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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
14
A gasoline spill in a basement garage started a fire at 11 05 p m Thursday. The blaze was extinguished by water from a garden hose used by the owner’s son Paul Bateman. Gas leaked from a broken bottle and was ignited by a gas water heater.
Nelsonville reports the Little League squad for fourth to sixth graders will hold its first practice Monday June 4 at 5 30 p m on the ball diamond at the athletic field.
Market reports show varied livestock prices with hogs mostly steady to mixed gains. sows down, boars up. Cattle calfs and bulls mixed. yearlings and cows traded with modest activity. Sheep and lambs steady. eggs poultry butter potatoes listed with farm prices in Cincinnati.
A Logan girl aged two was diagnosed with chickenpox, first case in weeks, reported May 25 to the Logan Hocking County Health Department. A department nurse is overseeing the confinement and has visited the home.
Funeral services for Charles A. Kibble 73 will be held Saturday at 2 p m at the Reedsville Christian Church with the Rev Eldon Blake officiating burial will follow in the Kibble Cemetery at Reedsville Friends may call at the Arbaugh funeral home at Tuppers Plains Kibble a Reedsville native who spent over 40 years on the Ohio River died Wednesday evening at St Joseph Hospital Parkersburg Surviving are a daughter Nellie Wilson two brothers Horace Kibble of Reedsville and Jesse Kibble of Parkersburg and a sister Martha Hulber of Reedsville
Acting police chief Max Valkenberg says the double parking problem in Nelsonville has improved but a few offenders still use the street center for parking. Enforcement will continue with tickets issued to violators.
Stationed in Europe Pvt James W Todd son of Mrs Marcell a Todd 526 Chestnut St Nelsonville is a member of the 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in Germany He is a former employee of Knowlton Construction Co Athens and graduated Union Furnace High School in 1954.
Nelsonville Glouster Bus Line announces schedule cuts effective June 1. Buses from Nelsonville to Glouster at 8, 9 and 11 a.m. are canceled, and trips from Glouster to Nelsonville at 10:05 a.m. and 12:05 p.m. are canceled.
Three members of the Methodist Church WSCS will hold a picnic in the Park on Tuesday June 5 at 5 30 p m If transportation is needed call Mrs Inez Wilson at 898 or Either Kinneer at 380
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