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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1961
Page
6
The York PTA sponsors a drive to raise funds for an eye chart for the health department at the school. A cake baked by Mrs Roy Bookman will be sold by students and PTA members this week. The cake will be given away at the basketball game Friday. Mrs Virginia Thomas and Mrs Freida Hallett handle ticket sales. Tickets will also be sold at the game.
Knights of Pythias lodge No. 169 Nelsonville will sponsor the sixth annual Highway Safety Poster Contest across Ohio high schools as part of its Highway Courtesy and Safety Campaign. Contest closes March 31 with divisions for freshmen sophomores and juniors seniors and grand prizes from each division. Local lodge leaders include James Hollenbaugh Raymond Patton and Dr. E L Murphy with commendations from Mayor Earl Hilleary and Police Chief Max Valkinburg.
Miss Linda Goss was honored at a bridal shower at the Scout House hosted by Mrs. Ruth Kinneer, Mrs. Dixie Dupler, Mrs. Ruth Patton, Mrs. Ladonna Kuhn and Mrs. Bernard Goss. Thirty five guests attended. game prizes went to Mrs. Shelby Dupler, Mrs. Mary Frances Turner and Miss Sharon O N ail.
Notes from Mount St. Mary Hospital provide brief updates on patient care and routine events. The fragment mentions hospital notes but lacks clear details or names to specify.
Mr and Mrs Homer Mason Logan Route 4 welcome a daughter. Mr and Mrs Max McKinley Logan Route note a son. ADMISSIONS list Stella Claypool McArthur Route George Markin Corning Route Miss Ethel McGill Stewart Mrs Alice Steele Nelsonville Mrs Goldie L King New Lexington Miss Ira M Cox Nelsonville Mrs Waltus S Morris McArthur Route 2 William Fox Nelsonville Mrs Jennie Day Chauncey Mrs Eileen Calvert Buchtel Mrs Amanda Hook Gloucester Miss Joanna Zubaty Athens DISCHARGES include Ralph Hook and son Crooksville Route 2 Ronald Adams and daughter The Plains Carrie Cooper Trimble Master Randy McCabe Shawnee Route 1 Bob L Bauer Buchtel Isole Perry Athens Laura Joseph Wellston Mary Strohl Crooksville Master James Moore Murray City Helen Wilson Nelsonville Clara Smith Logan Lillian Gardner Glouster Route 3
Nelsonville city treasurer Mabel Tigner announced Wednesday her intent to seek renomination in the May primary. She first won public office in 1959 defeating R A Snackenberg by a small margin. Tigner lives at 603 Jackson Street and is active in the Emblem Club Business and Professional Women's Club and the Nelsonville Area Women's Democrat Club. She is married to Walter Tigner, cutting room foreman at William Brooks Shoe Co.
L. C. Gray, Nelsonville superintendent of schools, announces Charles Tanguy to the Nelsonville school district library board to fill the vacancy from Mrs. Hubert Mender's resignation.
William Hoffman, retiring after two terms as governor of the Nelsonville Board of Trade, reviewed a year of activities at the annual meeting attended by about 40. He noted valuable industry contacts, progress of the Nelsonville Development Corp., and plans for the Brooks Shoe Co. expansion with discussions on financing. The session included awards to Hoffman and two predecessors, reports on decorations, and new board member selections.
Nelsonville Public Library announces receipt of new titles to be placed on reserve Friday and Saturday and released to circulation Monday. The list includes The Block by Schoenstein, John Foster Dulles Soldier for Peace by Heller, The Ultimate Decision by May, One Thousand and One Night Stands by Shawn, Lay Siege to Heaven by De Wohl, Vangel Griffin by Lobsenz, Twilight World by Anderson, Love and Mrs Cargent by Rowans, The Crime Haters by Ashe, Treat It Gentle by Bechet, In the Cool of the Day by Ertz, First of the Spacemen by Kincheloe, Portrait of Max by Behrman, Gone Are the Days by Kane, The Far Sands by Garve, The Long Haul by Rayner, Bring Forth the Children by Brynner, The Secret of the Kingdom by Waltari.
January Scotts Creek Social Club program at the Scotts Creek schoolhouse featured William Dennis demonstrating mouth to mouth lifesaving with running commentary. About 20 attendees sang There's Music in the Air, Miss Grace Harsh led the business session, then pot luck refreshments. Paul Harsh won the attendance gift.
Mrs Kenneth Price led a discussion on Roy and Dale Rogers in the Junior Tourist Book Club meeting at Mrs Wayne Todds Midland Place. The reviewed title was The Answer is God by Elsie Miller Davis. 11 members attended with guests Mrs Michael Summers and Mrs William Bozett, who enjoyed a dessert course.
Brownie Troop 7 met at the Scout Little House with leaders Mrs. Frances Green and Mrs. Sybil Puckett. Officers elected include chairman Charlotte Pan cake vice chairman Gayle Lynn Sayre recording secretary Becky Patterson corresponding secretary Amy Green treasurer Debbie Hubbard refreshment committee chairman Janet Rogers librarians Jane Harmony and Linda Courtney for the Brownie Troop scrapbook.
The January meeting of Class 21 at First Methodist church in Nelsonville has been canceled.
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