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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1958
Page
16
Community weekend visitors fill homes in Athens and surrounding towns including Cincinnati Worden Vandalia Corning and Dayton. Notices announce appointments of executors and administratrices for local estates with court dated August 1958 and hospital transfers noted.
The Wilson reunion was held Sunday at Rising Park in Lancaster. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wilson and son of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Wilson and children of Obett, Mr. and Mrs. Red Hall of Dayton, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Matthews and children of Wunderland, Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and children of Nelsonville, Mrs. Alice Searls and daughter of Nelsonville, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Holcomb and children of Dover, Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. Don Vernon and children of New Straitsville, Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Wilson and daughter Lucy of Chesterhill, and Mrs. Evelyn Burchfield of Chauncey.
Mr and Mrs Robert Krimish and others from Barberton Columbus Glouster Buckeye Lake Nelsonville and Akron visited Murray City relatives recently. The group included Jimmie Bobby Dean Toni Christy and Jack among several family members and day trips to Port Clinton occurred.
Cottage prayer meeting hosted by Mr and Mrs James Love at their Morristown residence Friday at 7 30 pm. Church members invited to join in prayer.
A chef explains a single planable menu that serves both children and parents with a six o clock dinner for kids and a later meal for adults. The sample includes tomato and romaine salad minute steaks baked potatoes cauliflower on toast cheese sauce baked applesauce honey drop cookies and coffee or tea.
At a New Lexington council meeting six delegations voiced complaints mainly about high water. W A Mansfield asked relief from flooding for Broadway ela Sts Sunnyside and Fairview Knoll areas noting repeated basement floods this year.
Mrs. Dan Wolfe Jr entertained relatives for daughter Karen’s eighth birthday. Attendees included Mrs. Dan Wolfe Sr Mrs. Lester Sorrel Alan and Mary Kay Murray City Mrs. Harold Sorrell Columbus Mrs Ted Dix Randy Logan Janice and Craig James Grove City.
Lenore McKnabb files petition in the Common Pleas Court of Athens County Ohio against Charles Glenford McKnabb alleging gross neglect of duty. The hearing is set for on or after September 27 1958. Attorneys Lavelle and Vanity of Athens Ohio represent the plaintiff.
The State of Ohio Athens County sheriffs sale of real estate in Alexander Township Lot 7 Section 6 Farm known as David Allen Farm near Pleasant Hill road Route 33 sale set September 1958 at 1 30 P M at the courthouse East door Athens Ohio by order of sale The property worth about 4200 with no sale below two thirds thereof. Harold E Shields Sheriff C L G Worsteil Jr Attorney.
George Franklin Brothers 81 of 602 Fourth Ave former Gallipolis Fire Department chief died at Holzer Hospital after a week’s illness. Funeral 2 p.m. Friday at Miller’s funeral home with burial in Pine Street Cemetery. Survivors include two daughters Iva France and Jennie Morehouse, a brother and a sister, four grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He served 14 years as firefighter and four as chief, retired after 35 years with the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co.
Gallipolis enters two divorce filings. Geraldine Train er seeks divorce from Robert L. Trainer in Common Pleas Court after a 1951 Chicago marriage with one minor child and requests custody and child support. Ranice Kidwell files for divorce from Dwayne Kidwell in Richmond Indiana after a 1956 marriage with one minor child, alleging gross neglect and extreme cruelty and requesting custody and alimony. She also asks the court to enjoin sale of their personal property pending final action.
Low temperature cooking yields more uniformly cooked meat juicier and more tender results and easier carving. The method reduces watching time during the cooking period and offers practical dividends for home cooks.
Labor Day weekend guests from Columbus Mr and Mrs Robert Caldwell and daughters Connie Sonnie and Karin joined Mr and Mrs Richard Guinther and family in Glouster. Connie turned four with cake and ice cream. Attendees included Mrs Lucille Thompson Connie's grandmother and Mr and Mrs Rodney Linscott plus David and Kathy from Jacksonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Echstein kamper hosted Labor Day weekend guests including their daughter and family from Barberton Ohio, Mr. and Mrs. George Tomich and son David, and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Tomich and son Jeff. Blanche Watkins of Columbus visits sister Bessie Stephenson. Lula Mills hosts sister Linnie Rummel of Minersville.
Pvt Malcolm C. Barry aged 17 of Glouster Ohio finished eight weeks of basic combat training under the Reserve Forces Act program at Fort Knox Kentucky. He is a 1958 graduate of Chauncey-Dover High School.
Mrs Paul Coley is called to Barberton for the serious illness of her daughter Mrs Paul Walsh formerly Frances VanDyke of Athens Her granddaughter Ava VanDyke daughter of Parker Van Dyke and Dorothy Wallace is in Children’s Hospital in Columbus Mrs Coley has returned home.
Mrs Alfred Deal returns to her Jackson ville home from Mount St Mary Hospital after surgery and a ten day hospitalization.
The Ladies Aid Society of Taylor Ridge plans a Thursday evening gathering on September 4 at 7 20 p m in the home of Mrs Rose Drake Trimble.
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