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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1936
Page
3
Meigs County officials receive letters from the State Civil Service Commission requesting lists of names of employees in their offices. The move aims to place non exempt workers on civil service lists following a recent Supreme Court decision. Most courthouse staff will remain unclassified as officers may appoint two assistants and one stenographer, with deputies also exempt.
Howard Hughes of the State Auditor's Office visited the Hughes summer home in Long Bottom Meigs County. He traveled from Columbus with his family via Gallipolis to attend a birthday for his blind 75 year old father. He noted pension checks to aged beneficiaries will arrive two weeks earlier due to a schedule quickening not tied to any payment increase.
Dr Frank Work of Charleston flew in to visit his aunt Mrs A D Howell on Lincoln Street. He landed on the river to start back to Charleston in less than 20 minutes. Mrs Howell, recently in poor health, is reported somewhat improved.
Middleton Port area reports Marjorie Ingles daughter of Mr and Mrs B H Ingles showing improvement after a critical illness. She is a patient at the Children's Hospital in Huntington. Mrs James Murray and family visited the hospital during a Huntington trip by the Murrays.
Pomeroy notes list local residents visiting relatives in Columbus Gallipolis and Cleveland. Illnesses include Reka Rehm and Henry Reibel with hospital and home care. Various trips include Michigan Newport News Norfolk Washington D C and Chicago with multiple family gatherings and a Smith reunion in Marietta.
Middleport residents hosted and visited relatives over the weekend. Teachers from Xenia’s Soldiers and Sailors Home, Virginia Blinn and Lyston Fultz, toured here, while the Chappelle Talbott party joined a motor trip to Hawk's Nest and Beckley. Regular Woman's Bible Class meets at First Baptist Church this evening.
Miss Anna Wood spent the weekend with Miss Geneva Johnson in Sciotoville. Several residents, including Luther Tracey from New Boston and Victor Fowler, visited Rio Grande. Aug 15 events include a Ladies' Aid picnic and a bean dinner at the college campus.
A Messenger report highlights Meigs County natives now living in Baltimore Fairfield County Buckeye Lake and nearby areas. It recalls 1848 teaching exams by Amanda Rossetter and lists former pupils including W A Race Judge Lynch Col E P Brooks and others. A separate Pomeroy case records a $150 cognovit note judgment against Howard Welch Mildred Welch and Jesse Douglas.
Social notes list visits and travels of McDougal residents and families. Names include Fred Connor family in Marietta, Kierns in Parkersburg, Steppe and Linscott families, LaFollett on business in Marietta, and Ruth Mathews with Naoma Nell Connor among others. Additional entries mention typhoid illness among Jack Kierns, visits to Strouds Run and Mt Hermon, and multiple family gatherings in Murray City and Chesterhill.
The Standard Bearers returned from the Lancaster Camp. Bert Fuller was home from Hillsboro for the weekend. Wanda Williams came back from Logan after visiting Mr and Mrs Guy Loomis. Mrs Catherine Mowery was buried at Plymouth Sunday. A shower was held for Mr and Mrs Elza Huntley on Tuesday evening. The 4 H Club will meet at the school Wednesday evening.
Relatives report Mrs. Jeff Anguish is in a Tulsa Oklahoma hospital for a surgical operation. Mr. and Mrs. Anguish, formerly of Middleport, planned to leave Tulsa next Saturday to visit with Mrs. Anguish's sisters Mrs. Elizabeth Hartinger and Mrs. Mary King in Middleport.
Norton Cotton 29 of Gallipolis and Bertha McQuaid 27 of Middleport obtained a marriage license in probate court and were married by Justice J W McCullough. A license was issued Saturday to Floyd Almon 29 of Charleston and Clara Jo Long 25 of Racine.
A severe windstorm in Plymouth, North Carolina, blew A. J. Riddle and his family awake most of the night not by singing but by strong winds. The next morning he cleared the yard of debris bucketfuls.
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