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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1953
Page
3
Gallipolis authorities announce the 6th annual fish rodeo for youths under 16 at Chickamauga Basin near the boat club. The event runs Saturday from noon to 4 pm with awards including rods reels and a bicycle. Registration closes at 2 pm and prizes require natural bait only.
A list of marriage licenses shows pairs including James Edward Hall 18 and Marjorie Eleanore Thomas 17 from Cheshire with occupations truck driver and student. Other couples include Charles Robert Burnette 20 of Gallipolis and Ollie Belle Dauber 21 of Kerr, a clerk. Additional pairs feature Charles Herman Walter 51 Euereka and Sarah Ellen Peck 39 Gallipolis housewife, Ralph A. Butcher 25 Cheshire welder and Nina F. Sheets 21 Cheshire housework, Ned H. Waites 24 Cheshire truck driver and Verda H. Davis 28 Cheshire waitress, John P. Swain 20 Bladen USA and Isabelle M. Kemper 21 Gallipolis waitress, Donnie Day 20 Bladen farmer and Vivian Loretta Simms 17 Bladen.
Howard A and Rachel A Wilson transfer 52 acres in Addison Township to Martha Smith. Alma and B J Davis sell lots in Bidwell to Elizabeth S Dennett. Frank and Ruthella Hamilton convey a Clay Township lot to Faye Saunders. W C and Thelma Cotton transfer a Clay Township lot to Frank and Ruthella Hamilton. L W and Reade L Crawford sell 27 acres in Green Township to Clifton Lewis and Virginia Crawford. Esta L McKnight transfers a Green Township lot to John I and Vivian Richards.
Funeral services for Lulla Warden Harrison 77 who died in Holzer Hospital will be held at Miller funeral home at 2 p.m. Friday conducted by the Rev. Earl Cremeens. Burial will be in Macedonia Cemetery Harrison Township. He was a retired barber and former farmer. He resided with his sister Mrs. Stella Rose and leaves brothers Rudy and Alva of Gallipolis. Friends may call at the funeral home.
Local social notes record visits among residents. Clyde Nihiser and Gilbert Woltz called on David Woltz. Perry Kline visited Eliza Kline. Oscar Hostler and Eva Tabler dined with the Woltz family. Charlie Meyer called on Dave Woltz with his wife and family.
Clarence Higgins of Coshocton spoke to about 100 Rotarians at the Gallipolis club meeting. He displayed color slides from Paris London Edinburgh and other European locales and described English and Scottish customs and living conditions. Higgins, on a Rotary Foundation fellowship, has visited British clubs to foster international understanding.
Gauge readings across locks 18 to 23 show depth 9.2 to 10.0 feet on the Ohio River with Gallipolis 11.8 feet and Kanawha Falls 2.28 rising. Boat movements list numerous upriver and downriver passages timed mainly in the late morning to evening across the Ohio and Kanawha rivers.
The Holzer Hospital notes report births for Mr. and Mrs. William L. Hughes of Point Pleasant a son and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Pekkala of McArthur a daughter. Admissions include Mrs. Elmer Plymale Gallipolis Ferry Grace Ann Hill Jackson and others with surgical and medical cases. Discharges list Walter Bulmer Francis Rippeth Billy Brewer and many others including Whitt infant and Mrs George Hout and infant.
New Lexington reports say Company H Ohio National Guard, 60 members, left July 5 for two weeks of training at Camp Grayling Michigan. Miss Elizabeth Ann Newlan resigns from New Lexington High School. Clarence Tallant is still at large after leaving the state brick plant June 23. Kenneth Snider family featured in Ohio Bell Magazine June issue with Lake Hope vacation photos. Michael Riggs, 3% year old Crooksville child, injured in auto fall admitted to Bethesda Hospital. China Street bridge project begins Crooksville, Route 75 burley Run crossing area traffic rerouted. Henry Russell suffers eye injury from flying steel.
Irene Jackson attended camp recently. Delaney was treated for a fractured hip at University Hospital in Columbus. William Mahaffey and family visited his son Emmet in West Virginia and Jimmie in Huntington veterans hospital. Woodrow McGinnis and George Queen hosted weekend visitors from Springfield and Columbus. A B Randolph and spouse returned to Huntington work after a farm vacation here.
Gallipolis radio operator Ivan Sheets resigned to Chief Chester Leaper effective July 11. He will return to Lancaster to be chief radio man for a local taxicab company. Sid Vance is replacing Patrolman Grant Long who also resigned.
Mr and Mrs Fred Campbell of Columbus and other Marietta and Columbus families visited the Olivers and Welchs. The Campbells, Bohlens, Reeds, Barretts, Goddards, and Kee families spent weekends with relatives in Marietta and Glouster. The gathering included multiple multiple family drops by at John Landers and Eva Landers home with Henry Allender and Dave Winters also visiting earlier.
Mrs. Ernest Thompson is a patient at Jewish Hospital in Cincinnati after undergoing spinal surgery Tuesday morning.
The Rome Canaan Local School District announces a budget hearing for fiscal 1941 on file at the Clerk’s office in Guysville Ohio, set for 7 30 p m Saturday July 11 1943 at the Board of Education office in Stewart. The district will also accept bids for about 250 tons of 6 inch lump No 4 Carbondale coal from Big Run area to be delivered to school buildings in Stewart Ohio with weight slips. bids due by July 25 1958. right to reject any bid retained.
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