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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1960
Page
3
West Virginia Farm and Home Safety Committee warns that accidents strike daily as homemakers misuse portable electrical appliances. Readers should avoid wet floors, prevent appliances from falling into sinks, unplug before cleaning, and follow instruction books for safe use and storage.
Mr and Mrs Roy Daugherty of Mt Alto welcomed a daughter. Admissions include J A Allen of Point Pleasant Arthur McCloy Jr of Leon and Rodney Lewis of Thurman Ohio. Discharges include Loyle Beaver Jr of Buffalo Mrs Jessie Thomas of Leon and Mrs Frederick Frey and son of Point Pleasant.
Judge Oliver D. Kessel granted four divorces at a special circuit term. Patricia L. Smith won separation from Charles H. Smith. Lacy Barton separated from Nellie M. Barton with custody of four children and child maintenance. Carol Sue Davis divorced Robert Gordon Davis with custody of one child and the father's visitation and support rights. Joan Fink divorced Ralph Fink with custody of two children and support. Doris E. Huffman and Glenn Huffman had their divorce suit dismissed.
Mr and Mrs Randall Henry of Gallipolis Ferry welcomed a daughter. Names listed include Russell Deal of Apple Grove Carl Kebler of Point Pleasant Miss Opal Pauley of Point Pleasant and Mrs Harold Chapman with her son.
Mason County will host a county wide talent show tied to the Mason County farm show on July 28 at 8 p m in New Haven under Mrs. Paul Powell. Harry Miller will be master of ceremonies. Entries must be Mason County residents, under 21, not professionally active, by July 25. Prizes: 15, 10, and 5 dollars.
William Blaine Hill formerly of Point Pleasant has spent 13 months in Korea and is returned to the United States. He visited his mother Mrs Elizabeth Hill of Gallipolis and relatives in Point Pleasant for a month before heading back to Fort Jackson South Carolina.
Dr John R Sullivan of Chicago has joined the McDaniel Clinic here for general practice in osteopathic medicine and surgery.
The Union Camp Grounds near New Haven will host camp meeting services for two more weeks announced by Rev. Roy McCoy at Heights Evangelical United Brethren Church. Activities include a wiener roast, officer elections, Bible study, and scheduled guest speakers from July 24 to August 7 with ongoing Sunday evening services conducted by Heights EUB.
Residents hosted and visited relatives and friends from Chauncey Athens The Plains Akron Marion Charleston W Va New Marshfield Kenton Parkersburg Nelsonville Philo Lancaster Elyria and Franklin over a busy weekend Guests included Emma Turner Gertrude Batchelder Bill Forbes Gilbert Knight Glen Snider and many extended family members with dinners and social calls noted across multiple homes and towns.
The Chauncey Dover Lions Club will meet Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the high school to discuss purchasing the New York Central Depot and the land it sits on. Members are urged to attend as representatives will also travel to Columbus Friday to pursue the purchase for a community building in Dover township and Chauncey village.
More than $57,000 has come to Perry County in the second distribution of 1960 auto license money. The funds were allocated to counties and townships in Ohio, according to State Auditor James A. Rhodes.
Mrs. Fannie Palmer has relocated from her Cleveland Ohio home to Springfield Ohio. The move was recently made public in local notices and reflects a change of residence within the state.
Millard Edward Rice 59 of Point Pleasant died Monday morning at Point Clinic. Born July 7 1901 in Mason County he was formerly with Malleable Iron Works. Survived by wife Tina Lenora Rice Mt Gilead Ohio and children Norma Nadine Carl Melvin Millard Lee Rice. sisters Dora Helen and Bertha Pearl. brother Lucian Rice. seven grandchildren. Crow funeral home to announce arrangements.
Judge Oliver D. Kessel of Ripley has resumed duties as judge of the Fifth Judicial District after surgery in a Charleston hospital. He presided at a special term of court in Mason County on Monday.
J C Elbin of Charleston told state police on July 16 a cow on his Leon county farm in the Leon community was shot while grazing in a field.
State police and local agencies hunted escapee Bob Lee Ray from Princeton state police barracks for six hours Monday at Point Pleasant and Mason bridges. Ray stole a state police car a uniform a p stop and a sub machine gun before surrendering at a Coal River Mountain home on Route 60.
Mrs C S Kelley chaplain of Post 23 American Legion received a surprise birthday party at the post meeting. Manford Bauer post commander led the session and plans were set for a corn roast on Sunday July 30 at the Kerr Blaine farm South Side with refreshments. Past commanders to be presented lapel pins. Nineteen members attended.
Marriage license issued for Jerry Keith Edmonds and Edith Carol Holley, both of Glenwood, at Point Pleasant.
Mrs. E. Bartow Jones of Jefferson Avenue was appointed by Judge Oliver D. Kessel to a four year term as Mason County jury commissioner. She becomes the county’s first woman in the role, serving alongside Democrat Harry Layne of New Haven. Mrs. Jones is a Republican and wife of former state senator E. Bartow Jones.
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