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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1952
Page
9
Announcement of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Louis Haines Wanda Koehler Wednesday July 16 at Grant Hospital Columbus. Grandparents Mr and Mrs Lewis Koehler Bryant Place.
Patrolman William Lehew reports a three car collision on E Main Street in Pomeroy Tuesday evening. Dave J. Morgan 66 of Pomeroy Route 1 swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and struck a parked car owned by Robert J. Smith of Greenfield, causing $350 damage to Morgan and $250 to Smiths auto. Morgan received facial lacerations and was taken to Meigs General Hospital. Minor damages occurred in a second accident at Union and Mulberry involving Raymond Russell 17 and William Roush 17 with no charges filed.
MIDDLEPORT Funeral services for Sgt. Robert Vessner were conducted at Grace Methodist Church in Gallipolis on Sunday. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. William Robson, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Robson, Mr and Mrs. William Winebrenner and Stephanie, Mr. and Mrs Paul Kloes, several women including Mrs. Betty Jane Williams and Mrs. Edith Hood, plus Eleanor Robson and others such as Mrs. Nan Duffy and Mrs. Mabel Winebrenner.
Ear nest Cheadle 41 of Tuppers Plains bound over to the grand jury after a Justice of the Peace hearing on issuing menacing threats with a gun. Deputy Sheriff L W Bartrum filed charges. Cheadle posted 500 dollars bond and was released from the county jail.
Anna May Williams faced indecent exposure charges in the mayor's court Tuesday night. Pomeroy entered a plea of innocence as charges were filed by Patrolman William Lehew and processed under the supervision of acting mayor Ted Downie.
The official board of Heath Methodist Church will meet at the church at 7 30 p m. Choir rehearsal follows at 7 under Mrs N P Swackhammer.
John N. Watson of Minersville, machinist's mate fireman apprentice, has graduated from the Naval Machinist's Mate School at Great Lakes. A son of Mrs. Myrtle Watson, he enlisted October 24, 1951 after attending Pomeroy High School and working for Ohio Valley Newspaper, Inc. prior to service.
The Middleport social column details the Gress family purchasing the Humphrey home on Hooker Street and plans to move after improvements. It lists numerous guests and visits from Fremont, Wheelersburg, Zanesville, Bellefontaine, Charleston, Ironton, Ravenna, Akron, and more, with details on travel, hospital stays, and family gatherings.
Middleport report states Dr. Eugene Keig was admitted to White Cross Hospital after a recurrence of illness while returning from an osteopathic convention in Atlantic City. He and Mrs. Keig attended the event and he had been treated at Holzer Hospital prior to the Atlantic City trip.
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