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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1930
Page
2
A miners safety meeting will be held at the Courthouse Thursday evening with Reese West local operator as chief speaker Walter Smith chief mine inspector of this division and Thomas C Kearns chief of the hygiene Department in attendance also present are deputy mine inspector Val Brown.
Ohio officials faced questions over state immunity from liability after the penitentiary disaster. Attorneys noted constitutional immunity protects the state in institutional catastrophes and no act has waived that right in Ohio. The issue echoes the earlier stadium bombing injuries at Ohio State University.
Charles Garen returned home from taking a family member to work and found his garage on fire. The blaze destroyed a 509 dollar car and the garage valued at 500 dollars. Officials suspect burning sage grass near the structure sparked the fire. Garen had no insurance.
The body recovered from the Ohio River at Dam 24 near Racine is identified as George Davis, 30, one of two men lost from a sail boat near Marietta two weeks ago. Gilbert Smith remains missing. Davis will be buried in Marietta after transfer by local officials and an undertaker.
Harrisonville April 23. Martin Chase, a district farmer, hunted a mechanical corn planter in local stores to no avail. He traveled to Pomeroy and Middleport, then returned via Rutland where he finally located the device he sought.
In Middleport on April 23 Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Gallagher host a dinner honoring the local basketball squads. Attendees include Coach Clyde Battin Manager John Parfitt Capt. Max Lambert and many townspeople and guests. The Schmoll family has moved to a farm recently purchased from Mrs. Schmoll's mother Mrs. Skinner.
A Meigs County inquiry into the Ohio Penitentiary disaster lists Sherman Arms as the sole Meigs County victim. The report notes Arms and John Kelley from West Virginia were sentenced for cow theft and sale, with Kelley reportedly dead though unconfirmed. Other Meigs prisoners named include O'Brien Norris Hawthorn Eblin Sapp Hickman Landaker, with varying injury statuses and local affiliations.
R W Finsterwald of Pomeroy and Rutland undertaker joined volunteers to help care for the dead of the Ohio Penitentiary fire and departed for Columbus Monday night. Ben Ewing, the other Pomeroy undertaker, could not go due to work Tuesday.
An important spring music event will be held at the Junior High School Auditorium in Pomeroy on Sunday evening April 27. The Chapel Choir of Capital University Columbus will perform with two local ties Miss Gertrude Hess niece of Mayor C J Hess and Miss Hilda Massar foster daughter of Mr and Mrs A A Massar of Pomeroy.
A meeting of the Meigs County Fish and Game Association executive committee will be held at the Courthouse this evening to finish plans for a fish banquet on the Pomeroy Gun Club Grounds on May 22. The event is of interest to local sportsmen.
The Home Missionary Society met Monday evening in the lecture room of Heath M. E. Church for its scheduled gathering and discussion.
The Ohio Penitentiary disaster kept residents awake across Meigs County as telephone lines near Pom eroy and Thomas Fork were moved to Zanesville. Fire blazed briefly in Pomeroy’s Meigs Dairy Building but was contained by locals before the fire company arrived.
On Arbor Day April 25 a tree will be planted in the State House grounds and nourished by soil from every county in the state. County Superintendent C. N. Wagner sent a cup of rich soil from the Court house rear to participate in the historical tree project after careful sifting to remove foreign substances.
While painting for Carl Sauvage at Naylors Run in Pomeroy, Joe Cook fell on Tuesday and sustained a fractured arm.
The Rev. A V C Skinner of the local Presbyterian Church returned to Middleport after attending a meeting of the Athens Presbytery in Amesville. President E B Bryan of Ohio University spoke on education and Dr Skinner gave the principal address on Foreign Missions while Amesville women provided meals for visitors.
A rabies diagnosis from Ohio State University labs confirmed a Mrs. Smith owned dog in Bedford Township. The animal bit cows and other livestock passing through Letart and Jividen farm near Racine before being killed by Clark Jividen. Mrs. Agnes Sales visits return to Youngstown and family arrangements follow.
Elbert Blower of Glouster is cited for high scholarship among 200 of 454 freshmen in Ohio State University's College of Engineering. The group posted classroom averages of 3.9 or higher on a 4.9 scale.
Thornville residents Mr and Mrs Lawrence Babbs with children visited Isaac Brooks. Zanesville guests Mr and Mrs Dave Roberts and children stayed with Mr and Mrs Dan Roberts. Bishopville and Glouster travelers joined Mr and Mrs James Milhear and others visiting Cleve Hook and Mrs Bell Inman hosted Akron and Columbus guests.
Mr and Mrs William Brown and Mr and Mrs John L Altman of Jacksonville attended the cantata Hosana at Somerset M E Church Sunday evening at 730 The chorus was directed by Miss Janette Brown of Jacksonville a music teacher at Somerset High School Miss Brown a graduate of Ohio University Athens
The Book and Motor Class will present a program at the Church of Christ meeting on Thursday April 23. A musical program is planned and refreshments will follow.
The 3 la Class of the M. H. Church will meet at the home of Mrs. Mary Lon on Main Street Thursday afternoon.
A class of 18 will graduate from Jacksonville Trimble High School at year end, with nine boys and nine girls. Commencement is May 14 in Trimble M E Church. baccalaureate is May 11 at 10:30 a.m. at Jacksonville M E Church. The senior banquet is May 1. operetta nights are May 6 and 7.
A telegram from Mrs. Paul E. Kemper says her husband Rev. Kemper underwent a goiter operation at White Cross Hospital in Columbus on Tuesday and is reported to be getting along nicely. He is pastor of the M. E. Church in Glouster.
The Legion Auxiliary met to plan the annual Poppy Sale around Memorial Day. Several local residents traveled to Columbus for visits and conventions, with arrangements for family visits and club events noted.
Belated reports from Athens reveal that 26 crew members of the Italian tanker Friderico Carolo, a £ 3 class vessel, were drowned in a sea disaster last Saturday.
Doanville School was named winner in a song contest sponsored by Mrs Josephine Marshall music supervisor assisted by teachers and boards of education in Athens and York Townships and Happy Hollow Special Honorable mention went to Oak Grove and the Children's Home Helen McClaflin member of the Ohio University School of Music faculty was the judge The contest was held Tuesday afternoon at the high school auditorium in Chauncey Seven elementary schools participated Children’s Home Factory Kimberly New
About 200 children from Fioodwood Oak Grove Devonville and Happy Hollow performed in a spring singing contest. Harry Eldridge led In Springtime in the soprano alto arrangement as contest number. Student Anna Jacoby from the Factory School played a piano solo and pupils from the Children’s Home sang specialty pieces. The event closed with all contestants singing the contest number. A two part singing contest was among the first sponsored for elementary schools, with another planned next year.
Charters of the Belleville and Westville sub-districts were revoked by United Mine Workers leader John L. Lewis as he continues a campaign against miners rebels. Provisional officers were named to take over duties until officers are tried before an executive board.
An appeal was filed today in the Court of Appeals from the conviction of E C McGaw state prohibition agent. The charge stemmed from a shooting incident at a Mansfield soft drink establishment.
An ad claims mixing Radox with one gallon of water makes a footbath that after a few nights soaks lifts corns callouses and hard skin. It asserts salts penetrate to the root, easing pain and refreshing tired feet, and promotes Meek Drug Co. as a retailer.
A Fireco West Virginia man reports severe rheumatism and neuritis left him unable to raise his arms. After trying various treatments, six bottles of Orange Brand Tonic and Nuggets restored full use, with the ad promoting the product as a blood purifier sold at Lash's Drug Store and others.
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