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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1949
Page
3
Point Pleasant W Hyre of Ohio River Road has been named general manager. He previously spent seven years with Philips Furniture Co in South Charleston.
Mason County sees new state law on meeting and overtaking stopped school buses in effect from March 4. It requires driver caution, prohibits passing until bus moves or driver signals, and mandates clear school bus markings with penalties of fines or jail for violations.
Mrs. Landon Smith leaves for Clarksburg to visit relatives. Huntington visitors include Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Davis with Buck Jamison. County Superintendent Ferguson returns from Morgantown after watching West Fairmont win the pennant. Multiple residents report travels, moves, illnesses, and births, including a Walter Keith son born in Mason Clinic.
Lambda Chi Omega Sorority in Point Pleasant held a Saturday program featuring an initiation at the Ma sonic Temple at 5 p m with several members joining, a Moose Club dinner with a theme The Easter Parade and readings by Dan Nickell, plus a Legion Hall dance from 9 30 p m to 1 a m. New officers were installed at the dinner including Mrs Casby Meadows Jr president and Mrs Woodrow Kapp vice president.
Two boys aged 9 and 11 confessed to burglarizing North Point Pleasant Grade School. Sgt. Wilfong says they are in care of child welfare director Ida Stanley until the May circuit court appearance before Judge Lewis H. Miller. Loot recovered includes z e s and pencils a watch and 2.75 dollars in cash.
Dr. M. J. Lilly Jr of Chicago traveled to Huntington to visit his niece Miss Lilly Faye Staats who suffered a spine fracture in an accident last Thursday and has been a Memorial Hospital patient since. Miss Staats is a niece of Mr and Mrs Garrett Green and granddaughter of Dr and Mrs M J Lilly Sr of Upland.
Mr and Mrs James L Easley and daughter Linda of Youngstown arrived to visit his parents Mr and Mrs O L Easley of 708 Vi and St The younger Easley has been discharged from the Veterans Hospital in Cleveland after treatment for a foot injury while training for the Navy Air Corps
Point Pleasant reports ten year old Elmer David McDermitt was bitten Friday by a dog in Kington. He lives with his grandmother Mrs Kay at Dye Apartments. Dogs roaming freely despite a rabies quarantine proclaimed weeks ago.
Mrs. John J. Neumeister 78 of 909 Viand Street died Sunday after a long illness. A native of Indianapolis she came here in 1919 with her husband. Survived by husband a daughter Mrs. N. R. Gunn a granddaughter Mrs. Ben A. Isaac a great granddaughter Donna Lynn Isaac and several Indianapolis nieces and nephews. Friends may call at Franklin funeral home rites 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Christ Episcopal Church Lone Oak Cemetery burial.
James A. Ferrell of the Appalachian Electric Power Co. bought 7.74 acres in Camp Conley Addition from John McNeill. He plans to move a home from Industrial Rayon Corp. land or to build anew on his property and hopes to grow corn tomatoes produce and raise a few chickens.
Former County Commissioner John Barnett remains critically ill at his Jericho Road home. His daughters and relatives across Michigan and Washington, D. C., including Mrs. Theo Rowan, Philip Barnett, Mrs. Clythe McBride, Mrs. Faith Gorrell and Howard Lee, Mrs. Ada Stough, and Mrs. Daisy Quarnstram, are at his bedside or with family.
Ma json Drive-In Theater manager Ross N. Filson announced the venue will begin its 1949 season this Friday April 1.
Mrs. Eunice Beller regent announces a social hour precedes a DAR meeting on April 1 in Point Pleasant. Events include a 1 p.m. social, a 2 p.m. regular meeting, a talk on national defense through patriotic education by Ms. William H. Vaught, a vocal.
A daughter, Jan Lucille, was born Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. R. Emrick of 2611 Garfield Ave Point Pleasant. Maternal grandmother is Mrs. Raymond Brown of 713 Main St Ravenswood attended with Eugene Brown, Mrs. Emrick’s brother, who were there Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Redman and Mr and Mrs Jamge Love of Cincinnati were in a highway crash about 12 miles east of Chillicothe Friday night en route to spend the weekend. A tire blew out, the car overturned and burned. The occupants escaped with minor injuries. purses were unrecovered. Mrs Redman is mother of Mr Redmond, and Mr Love is son of Mr and Mrs George Love.
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