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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1935
Page
3
Meigs County producers plan 1935 corn hog contracts under state and national controls. Key figures say total county production will drop from 1934. signers of 1934 contracts who kept 1985 terms are mostly unchanged, with routine checks on applications and farm yields.
Philip H. Meier showing gradual improvement after care at Holzer Hospital. Obtinger Lincoln Hill and E. Peoples attend the Colum bia convention of the Women's Clubs. Ms Jacob Roller visited Racine for a bingo party hosted by Mr and Mrs Ed Howker who took first prize. Peoples hosted a Lend-A-Hand bake sale at Simpson M E Church. Hartinger entertained a bridge club at their East Main home.
The baby, a boy, died hours after birth at Columbus Hospital and was taken to a home service held Tuesday. Mrs. Middleport is formerly Miss Ann Dawson. Frank Newlun and others connected with the case appeared in court on a warrant. The Loyal Church meets tonight at 7:90 led by Rev and Mrs Ken Vale Street. A Civil War veteran, Pleasant Venable, is noted in the report.
The Negro quartet Walt Rickman Charles Rickman Lewis Rickman and Charlie Winston provides a leading novelty feature in the musical comedy Sunny Skies staged by the Seniors of Middleport High School. Performances are Thursday and Friday at 8 15 PM in the High School Gymnasium on Pearl Street.
Pomeroy Rutland and Tup pers Plains schools are scheduled for full nine month terms in the county system. All other county schools will run eight months unless plans change. Middleport will return to nine months per the school board decision.
Middleport April program of the Woman's Music Club given Tuesday night at the Heath Methodist Church drew positive reactions. One more performance is scheduled for April 30 at the Heath Church. The club chorus will meet Monday evening at Mrs. R. A. Hecox home. After the program, refreshments were served by chairwoman Mrs. Jessy Sansbury with help from several members including Mrs. Lansbury and others.
Horse shoe fans at Pomeroy Courthouse are again pitching at the court behind the Courthouse for noon hour battles. The sport proved popular last summer with keen competition and large audiences. New regulation size shoes have been purchased with funds from the players.
Members of Class No. 12 of Heath M. E. Church met Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. Frank White on South Second Avenue. A class program led by the president was followed by a social hour. Hostesses included Mrs. R. E. McKay Mrs. Clarence Swearingen and Mrs. M. W. Essex. Light refreshments were served.
Federal emergency seed and crop loans will be offered again in Meigs County to aid purchase of seed fertilizer spraying materials and livestock feed for 1985 crops. Eligibility limits reduce loan numbers. a clerk funded by FERA will assist applicants at the Kreitler office on Saturdays and Mondays.
Bunker Hill church will hold services Sunday April 14 at 10 30 am with J M Pullins filling in for Reverend Light. Local residents share visits and guests including Wells patients Heilman and Will families. Wadies Auxiliary meeting noted with Arthur Lewis hosting and refreshments served.
ZANESVILLE Ohio Hamer Bros Inc of Greenfield won the Piedmont Dam contract in the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District with a bid of 48725 dollars. The project on Stillwater Creek west of Piedmont Harrison County will be about 1720 feet long and create a lake roughly 2270 acres.
New constitution and by laws proposed for the Meigs County League of Young Democrats will be submitted for approval at a 7:30 PM meeting in Horton Brown’s Court House office. The president’s Columbus state meeting report will be read and other business discussed. Ostrich eggs weigh about three pounds.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Middleport will hold a regular monthly session Friday night in the church lecture room. The program features include topics The American Indian and Chosen with society president Mrs. J E Harley presiding. Mrs G H Stansbury and Miss Sara Jones participate. Hostesses are Mrs Harley Mrs Louis Seyfried Mrs Mary Dawson and Mrs J F Dillard.
Mrs Beulah Mc Cullum Mrs Vannie Townsend and Mrs Jennie Smith host the Past Matrons Club at Mrs McCullums Beech Street home Thursday evening with a 630 dinner served. The club has 16 members.
Relda Biffle Pomeroy and Elizabeth Diehl were released from county jail Wednesday after a second arrest for co habitation in adultery and will return to their Perry County home, authorities said.
Columbia Grange plans its regular meeting on Monday April 15 with a patriotic program focused on the Constitution. The opening song The Star Spangled Banner will lead to talks The Constitution as Studied Several Years Ago and The Constitution as Studied Today, with a Q and A session led by C EB Jewels and Fontel Caster. The date shift coincides with the Columbia Grade School operetta The Princess Has A Birthday present.
Mrs Elizabeth Hartinger of Middleport attends the Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs in Columbus with sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. Southeast District is led by Mrs Edger Ervin of Columbus who previously belonged to the Middleport Literary Club. In Meigs County a youth from Children’s Home, Orville Nappet, was sent to Lancaster Industrial School for incorrigibility.
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