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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1945
Page
12
Rumors sweep Point Pleasant of Herman Layne resigning as Mason County highway maintenance head amid Democratic infighting dating to 1937. Claims blend road damage estimates, patronage shifts, and possible leadership changes including Earl Gibbs at the local liquor store, with Robert McGuffin listed as a candidate.
County Clerk John G Aten notes official opening dates for West Virginia game items in free folders. The squirrel season begins on Saturday September 29 with details on bag limits and other rules. A revival announcement at First Church of God in Kingtown follows.
Fair Store was closed Wednesday morning with a door sign directing customers to call for lay-aways at Mrs. Lena Carr’s Viand Street home. Opened about eight years ago in the Lowe Hotel by Jack Davis of Nelsonville, Ohio, it has been run by his brother-in-law Fred Bergman. Bergman is expected to run the Nelsonville store after winding up affairs here. Owner Homer Lowe said Davis cited impaired health as the reason. Only two vacant store rooms remain in the district, both leased and to be filled.
George Wilson of Charleston works in Union District renewing leases with Hope Natural Gas Co and others who have paid rents on large acreage in Putnam and surrounding counties. He is spending time with his parents on Charleston Road while overseeing right of way work for the Big Inch line and a Louisiana to Carnwell gas line built during the war.
Gamma Chapter Lamda Carl Omega met Monday in the Moose Club lounge with Mrs. William Filson presiding. Nominations for Clovis Editor were made after Mrs. Gilbert Ball's resignation. Mrs. John Clay Hutchinson was elected editor of Clavis. Dues payable Sept. 1. Next meeting two weeks hence hosted by Mrs. L. W. Getty and Mrs. Donald Getty. Numerous local social notices follow including visits, travels, and house and study plans across Point Pleasant and nearby areas.
Nej J. Wilson, five years at the ordnance works, returns to the rivers and takes charge of a dredgeboat for Old Monongahela Dredging, now stationed at Marietta. State Trooper Coyner was called as other state police in fuel strike and gas pumping station duties.
Funeral rites for Mrs. Georgiana Jordan Williams were held at Franklin Funeral Home at 3 o clock. She died in Detroit on Tuesday and was a Point Pleasant native widow of Arthur Williams. Survived by son A J Williams of Huntington daughter Mrs Helen Taylor of Detroit brother Joe Jordan of Point Pleasant sister Mrs Mary Morton of Beckley. A separate note mentions a run away incident and arrests in a road camp at a later time.
Samuel Koontz of Mason City was arrested on a warrant charging involuntary manslaughter in the death of eight year old Cheryl Adams Hallwood. The 8 year old died after being struck by a car driven by Koontz. He waived a hearing and was held on a $500 bond pending grand jury action.
Monroe Chase has leased a ground floor store room in the Odd Fellows Building of Sam Berney and plans to open an electrical shop at noon when goods are sufficient. Chase has been the General Electric dealer in the area for several years. He recently installed a walk-in refrigerator at Evans Grocery in Athens, Ohio.
Rupert L. Kayver notes the sale of a 51 acre Cooper District farm by Laura and Thomas Coleman to Corda L. Sayre as the Colemans retire. Sayre, owner of three other farms, plans a Ripley Road home on land currently treated with slag and to be surfaced with bituminous macadam.
A Point Pleasant resident said he would not apply for unemployment benefits due to weekly reporting requirements. He plans to spend time job hunting. Huddleston sold back Batterson River Bank property in Mason Place. Batterson will continue operating the 120 Viand St beer outlet under new ownership.
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