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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1948
Page
2
Mr. and Mrs. George FE Bates and sons Douglas and George of Vinton spent Sunday with Mrs. Lena Bates in Gallipolis.
Gordon K. Bush publisher of The Messenger spoke to Kiwanians about a naval cruise as a civilian aboard the USS Albany. He praised the Navy’s spirit and cooperation with other services and noted currents in Greenland Danish relations and base maintenance in a fragile balance.
Bill Cherrington, an attorney from Gallipolis, recounts a dawn hunting incident at 6:45 am when he believed he spotted a squirrel, then reportedly shot twice as two squirrels dropped within seconds. He fired a third shot into the air to prove the second kill.
In Gallipolis a Rotarian gathering heard officials of the Ohio Valley Second Frontier describe an event set for Thursday and Friday at the Farmers Hotel. Dr. Charles E. Holzer led the program and C. J. Martin, director of the soil conservation show, spoke briefly along with several contributors from Willys-Overland Co. Ohio Bell Telephone Co. and other firms.
Admissions include Mrs Laurence Plants Point Pleasant Earl Custer Racine Mrs Charles Hutchinson Rio Grande James Perry Gallia Mrs William Reigel Jackson Ross Burford Point Pleas ant Ivan Cragg Bidwell Mrs Arthur Schoonover Jackson Donald Walker Lancaster George Snider Wellston Jerry Lee Cassiday Oak Hill Frank Bates Wellston Births announce a son to Mrs John Walker Wellston and a son to Mrs Woodrow Saunders Gallipolis Discharges include Homer Justice Maude Gravy Retha Sheets Willard Henry and son William Riddell Lewis Reed and James Parkins
Mr. and Mrs. George Councellor of Anderson Indiana and Miss Chastine Lowery of Columbus visited the Lowery home. Numerous relatives and friends from Columbus Barberton Detroit Nelsonville Logan Shawnee Rosemount and Lancaster joined in hosting and visiting over the weekend.
The Little Kgger Homecoming Sunday opens at 10 a.m. with church service at 11 led by Rev. Harold Hammer. A noon basket dinner follows, then afternoon events include invocation, audience hymn, mixed chorus, a children s pageant, address by Rev. L A Donnally of Grace Methodist Church, special music and benediction by Rev. Hammer.
Gallia Academy High School director Herbert O Pepper unveils a new between half stunt at the Pt Pleasant Gallia Academy game. Jim Dailey on trombone and Lynda Thomas on cornet perform a musical dialogue under illuminated band headgear forming a half moon. The routine pairs Let Me Call You Sweetheart with No A Thousand Times No and Kiss Me Again in alternating responses.
River traffic reports from Gallipolis and district boats include Semet up Craig up Arden up Wisherd up Bruce down Ft Armstrong down Solvay down Creighton up Labelle down Helen Brown up Jewett up Atlas up Cook up. Also a partition sale notice in Athens County Court lists multiple parcels totaling about 458 acres with a July 1948 sale date and cash terms.
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