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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1934
Page
2
MIDDLEPORT. Rev. Francis J. Mallard of Galloway near Columbus will preach next Sunday at 10 30 at the Presbyterian Church and again at 7 30 in the evening services, announced by church members.
Quick, time tested remedy touted to soothe eczema eruptions and reduce redness. A 35¢ box promises fast relief and crusts soften for removal with daily use. Advertisement notes overnight relief for sore feet and cracks between toes with druggist availability.
In Pomeroy on April 18 workers sped up the upper parking lot at the high school athletic field using a gasoline shovel to load trucks. Federal funding from the Emergency Relief Administration supplies labor, while the village must cover equipment cost or excess freight. The Ebersbach Construction Company shovel is lent with the village paying about $200 freight, approved by council Monday.
Township trustees and citizens filled the Pomeroy Courtroom Tuesday night to debate relief work and CWA impact. William Matthewson, a former relief worker, criticized wasteful spending while Commissioner Compton blamed CWA for road deterioration. An investigation of relief administration was ordered, with actions to speed bill payments.
Middleport Cedar Creek Circle No. 73 Auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic held its annual noon dinner to commemorate General Lee's surrender to General Grant. Eight Civil War veterans attended including John Adams 91 Mantiquity M C Boice 87 Cheshire Charles Kraft 9 Pomeroy Henry A Dixon 90 Downington J B 8 B Warner 8 Mason City Robert Griffith 8 Syracuse Jacob Spires 92 Vinton R D two old soldiers Jaspar Russell Middleport and J M Wallace Chester have died since last October. Local clergy Rev Frey J Gardner Rev Clarence Swearingen Rev F C Kreager and Rev W P Cassidy attended.
Middleport sees visitors from Columbus including Mr and Mrs C C Wharff with Mrs Fred Gardner and Miss Nella Leach of McArthur. J E Atkinson hosts. Raymond and Burton Riggs travel to Columbus for a ill uncle Richard Prater. Conder of Ravenswood visits family in Ravenswood and Apple Grove hosts Fran ces Pickens and Jonas Wolfe ill at home.
The body of E. P. Pickens who died in Springfield was buried Sunday afternoon in Letart Cemetery. Also noted are Rachel Boston’s return from Mason City, Michael Moore occupying the Hayman property, Elmer Jeffers and his mother visiting, Parkersburg visitors with Mrs. Addie Brinker, and Rutland baptismal services at Middleport Christian Church with converts baptized by Reverend Williams.
Enthusiasm rises as Syracuse forms a committee and trains officers for new troops. In Middleport, 39 scouters attended the second training night at the Presbyterian Church, up from 16 the prior week, with more to follow. Troops 40 41 42 43 meet in Middleport and Pomeroy, featuring talks on citizenship, knot tying and first aid, with active leadership and growing rosters.
A surprise party hosted by the Golden Circle Class was held at Reva Mills home Monday night for her birthday. The group plans a Wiener roast at Burford Lake on May 1. Measles illness affects several local schoolchildren. Charles Diehl relocates to Woods property on College Avenue. Rev Gaylord Bogardus and Mrs Bogardus hosted choir at a buffet. Mrs Mildred Hoppes and Helen Miller attended Mrs George Perry funeral in Dexter Tuesday.
Chesterhill High School seniors present a play It Happened In June at the Chesterhill high school Thursday evening with cast including Edythe Stout Eulah Barnhart Marion Parker and others. Rutland High School seniors also perform Second Childhood Thursday at the auditorium. Chesterhill students schedule field and track meet on Friday April 20 the junior senior party April 30 ba calaureate April 22 and school exhibit April 24 with exams starting April 25 and final day April 27.
American Legion Auxiliary of Feeney-Bennett Post No. 128 held a regular meeting led by President Mrs. Charlies Sauer. Four candidates Daisy Wolfe Margaret Boyer Esther Wolfe and Clara Gilkey were initiated during the business period.
The annual glee club concert and style show begins at 8 o clock tonight in the Junior High Auditorium. The Girls Glee Club performs and home economics students present a style show with Iris Winegar as Madame Fashion and seven others. The Boys Glee Club closes with selections like Blow High Blow Low and The Bells of St Marys.
Mrs Charlies Bing visited Athens Monday to stay with her husband a Ohio University student. Mrs KE M McCarty traveled to New Salem due to her mother’s serious illness. Elmer Miller has bronchitis. Leo Russell’s move from Leading Creek to the Covert property follows Ramsey’s relocation to Ravenswood. Harry Craig family visited Huntington Tuesday. Women’s Bible Class at First Baptist plans a cafeteria dinner Thursday. Hiteshue family returned to Parkersburg. Leland Saxton at Hooser Hospital Gallipolis improving after Sunday accident. Homer Hysell and wife attended Dr Maag’s birthday at his Long Bottom cabin. report omitted their names.
Pomeroy personals show Mrs Chester Morris and baby from Columbus visiting Mrs Morris mother and Mr Morris parents. Mrs Marvin DeVo of Rocksprings to Toledo to see K W Fleming and Devol. Mrs Richard Chambers visiting her Rose Hill parents and relatives. Lieut and Mrs Albert Miller and child return to Fort Worthan after visiting Pomeroy and Gallipolis. Mrs Ralston Russell of East Main Street goes to Cleveland to see daughter Helen Brown Russell. Jeasie Bobo of Jerseyville visits sister Mrs Virgil Will in Rocksprings.
Pastor of Hemlock Grove church for five years was removed to a Gallipolis hospital in serious condition late last week. Dr. Fiora tending his brother has returned home. Mrs. Ethel Smith and Mrs. Lucetta Willard are ill. Several local social and town notes follow including birthdays and visits by residents.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Bryant Mrs. Celia Curtis and Mr. and Mrs. Arza Bryant spent Sunday in Pomeroy with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Boyd.
Syracuse residents report guests from Columbus and New Haven. Mr and Mrs Dick Allbright Mrs D Mills and Rev D Mills visited Mrs Margaret Nease and family. Rev Mills returned home with his mother. Mr and Mrs Turnville Sr move to New Haven West Virginia. Mr William Winekeeoper returns from California CCC assignment.
Capt. Fred Smith of Columbus head of the State Bureau of Aeronautics told a Rotary Club gathering in Gallipolis that the airport is the finest for landing large ships in Ohio. Dr. C. E. Hoilzen noted two aviators who landed there this week also praised its generous size.
Sheriff Hatfield sent deputies to Memorial Cemetery in Vinton after reports that grave markers were toppled and lead cushions removed. The incident targeted grave monuments and base structures, with several markers displaced in the Gallia County area.
Personal mention notes Mr and Mrs Harold Barker of Cleveland visiting the area at the start of the week. Alma McCormick a Holzer Hospital secretary and Helen Perry a Holzer dietitian attend the Ohio Hospital Association convention in Cincinnati. Twenty five Knights of Pythias from the local lodge were guests at a Cheshire meeting Tuesday night.
Raccoon Township High School schedules events for the closing season. On Friday night April 20 at 8 o’clock in Community Hall the Senior Class presents the play Blowing Bubbles. On Sunday April 22 at 8 o’clock Rev Wilfred Packer will preach the baccalaureate sermon in the high school auditorium. Commencement occurs Wednesday April 25 at 8 o’clock with Dr Fichter as principal speaker.
Rio Grande graduate Roderick Bainbridge returns with his mother and has two years left to teach in Bainbridge after five years. Esther Rickabaugh plans a summer in the mountains to escape plains heat. Rev. W. T. Packer spoke to Sciotoville high school and preached the same evening. Kathryn Denny arrives from Harrisburg to Rio Grande and is moved to Holzer Hospital. Mrs. Ted Merriam and Chicago relatives visit A. J. Clark's family. Funeral crowds honor James Stormont who died after a brief illness in Columbus. Rose Mick and Edna Arundel of Wheeling visit Rio Grande area.
The boys of the football team and two basketball teams attended a wiener roast hosted by Sunt. Cottrell and Coach Fowler last Saturday. President and Mrs. W. A. Lewis and Harry Anderson also attended. Rev. Bob Hall delivered a sermon at the M. E. Church Sunday night in place of the regular pastor Reverend Watts. Mrs. Fred Myers is ill. Miss Bess Richards visits relatives in Allipolis.
An Automobile Club dinner was held at the Methodist Church in Gallipolis on Tuesday night.
The Mothers' Study Club gathered at Mrs Clarence Masters Fourth Avenue Tuesday night to discuss Sanford Jenks Olcott's late book Children's Reading led by Mrs Charlie Freeze Second Avenue Two arrested Tuesday night on charges of intoxication while a new state liquor store opened at 4 pm showing little local interest in liquor sales
Gallipolis reports the local Elks Lodge will initiate a class of candidates on Monday night April 3. Refreshments will be served after the ceremonies.
Two couples over fifty years old were married in Gallipolis. B R Reed, a farmer from Kanawha County West Virginia, wed Mrs Glenna Biswick of Gallia. A G Deckard, 68, a farmer from Vinton, married Mrs Martha Epling, 72, of Gallipolis.
Mrs Henry Nelson learned her nephew Martin Phillips was seriously injured in a motor car wreck at Martins Ferry. Mr and Mrs Cleyton Devoir and Robert Cullins returned from Logan West Virginia. Harriett Thompson and the Delong sisters visited Hazel James on Sunday.
The Messenger Correspondent for Gallia County invites readers to send news items by phone, listing Miss Edna Ervin and the Lafayette Hotel as contact details.
Fertilizer was applied to pasture demonstration plots in Gallia County by Prof. Simon of the Ohio State University soils department and county extension agent E. H. Reed. The two tracts, on V. J. Niday near Northup and Fred Foster at Mills Station, were divided into seven plots each for varied fertilizer treatments established two years ago.
Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis reports William Harrington, 70, of Marietta, admitted for treatment. former Morgan County land and cattle owner now oil company manager. William Murphy CCC enrollee at Gallia underwent abdominal operation. Leland Saxton CCC enrollee from Pomeroy injured in Middleport crash, not yet out of danger but recovering. skull fragment removed. Mrs Marley Bates Oak Hill treatment patient and Mrs Lindsay Mitchell Pomeroy discharged after toe amputation.
Realty transfers including Frank and Ella M Hogue to B H DeLille for 72 acres in Cheshire Township and George and Elva Mehi to O A Odell for 1 acre in Gallipolis are noted. An affidavit of transfer covers 110 acres in Walnut Township later given to Hattie Donner and others. Rose Arthu etux to Arnold Rose roadway in Harrison Township and W W Bowen to Lucy Bowen city lot in Gallipolis. Allen Jordon, former executive secretary of the Ohio Water Conservation and Flood Control Congress, was in Gallipolis for a conference Tuesday.
The Ohio and Great Kanawha Rivers are falling as work continues on the Minfield Kanawha twin locks and the Chambersburg Ohio twin locks with about 500 workers under Dravo Construction. Light changes were made by the Greenbrier lighthouse ship with Walkers and Gallipolis Island Lights updated. The War Department allocated 52000 for Ohio River improvements and 27000 for Cumberland River upgrades to haulage gear at Locks 7, 11, 12, and 8 plus a cover boat for Locks and Dames to 39. A Pittsburgh packet may enter the Pittsburgh Cincinnati trade and the Queen City stern wheel may be rebuilt with new boilers for the Pittsburgh trade. the Queen is now a wharfboat at Pittsburgh.
About 140 original signers of a remonstrance against joining Guyan Township and Crown City Special School districts have filed documents withdrawing their signatures. The Gallia County Board of Education had indicated a majority by remonstrance would block the merger, with the matter coming before a March 15 meeting.
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