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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1948
Page
7
Multiple notices announce local elections in Athens County Ohio. Voters in Amesville and Canaan Township will decide on levies exceeding the ten mill limit for five years. Polls open 8:40 AM to 6:30 PM EST. Executors named for estates in Athens County.
Athens County Ohio voters will decide at the November 2, 1948 election on levying an excess two mill tax for three years to fund current expenses of the Athens City School District. The measure would be added to the tax duplicate for 1945 and set at 20 cents per $100 valuation, open 6:40 AM to 6:30 PM.
Election to be held November 2 in York Township Rural Schools Athens County Ohio. Question on renewing levy exceeding ten-mill limitation for five years at up to four mills per dollar of valuation .40 per hundred. Open until 6 20 P M. County officials HANDLEY chairman and BARKER clerk. Q 21 48 4otw
Education of the Plains Local School District Athens County Ohio seeks voter approval in the November 1948 election to renew a current levy for five years at up to 3 mills per dollar of valuation for current expenses. Open until 6 50 P M Eastern Handle y chairman Barker clerk dated 9 21 48.
Rome Township Trustees propose to vote on November 2 1948 in Athens County Ohio a tax levy exceeding the ten mill limit for cemetery care and upkeep. The levy is up to 1 mill per dollar of valuation or 10 cents per 100 dollars for five years. Ballot title and election details provided by Chairman BE Handel y and Clerk John E Barker.
The page advertises pattern No 8322 for a junior dress in sizes 11 to 18 with 4 yards of fabric and a 25 cent pattern request to Sue Burnett at The Athens Messenger. It also mentions Striped in Style Sweater Pattern No 5678 with knitting instructions and a 15 cent pattern request to Anne Cabot at The Athens Messenger. A volcanic eruption in Nicaragua is briefly noted with distant sound heard in Bogota.
Puzzle style word list with clues and numbers. Entries include government and mythic roles, crafts, measurements, and foods. Across many languages and eras, the list blends terms like health resort drought and indigo with celestial deities and weights.
A compact set of crossword like clues including terms for Agener wo 11 Tosses 14 Facilitates 16 Hazard 17 Back of neck 20 Began 22 Conundrums 25 Serie 27 Sea duck 32 Handle 33 Lariats 34 Stump 35 Mimicked 36 Matures 37 Former Russian rules 42 Approach 43 Leave out 44 Depend 47 Before 49 Blackbird of cuckoo family 50 Tree fluid 52 Out of pref ie 54 Italian river
In Greytown Nicaragua sharks living in Lake Nicaragua have acclimated to freshwater and evolved into a unique species not found elsewhere.
The feature warns that drastic or overambitious action can disrupt favorable conditions and harm energy and harmony. It advises balancing temperament and being gracious to all. Birthday individuals may feel urged to act, risking closure of opportunities and loss of support.
A fragmentary recap outlines 1947 Ohio grid action with unmatched teams and players. Notables include McKinley’s 33 7 win over Lincoln, Toledo Libbey and Rockys, St. Marys and Canton Central Catholic scoring bursts, and Mount Union standout Dick 153 pounder earning two touchdowns and a passer role.
Two hundred members and escorts attended a 6 p m Sunday dinner at the Nelsonville Elks Club to celebrate the Emblem Club’s fourth anniversary. The event featured fall flowers and flags, server Mrs Milton Berry as mistress of ceremonies, remarks by Mrs L E Butts president Mayor Roger of Logan and Alice Kelso deputy, with musical items by Alice Kelso and Joe Galvin and a Palermo sound-pictures finale.
Central PTA met Friday with Margaret Howe presiding. Committees were formed to propose fundraising plans and purchase new equipment. Margaret Johnsons kinder room and Roy Tomlin sixth grade had the most mothers present. Ruth Hoskins first grade and Ruth Cooks fourth grade tied for second. Loyal Workers Class of the district Church will meet with Mrs. Pearl Johnson. St Assisting the hostess 2 Mrs. Cora Runion and Mrs. Hale. Vo I Convenes No 1 of the Methodist s met recently at the homes Bess Bland with 14 members and two guests present. Guests Margaret Clark and Mrs H Lancaster reviewed Judy book China Twilight. A quiz was conducted refreshments were served.
Civilians and the street department work overtime to clear debris from a severe Sunday storm. Adams Street is being re-laid as Jiggleburg Creek overflowed and damaged brickwork. Basements flooded and water reached first floors in several homes while sewers backed up on Washington Fort and adjacent streets. The Spot Restaurant suffered major damage from rapid hillside floodwaters.
Porter M Barron of 179 Grosvenor Street Nelsonville was found dead in bed this morning. Coroner J H Elias of Gloucester was summoned. Barron, a native of Nelsonville, worked recently at the Johnson Restaurant and is survived by a son Porter Jr and his father plus four brothers and four sisters. Body sent to Stout funeral home.
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Strnad of Cleveland returned home after a trip to Nelsonville to visit their grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Scott. The writer may consider making Nelsonville his future home after a first visit to the city famed for its neat appearance and Hocking Valley scenery. Mrs Strnad Jean Boyd is a Nelsonville native, daughter of former high school teacher Kathleen S. Boyd.
The Christian Church in Nelsonville will host a fellowship supper on Wednesday evening with the theme Making our dream come true. Rev J A Long will announce the program and the Esther Class led by Mrs Vaughn Cox will sponsor. The covered dish dinner starts at 6 30 p m and officers will be elected. George Barrows will preside and Mrs Dix Powell leads the devotional.
Boy Scout Troop 66 will meet tonight at the Knights of Pythias building at 7 30. Regular meetings are set for Tuesdays from 7 30 p m to 9 30 p m. New patrol groups are to be organized soon and a membership campaign inaugurated.
Mrs. Fred Voigt informed her son Ted in this city that she would bring him home Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Voigt recently underwent major surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
In Nelsonville 509 young men registered as the local draft period ended Saturday. The group included 298 local veterans and 23 transient veterans along with 106 local non veterans and 51 married, plus four transient non veterans. Twenty seven were 18 year olds. Registration was led by Mrs L E Butts of the Emblem Club with volunteers.
Oscar Chub Bates aged 60, a former Nelsonville resident, died after being struck by a passing machine near his Cambridge home while walking around his parked car. A former baseball player and long-time truck mine operator, he is survived by his wife Freda Farrow Bates and two daughters. brothers-in-law John Clarence and Charles Farrow attended the funeral.
Nelsonville Mary Van Bibber of Laurel Run was arrested in a tavern by city police for escaping from the Girls Industrial School Delaware. She was lodged in the city jail with school authorities expected to transport her back today. she was one of five girls who escaped on September 11.
Robert Shafer and family announce the birth of a daughter at Hocking Valley Hospital Logan September 8. The baby is named Diana Lynn. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs James Shafer and Mrs Lonnie Adams.
UNSONVILLE The Athens V Club invites Nelsonville members to a meeting at the high school theater at 7 30 p m Thursday. Dr E Jiams of Heidelberg University Tiffin will deliver the address Seeing United as in Action.
Dr and Mrs W H Hyde depart Nelsonville for a three week journey to the West Coast. Their first stop is Seattle Washington with plans to tour California and return by a southern route.
Troop 65, Boy Scouts, will meet tonight at 7 30 in the Warner building instead of Wednesday night. The change was announced to members and parents.
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