Athens Ends Water Restrictions After New Pump Restores Supply
Athens reports a return to normal water use as a new well pump comes online after a severe heat wave. The city saw 12 days of 90 plus temperatures with some readings near 101 and 106 in official records. State Highway Patrol logged six injury accidents over Labor Day weekend, including crashes on Route 78 in Hollister and Route 33 near Route 180, with several injured and fines issued.
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State Patrol
Athens
J. B. Grogan
Fred Beckler
Athens Post
State Highway Patrol
Hollister
Richard Glancey
Murray City
Charles G. Fowler
Columbus
Fowler
Glancey Auto
Luella Fowler
Donald Fowler
Lila Spencer
Delbert Glancey
Lawrence Bullock
Chauncey
Walter F. Clark
Middleport
Clark
James Hutchison
Logan
Defendant Handcuffed at Trial Postponed in Common Pleas Court
Orville Stover aged 36 from New England faced attempted criminal assault charges in Common Pleas Court. Jurors were dismissed after Stover appeared handcuffed at the defense table prompting Judge Francis D. White to order a reset for September 22. The shooting of Ford Sampson by Kathryn Britton at her New England home is part of the disputed events surrounding the case.
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Orville Stover
New England
Common Pleas Court
Francis D. White
Stover
James F. Schumaker
White
Kathryn Britton
Ford Sampson
Marietta
Sampson
Britton
Marines Decline Draftee Enlistment Until Induction
The Marine Corps will not accept draftees now and has no plan to use selective service for manpower. Volunteers may enlist before induction. once ordered to report, the option ends. Local recruiting office in the post office building operates 8 am to 5 pm weekdays and 8 am to noon Saturday. enlistments open to men 17+ years.
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Marine Corps
T-Sgt
Charles J. Martin
Cincinnati
Martin
Columbus
Selective Service
Marine Recruiting Office
Liberte Runs Aground Near Le Havre Port
The 51 839 ton French luxury liner Liberte carrying 1075 passengers ran aground a half mile from Le Havre today while sailing outbound to New York.
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LE Havre
France
New York
Destroys Barn and Winter Feed on Ervin Farm
Fire early Monday destroyed the barn on the Arthur Ervin farm Blackburn Heights west of Athens. Loss included 50 to 65 tons of hay 400 bushels of oats winter feed for 20 cows and stock a shed milking equipment and farm machinery. Fire spread to the milk shed. Neighbors helped save large equipment. small tools lost. Partly insured. This is the Ervin family's second fire in two years with a prior residence fire two years ago. Cause undetermined.
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Arthur Ervin
Blackburn Heights
Athens
Ervin
Dairy Ave
Mrs. Ida Staley Dies at 83 in Athens Residence
Ida Ellem Staley aged 83 died Sunday at her home 61 Hudson Ave Athens after living in the city 26 years. She leaves daughter Ivy Rutter The Plains and grandchild reared in her home Juanita Burk Marion plus four other grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday 1 pm at Stout funeral home Nelsonville with Rev Lena Brandenburg. Burial Green Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call.
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Ida Ellem Staley
Hudson Ave
Samuel
Sarah Hall
James W. Staley
Staley
Vinton County
Athens
Ivy Rutter
the Plains
Juanita Burk
Marion
Stout Funeral Home
Nelsonville
Lena Brandenburg
Plains Nazarene Church
Green Lawn
Shelterin g Arms Hospital Notes
List of new and discharge names at Sheltering Arms Hospital includes Mr and Mrs William Christman Glouster a daughter and several couples from Athens Trimble Glouster The Plains McArthur Chauncey Guysville Columbus and Frost with multiple residents noted as discharged or admitted over the period.
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William Christman
Glouster
Robert Burson
Shade
Richard Harris
Trimble
Charlies Jeffers
Athens
Harry Semple
Ellis English
Coolville
Everett Cooley
John Reeves
Chauncey
Nelson Depoy
Guysville
Marguerite Starkey
OU Graduate Is Named To Alumnus Staff
Grier S. Leach a 1948 Ohio University graduate and former public information assistant director at Denison University and journalism instructor is named assistant editor of The Ohio Alumnus monthly alumni magazine. He will also serve as a publicity assistant and has prior reporting and feature writing credits at the Bellaire Times Leader and Wheeling Intelligencer.
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Grier S. Leach
Denison University
Ohio Alumnus
Ohio University
Leach
John C. Baker
Denison U
Ben
Bellaire Times-Leader
Wheeling
W. Va
Mexico City
Hockingport Man Lon Snider Funeral Held
Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Hockingport Methodist Church for Lon Henry Snider 59 who died Sunday at Camden Clark Hospital Parkersburg WV after ill health. He leaves wife Rose and eight children in Hockingport Oberlin Amherst Canton plus his father Fred of Hockingport and sister Mrs Emma Perry Huntington. Services were conducted by Rev Roy Deeter with burial in Stuart.
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Hockingport
Lon Henry Snider
Camden Clark Hospital
Parkersburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Rose
Edna
Clifford
Freda
Wilma Reod
Harold
Bertha Gregory
Oberlin
Thelma Swiers
Amherst
Mary Ford
Canton
Fred
Emma Perry
Huntington
W. Waesday
Roy Deeter
M Hockingport Methodist Church
Stuart
Child Uninjured As Bike Hits Car
A 10 year old rider escaped injury after colliding with a car as Kenneth Collins backed a vehicle in a lot near W Union and Smith Street. Police report Gary Coltine rode into the auto. the child went home unharmed.
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Kenneth Collins
Grosvenor St
W. Union
Smith St
Gary Coltine
Foster Place
Phillip Edward Ridenour
Sunnyside Drive
S. Court St
John Canale
N. Shafer St
Market figures for eggs butter and potatoes in Cincinnati
U S consumer grades list egg categories with large white 64-60 percent and brown 62-68 percent for Cincinnati case lots. Wholesale sizes include quasin white 63-67 and brown 63-. fryers over 2 pounds priced 29-30 cents per pound. Butter wholesale 70 cents. Potatoes range 1.50 to 4.00 per unit.
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Cincinnati
U. S
Nine Drivers Fined After Area Arrests
The State Highway Patrol reported nine drivers fined after Labor Day weekend arrests. Judges and mayors across Albany Logan Athens Buckhannon and Point Pleasant assessed various fines from five to twenty five dollars plus costs for offenses including speeding driving left of center hazardous zones failure to yield stop signs and failing to stop after an accident. Notable fines included Paul Huffman twenty one and Daniel Russ ten dollars respectively and Robert Edgell twenty five dollars.
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The
State Highway Patrol
Paul Huffman
Waneta
W. Va
Court of Albany
D. Pincelli
Daniel Russ
South Bend
Ind
Justice of the Peace
Roger Friend
Sherman E. Schall
Athens
Court of Justice of the Peace
D. E. Jones
Robert Edgell
Marietta
Justice Jones
Harold R. Cooley
Winifred Novoskoski
Point Pleasant
Peter B. Seel
James R. Howes
Buckhannon
Harold H. Atwood
Thomas Williams
Glouster
Former Point Rector Frank Cady Dies in Pennsylvania
The Rev. Frank T. Cady former rector of Christ Church Episcopal Point Pleasant died Sunday night at a son’s home in Athens Pennsylvania. He served as rector there from 1928 until retirement in 1946 with funeral services set for Wednesday at 10 30 am in Sayre Pennsylvania.
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Point Pleasant
Frank T. Cady
Christ Church (Episcopal
Athens
Episcopal Church
Sayre
Auto stolen in Athens County recovered by patrol
Within twenty minutes after a Athens County commissioner’s car was reported stolen, the State Highway Patrol recovered it Sunday night. Wayne Ward of Athens Route 1 reported the theft at 8 45 p m and patrolman H R Rigel arrested two Alabama natives driving Ward’s car at Cannaanville at 9 05 p m. Albert L Baggett 42 and Milton Baggett 32 brothers from Troy Alabama said they were en route to Baltimore Maryland to join the merchant marine when they stole the car about 8 30 p m. Each was bound to the grand jury under five thousand dollars bond on auto larceny charges after Efaw who was also searching for the car spotted it on Route 50 and aided in the arrest.
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Athens
State Highway Patrol
Wayne Ward
Troy
Ala
Baltimore
Merchant Marine
Grand Jury
Rigel
Guysville
Efaw
Route
Automatic Traffic Light Timer Installed by Fire Department
Fire Chief Charles Dalton announced an automatic reset timer is being installed in the fire department traffic light control unit. The timer will revert lights to normal service within 55 seconds after the department leaves the station, replacing manual all red signals that delayed responses.
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Fire Department
Charles Dalton
Knights Templar Meet Wednesday at Masonic Temple
Athens Commandery 15 Knights Templar will hold a meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m in the Masonic Temple announced by Commander Malvern Wilson.
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Athens Commandery
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
Malvern Wilson
Sandwiches and Milk Shakes Menu Update
An eatery announces its delights including sandwiches and thick milk shakes and chicken in the basket. Sea food will be added when weather permits, signaling upcoming offerings.
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Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Amy Clark
Bullock
Dean Collison
Mary Jo Charney
Beaumont Bridge
Tommy H. Kennedy
Summit Station
Clarence Stover
Cutler
Kennedy
William H. Cundiff
Elizabethtown
Richard H. Barker
Barker
Cundiff
James E. Brogan
Harrisonville
Brogan
Michael Molchan
Fort St
Beasley & Mathews, Inc
Molchan
Burroughs Co
4Th Armored Division
Adjutant General's Office
Bastogne
England
Belgium
Luxembourg
Czechoslovakia
Jean Mickle
Goodyear
Marines
Athens County Agents Association
Houck & VanDyke
Donald K. Barstow
Seipie & Kempton
D. M. Goddard Peter B. Seel
C. M. Gill Dwight H. Rutherford
Earl F. Mathews, Inc
F. R. Murphey and Son Co
B. Dillon Guinther Incourance Agcy
Ohio
Gates Insurance Agency
the Saltz Insurance Agcy
Fred Wright
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mary Easter
Essa Cairelli
Glenice Lenigar
Mary Williams
Edson Riley
Virginia Keck
Albany
Katherine Harkins
McArthur
John Maxwell
Chevyl Davis
Jacksonville
MR. Leach
Point
Pennsylvania
Washington
Main
Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Mac's Thrifty Store
Court St
Athens, O
Athens County Savings & Loan Co
Masonic Temple Bidg
Tel
H. G. Householder
Sec
Lee E. Busch
Enterprise
AERIE
HR & Ad
W. Union St
Dial
Cussins and Fearn
N. Court St
AML
White House
Moore
Benjamin Moore
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