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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1947
Page
6
Nelsonville city council will consider ordinances creating relief and pension funds for police and fire dept employees to meet a new state law. Funds funded by 0.3 mill levy and 4 percent employee contributions, admin by six trustees.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Imogene Runion of Tennessee to T S Carl O Triplett of the U S Army stationed at Ft Eustis Va. They wed Sept 12 at Williamsburg and after visiting Nelsonville they left for Ft Eustis. The groom, son of Otis and Mrs Triplett of Nelsonville, saw action in the European theater during the war.
In Portsmouth Ohio a 12 year old boy Kenneth Cooper son of Mrs Russell Cooper was killed by a 22 caliber bullet during a target practice session with two companions in Otway. Coroner Virgil Fowler said the bullet apparently glanced off a rock.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Robinette Bailey wife of Moses E Bailey will be held Friday at 2 p.m. in the Pilgrim Holiness Church Chestnut Street with Rev Mingus and Rev Raymond Simpson officiating Burial will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery.
Nelsonville groups announces county WCTU convention to be held at the First Methodist Church Athens on Wednesday Sept 24 with all day sessions opening at 9 45 a m A pot luck luncheon is planned Mrs Sam Starkey led devotions and a paper on Carrie Nation was read by Mrs Fave Howard after secretary and treasurer reports
The Coleman reunion met September 13 at the Lancaster campground cottage of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Coleman. Dr. W. R. Coleman of Lancaster was elected president and Mrs. Effie Warren of Reedsville was secretary for the next year. Next year’s meeting will be at Mr. and Mrs. Harry Frans in Worthington. Attendees included numerous Colman and Warren family members from Lancaster Columbus Bremen Athens Marietta Reedsville and other Ohio towns.
Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Nebraska Ohio South Dakota Wisconsin together account for nearly three fourths of the United States corn production, underscoring the region’s dominance in the grain.
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