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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1961
Page
3
The Ohio Society of Professional Engineers will conduct a workshop at Ohio University this Saturday. Members will discuss engineering topics and professional standards during the event.
An advertisement touts Peterson's Ointment for quick relief from piles with a 60 cent box or 85 cent applicator tube. The promo promises itching relief and money back. A separate item notes a presidents workshop at Ohio University with talks on membership promotion and a Sunday plaque dedication at Hope Furnace.
Christopher Claude Holdcroft 67 of Athens County died Tuesday in Bethesda Hospital Zanesville after a Monday admission His wife Alta died in March 1959 Surviving Edward Columbus Clinton Athens Route 3 sister Mary Johnson Athens Route 3 brother Charles Athens Route 5 Friends may call at Delong and Baker funeral home Zanesville after 7 p m Thursday 2 p m services at Poston Community Church Burial Augustine Cemetery Poston
Albany report says Eliza Combs Welsh aged 82 lifelong Harrisonville resident died Wednesday morning at the Columbus home of her daughter Mrs Arthur Woodyard where she had been staying during illness Her husband had died earlier Arrangements are being planned by the Bigony funeral home here.
Sharon Fiske, 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs Howard Fiske of Nelsonville, was found guilty in Juvenile Court of unlawfully passing a vehicle. A $5 fine and costs were imposed and her license was suspended for 30 days.
Dr. J T Ullom recalls early macadamized roads from the 1880s and the town campus scene at the old Athens College. He describes the rock pile, hitching posts, a beech with carved names, the McGuffey Elms, a farmers’ parking area, a merry-go-round, and a Soldiers Monument after General Grosvenor helped secure it. He recalls a 1890s Otterbein intercollegiate game ending in a fight and a nine to zero for Otterbein due to an umpire dispute.
Two fire department emergency calls Tuesday. Clarence Barnett, 56, declined aid for a head cut at 7:20 p.m. He was advised to see a doctor. Ivelynne Seiferth, 12, cut her left leg with a can while playing kick can, treated and taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital at 7:55 p.m.
Firemen respond to a 2 09 p m Tuesday blaze at Cry stal Pool Riverside Dr an electric motor powering water pumps caught fire firefighters cut power and extinguished the flames no damage estimate available
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