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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1938
Page
3
O F Cooper area supervisor of WPA announces a Meigs County adult education survey to determine needs. The project will be directed by A W Hoover. In Athens County, workers will conduct an occupational survey. statewide precedents vary by county.
Mrs Lawrence Hysell of Kerrs Run is seriously ill at her sister Mrs Norman Weyland’s Cole Street home after the birth of a stillborn son named Kenneth Henry Hysell. The infant was buried at Rocksprings Cemetery. French Canadians form about one third of Canada’s population.
Pomeroy will begin excavation within a week for a $46,000 post office on East Second Street beside the Carnegie Library. Brick and concrete with stone trim, two feet below street level basement, 900 cubic yards of dirt to be moved, and a side roadway for mail trucks. Contractor, Lee C. Palmer, cites 18 government projects from Pennsylvania to Texas and Ohio to Florida. subs to be let on portions. Property formerly housed two apartments moved across the street, purchased from Ebersbach interests.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Fadely hosted a six o’clock dinner and theater party on Tuesday evening August 9 at their Racine home for their daughter Allegra’s sixteenth birthday. The decor featured yellow blue and white with crystal flower bowls and blue candle tapers. Guests included Mary Lou Philson Bernice Harpold Naomi Johnson Burl Worthington Fay Worthington Alice Lama Dorothy Vangilder Ruth Loomis and Allegra Fadely.
Pomeroy social life includes two picnics on Lincoln Hill interrupted by a brief rain, with Federated Circle and Civic Club Auxiliary hosting at residents’ homes. Many residents travel to nearby towns, attend church events, and visit relatives. Adele Fowler hosts Epworth League, and a bridge club forms with Mrs Gallagher hosting. A church Lend A Hand fundraiser raises 50 dollars for a new furnace.
Mrs. Viola Crown of Malvern Ohio praises Vendol as the finest medicine she ever took after a year of constipation digestive trouble heartburn sour rises and nervous insomnia. She testimonials how Vendol relieved constipation and improved her health and urges others to try it.
Sold by most leading druggists. Highly recommended here by Athens Pharmacy, 7 N Court St, and in Nelsonville by Hickman’s Pharmacy. adv.
Mrs Purley Karr and Mrs Ted Scott sponsored a social evening at Mrs John Scott's Forest Run home. A miscellaneous shower honored Mrs Scott with gifts, a social hour, and refreshments.
Riverview Camp members attended the funeral of Mrs. Nevada Guthrie in Alfred, taking part in lodge services at the grave. Charity Council Daughters of America held a potluck supper after their meeting with two candidates successfully balloted for initiation. Local moves include residents relocating to Pomeroy and Columbus, illness updates, and a radio course completion. A marriage license was issued in Pomeroy for Neil Wallace Love and Edna Kathleen Cartwright.
Logan Henry Rheinscheid, a Washington Township farmer, is slowly recovering at Cherrington Hospital after an appendectomy performed four weeks ago. He hopes to leave within a week. Oregon growers use more than 9,600 cords of fuel wood annually to dry shops.
Meigs County 4-H members will be on air Monday at 8 20 PM on Station WOSU Columbus 570 kilocycles. The program features a day in camp with 4 H Club members and may include singing. Selected youths include Margaret Gill Salem Township Mary Harden Syracuse Pauline Alexander Letart Ruth Morgan Rock Springs Edith Kerns Faye Donovan Children’s Home and Roger Morgan Rock Springs.
Mrs Emma Jividen leaves with Mrs Clark Jividen and son Charles for Winchester Virginia to visit relatives and then Washington DC and other points of interest. George Simpson family and Mrs Clara Laughlin visit Chillicothe. Mrs Joe Beegle and daughter Shirley with Miss Luella Durst at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis. Emma Jividen and party attend Douglas family reunion at Downington. Racine Garden Club meets August 17 at 2 PM at Mrs F H Fadely. Ellen Couch and two children visit with Owen Watson family. Mrs J B French and Mrs Vina Gorslin visit for a week with Mrs Janie Gorslin.
The First Church of the Nazarene in Syracuse sells property to Abalone Moore for 200 dollars. The sale was approved and confirmed by the common pleas court after trustees filed proper application.
Owen Thomas, recovering from a skull fracture suffered in a July 30 automobile crash, was moved from Holzer Hospital to his home in Jackson.
Life saving and water safety courses will be conducted at the former ferry landing in Pomeroy by Red Cross instructor A W Hoover. Sessions are at 6 pm on Thursday and Friday evenings with about 25 participants signed up. The program blends shore study with practical in water life saving practice. Hoover notes local swimmers lack knowledge of proper strokes and approved life saving methods.
Allegra Fadley entertained at the Racine Dam with a Wednesday evening swimming party and wiener roast honoring houseguest Alice Louise Lama of Middleport and Dorothy Vangilder of Winfield West Virginia.
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