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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 10, 1960

Page

3

Middleport Council Approves Sewage Plant Ordinance First Reading

Five Middleport council members vote for the first reading of an ordinance to fund a sewage disposal plant through a service charge. Bill Childs dissents as the proposal outlines charges for residences, businesses, and institutions both inside and outside village limits.

Middleport Charlene Hoeflich Village Hall Bill Childs John Zerkle Clinton Fisher Ernest Covert Wayne Gibbons Lee Smith Board of Public Affairs Zerkle Council Kenneth McElhinney Floyd G. Brown Childs Pomeroy and Charles Hoffman Hoffman

Scouts Schedule Round Up and Local Council Actions

Scout Troop 200 outlined the McCormick Hout Round Up at Fairfield for May 27 to 29 with Explorer Post 200 organizing. Plans include a Cincinnati trip on June 26 and a chartered bus for the Reds Giants game.

Gallipolis Court St Fairfield Explorer Post Meigs County Pete McCormick Pie Hout Walter F. Walker Cincinnati Reds Giants

Kindergarten Pupils Honored At Cheshire PTA

Graduation of 15 Cheshire Kgger Elementary pupils closed the school year. Mrs Violet Russell presented diplomas. her homeroom won the attendance prize. Open house preceded the meeting with 23 parents attending and two first grade speakers offered kindergarten related talks. Officers for next fall were installed by Mrs Roy Grose.

Gallipolis Cheshire- Kgger Elementary Parent Teachers Association Violet Russell

Scout Session Teaches Passing Requirements at Grace Church

Harry E. Hamilton troop committee chairman led a Monday night session for 19 members of Boy Scout Troop 203 at Grace Methodist Church. In Scoutmaster Jim Hackworths absence Hamilton trained three scouts needing second class requirements and four others pursuing tenderfoot badges.

Gallipolis Harry E. Hamilton Grace Methodist Church Jim Hackworth Hamilton

Grangers Postpone POMEROY A Meeting Postponed Friday

Rock Springs Grange postpones the POMEROY A meeting from Thursday to 8 p m Friday. Alfred Grange members will be guests and present the program. Rock Springs grange members are to take pies.

Pomeroy Rock Springs Grange Alfred Grange

Call Sentenced for Drunkenness in Cincinnati Workhouse

James Ned Call was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in the Cincinnati workhouse Monday evening after appearing in Mayor Kenneth McElhinny's court. Repeated arrests for intoxication led to the sentence.

Middleport James Ned Call Cincinnati Kenneth McElhinny

Turner Family Visits Parents Over Weekend

Mr and Mrs Robert Turner and children of North Robinson were weekend guests of his parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Turner. Mrs Erma Daugherty returned to her home from Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis where she had been a medical patient.

Robert Turner North Robinson Joseph Turner Erma Daugherty Holzer Hospital Gallipolis

River Traffic and Dam Conditions Across Ohio and Kanawha Rivers

River gauges show rising levels on the Kanawha and Ohio with dams moving and boats active. Listings include Gallipolis Marmet Marmet Marmet Marmet and various locks and boats such as Lock 14 National 4-3 and Stevenson 17-0 down.

Gallipolis Montgomery Kanawha Falls Hinton Pomeroy- Mason Pleasant Kanawha River London Marmet Winfield Ohio River National Reliance OVEC Cornell Reed Ss. A.m Ashland Franklin Pierce Lunga Point Pennsylvania Chandeleur Esso Tennessee Kanawha C. F. Shearer Solvay Lelia C. Shearer Elgercliff Trojan Robert E. Reed Cotton Queen Jefferson Mr. Criss I. F. Friebergr St. Louis James Orleanian Ernestine City of Huntington Indiana

Volunteers Sought To Prepare Canters Cave 4 H Camp

Gallia County extension agents and volunteers depart Friday for Jackson for the Canter's Cave 4 H Camp Corporation meeting. Volunteer help is needed to clean the Camp and ready it for the camping season. From Gallipolis travel Nancy McAllister Bill Smith Russ Priddy and others.

Gallipolis Gallia

Pomeroy Democrats Plan May 3 Organization Meeting

Members of the Democratic Central Committee in Meigs County will meet May 3 at 7 30 p m at the Pomeroy courthouse to organize and receive their certificates of election.

Pomeroy Democratic Central Committee Meigs County

Pythians Inspected By Senator Porter

Acting deputy grand chancellor District 17 State Senator J Sherman Porter inspected Oak Hill Knights of Pythias Lodge 108 in Gallipolis Monday night. Thomas E Mills grand master at arms spoke briefly. After the meeting Porter and Mills were guests of the lodge at the Highway Inn.

Gallipolis J. Sherman Porter Oak Hill

W S Maugham Quips on Religion and Common Sense

The writer notes W Somerset Maugham’s quip on why religious minds rarely attribute common sense to God. The remark highlights a skeptical view of divine reasoning and human rationality in faith debates.

W. Somerset Maugham

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