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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1950
Page
11
Mr and Mrs Albert Keirns announce the birth of a son on September 10 at Sheltering Arms hospital in Albany. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Monrovia. Liberia’s capital Monrovia is named after President James Monroe.
Miss Marjorie Hill librarian spoke at a Nelsonville school assembly outlining library services and reader suggestions on use of the library with new books. Mary Beth Goss hosted the program sponsored by Ernest Weaver with Grace Robinette Arlene Rosser and Charlotte Daugherty as color bearers.
In Nelsonville a hunter named Bateman tailed a squirrel to a thicket and clubbed it with a bent gun barrel. A second hunter discovered a decoy tail on a boy’s hat, prompting a booted rebuke for the prankster, not a fatal shot.
Forrest Burd a native of Indiana has become pastor of the Haydenville Church of God His services have begun and the family resides on Route 33 The 36 year old pastor formerly worked in Muncie and Kansas and has a lifelong connection to the Church of God through his father He is married with two children
Mr and Mrs Dave Woltz hosted a social weekend with relatives including Mr and Mrs Ralph Bowers Sterl Bowers and their children Barbara Dwight Freddie and Rose Ann from Columbus plus Ronnie Bowers of Sugar Grove. Visitors included Mrs Florence Chiviginton and Wilma from St Marys and Effie Woltz notes a health mortality trend among stable hands ages 15 to 64.
New York Coal Sales Co of Columbus expands with Highland Stone Division near East Danville and the Scott Limestone Quarries in Highland County. Production is expected to exceed 200000 tons in the first year, supplying crushed stone for highways and agricultural and chemical stone for steel and chemical industries. The firm also operates multiple divisions and plants across Ohio and New York.
Thomas Joyce of Nelsonville confessed to stealing four bottles of whisky from the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall on September 14. He pleaded guilty to breaking and entering, was bound to the grand jury under $1000 bond, and to be sent to Athens County Jail.
An Omaha style advertisement touts NASOREL as a magic relief for nasal congestion and sinus headaches. It claims fast comfort for stuffed nose sneezing and earaches, priced at $2.00 per dose with a money back guarantee and availability through Athens Pharmacy Court Street.
Bids will be opened tomorrow for resurfacing of Canal Street in Nelsonville. Division 10 of the State Highway Department asks the city to raise a valve box and two manhole covers to the height of the new pavement. Mayor Earl Hilleary said he assured Division Engineer Max Farley in Marietta that the work would be done.
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