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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1949
Page
8
Mayor Thomas Williams announced a county wide dog quarantine and warned that two dogs may be euthanized after a bite incident. Dog owners are urged to keep pets tied while authorities assess a possible rabies outbreak. Reports indicate rabies concerns in Athens and Nelsonville.
Waltonians vote to authorize a fox drive in Hocking County to slow a rabies surge. The Izaak Walton League board will set the date with over 100 participants. Reports from Rushville indicate drives can yield multiple foxes per day as health officials warn eight of ten foxes tested are rabid.
The Logan area lists Sunday services for First Methodist St Pauls Episcopal First Church of the New Covenant West Logan Holiness First Presbyterian Trinity Lutheran The First EUE South Haydenville Church of God Union Furnace Gore EUB Circuit Otterbein Orville Fellowship and Zion church with times for worship Sunday school and youth or prayer meetings and midweek events.
The Miller Chapel Grange met Wednesday evening with Worthy Master R. E. Allen presiding. Memorial services were held for Mason Holloway. Mrs. Pearl Duffy and Mrs. Jesse Sheline officiated. Members presented poems and songs as William Winders joined the executive committee after Holloway’s passing. A March of Dimes contribution was approved.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Chambers and daughter Carla of Canonsburg Pa with John Chambers family and Joyce. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Worth of Columbus visiting Gomer Donaly and R A Lewis ill. Ralph Steele family with W E Steele. birth announcements for Peggy Ann to J L and wife on Jan 10. Bates Rev. announces daughter born at Oak Hill. visits between Gallipolis and Eureka area. WSCS held Jan 11 with twenty members and guests and served supper to Masons Jan 15 during inspection night.
Mr. and Mrs Carroll Triplett announce a son born January 14 with maternal grandparents Roy Pierce and Mrs. Pierce and paternal grandparents Harry and Mrs. Triplett. A surprise party honored Rev and Mrs Harris. Guests included John Woodward, Walter Shook, Fred Williams. Carol Howard transferred to Zanesville office of Ohio Bell. Mrs Clyde Dulaney admitted to Marietta Memorial Hospital.
The Hocking Hospital lists admissions including Mrs. Stephen Molnar Glouster Route 3 Mrs. Arthur Tripp Zaleski Charles Rizer Nelsonville Route and Richard Brooks McArthur. Discharges include Mrs. Fred Mohler and daughter Pattonville Mrs. Verner Hondell Zaleski and William Baird Logan.
Hocking County Bar Association and Law Library elected officers after a 6 30 p m venison dinner at Bloser s restaurant. Hubert Lappen named president, Judge Harley Meyer vice president, Richard Gerken secretary treasurer. George Christmann Fred A Murray and DC Wood Bowen re elected to law library posts with trustees Phil Henderson Forest Weinrich Leslie Johnson Rhea Bangert and B F Primmer. All 11 county attorneys attended. Gerken supplied venison from a Michigan hunting trip.
Logan attorney Richard C. Gerken was named chairman of the Hocking County Red Cross blood bank project. A Blood mobile would visit regularly with a 100-donor quota, linked to the national Red Cross system, processing in Columbus and returning transfusable blood at no cost to patients.
Hilda Wallace files for divorce from George Wallace in common pleas court on grounds of gross neglect and extreme cruelty. She seeks custody of three minors and support plus alimony. Judge Harley Meyer grants a restraining order. The couple married at Point Pleasant West Virginia on August 16 1920.
Mr and Mrs Carl Lee and children visited relatives. Paul Orr attended a basketball game in Athens and hosted others at Taskaja Ohio. Paul Richard Torrence visited Raymond Cole and Ezra Newell funeral services were attended by several locals. Guests included Mr and Mrs J N Gaul Victor Sumner and others from Addison Toledo and Tuppers Plains. Grover White and son visited Charleston West Virginia. Roy Newell and Mrs Chilli tools visited Edie White. Orr family hosted Wilbur and Edna Dean Chester and Mary McKay.
Logan funeral services for Arnold G. Manter, 62, who died Monday, were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Evangelical United Brethren Church with Rev. A. N. Grueser officiating. Interment followed in Oak Grove cemetery. Pallbearers were Carl Miller, Clayton Runkle, Clarence Leffiter, L. M. Watson, Clay Snider and William Youel. Music by Spurgeon Metzler, Edgar Hillyer, Jerry Hutchison and Allen Adams with Carl Spence at the piano.
Mrs Ray Allison spoke on India missions at Kanauga PTA with plans to observe Founders Day at the February gathering. Nearby social updates note dinner guests, moves, and visits among local families in Point Pleasant Melton Charleston and Pittsburgh.
Hollister and Phelps family and daughter Marianna spent a weekend in Newark. Aberts family with Kay Laron and Cherylann visited McArthur. Florence Hodgson visited Ona Dew in Chester Hill. Thompson couple joined a Bible study at Ernest and Mrs. Post’s Spencer Ridge home. Adams returned from Toledo with Mrs. Leompson.
Kimberly Kimberly William Myers of Nelsonville called on Robert Beckler. Paul Wood of Columbus spent a day with Mr and Mrs William Davis. Oliver Carsey moved to the Davis property near Nelsonville. Mr and Mrs James Hatfield returned home after Columbus work. Audrey Lauderback visited her Havdenville parents. Robert Hatfield returned home from Columbus employment. Orville Robinson of Glouster visited his parents. J M Davis aged local resident ill. Route 691 limestone treatment noted. Mrs Dorothy Ruscoe hosted Rainbow class at Daugherty farm. Floyd Bro
Perry County court notices include real estate tax statements to be mailed by County Treasurer Charlies W. Norris with taxes due by March 1 and requests to bring statements to the office or mail remittances. Probate filings cover inventories for Wayne Patton and Adam Spires estates, appraisers named, and administrator filings. An application seeks approval of a death and injury settlement for Leland Lawrence Bishop in a car accident. Arrests include Farj Ramsey for intoxication, Arthur Shaeffer for auto theft, and others facing non support or intoxication charges.
Local notices list clergy reception in Portsmouth for Bishop Werner. Veterans and air corps entries show William R. Wilson at Ft. Knox and Oliver Cadle in Texas. Various court actions include divorces in Roseville and multiple real estate transfers in New Lexington and Somerset plus transfers, moves, and family visits across multiple Ohio towns.
Funeral services for John Harrison were held in Corning this afternoon after his death on Monday. Surviving are his wife Mary and two sisters Hazel Sharp of Hemlock and Agnes Penrod of Crooksville. Burial will be in Millertown.
Frost Frost and Mr and Mrs Harlan Johnston were guests of Mr and Mrs Cliff Hatch. Mrs Charles Randolph spent a day with Mrs Faye Matlack. The Rev and Mrs Maxwell from Athens called on Mr and Mrs L C Petty and Mr and Mrs B V Vakery. Mrs Clyde Rowell and Mrs Faye Matlack spent a day in Athens.
Local church listings show service times and leaders for Glouster Jacksonville Hollister Mount Carmel Trimble and nearby locales. Details include Sunday school times worship services prayer meetings and evangelistic events led by pastors such as W H Mathias John Devol H Householder Daniel Teater and Leona Thompson with topics like Great Tribulation At Calvary According to His Deeds and The Lord's Hand Maiden.
The Chattanooga News Free Press reported Wednesday editions were devoured by dogs after a bakery advertisement spread cinnamon scent provoking canine interest. Radio reports said dogs across the city scattered papers tossed on lawns and porches, leaving little trace or smell by subscriber retrieval.
Members of Trimble Grange will hold a Saturday meeting at 8 p.m. First and second degrees will be conferred on a class of candidates. A potluck supper will be served after the ceremonies.
Glouster Mrs Hubert Guess of Zanesville visited relatives in Glouster Wednesday and Thursday with her husband. Miss Gloria Ann Exenkamper, employed in Barberton, spent the weekend in Jacksonville with her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Exenkamper. Miss Norma Hanley of Barberton was a weekend guest at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs William Hanley Greens Run.
Mr and Mrs Charles Pidoski announce the birth of a daughter Charlene Ann in White Cross Hospital on January 9. Grandparents are Frank Frederick of Columbus and John Pidoski of Jacksonville. the couple are former Jacksonville residents.
Mrs. Joe Meade was taken to Grant Hospital in Columbus for major surgery today or Saturday as doctors prepared for a critical operation.
The Glouster Methodist Church sponsors a religious survey of Glouster and nearby areas. Rev. John Devol says the project aims to collect family church and Sunday school connections including parents names children names and ages and Sunday School attended or preferred.
Funeral services for Cpl. Foster Douglas Skinner arrive from Eurema will be held Sunday at 2 30 p m at the Trimble Church of Christ. Rev. Gilbert Courtney will preach and veterans groups VFW post and McCann Frederick Post American Legion will conduct military rites.
The Orpah Class of the Methodist Church in Glouster will not meet this evening as announced. The date for the postponed meeting will be announced later.
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