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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1930
Page
2
Local bulletin from Pomeroy and Bend Meigs County by A Hartley notes staff correspondent contact for news and society items. Readers invited to share society notices and locals through the newspaper’s service.
Classified and circulation items are directed to Virgil Marsh for The Messenger. The snippet notes where to submit notices or ads and mentions circulation topics rather than a specific event or person.
Dams on the Ohio River at Pomeroy have been up since April 26 as a prolonged dry spell ends. A recent rise from the Allegheny River due to heavy rains will slightly tint the water tomorrow but not restore full clear conditions or lower dam levels. If the long drought had persisted, regional boatmen and towboats would face widespread disruption to produce transport and coal movements between New Orleans and Pittsburgh.
Middleport Dec. 4 Coach Charlies Coffee with club mothers hosted a turkey banquet for the champion Yellow Jackets in the Heath M. E. Church dining room. Twenty four boys attended as Coffee praised the team for credit earned, teamwork, and equipment turned in in 1690 per cent perfect condition. Several boys spoke, marking the last grid banquet for Harris Beaver Roush and Faulkner.
Jonathan Burnell of Charleston attended the funeral of Ad Starkey and has since stayed with sister-in-law Mrs. Charlotte Burnell. Lulu Mason hosted her card club on Walnut Street. A V Smith opened a flower store in the Shiflet building on Mill Street. The Roush family and daughter vacationed in Maggie, West Virginia. Tom Collins and family returned to Toledo after visiting Mrs. William Huggins. Ray L. Smith shared updates on his mother Jennie Smith’s surgical operation. Clara Swisher stayed with Julia Gerber during recovery, with Gerber improving. Dale Winebrenner and daughter from Bucyrus visiting Mrs. Riva Crauz. Gorden Ely of Columbus visiting William Huggins on Lincoln Street. C L Brooks and son Charles returned home after Columbus visit. J Leonard and son Paul spent time in Columbus. Placid of Vinton County visited at J Leonard’s.
W C Weaver 46 died in Columbus Tuesday. His body was brought to his parents in Racine and will be buried Saturday afternoon at Greenlawn Cemetery. Born in Racine he started as an errand boy for W A Ellis Co then managed a Pomeroy clothing store. He later ran a business in Pomeroy and worked in Zanesville before moving to Columbus. He married Bessie Webster and left two daughters Mary Weaver and Mrs Frank White.
Meigs Temple No 1538 Pythian Sisters elected officers for the ensuing year led by Past Chief Edith Russell and M Fe c Amy Bowen as FE S Elizabeth Allman F J Teresa Autherson M Florence Bush M of F M of R Minnie Neutzling P Gladys Bowen O G Finna Howard pianist Lillian Steiff grand representative Pauline Gallagher alternate Elizabeth Martin captain of the degree staff Sylvia Burford press correspondent trace Downing The officers will be installed the first Tuesday evening in January with Lillian Steiff as installing officer.
At the Masonic Temple Tuesday evening the F. and A. M. Lodge No. 363 installed officers led by W. M. L. J. Heiner. Names T. von s, Harrah, Cross, Mein hart, Hawkins, Wise, Childs, McKay, May, Mills, Fisher and Horden among others. An oyster supper followed the meeting.
In Snowville Bedford Township county game warden Eldon Clark charged Elza Welch and Joe Stanley for carrying guns on Sunday. Both pleaded guilty and were fined $1 plus costs totaling 29.56 dollars each. guns were returned after the hearing.
In Meigs County nearly 400 residents, mostly children, will receive holiday cash as Citizens National Bank of Middleport has dispersed about 10,000 dollars to 188 Christmas savings depositors. The Meigs County Savings and Loan Co. will distribute a similar amount to about 200 depositors on Friday and Saturday.
Pomeroy mourns the deaths of W. Weaver and PD Hennessey both 46. Weaver served as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Wilbur Reeves and ran for county commissioner in 1928. Hennessey had recently died, being a leading member of the village government.
S. S. Wise of Syracuse employed at the Crawford Machine shop suffered a leg fracture when a timber fell on him yesterday. He was treated by Dr. M. S. Daniels and returned to his home.
A well known Pomeroy man who has wandered the world for about 75 years wore his first suit of pajamas the other evening and said he liked them. He noted he had worn night gowns all his life and disliked the wad of fabric that rolled up. He found baggy-legged pajamas comfortable and likened the look to a Chinaman.
Hod Williams of Harrisonville was trapped under an old mine slate dump at Happy Hollow near Rutland. A leg was crushed in two places and may require amputation. Abijah Lambert, also hurt, assisted Williams. They were loading red slag when the dump collapsed. Williams is in a Gallipolis hospital, about fifty with a family.
The body of H. A. Starkey 71 was brought from Shawnee yesterday and buried in Beech Grove Cemetery. Starkey born in Pomeroy spent most of life there leaves a widow two children son Donald employed in a Pomeroy chain store and a brother A D Starkey in Pomeroy.
Hart Stanbery president of the Pomeroy National Bank and Dr. L G Gribble travel Friday from Wriday to Courtland Mississippi for a ten day wild goose and duck hunt and big game in canebrakes. They travel via Athens where they join W S Southerton of Athens Laundry and H C Clark of the Southern Ohio Electric Co in Columbus. Dr Gribble has long made annual trips to Canadian woods.
Mrs. IR. A. Miller hosted the Middleport Literary Club as it explored Latin America with current events. Two papers were presented on The Latin American Spirit in Literature by Mrs. M. C. Hobart and Spanish American Folk Songs by Mrs. Rosener Zieher, plus music.
A mother and her three children died in a December 4 fire that engulfed their Montville bungalow. Firefighters battled the blaze, but the structure burned quickly, trapping the family inside. Investigators will determine the cause as neighbors mourn the tragic loss.
Sixty five delegates are expected for the semi annual Ohio College Newspaper Association meeting to be hosted by Ohio University in Athens. The Men’s Union will serve as headquarters with group discussions scheduled Friday and Saturday. Directors including Oliver Amos and David Stein will convene, followed by a banquet at Berry Hotel where Elmer Dingeldey and Charles Harris will speak on journalism experiences. The program also includes tours of The Athens Messenger and a luncheon by Prof. George Starr Lasher.
A Home Drug Co advertisement from Minneapolis promotes home treatment for gall bladder and gall stone issues. It claims a recognized specialist can provide a prescription and literature on a 28 year proven method. A money back guarantee is offered and the ad includes a clipping coupon.
The conference ends Saturday afternoon with special groups holding meetings. Delta Gamma Mu, a professional journalism fraternity, will present a burlesque play at The Messenger. David Stein and Harry Kell coordinate arrangements with journalism professor 8. Vance, executive secretary of Akron University.
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