Barges Seen as Cheaper Route for Cincinnati Coal
Investigators note river shipments affect coal deliveries to aid recipients and argue river transport lowers costs. Minor differences in freight rates, with mines at 1.85 or 1.75 and river movement 1.25, are cited as justification for continuing river coal traffic. The Bend plan shifts back to river coal flow, while observers debate long term effects. Dale Hogue, son of Mrs. Waldo Hogue, will wed Adele Schiff April 4 at St Lutheran Church in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy
Punty
Cincinnati
Bend
Allo
Folhat
Ing
Ale Hogue
Roy — Dale Hogue
Waldo Hogue
Iddie Port
Columbus
Adele Schiff
Coat
St.utheran Church
Ili
Hughes elected chief examiner and new State Employees Union leader
Meigs deputy auditor Roy Howard M. Hughes named president of a newly organized State Employees Union Inc based in Columbus. The group aims to provide loan and credit facilities to about 13 000 state workers across Ohio recognizing Hughes for his experience and leadership with colleagues at the auditor's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy—Howard M. Hughes
Meigs
of State
Columbeen
State
Meigs County Man Returns to Workhouse After Escape
Charles Hysell, freed from Ohio Penitentiary, was sent to Dayton Workhouse to complete a sentence cut short by a prior escape in 1928. He was arrested in Lower Middleport by Officers Young and Moore. Also, Mrs. Ellen Newland and Amos Starcher of Reedaville received one year terms for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Charles Hysell
Ohio
Dayton
Hysell
Lower Middleport
Young and
Moore
Meira County Common Pleas Court
Ellen Newland
Amos Starcher
Reedaville
Dust storms sweep the West and Omaha area
Homer E. Race of Omaha reports severe dust storms in the West and in Omaha caused by drought, reduced vegetation, and lower tillage. He recalls a storm last fall near Tarkio, Missouri, with deaths and livestock losses linked to the storms. Race notes Eliza Dunlap of Harrisonville turning 92 on February 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tarkio
Mr. Race
Eliza Dunlap
Harrisonville
Messenger Story Traces 110 Years of Athens News Rise
The Athens Messenger origin tale surveys the paper from its 1825 beginnings as The Western Spectator to its 1848 renamed Athens Messenger and Hocking Valley Gazette, through to its daily 1905 start under Frederick W. Bush and its evolution into a leading small-city daily with a landmark 1925 plant move. It notes key figures like John Brough, Abraham Van Vorhes, and Gordon K. Bush, and highlights the paper’s push for modernization and typography prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger
the Mirror
A. G. Brown
Spectator
Isaac
Brown
Mesuilding
Athens
Mes- Addie Vickers
San Diego
Western Spectator
Mirror
Abraham van Vorhes
Hocking Valley Gazette
Nelson H. and
A. J. van Vorhes
Nelle van Vorhes
University Terrace
Hocking Valley
Messenger
Whig
Ohio
Miami
Frederick W. Bush
Charlies E. M. Jennings
F. W. Bush
Gordon K. Bush
The
County School Parents and Teachers Meet in Racine
Meigs County Parent Teacher Associations gathered at Racine High School for afternoon and evening sessions with nine of the county groups represented. Speeches by Mrs. Ethel Peters Simon and Mrs. C. W. Booth highlighted the program, with music by local and Pomeroy singers. The county council was reorganized with Mrs Sidney Fadley as president and new officers named: Mrs. Bradford vice president, Mrs. Hazel Clark secretary, and Mrs. Arthur Rosenbaum treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Parent
Meigs County
Racine High School
Frances Cline
M. W. Essex
Pomeroy
Wright McCroba
Arthur Rosenbaum
Emmy Lou Keehne
Howard Ebersbach
County Council
Sidney Fadley
Bradford
Middleport
Hazel Clark
Syracuse
Middleport Briefs Personal Notes
Mrs. Jesse Lans bury and daughter June returned home Saturday night after a weekend in Charleston with Mrs. Elmer Dent and family. Douglas McHaffee, recently released from Holzer Hospital after an appendicitis operation, came home Sunday. Harold Krens drove to Columbus to be with his wife who underwent an appendicitis operation at Mercy Hospital Saturday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Jesse Lansbury
June
Charleston
Elmer Dent
Douglas McHaffee
Holzer Hospital
Harold Krens
Columbus
Mercy Hospital
Local News Roundup From Middleport and Nearby Towns
Middleport residents hosted visitors including Mr and Mrs Stewart Bull and sister in law Mrs Frank Guinther before the couple returned to Huntington. Joe Dobbs shows partial improvement after illness. Dr T Jesse Jones of New York arrived for a short visit with Sara Jones and Mrs T H Davis and relatives. Betty Reed spent weekend at home while in Columbus business college. Jack Satterfield and daughter in Toledo for new employment. Arthur Covert ill with influenza. Henry Mossman helps in Mossman Garage on Grant Street. Lizzie Hartinger suffered a stroke and remains seriously ill at home on South Sixth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Dobbs
T. Jesse Jones
New York City
Sara Jones
T. H. Davis
Betty Reed
Columbus Business College
Jack Satterfield
Toledo
Arthur Covert
Henry Mossman
Gallipolis
Kenneth Mossman
Mossman
Grant Street
Lizzie Hartinger
South Sixth Avenue
Drownings in Florida Lake Dora Claim Two Lives
Marie Linn aged 17 drowned in Lake Dora Sunday and her father Alton Linn aged 41 died trying to save her. Locy formerly lived at Zanesville Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
MT. Dora
Fla
Marie Linn
Lake Dora
Alton
Locy
Zanesville
Middleport Pastor To Wed Sally Swisher
Worthwhile Class of the Presbyterian Church hosted a kitchen shower for Miss Sally Swisher of New Castle Pennsylvania, who will marry Rev. C C Batley pastor of the Middleport church. Miss Swisher and Rev Batley are the couple. Edward Tewksbury celebrated his twenty first birthday at a dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs E O Tewksbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Sally Swisher
Presbyterian Church
New Castle
C. C. Batley
Mr. Bailey
Miss Swisher
E. O. Tewksbury
South Fourth Avenue
Palmer Street
Schools Must Pay POMEROY-Auditor Ruling on school land assessments
State Auditor Joseph T. Tracy reports a ruling by Attorney General Bricker that highway assessment levies on school lands, if not exceeding benefits, should be paid from net rentals of the lands assessed. The decision affects several Meigs County cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
George P. Daniels
Joseph T. Tracy
Bricker
Meigs County
Ohio and Kanawha Rivers Back Down to Pool Stage
The Ohio and Kanawha Rivers returned to near pool level on Monday with dams to be positioned soon barring more rain. American Barge Line towboats W. A. Shepard Plymouth and W. C. Kelly moved to Pittsburgh with loads of steel scrap from Memphis. The United States steamer Coiner failed to depart Pt. Pleasant for Vicksburg after repairs. it cost about 2500 to build and may be used by engineers after new contracts. Various towboats including Hatfield Campbell Creek line and Julius Fleischman, Henry C. Yeiser, Eugene Dana Smith and W. C. Mitchell operated, towing coal and freight but several vessels faced repairs or layups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Ohio
Kanawha
W. A. Shepard
Plymouth
W. C. Kelly
Pittsburgh
Memphis
United States
Coiner
Mississippi River
Pt. Pleasant
W. Va
Kanauga
Vicksburg
Engi
Kanawha River
Cincinnati
Louisville
Julius Fleishman
Henry C. Yeiser
Eugene Dana Smith
W. C. Mitchell
American
Parkersburg
American Barge Line Corporation
New Orleans
Steel City
Iron City Company of
Wheeling
St. Moeasant
Meigs County News Bits From Columbus
Saturday items note Mrs. Lewis Probst of Pomeroy recovering after abdominal surgery at Grant Hospital with transfusions. Mrs. Hazel Parry of Chauncey improves after surgery at Mercy Hospital. A Will C Merritt postcard shows Jerusalem's Wailing Wall. Jones heads to Pomeroy in a Kia with a new high grade canary. C. B. Hart departs a Columbus hotel after handling local business. Phil Meier cites his father Philip Meier’s improved condition at Holer Hornital in Gallipolis. Hartley family visits Norwich Hotel as three Ohio sports groups join the League of Ohio Sportsmen, of which he is secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Columbus
Meigs County
Lewis Probst
Jennie Lipsych
Grant Hospital
Hazel Parry
Chauncey
Mazel Strohmeyer
Syracuse
Mercy Hospital
Will C Merritt
Jerusalem
Athens
Manna
Jones
C. B. Hart
Phil Meier
I. C. C. F. Temple
High Street
Philip Meier
Holer Hornital
Gallipolis
Sars Hartley
Mansfield
Malcolm Hartley
Oliver Hartley
Norwich
Hartley
League of Ohio Sportamen
Creek Tragedy Recalls Earlier Drowning Near Route 7
George a Creek flood scene shows only a small brook two feet wide and five inches deep Monday while last Thursday’s waters drowned Floyd Kuhn and Frank Danner. Funeral services were held Sunday for the two men trapped when their car went over the bank near Route 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
George
Nermal
Floyd Kuhn
Frank Danner
Girls Play Day Saturday at Wellston
Twelve senior girls from G A H S will be taken to Wellston by physical education teacher Misa Bea Haskina for the Girls Play Day. Attending schools include Jackson Hamden Toge Nelsonville Pomeroy Wellston and McArthur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Wellston
Misa Bea Haskina
Jackson
Hamden
Toge
Nelsonville
Pomeroy
McArthur
New Trial Refused in Cheshire Coal Cases
Gallipolis judge in Common Pleas denies a motion for a new trial in Cheshire coal code cases. Six small mine operators and six miners faced charges over selling coal under the bituminous code price. The defendants argued forced to meet price levels set by West Virginia miners in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Cheshire
W. FR. White
Common Pleas Court
Smali
Jougian
Wilbur Darat
R. M. Bighten
William H. Sidera
M. K. Swisher
Bert Scott
West Virginia
Holzer Hospital Notes Cite Local Discharges and Admissions
Little Mary Seales first Logan reporter returns home after appendectomy at Holzer Hospital. Virginia Gregg Pomeroy reporter also goes home. New admissions include Owle Vanage Gallipolis with foot injury from a dropped weight, Mrs Peat O’Hara, Maria Elliott, Vere Weber age seven and Mrs Charles Stutchinson Rio Grande among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Little Mary" Seales
Logan
W. Va
West Virginia
Sune Day
Holzer Hospital
Virginia Gregg
Pomeroy
Owle Vanage
Peat O'Hara
Lucile Ghriati
Maria Eteliott
Uo, Elliott
Northup
Verenon Weber
O. J. Weber
Minersville
Charles Stutchinson
Rio Grande
Racine Social Notes Highlight Ohio University Visits
Miss Grace Crow, Miss Helen Bentz, and Miss Bonnie Miles of Racine spent the weekend at their parents’ homes. Ohio University students. Mr and Mrs Will Lewis of Adena hosted the weekend at the Lewis home. Jane Cooper and Emma Jane Jiden visited Athens with Cooper family. A H Harris returned from Cleveland with granddaughter Margaret staying the summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Grace Crow
Lee Tart
Helen Bentz
Bonnie Miles
Perente
Ohio University
Athens
Will Lewis
Adena
Mern
Gomer Lewis
Jane Cooper
Emma Jane Jiiden
A. D. Cooper
A. H. Harris
Juanita Stitt
Cleveland
Margaret
Family dinner honors George Saver Sr on 78th birthday
Miss Margaret Saver hosted a Sunday dinner for her father George Saver Sr marking his March 3 seventy eighth birthday. Twenty Bauer family members attended with Mrs John Orr visiting from New Wilmington, Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
Margaret Saver
George Saver
Mr. Bauer
John Orr
New Wilmington
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Pomeroy Beni
Ohio River
Rd Hughes
Credit Group
Marsh
John Brough
Publica S
South Court Street
Vickers
Ainder
Ississippi
Iain Marquis
Montaigne
Valley
Mirror and Literary
Marietta
Ithn Brough
Erner
Hanbury
George Clark
NEA Service, Inc
T.M. Reg
Mr. and
Mrs
Stewart Bull
Frank Guinther
Huntington
Leene Reynolds Tobacco Company
Selem, Neeth
Stanley Adams
John L. Filson
Johnn L. Filson
Ross Kheiley
Ross Kelley
F. W. Evans
West Kentucky Coal Company
Carnegie Steel Company
Acme
Tom Greene
Gordon C. Greene
Tom
Social Notes
Honokred
Ray Bari
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