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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1955
Page
6
NELSONVILLE The City Recreation Commission approves pool operations for the coming season. General manager earns 50 per month for three months, with other salaries set for assistant manager life guards and pool attendants. Hours run Tue to Sun 1 to 4 PM and 6 to 9 PM, closed Mondays. Admission remains 5 8 for students and 12 for families.
Rev Raymond Simpson resigns after nine years as pastor of Pilgrim Holiness Church Nelsonville with final sermon set for August 7. The church notes improvements including rear addition classrooms larger Sunday school and decor upgrades while attendance rose from 212 in 1946 to the mid 400s recently. He has served as district official and evangelist with past pastorates across Ohio Kentucky West Virginia Delaware and Pennsylvania.
Moe on rasmourn of Los Angeles arrived here Thursday for several days visit with her brother CF Washburn and Jara and Ms Ted Katzenbach of Phoenix are guests here of relatives and friends.
Sheets of Letart Falls hosted by Miss Evelyn Sheets with guests Blue Lake Blue Levees and Rosetta. Mrs Minnie Kemper entertained with Mr and Mrs Foster Thacker and son Marian. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Raymond Frayer of Columbus and James Fergus of St Joseph, Indiana, at Libby Young’s home.
A Hemlock Central school variety show drew attendees from New Straitsville Shawnee Congo Moxahala Sayre Corning New Lexington Columbus and Nelsonville. Visitors included Mr and Mrs Paul Williams The Plains and numerous local families. The piece notes several relatives visiting and returning trips among residents of Zanesville Mansfield Fairborn Athens and Logan.
A polio afflicted mother, bedridden in an iron lung, gave birth to a girl named John Coletta Sands at a Columbus hospital. The baby, born Wednesday, feeds well on sweetened water and is in good form. The mother, wife of a law student, already has a daughter named Pea and was briefly removed from the iron lung for the birth.
Charles Linton 68 of 258 St John Street Nelsonville died Thursday night at Mount St Mary Hospital after a four year illness. He was a retired miner and lifelong Nelsonville resident. Survived by wife Anna, four daughters Vera Shelton Barberton Helen Williams Athens Hale Dean Sterling Lancaster Vivian Bradbury Nelsonville. brother Aditan, sisters Margaret Dawley Worthing Allie Stump Columbus. brother Asa Tantson died recently. Services Sunday at 2 pm at Johnson-Sue Home Nelsonville conducted by Rev J A Long.
The bulletin lists ministries across Nelsonville churches including Christian-Fort Short Street J A Long minister with services Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. along with midweek study. Jefferson Street Methodist led by F Melvin Wentz with 9:30 a.m. church school and 10:30 a.m. worship. Epiphany Episcopal with 9:30 a.m. church school and 7:30 p.m. service. Nazarene Adams Street led by Leroy A Moyer with 9:30 a.m. school and 10:45 a.m. worship. and other denominations detailing service times and special events for the week.
Nelsonville obituary notes the death today of Thomas Sharp of Bessemer Road Athens with funeral plans announced. The piece lists surviving wife and son along with siblings and notes Sharp’s auto agency appointment and local business ties.
Judge Theodore R. Bohn of Detroit rejects inadmissible proof yet notes two restaurant owners defend their use of the name Luigi. They offered pizza pies as evidence in a dispute over branding and trademark rights.
Mr and Mrs Gallin Wilson and daughters visited Athens while William McMann and parents from Detroit toured relatives here. Dozens of locals including George McMann Nora Colburn Richard Duffy and Betty Sabo hosted and visited with family and friends during recent trips and weddings at Carbon Hill and surrounding towns.
Mount St Mary Hospital notes record numerous births and new arrivals. Families in Shawnee Nelsonville Athens Chauncey Glouster Millfield Trimble and Logans areas welcome daughters and sons with several new babies mentioned along with residents and routes.
Mrs Wayne Hunley of Nelsonville announces the birth of a daughter Brenda Kay at Mount St Mary Hospital on May 4 Grandparents Mr and Mrs Robert Hunley of Nelsonville and Mr and Mrs Roy Matheny of Carbon Hill Great grandparents Mr and Mrs John Fink Mrs Bertha Schoonover and Arthur Rosser Nelsonville Mrs Anna Fink of Chauncey is the baby's great great grandmother
Charlie Pyles 67, long time local blacksmith, died Thursday evening at St. Joseph's Hospital Parkersburg after brief illness. Survived by brother Alva Caldwell. nieces Addie Hawk Chester and Stel AAtMSrrence Long Bottom. nephew George Pyles Chester. Funeral Sunday 2 p.m. Silver Ridge Brethren Church Rev Walter Frost officiating. Burial Silver Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call Arepauga Funeral Home in Tupper Plains.
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