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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1956
Page
5
Nelsonville city funds exceed 100 000 for May with receipts of 7 625 03 and 10 784 74 expenditures 399 10 to 3896 53 balance across funds totals 116 959 62. Key inflows include a state settlement boosting the street fund and a 2500 donation from the county for a new park into recreation.
Pt Pleasant Society selects department committees for the club year with activities starting at the first September meeting. The long list includes Education, Conservation and Resources, Fine Arts, Public Affairs, American Homes, International Affair and Mother-Daughter Banquet, and Communication with multiple members named for each month and task.
The Hocking Valley Shrine will hold a school of instruction at Eagles Hall in Nelsonville Thursday. District deputy Evelyn n Salts will meet officers at 5 p.m. A covered dish dinner will follow with attendees asked to bring a favorite dish and table service. A general school will follow. Mrs Lyman Gunyon and her children returned to Celina after visiting James D and family.
Richard L Cole of Athens Route 3 was fined 5 dollars plus costs in the court of Mayor Earl Hilleary over the weekend for failure to stop at a stop sign.
Circle Four at the Presbyterian Women association will meet Tuesday at 7 am in the church. Hostesses will be Mrs. Frank Standall and Mrs. Donald Frank.
Jean Morgan of New Haven visited grandparents Mr and Mrs Warren Stewart with Leon and Mrs Ted Stevens of the Stevens funeral home meeting her brother Henry D Landry from New Iberia La for the first time in five years. Landry had attended the Communications Workers of America 10th constitutional convention in Cleveland June 11 to 15. Miss Jeanie Horn and Miss Judy Horn of Main St returned from Ripley to see their father Orwell Horn. Mr and Mrs L Morrison of Lincoln Ave visited their son and daughter‑in‑law Carl Morrison in Dunbar. Mrs Frank Carpenter Jr and daughter of Springfield Ohio are visiting her mother in law Mrs Frank Carpenter Belle Meade.
A 50 year old Coolville club gathering tied to Mrs E G Alden and Mrs Henry Cooley was held with Eleanor visiting from Boston. Out of town guests included Clar ence Bingham Lettie Meredith Grace Grays Flourine Frame Edna Schultz Flossie Grimes Florence Staats Ruth Basim and Ruth Basim. Funeral services for Charles Scott at Waterford noted. Local visits included Pearl Cody and Russell Cody family, L M Walden, Dr Seimes Siefert family, Walker Norman family, George Norman family, and John Crawford III. Clyde Blizzard notified of Madison Baker death in Glendive Montana. Baker survived by wife three daughters sister and twin brother. Continuous family movements and relocations around Athens and surrounding areas recorded.
Ralph Bennett of Clarksburg West Virginia faced a total fine of 225 dollars plus costs after a mayor Hilleary found his truck weighing 41 500 pounds over the legal limit of 131 500 while hauling power shovel parts. The fine included 25 dollars base and 2 dollars per hundred pounds over the limit.
Freeland Norris reassigned to Tuppers Plains charge while James M Torrence visits grandmother Mrs. Myrtle Frost en route to Newfoundland for new assignment. Bertha Styles returns from St Joseph Hospital. Ebersbaughs and Torrences visit relatives in Columbus and Gallipolis. Lillie Hardway ill at daughter’s home. birthday June 23. Clarence Nichols and Lottie Lottridge move into Blain Hardway property. Clara Adams and Hubert Whiteside visit Parkersburg. Kuhns visit Grace Kuhn. Evelyn Brickles mentioned.
Milking show led by Dr. George Hopson of Poughkeepsie New York will highlight the June 28 1956 West Virginia Dairy Day at University facilities. Cows will be prepared for milking with standard techniques and demonstrated piping to cold storage. Two sessions are planned at 2 and 5 pm in the dairy building to showcase the milking process and related equipment.
Nelsonville sees poor donor response for the Red Cross Bloodmobile at Mount St. Mary Hospital health center tomorrow from 1 a.m. to p.m. Blood bank shortages loom as Columbus runs low on type C positive and local needs rise. quota for Nelsonville is one pint, with appointments urged through Pat Batenan at 364.
Mason County will provide five draftees and two volunteers to fill the June quota. They will report to the Ashland induction station June 21. Volunteers are Keith Blake of Ashton and Walter Denver Ridenjour of Leon Route 2. Draftees include James Junior Cain of Elmwood Walter Matheny of Leon Route 1 Lamonte Slade of Arbuckle Howard Irvin Waugh and Emmett Eugene Deal of Glenwood.
Eight year old Betty Rose Bryan of Nelsonville Route 2 received emergency care at Mount St Mary Hospital after running into a car on West Washington Street at about 4 p m. She suffered a head cut and bruises. Kenneth H Ballmer Lancaster Route 1 was driving. Ballmer and witnesses said the child darted across the street after a car passed in the opposite direction and he did not see her until impact. No charges were filed.
Elmer Plymale of Gallipolis Ferry picked his first ripe tomatoes Sunday, three days earlier than last year. He grows a garden of 5000 plants and reports an early harvest in tainted flea market country.
Population rich in names and places, the Poplar Ridge column lists visiting relatives and friends across Hatfield Kentucky to Columbus Ohio, mentions a field day at Charles Molahan farm, and notes the death of Mrs. Jennie Carpenter aged 68 in Mount St Mary Hospital. Final rites are set at Johnson funeral home with burial in Green Lawn cemetery.
Poultrymen gather in Moorefield Handy County from August 1 to 13 for a convention featuring seven out of state speakers on the program. Harold H. Eyre of West Virginia University says leaders in the field will share contributions to the industry along with participants from the university poultry department and the state department of agriculture.
POINT PLEASANT The Mexican bean beetle adults are out in force laying eggs, says C F Bishop WVU extension plantologist. The bean leaf beetle is also active making beans appear hail damaged. Bishop recommends methoxychlor plus malathion on beans to guard against leafhopper damage and to maintain control at the same time.
City police and state police arrest five individuals on intoxication charges Saturday in Point Pleasant. Hugh Leach 27 Marvin Stewart 40 both of Point Pleasant posted $12 bonds. Ronald Eugene Baker 20 of Mason posted bond. Sally Bates 22 of Point Pleasant discharged on bond.
Mr Orr and Mrs Clint Orr hosted with John Long of Charleston and Mrs Harry Morarity family visiting. Audell Roberts from Columbus spent a weekend with George Roberts’s family. Ralph Wallard and son Melvin joined Wirt HalTins of Dexter for an evening visit. John Wells of Columbus stayed with his relatives over the weekend. Mrs William Carr and daughter visited Alfred, while William Ohlinger and daughter from Pomeroy spent Sunday with Robert White. Clint Orr and Lola Sarden visited Earnest Ship of Marion Thursday.
Three days after the spill, residual oil remains easily carried on children's shoes and tracked into houses, complicating cleanup and posing lingering contamination risks for families and interior spaces.
A two car crash on Route 35 seven tenths mile west of Leon Saturday left Mason County resident Carl Scott Kimberling 20 Arbuckle and Roy Preston Justice 44 Clio West Virginia with slight injuries and $850 in damages. Kimberling’s eastbound car collided head on with Justice’s westbound vehicle. Center line was cited.
Miss Fannie Belva Hurlow of St. Evans Mason County died after more than 30 years in the area. A Point Pleasant High School and Marshall College graduate, she leaves two sisters Anita Van Meter and Margaret Roush, two brothers Joseph and James Harlow. Services will be at Mount Moriah Advent Church with burial in Harlow Cemetery Tuesday at 2 p.m. Friends may call Crow Funeral Home until 1 p.m.
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