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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1969
Page
14
Middleport Garden Club met at the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric social room with Miss Nellie Zerkle presenting poinsettia care tips from Dr. Poinsett. She covered propagation fertilizing and bloom care.
In Belpre a monoxide poisoning incident claimed the life of Ronald Johnson 25. His parents Ernest and Mrs. Ernest Johnson remained in serious condition while Mrs. Debbie Johnson and Ronald’s wife were treated and released. The death followed a visit to the Johnson home by relatives and friends. Funeral services for Ronald were set for Belpre.
Six bonds forfeited and ten fines levied in Pomeroy village court on Saturday. Defendants include Atha Rayburn for intoxication and unlicensed driving, Ray Haning and Roger Holter for speeding, Samuel Boston and Lyle France for drunken driving, plus various fines for exhaust defects, license issues, reckless operation, and passing a stopped school bus. Names include Rayburn Ray, Haning Ray, Holter Roger, Boston Samuel, France Lyle, Lawrence Smith, Junior Matox, Michael Redmond, Marvin Stover, Eugene Elliot, Templeton Grueser, Zack Walters, Harry Carpenter, George Sprouse, and Lucy O'Reilly.
Meigs county notes show Theodorus Council No 17 of Pomeroy plans a meeting at Mrs A W Hayes home 749 South 3rd St Middleport Friday at 7 30 p m The Bradbury PTA postpones its meeting due to weather and will reschedule for Feb 13. Local personal items report Merri Ault visiting Waverly with the Wise family and others.
A Theodorus Council No. 17 Daughters of America meeting notes a deceased member Minnie Gettys and a sick list including Lydia Stewart Cora McBride Carrie Meinhart plus several others. An audit covers 1968. Pomeroy village reports a water leak on Second Street with crews working. no impact on residents.
The Meigs County Board of Education re elected Virgil Atkins as president and Harold Roush as vice president with Robert Bowen as clerk. Bowen was absent due to family illness while Atkins receives treatment for a heart attack at Meigs General Hospital. The board adopted a tentative 1969 budget, issued three bus driver permits, and authorized Bowen to apply for Title Three federal aid. It also named Nel lie Vale as delegate to a Columbus conference on mental retardation. In Portland area, Texas experts expected to help control a gas well burn on the William McKelvey farm.
Eight new fiction books join the Meigs Jackson Vinton county bookmobile shelf curated by Mr. Fady Educator. Titles include Richard L. Hardman’s Fifteen Flags about the American Siberian Expeditionary Force and 1918 1920 Allied intervention, Herbert Tarr’s Heave Help Us about a young Rabbi’s pulpit days, Keith Robertson’s A Task of Sangria a finance intrigue mystery, Lloyd Biggle’s The Still Small Voice of Trumpets highlighting his musicology PhD, Ernest Gebler’s The Old Man and the Girl on marital fidelity, Garland Roark’s Drill a Crooked Hole a Texas oil novel, Leonard Foreman’s Rogue’s Legacy, and Phyllis A Whitney’s Hunter’s Green.
POMEROY Ohio State Patrol reports several slides and crashes across Gallia and Meigs Counties Tuesday due to icy roads. Vehicles include a Kennedy car and a Gallia County truck on Bulnville Porter Road injuring none, plus a Jackson Road two car crash with no injuries or citations and an Addison Bulaville collision with no injuries. Meigs County reports two more incidents on Township Road 313 and Route 124 with no injuries or citations.
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