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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1961
Page
8
Mrs Ghixtey Sephenson decorates the 1961 Parade of Hills Queen pageant with a unified dress theme. The event centers on visual harmony among contestants as queens are crowned in a town celebration.
Sausage patties and scrambled eggs offer hearty breakfast fare that wakes the appetite and provides good nourishment for starting the day. The simple meal emphasizes protein and warmth to fuel morning activity.
Nelsonville Athletic Association meets at the shelter house in the city park led by President Charles Pancake. Plans include a dunking machine for the Parade of the Hills rented from Glouster Boy Scout troop, pennant purchases, and improved storage for weights. Concession stand to operate again and football season discussed.
Nelsonville library shelves gain new titles with reserve dates Friday and Saturday and circulation Monday. Notable works include Tallien's Children Pretorious Walk Like a Man Honig How to Clean Everything Moore The Creative Individual Peet Five of a Kind Stout Search for a Sultan Coles Longrider Foreman Eye Witness Strange Gourse Stranger in a Strange Land Heinlein The Rebels Crozier The Winter of Our Discontent Steinbeck The Edge of Sadness O Conner Cry Nurse Halloway Far Are the Hills Nelson And Four to Grow Paul First Hand Report Adams My Home in the Zoo Iles Saturday to Monday Rehmann Hours to Kill Curtiss.
Mr and Mrs Robert Sinnott and two Rochester children will return to Logan Sabre this weekend, to stay with grandparents for an extended vacation. Lawrence Talytagyang Fak an and spouse have returned from their annual tour to Virginia and Washington DC visiting Natural Bridge Monticello Williamsburg and Mount Vernon.
The Carroll family announces the birth of a daughter at Mount St Mary Hospital on July 8. Parents are Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Sheier and Mr. and Mrs. Carroll. Grandparents listed include Mr. and Mrs. George Schoonover and others from Nelsonville and Gallipolis.
The Nelsonville Garden Club hosts a rummage sale in the former Maytag Store room on W Washington St. Items will be brought Friday afternoon and pickup service is available by calling PL 3-2906 or PL 1198.
In Nelsonville the trench for a retaining wall to curb ground slippage in front of the west end elementary school has grown beyond initial scope. Contractor Vern Coakley and architect Robert Swank discussed extending the ditch to about 180 feet and starting wall construction after soil specialists from Bowser Morner Labs confirmed earth movement linked to a nearby ravine.
Arthur Stiers, longtime stage figure and advance agent for Bailey Bros. Christiana and Clyde Beatty Shows, died at his Stiers Farm home on Laurel Run Rd at 79. He toured with Pawnee Bill Buffalo Bill Ringling Bros. and others before living with sister Edith Graham. burial at Wolf Cemetery, Haydenville.
The Mount St. Mary Hospital reports several births including a son for Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bush of Gore and a son for Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Edwards of New Plymouth Route 1. Also listed are Floyd Tennihill of Buchtel Rebecca Sanders Mary K Falk Rendville Jeffrey Lipps and Betty Lou Wilson Murray.
Mr and Mrs Lidward T Ma son of Monroe Street spent ten days with their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Clarence Dufour in their home.
The annual Jacobs reunion gathered Nelsonville and Lima families including Geral and Barney Jacobs and numerous relatives. Joe Wallace and family arrived from Adams Street after a three week Pacific and western trip, visiting Medford and Los Angeles on the way home. They toured sites like Boulder Dam Painted Desert and Las Vegas during the return.
A brief cooking note explains preparing chicken fricassee as usual and dusting with finely chopped hard cooked egg and snipped parsley as a finishing touch for presentation and flavor.
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