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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1948
Page
15
Point Pleasant hosts the annual bowlers banquet and meeting next Saturday at 6 30 p m in the Moose Club on River Street. F W Henson chairs the registration committee for the dinner as bowlers review the year’s scores and share feats on the alleys.
The Ohio Valley Association features a key Sunday doubleheader in Gallipolis with Pomeroy Merchants chasing league leader Gallipolis Bees. Bees aim to extend an 11 game win streak, while Merchants must sweep to move ahead. Leon visits Racine, and Gallians face Hartford as standings tighten.
Jersey City sparring report says Jer sey Joe Walcott used a left hook to stop Curtis Sheppard, who needed help from the ring steps. Walcott also floored Billy Norris with a left in eight rounds, weighing 199 pounds, 4½ pounds heavier than in the first Louis bout.
Baldwin Wallace claimed the Ohio College track and field championship with 62 1 5 points, outdisting Miami to set seven new marks. Jim Whittaker of Bowling Green set a pole vault record of 13 feet, while Katzmar led in sprints and relays. Bowling Green and Ohio Wesleyan also posted multiple titles.
Hungarian Mrs Szuszy Kormoczy defeated Doris Hart 4-6 6-3 6-3 to reach the Brussels women’s singles final where she will face Pat Todd of La Jolla California. Todd beat Mary Arnold Bentiss 6-4 6-2 in the other semi. The rain paused the Parker Patty vs Abdesselam Thomas semi final two-setter. The women’s doubles final ended with Todd and Hart beating Prentiss and Shirley Fry 6-1 6-4.
Woody English pitched a no hit none run game last season for Banks Sport Shop, limiting Western Auto of Nelsonville to two hits as the Shoppers won 9 0. Bob Cooley and Bob Roth each had triples, Rodney Gibbs collected three hits, and Figgins added a double as Matheny Figgins English Cox worked the win.
Federal Judge Charles Dewey dismissed claims by Ray Dean of Davenport Iowa that he was owed 42500 for supposed off season management of Bob Feller. The trial occurred in Davenport two weeks prior with the ruling issued Friday night.
POINT PLEASANT G C Judd field representative of the Boy Scouts of America reports 40 boys started a three day camporee Friday. Dave Garretson is camporee director. The event at the South Side Recreation Center ends after lunch Sunday with activities including friction fire making signaling tent pitching and flag relay. Ribbons will be awarded and top performers advance to Huntington June 26 for district council championships.
Mrs Sibyl Mc Night awaited the body of her husband killed in the service to arrive in Hartford and lie at his mother's home. Funeral services were planned later at the McNight residence.
POINT PLEASANT The measles epidemic has finally reached Leon after affecting many parts of Mason County. The current outbreak is the virulent red measles strain sweeping through the town.
Marriage licenses issued this month include Denver Stanley Tucker of Grimms Landing and Ella Mae Lucas of Arbuckle. Also listed are Thomas Jent ress Rose and Mary Joan Kapp of Point Pleasant, Samuel Perry Rodgers and Maysel Marie Sullivan of Point Pleasant, and Horace Greely Miller and Ruth Ellen Noble of Point Pleasant.
Rev. Agnes Beaver, student at a missionary school in Laredo Texas, is at home for summer vacation with her grandparents Mr and Mrs W S Beaver of Leon. She plans to return to school in the Fall after conducting revivals in Ohio and West Virginia prior to entering the school.
Mr and Mrs William A Woolfitt returned from Bay City Michigan to open their summer cottage north of Port Huron for a planned July visit. Miss Kay Woolfitt stayed with her grandmother for an extended visit.
Miss Anna bel Lee of 914 Viand Street travels to Carlisle to visit Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Parker and Miss Jean Parker. The Parkers and Miss Lee will vacation in Miami with friends. Miss Betty Lee will return to Marshall College for the summer term.
Randall Hogsett sold about 80 acres of Ohio River bottom land at Hogsett to Henry Woods of Ohio Sixteen Mile Creek. The tract runs between Route 2 and the river with Hogsett keeping the homestead and pasture boundary. Woods operates a large Sixteen Mile Creek farm and has years of success in tobacco and beans.
Meeting of the Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter DAR at The Mansion House discusses floodwall placement along the north and east of Tu Endie Wei Park. Rev. William Meade, park commissioner, will report after investigation. New officers were installed, with Eunice Beller continuing as regent.
Mrs. Jim Sturgeon of Ashton and Mr. Virgil Siders of Point Pleasant attended a state Young Republican League meeting in Bluefield with Mr. Sturgeon. Delegates from Mason County participated Friday and Saturday.
The June meeting of the County Board of Education will be held in the office here Monday evening. The crucial item on the agenda is the selection and placement of teachers for the 1948 49 term.
A new nine room home on Jackson Ave in Country Club Addition nears completion. A. E. Thomas directs extensive alterations adding a solarium another bedroom enlarged kitchen and a two car garage for the Thomas family to occupy soon.
Denver G Kennedy is confined to his home due to illness. Reva Hudson was discharged from Point Clinic and returned home to Robertsburg. Mrs R Liter returns to Elk Creek Virginia after wintering with her mother Mrs Kenny. Mrs G N Newell of Greensboro North Carolina visited son Richard Newell and accompanied Mrs Liter home. R B Rothgeb spending weekend in Cincinnati.
A record notes the O. J. Morrison Store Co located in Pt Pleasant, West Virginia. The brief item records the business presence and place.
Roscoe Somerville and Barton Jones purchased 57 lots in Victory Heights Addition of Phil Hill Charleston. The war time housing project area previously housed 95 homes with 57 sold to a Parkersburg trucking contractor who relocated them to Vienna. Somerville is a carpenter on Jones projects in Parkersburg for two years since 1946. Jones earlier built 159 homes in Country Club Addition 1942-43 and 100 in Burdette Addition on Ohio River Road. Rental property has been scarce after wartime surplus.
Columbian Carbon Co. says the Lee Hassel well is drilling at 3440 feet in the Mt Alto Flat Rock field and the Thornton Wheeler well at 1739 feet. A spokesman said shutting off a casing leak in the E F Durst well would be completed.
Miss Lida Smith of Leon attended a Charleston shower Thursday for her friend Miss Madge Dick whose wedding is planned for Friday June 11 in Charleston.
Principal Co. H. Withers of Senior High School received a Messenger Sponsored scholarship in school administration at Ohio University. County Superintendent Robert H. Ferguson announced the award Saturday. The Messenger and OU Scholarship Committee arranged the awards to support educational leadership among public school administrators.
Ripley native Carroll Casto a WVU law school graduate plans to open a law office in Point Pleasant's Terminal Building around June 15. He has leased living quarters at the Hogg home on Viand Street and is married.
Mrs. Eugene Doughty of Columbus Ohio spends the weekend with her mother Mrs. Mary Scantlin and visits Mrs. J W Diddle and the Kennedy couple Mr and Mrs Carroll Kennedy of Henderson. The Kennedys were in Charleston midweek.
Harry Godfrey, local contractor, leads painting of 14 homes in English Court recently acquired by English Court, Inc. Some interiors already redecorated. Floyd Cole arranging property line hedges. Homes built during the war by Charleston investors. some sold to individuals before the recent local sale of the remaining 14.
Mrs. Ike Kapp, formerly of Kaylong, is constructing a residence on Ohio River Road opposite the Burdette farm. The house features walls made of cinder blocks.
Mrs Here man Bradshaw and Miss Charlene Burgess left Saturday for Beckley to visit Mr Bradshaw then plan several days at Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
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