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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1946
Page
9
Meigs County registrations increased in June with 16 new passenger car titles and 20 new truck titles. Of 252 total titles, 216 were for used vehicles and fees collected totaled 353.56 dollars with 212.80 to the county treasury and 75.30 to the state.
Middleport villagers voted to retire bonds totaling 8818.19 plus interest and to buy a new police car. Street workers’ wages were increased from 50 to 65 cents an hour effective July 16, with plans to hire extra men for cemetery cleanup and Seventh Street work. The council also discussed adding fireplugs near Imperial Electric Company buildings and approved using the old fire truck for sewer work. A bid for the police car was accepted, with a 200 dollar allowance for the old vehicle.
Mrs Ella Couch of Pomeroy visited Mrs Ray McArdle of Cincinnati and her seven sisters on Monday. Mrs Howard Roush and children returned to Follansbee after visiting her mother Mrs L D Davis. Denver Hysell and wife from Columbus visited in Pomeroy over a weekend with relatives. John Smith and wife of Wellsburg visited Ed Arnold’s family in Rose Hill. Dan Hysell and son Lawrence, recently discharged, returned to Ravenna for a visit. Superintendent John Painter of Mansfield and wife visited her parents in Harrisonville. Mrs R T Young returned to Columbus after visiting relatives in Wolfe Pen. Charles Durst and son of Columbus visited Bernice Durst in Pleasant Ridge. Charles Warner and son Will, from Kentucky, visited Chester Road relatives. Warner returned to Kentucky, wife and son stay in Pomeroy this week.
Transfers filed in Meigs County Recorder list multiple property sales and moves. Names include Bentz Jones Ewing Bailey Pierce Hess Roush Starkey Koehler and Conde with parcels in Pomeroy Salisbury Syracuse Letart Columbia and Salem Townships. An odd historical note states a grenadier was a soldier who carried and threw hand grenades.
Florence Louise Smith daughter of Mrs Florence Smith of Butternut Ave returned home Friday after serving as a clerk in the U S Department of State offices in Moscow She described confidential work travels through the Kremlin with Mrs Harry Hopkins and a leave that included Sweden Finland and Norway She traveled to Moscow in a war convoy two years ago via the Mediterranean Suez Tehran and Berlin before returning on the S S Santa Paula arriving in New York June 24 She visited her sister Caroline in Washington and has plans to work abroad again in the future
Detroit CIO United Auto Workers urged all CIO unions to back wage hikes for 60,000 Chrysler workers if price controls are not restored to June 30 levels. Delegates instructed officers to demand wage boosts within 60 days matching price increases unless OPA is reenacted.
Middleport youngsters watched an amphibious Duck vehicle demonstration by Col. Vernon Linda mood, army recruiting officer, at the High School Stadium last night. The Duck stayed on the field during the game, drawing cheering ring side attention as Syracuse prepares to meet Rio Grande College in the softball elimination tournament.
Homing pigeons are released from fast moving airplanes inside paper bags to shield them from air blast. The birds escape the bags and swiftly return home.
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