night city commission meeting Auditor Earl McCormick announced December parking meters yielded 1676 dollars and the city received 6000 dollars from the municipal court during 1946.
Harry W. Slaven aged 28 a Ripley West Virginia linotype operator and Mary Fry aged 23 a Gallipolis telephone operator were issued licenses along with John W. Hornsby 21 mechanic of Gallia and Grace C. McCormick 18 of Gallipolis as recorded in the Patriot.
Irvin Saunders of Gallipolis was jailed Tuesday night on a warrant signed by Oscar Bastiani accusing him of cashing a $400 Armed Forces Leave Bond and using it as a check.
Gallipolis report shows the Band Boosters Club has raised about half of the $2,000 goal for the school year. A spring concert is expected to cover most of the balance. The group funds band uniforms and equipment and will host magician Doctor Holt in Washington School Auditorium at 8 p.m. Thursday. A district dinner for the Southern Ohio Music Education Association is planned with about 200 delegates, date to be set.
Appropriations of 140000 dollars to operate Gallia County for 1947 were approved by the board of commissioners at their first meeting. C. L. Johnson was named chairman with W G Haskins and T E Daniels as members. Harry Morgan was appointed trustee of the child welfare board for four years. W Emmett Slagle continues as county auditor and clerk for the commissioners.
Gallipolis report notes Carlos D. Bradley showed a National Music Camp film from Interlochen Michigan to Rotary club members. He recalled camp experiences in 1936 and 1938 while Dr. Harry King presided and Richard Smeltzer led as Junior Rotarian. The film was also shown to Washington and Band Boosters audiences.
Gallipolis police report two stores broken into Saturday night. A & P grocery missing 20 pounds of sugar and a small ham while Womeldorff and Thomas hardware has not missed any merchandise.
Gallipolis Superintendent E E Higgins of the city schools and educational chairman of the eighth district American Legion has been asked to write a chapter for the Child Welfare Guide published by the Legion on National Commander's Scholarships, a role he also chairs.
Open house at the Shumway home celebrated the Golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shumway, married in 1896 in the same house. The event highlighted family ties with the Reed, Emrick, and Brooks clans and included a delayed ceremony due to a missing license. Appreciations and visitors from several towns attended.
New Gallipolis cases list alimony claims and divorces including Juanita Spear Tephabock versus Robert Tephabock and Frances Smith versus Ellwood Smith. Also includes estate administrator Burgin Beam against Frances Smith and Nora Garrett against Edward Garrett and First National Bank of Gallipolis to vacate a judgment and a gross neglect divorce for Bereniece Lambert versus John Lambert.
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