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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1935
Page
7
A local program at Gloucester schools collects used text books for redistribution. Books will be gathered at school buildings on specified dates and times, with a passel of details about turning in old texts and receiving free books for the next term.
The Prank McCann Legion and the Leg set an annual Bottom Park gathering on River Street next Sunday at 1 PM in the Legion Building. Attendees should bring their own amusements and expect bus service options.
The Orpah Class of the M E Church elected officers for the year at the August meeting held at Maple Street home of Mrs Pauline Brown with Mrs Ghelia Bell assisting. New officers are President Rose Dennison Vice President Violet Richie Secretary Mabel Robinson Treasurer Fern Sadosky. A picnic is planned for Aug 26.
Engagement announced for Kathryn A. Wells daughter of Oakland C. Wells and Robert Bennie Hindman in Columbus. Hindman son of William S. Hindman, Hindman works as a State Highway Department inspector. both graduates of Ohio State University. Wedding set for Saturday September 21. Also notes government costs to educate a student at Annapolis and graduate a cadet at West Point.
Mr and Mrs John Mayer hosted four generations of relatives for a week at their North Second Avenue home. Two visitors stayed over the weekend including Henry Weiss and Mrs Lingan of St Paul and others from Michigan Ohio and Lorain. The four generations present were Mrs Fred Weiss Mrs John Mayer Mrs Gordon Gardner and Jean Gardner. The last visitors departed Wednesday marking the annual family gathering.
Members of the Woman's Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will meet Friday evening in the lecture room for their regular August session. Mrs. J. E. Harley leads the business, Mrs. C. T. Shumaker directs the devotional, with Mrs. E. G. Probst and Miss Anna Weed presenting on Missionary Personnel and China. Hostesses are Mrs. Sue Sayer, Mrs. John Mayer and Margaret Sayer.
Young residents ages 18 to 25 in Sunday Creek Valley are invited to form a booster group for the East Branch dam project. Secretary C E Hughes of Warner Conservation Association will speak at the American Legion Hall in Glouster on Friday at 7 30 PM and urge local delegates to join.
A large crowd attended the Meigs Grange Co Hall as Vinton County visitors and local groups gathered. Vernon Lewis and F Turner presented plans and degrees to members while Thelma Sny and Mrs Boggess were featured in the program.
A party from Hartville Ohio searched Meigs County for the birthplace of Ambrose Bierce the famed writer born in a log cabin on Horse Cave Creek Chester Township near Bashan Meigs County records do not show ownership of land by his family the cabin is long gone and no precise site is known Wil Van Gilder a Racine lockmaster and Bierce relative recalls the lack of contact from Bierce the reclusive author and his family history remain hazy despite later wealth in Akron and San Francisco.
David Matthews eldest son of Mr and Mrs F E Matthews was taken to McMillan Hospital in Charleston for an appendicitis operation. He has had frequent attacks and was advised to undergo surgery before school starts. He was accompanied by his parents.
POMEROY Mrs. and Mrs. Allen Hartley and two sons Kenneth and Robert of Union Avenue left Wednesday morning for a vacation through the Shenandoah Valley to Washington and other eastern points. Mrs. Wright McCroba and daughters Ann and Mary went to Columbus Wednesday to spend the balance of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Davis. Robert Hill Richwood will spend the weekend here with his parents-in-law Mr. and Mrs. George Hobstetter of Rose Hill and will be accompanied home Sunday by his wife and children. Mr. and Mrs John Hill accompanied their son to Columbus and visited at the home of Mrs. Virgie Hartley of Rose Hill. Members of the Mary Martha League held a potluck dinner at the Presbyterian Church. the picnic was canceled due to bad weather. Mr. and Mrs John Chase returned to their home after a visit with Mr and Mrs William Waters and family Columbus. Mrs. Nannie McCarty has returned to Columbus after staying with her mother Mrs Inez Gilmore at the home of Mrs Lene Huber.
Meigs County probate court issued several marriage licenses in Pomeroy and Racine. Couples include Douglas Circle and Elsie Ours, James Romine and Ruth Karns, Alvin Cole and Ethel Barnhart, and Howard Swindell and Clara Mae Perry. A son was born Friday at Grant Hospital to Bernard Swisher and Grace Dunnett. Colds are said to cost Britain about 20 million pounds annually in working time.
Meigs County fans will see two Sunday games with Middleport Firemen's Club facing Glouster and Chester Ball Club meeting Murray City Eagles. Last Sunday Glouster gave a thrilling defeat, while Murray City Eagles dropped a 2 to 1 15 inning decision to Marietta Chamber of Commerce Club.
Saltman fulfilled worthless checks and costs in Justice of Peace Leo Miliser's court and was released from Gallia County jail. He was sought since March after passing checks on a McKeesport bank to three Gallia County produce concerns and was apprehended by Athens County Sheriff Charles Stratton, identified by managers of two defrauded firms.
In Atlanta, Georgia, licenses for horsedrawn public drugs have fallen from 400 to just one over ten years, reflecting a dramatic drop in such services and regulatory activity.
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