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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1953
Page
8
Numerous complaints of burning grass and trash in the early evening have reached the village hall and police. Odors disturb residents with hay fever and sinus infections, and villagers are warned against burning leaves and trash inside village limits during dry weather.
Deceased Mary J. Violet transfers to multiple heirs including Herbert Raymond Gerald Mabel Zelda and James B Violet with affidavit of transfer in Bedford and again in Bedford Township. Transfers involve Ella Claude C Washington Edith Lorena Davis Nannie Moore Elizabeth Mourning and Hermanne E Davis for Middleport lot 95. Ed Molden to Richard and Mare Foley 45.2 acres in Rutland. Delbert D Pullins and Alma Pullins transfer parcels in Letart Township to Ward and Donna Hayman and reverse.
Funeral services for Martha Melissa Geary 91 wife of Alec McDaniels will be held Thursday at 1 p m at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home. Interment follows in Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery with the Rev Robert Styers pastor of the Church of the Nazarene officiating.
Middleport adds Ever ett Bostic of Long Bottom as patrolman on Sept 1. Milford Frederick remains acting chief after being added last week. Chief Russell Bailey begins a 90 day leave of absence, with council to decide on replacements at the Sept 14 meeting after Labor Day.
Five Meigs County men left for Ashland Kentucky for physical examinations for armed forces. Names listed by the local selective service board include Lowell Phelps George Roush Buster Barrett Walter King and Gary Knight. One man Joseph E Foster from Pomeroy will be inducted on September 9 at Ashland. No other September calls were received.
Mrs Jo Hardy of Harrisonville leads the Paw n Taw Dance Group and has been invited to serve as caller for at least one night during the Ohio State Fair recreation sessions. Square dancing will be in the junior livestock building arena.
Richard Bradley of Harrisonville Route 1 was fined five dollars plus costs on two charges in Justice of the Peace Percy L. Peoples court. He faced counts of leaving the scene of an accident and driving left of center, with fines suspended pending payment of damages.
Letart Falls Parish trustees and their wives will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. at the parsonage. A prayer meeting is planned Wednesday at 7 30 p.m. and a Boys and Girls Decision Class gathering is set for Saturday at 2 30 p.m. at the parsonage.
Hockingport residents report travels with Bernard Blake and son Steven returning from a week with D. O. Blake family. Midland Pa visitors stay with Bertha Jackson. Maurice Weber family visit Madison Ind. George Sprouse returns from Falls Mills W V a to see Oma Williams. Mrs Mary Cain home from St Joseph Hospital. Leon White visits Story Buchannon at Huntington Hospital. Mrs Lew Humphrey injures shoulder. funeral held for William Daugherty aged 45 in Belpre. County agents meet in Columbus with C E Blakeslee presiding.
The Racine American Legion Post invites all members to an 8 p m Friday meeting at the post home to decide plans for a homecoming for Donald W Manuel, recently released Korean war prisoner. Commander William Stewart leads the post as the group moves forward with the event.
Crucie Cleland was granted a divorce from Dana H. Cleland in Meigs County Common Pleas Court. The plaintiff received custody of two minor children.
Clara Walhter was jailed in Pomeroy after failing to pay a $5 fine and costs in Mayor Sidney T. Russell's court. She was charged with intoxication.
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