Six Hurt in Athens Area Traffic Crashes
Six people were injured in crashes in the Athens area during the holiday weekend as Ohio highways filled with motorists. The State Highway Patrol logged five accidents in Athens and Hocking Counties from Saturday night to Monday morning, including a Guysville district Route 30 crash that sent three to Sheltering Arms Hospital. Injured were Everett L. Saunders, 27, Shirley Minera, 19, and Ben Hedges, 53, plus Donald Warren, 18, Gladys Williams, 3, Barry Williams, 5, Ora Demaile, 45, and Walter Palmer, 25, with various head, facial, and limb injuries. One driver, Paul F. Will, 37, was fined for left-of-center driving after his car left the road and struck a culvert. Additional incidents included a two-vehicle crash on Route 50 near Guysville and a Route 78 collision near Sleep, with no injuries reported. Total traffic deaths in Ohio stood at eight by 10 am Monday of the holiday weekend.
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Athens
State Highway Patrol
Hocking
Guysville
Ital
Everett L. Saunders
Lancaster
Shirley Minera
Millfield
WoMag
Ana
Coolville
Willams
Chauncey
Charles Wed
Ginian
Walter Palmer
Lanville
Harold F. Delker
Paul F. Will Toledo
Ohio
Athent
City Fights Trespass Claim Over East End Sewer Line
Athens officials admit sewer contractor crossed Grahams land at 84 Mill St without permission during 1954 work near the airport. They argue negotiations failed, the project benefits most residents, and seek court-determined compensation rather than removal. The Grahams allege entry and construction damaged land, building sites, and crops.
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Athens
Ela
Justina Graham
Mill St
Grahams
Athens real estate transfers and a court sewer case
A compilation of real estate transfers in Athens County including deeds by Hughes heirs and many individuals plus a civil action where the city seeks to condemn property for a sewer line. The Grahams contest the line and seek compensation while the city argues eminent domain and ongoing use of the sewer.
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J. D. Hughes
Hughes and Heirs
Athens County
Robert Sickles
Cora Campbell
Athens
Athens Township
Inyward E. Mount
Nelsonville
Wilford Maccombs
York
Harry Powell
George E. Keeton
Pitts Jenkins
Rome Township
Rustees
Rome
Lena E. Davis
Glouster
John Vereal
Mary E. Vereal
William Rowand
Grahams
Ltering Arms Admission and Dismissals List
A hospital roster lists admitted patients including Mrs Martha Pilcher and Mrs Edith Wolfe of Athens and Mr Harlan Jarvis family entry The Plains. Discharged are Mrs Allie French Harrisonville and Mrs Estella Cornell Athens among others.
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Harlan Jarvis
the Plains
Martha Pilcher
Athens
Edith C. Wolfe
Anna Mansfield
Arthur E. Downey
Richard Wooten
Glouster
Edmunda Clark
John Grounds
Carpenter
Timothy Wyatt
Joe Hines
Gladys Beveridge
New Marshfield
Marion Crippen
Colville
Virginia Reed
Coolville
Shirley
ROTC Staff Officers Serve at Fort Lee Training Camp
Four members of the Ohio University Army ROTC staff join cadre at the 1985 Summer Training Camp at Fort Lee Virginia. Maj. David D. Fiel Maj. Raymond F Hogdon Ist Lt John W Kinman Jr and MSgt Clinton McCartney help plan six weeks of training for about 500 quartermaster students from 29 colleges nationwide.
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FT. Lee
Ohio University Army
David D. Fiel
Raymond F. Hogdon
John W. Kinman, Jr
Clinton McCartney
United States
Lord Dunmore's Army Traveled Up Hocking
The 1774 Dunmore expedition led Virginians over the Hocking Valley from Logan to the Pickaway Plains to meet with Native leaders. The march crossed the Ohio River at Athens area and established a fort above Hockingport. Relics, battles, and local memory tied to Simon Girty and White-eyes color this account, including a belt buckle once found in the area and later displayed in Athens.
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CH. Warren
Lord Dunmore
Hocking Valley
Great Falls
Logan Hocking County
Pickaway Plains
Virginia
Hocking River
Dunmore
Ohio
Athens County
Hockingport
James A. Palmer
Athens
Simon Girty
Hocking
Simon Ity
William Crawford
Peter Beebe
Federal Creek
Bedhe
Richland
Chauncey
Fort Gower
Five Fined One Jailed After Arrests in Logan
Five drivers were fined and one jailed after arrests by the State Highway Police in Logan. Mayor Joseph Phillips presided over arraignments in Logan Municipal Court with fines handed to Charles Wedtes, Cayton Murphy, Nels Smvite, and Jacob Kraft. Several defendants faced charges of driving while intoxicated and related offenses in a scene described as part of a city effort to curb traffic violations near State Street and Sunday Creek.
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Logan
Joseph Phillips
Iheee
Stewart
Jed
Ste of
Setreimen
St ‘Mivens
Ded Cron
Lord Dunmore
Point Pieesant
Goring
Hocking River
Hocking Valley
Neltcoville
Ville
Robert Smith
Marietta
Marte
Carthage Gap
Houte
Pylis Meredith
Rate
Wetter
Milt
Dunmore
M. Lasier
Jotage
Gene Wellh
Portland
Eres
Cooters
Sppont
Hocking
Virginia
Athens hit by storm disrupts utilities and downed power lines
A storm across Athens Ohio disrupted utilities with winds felling power lines and forcing people indoors. Reporters noted downed poles in Albany and widespread service interruptions as crews worked to restore electricity. Temperatures fell to near 70 as light drizzle lingered through the afternoon.
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Athens
Auto crash near Lancaster and Carpenter after city incident
A car collided with a vehicle driven by Standard Williams after a traffic incident on the Lancaster and Carpenter Street intersection. Police cited Stewart after investigation.
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Sriver
Lancaster
W. Carpanter
N. Lancaster
W. Carpenter
Stewart
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Wood Frank Reynolds
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Zanesvite i
Clarice Ann Kovach
Glouster Real Estate
Rudolph D. Strinmeyer
Charles H Burt
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Wateroo
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Et Motore Company
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Albany
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de Lenninghoure
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Ome
F. Bobo
Dantes
Genes G. Clark
Columbus
Ord “Pdert
Giouster
Nellie. M. Graham
Shirley Murphy
Waterloo
John E. Standley, Jr
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Trimble
Arthur Kepler
Tes
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Anthony Barkie
Eal
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Lee E. Busch
Enterprise
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Ltering
ROTC
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Kerr-Hunter
Epee
Carit
Donald K. Barstow
Eictric Co
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Hare
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Mca
Murphy & Son
Dwight H. Retherdond
Peter B. Sael
Chaser
Semple & Kempton
Lauster
Richard Guinther
Nelsonville, Ohio
Oakley Ins
The
Saltz
Bell Nowell
Amm
O. Smith
Goodsyyear
Goodyear
Fawcett
Chesterhill
Houck & Vandyke Inc
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Union
Athens County Savings & Loan Co
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