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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1927
Page
2
The Carthage Presbyterian church will hold its annual home coming Sunday August 28 at the church on U S Route 50 three miles south of Guyavilla. A special effort is underway to invite former members back for the occasion. The program will be announced later.
Jacob Scharf, a member of the Pomeroy Meigs Pioneer, dies Friday in Gallipolis hospital. Details are sparse as the report notes his passing and references a local incident causing a temporary detour for vehicles, with the route described as effective and in good condition.
Aug 13 in Pomeroy Jacob Le 68 an old Middleport resident died in Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after years away. The piece notes a visit by Mr and Mrs Scharf to Middleport to discuss land for a memorial gym and community hall by Mrs Sen nen of York City. Burial at Beech Grove cemetery Tuesday with funeral at Grace Episcopal church.
Pomeroy officials report a Western & Southern Office check up found $339 missing from the hold up of P. H. Turner on Wednesday evening. No trace of the robbers has been found as of Friday.
Pomeroy reports Kerrs Run Parent-Teacher association making thorough preparations for a community picnic at the Rockspringe fair grounds next Thursday, August 18. A program is being arranged by one of the area’s most active PT groups.
Paul Duffey, once of Pomeroy, drove a truck loaded with tomatoes to Bellaire via Letart Falls. He sold nearly all at 1 dollar per basket, with the rest at a lower price. He left Letart Falls at 6 pm and reached Bellaire by 6 pm the next day.
POMEROY Aug 12 The village council passed a resolution to move the Fourth ward hires and election house to another site to clear space for a new bridge. The frame building south of the street below Hecking Valley Found house was deemed a fire risk for the proposed bridge. POMEROY BRIEFS Local schools will open September 12 for nine months, lifting the high school ban due to last year’s shortened term. Miss Lucitle Leichenstetter Wren is visiting Dr Henry Stanbery of Cincinnati. Mrs Albert Lee and daughter return from a two week trip in New York City. Miss Rose Shea visits return from Nelsonville. Miss Louise Condee leaves for Charleston to visit her mother and father, A J Condee and wife.
Aug 18 dispatch from Pomeroy reports state and city crews with power shovels and motor fleets working daily to clear earth and stone from streets and streetcar tracks. Progress is slow and officials fear it may take months to make a makeshift pass and traffic remains hindered. Officials warn further trouble may arise from the nature of the site.
Pomeroy and Point Pleasant clash over bridge site advantages with age of towns cited. Work proceeds, core drillers search rock foundations while engineers verify joint fit. Point Pleasant older than Marietta, Cincinnati, and Gallipolis. Also brief items from Middleport on local deaths and visits. Shanghai reports wounded Nationalist troops flooding Nanking after major battle signaling Chinese war’s fiercest fighting to date.
Twenty five county auditors and boards of review from Athens, Montgomery, Morgan, Perry, Washington, Hocking counties will meet in the Athens courthouse next Wednesday at 10 30 a m on order of the state tax commission J Clyde Edmundson Athens county auditor announced Saturday The tax commission is conducting an experiment by holding group meetings in central points to discuss state taxation problems and to get closer to officials who apply the state tax laws.
Fred Lee Tom will headline a special musical program at Central Avenue M E Church tonight at 7 46. The First M E Sunday school class chorus will join to add variety with several selections and other musical numbers planned for a varied program.
Coroner Edward Cook of Hamilton reported meager clues in identifying a Gian who died by lying on the tracks of the C. H. & D. R. company four miles south of Hamilton last night. The incident is being investigated as a potential suicide.
A storm swept the area causing substantial damage from wind and flooding risk. Holsington, a few miles away, reported heavy damage from the windstorm as authorities warned of fresh flood danger.
Curwood the author suffers rapid heart weakening in Owosso Michigan. Doctor A R Drug of Detroit, Curwood's son in law, says if condition does not improve soon Curwood may not live more than a day.
Robert Edward Pirie, an American citizen, was kidnapped on his La Michilia ranch near Vicente Guerrero, Guerrero. He was released the same night after paying a 200 peso ransom. The State Department was advised.
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