Normal Hose Experiments End In Wet Agony At Athens
Reporter and crew test garden hose burrowing on Mrs Mercer’s yard and California stories headline. Hose slides, spouts turf and gravel as water pressure bores holes. Photographer Moore grabs pictures while Miss Christner and Weddy the dog referee the quirky contest. Ends with rain and frustrated normalcy in Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie | Mercer
W. Union St
California
Ind
Athens
Hilo
Moore
Teddy
Miss Christver
Michian
Nancy Christner
Gmo University
Steubenville
Bessie Mercer
Union St
Nelsonville City Council adopts 1956 budget at July session
Nelsonville voters heard a water tap complaint from Mrs. Joe Hardy on Walnut Street. The council reviewed storm sewer tile bids, discussed the city realignment of charges, and considered a sewage treatment plant dedication plan. Estimates showed 2900 feet of tile and a total cost around 10000 dollars while a water tap dispute tied to fee increases remained unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Joe Hardy
Couneil
Earl Hilleary
Safety Service
Homer Adams
Mai Hillary
Welsbach Corporation
Ward Phillips
P. R. Baird
Delbert Kuhn
Sinan
Pinegrove
Council
Adams
Logan Clay’ Products
Payne
Walnutian
John Brooks
Hilleary
Spencer Rites Set Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara I Spencer 69 who died Monday at her home near Racine will be held Thursday at 2 pm at Syracuse Church of the Nazarene. She is survived by her husband D B Spencer a daughter Mrs Leroy Longwell East Liverpool a grandson Gilbert Longwell two sisters Mrs Gren Woods East Liverpool and Mrs Josephine Richter Fort Wayne Indiana three brothers Albert Smith Lisbon Fred Smith noon Friday at church for the service burial in Letart Cemetery
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Mix
Clara I. Spencer
Racine
Syracuse
Lisbon
Fred Smith
Buria
Letart
Brother Turley Saunders Dies at 88 in Nitro WV
Turley 88 died at 2 13 today at his daughter's home Mrs James Smith of Nitro West Virginia He was last of a family of six brothers and three sisters Survived by four sons Funeral services set for 2 00 Thursday Burial in family plot near Seary West Virginia He lived near Seary until 1938 after his wife died and he moved in with his daughter
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Pols
den Turley Saunders
Turley
James Smith
Nitro
W. Va
Saunders
Seary
Mr. Turley
MeDade Rites Thursday at St. Mary Hospital
Miss Norleen Cable of Nelson born February 15 1888 died at 11 45 a m Monday after long illness. Mrs Hildreth Reeves survived by husband Ville Henry McDade one daughter John Harold Nelsonville Route Mrs Dolle Lewis Columbus one son Dolph Flowers Chillicothe three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Friends may call at Crow funeral home until 7 30 p m Tuesday. Police cite several local figures for traffic and signal violations. others entered guilty pleas in Mayor Hillary court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ang Orr
Mason
Robert Newman
Buchtel
Norleen Cable
Nelson
Ehee Bone
Tong Illnees
Hildreth Reeves
Nelsonvn
Ville
Henry McDade
John Harold
Nelsonville
Dolle Lewis
Columbus
Dolph Flowers
Chillicothe
Madalene Parry
New
Lexington
Crow
Logan
Joseph Barrett
Trimble
Mike Barrett
Charles Price
Della Linton
Nelsonvile
Marie Worsley
Canal and Hock Sts
L. Sickles
Athens
Rovite
Earl Hillary
Rd Eicloe
Eee
Rites Scheduled for Local Resident Died in Columbus
A local man died Sunday at United Unity Hospital. He was born in New Plymouth and lived most of his life in Columbus. Survived by wife Bernice five daughters Jean Harris Columbus Chartene Carter New Plymouth Ninia Ann and Marguerite Pullers Columbus, his stepfather and mother. Services Tuesday 1 30 p m at Wrightset funeral chapel with burial Starr Cemetery. Friends may call Tune home after Wednesday noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweaninun — Growe Moring
Columbus
Untity Hospital
Ney Plmouth
Umm
Bernice
Jean Harris
Chartene Carter
New Plymouth
Ninia
Ann
Tath
Washington
Air Force
Marguerite Pullers
John Pulte
Wrightset
Starr Cemetery
Nelsonville settler Houseman tabs patience with rainfall
In Nelsonville Henry Houseman, longtime Decatur High School principal and part time candidate for ordination as a Methodist minister, tallies a 93 inch rainfall week, while maintaining teaching duties and community work. A picnic at Johnny Appleseed Roundside Park closes the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Houseman
Yarmer Houseman
Houseman
Decatur High School
Nelsonville
Watson Wolfe
Nelsonville-A
Johnny
Vacation and hospital notes from Holter Hospital
Out of town Joe Keller has returned from a urcins joo. Admitted and discharged lists name Miss Marjorie Vorkes and others. medical and surgical patients include Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brooks, Mrs. Robert Dimit, Mr. and Mrs. Garland Lanier, Mrs. Clarence Stephenson, Mrs. E. E. Minton, and several others. Dismissals include Mrs. Floyd Stapleton and daughter and several named individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry Priser
Neloun
Joe Keller
Urcins
Charles Blot
Mitawauga
Joseph Chon
Jackson
fu-Lake Erie
Keller
Gallipolis
Marjorie Vorkes
Cookie Freer
Thomas Brooks
Thomas Ferry
Columbus
Medical
Walter
Rich and Son
David
Bidwell
Dewey Lang
Ferton
Robert Group
Frank I. Haskinsky
Medical Early
Charleston
W. Va
Yteation
Dison Gattipolis
Glergy Wiles
Osti J
Sursies ‘Speer
Wilms
Hastings
Canada
Irs
Robert B. Burdette
Pomeroy
Belford Jiiden
Buffalo
Clarence Stephenson
Ironton
E. E. Minton
Huntington
Herbert E. Williams
Wilbur Theobald
Mid Airport
Kayne
Mary Ann Carpenter
New Haven
Floyd Stapleton
Escom Murray
Joseph King
S. E. Layne
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John Webb
U. S
Don Moore
Nancy Shristner
Paul Garvin
Columbus St
Nelsonville, Ohi
N. Court St
M. Mae’ McCammon
Mar
Leola A
Avan, Mer
Bee
Mies, Mar
Mate — HA
Spencer Rites
St. Mary Hospital
Nister
Christner
Ohio
Holter Hospital
Welsonville
America
Enmos
Popular
Science
McCall's
Woman's Home Companion
Photoplay
Dbook
Ohio Farmer
OG Collier's
Esquire
Sournal & Parmner
Athens Messenger
Addres
Crry
APT
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