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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1929
Page
2
POMEROY Aug 2 The Ohio Fuel Supply Company has informed gas consumers that August bills will be issued under the June franchise which the village council later rescinded The council plans a temporary injunction to halt collection of advanced gas rates leading to court action and likely further lawing.
In WANTS MONEY POMEROY Aug 2 Magistrate French will hear the case of John E Lyons against Cart smith Middleport and John Spires Rutland. Lyons seeks to recover an alleged wager on the outcome of the Second ward Republican Central Committeeman election. Defendants are stakeholders who refuse to surrender the money while the election remains contested.
Attorney and Mrs. Emmett Peoples return from a thousand mile northern fishing trip with 26 five pound fish. They distributed the fish to friends and kept a thousand mosquito bites as souvenirs.
A telegram from Rochester Pa reports the death of George Sayre who was decapitated in the machinery of a government dredge boat on which he worked. He had long resided in Apple Grove and trained birds and dogs for local clients. The body was shipped home to Pomeroy for funeral services scheduled for Saturday.
Mr Clarence Inherst of Stone Creek Ohio reports two years of stomach trouble and flu related weakness improved by Konjola. He weighs back to normal, gains strength, and praises the medicine. It is sold at McKee Drug Store in Athens and by dealers in nearby towns.
Junior Hale, about 22, lies semiconscious in Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after being shot near Rutland Wednesday. Prosecutors seek clarity on the incident at the old Brown farm where Leo Clouse shot Hale, who alleges no prior trouble with Clouse over a stolen still.
Carl Duckworth, backed by the Russell-Bradbury wing of the Republican County Central Committee, was appointed to the Meigs County Board of Elections. He will be sworn in immediately, ending a lengthy factional contest with Frank M. Fugate of Pomeroy as the opposing candidate.
Aug 2 there has been much talk about Columbus gas well in the yard of Captain Tom Jones in Middleport. The Governor halted the Cooper cavalcade passing the Jones home to view the yard and floral display before continuing to Gallipolis for the festivities that night.
Pat Baldwin and Paul McClure launched their canoe yesterday and headed down the river toward the Blue Grass region. They plan to camp along the way.
Middleport residents gathered at Mrs. William Hoffmans Grant Street home Wednesday for Billie Hoffmans tenth birthday anniversary with family and friends attending the small party.
August report shows July as banner month with 83 new passenger cars and 17 trucks sold, totaling 100 new vehicles. Used car transactions reached 307, reflecting strong market activity in Meigs County.
Rutland prepares to host county teachers for August 19 23 Institute. Dr M P Shawkey of Marshall College and Ruth Bohache are among foreign participants. The Nine Ninth Grade commencement follows Friday afternoon with certificates to be distributed.
Hart Stanbery of the Pomeroy National Bank has obtained a dozen Civil War photographs taken in the Kanawha Valley area around Fourth West Virginia Infantry camp sites. Key views include a four-soldier picket post and the Gauley River bridge, later burned, with substitutes also burned. The collection links to Judge P. B. Stanbery and to Henry Stanbery, tying to Andrew Johnson impeachment history.
A local school band directed by Mr. Vanover played Wednesday for Governor Cooper. The community notes several residents’ health and travel updates including George Whittington who was stricken with summer flu and relieved at Pt. Pleasant, Mrs. ura Dare visiting Parkersburg, and others from Huntington to Columbus visiting family. Church services in Middleport are canceled except for Church of Christ next Sunday.
Middleport August 2 Mr and Mrs John Chapman formerly wed here where he was employed by the Champion Company announce the birth of a son.
Coolville resident David Burton, 22, is held after alleged break in near Alfred, where $25 cash and a suit were reportedly taken. Burton denies the theft and claims he was en route between Coolville and Mason City. Local magistrates plan a hearing Friday or Saturday.
Mrs Errett Russell and Miss Naomi Owens, trained at Holzer Hospital, passed the State Board nursing examination. Miss Owens will continue nursing work at Holzer and Mrs Russell will undertake special nursing duties.
Middleport on Aug 2 with Mrs Winifred Skidmore hosting a Five Hundred Club evening. Dinner at six followed by prizes: club winners Mrs BD Sullivan and Mrs Alfred Elberfeld, guest prize to Mrs Ben Fultz.
Arthur Nutt of Buffalo a Curtiss engineer pilot was severely injured when his Curtiss Robin monoplane collided with William Warrick's plane as Warrick landed. Nutt ignored wind warnings and took off, officials said. Nutt, en route to St. Louis, is a noted designer of airplane motors.
Grover A. Whalen, New York City police commissioner, announces a Cop College opening in September across from police headquarters. The program will offer detective training, traffic administration, horsemanship, and legal instruction to prepare officers for smarter crime and to curb graft with pay raises and merit rewards.
Mrs. Marian Benedict Grapes of Rutland, born September 6, 1845, will turn eighty five in October. She married James Grapes in 1877 and had four children Nellie Ethel Weldon and a son who died young. Widowed in 1908, she is remembered as a carpet weaver, cheese maker and devoted stepmother with a cheerful nature.
Mrs Arthur Hunter of Athens received word Friday of the death of Mrs Sarah Reynolds Mesmer 78 at her Columbus home Thursday night She formerly lived in Athens County leaving a second husband two daughters and one granddaughter Funeral services set for Sunday at 1 pm in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Hebbardsville
John Drazorgowski aged nine drowned near his Toledo home when he lost balance while fording a creek on a plank. Rescue attempts failed as the boy slipped into the water. The incident occurred in the creek close to his residence.
The August number of the Ohio Social Science Journal distributed by the Division of Social Sciences at Ohio University includes articles on state government by Harvey Walker and taxation property classifications by Homer V. Cherrington, plus pieces on Yugoslavia, geography, reminiscences, book reviews, and notes, with editors S. H. Bing C. E. Cooper W. S. Gamertsfelder and W. C. Harris as managing editor.
Twenty suspects have been rounded up in connection with the murder of Leo Klein a freelance investigator and paid informer for federal agents whose body was found in a tarpaulin in the trunk of a Ford sedan at Mario Bell's driveway. He had been shot and beaten.
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