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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1952
Page
8
A Gallia County jury of eight men and four women found Gilbert Van Sickle Sr. of Columbus guilty of driving while intoxicated after a 17 minute deliberation. He received five days in jail, a $100 fine plus costs, and a six month license suspension.
Mrs. Elmer Fowler 33 died from burns after a gasoline fire at the Fowler home near Eureka on September 12. Funeral services were at Ohio Chapel Methodist Church in Gallipolis with burial in Centenary Cemetery. She left seven children and a husband among survivors including her father Noah Hudson and three sisters.
In Gallipolis Dr John Phair of Cincinnati spoke to the Kiwanis Club on biological and other weapons in potential warfare. His remarks, given after a dinner at the Lafayette Hotel, covered expected use and defense but he asked that they not be quoted.
A Concord church group held its monthly party and meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Bartlett with a pot luck dinner. Attendees included numerous Sayres Antles and related families from nearby towns and several visiting relatives and guests. Sgt. George Chapman recently returned from Korea visited his parents in Concord.
Mrs Manse Porter visited New Lexington along with Mrs Martha Penty and Mrs Thelma Jaynes. Mr and Mrs Harry Anguish and Mrs Rosa Bowers appeared in Logan. Paul Goodrie Glebonich of Pittsburgh visited. The Opperman and Simpson families spent days in New Lexington and nearby. Jasper Spencer from Columbus stayed with Mrs Cooper Hopkins and Bill Seaman from Ohio State University visited the area.
Land transfer notices record transfers from the Marvin Thaxton estate to Thomas Finley and others. Buell Burnett and Pearl Burnett convey 97 acres to Luther and Bessie McGuire. Ecker and Ball parcels in Huntington. Clark to Halliday and Dillon 55 acres in Clay. Shoemaker to Fife Kanawha area. several easements granted by Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. for a pole line across multiple parcels including Raccoon Township and Springfield Two. Additional transfers include Bidwell, Addison Township, Cheshire, and other local parcels among multiple named individuals.
River traffic updates show several vessels on the Ohio and Kanawha rivers with boats like George T Stevenson and Peace trading positions. Locks at Gallipolis report Semet Ernestine Vivian Parker Sol vay movement while Marmet Winfield and Linda Chotin navigate port entries and times.
Holzer Hospital notes report a daughter born to Mrs Arriel White of Gallipolis. Other admissions list Harry Potts of Syracuse for surgery, Mrs Charles Snyder of Racine for medical care, Mrs Julia Norris of Wellston for surgery, Claude Reitmire of Pomeroy for surgery, and several named patients and spouses including Mr and Mrs Harold Swingle and infant.
The State Highway Patrol reports Orland Irvin, 18, Wellston, fined $10 and costs by Mayor Arthur of Jackson on a mudflap violation charge.
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