Parade of the Hills Showcases Nelsonville Crowning
A historic Parade of the Hills passed through Nelsonville lasting over 45 minutes. Key figures included Mayor Robert Auflick, parade chairman Jack Riley, and parade marshall Clyde Finn. Queens from Shade, Old Settlers, Haydenville, and Nelsonville were honored amid dozens of floats and bands.
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Miss Johnson
Nelsonville
Highway Patrol
Athens County
Robert Auflick
Jack Riley
Clyde Finn
Dr. Boocks Named To Planning Committee
Dr H M Brock named to planning committee for Southeast Ohio conference on community and regional problems and needs. The fourth biennial conference will be held in Athens on Oct 13 with sessions in health mental hygiene child welfare and youth services.
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Vinton
Athens
Hocking
McArthur
H. M
Ohio
Athens Brocks
School Executives Consider Problems
McARTHUR The executive heads of the schools met at the Vinton County Education Office at 2 p m Monday Sept 8. Major topics included state scholarship tests in history membership in professional associations class schedules salary schedules of staff and a county wide testing program. A tentative plan for intelligence and achievement testing was presented. The plan was discussed with focus on cost and detail and tests to be ordered soon. D M Bryson county superintendent urged local administrators to meet new state standards in all school programs.
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McArthur
Vinton County
D. M. Bryson
W Flesher Dies at 87 in Ohio Home
William Flesher 87 died Thursday morning at Elmwood Rest Home near Coolville where he had lived 14 years. He was last survivor of the Alfred and Mrs Flesher family of Letart Falls. He leaves two nephews. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. Arbaugh Funeral Home Tuppers Plains. Burial in Letart Cemetery.
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Coolville
William Flesher
Elmwood
Letart Falls
Alfred Flesher
Arbaugh
Tuppers Plains
Letart Cemetery
Band Concert Opens Parade of the Hills in Nelsonville
The Union Furnace band performs tonight at 6 30 p m on the Central School band stand as the sole Parade of the Hills activity. Saturday features a West School reunion at 1 p m and a dance from 9 to midnight at the Eagles Hall with music by the Twi Lighters orchestra.
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Nelsonville
Union Furnace
Old West School
Eagles
Twi Lighters
Valuation rises in Vinton County personal property
Auditor Glenn L. Peters reports a 9.28 percent rise in total personal property valuation in Vinton County from 1957 to 1958. The 1958 figure reaches 2,680,003, up from 2,453,362, driven by heavy construction equipment from George B. Herring Co. relocating Route 50 and higher industrial personal property values.
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McArthur
Vinton County
Glenn L. Peters
Peters
George B. Herring Co
Mansfield
Percy Bethel Suffers Heart Attack Friday
McArthur retiree Percy Bethel, a service station operator, was hospitalized in Hocking hospital after a severe heart attack Friday. A pickup truck gravelly debris shattered his windshield on Route 50 east of McArthur, and he suffered the heart attack later that day.
Mount St. Mary Hospital Births and Admissions
A list from Mount St. Mary Hospital records births and admissions. Names include Wilford Macombs Nelsonville a daughter Maynard Lemay New Marshfield a son Jack Border Jacksonville a daughter. Blood used 3 units.
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Mount ST. Mary Hospital
Wilford Maccombs
Nelsonville
Maynard LeMay
New Marshfield
Jack Border
Jacksonville
Clyde Hill, Jr
New Lexington
Merle Hartman
Logan
Donald Huntley
New Plymouth
Jimmie Reeves
Wanda Starr
Gore
Styles of All Types Modeled By Future Homemakers Group
Nelsonville Future Homemakers of America staged a fashion show at Central School titled Clothes plus know how equals appealing apparels. Nine girls modeled outfits categorized as Active sports casual informal and formal.
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Ruth Ward
Nelsonville
L. Kraeuter
Nelsonville High School
Nelsonville Future Homemakers of America
Classifield
Clara Lewis
Kraeuter
Miss Lewis
Jody Bond
Margie Whyte
Bermuda
Carolyn Herdlitzka
Loretta Adams
Nelsonville Area Churches Schedule in Brief
A collection of local church notices lists service times sermons and meetings across Nelsonville including First Presbyterian Derr Run Community Chapel Doanville Community Chapel First Methodist Church of the Nazarene Wyne Chapel AME Pilgrim Holiness Apostolic Gospel and Pa City Evangelical Unit. Sunday school times range 9:30 to 10:30 a m with worship at 10:30 a m and midweek gatherings noted.
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First Presbyterian
John Lloyd Evans
Westminister Fellowship
Athens Presbytery
Deerfield
Wedresday
Derr Run
L. W. McIntire
Doanville Community
L. W. McIintire
Betty Thompson
First Methodist
F. M.wentz
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Church of the Nazarene
Langley Gullet
Wyne Chapel
T. J. Smith
Penticostal
Ray Benson
Pilgrim Holiness
E. E. Ledingham
Young Peoples
Robert Gaston
Apostolic Gospel
Walter Shaffer
City Evangelical United
Ray Mann
Reorganized
Latter Day Saints
Jackson St
D. O. Norris
Zion League
Carbon Hill Methodist Circuit
Ray Bookman
Liberty Hill
Carbon Hill
First Baptist
S. M. Hughes
Independence Holiness
Eugene R. Whitmer
First Christian
Nelsonville warns of hazards at new four way stops
Police chief Everett Hewlett urges drivers to slow at the Franklin Adams and Franklin Madison intersections in Nelsonville where several vehicles have run stop signs. He cautions complacency will create hazards if motorists ignore the signals.
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Nelsonville
Everett Hewlett
Franklin
Adams
Madison
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Nora Jo Hall
Emblem Club
VFW
Twilighters
Walter Moeller
Congress
Fred Beasley
Sylvania
Buchtel Band
Red Men
Pocahontas
Gem
Brooks Shoe Co
Betsy Ross
United Organized Labor
Hocking Valley
Pepsi Cola
Ferrick
Crooksville
Zimmerman
Fish and Game Conservation League
Chauncey Band
Chauncey Queen
Bob Hess
Koker
Tribune-Glouster
Old Settlers
Beta Sigma Phi Sorority
Allen Lumber Co
Peoples
First National Banks
Murray City
Brownie Scouts
Columbus
Southern Ohio Electric Co
Nye Volkswagon
Boy Scouts
Fleming Hatcheries
Glouster Band
Queen
Cota Cola
Dow’s Rollerrink
Sharp Manufacturing Co
Gail Watkins
Coker Distributors
Wakefield Motors
Campbell Equipment Co
Haydenville Queen
Danny
New Marshfield Band
TB Hospital
Elks
Gil Courtney
Russ Johnson
Dick McDonald
Dodge
Tansky Motor
Oakley Insurance
Keck Distributors
Plains Band and Queen
Perry Distributors
American Legion
Iwo Jima
Russ Anders
Civil Defense
Lions Club
York Grange
Riggs Mercury
Board of Trade
Friendly Valley
Deed’s Dairy
The
Colonial
George Schoonover
Aaron Lewis
Suellen Johnson
Dr. Boocks
W. Flesher
Percy Bethel
Melvin Conway
Glouster
Bertha Ashby
Flossie Morman
Norma Dalton
Robert McMillan
Carrie Brigner
Clara Quick
Albany
Ruth Brooker
Charles Conner
John W. Sherrard
New Straitsville
Delma Friel
Margaret Waugh
John Heiser
Trimble
Charles Lanfrank
Corning
Anna Bycofski
Shoe Store
Linda Blackford
Miss Bond
Sally Shelton
Sharon Miller
Georgine Kirkendall
Miss Shelton
Kay Gillian
Miss Herdlitzka
Miss Whyte
Miss Miller
Miss Blackford
Gina Lollobrigida
Papper
Neen Enn
Ee Elise
Groucho Mark
Art Linkletter
Arthur Godfrey
PEN
Gallaher’s
Family Weekly
Chevrolet
Fayette St
Dwight Adams
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