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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1958
Page
7
District Governor Felty visited Nelsonville Rotary, praising Dr. Harry Barr of Sidney for aiding Ohio seniors through the Presbyterian Homes. He spoke on Rotary values, thanked Hoover and the New York club for citizenship efforts, and toured local facilities with club leaders.
Nelsonville Rotary Club hosts Ohio Presbyterian Homes officials while surveying a potential fifth home site in southeastern Ohio. Dr. Harry W. Barr and Thomas G. Holmes, both of Sidney, attended as officers, with Rev. John Lloyd Evans of Nelsonville serving as trustee. District Governor Homer E. Felty of Ironton visited as part of the trustee board.
Birth notices list new daughters for the Drakes Nelsonville and Maccombs The Plains, plus several individual names from Athens Hemlock Junction City Logan and Glouster. Six units of blood donated.
The Air Academy near Colorado Springs will be designated a game refuge at next year’s dedication ceremonies. About 17,000 acres of the site will be closed to hunting and fishing, with no game fish harvest allowed until wildlife overpopulation necessitates it.
Miss Esther Marlene Gastin of Haydenville and Fred O. Hoskins of Columbus plan a August 2 wedding at Pilgrim Holiness Church Nelsonville. Music precedes the ceremony with organist Paul Dalton and vocalist Kathleen Bond. Matron of honor is Mrs. James Gastin. bridesmaids are Betty and Vera Powell. Best man is James Gastin. ushers are Daryl Skiver and Donald Todd. Flower girl Merita Gustin.
Mrs. Gay Aumiller is recovering satisfactorily in White Cross Hospital after an eye operation on Tuesday. Her sisters Miss Hazel Edington and Mrs. Edith Hanley are at her Columbus home with her son L. E. Aumiller and Mrs. Aumiller. Sylvia Cooley has returned home after a two month visit with cousin Madge Somerville Douglas in Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. William Keplar and daughters Vandella Bay and Auldean Flowers returned from a Virginia vacation visiting Sky Line Caverns.
Veteran Launcelot L. Scott notes in 1915 memoirs that a disguised member of the 3d Ohio Cavalry rode with Morgan’s force when it passed Nelsonville on July 21 1863. The raid left townspeople hurried to move horses and looted stores before Union forces arrived in late afternoon.
Nelsonville resident Lewis Windle 85, a charter member of the local United Mine Workers, was injured when a faulty ladder tipped while he repaired a roof. He fell about 12 feet but says no bones are fractured and will recover in hospital. Windle, a lifelong unionist, began work at Laurel Hill Coal Co. in 1887 and helped form the first local union in Nelsonville.
Kin Brown and Guy Fel lem pleaded guilty to intoxication counts and were held by Mayor Robert Auflick for settlement of fines and costs. They were committed to Athens County Jail.
A pony in Nelsonville drew wide attention during the 1887 parade as it was decorated and placed in a position of honor, signaling festive local pride and historic community pageantry.
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