Hocking Hills Vacations Planned By Farm Families
Eight farm owners convert homes into vacation motels under the Hocking County Agriculture Extension Service. Homes inspected by the Health Department offer access to Cantwell Cliffs Rock House Conkle's Hollow Old Man's Cave Cedar Falls and nearby routes. Cantwell Cliffs rises 150 feet. Rock House hosts a cavern and a historic hotel. Old Man's Cave bears Civil War era hermit lore. Cedar Falls features a 50 plus foot waterfall and the largest Ohio Hemlock.
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Ter
Nancy
Robert McBroom
Rock House
Hocking
United States Post Office
Conkle’s Hollow
Old Man’s Cave
Ohio
West Virginia
Rowe
Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs
Cedar Falls
Cedar Creek
Peter
Cleanup Starts Early For Flooded Green Lawn Cemetery
Nelsonville announces early cleanup at Green Lawn Cemetery due to flooding from the Hocking River and Monday Creek. Sexton Donald E. Wolfe says many decorations were washed away and debris remains, urging owners to remove wreaths and grave blankets for safekeeping while work proceeds.
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Nelsonville
Green Lawn Cemetery
Sexton
Donald E. Wolfe
Hocking River
Monday Creek
York Two
Green Lawn
Basketball Queen Named At Dance
Logan High School named Ginger Freeman senior and daughter of Mr and Mrs Delmer Freeman as basketball queen at the annual basketball dance held Saturday evening. Seven candidates competed and the student body chose the winner.
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LOGAN
Ginger Freeman
Logan High School
Delmer Freeman
Sherry Poston
FFA
Mary Ruth Reed
Sandy Steward
Hi-Y
Gale Handley
Connie Ellis
Dina Spalsbury
Merv Primmer
Two Fine In Malicious Injury Case In Logan
Logan Paul David Warren and Shayne Kelly were indicted for malicious injury to property and held on a $1500 bond. Warren pled guilty, got 30 days in jail, $100 fine and costs, while Kelly pled innocent, was found guilty, given 30 days and $50 fine plus costs, with jail time suspended for good behavior and payment within 60 days. A divorce action was filed by Roxie H. Stufflebean against Eldon Stufflebean on extreme cruelty grounds.
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Logan
Paul David Warren
Shayne Kelly
Hocking County Grand Jury
Harley Meyer
Common Pleas Court
Warren
Kelly
Meyer
Roxie H. Stufflebean
Eldon Stufflebean
York Board Hires Two Bus Drivers
York Board of Education met at York School on Saturday and hired substitute bus drivers John Snyder Jr and Robert Bunting. Board approved monthly bills totaling 7725.94 and purchased a chlorinator for the Poston School water system. Flooding had contaminated the well water but chlorination made it safe. The annual financial report was completed by executive head Jack Hillyer and will be published soon. Members John Sanborn and Charles Hook Jr were absent.
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Nelsonville
York
York School
John Snyder, Jr
Robert Bunting
Poston School
Athens County Health Department
Jack Hillyer
John Sanborn
Charles Hook, Jr
Parish Churches Plan Holy Week Services
Taylor Rideve and Dwight Smith attended a Parish Planning Council meeting at Trimble Church of Christ. Holy week events cover Greens Run March 25 Gethsemane Meeting, Trimble March 26 Holy Communion, Chauncey March 27 CWF Program, with 6 pm Sunrise Services at all five churches and breakfasts at Trimble and Millfield. Easter egg hunt at Taylor Ridge. April 1 parish wide day of prayer with open churches 8 am to 8 pm.
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Dwight Smith
Trimble Church of Christ
Greens Run
Trimble
Chauncey
Millfield
Taylor Ridge
Bishop's Company Presents Saint Joan at First Christian Church
The Bishops' Company of Burbank California will perform Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw in Nelsonville at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. Pat Maniccia plays Joan with John Dutt and Jerry Vonne in supporting roles. The troupe, founded in 1952, has toured millions of miles to over 6,000 churches. An advance offering of fifty cents for students and one dollar for adults is requested.
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Nelsonville
Burbank
Calif
George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan
First Christian Church
Joan
Lorraine
Rouen
Pat Maniccia
Pat
American National Theatre Academy
San Francisco
Palm Springs
Playhouse
John Dutt
Jerry Vonne
Man
California
Dobie Gillis
Bishops’ Company
Phyllis Beardsley Bokar
United States
Canada
Bishop’s Company
Nelsonville First Christian Church
Mechem to Speak at Ohio Bankers Conference Banquet
Senator C Stanley Mechem president pro tem of the Ohio Senate will be banquet speaker at the closing of the first day of the Ohio Bankers Association Executive Bankers Conference at the Columbus Plaza Hotel. He will discuss implications of legislative reapportionment, based on over 20 years in the Senate.
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Nelsonville
C. Stanley Mechem
Ohio Senate
Ohio Bankers Association
Executive Bankers Conference
Columbus Plaza Hotel
Ohio
Mechem
Starette 4 H Chooses Officers
Nelsonville section notes Starrette 4H Club election of officers led by president Nancy Turner and other posts including Sharon McDaniel secretary Nancy McDaniel treasurer Rebecca Carter news reporter Jean Robinette recreation leader Rachel Carter health leader Kitty Beavers safety leader Faye Rafferty Junior leaders to sing. Next meeting planned March 30 at Mrs. Bob Carter home. Mason County schools announce North Point Pleasant Grade School will close this week for boiler and furnace repairs affecting nearly 300 students until classes resume Monday.
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Nelsonville
Johnny Henderson
Nancy Turner
Sharon McDaniel
Nancy McDaniel
Rebecca Carter
Jean Robinette
Rachel Carter
Kitty Beavers
Faye Rafferty
Bob Carter
Point Pleasant
Milton Burdette
Mason County
North Point Pleasant
Nelsonville Council OKs Water Rate Increase as Emergency Act
City council approved a water rate increase in a Monday night session with emergency status. New rates begin April 1 including minimums of 3.90 for water and 3.75 for sewer per quarter, plus tiered per thousand gallon charges.
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Nelsonville
Charles Shafer
Water Department
Fourth Ward
Raymond Foughty
Glen Tharp
Carl Young
General Fund
Service Department
William Hoffman
Shafer
Phillips
Pack 64 meets Tuesday at Epiphany Church basement
Nelsonville Cub Scout Pack 64 holds its monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the basement rooms of the Church of the Epiphany on Jefferson Street. The move is due to Holy Week services at the usual Methodist meeting place.
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Nelsonville
Church of the Epiphany (Episcopal
Jefferson St
Mount St. Mary Hospital Notes
The Mount St. Mary Hospital notes list patients and dismissals with names and addresses across Glouster Nelsonville Albany and surrounding routes. Several individuals are noted as dismissed including Mrs Gordon Losey and son and others from Glouster Route 4 Glouster Route 3 Nelsonville Route 2 and New Straitsville among the listed names.
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Mount ST. Mary Hospital
Ralph Wyckoff
Logan
Kathy J. Hook
Glouster
Mildred Riggs
Nelsonville
Paul Allen
Carl Porter
Butch Throckmorton
Albany
Sarah F. Lock
Buchtel
Louise Caster
Evelyn Patton
Charlotte Brady
Carbon Hill
Gordon Losey
Robert Erdy
Charlene Johnson
Willard H. Love
New Marshfield
Tammy Warren
New Straitsville
Jerome Dumott, Jr
Junction City
Edward Slatzer
Earl Gleason
New Lexington
Mary Loudner
Doanville
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Hocking County
Josiah Cantwell
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Athens
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Public Square
E. Main
Pomeroy
York Board
Taylor Rideve
Bishop’s Co
Bankers
Starette
Hoffman
Recreation Commission
Division Highway Department
Kimberly
State Highway Department
Brooks Shoe Co
Board of Trade
Veterans Memorial
Ned Tolliver
City Recreation Commission
Max Valkinburg
Betty Crawford
Shater Young
Russell Cline
Nelsonville Kroger
Kroger Co
Cline
Daniel Nelson
Fort and
Washington Sts
Cub Pack
Barre Guild
W. Main St
Logan, Ohio
Athens Pharmacy
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