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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
2
The article combines an health warning about backaches and kidney issues promoting Doan's Pills with a separate local crime note. A stolen 1949 convertible car found abandoned near Flagsprings leads to sheriff investigations in Charleston involving two young men and missing tire. School officials and truancy officers handled the girls involved.
The eighty sixth annual Emancipation Day event will be held Saturday at Bush Park in Bidwell. Speakers include Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins and Rev. B. R. Smith with Mrs. Cora J. White of Columbus. Music features quartets and soloists. Ned Eachus of Gallipolis supplies the amplification. The Rev. C. M. Payne, oldest surviving officer, recalls over 60 years of attendance. Other officers listed include Mrs. Dorothy Lewis and Monroe Winston.
Carrie Williams, a clerk in the Marjorie Rinehart court office at Gallipolis, is reported recovering from bronchial pneumonia and staying at her sister Mrs. Lonnie Thompson’s home at 1005 Third Ave. Fire losses in 1946 surpassed the German blitz damage in 1940 41 by about 25 percent.
In Gallia Meigs County common pleas court an all day session addressed permanent alimony and a cross petition divorce for Hazel L Nesselroad and Herbert L Nesselroad. Judge Betz heard six plaintiff witnesses and three for the defense before taking the case under advisement. Principal asset cited is five acres of land with a house at Darwin.
Harold W. Wetherholt, 49, publisher of the Gallipolis Tribune, was injured but not seriously when his truck left Route 141, struck a bridge, and overturned. He suffered a bruised left arm and knee and declined treatment. The accident, west of Thurman, also involved Mildred Hoffman, 34, of Chillicothe, who hit a brick post while avoiding a parked car operated by Charles Myers, 85, of Circleville. No arrests were made. Kenneth Phillips, 22, Jackson, was arrested for parking on the highway.
The Gallia County Board of Elections gave a printer copy on constitutional amendments to be voted on. Amendments cover the oleomargarine issue probation judges in populous counties and whether voters must mark each candidate, ending the straight ticket.
A hospital notes section lists admitted patients including Ronald Perkins of Jackson, Ernest J. Riggs and James Allen Beaver of Gallipolis, Kathie Ward and Mrs Pearl Ward of Hamden, and Mrs. Knox Williams of Gallipolis. Other names include Mrs. Robert A. Higginbotham Point Pleasant, Eugene Martin Pliny West Virginia, and Dr. Frank Butcher Point Pleasant, among numerous entries.
The case of Thomas L. Lambert of Gallia against James R. Dummitt was settled out of court at the defendant's expense. The dispute involved payment for a chain saw totaling 375 dollars. Additional Gallipolis news on page 21.
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