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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1925
Page
2
The Woman's Music club in Pomeroy held its final meeting of the calendar year with an entertainment program at the Pomeroy Baptist church. Members and guests served refreshments as hosts and hostesses circulated among attendees.
Pomeroy April 29 local officials schedule a hearing this afternoon for four suspects held in the county jail. They are tied to the Pitts ah Mining company store robbery at Bark Hollow about a month ago.
In PomeroyApril 29 the Evangelical church Sunday school class taught by Mrs Earl Stenbach honored a recent bride Mrs Roland Price. A sherbet set was given as a gift after a musical program and literary segment followed by refreshments.
POMEROY April 29 Gilbert Eeler of the First Ward was taken into custody Tuesday and detained with the other suspects for the robbery of the Pittsburgh company store at Dark Hollow.
Isabelle Frazier files for divorce alleging her husband Thomas Frazier squandered money on liquor and failed to provide basic necessities. The complaint cites marital strain and financial impropriety as grounds for dissolution.
April 29 report notes a poultry thief fed the brooder farm owned by H. W. Walter in Gallia County. About 300 White Leghorn chicks averaging three to four weeks old were taken, indicating a practiced poultry thief with knowledge of the operation.
Sheriff Mills and deputies of Gallia County have been unable to secure a definite clue so far regarding the theft or loss of the choice breeding stock birds valued at $1 each.
Twenty five Lancaster Kiwanis members attended and conducted the Tuesday program in Pomroy with Judge C. E. Peoples delivering the constitutional address. Local Kiwanis members filled the rest of the program as visitors from Pomroy Middleport plan a July return visit to Lancaster.
Revival services in Pomeroy at the Bradford church have drawn large crowds for ten days. Evangelist William Mart Miller of Newport Kentucky has preached powerful sermons nightly, and the meetings end Wednesday night. Miller will present an illustrated lecture Thursday on Worlds in the Making.
A series of revival meetings will start next Sunday and be led by Evangelist Miller. The event aims to draw attendees from the community and provide spiritual services over several sessions.
Chauncey high school seniors announce the class play As a Woman Thinketh to be staged May 1 and 2 at the high school auditorium. Mrs Etta Miller coaches. Tickets are on sale. Cast includes Clara Bell George Thomas Kathryn Ryan Ireda Omen Myrtle Brown Alice Brewer Bernice Pritts John Law Mildred Coulson Ralph Wend Albert Smith Franklin Nye Virgil Webb Elmer Matson Herbert Wade and Albert Everett.
Mr and Mrs Ervin Channel at The Plains hosted Sunday honoring Mr and Mrs Vernor Hoisington of Athens and Mr and Mrs Charles Crabtree and their two children from The Plains.
Mrs. Hugh Nida of The Plains and her daughter Mrs. Homer McBrayer of Chauncey traveled to Pomeroy on Monday to attend the funeral of a relative.
Mrs. George W. Nye of Chauncey announces the birth of a daughter at their residence on Converse Street.
Chauncey figures Joe Cline Baby Cline George Cline and Jester Syx departed this week for Cleveland seeking employment.
Mrs Mintie Stalder is ill at her West Chauncey home. Joe Cline and two children with Mrs John Fink of Chauncey visited relatives at Circle Hill. Mrs William Cochran is ill at her Chauncey home. George Biggins of Chauncey and family travel to Chicago for a several weeks visit. Thomas Graham and his son return to Chauncey from Dayton with Mrs Perry Leffler and Elmer Katzenback. Mrs F J Saffell of Bucyrus, who stayed with J A Drake in Chauncey, returns home with Mr Drake. Mrs Allison Drake and her sons of Sharonville Ohio also spent Sunday in Chauncey with Mr Drake and Mrs Saffell.
An explosion and fire at the Boston Rubber Shoe varnish and cement building in Malden Mass wrecked the structure and endangered the main plant. Officials feared two workers may have died though two hours later they reported those inside were injured but escaped.
London reports Mrs Margar et Goetz known as Thelma Morgan was granted a divorce from motion picture actor Ronald Edward Goetz. Infidelity allegations were presented by Mrs Goetz's counsel.
The United States holds about a quarter of the world’s motorcycles and roughly four fifths of the world’s automobiles, highlighting a substantial concentration of vehicle ownership.
Athens County has exceeded its quota for the Citizens Military Training Camp at Camp Knox Kentucky by nearly 10 percent and continues accepting alternates. Fifty five applicants have been accepted including Willard L. Dean Athens Joe F Herrold Trimble Louis D McBride Nelsonville Earl E Michael Chauncey Carl K Nestor Coolville and Vernon P Simpson Millfield. Officials aim to close enrollment by May 15 with Indiana Ohio and Kentucky still short on recruits and West Virginia accepting alternates though over quota.
The Messenger reported late results showing Athens voters rejected the new City building project. Roger J. Jones and FE C. Woodworth awaited returns as sadness and regret spread by phone. Jones said council considered the plan for weeks and it remained a sound financial proposition but the measure failed. No future council action was announced.
Canaanville on Friday May 1 hosts a joint program by the Parent-Teacher Association high school and community. The day includes music an address on Community and Home a student program a PTA quilt sale athletic games and a high school vs alumni horse shoe pitching contest.
The Silk Association of Great Britain and Ireland adopts Rayon as the new name for the artificial silk replacing real silk in ties stockings and embroidered garments. Macclesfield, central to British silk, now processes four times more wood pulp than real silk.
About 100 men from Athens Washington Morgan Noble Monroe and Guernsey counties expected at a Boy Scout camp on Lake Chute May 22 23 and 24 for leadership training. Sessions include astronomy lecture by Professor Rea of Marietta College and camp crafts first aid life saving swimming bird lore and more led by Marietta College Ohio University Red Cross and other instructors.
The notice states attendees to religious services and map making camps will receive tents and meals, but each participant must bring three blankets a knife fork and spoons plates and bowls.
Alice Kline and others sue in Common Pleas to partition the estate of Robert Jackson who died intestate in July 1898. The estate includes land in Rome township and names Wayne W. Jackson and others as defendants.
Herman O. Nice, Trimble store keeper, faces two writs of attachment in Common Pleas court. The C. D. Shafer Co claims $959.98 owed and the F. C. Stedman Co claims $341.68.
Ten candidates initiated into Dhatel Raj temple Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan in the annual spring ceremony last night. Dokkies from Athens Logan Nelsonville Pomeroy Middleport Buchtel Rutland and Murray City attended the parade with about 150 in line. Amusement arose as a camel’s stuffed body was hauled along the street before a banque in Knights of Pythias hall. L F Hammond royal vizier of Logan gave the address to initiates.
In eastern Ohio mining decline reduces inmate numbers at the county infirmary. Superintendent Spencer Moon reports 131 people housed, with only a small portion being foreigners, a group linked to mining towns.
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