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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1930
Page
2
Classified and circulation items for The Messenger are listed under Pomeroy Bend Meigs County. See Virgil Marsh for details. A Hartley staff correspondent notes readers can telephone their local news and society items to the office.
Sa distress floods Meigs County as Blizzard survivors crowd the Courthouse seeking fuel food and clothing. Red Cross and Soldiers Relief assist while commissioners plan a Columbus trip to raise funds for families including the elderly and children, with illnesses and quarantines straining resources.
The December village council session in Pomeroy covered topics from Al Capone tactics to smallpox vaccination and rabies fever. Clerk R. G. Webster reported a $140,000 total bonded debt with projected payoff by 1942 if no new bonds are issued. Other items included current bills, street work costs, and a request to raise a Main Street garage damaged by grading, which was not acted upon.
Dec 2 report says Sheriff J A Willock and Mrs Willock want private life due to public duties. They repaired the old family home on Butternut Avenue and plan a calmer life. Delbert Welker family will leave the Jail Building when new sheriff 4 O Tracy and his family move in. deputy remains undecided and may not share the building.
Reported tularemia or rabbit fever cases affect three residents in Pomeroy. Margaret Smith, a store clerk, is seriously ill with virulent symptoms and ulcers treated without lasting relief. Charles and Mrs. Gloeckner, who ran a Main Street restaurant, are confined at home with serious conditions after handling rabbits for a Legion banquet.
Miss Rose Marcinko visits with Miss Helen Waddell while Mrs. Julia Gerber recovers at home after a fall. Several locals travel to visit relatives in Akron Columbus Detroit and Zanesville with updates on trips and family ties.
Mrs. Ethel Vansickle was taken to an Athens hospital with suspected sleeping sickness after returning from Detroit Mid. Thomas Pomeroy wed Mary Zellar on Thanksgiving day in Dayton. Meigs County saw November new vehicle purchases and 116 cars handled by dealers. Philip Sommers bought the first 1931 Pomeroy license, numbered 228551. Howard Graves and Dorothy Nicely married in West Portsmouth on Monday. Samuel McDermitt, 80, died in Letart, W Va, with burial by the Odd Fellows. Clovis Searls pleaded guilty to breaking into the Carter poolroom and was sentenced to 1 to 15 years in the Ohio Penitentiary. Curt Weaver, formerly a Pomeroy merchant, is critically ill in Columbus. Ida Ebbersbach wed Clyde Marsh in Catlettsburg Kentucky. Hortense Ashley wed Willard Kirkhardt in Gallipolis and will join him in Marion. The Chester Telephone Exchange got a new switchboard built by John Chase of Pomeroy.
Meigs County officers investigated a spate of petty thefts Sunday with incidents at Homer Carson farm on Weading Creek Rutland and Jewell store Harrisonville. A colored man named Ward was jailed with evidence including two bushel baskets of apples and patched shoes linked to the case.
Meigs County Commissioners met to pay current bills and approve graveling half a mile into Reedsville for student bus access. A $150 judgment and costs in W. F. Reec cattle pass suit were paid. Gravel work will be done by locals at 25 cents per hour, opposed by Commissioner Karr who favored 49 cents.
In Pomeroy on December 2, a divorce was granted to Flossie E. Howard of Syracuse from John G. Howard after a morning hearing. Mrs. Howard previously known as Flossie Lioush, daughter of the late William Roush, claimed extreme cruelty. the court awarded the divorce without the standard 30-day advice.
Forty members of Pauline Rebekah Lodge No. 498 welcomed ten candidates during Thanksgiving initiations. The degree team earned praise for the smooth work. Additional members were received by initiation and rein statement. An oyster supper followed, prepared by Alma Brown and Lena Jordan, with seventy five attending.
Mr and Mrs W B Jeffers entertained their children and grandchildren on Thanksgiving Day with all present except Metta of Athens. Attendees included Colvin Gorby and children from Crooksville, Gladys Woodward and daughters from Columbus, Chase Jeffers family from Albany, Cheadles from near Albany, Reed Jeffers, and visiting Hebbardsville residents Herman Cordray and Madge Dixon. Pearl Jewell ill. Halford Pennell of Gallia County was in the area Saturday.
In Meigs County, officials say rabbit fever scare strengthens protection laws. Fewer rabbits are sold in the open market and hunters report minimal killings as observers note heightened caution amid the outbreak.
Pomeroy reports a crowded court hearing over a $15 watch traded to a man for a rabbit hunting dog. The affidavit defect led Judge Russell to dismiss, freeing the defendant as a new affidavit is prepared. a counter claim argues the watch has no value.
W W Ankenbrand, Athens Schools superintendent, argues education should center on service power and character training. He says educated individuals have far greater life prospects and urges hands on, obstacle driven schooling to prepare youth for modern demands. Rufus C Hopkins is elected Kiwanis Club president with a slate of officers and directors named.
Four Connecticut men died and six were injured when a fire swept a Lar kin Pond camp in Fere ntis Massachusetts while the hunting party slept.
Fred Zervis, about 32, World War veteran, was shot in the leg and arteries severed when a loaded shotgun discharged in his mother’s Hamden home cellar. He died at Camp Sherman Veterans Hospital after rapid blood loss. Funeral services likely Tuesday afternoon at Hamden Cemetery.
Thanksgiving gatherings extended across the region with the Pilcher family visiting Captain and Mrs. Ralph Benner in town. Margaret Wrightsel of Bass College stayed with her parents Mr and Mrs Frank Wrightsel during the holidays. Inverett Beckley joined his parents Mr and Mrs J L Beckley in Athens. F C Carraci of Wellston visited Mr and Mrs R W Rutledge at the Lantz Hamilton Hotel. Credon of Wellston traveled to McArthur and Hamden on business. Mary Stanton of Cincinnati spent the holiday season with relatives in Hamden.
Robert Wyckoff Post of the American Legion installed officers for the coming year at the Lantz Hamilton Hotel on November 6. At the December 17 meeting the 1931 program will be announced. Commander A. J. Garrison leads the post with Roy Hartley as vice commander Carl Ward as adjutant Ray Arnett as secretary treasurer and W. J. Jones as service officer.
Frank Smith of Hamden and Geneva Walton of Puritan married in McArthur Navy by G W Specht J P. Herbert Tyston of Glen Roy wed Mildred Clark of Hamden with Rev Watts on November 29.
Court actions involve Doss versus Doss and others for money foreclosure with plaintiff M Day. Maggie Ray sues Mary A Irwin and others for partition. Hearing held November 25. Irwin is deceased and remaining defendants fail to answer, confessed petition. 61 acres to be partitioned if feasible. if not, sale and division of proceeds.
The John King store at Pilgy's Knob in Wellston was robbed November 28 of a large quantity of goods including potatoes butter apple-butter lard canned meat and many other items. A truck driven through nearby gardens carried the goods away.
Betty Dando of Wellston daughter of Dr and Mrs E T Dando makes her broadcast debut in McArthur on December 2 as she starts a radio career.
House Columbus presents guest soprano soloist who broadcast from Station WAH. The report notes her national competition involvement and ties to Olive Morrison and family guests at a Thanksgiving Day dinner hosted by Mr. Harry Shear.
In Cleveland on December 1 7 We dits and four other men attempted a hold up at a local Edward job pharmacy. Four men were held at bay while one suspect escaped with about 1400 dollars before authorities intervened.
A short ad touts 666 as the speediest remedy for colds and headach r, claiming 666 works fastest in tablet form as well.
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