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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1953
Page
11
Meigs County Common Pleas Court heard two filed actions. Celia K. Hull and others sue Koelsche et al for quiet title while Gaynelle Wise seeks a divorce from Gerald W. Wise alleging habitual drunkenness gross neglect and extreme cruelty.
Racine Chapter Order of Eastern Star hosts a bake sale at the Darby Store starting 11 a.m. Saturday. Proceeds benefit the Ohio Eastern Stars Home.
Edith Joann Qualls became Mrs Eugene Ulres ford Dent in a October 14 ceremony at the bride’s home read by Rev Nyle Borden. Dent a Roanoke VA native and Air Force member, and Qualls a 1953 Pomeroy High School graduate, left for a Virginia honeymoon after the celebration.
Alva Harris grand secretary will guest at the Meigs County District Knights of Pythias meeting in Racine Friday night as part of a statewide tour by Grand Chancellor George Thompson and district deputy J H Grate. Other sessions have been held in Wilkesville Glouster and a Gallipolis meeting on Oct 27.
The report lists names including David Gloeckner Letart Falls Nellie Parsons Pomeroy Mrs Glen Davis Middleport and Ralph Foster Minersville Ralph Parker Chester noting the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Glen Davis Middleport Discharges include John C Parker Mrs Dorothy Durst Mrs Wallace Ebersbach Mrs William Lehew and son O Dell Manley E A Asbury and Raymond Bell.
POMEROY The Pomeroy Teachers Association elected W A Drake as treasurer at the first 1953 54 meeting at the senior high school. Warren Winters, former treasurer, left teaching for insurance in Cleveland. Helen Smith was nominated building representative with ballots to be held later. The meeting was led by president Robert Roberts.
The Rev and Mrs Ronald Genheimer will speak at Carleton Church at 7 30 p m Friday. The couple, son and daughter in law of long time missionaries to Africa, plan to sail for Africa in January to serve as missionaries. The Rev Genheimer will show Africa photos and the public is invited.
The article notes the question of approving a state board of education by voters at the coming election. It also reports the resignations of Warren Winters as treasurer and W A Drake as senior high building representatives.
Word arrived that Edith Ament and Lettie Gest, sister of Columbus, were critically injured in an auto crash while returning from Kansas. Mr. Ament and nephew Jack Thomas went to Terre Haute Indiana where the women were reported hospitalized.
Willard R Jeffers has been granted a divorce from Audrey M Jeffers by Judge Cedric W Clark of the Meigs County Common Pleas Court. The plaintiff cited neglect of duty as the grounds for dissolution. The text also oddly notes a sloth clinging to branches gazing at the sky.
Meigs County Veterans Memorial Hospital board met at night to discuss the upcoming bond issue of one and one half million dollars set for vote November 3. No action was taken due to a lack of quorum. Funds would buy a site and build and equip a county hospital. Dan Carmichael of Columbus outlined preliminary work on the project.
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