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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1935
Page
3
District site notes draft submitted to the bureau and the need to broaden relief roles in many towns and counties. Officials seek to acquaint trustees and ensure as many relief recipients as possible are supported to ease fiscal strain and avoid project delays.
Visiting party Margaret Smith and Shane bicycled on Prday to attend a function held by D. E. Chase of the Highway Department. The event occurred in the northern part of BY with Guy Ellis and a business group from Pomona and Columbia attending Saturday. Harrisonville residents advised precautions as a rear car incident drew attention.
Chesterhill postmaster Hettie Woodward will leave Sunday on a two week western tour visiting Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks Pikes Peak Colorado Springs and several cities before returning via Kansas City and St Louis. Assistant postmaster Carrie Snyder and clerk Murray Carr will oversee the Chesterhill post office in her absence.
Miss D A Dunfee 81 lifelong resident dies at her Torch home Thursday evening. Survived by two brothers D A Dunfee Parkersburg and H I Dunfee Torch plus several nephews and nieces. Funeral at Baptist Church Saturday morning with burial in local cemetery. Highway crews prep U S 50 resurfacing from Washington County line west through village. Various visitors and society activities noted.
Funeral services for William G. Doepping a retired Gallipolis shoe merchant who took his life Saturday will be held Tuesday at 2 p m from his late residence 50 Grace Street with Rev H H Wilbur of Grace E Church officiating.
Ohio State University coach Francia A. Schmidt has notified Pomeroy youths William Dye and Fred Crow to report for fall football practice. The players are among 56 candidates set to join the Buckeyes on Sept. 10, reporting 20 days before the term opens.
Deputy Hank Young jailed four people on intoxication charges in Meigs County Saturday night. Elmer Goodwin of Pomeroy faces a driving while intoxicated charge, Emma Fisher of Middleport arrested for intoxication, Di Bennett of Rutland held on assault and battery, and Tom Willis of Antiquity taken into custody on intoxication charges.
POMEROY Local Modern Woodmen members plan the annual picnic on Sunday August 11 at the Athens County Fairgrounds. District manager H 2 Pickett announced many Meigs County members families and friends will attend. Camps should bring music and a major Frank Brothers will supervise uniform teams. An speaker is to address the gathering and an amplifying system will be installed with contests for prize winnings.
Robert Lohse has been ill at his home on Second Avenue. Miss Anna Carroll and Miss Ethel Mattox visited friends in Charleston. Mrs. Margaret Boice and daughter Betty are in Columbus to visit Miss Jess Johnston. Miss Mary Lou McMaster is in Cleveland visiting Miss Doris Stanton. O C Greenlee and wife attended a birthday in Arbuckle West Virginia and returned home. Mrs. Frank Rice and daughter returned to Toledo after visiting Edward Jenkins and relatives. Dc W Snider and three children returned from Connersville Indiana. Mrs. Fred Russell of Toledo has been here with son Austen and her mother. Mr. and Mrs. John Fisher of Pt Pleasant West Virginia were guests of C O Fisher. Dr. C H Horden and children visited relatives G H Stansbury and R H Horden. Lawrence Horden and family of Girard are here visiting his parents.
Fifty two Communist prisoners in Jerusalem and Haifa jails began a hunger strike named Joff on Sunday. The action targets authorities over conditions and detention terms.
In Middleport voters focus on who will coach the Yellow Jackets football team as Clyde Battin’s successor looms. With eight days until August primaries, candidates plead for attention amid football fan noise and a bid to the board of education to hire a coach before the polls open.
Middleport residents including Mr and Mrs Herman Bailey and others traveled to Camp Molly Lomnan near Portsmouth on Sunday returning with nine accompanying Girl Scouts who spent the prior week at the camp. Mrs G R McGhee and Marilyn of Marion Va visited Mrs C L Brooks. Members attended the Matlack Osborn reunion in Matlack Grove Long Bottom. Herman Mattox and Lester Byers, recently returned from a western trip, found work on a farm near Weaverville Iowa. Miss Sara Jones, back from Greenfield, plans a short visit with Capt and Mrs J E Hull. Dorcas Society meeting at Baptist Church led by Mrs Florence Bush with a covered dish dinner at 6:90.
Miss Harriet Keiser of Minersville and William Dillard of Middleport were married Saturday night at 11 o clock in the Church of Christ parsonage by Rev F I Gardner. The newlyweds will make a home in Middleport in September after a stay with the bride’s parents in Minersville.
Three persons drowned in Muskegon Lake when the ewenl from the steamer Illinois overturned their small crossing boat as it passed through the channel.
Alfred Gregg of Albany Route 3 and Miss Millie Cowen of Albany Route 2 were married Saturday morning in a Security Bank Building office ceremony conducted by Magistrate T R Bennett.
Mrs. Nettie Novak, 9, perishes in a home blast at Biseny Sunday when a kerosene stove explodes. Her death adds to a tragic Hutchinson incident timeline.
Sheriff Roscoe O Fowler says a string of six Meigs County thefts last May from stores and filling stations were cleared. Six suspects were rounded up with two in the penitentiary, two in Meigs County Jail, one arraigned, and one held on bond as investigators linked burglaries to a single gang aided by local tips.
Howard Hughes of Columbus sold his Main Street residence to Mrs. Margaret Durst and plans to buy an eight acre riverfront plot with a cottage at Long Bottom for a summer home. In Middleport, the Union Bible Class for men and boys meets Aug. 6 at First Baptist Church with Rev. Kreager teaching on Ephesians chapter 3.
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