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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1945
Page
10
Five candidates filed to seek three seats on the Gallipolis City Commission by the Wednesday deadline. Incumbents Dr Raymond Allison Dr N Howard Foster and Stanley Saunders seek re election. Jack Knight and Homer Beckett also filed while Municipal Judge William H Jones seeks no opponent for a second term.
In Galla County, three couples were issued marriage licenses this week. Jesse Laurence Carter, 27, Army, of Stoutsville, Ohio, and Hazel Mane Graham, 28, of Northup, daughter of Elbert Graham. Kenneth M. Walter, 24, Army, Middleport, son of C. E. Walter, and Dorothy Jo Burnette, 22, Cheshire, daughter of Ralph Burnette. Ball, 25, Army, Central, W. Va, and Carol Strickler, 21, Gallipolis.
Two cars were badly damaged but their drivers escaped injury in a Route 160 crash about two miles south of Porter. Paul Thompson of Vinton drove north while Ethel Black of Fourfold headed south when their vehicles sideswiped, according to Deputy Sheriff Morten Dickey who investigated the scene.
Family and relatives gathered at Mrs J C Ingels home on lower Second Avenue in Gallipolis to celebrate her upcoming ninety third birthday. Attending were Clyde C Ingels and family plus relatives from Oklahoma City Chesapeake Chillicothe Mine SOT and others including Nina Thompson Naomi Plymale and Morgan Plymale. The item also notes an army 105 mm howitzer fact and a tip about animals growing winter coats in summer.
MSgt Clarence Boster USN has returned home for a 45 day leave with wife and parents after two years active in the South Pacific, last year on Saipan. Local residents William Bowen and Herbert Johnson visited, Mrs Blanche France hosted, and George Wetherholt is ill. Rev J W Stone and family spend weeks at a Lower River Road summer cottage. Clyde Mitchell buys Book Shop stock in Columbus. Dr W Lewis Brown and family take daughter Lynn to Girl Scout Camp for two weeks.
In Gallipolis the Clyde Beatty circus missed the afternoon performance due to a truck breakdown carrying tent poles. The night show, starting at 8, drew between three and four thousand spectators at the old fairgrounds.
GALLIPOLIS Andrew Martin son of Mr and Mrs J F Martin of this city is seriously ill in White Cross Hospital Columbus He underwent an operation at Holzer Hospital here a few weeks ago and had recovered enough to return to work A cold developed into double pneumonia. ENTERTAIN GUESTS VINTON Mr and Mrs J Cook hosted guests at their home in Vinton Sumay Mr and Mrs Trimble and children Mc Connelsville Mr and Mrs L L Cook and son Tommy Charleston W Va Mr and Mrs Buell Hayes and children Gallipolis Mr and Mrs Rollo Militia and Miss Margaret Cook Akron Mr and Mrs Ervin Peyton and Mr and Mrs J Luther Cook. The Cook son recently received discharge from the Army at Ft Bragg NC Is Made Captain LONG BOTTOM Mr and Mrs Eenest Bahr have word their son Lt Norman H promoted to Captain Another son Lt Victor A who has been in Italy with the 15th Air Force has been discharged and placed on inactive list
Huntington Chamber of Commerce executive secretary W. A. Buchanan spoke at the Gallipolis Rotary Club dinner at Island View Inn on Tuesday night. Guests included Henry Kime M. H. Ricketts State Sanitarian R. L. Marlow and Sgt. Roy Rathifer. District Governor Bob Miller will appear before the club on August 14.
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