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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1950
Page
7
Mrs. Virgil Campbell left Parkersburg by plane on Sunday evening for New York City to visit her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs F B Leslie. Liquids never burn it is only the vapor from the liquid that does burn.
Three suits filed in Meigs County Common Pleas Court involve Nora McNeal of Middleport seeking divorce from Ross McNeal, Charles R. Miller with David E. Miller as next friend suing for divorce on Phoebe M. Miller, and The Farmers Bank and Savings Co. of Pomeroy suing L. B. Higgins on a cognovit note.
In Middleport Kanawha Star Lodge No 398 presented a 50 year veteran emblem and a 40 year emblem to John Powell of Columbus and George Pullen of Charleston at a Woodman Hall meeting. W F E Atkinson attended as general chairman. The honorees are former Middleport residents with long railroad service.
Mrs Cleo Kerns learns Sgt Cleo Kerns is hospitalized in Okinawa with a finger injury. Her daughter Judy recently recovered from illness. Visitors from Syracuse including Mrs William Robson and Mrs Ralph Robson called on Mrs Betty Ewing at St Joseph's Hospital in Parkersburg.
Damage was slight in a Sunday evening crash on Route 124 near Portland. Charles Griffith 27 of Pomeroy and Jessie McCoy 42 of Coolville drove the vehicles. Griffith turned left onto a side road while McCoy tried to pass. No injuries were reported.
Miss Wilma Roush, secretary to the county superintendent of schools, is compiling a list of recent high school graduates in the county for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The bureau will use the list to fill clerical jobs in Washington with starting salaries of 2400 dollars annually.
Pomeroy resident L B Higgins indicted by the October term grand jury on two counts of drawing checks with insufficient funds. He entered an innocent plea during arraignment before Common Pleas Judge Emmett W Peoples yesterday. Higgins is held in the county jail under $1000 bond on each charge. No hearing date has been set.
Genevieve S. Moore of Pomeroy dies leaving a will now admitted to probate in Meigs County Probate Court. The notice mentions funeral services coordinated by Trevey Finsterwald Funeral Home at 144 Butternut Ave Pomeroy with phone contact.
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