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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1946
Page
6
Naney Shellenger queen of the annual Jackson County Apple Festival plans to attend the event September 18 to 21 in Jackson. She dined at the Mary Jane Coffee Shop in Middleport en route. Local attendees include Senator Tom W. Jones.
Blue and Grey defeated Chester 7 to 6 to clinch the second half lead in the Bend Softball League. Al Russell starred on the mound for Blue and Grey allowing nine hits while Chester’s Stan Smalley yielded four. Box score lists players for Blue and Grey Clark Russell Crow Kloes Murray and Stivers. Chester lineup included Bailey Rose Sorden Walters Smalley and Bailey among others. Umpires were Bob Duckworth and Arms.
Clerk Herman Beards noted August activity rose from July with 299 vehicle titles and 53 lens notations generating 326.75 in fees. Notations, certifications, cancellations, and affidavits yielded further income totaling 326.75, with 893.50 directed to the Meigs treasury and 893.50 sent to the state.
Meigs County teachers teaching in Columbus schools this year include Gordon K. Harris instrumental music at Linden M c Hinley and former Middport teacher Earl Hickman at North High. Irene Blaetiner wife of Hickman formerly of Pomeroy. Helen Beeson at Franklin Junior High. Catherine Grant and C R Battin at Roosevelt Junior High. Battin is a former Middleport football coach.
Fragmentary obituary notice mentions Dr Vel D Hartinger services conducted with references to Dr Mel D and irs Mass. Names Rev Mr Hartinger Moere and Mfrs. mi Florida appear in the damaged text.
An engagement is announced for Mr and Beech. The bride is a Cosmetol graduate who operates Yen. The fiancé is currently playing pro football with the Green Bay Packers. Plans for the wedding will be celebrated at the close of the 1946 season.
About 100 workers at the West Virginia Ordnance Works returned to the job after a temporary strike over wiring and fixtures removal. FPHA said the wiring and fixtures were to be demolished and not reused, ending a dispute that had halted work since Tuesday when a lone picket appeared.
Meigs County Probate Court issued marriage licenses to numerous couples including Fox and Surbaugh, Jarrett and Allen, Wade Taylor and Emaline Donahue, Gillian and Cason, Mann and Nicholson, Childers and McMullen, Cobb and Henry, Woodward and Leora Blake, and others such as Simon s and Hall, Balay and Stobart, with ages ranging in early to mid twenties from Sandstone to Syracuse and Columbus. The notice lists multiple applicant pairs and their residences.
The theft case involving men linked to a break in at Barneth's store on Aveville was dismissed today on recommendation by TL Peoples. Be Beaver Creek Liverpool and Homer C. East were released by officials. Barnett said $15 of merchandise and $20 in cash were stolen.
Pt Pleasant society notices list residents and visitors over the weekend including Natross at Weard Natross with Pickens and Hawvest linked events. Several families from Cincinnati Columbus and State College occur in extended visits and homecomings.
Howard L Pullin files for divorce in circuit court against Joyce M Pullin accusing desertion and abandonment of their child at his parents home near Flat Rock while he served in the military. Married April 3 1944 the couple lived together briefly. Joyce M Pullin a Cincinnati resident was her pre marriage home.
POINT PLEASANT The annual conference of West Virginia Methodist churchmen will be held in Wheeling from September 18 to 21. Bishop James H. Straughn of Pittsburgh will preside. Attending from Trinity Methodist Church here are the Rev Holly Shamblin pastor and James B. Couch lay delegate.
Marriage licenses issued to Robert William Oliver and Vonna Mae Burris Hogsett. Walter Frank Bell and Florence Burford Delaney both of Point Pleasant. Melvin Joseph Carson of Leon and Anne Belle Quickle of Beech Hill. Mr and Mrs Mervin Chapman of Point Pleasant accompanied by her brother and sister in law. Mr and Mrs Charles Green of Columbus Ohio and her father Edward Green of Gallia Ohio returned from a trip to Norfolk and Richmond Virginia.
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