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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1964
Page
3
A Jacksonville citizens committee plans to circulate petitions to place on the ballot the question of a proposed sewage treatment plant and collection system. The committee cites debt and local poverty as reasons for opposition amid council deadlock and bids surpassing estimates.
Bond forfeitures from COUNTY COURT include Harry Olden Stanley of Vienna and Katherine Warren of Nelsonville for speeding and failure to yield with patrol fines totaling 56 dollars. MUNICIPAL COURT lists Everett Vore, Michael Kelly, James Pfaff, Clyde Sidders, and Terry Bumpass for speeding and related offenses with fines up to 56 dollars. SUIT DISMISSED shows Roge rs Mortuary vs Betty Helm settled and dismissed by Common Pleas Court. Fire at Jack Sams residence blamed on defective wiring. Richland Area firemen responded. TO CONFER DEGREE notes Royal Arch degree to be conferred at 7 30 p m Thursday in the Masonic Temple by Athens Chapter 39 Royal Arch Masons.
Athens County real estate activity remained near normal in February with 99 mortgages and 83 deeds filed in the county recorder's office. Compared to February 1963, totals show 80 mortgages and 89 deeds, while the month also saw 72 mortgages and numerous other instruments including 36 right of ways and 22 chattel releases.
Ohio University will join 28 other universities from 12 states at a March 13 and 14 intercollegiate drill meet sponsored by the Pershing Rifles unit of the University of Illinois. The event includes regulation and individual drills with Pershing Rifles teams. Participants named include Frank Lynn Cloherty a 22 year old Pittsburgh graduate student and Linda Kay Lynn a 23 year old Athens student along with Peter Michael Frolick 22 of Lorain and Betty Jean Roberson 22 of Athens.
GLOUSTER The Athens County court house history was presented by Mrs Ed Ley to the Rothwell Club at the Hotel Gordon with Mrs Robert Gamwell presiding. The first county court house was a rented room used two years. A log court house was built in 1807 and in 1818 a new building stood for over six decades. In 1878 residents voted for a new building finished in 1880. In 1960 the fourth floor was remodeled and in 1961 Probate and Juvenile Courts moved to new quarters. A dessert for 16 followed with spring decor. The next meeting is March 19 with Mrs Ley hostess and Mrs Hall program leader. A WSCS bake sale for Trimble Methodist Church at Village Hall begins 11 a.m., not 8. The Past Chiefs Club meets Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Hotel Gordon. Mary Cheney to be hostess. regrets to be phoned by Wednesday noon.
The N T Club gathered Friday evening at Mary Skinner’s Front Street residence. Members signed cards for sick members and former Glouster residents Dora Emerick and Tally Munden. Lunch was served by Mary Skinner and her daughter Virginia Sprott to Mary Johnston and others. Next meeting slated with Rosa Swartz on April 3.
The Ellstein Memorial Award contest at Ohio University will award a $500 prize with the winning composition performed in fall 1965. Open to United States residents, entries may be chamber or symphonic or brass or orchestra works. Judges include Robert Ward Arthur Cohn and Max Rudolf. Fathers of Ellstein’s legacy include his CBS memorial program and The Golem.
Rome lists 37 Rome Canaan pupils honored by Herman L. Ellis executive head. Grades include Twelfth Del Carpenter, Edna Starkey, Cheryl Dorr, Gregory Wright. Eleventh Neal Canter, Daniel Dunfee, Ruth Wingrove, Linda Dorr, Roger Merrick. Tenth Nancy O'Brien, Charlene Klinglesmith, Cindy Dailey, Melba Flowers, Denver Lightner, Judy Flowers, Linda Barnhart. Ninth Jerry Dixon, Dorothy Woody, Candy Well. Eighth Phyllis Barnhart, Bonnie Leaper, Charlene Sanger, Tawn Wright, Sandra Dixon, Tony Skinner, Connie Starkey, Connie Starkey. Seventh Mary Blackford, Donald Dillinger, Betty Flowers, Cynthia Sams, Harlan Jarvis, Janice Hoisington, Shirley Dailey, Patricia Dwyer, Brian Mansfield, Terry Whaley, Donna Flowers.
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