Temperature Dips to Three Above Zero in Campaign News
Mrs. Carman Church heads the 1947 March of Dimes drive in Athens County as temperatures spike above zero after a season low. Milk prices in Columbus fall to 18 cents a quart while officials outline last year’s fundraising total and plans for local infantile paralysis relief.
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Columbus
Athens County
Carman Church
Church
National Foundation
Oral Daugherty
Nelsonville
Verna Hand
Margaret Duskey
Tom Williams
Glouster
W. G. Davis
Chauncey- Dover
Don E. Barr
Athens
E. B. Young, Jr
Harper C. Pendry
Glen M. Hanes
Consumers Urged to Conserve Gas Amid Shortage
F W Phillips district manager of the Ohio Fuel Gas Co urged consumers to conserve gas as a sudden cold snap and the Big Inch Line failure create a gas shortage. The line froze in Arkansas and a Texas feeder also broke, cutting off service to industrial users and risking towns losing gas if cold continues.
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Ohio
Big Inch
F. W. Phillips
Ohio Fuel Gas Co
Phillips
Arkansas
Texas
Divorce suit filed in Common Pleas Court
Icel Har per sues Fred Harper for divorce charging gross neglect of duty. Plaintiff seeks temporary and permanent alimony and custody of two children aged four years and 14 months. Couple married February 1 1941.
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Common Pleas Court
Icel Harper
Fred Harper
Harpers
Markets hold narrow range as buyers and sellers show little interest
Cincinnati livestock report notes hogs 50 cents lower on early sales and sows down 1.00, various weight classes priced from 23.75 to 24.25 for hogs. cattle receipts limited with slaughter cattle about steady and calves and feeders mixed. sheep scarce and nominally steady with lambs up to 20.00 and ewes around 7.50 or better.
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Cincinnati Livestock Cincinnati
Ohio University to Hold Mid Year Graduation Jan 31
About 100 candidates will receive degrees at Ohio University's mid year commencement in Music Hall Auditorium at 2 p.m. Friday January 31. President John C. Baker will confer 93 bachelor degrees and 7 masters. The College of Commerce leads with 29 candidates followed by Arts and Sciences 28 and Education 25.
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Ohio University
Music Hall
John C. Baker
America
College of Commerce
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Education
Earl C. Seigfred
Hannah Thrash
Lancaster
Schumann
Thee
Robert Price
Logan
Miss Thrash
Price
Harold Abmyer
Gounod
Mendelssohn
Boyd Hall
Mrs Wright 93 Dies After Short Illness in Athens
Linnie Stewart Wright 93 died Tuesday night at Sheltering Arms Hospital after a three day stay. Born in Athens she lived in San Jose and returned to Athens thirty years ago to live with nieces at 68 Maplewood Drive. She leaves three grandchildren and five great grandchildren and a nephew Carl Stickney. Funeral arrangements not announced.
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Linnie Stewart Wright
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
R. H
Mary Fuller Stewart
W. F. Wright
San Jose
Calif
Bertha
Grace Stickney
Maplewood Drive
Episcopal Church
Vernon Croop
Rochester
N.Y
Donald Croop
Wilson
Ione Croop
Los Angeles
Carl Stickney
Trimble Man Dies at Age 80 in Trimble
Charles Brown 80 died at 12 30 am at the home of his son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Vern Sayre Trimble after an illness of many months He leaves a daughter a granddaughter Mrs Robert Lidington of Rochester New York and a great grandson Harry Vern Lidington His wife preceded him in death several years ago Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Glouster
Charles Brown
Vern Sayre
Trimble
Robert Lidington
Rochester
N. Y
Harry Vern Lidington
Sheltering Arms Hospital Notes in Athens Area
Local hospital notes record births for Mr and Mrs Dewalt and Mr and Mrs Schleicher in Athens and a son for Mr and Mrs Pennell. Admissions include Marilyn Klein Athens and Robert Linton Stewart with major surgery. Homer Wolfe and G P Ackley treated. Dismissals list several Athens residents and a few from Wellston Glouster and New Plymouth. A Graham Chapel Prayer Band gathering is announced at the Lauer home with Eleanor Hawk leading.
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Doyle Dewalt
Athens
Fred Schleicher
Raymond Pennell
Marilyn Klein
Robert Linton
Stewart
G. P. Ackley
Shade
Homer Wolfe
Charles Hayes
Allen Locke
Wellston
Stephen Forgaress
Graham Chapel
Henry Lauer
Eleanor Hawk
Lima man spared Lima observation before judge rules
Glen Brummage, charged with assault with intent to rape of a 12 year old near Coolville, was initially committed to Lima State Hospital for observation but the court ruled the 60 day observation was not mandatory. After reassembling, Common Pleas Judge O F Rowan sentenced Brummage to the Ohio State Penitentiary for one to 15 years.
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Lima
Glen Brummage
Ohio
Common Pleas Court
Lima State Hospital
Brummage
Common Pleas
O. F. Rowland
Ohio State Penitentiary
Cars Damaged In Route 75 Crash Near Logan
State Highway Patrol reports a crash on Route 75 south of Logan left the front ends of both cars demolished. Drivers Mahlon W. Richards aged 63 from Brainerd Minnesota and Simeon L. Wendt aged 23 from Batavia New York were not injured.
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Route 75
Logan
State Highway Patrol
Mahlon W. Richards
Brainerd
Minn
Simeon L. Wendt
Batavia
N. Y
Ames Man Injured in Denvertown Mine Accident
Amesville worker Howard E. Parsons suffered a severe injury to his right hand with loss of an index finger in a mine accident at the Jones Misco Mine near Denvertown. He is hospitalized at Good Samaritan Hospital in Zanesville.
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Amesville
Howard E. Parsons
Denvertown
Good Samaritan Hospital
Zanesville
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