Development of Meigs County as Vacation Camp Center Urged
Discussion among Finsterwald Webster and other Meigs County residents proposed turning the Ohio River area into a vacation camp center. They noted many cottages could attract campers, generate revenue per season, and benefit farmers from Portland Great Bend and Letart with local truck produce sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meigs County
Finsterwald
Viland R
Ohio
Muskingum
Portland
Great Bend
Letart
Labor Day in Pomeroy Set as All-Day Town Event
Plans for a Labor Day celebration in Pomeroy are announced by the Booster Club of the Odd Fellows Lodge. An all-day street festival features entertainment and an open popularity contest for women with prizes including a diamond ring for first place. Rules available at New York Clothing House.
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Pomeroy
Booster Club
The
Odd Fellows Lodge
New York
Man Claims Sleep Record After Morning Gasoline Deal
C W Jones, owner of a Pomeroy tourist camp, says a traveling salesman woke him at 4 30 am six months ago to buy gasoline with a twenty dollar bill he could not change. The salesman vowed not to sleep until paying, and Jones reports six months of wakefulness. He admits he has also lost sleep over the tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
C. W. Jones
Here
Jones
Chester Township Picnic Planned at Wills Grove
The Chester Township Sunday School group announces the annual picnic set for Saturday August 12 at Wills Grove Flat Woods. The all day event starts 10 AM with a program and speaker addresses, followed by a basket dinner at noon. Ladies Aid Society serves refreshments. public invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pombroy
Chester Township
Wills’ Grove
Flat Woods
D. E. Spencer
Ladies Aid Society of
Piecnickers
Godfrey Announces Bounty Garden in Pomeroy
Peter Godfrey says his garden proves his claim to have the town’s best garden. He has dug a good potato crop and planted 250 extra plants with 300 more planned. He offers greens to anyone hungry this fall at his place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Peter Godfrey
Full Cooperation in NRA Plan Expected in Pom eroy
Pomeroy Aug 2 A number of local merchants plan to cooperate fully with the national recovery program though adoption by employers is delayed. Favorable comments come from men and women across the community. The Messenger will publish the list of employers who signed the recovery code tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NRA
Pomeroy
Pomeroy Bend
the Messenger
Middleport Social Roundup Includes Campers and Visits
Aug 2 Middleport notes report Mrs C W Clark and daughter Carla joining Downing Hennesy campers for dinner at Calico Camp. Colleagues and relatives from Columbus and Circleville visit, while Mrs Yountz is buried in Tippecanoe City. Kathryn Hetteseimer improves after appendicitis. Henry Eichinger returns home from Circleville visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport
C. W. Clark
Carla
J. A. Kent
Elizabeth Hartinger
C. O. Fisher
Calico Camp
Downing-Hennesy
John Gordon
Columbus
Paul Gordon
Gallipolis
Dan Gordon
Yountz
Masonic Lodge
Smith
Coolville
Cheatham Reunion Held In Middleport For First Family Gathering
The Cheatham family held its first reunion Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Cheatham on Brownell Avenue. Attendees decided to hold an annual gathering, but no date or location for next year was set. Participants included Mrs. W. A. Monroe and others from West Virginia towns Parkerburg Hartley WVa Rutland Racine and Middleport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middleport Middleport
Cheatham
William Cheatham
Brownell Avenue
W. A. Monroe
B. T. Beeson
Athey Monroe
Parkersburg
Mrs. Davis Returns Home From Columbus Assignment
Mrs. Emma Davis has returned to Middleport from Columbus where she served as house mother at Theta Phi Alpha Sorority. She will stay at her North Fourth Avenue and Walnut Street home until late September. Also visiting are Miss Betty Flower who leaves for Rockland to visit relatives, and Miss Dorothy Caldwell with Mrs. Ture of Marysville, Tenn.
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Middleport
Emma Davis
Columbus
Theta Phi Alpha Sorority
North Fourth Avenue
Walnut Street
Betty Flower
R. L. Smith
Grant Street
Rockland
Marietta
Dorothy Caldwell
Ture
Marysville
Tenn
A. A. Dillard
Gravel Hill
Loyal Women’s Class to Meet at Pomeroy Church
The Loyal Women's Class of the Pomeroy Church of Christ will hold its regular monthly business and social meeting in the church social rooms Thursday evening at 7 30. Entertainment committee members are Mrs. John Leifheit Jr Mrs. Norris Davis and Mrs. Robert Peoples.
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Pomeroy
Loyal Women's
Essex Mines Busy Pomeroy Coal Crews Continue Grading
Miners at Essex Coal Company operations in Meigs County keep daily schedules. Mine No 7% with 150 workers and Mine No 75 with 300 workers have been on the work list every day, company officials said.
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Pomeroy
Essex Coal Company
Meigs County
Two Arrests After Story of Cribbing Mother and Daughter
In POMEROY on August 2 two Thomas Fork residents face jail after a whipping incident involving a mother and her daughter Kathryn Riffle 19 led to charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors. Mrs Charles Riffle was sentenced three months in county jail and David Smith received a 100 dollar fine plus three months workhouse with suspension on payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Thomas Fork
Charles Biffle
David Smith
Kathryn Riffle
Charles Riffle
Sheriff's Office
Riffle
Smith
Neighbors Aid Albany Resident Released From Hospital
Harold Peacock, six weeks in Sheltering Arms Hospital, returned home improved. Twenty neighbors helped by haying twelve acres at his place. Also notes births and community events including church socials and visiting relatives in Albany and nearby towns.
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Albany
Harold Peacock
Sheltering Arms Hospital
George Bowen
J. E. Arbaugh
J. A. Arbaugh
Ed Rickey
Emmett Wingett
Bart Allen
Jim Dickson
Fred Elliott
John West
Ben Dorsey
Neil Dickson
Carroll Elliott
Arthur Lewellen
Charles Bodkin
Aldo Minear
George Collins
Lee Eliott
W. E. Battrell
W. E. Crabtree
Burton Elliott
James B. Ailes
Evelyn Russell
Coal City
Ailes
A. F. Russell
Albany High School
Aged Man Dies Lewis W Harding 79
Funeral services for Lewis W Harding 79 of Kananga were held at Poplar Ridge Church. He died Monday afternoon after a year of illness and lived most of his life in Cheshire Township. With his wife he would have marked sixty years of marriage on September 5. He leaves widow three children Ross Harding Bertha Mageline Minnie Turner and one brother J Hale Harding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis W. Harding
Poplar Ridge
Gallipolis
Kananga
Bolton
Rutland
Cheshire Township
Ross Harding
Bertha Mageline
Pataskala
Minnie Turner
Williamsport
J. Hale Harding
Kanauga
Relief Needs Drop in Jackson County After New Deal Pickup
Gallipolis reports relief needs in Jackson County reduced to 2000 families since the industrial pickup. H M Spang relief director said 2500 had been on relief earlier. All relief is now work relief and RF C funds require exhausting public utility excise tax funds and the one tenth of one percent tax under the Pringle Roberts bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Jackson County
H. M. Spang
Pringle-Roberts
Holzer Hospital Notes Admits Several in Gallipolis Area
Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis reports admissions for Tuesday including Lucille Saunders for a tonsil operation Mrs Hershel Pope for treatment Mrs Dale Saunders for treatment Mary Alice Dewitt age 11 of Gallipolis treated for dog bite and Mrs B F Sommer of Leon West Virginia observed. Dismissals include Mrs Ray ODat fer and son of Wellston C A Andrews of Jackson and Mrs Charles Lambert of Middleport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Lucille Saunders
Hershel Pope
Wellston
Dale Saunders
Gallia
Mary Alice Dewitt
Gallipolis A. D
B. F. Sommer
Leon
W. Va
Ray O'Datfer
C. A. Andrews
Jackson
Charles Lambert
Middleport
Packet Queen City Delayed. Tiller Line Repaired at Gallipolis
The packet Queen City was laid up for over an hour at Gallipolis on Tuesday afternoon to repair a broken tiller line. It carried a good freight load but a light passenger list on the up trip. Allegheny, of the American Barge Line, hauled four barges of steel for Memphis. Reliance moved up the Kanawha River to Charleston to deliver gasoline and planned to return to Parkersburg to take a load to Huntington. Ida Mae, up the Kanawha, towed the Water Queen after a tour of the upper Ohio and Monongahela rivers. Old Reliance departed the mouth of the Kanawha with the Showboat Golden Rod in tow.
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Gallipolis
Queen City
Allegheny
Memphis
Reliance
Kanawha River
Charleston
Parkersburg
Huntington
Ida Mae
Water Queen
Ohio River
Monongahela River
Old Reliance
Golden Rod
Would Be Citizen Gallipolis Woman Applies for Citizenship
Gallipolis August 2 Mrs Dora Bastiani 36 wife of Orestes Bastiani filed for naturalization with Clerk of Courts Margaret McCormick. Born in Lucca Italy she married in 1913 and came to the United States in 1920 entering from Canada at Buffalo NY. Her husband served with a Canadian regiment in World War I and she has one son Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Dora Bastiani
Orestes Bastiana
Margaret McCormick
Lucca
Italy
Bastiani
Canada
Buffalo
N. Y
Lawrence
Plea Guilty Fines in Gallipolis Disorderly Conduct
Clyde Cornell pled guilty before Mayor A J Stormont to disorderly conduct and resisting an officer in Gallipolis on Tuesday. He was fined $15 plus costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Clyde Cornell
A J. Stormont
Absent Voter Ballots Not Yet Requested in Gallipolis
Gallipolis reports no applications for absent voter's ballots as municipal primary nears. Election board clerk George N. Bolies confirms no requests filed to date.
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Gallipolis
George N. Bolies
Election Board
Young Gallipolis Grocer’s Son Missing Likely River Drowning
Robert Thabet 22, part owner of a Gallipolis grocery, disappeared after leaving his boat near the Ohio River shore opposite City Park Tuesday. Witnesses saw his boat and clothes but none saw him enter the water. family fear a drowning. He graduated from Gallia Academy in 1928 and leaves parents two brothers and four sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Robert Thabet
William Thabet
Grape and Third Streets
Ohio River
West Virginia
Thabet
Gallipolis Ferry
W. Va
Harold Haskins
Bert Hanson
James O'Brien
Thabe
Helen
Gallia Academy High School
Mary
Vanita
Ruth
Eddie
Millard
Cleveland
Point Pleas
Gallipolis Retailers Abide by NRA Codes
Retailers meeting at the Gallia County Courthouse agreed to support the NRA program and await trade codes before final action. Signers to the NRA certificate of compliance in Gallipolis doubled to 100 by Wednesday morning, with near full representation in some business lines. Barbers set working hours and uniform service prices.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
NRA
Christine Holzer Presented in Piano Recital
Miss Christine Holzer daughter of Dr and Mrs C F Holzer was presented in a piano recital by her teacher Janet M Batley at Grace M E Church Tuesday night Her program included Bach Prelude and Fugue in F Op 28 Beethoven Prelude Op 28 No 21 Chopin Etude Op 10 No 5 Chopin Warum Schumann The Eagle March Wind Mammy s Lullaby Pfefferkorn Old Irish Jig Sowerby Londonderry Air Grainger Concerto in G Mendelssohn
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Christine Holzer
C. FE. Holzer
Janet M. Batley
Grace M. EB. Church
Beethoven
Chopin
Warum
Schumann
Eagle
McDowell
Mammy
Pfefferkorn
Sowerby
Grainger
Mendelssohn
Increased coal shipments over Ka nauga bridge shift daily
Daily coal hauled over the K M bridge across the Ohio River at KanaUga ranges from 375 to 480 cars, the highest daily figure in over a year, according to station agent A W Pullens in Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Kanauga
A. W. Pullens
James Hix Released After Complaint Dismissal
James Hix 81 of Poplar Ridge was freed from Gallia County Jail after his son dropped the complaint yesterday.
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Gallipolis
James Hix
Poplar Ridge
Gallia County
Kanauga Personal News Roundup
Kanauga Aug 2 report lists Harry Vickers on vacation from Steamer Renance. Visits by Raymond Shoe and George Auncha of West Richfield to the Rogers and Vance families. A. E. Vance's relatives visited last week. Gordon Carney back from Charleston after a week with J. M. Carney. Lottie Johnson of Charleston visiting J. M. Carney family for three weeks. Hershel West at Albany for C&O Railroad work. Louise Johnson treated at Holzer Hospital then returned home. Olive Withee remains ill at home. Wilbur Unree and wife back from visit to Hogsett. Walter Butler of Huntington visited Saturday. Lee Brookhart family moved to Pt. Pleasant. Brady Shaw family moved into home bought from Wilbur Love. Norma Jean Raike turned six. party with 20 guests and refreshments after games.
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Kanauga
Harry Vickers
Raymond Shoe
George Auncha
West Richfield, C
C. B. Rogers
Earl Vance
Parkersburg
A. E. Vance
Gordon Carney
Charleston
J. M. Carney
Lottie Johnson
Hershel West
Albany
Louise Johnson
Holzer Hospital
Olive Withee
Wilbur Unree
Mr. Withers
Hogsett
W. Va
Walter Butler
Huntington
Lee Brookhart
Pt. Pleasant
Brady Shaw
Wilbur Love and
Norma Jean Raike
John Raike
All Farmers Welcome At Carpenter Outing
Carpenter Ohio August 4 event invites all farm families from Meigs Athens Vinton Gallia and surrounding counties to a day of recreation and speaking. Main speakers include Walter Kirk state Grange Master and M A Bachtel who will lead farm tours. Columbus Grange baseball team challenges the outing winner with teams from two other granges for a morning game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bachtel
Carpenter
Columbus Grange
Marriage License Issued to Spiers and Kibben
Judge J S Clark issued a marriage license Tuesday to Earl D Spiers a 45 year old receiving clerk of Columbus and Kathryn Kibben 33 of Vinton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
J. S. Clark
Earl D. Spiers
Columbus
Kathryn Kibben
Vinton
July Auto Sales At 86 Percent Of June Total
Gallipolis reports July new car sales at about 86 percent of June totals. Clerk Mrs Margaret McCormick records 28 bills of sale including 25 passenger vehicles and three trucks. June had 32 new bills, while July 1932 saw 28 recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Mra
Margaret McCormick
Edith White files for divorce in Gallipolis
Edith White sues Edger White for divorce on adultery grounds citing a marriage on August 23, 1926 and a shared child. She seeks alimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Edith White
Edger White
Ned Hamilton Rejoins Towboat Crew After Long Unemployment
Ned Hamilton of Gallipolis was hired Tuesday as a deckhand on the Towboat Standard, operated by Standard Oil Company, marking his return to work after nearly three years without employment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Ned Hamilton
Standard
Standard Oil Company
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Lawrence Morris
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Lancaster
Louise
Richard Souther
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Max Woodgerd
John Coughenour
Cecil Throckmorton
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Jay Cline
James Johnson
David and
Beth Dailey
Martha and
Peggy Knapp
Marion
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Troy
Darrell Moore
Baptist Church
Ellen
Lowell Chase
Ruth Wiggins
Florence Brown
Lawrance Morris
C. P. Pearman
Margaret
Mattie Bolin
Frost
Pomeroy Road
Mary Blake
Mary Stewart
Packet
Ant
Galepolis
John Harrieson
Ireland
Ernest Davis
Bob
Camel’s
Canterbury
Pine Street
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Maria Cowl
Fourth Avenue
First Baptist Church
Patsy
Beth
Darling
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Tane
B. A. Rolfe
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