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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1967
Page
8
Death notices from New Marshfield Pomeroy Middleport and Logan list Estella Davis Mona Mae Wolfe Ethel Lambert Thelma Moore and David A Rider. Services are scheduled among Jagers and Sons Funeral Home Ewing Chapel Rawlings Coates Funeral Home Heinlein Funeral Home with multiple burial plans and visitations announced.
F E Connie Hillyer 58 of Kensington Route 1 Minerva died at 1 15 p m after a heart attack at TRW Metals Division Minerva He lived in the Kensington area 40 years was a Minerva Moose Lodge member Survived by wife Sarah Waugh Hillyer a daughter Barbara Underwood a son Harley two step children two brothers William and Wilbur Hillyer five grandchildren Services Sunday 2 30 p m at Gotschall Hutchinson Funeral Home Rev Robert Aulfrance Burial Grove Hill Cemetery Hanoverton Pomeroy fire department called to Laurel Cliff auto fire owner unidentified Ambulance called to James Hawley residence Lincoln Terrace Louis Hawley back injury admitted to Holzer Hospital Middleport outside dance sponsored by Middleport Fire Department Friday at Middleport Community Park 8 30 p m to 11 30 p m Jays emceeing
SYRACUSE The Guiding Star Council No 124 Daughters of America earned a very good grade at a recent inspection. Nettie Hayes deputy of Forest Rose Council No 285 was the inspecting officer. The council opened with 23 members 12 guests and was conducted by Associate Councilor Eileen Clark. A second nomination of officers was heard and a letter from Councilor Ural Thomas living in Columbus was read. Mrs Hayes Margaret Seidenable Florence Potts and Leola Enoch received gifts from Ada Slack. Potluck refreshments followed during social hour.
Twenty four Meigs County students from five high schools accompanied by four adults traveled to Columbus for the state Cooperative Study Program award tour. The group visited cooperative offices and the state capital, with participants listed by name.
Pomeroy reports Karl Russell Columbus son of Mr and Mrs Kenneth Russell leaving for U S Marine Corps basic training after enlisting May 10. Family dinner at Racine home attended by William Burton and daughter Lisa Floyd Chapman and daughter Shelly and Karl Russell Columbus. Also included are details of a separate civil suit filed in common pleas court by Sue Circle Folbred Pomeroy against Jimmy Clair Caldwell Reedsville Route 1 seeking 9100 for injuries from an June 16 1965 accident on Route 248.
Four defendants faced grand jury action after narcotics charges were read. Ed wards and Nagel argued over search warrants while the judge limited cross examination. Attorneys questioned arrest procedures as charges against Fien, Edwards, and Miss Eisenstein were dismissed due to technical errors and replaced with proper state code numbers.
POINT PLEASANT The Point Pleasant Assembly 23 Order of the Rainbow for Girls held a special meeting in the Masonic Temple. Winona Wilcoxen Joyce Holt and Cheryl Howard were initiated. Public installation of new officers will be at the Masonic Hall Sunday at 2 p.m. Diana Barss to be installed as worthy advisor.
A high school teen dance to benefit the Pomeroy Playground Fund is set for Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in the Pomeroy Junior High gym. The Jays will supervise the event.
Ohio Dept of Agriculture grain prices show No 2 red wheat down 1 to 2 cents to 1.47 1.55 per bushel, No 2 yellow corn mostly 1 to 2 cents lower at 1.22 1.30, No 2 oats largely unchanged around 69 to 80 cents, No 1 soybeans steady to down about 1 cent at 2.70 2.77 per bushel.
Point Pleasant report shows Sheriff George Johnson’s May figures. The department logged 8,410 miles and investigated 12 accidents with five injuries and 11 citations. Property damage totaled $4,810. Three burglaries were probed, 31 misdemeanor arrests and three felonies were made, 50 people booked, 20 warrants received and 18 served, five prisoners and one mental patient transferred.
In Point Pleasant the circuit court approved a 9000 settlement for Marsha Gilley in the suit Albert M. Gilley guardian v Marsha Gilley. Gilley was injured in a Dec 21 1965 car accident as a passenger in a Carla Pullins driven vehicle. Wayne Kincaid was awarded 843.37 against Robert Errett with 6 percent interest from July 20 1965. Roy Higginbotham was ordered committed to Lakin State Hospital for 30 days for mental and physical observation.
Police investigate a professional safe cracking at Middleport A P Supermarket where an undetermined cash amount was taken after thieves cut a roof hole and pried padlocks to access the safe. The break in was spotted around 4 30 a m by a delivery driver as an Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent joins the probe.
Registration for Meigs County summer Head Start is set at three schools. Parents may enroll five and six year olds at Salem Center at 10 a.m, Rutland Elementary at 2 p.m, and Bradbury Elementary at 6 p.m. The program serves children from low income families.
Kiwanis speaker Fred Bouie of Gallipolis addressed the Thursday dinner meeting at Gene Ball's Restaurant on gold prospecting. Huntington guest Bob Cochran attended, and locals Bill Buffington Larry Phillips Tody Mayes and Joe Jordan planned an inter club breakfast at 7 am Tuesday at the St Albans Kiwanis Club.
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