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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1942
Page
9
Dan Hartinger, Meigs County Commissioner, was found guilty of intoxication after a two day trial before Justice of the Peace Percy L. Peoples. A $20 fine plus costs was imposed, with bond set at $100 pending appeal.
The U S Employment Service in Pomeroy City Hall seeks hotel maids for Cedar Point on Lake Erie. Women ages 25 to 55 are needed. Pay is 1.33 ½ dollars per day with room, board, uniforms, and a 33 cent daily bonus for those who stay the summer. Office also seeks 100 carpenters for Marietta Manufacturing Co in Point Pleasant.
A carrier pigeon with a legband marked AYEFF 579 seeks care at the home of Mrs. Forest Reed in Letart Falls. The bird is being fed and will be released once it can fly again.
Miss Ellen Jane Ruble wed Edward H. McQuillen at St. Alban's Episcopal Church Toledo on May 30. Attendants included Mrs. John Reuter and Frank Wilkes with James Ruble and Mr Reuter as ushers. The couple reside in Middleport after a reception at the Ruble home. McQuillen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank McQuillen of Huron, recently worked at West Virginia Ordnance Works Pt Pleasant. Ruble is daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter D. Ruble of Toledo.
Mrs Neils Powell and Mrs William Grate hosted the Amateur Gardeners Club last night at Powell Street. Mrs Robert Rawlings led the meeting with a rose themed roll call response. The program discussed roses and cultivation followed by card playing and a dessert course. DAR plans picnic for Friday.
POMEROY Meigs County home gardeners received guidance on controlling garden pests from J H Boyd extension vegetable specialist of Ohio State University. He warned lime does not insect control and recommended rotenone nicotine dust calcium arsenate and fluorine bearing dust applied as full leaf coatings.
Mrs. C A Poindexter and Mrs Anna Tremble learned their nephew Lewis Daniels son of Mr and Mrs George Daniels of Columbus recently passed his physical exams for entrance in the United States Army Air Corps and is stationed at Maxwell Field Alabama and happy over his first training period. Sarah Frances of Leon West Virginia were guests yesterday of Mr and Mrs C H Jones of S Third Ave. Mrs Burdette and Mrs Adkins are sisters of Mrs Jones. Major Thomas H Davis and wife, called to Fort Smith Arkansas due to the death of Mrs Davis father Dr Robert Byrd Wyatt, a physician in that city, stopped to spend the day with Major Davis' parents and resumed their journey to New England where they are now located.
Six residents on Lincoln Hill report tire punctures from roofing nails dropped on the hill street. Glenroy Ewing, grocer, had four tires punctured on two grocery trucks. Mayor Hartley and others suffered flats. T. A. Downie avoided a puncture but collected a double handful of nails.
Charles Vale of Detroit died recently. He formerly lived in Middleport and worked for the New York Central Railroad. He is survived by a son Rolland and a daughter Muriel Vale Stobart.
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