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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1956
Page
9
A son born to Mr and Mrs Walter Schoonover of Gallipolis on November 6. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Ralph Shirley of Cottageville on November 1. Admitted: Mrs Harry L Bailey Pomeroy surgical. Mrs Jessie N Powell New Haven medical. Mrs Longuiness Holberg Wellston medical.
A Tuesday public sale in Ewington Ohio lists 22 head of dairy cattle including Holstein and Guernsey cows aged 2 to 6, plus 15 milk cans and a six-can milk cooler. Auctioneer Walter Brown of Vinton handles the sale with Roy Mefford as owner. Key buyers and locals from Ironton Coalton Gallipolis Point Pleasant Bidwell and others are named among buyers and attendees. The sale notes TB Bangs testing and no responsibility for accidents.
Mr and Mrs Preston announce the engagement of their daughter Elizabeth Faye Morrison to John Louisean of Yale University Betan Theta Pi Fraternity. Elizabeth is a Gallia Academy High School graduate who studied at Ohio University and the University of Miami. He is a junior at Yale and serves as Theta Pi president. The couple plan an October wedding.
Ernest Fletcher Clayter, 46, long-time coal industry worker, died after heart trouble worsened following a hospital visit. Born August 18, 1910, he lived with Elsie Bass in Toledo, survived by Charles Wellington Clayter, Frank Clayter, and Mrs. Margaret Jones, among others. Funeral plans await his brothers’ arrival. burial at Pine Street Cemetery.
James Robert Fletcher aged 68 died at Holzer Hospital where he had been a patient for two weeks. He was born August 1, 1888, in Mason County to Alfred and Mary Fletcher and is survived by a brother, George, of Winfield. He farmed in Mason County and later worked as a section hand for the New York Central Railroad. He married Alice Childers in Winfield forty two years ago.
The records report multiple obituaries and funeral notices. Harold Hudson and Gilbert Kelton are named. services held at Miller's funeral home and St Albans Cemetery with burial in Pine Street Cemetery. Mary Kelton funeral planned at Miller's funeral home with service by Rev W H Green at 10 a.m. Friday.
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