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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1922
Page
12
A partial OCR text fragment mentions county and state references with unclear names. The readable bits hint at proceedings or organizational notes, including relief and counts. No clear event, date, or identifiable entities are extractable for a full summary.
Curt Swick of Rutland seeks legal ouster from a house owned by his mother in law Mary Carson in Rutland alleging violence from bootlegging operations. The Six brothers Larry and Ira vanished, their wives refuse to return, Swick pushes immediate action. They were bound over to the grand jury at $100 each.
Miss Price, assistant Home Demonstration Leader of the State Extension department, is scheduled to appear at the county farm agents office in Pomeroy Friday, April 14, to meet county women interested in farm home methods and her line of activity.
Earl Hart, a teacher at a Bea school near Harrisonville, has sworn warrants in Justice James' court against Leslie Murray and two boys named Blake, charged with unspecified offenses. The fragmentary notice hints at disciplinary or legal action involving students.
Oscar Hartley, who left Pomeroy as a youth thirty years ago to seek his fortune in the west, arrived yesterday to visit the Hartley clan of Bend. He has prospered in Ottawa Kansas and is a neighbor of the Vincents, once well known Pomeroyans.
The Meigs County Fish and Game Protective Association ordered two car loads of fish last Saturday for restocking Meigs county streams. The first car load is expected here about the first of May.
John Burns, a Pomeroy inmate at Mansfield reformatory serving a sentence for robbery, is charged with robbing the chaplain of emeralds a diamond ring and a brooch and disposing of them. Burns had acting as a trusty with access to the chaplain's location during the incident.
A parole arrangement is likely postponed until the present charge is clarified. Burns was transported from Pomeroy serving a sentence ranging from one to fifteen years.
Rutland's weekly Jack O Lantern issue mixes school news with village items. A burglary report last Sunday night sparks playful commentary on safety as residents react, noting Bewitching hour alarm and community chatter about chasing burglars.
Mrs Johann Gottfried, widow of the late Louis Gottfried, died at her son Peter Gottfried's home on Union Avenue Tuesday afternoon April 4 at about 2 o'clock. She was 77 and leaves several grown children. The funeral will be from Peace Evangelical church Sunday afternoon.
Mrs Mary Hoffner widow of Martin Hoffner died at her home on Naylor's at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning April 5. Cancer was the cause. She was sixty five years old and leaves four children Anna and George of Columbus and John and Herman of Pomeroy. The funeral will be from Peace Evangelical church Friday afternoon.
The five months old son of Mr and Mrs Henry Spencer of Chester township died at 2 o clock Tuesday April 4 The father had been severely injured recently when a tractor fell on him.
The Whiterock Salt Works at Minersville, known as the Pomeroy Salt Association, closes with all workers dismissed except the superintendent and two watchmen. A repair crew is expected to begin soon. The Bend area previously had several active plants, now reduced to a few remaining facilities in Pom eroy and nearby cities.
F W Steinbauer and his wife have moved from Logansport Indiana back to Pomeroy to settle for good. Aging has compelled their return to the old town where they intend to spend their remaining years living on Butternut Avenue in the George Steinbauer home.
Jacob Deckerling, 19, arrested in Columbus for the December murder of Charles Gallagher, a Columbus druggist. He confesses and implicates Jesse Hazlett as an accomplice. they used a blackjack to render Gallagher unconscious and threw him on a car track, securing 400 dollars. Both men remain jailed.
Hiram Flavius Sibley a former Meigs county man died at Vin.
He was born October 17 1846 at Kgger. Married Corrella Woods in 1870 at Racine and had five children. Mrs Sibley died August 1898. He was brother in law to the late Mark Woods and J P Bradbury's wives. His remains were moved to Fairfield Illinois for burial.
Fire swept the old Alexander Hogue wagon shop at Rutland between 12 and 1 am on Wednesday April 5 destroying tools and an automobile of W A Gardner. The adjacent Henry Wanzo building was saved by residents with extinguishers preventing spread.
A delegation from the Hocking County Fish and Game Protective association met in Columbus to arrange a April 27 banquet at the Presbyterian church in Logan. Rev Curtiss R Douglass will open the program, Stuber will show wildlife pictures, and C A Baxter will speak. About five hundred members are in the association and tickets require membership cards by April 24.
Twenty one girls in Mrs. H. J. Harrington's class met at Mrs. Clinton Webb's home with Miss Florence Bort and Mrs. R. C. Steele assisting. County nurse Sadie Green spoke on nursing duties and work. The club completed emergency sewing for destitute families and refreshments were served. Next meeting will be at Miss Kathryn Yontz's home with assistants Miss Mildred Lehman and Miss Kathryn Bort.
Logan launches Sunshine Oil and Gas Co with W L Gage as president Sam Wrightsell as vice president and Blaine Johnson as secretary treasurer The company holds 1250 acres near Grovesnor Athens County and plans two wildcat wells to strike gas The first well location is the J F Hope farm and work will begin once materials are secured Geo Nelch.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harden were visitors in the capital city on Tuesday. L. T. Huffman and family were visitors in Lancaster for a short time on Wednesday.
An old advertisement promotes Seth Hart Croup Syrup from Athens Ohio. It urges caregivers to keep the remedy on hand for croup colds and whooping cough and to follow directions for use.
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