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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1937
Page
3
Pomeroy council called a special meeting tonight led by Clerk Alvin Norris. Items before the group include a proposed purchase of the Meigs Water Company and the Sugar Run sewer project. A three mill tax levy may be voted at the November 2 general election if needed.
Mr and Mrs Walter F Harris hosted guests including Mr and Mrs Otto Roush of Columbus. The piece lists numerous visitors and travels among locals and relatives, noting Mr Roush's 29 years at The Columbus Dispatch and a few illness updates.
Mr and Mrs Carl Hoffman of Chicago and Mr and Mrs Arthur Stewart with daughter Jean Charleston visit Mrs Mary Cook and Homer Cook family. Mary Cook hosts dinner for guests and Homer and Betty Cook. Clara Louise Smith Athens and William Cooper Columbus guests here Sunday. Frances Pullins travels to Alexandria Indiana for two weeks with relatives Sam Adams and Dick Petes who visit Hamilton family in Pittsburgh. Max Sanborn and R A Martin return from a 15000 mile vacation trip to Canada Michigan New York and Ohio. George Bowers returns from a week with grandsons George Edward and Lester Bowers in Springfield. During Mr Bowers absence Mrs Adeline Walker Columbus visits. Mrs Marion Allensworth ill with pneumonia on Locust Street. David Jones and Evelyn Eichinger with Peggy Anne and Henry Eichinger visit Chappelle Talbott and friends Saturday. Jones is a physical-education instructor at Medina.
John Wallace Talbott arrived August 22 at the Russell Apartment on South Third Avenue to Mr. and Mrs. Chappelle Talbott. The infant carries names from two grandfathers and two great-great-grandfathers with J W Talbott as initials. Great-grandparents are A A Talbott and the late J W Talbott. Fred Healey and Louise Talbott Healey visited from Columbus to meet the newborn.
Funeral services for Mrs Nettie Longstreth of Salem Center were held at the Methodist Church in Rutland Sunday afternoon with interment at Miles Cemetery. She is survived by a son John of Richmond Indiana and two daughters Mrs Marian Crane of Richmond and Mrs Wayne Lutz of Kanauga.
Local social column recaps residents traveling to Indianapolis Pittsburgh Columbus and New York visiting relatives friends and acquaintances. Names include Sullivan Lippincott Rosenbaum Spurlock Hood Pickett Shumaker and many others with trips to Ohio Pennsylvania New York and Canada.
The Daughters of Union Veterans plan a regular meeting and picnic dinner at Mrs. John Chase's home on Wehe Terrace Monday evening with a 6 PM dinner. The Ladies Auxiliary of Drew Webster Post American Legion will meet Tuesday evening with state convention reports from Columbus and several hostesses listed.
The State of Ohio Division of Insurance certifies that The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company of Fort Wayne Indiana is licensed to transact insurance in Ohio for the current year. Its December 31 1984 financials show assets 130 757 669 05 liabilities 124 757 669 05 net assets 6 100 000 00 paid-in capital 2 500 000 90 surplus 3 500 000 00 income 25 909 806 85 expenditures 25 935 084 54.
The Pomeroy High School Band will entertain at the Meigs County Fair with director Konrad Scholl announcing the act. Students will be excused from school at 2 pm Wednesday September 15 and all day Thursday for the fair. First practice is scheduled Tuesday at 10 am in the Senior High School Building.
Middleport notes reveal W. Leonard and his kin gathered Sunday at Danville's Ross Leonard home to honor Homer Vance and Mr. Leonard's birthdays. Fifty relatives from Bucyrus Marion Huntington Gallipolis Langsville and Middleport attended the reunion. Dr. George C. Schaaf Rotary president and Rotarians Kelly Grogan Robert Rawlings O B Stout and John Leeper travel to a Rotary convention in Zanesville.
Workmen removed the remaining brick and debris of the W. B. Pennington store on S. Third Ave in Middleport. The store once owned by W. B. Pennington, later owned by Perry and Mrs. Thomas, was bought by Fred Shiflet and sold to Cedric Clark before the dwelling was moved to a lot on S. Sixth Ave.
Many out-of-town relatives and friends attended Burt Kent's funeral at the Heath M. E. Church. The service was held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday with Reverend Clarence Swearingen officiating. Attendees included Kent family members from Columbus Huntington and Wilkesville along with relatives from Story's Run and Vinton.
In Iron ton on Sunday afternoon the Middleport firemen lost to the Ironton Old Timers 6-5. Billy Barker's long foul was blown by inches and two runners were left on base.
Nine foot cement sidewalks are being placed in front of the Middleport Department Store on Mill Street and adjoining buildings owned by Mrs. C. F. Rathburn. Seven foot walks extend from Mill Street to Dr. C. A. Poindexter’s residence on S. Third Ave under WPA supervision. Many sidewalks town wide improved with owners paying material costs.
Funeral services for Lod Cook aged 76 who died Friday at his home near Hemlock Grove were held Sunday afternoon from the Church of Christ at Reedsville. Burial followed at Reedsville. Cook spent his life in Meigs County and belonged to the Christian Church of Bearwallow Ridge. He is survived by his widow Susan Cook.
Glouster Scout Commissioner R L Dupler and officials presented the Boy Scout Troop 72 charter at a Church of Christ service after Bible School. Camp Dupler opens Aug 30 near Athens for five days at 2 50, with details via Scoutmasters.
Glouster residents and guests share a weekend of visits and travel. Arthur H. Hall and family from Flushing visited friends. families from Columbus Akron Marion Renton Pa and other locations stopped through Glouster. Aunts uncles and hostesses hosted trips to Buckeye Lake Cincinnati and Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens.
Matthew Dawson of Glouster ends a 7000 mile trip to the California coast. He left July 1 with Gene Alden chief engineer at Station KOY Phoenix. They traveled to Arizona, reached Los Angeles July 8, then he returned by hitch-hiking in ten days reaching home.
Mrs Margaret Dennison entertained with a dinner honoring Mrs Mary Farmer of Alliance at her home on Thursday evening. The guest list included Mrs Farmer Miss Ann Williams and the Dennison family.
A Glouster Emancipation Day event is set for Wednesday September 22 with committee members Denzil Leach Theola Newman Cecil Woodson and Vernon Morris arranging a baseball game a dance at Lamborn's Pavilion and a local grove picnic Several guest speakers are invited to make Glouster a district center and invitations were extended to nearby communities.
Rain forced postponement of the Methodist Church picnic planned for Sunday at Sawyer's Grove in Jacksonville. The event now will be held next Sunday starting at 1 o'clock.
Fred Burdiss and family announce the birth of a nine pound son born Sunday morning at the Burdiss home.
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