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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
6
Government experts in Japan report efforts to raise tobacco in Korea using seed from the United States. They describe a backhand stroke incident during a weekly activity that caused an elbow injury to a participant.
The Middleport P T A will hold its next Calendar meeting Friday August 27 at Heath M E church led by Mrs C E Erwin. The Ladies Bible class of Simpson church and families plan a basket picnic Thursday August 26 at Mrs Charles Ebersbachs Lincoln Hill grounds with music and ice cream.
Miss Amy Morehouse of Chicago will visit Pomeroy on August 30 to present lectures and demonstrations on Domestic Science at the Simpson M. E. church annex. Her prior Middleport chautauqua demonstrations drew about 85 women who praised her as the best Domestic Science teacher in their town.
Mr and Mrs John McQuigg of Lincoln Hill return from Los Angeles to Ohio by easy stage next week. M G White son Frank Rawley and Richard Reed from Middleport visit Columbus. Rev and Mrs R L Wilson and children depart for Ripley WV Baptist convention and to relatives. Mrs Alice Sidenstricker of Middleport travels to Columbus with daughter Selah visiting Rutland. The Kennedy family from Oklahoma and Mrs O A White of Oceola Iowa join Middleport visitors at R N Barnes home. Misses Rosamond and Katherine Dillard visit home during nursing duties in Columbus. DD W Hennessy and wife plan a Columbus short visit. Pomeroy Camp Fire girls camp near Hemlock Grove for two weeks. Mr and Mrs Homer Cooper depart for unspecified destination.
Today a trip includes Colum bus Cleveland and Cincinnati. Mr and Mrs Frank Foley returned home Tuesday after a Cincinnati visit. Rev Klein returned home after visiting Rev Stolzenberg. Miss Ma Morrison came home Tuesday from Racine. Miss Josephine Judy of Logan arrived Tuesday to visit her aunt Mrs Will O’Brien. Mrs Earl Lama and daughter of Nelsonville visit Mrs Kate Savage. Marie Horzenborn returned to Columbus yesterday. Mrs Fannie Simpson and grandson Harry Crosby of Newport Ky visited Mrs Louise Morse and returned home yesterday. Lucille Owens is recovering after tonsil removal. Mrs Byron Jay and baby spent yesterday with Mrs Adam Meley of Addison. Miss Ellen Smith and Eva Hall visiting the Smiths.
Mrs Herbert Lowery died Tuesday at her Sugar Run home after a lingering illness from sugar diabetes. She was 62 and survived by her husband, a son Frank Lowery of Pomeroy, and a daughter Mrs Howard Pitchard of Racine, plus four brothers and four sisters. Burial Friday at Beech Grove cemetery. Funeral of Geo Pilchard set for Thursday at Pomeroy Presbyterian church with interment Beech Grove cemetery.
Dr J A Miller has purchased Stephen Fisher property on Mulberry avenue adjoining the Armory. He plans to occupy the first and second floors for offices and rent the other floors until plans are completed for a hospital in the building. The move aims to establish a hospital in Pomeroy Bend, a much needed facility.
The 1920 Meigs County Pioneer gathering will convene at Simpson M E Church in Pomeroy on Thursday August 26 starting at 9 A M. The event includes a dinner intermission and a varied program. Attendees are urged to bring relics and their own drinking vessels.
Fragmentary text notes a ban on directions for a powder dye and references to not streaking or applying in a certain way. The readable bits suggest a cautionary instruction or warning regarding use.
An advertisement touts Freezone as a quick cure for all corn types and calluses. It claims the liquid relieves pain instantly and lets a user lift the corn away with fingers, with a small bottle sold by druggists for a few cents and no soreness or irritation.
The hearing in the delinquency cases of the colored Jackson children of Middleport will come up in Probate court sometime next week.
Meigs County Red Cross reports Miss Anne M Carleton of Cleveland Public Health Nurse secured for Meigs County will reach Pomeroy by month end and be ready for duty by September first. A Nursing Activities Committee has been formed to direct her work with Mrs Thomas Turnbull chair and other officers listed.
AMERICAN LEADING ANTWERP Aug 28 America is maintaining her lead in the Olympic games. At the end of the fourth day the United States led with 102 points, Finland second with 61, Sweden third 38, England fourth 24, France fifth 12, Canada and South Africa tied for sixth with 7, New Zealand, Estonia, and Norway tied for eighth with 3 each. A British experiment farm at Bagdad has produced Egyptian and long staple American cotton of excellent quality and heavy yield.
Ohio state wards received meals at a total cash outlay of about seven cents per meal for the year ending July 1, 1920, with farm products from institutions reducing the per meal cost to under nine cents. If farming had not occurred, costs would exceed twelve cents per meal.
Mrs Myrtle Hensley confessed to shooting Leo H Cousine in Toledo. He was found dying in a room Monday after authorities believed he died by his own hand. Hensley said she shot Cousine in defense of her daughter Mrs Ben Shinach.
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