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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1935
Page
3
Readers learn of extensive improvements on Pomeroy business properties. The project includes brick replacements, sidewalk work, new storefront facades, improved frontage, and internal redecorations aimed at modernizing the block. The changes touch grocers and local shops, with several storefronts undergoing porch and interior updates.
Fragmentary OCR notes reference the Auditor of Pomeroy and several counties including Jackson Meigs and Washington. It mentions daily averages and sums such as 474.2 and 19,908.34 with figures for Vinton and others, indicating a statewide accounting or occupancy context.
Mrs. George Voeller left for Columbus after a week with the Farmer family. Dr. and Mrs. Claude Sayre of Flint are visiting relatives. Mrs. Elia Crowell returns from a western trip to visit sisters before wintering in Oden Ill. Several residents travel to Buckeye Lake and Cincinnati for family gatherings and stays. Franklin Edwards shows improvement while others face illnesses. Local housing changes and a Sunrise Camp trip are noted.
Glouster Baseball team edged Middleport Volunteer Firemen 4-2 Sunday afternoon in Middleport. Glouster, which has had the Firemen's number this season, overcame a tough challenge to claim the win in a competitive game.
Flood danger to Ohio River towns has passed though high river stages damaged river bank gardens and creek bottom plots around Pomeroy. The August 1875 flood remains the last prior August inundation noted, with Main Street and Court Street later cited.
Middleport reports the infant son of Mr and Mrs Bruce Lloyd of Columbus died Friday at the grandparents home in Gallipolis. Funeral was Saturday at 4 pm with burial in Mound Hill Cemetery. Surviving are the parents and a second son. Attending from Middleport were Mrs E B Smith, Mrs Fred Whitlock, Mrs GC Schaaf, Mrs Fred Hoffman, Kathryn Hawkins and Hallie Zerkie.
Bethany Ridge sets August 18 for homecoming with Sunday School at 9 30 and afternoon services led by Rev D Vause Snyder of Tuppers Plains. Families requested to bring a picnic lunch. Rodney Petty and Carlton Barnhart with FFA toured Washington,D C. Neal Petty, seven, reportedly picked two and a half gallons of berries in one day.
Mr. and Mrs J A Hecox and Mrs Ann Lewis Jones with Miss Alvira Jones spent Sunday at Rock House near Logan for the Lewis family reunion. Prof O E Saunders presided and read a history of the Lewis family tracing roots to Wales since 1849. Ann Lewis arrived in 1850 and Janet Hecox joined her relatives for a Columbus visit planned for a week.
Mrs. Paul Daffy Dean waits for the stork as February nears. If a boy, she hopes for a star right handed pitcher like her husband. Dorothy Sandusky of Russellville Ark was crowned a beauty queen before marrying the St. Louis Cardinals pitcher last December.
Invitations go to county officials for a Springfield meeting on August 14 to discuss testing the Lawrence-Armbruster bill. The measure shifts motor vehicle revenues to retire highway bonds issued before 1935 and refunds pre paid assessments. It redefines allocation from 47 to 37 percent for counties, directing 10 percent savings to a road bond retirement fund. Opponents say it relieves heavily indebted counties at the expense of prudent ones.
Officers spent a quiet week end making few arrests on minor charges. Odgen DeWitt was jailed for probate court examination. An East Main Street wreck involved Orville Romine and Buck Grindhey. Douglas Davis was picked up for intoxication, as were Burnie Derry and Edgar Stanley, with no formal charges yet filed.
Members of the Church of Christ Woman's Missionary Society will hold an open meeting and picnic supper this evening on the Jerseyville Athens Road. Each member may bring one guest to the event.
Annual Courtney gathering met at Grange Hall Athens. Officers elected: Floya Courtney president Paul Courtney vice president Gilbert Courtney secretary Aliie Bingman treasurer. Two births one death reported. Next year’s reunion set for Columbus with Florence Pendergrass leading a program of songs recitations solos.
Mrs Earl Cole was removed to Mercy Hospital in Columbus Sunday where she will likely undergo a surgical operation. Mrs James E Love of West Millfield is in St Francis Hospital Columbus receiving treatment for her leg.
Chauncey Church of Christ hosted Rev A Long and his family this Sunday morning. Long, a former local minister, and his wife and children are spending vacation with Mrs Long's parents, Mr and Mrs George Harvey Nye on High Street.
Nine mines in the district are marked for work. The active list includes No 107 No 15 No 267 No 219 Poston No 6 Luhrig Hocking and Kimberly.
An important meeting of the Townsend Old Age Pension Club will be held tonight at 7 30 in the Chauncey high school building. Guss Graham is president and invites all interested parties to attend. Friendship Bible Class for Church of Christ to hold August class at Mr and Mrs Andriew Simpkins home with host Clifford Shafer and Leona Minlater leading devotions.
Chauncey residents report local wellness notes visits by Ellen Blackford and Jo Ann Stace plus travels of Leffler and Ferrell families. Chauncey and Millfield residents hosted relatives including Autumn Joy Stanley and George Williamson while Thomas Cruikshank of CCC Zaleski attended the Courtney reunion. A note cites that since the founding of the United States Congress has passed over 54 200 laws.
A tourist reported losing his wallet containing money and papers. Police searched a 10.1 mile route east of Calais toward Saint John along the St John St Stephen Highway.
An old one and a half story frame house on North Court Street is being dismantled under the direction of C A Daugherty automobile dealer. He will open a used car lot on the leased property from Samuel Warren with a 45 by 105 foot lot. J A Buck, former automobile factory representative, will operate the lot.
Mrs Lenna Clark Sealey aged 44 died at her home in Decatur Township Washington County after a long illness. Funeral at Antioch Church Tuesday at 2 pm conducted by Rev Snyder. Burial at White's Chapel. She leaves husband Wilmer and five children Gladys Mary Louie Pauline Carrie May Bernice all at home, mother Mrs Minta Montgomery Logan, two brothers Pearly and Ora Clark Athens Logan, half sister Faith Montgomery Logan and two half brothers Carl and Carlos Montgomery Logan.
W. M. Smith completes modernization of his grocery store on West Union Street with new equipment. A ten foot mechanically refrigerated meat display case, vegetable spray table, cooling box, service table, and new shelving for canned goods were installed. The fixtures are finished in black and white porcelain with chromium trimming.
Charles Barnhart Sr and Ethel Barnhart of Athens pleaded not guilty to assault and battery charges brought by John Warner in Magistrate Bennett s court. They were bound over to the grand jury under bonds of 100 each. John Resco of Millfield pleaded not guilty to assault on James Mackey and was placed under 100 bond.
James C Farmer, lecturer of the National Grange, will speak at a Grange picnic at the experiment farm in Carpenter Meiga County on Aug 24. He will address a series of district Grange meetings in Ohio that week. All district members are invited.
Columbus state FHA director John E Hare reported $543.20 million in insured mortgage loan applications filed during the first week of August across the district, reflecting ongoing activity in housing finance.
Cat owner Lew Stewart reports four Siamese kittens born joined at the berg at Niagara Falls. Stewart says the feline brood is unusual and the cat appears overwhelmed but healthy.
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