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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1950
Page
7
McArthur prepares for a new highway post office system linking Columbus with Gallipolis and Portsmouth in October. The move marks Ohio s first use of bus mail routes, boosting service for a town with a long postal history dating to 1828 and a succession of postmasters.
In Gallipolis a large Republican gathering at a county fish fry kicked off the fall campaign with Clyde T. Mitchell stating the effort is an on year for the party. Plans include door bell campaigns, a Park Central Hotel headquarters, and upcoming appearances by Gov. Don Ebright and Sen. Robert Taft. Volunteers were named to attend the State Convention, and Judge Betz discussed poll books while reiterating party stakes in the November election.
McArthur officials seek replacements for Vin ton County draft board members resigning effective immediately. Major William Richardson and Lt. Col. R. E. Clouse will secure new members or merge Vinton with a nearby county board as the county conducts its first postwar inductions at Portsmouth and sends men to Fort Knox. Twenty-one draftees head to Portsmouth next Tuesday for pre induction physicals.
Oreton in Vinton county is nearly deserted after sale of the entire property. Three houses were torn down and moved last week while five more were sold earlier. The Oreton post office moved to Radcliff in July and the old store run by David Eberts will be torn down. The old Oreton church may be the only building left. A homecoming was held on Sunday August 20 and former residents plan annual church homecomings. Newspapers received their last newsletters from Oreton this week.
Vinton County transfers include Charles E. Vansky and Mayme Vansky to Dorothy and Donald Hoskinson for lot 263 in Zaleski. Osher Walker to Berlin Case for 22 acres in Richland Township. McArthur Elk board of education acquires nine lots in the Fairgrounds Addition. Russell and Bernice Barnett to Charles and Stella Seitz for half an acre in Richland Township. William H. Brown to John Allman deed for 1 acre in Knox Township. Keith and Helen Tyler to George and Garnett Killen for 44.8 acres in Wilkesville Township. Salmons to Arthur B. and Marjorie FE Malo y for 145 acres in Clinton Township. Clarence Sherrod to E. T. Burns.
McARTHUR The Republican Tribune was awarded bids for printing ballots for the November election by the board of elections Monday night. Other bidders included Leach Printing Co. and the Democrat Enquirer both of McArthur.
Dr Dean F Hammond of the Chamberlain Clinic in McArthur has been recalled to active Army duty as a physician. He and Mrs Hammond are visiting his parents in Stamford Nebraska before entering service October 1.
In McArthur the McArthur Development Association voted to sponsor home numbering once the village council approves street marking legislation. The group also planned a dinner meeting in the near future.
Holzer Hospital notes list a Jackson family birth of a daughter to Mrs. Stanley Denney. Admissions include William Walter Gahm of Jackson and several noted names such as Mrs. John Cheney Gallipolis, Mrs. Archie Angles Oak Hill, and Mrs. Kenneth W. Hartley Pom eroy among others.
McARTHUR Vinton County Treasurer Ronald F E Simms rejects being called an old gentleman after a Columbus paper captioned him that way. A contest photo showing his Centennial beard won a prize, and Simms notes the beard aged him 25 years though he is 41 and a World War II Navy veteran.
The Downtown Coaches Association funds and helps build a 16 by 20 foot concession stand at McArthur Memorial Athletic Field. Local firms and individuals donated materials. the group also aided in buying the school playground addition, grading ground, and painting last year’s press box. Superintendent Wallace K. Blake praised the association’s backing for the McArthur school program.
The board hired Stella Mae OLeary as public health nurse to start November 1 and heard a second reading of the milk regulation ordinance set to take effect October 1. The report includes July and August health activities with numerous inspections, tests, and certificates across schools dairies restaurants and water samples.
A 16 year old boy was arrested by Gallipolis police for forgery and set for arraignment Saturday. He forged and cashed three checks totaling 23.75 dollars, and was caught while attempting to cash another forged ten dollar check. His 11 year old brother was exonerated and released.
Vinton County Queen Clara Jane Crow and her court will attend the Apple Festival in Jackson on Wednesday night September 20. Also present at the coronation of the Apple Festival queen will be the Nelsonville queen and members of her court.
River and canal traffic lists show boats moving on the Ohio and Kanawha with many down and up statuses and gauge readings at Kanawha Falls. A surgery notice reports Mrs Garvin Salts Dundas undergoing surgery at Hocking Valley Hospital on Sept 12.
Auditor Theodore R. Boring announced the second half real estate tax distribution to Vinton County townships corporations and school districts. He said allocations to schools for operating expenses rose from the previous year and county shares to corporations and townships also increased in 1950 though the county bond levy decreased by half mill.
The annual Vinton County Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention will be held Wednesday September 20 at the McArthur Methodist church. Activities begin 10 a.m. with devotions and a welcome. An afternoon session at 1 p.m. features officers’ election, talks by Mrs. Anna Heinlein and Rev. J W Obee, a playlet by McArthur High School students, reports from unions, and a memorial service for deceased members.
In Vinton county school enrollment shows a steady rise with 2576 pupils to date per County Supt. D. M. Bryson. Allensville Consolidated adds 35 pupils to 715 total. breakdown includes 501 Allensville 105 Eagle Central 20 Bee 32 Bobblit 29 Rat cliffsburg and 28 Ray. McArthur 570. Vinton 194. Wilkesville 259. Dundas 77. Madison 44 with Prattsville and Wood counts. Building work advances on Allensville and Dundas sanitation and Vinton Rural School brick addition. Board meeting set for Oct 2. Lake Hope gathering Sept 20 with Webb and Kinneer to lead pot luck supper.
Robert Miller, a 1949 Ohio State University graduate from Canal Winchester, is hired as assistant coach and social studies teacher at McArthur High School. He replaces Jack Donaldson, who goes on active Naval Reservist duty September 13. Miller, a World War II veteran, previously coached and taught in Green Township Holmes County last year.
Mrs. Rufus Graves of near Ray fractured her right arm when she fell at home on September 8. She received treatment at Chamberlain Clinic.
Grace Methodist led by A Donnally offers Sunday school at 9 30 and worship at 10 30 with nursery care during service The Grace Choir meets Wednesday at 7 30 The Saint Peters Episcopals rector K C Wilson presides over 11 am service with 9 30 am church school First Baptist under W H Green lists Bible school at 9 15 am morning service at 10 30 am with sermons There Remaineth No More and Shaggy Sheets and Broken Bottles noted The First Presbyterian pastor Linson H Stebbins conducts 10 30 am worship with 9 15 am Sunday school and additional choir rehearsals
Judge Arlo L. Chatfield orders a Bell tape recorder for Vinton County common pleas court to record voices and conversations for transcription in cases hearings and consultations. The device will conserve time for court stenographers and improve efficiency.
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