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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1953
Page
3
Funeral services for Lydia Adeline Gaston 54 of Athens were conducted at the White funeral home Coolville by Eld er C. R. Spangler with Rev Don P Hawkins assisting at the grave. Burial followed in Coolville cemetery.
Mrs Clara White hosted a week of visits with friends and relatives in Coolville including Andrew and Thiesen family members from Zanesville. Guests also came from Torch area Bethel Ridge and Little Rock Arkansas with multiple local household visits and a hospital appendectomy for Phyllis Chalfant.
An advertisement promotes a keratolytic fungicide T-4-L for athlete's foot that supposedly sloughs off infected skin and kills fungi on contact. It claims a one hour satisfaction guarantee with a 40 cent refund and urges purchase at Quick's Cut Rate Drug Store.
A new organization of Methodist men at Bethel Methodist Church in Coolville is chartered by the General Board of Lay Activities in Chicago. Paul Baker serves as president Wilbur Warner as secretary and L. R. Poole is the church pastor.
Mrs Lettie Frank of Eagle Ridge visited with Mrs Eddie Griffith. Mr and Mrs Milo Biggs of Sand Ridge stayed with Mr and Mrs Lowell Bush. Perry Orr of Columbus spent a weekend with relatives. Guests of Mr and Mrs Arthur Morarity included Mr and Mrs Leroy Morarity and children Katie and Teddy. Others hosting or visiting were Mr and Mrs Harry Bolinger and daughter Mary Pomeroy Mr and Mrs Junior Sorden and daughter Diana Columbus Mr and Mrs Russell Bailey and daughters Patty and Barbara Middleport Marilyn and Martha Orr of Columbus Mr and Mrs Harley Carmon Addison Mr and Mrs Clint Orr Circleville visits Connie Kay Morarity with uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Walter Harris Pomroy. Mrs Mary McKay
The abandoned Canaanville coal shaft was the deepest in Ohio at 423 feet. Completed in 1906, mining ceased in 1925. A 200 foot shaft was planned for Athens with a shaft at the Ohio University heating plant site. Athens backed the venture in 1874 but little mining occurred.
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