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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1949
Page
5
Mrs. Daily launches the 1950 Athens Community Chest with 600 letters to OU faculty staff and local groups. A 12500 goal runs Nov 7 to Nov 21 with red feather incentives for 100 percent employee participation and house to house solicitation final week.
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station Wooster offers trees for Athens County residents for spring 1950 planting. Apply using blanks from Division of Forestry Security Bank Building Soil Conservation Service Worstell Building P M A Office 14% S Court St County Extension Office or from Albany Coolville Stewart Vocational Agriculture instructors. First come first served. Black locust sold out. many other varieties remain available.
Polls will open 6 30 a m to 6 30 p m Tuesday per election board clerk J E Barker. Listed voting sites include Ward 1 Precinct 1 First Christian Church Precinct 2 Nye Chevrolet Precinct 3 West Side School Precinct 4 Downey Garage Ward 2 Precinct 1 Court House Precinct 2 Salvation Army Ward 3 Precinct 1 city hall front Precinct 2 Music Hall Ward 4 Precinct 1 City Hall rear Precinct 2 Episcopal Church Precinct 3 East Side School Precinct 4 Stratton Auto Sales Precinct 5 East Side School Precinct 6 Mt Zion Church
Real estate transfers reached a yearly peak with 150 transactions in October and fees totaling 753.45 dollars. Mortgages 86, leases 77, chattels 421, and four discharges plus 30 easements were recorded as vehicle titles show slight decreases from September totals.
Homer Kittle of Athens Route 5 faces two counts of assault with intent to kill after a Sunday family quarrel near Luhrig left his wife Gladys and father in law M. C. Stover with injuries. Kittle also sustained facial abrasions. Mrs. Kittle suffered a deep eye gash. Stover had a head injury and a serious thumb injury. Arraignment set for Wednesday in Mayor W. P. Mickle’s court. Deputy Sheriffs Joyce and Pincelli investigated.
Sheriff George Bateman transported Fred Oliver, Sr. of Greens Run and Earl Sadler of Athens to the Ohio Penitentiary after their convictions. Oliver received a one to twenty year term for shooting with intent to wound his son on August 13. Sadler drew a one to seven year sentence for fraud. Deputy Mamie Pincelli accompanied the convoy.
Two minor accidents caused slight damage Friday according to city police. At 3 45 p.m. Stanley E. Trussell of Long Bottom collided with William F. Giesecke at 158 Morris Ave. Later, 10 20 p.m., William E. Butler of 23 15 Park Place skidded into a parked car owned by Ray and Don Shafer of The Plains at Lancaster and W State St.
The probate court issued 14 marriage license applications in October and 16 in September, as part of a two month decline though the year totals 180 applications exceed 168 for the same period. Male applicants averaged 24.71 years and females 22.79, with ages ranging from 21 to 33 for men and 17 to 39 for women.
Dr. George W. Corner a noted embryologist from the Carnegie Institution of Washington will address the Ohio University Sigma Xi chapter at 8 p.m. in the Chemistry Auditorium. The lecture is part of a midwestern and southern tour sponsored by Sigma Xi with local support from the Ohio University Fund Inc.
Mrs Amanda Sheridan of Athens Route 4 learns of the death of her sister Mrs Bertha Kingery 71 in Nevada Missouri Funeral services were held Monday in Missouri Kingery born and raised in Athens moved to the Midwest 50 years ago She and her husband observed their 50th anniversary last August Surviving besides the husband are six children a sister Mrs Ida Watkins Shelby Iona an aunt Mrs Nell Carr Second Ss An older sister Mrs Bessie Watkins died September 18 at Shelby
Four men were fined by Mayor Mickle Saturday after pleading guilty to intoxication charges. Each paid $10 fines with $5 suspended plus court costs. The fined were David Flynn 28 and John C. May 22 of Cleveland and Allan Courtney 20 and Richard L. Mcintosh 20 of Palmer Hall.
List of patients and guardians at Sheltering Arms Hospital includes Mrs. Freda Wyatt of Athens for surgery, Mrs. Vivian Waldeck of Chauncey after an accident, Lorenzo Hanning and Mabel Campbell near Nelsonville, and several others from Athens and surrounding towns. Names appear with accompanying relatives or addresses.
Temperatures stayed in the low bracket over the weekend with 25 degrees Saturday night just above the season low set on Oct 26. Sunday dipped to 28 with highs of 46 Saturday and 55 Sunday under clear skies reported by Athens observer Mrs. C N France.
An Athena Ohio meter fine controversy spreads after a Cincinnati Enquirer columnist questions leniency. The piece notes the city’s one hour five cent penalty and hints that locals stop paying, while officials consider raising the rate to twenty five cents.
Two people were injured Sunday when a car driven by James L. Walbeck crashed into a telephone pole near Beaumont. Mrs. Vivian Walbeck and her brother Lorenzo Hanning sustained pelvic and chest injuries and arm fractures respectively. Walbeck was fined for unsafe operation. An earlier accident at Richland and Dalry avenues caused no injuries.
Spencer had rejected John Kelso and was previously defended by John Bolin who entered an innocent by reason of insanity plea leading to observation at Lima. Two men sentenced for first degree murder include John La Corte 51 and Grover Rawlins 18 for killings at Gloucester and Eleanor Gifford case. Dodds 21 was found guilty in Miss Gifford slaying with death in electric chair stayed pending defense appeal.
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