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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1927
Page
2
Prof. T. N. Hoover of Ohio University leads an extension American history class in the Rutland high school each Friday evening. About 20 residents are enrolled to brush up on history topics.
Pomeroy reports Harry Worth, 30, a Hartford miner, is hospitalized in Parkersburg with a broken back from a local mine accident about a week ago. He is completely paralyzed from the waist down but can use his arms. No immediate danger of death, yet the prognosis warns of permanent paralysis and potential later death risk.
The Woman's auxiliary of Scioto chapter, New York Central association, was organized Sunday at the Neil house in Columbus. Charter members from Pomeroy Bend include 25 to 30 women. first meeting set for January 17 in Columbus.
POMEROY December 1. Tom Taylor’s Second ward property sold at auction for 800 dollars to Harry Simpson. Auctioneer Charles McName oversaw the sale as a bargain price result. Taylor, an Englishman who has made Pomeroy his headquarters, plans to move to British Columbia to live with a niece.
Middleport note reports Middleport Home Laundry drivers arriving in matching uniforms with gold monograms. The delivery team, first of their kind in Meigs county, wears caps and presents a striking new service appearance.
Middleport December 1 Mrs A H Armstrong who suffered a stroke weeks ago and was cared for by daughters Mrs Lightner in Columbus and another daughter is reported in critical condition for the last two days. Mr.
Mrs Winifred Russell of Lincoln Hill sent the Messenger a bouquet picked yesterday on the last day of November. The arrangement included four cultivated flowers and several dandelions from the Russell lawn in Pomeroy.
Fides lodge No. 210 K of P will confer rank of Page on a class of candidates this evening. The December meeting highlights officer elections and grand lodge officer ballots, with supreme lodge representatives elected biennially. Ford G. Hunker, longtime supreme representative, is renominated to a four year term without opposition.
A large Halliday family gathering in Meigs County was held with members from the extended clan attending the reunion on December 1. Local relatives shared memories and renewed family ties during the event.
An elderly couple from Salem Center will mark their sixtieth wedding anniversary on February 6 with all their married life spent on the same farm where they currently reside. Mr and Mrs A S Halliday have lived their entire married life on the family property.
It claims to be safe without nerve deadening drugs or alcohol and to soothe and heal. The ad extols its ability to build tissue strength and flesh, increasing resistance to illness and highlighting its wealth of vitamins. It cites 70 years of success as proof of merit and notes it helps those who catch cold resist illness.
Mrs Flora Talbott ends a visit at her son J G Talbott's home and travels to Athens to stay with sister Mrs F Hayes for two days before heading to Orient near Columbus then to Miami by December 15 continuing on page eight
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