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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1926
Page
2
Funeral services for Emmette Howell were held Sunday afternoon at his father M A Howell’s Union avenue home. Burial followed at Dowington Cemetery. Howell, a former Pomeroy resident, died recently in Pittsburgh.
Miss Sarah Phillips part owner of Phillips Sisters millinery shop was taken to Holzer hospital Gallipolis after a period of ill health. Doctors report she was improving but will undergo radium treatments. her condition worsened recently.
Middleport residents hosted and visited family and friends over the weekend including Mr. and Mrs. A H Skidmore in Athens and Mr. and Mrs Alan Bradbury returning from Hot Springs Virginia. Several others visited relatives, and Mrs Fowler was ill for the past week.
A visiting guest spent the weekend with Mrs Charles ton and her daughter as the family hosted relatives and shared time together.
In Middleport on August 23 Mrs. Frank Knopp hosted a slumber party for house guests Ida Mae Entsminger and Nettie Withrow of Charleston and Hilda Cary of Poca WV. Attending were Helen Smith Vaude Vance Emogene Smith Hilda Carey Nettie Withrow and Ida Mae Entsminger.
Mrs Scott C Ridgway of Laurel street arrived in Pomroy on Sunday night after a several weeks visit with Mrs Margaret Ridgway in San Diego California and with her aunt in San Francisco She also visited with Mr and Mrs David France former Pomroy residents at their Chicago home She was met at Columbus by her husband Mrs L H R Foulk and Mr and Mrs Herman Strauss
Subnormal weight is dangerous and low vitality weakens disease resistance. Life insurance may refuse coverage for being too thin. If underweight by five pounds start improving with nutrition and McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound tablets bought at Cline's Pharmacy. Regular use promised to increase weight by at least five pounds in 20 days or money back.
Treasury Secret Service probes about two thousand cases of possible forgeries on checks sent to World War veterans or their dependents. President Coolidge plans to return to Washington around September 18. Congress 1926 relief act allows honorary discharge certificates for veterans misrepresented as discharged.
U S health service dispatches from Siam note the Bangkok cholera outbreak continues. Between May 2 and May 22 the tally reached 954 cases and 508 deaths, signaling a severe public health crisis.
Surgeon General Hugh Cumming of the U S Public Health Service says in the last quarter century progress in diphtheria shows we know its cause and transmission and have a potent preventive and curative agent.
Survey of labor statistics shows 4,443,528 people belonged to all unions in the country. Of these, 8,383,997 were in groups affiliated with the American Federation of Labor and the remainder were in independent unions.
Department of Agriculture emphasizes small uncultivated farm forests improve soil. Leaves and litter decompose into vegetable mold, enriching soil and increasing moisture storage.
Sixty gypsies in ten automobiles camped near Herrold's mill Sunday night in Athens. They were allowed to stay overnight on the promise to leave early today. City ordinance prohibits gypsies from camping within the city limits.
Chauncey Aug 23 The Schrappes Otto and wife with two sons Billie and Jack rode in a Chevrolet sedan when a gate released horses on the main road near Enterprise Hocking county The car struck a horse and suffered heavy damage the horse was injured and the machine required garage repair
Miss Clarice Daugherty of Chauncey has received a life certificate from the State Board of School Examiners. Daughter of the county infirmary superintendent and Mrs. Daugherty, she taught in Chauncey last year and will join the Columbus city schools for the coming term.
A surprise ceremony united Wiley Ryan and Ivanue Huddy in Logan on Saturday afternoon. The groom, Chauncey high school graduate, is son of Mr. and Mrs. William Ryan. The bride, Chauncey alumna, is daughter of Don Huddy and niece of Mrs. Roy Pendegrass. They are now at the Ryan home.
Funeral services for Mrs. Clara Oberholzer, 79, of Millfield, will be held Wednesday at 10 AM at the Christian church in Millfield. She died after being struck by a train near her home Saturday evening and was buried in McDougal cemetery. Relatives from Michigan and Wisconsin attend. her husband died by suicide three years earlier in Chauncey.
William Myers returns home from Canton while Susan Elizabeth and Helen Lucas visit Chauncey relatives. Cora Jerrel comes back from Pontiac. Everett Ogg family and Ruth and Harold Ogg vacationed in Chauncey with Charles and Mrs. Ogg. Henry Staffinger Lucille Jackson return from Thurston. Grace Smith, training in Columbus, stays with Cap Quinith in Lexington Ave. Rev James A. Long and family conclude weeks in town visiting G. Harvey Nye relatives. Helen and Ruth Anna Kittle of Glouster end visit in Chauncey then travel to Athens to see grandmother T. W. Duffee. Eldon Sapp employed locally.
Columbus spent the weekend at his Chauncey home while Miss Stella Carter and Verna Six, long employed in Dayton, have returned to their Chauncey residence.
Mrs. Charles Fiske will host the Loyal Woman's Society of the First Christian church in Chauncey on Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Guy Brookins, the society president, will preside at the business session and lead the program. A strong turnout of church women is expected.
Miss Lauretta Fielder visited in Athens with Miss Lillian Dicken as did W. B. Johnson of Athens in Chauncey Sunday. Mr and Mrs Guy Brookins traveled to Millfield to see his parents. Rev Gorham of Athens preached at Saints church Chauncey Sunday afternoon. Virgil Phillips of Columbus visited his grandmother Mrs Mintie Stalder in Converse street Chauncey.
Four men Cutter Russell Charles Downey Fred Norman and Joe Snyder were arraigned before Magistrate Pearl Helwig on riding a freight train. Each received a $10 fine plus costs and were jailed in Athens county when unable to pay. Officer R W Murray of New York Central Railroad made the arrests.
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