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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1935
Page
3
The Senior Class High School presented a musical comedy with home talent and strong chorus work. The production featured well coached performers, varied ruses, and attractive stage scenery with boys forming the chorus, earning praise for two successful showings.
The report lists residents and guests visiting relatives and friends in Coolville and Columbus. It mentions Mrs J B French and family, Adrian French, Mr and Mrs Clark J B French, and W N Hovis traveling from Marys, W Va, to stay with friends. A Methodist service is scheduled for Tuesday at the church annex with Rev Law delivering the sermon.
An officer Mose Baumgardner was arrested Sunday by Sha Young on a barge. He was brought to court for a pending hearing before C. J. Hes. The incident involved disturbances and a barge scene with Walter Wolfe cited in connection to the order.
In Kentucky on Saturday the funeral service for Sara Dobbs is set in Eburg with service details provided. The deceased, connected to Martin Runyon, is memorialized in Midport and Dickinson areas as neighbors note their passing. McMaster is reportedly employed in the funeral arrangements.
Bailey will graduate from Wittsburgh in Miss Sara istie Pa. and aturday and appears to be a fragmentary local notice mentioning a pastor, church, home, and graduation in a Northern state or town.
Hoyt Covert aged 60 dies at his Berkeley California home. W A B Covert and daughter-in-law Mrs Arthur Covert travel from Middleport to attend funeral set for Tuesday in Berkeley. Survived by wife two daughters father two brothers and three sisters. Funeral and burial in Berkeley follow a Columbus hospital cataract operation recovery for C A Hartley.
Mrs Irma Jeffers will replace Mrs Billy Smith Bur dette as matron of the U S Marine Hospital Gallipolis on July 1. The hospital is the only marine hospital between Pittsburgh and Louisville supervised by the Public Health Service. Dr W Lewis Brown succeeds Dr Lewis Bean after 43 years of service.
City Manager Adolph Henke plans continued sidewalk construction in Gallipolis with FERA labor. A Women’s Civic Club survey notes SS property owners approve. Work begins May first, with 2 miles more proposed on upper Third Street and other locations.
GALLIPOLIS Ernie Day Kananga will appear in common pleas court Thursday afternoon on a contempt of court charge. Day failed to pay the attorney fee ordered by Judge W R White after reading the divorce petition filed by Beatrice Day. The petition said Day did not support their 10 children and alleged he inherited property in Ohio and West Virginia.
Edgar Massie 26 pleaded not guilty to breaking a church window at Flag Springs M EB Church and posted $200 bond with J W Straight as surety before Justice Fred Milliser. Warrant by J S Meadows. Damages to reed organ stops led to suspension of Sunday School services at the church.
In Gallipolis a FERA applicant chosen by H. D. Frederick of Bidwell found a client who sold nine cars in the last year. Frederick said profits cited by the man to the clerk of courts imply the salesman would pay income tax rather than seek relief.
Gallipolis Mrs Lula Ayres mother of Mrs Henry Cherrington suffered a fractured nose and scalp wound in a fall downstairs Sunday and was moved to Holzer Hospital for treatment. William White a retired Syracuse Meigs County school teacher underwent surgery and Laura Neal Gallipolis who trained as a nurse was operated on for acute appendicitis. A pipe section fell on Jamen Fair Coalton at Crown Pipe and Foundry Jackson injuring him headward. he remains hospitalized. Dismissals include Mrs Charles Hutchinson Rio Grande Mrs Alvaredo Lewis Gallipolis Herman Mayer Pomeroy and Mrs G E B Glenn Vinton.
Lewis Pritchett age 6 was buried at Mound Hill Cemetery Gallipolis after funeral services in Columbus. He worked as a florist and furniture factory man in Gallipolis before joining the State Hospital for the Insane in Columbus. Survived by wife two children his sister Blanche France and siblings Mrs Charles Johnson Mrs James Billups Earl one brother Dr Clark Pritchett and Marguerite Pritchett. Died after 48 hours illness from spinal meningitis.
Annual inspection of the Masonic Lodge in Guysville will be held Thursday night April 18. Dinner will be served from 6 to 8 by the Ladies Aid Society of M EB Church. Members of the F and A M are invited and others may join the feast.
Gallia County bus drivers were asked to note road improvements on their routes and report to the Bus Drivers Association at the next meeting on Saturday May 11. E E Jenkins led the session praising local trustees and urging use of available materials to repair mud and thin gravel roads. The group planned to contact Congressman Jenkins to seek highway funds, propose county section repair squads, and mail cards to all 70 bus drivers with route deficiency maps.
Mrs. Lenore Ecker marked her seventy fifth birthday Sunday visiting her Centenary home with her son Horace Ecker. She recalls being five on Lincoln's assassination day. The celebration was postponed due to her daughter in law's scarlet fever quarantine. The Gallipolis resident, widow of C. L. Ecker, belongs to W C T U Eastern Star and American Legion Auxiliary and recently endured a Canada motor tour mishap with injuries.
Corrective measures in Ohio sales tax law are awaited to protect border merchants. Local dealers say West Virginia branches selling cars to Ohio residents evade tax, creating cross border quotas and hard on Ohio dealers. Unclear if WV branches set up solely to dodge tax.
Interment for G. L. Withers of Huntington West Virginia took place in Gallipolis on Sunday. He died from a paralytic stroke and is survived by his sister in law Mrs Elmer Burnette of Gallipolis.
After a weekend gain the Meigs County Jail held 24 prisoners Sunday night. For three months the jail has hovered near capacity with inmates typically numbering between two and ... (text ends).
River excursions begin May 2 with the Steamer Washington offering afternoon and evening trips to Pomeroy Bend under Phi Delta Kappa Fraternity sponsorship. Inland residents, including crowds from Athens, Nelsonville, Logan and even Columbus, have made excursions increasingly popular.
The body of Stewart A. Eakin 78 who died Friday at Middletown was brought to Pomeroy for burial in Beech Grove Cemetery Saturday. He leaves relatives in Pomeroy and Middleport and the funeral service was held at 2 PM at Ewing Funeral Home.
Pomeroy announces a next week showing of the Kingsland Marionettes by Mr and Mrs Cedric Head at the junior high under Federated Church auspices. Fred Mees, son of H H Mees of Brick Street, took part in confirmation at Grace Lutheran in Columbus. Mrs Mees accompanied him to the service and returned home Sunday evening.
Mrs Morgan Gallipolis Miss Nancy Leape hosted a Sunday afternoon surprise party for grandmother Mrs Elizabet Morgan. Guests included Mr and Mrs J and Dalton Toledo. He is a brother of Mrs Morgan and a retired mall clerk from railroad service. Mr Dalton is a Gallia County native.
Middleport residents hosted relatives from Cincinnati and Columbus over the weekend. A Jones Street patient underwent an acute appendicitis operation at Staats Hospital in Charleston. Several locals returned from travels, with Mrs Tedrow and Mrs Ewing attending Emory Field funeral services in Charleston.
Portland M B E Ladies' Aid Society met at Mrs. Mattie Henderson's home on Wednesday afternoon. Attendance was good and refreshments were served. Other local notes include visits to Parkersburg, a quilting party at Mrs. Hudwell’s in Dam 23, and a Masonic Square Club dance and card party slated for Monday night at the Masonic Temple Auditorium with refreshments.
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