Nelsonville Adopts Metered Water Rates Beginning April
Nelsonville announces new water charges under the meter system with quarterly bills. First 10 000 gallons cost 60 cents per 1 000, next 90 000 gallons 25 cents, over 100 000 gallons 12 cents, minimum 3 75 per quarter. Bills due by the 15th. 10 penalty. Meter readings begin April 1 with May 1 second reading. April bills credit advance payments. Officials urge leak checks to conserve water as softened supply replaces hard.
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Nelsonville
Joe Dewhurst
Service Department
Isaac Simon Dies in Nelsonville at 62
Isaac Simon, 62, long time Nelsonville scrap iron businessman, died at his home Saturday. Funeral services were held in Columbus at 1 30 p m conducted by Rabbi Mordecai Hirschprung and Cantor Phillip Gellman. He leaves wife Zelda, son Dr A R Simon of Portsmouth Va, and daughters Mrs Sarah Bender and Miss Bess Simon. Born in Siberia he served in the Czarist army and fought in the 1904 Russo Japanese War before coming to the United States in 1905 and settling in Nelsonville.
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Nelsonville
Isaac Simon
Columbus
Mordecai Hirschprung
Phillip Gellman
Snider
E. Main St
Simon
Agudath Achim
New
Zelda Simon
A. R. Simon
U. S. Naval Reserve
Portsmouth
Sarah Bender
Bess Simon
Cleveland
Siberia
Russia
Army of the
Czar
United States
Five Appear Before Mayor in Nelsonville Court
Davis Kimberly pleaded guilty to petit larceny in Mayor George Bateman court. Fined 25 dollars plus costs. affidavit by Patrolman Thompson. Others pled guilty including Austin McDonald and Edgar Patton for quarrel. fines set. Betty Ann Newman fined 10 dollars for unsafe operation. Notices announce appointments of executors and administrators in Athens County probate cases with four month claim periods.
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Nelsonville
Pear FE
Davis
Kimberly
George Bateman
Charles Thompson
John Forbes
Austin McDonald
Old Floodwood
Edgar Patton
Stover Family Announces Lillian Stover and Jack Sutton Marriage
Nelsonville notes report the marriage of Lillian Stover to Jack Lee Sutton at Third Street Baptist Church Dayton on a Saturday evening in late March. Rev Edward W Miller officiated a single ring ceremony. reception followed at Hotel Gibbons with spring floral decor. The couple reside in Dayton at Maud Muller Apartments Third and Perry Streets.
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Nelsonville
C. A. Stover
Lillian
Jack Lee Sutton
Willis K. Sutton
Third Street Baptist Church
Dayton
Edward W. Miller
Dorothy Wollaston
Wills K. Sutton, Jr
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
Ohio State University
Columbus
Warren
Wright Field
Sutton
British Admiralty Technical Mission
National Cash Register Company
Hotel Gibbons
Gibbons
Mrs. Sutton
Maud Muller
Third
Perry Sts
Birthday gathering honors Mr William F Anderson on Scott St
A surprise party at Mr William F Andersons Scott Street home Sunday honors his birthday with a turkey dinner for Ed Mills and spouse Warren White and others from Zanesville Athens Nelsonville Union Furnace Chauncey and the host city. Class 21 Methodist Church invites members to attend 7 30 pm services then a March meeting with a pot luck supper program.
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William F. Anderson
Scott St
Ed Mills
Warren White
Zanesville
James Hardman, Jr
Charles E. Stack
Athens
Sylvia Pedigo
Joe
Charles
Anderson
Alva Daugherty
Nelsonville
John Ray
Chauncey
Charles Campbell
Jimmy
Edgar Walker
Gary
Ronald
Ruth Daugherty
Union Furnace
Retta Howe Sunday School Meeting and Lenten Services
Members of the Retta Howe Sunday School Class of the Methodist Church are asked to meet at the church this evening at 7 20 for a group attendance at the special Lenten services at 7 30 o'clock. There are additional notes on local personal notices and a North Carolina coastal water fact.
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Retta Howe
Methodist Church
Large funeral honors late Sheriff Bayless in Nelsonville
Thousands attended the farewell for Charles W Bayless at Warren Funeral Home in Nelsonville as his body arrived from Athens. The service featured Rev John W Danford and Rev W M George with a motorcycle escort through Greenlawn Cemetery. Family and officials from Athens County and nearby areas paid their respects.
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Nelsonville
Warren
Charles W
Match) Bayless
Athens
John W. Danford
Methodist Church
W. M. George
Nelsonville Methodist Church
George
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Elks and Eagles Lodges
Athens County
Greenlawn Cemetery
Ohio State Sheriffs Associaton
Jack Bayless
David Wilkins
Jennie Edgell
Harry Edgell
Carl Hoch
Orlie Hoch
Tom Zeiher
Kenneth Ray
of Columbus
Helen Ferris
Lewis Center
Cora Finney
Worthington
John Briggs
Akron
George Bayless
Willard
Easter Week Activities of Nelsonville Church Announced
Nelsonville Church of Christ reveals a full Easter week plan led by Rev. L. E. Evans. Monday features a workers conference and dinner at 6 followed by an 7 30 service and a sermon on The Kingdom of God. Tuesday hosts Youth Night at 7 30 with The Church, choir rehearsal at 8 30. Wednesday Family Night presents New Creatures in Christ Jesus. Thursday includes In Remembrance of Me meditation and candle light communion. Friday offers Union Good Friday service at noon in the Presbyterian Church with all Protestant churches. Easter Sunday begins with a 6 30 sunrise service, 9 30 Bible School, 10 30 worship, The Dawn of Easter cantata at 4 directed by Charles E. Poston with Sigrid Love. No evening service or Endeavor meeting Sunday.
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Nelsonville
Sturid Love
L. E. Evans
Presbyterian Church
Church of Christ
Bible School
Charles E. Poston
Sigrid Love
Christian Endeavor
Rev Evans to Speak at Vesper Service at Presbyterian Church
Nelsonville Rev Lloyd Evans will speak on Jesus and the Church or Can Prayer Help Another Person at the Passion Week vesper service tonight at 7 o'clock. The choir will sing a special anthem. Congregation members sending Easter flowers in memory of loved ones should give the tag to the church before Thursday.
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Nelsonville
Lloyd Evans
Presbyterian Church
Made Corporal Aaron Harper A Camp Wallar Texas Note
Made corporal Aaron E. Harper of Nelsonville informs his father David Harper that he advanced to corporal in the U S Army at Camp Wallar Texas. He is a Nelsonville High School Class of 1937 graduate who volunteered three months ago and now lists Bat C AA T B Camp Wallar Texas as his address.
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Nelsonville
David Harper
Aaron E. Harper
U. S. Army
Camp Wallar
Texas
Aaron
Nelsonville High School
Corp
Bat. C
T. B
Postpone Classes in Nelsonville York Township
Mrs Oral Daugherty announced this morning that there will be no home nursing classes in York Township or Nelsonville this week during Holy Week.
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Nelsonville
Oral Daugherty
York Township
Industrial Labor Council meeting deferred in Nelsonville
The Industrial Labor Council of the Hocking and Sunday Creek Valleys scheduled at the American Legion building in Nelsonville for Sunday at 2 PM was postponed due to the funeral of the late Sheriff Charles W. Bayless.
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Nelsonville
Industrial Labor Council
Hocking and
Sunday Creek
American Legion
Charles W. Bayless
Four Young Men Stall Gas Station Robbery
Ezra Spear of Rob Gas Station reported to police that four young men in a West Virginia plated car stole five dollars from the cash drawer at the Portsmouth Ave station during a gasoline purchase. The thieves were not caught.
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Gallipolis
Ezra Spear
West Virginia
Portsmouth Ave
Will Marry GALLIPOLIS
Marriage license recipients listed include Cecil Bailey 21 and Betty Hayes 21 both of Charleston. Ivan Fogarty 24 and Elizabeth Berthy 22 of Charleston. John Everett 21 and Eleanor Fiske 18 of Williamsport W Va.
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Gallipolis
Cecil Bailey
Betty Hayes
Charleston
Ivan Fogarty
Elizabeth Berthy
John Everett
Eleanor Fiske
Williamstown
W. Va
Lakin School Head Resigns at Governor Neely Request
M. T. Obie, superintendent of the Industrial School for Colored Boys at Lakin, resigns after a letter from Gov. Neely. Obie plans to return to Fairmont if he can regain his home. His tenure was about a year and he was respected for his civic work in Mason County.
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Point Pleasant
M. T. Obie
Industrial School For Colored Boys
Lakin
M. M. Neely
Kump
Holt
Neely
Mason County
Civilian Defense Advisory Committee
Obie
Lakin State Hospital
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Army
Marcus McDaniel Resigns as Pt Pleasant Pressman
Marcus McDaniel, longtime pressman for the local daily paper, resigned Friday after fourteen years. He plans to seek work with a local war industry. County officials D E Wedge J W Barnett and Willard Hesson met briefly Saturday. Several local residents were noted in town from Cedar Grove Glouster and Columbus. Tol Stribling Jr was elected to the Bulldog Club at Georgia Tech and named president of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Former County Commissioner T P Bumgardner is critically ill near Letart. Mrs G E Quillin flew from Amarillo to Columbus for her father John Allinder's funeral and will stay with relatives a few weeks.
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Marcus McDaniel
D. E. Wedge
J. W. Barnett
Willard Hesson
Oliver Shearer
Cedar Grove
D. E. Carr
Glouster, O
Gail Faires
Main St
Tol Stribling
Tol, Jr
Bulldog Club
Georgia Tech
Atlanta
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
James K. Thomas
Berry
Charleston
Mrs. Dixon Dies Today in Columbus Hospital
Mrs. Rex Tolliver Dixon aged 46 died early this morning at Grant Hospital Columbus after observation. The body will lie in state at Stout Funeral Home with services pending announcement tomorrow. Survived by mother Mrs. Minnie Tolliver two brothers Foster and Charles Tolliver two sisters Marguerite Mrs Harry Blimes and four more sisters in Columbus Wayne Mich Cleveland. Family home on High Street.
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Nelsonville
Rex Tolliver Dixon
Grant Hospital
Columbus
Stout Funeral Home
Minnie Tolliver
Foster
Charles Tolliver
Marguerite
Harry Blimes
Matt Butler
P. E. Marshall
Wayne, Mich
John Miles
Mina Connors
Cleveland
High St
Reynolds Funeral Will Be Tuesday
Nelsonville notices death of George Reynolds 41 of Murray City who died Saturday in Athens. Survived by wife six children and parents. Funeral services set Tuesday at 2:30 PM at Murray City residence with burial at Greenlawn.
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Nelsonville
George Reynolds
Murray City
Athens
Greenlawn
Orbiston Personal Mention
Mrs Luella Dixon and children Judith Ann and Bob visited relatives at Jobs Wednesday. Several local families hosted relatives and friends over the weekend and during the week including Gill Lyons Mansfield McKee Buchtel Nida Gaskins Plains Williams Murray City and Sorrell families.
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Walter Wade
Lawrence Martin
New Straitsville
Fred Conger
Delbert Peacock
Barberton
Clarence Peacock
John Collins
Buchtel
Ralph Collins
Clayton Bookman
Steve Sorrell
Jane Roberts
Elizabeth Roberts
Chauncey
Maud Brown
William Halliday
Mike Bartoe
the Plains
Chris Waldeck
Nelsonville
Jake Jones
William Robinson
James Robinson
Lancaster
Births Announced in Point Pleasant
Two babies born March 27. A son for Fay and Margaret Coder River Street weighing five and a half pounds named Lawrence Melton. First child. A son for J A Stewart and wife on First Street weighing six pounds their thirteenth child.
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Point Pleasant
Fay Coder
River Street
Lawrence Melton
Civilian Defense Council explains its wartime role
Johnathan Daniels describes Civilian Defense as mobilizing citizens to aid the war effort by using leisure and resources to strengthen national resolve. He notes local adaption to problems such as housing and sanitation, with health and education standards maintained. Dr. Leonard Mayo warns Ohio is a bombing target, tying in Auxiliary Firemen and First Aid readiness to potential emergencies.
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Johnathan Daniels
Daniels
Leonard Mayo
School of Social Work
Western Reserve University
Ohio
Parker S&s. Sniffen
Remodeling Nears Finish in Ben Franklin Building
Dr Roy W Eschenaur announces May 1 completion for the office and hospital on the second floor of the Ben Franklin building at Courthouse Square Main St. The 50 by 95 foot space over Thompson drug store and Fisher's appliance store will house an operating room laboratory diet kitchen seven offices and waiting rooms drug room ENT suite X ray room a nine bed hospital and nurses quarters after a 10 year lease.
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Point Pleasant
Ben Franklin
Courthouse Square
Main St
Roy W. Eschenaur
Thompson Drug Store
Fisher
Dr. Eschenaur
Dr. Echenaur
R. L. Kayser Suffers Heart Attack Sunday
Rup ert L. Kayser, a local real estate agent, collapsed at his Seventh Street home Saturday around 1 pm from a heart attack. He was revived by Dr. Frank E. Long and taken to Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis. an hospital attache reported his condition unchanged Sunday afternoon.
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Point Pleasant
Rupert L. Kayser
Seventh St
Frank E. Long
Kayser
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Rood Divorce Filed by Attorneys Musgrave and Blessing
Elizabeth Rood sues Russell Rood for divorce with attorney representation by Musgrave and Blessing in Point Pleasant. The case seeks the dissolution of marriage and related relief as filed in local court records.
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Point Pleasant
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