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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1937
Page
3
Middleport hosts the Yellow Jackets in their first scheduled home game Saturday against Pt Pleasant Big Blacks. The undefeated locals seek another holiday win with a new Automatic Score and Time Board in use. A 7:30 preliminary pits Middleport Reserves against Pt Pleasant.
Meigs County Children's Home celebrated Christmas with visits to Middleport for Santa Claus by local groups and gifts from many donors. Children enjoyed ice cream, candy, toys, books, and clothing donated by families and organizations, including Mrs. Rathburn’s late husband and state highway workers.
The Suzy Q Club hosted a semi formal dance at Shiflet's Hall with 100 couples from Middleport and nearby towns, music by Dick Wiley and His Orchestra, pine boughs and red white decor, midnight balloons and carnival dances.
Twenty three guests gathered Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E W Warner near Harrisonville for a Christmas dinner served by the hostess and Evelyn. Despite impassable roads guests arrived walking over a mile. Attending were Earl Warner and son Rodney Jackson R S Blackwood and Cecil Harrisonville Jerry Warner and daughters Edna and Evelyn Harrisonville H L French and sons Eugene and Warner Pomeroy Arthur Roush and three daughters Lucille Faye and Donna Lee Middleport. The three last children are great grandchildren of the hosts.
A list of gifts from multiple donors includes Mrs. Avon Jones Mrs Edward Stark New York Clothing House Ebersbach Hardware and others giving toys candy fruit and sports equipment. The note explains some donor names may be omitted and any errors can be corrected by Mrs. Elsie Eastman. Also cites 1936 Canadian cheese production totals factory made 117 079 000 pounds and farm made 1 032 000 pounds.
Mrs Myrtle Morris of Shade Ohio reports long lasting relief from rheumatic pains after using Vendol and Vendol laxative tablets. She cites improved appetite digestion sleep and calmer nerves with the product sold by Athens Pharmacy Nelsonville Hickman’s Pharmacy and other druggists.
Members of the Happy Hustlers of the Methodist Church will host a New Year s Eve party Friday evening at the church annex. Visitors and local residents were noted in a sequence of social mentions across Racine and nearby towns.
Rock Springs Grange Hall hosts a benefit box supper and party tonight with attendees from other granges. Proceeds fund repairs including new furnace and repapering to match Meigs County grange standards. lunch boxes sold by grange women. The article also notes Pere David's deer in England shedding antlers biannually.
Sales tax reports for July 1 to December 31 1937 must be filed by January 15 1938. E R Lama will station in Pomeroy at the auditor's office January 4 5 8 11 12 and 15 to assist vendors in preparing six months reports and to answer questions. Vendors should bring receipts records prepaid tax inventories and stamp inventories. The three per cent Use Tax on purchases from outside Ohio in the last three months is due at that time and aid will be provided.
Miss Elva Summerfield and Mr. Carl Biddle were married Friday December 24 at Calvary Baptist Church Parkersburg with Rev. Earl B Mayer officiating. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Summerfield, wears a navy suit and bouquet of roses and sweet peas. The groom, son of Mrs. Lizzie Biddle, teaches in Chester High School. They honeymoon in Florida.
Marvin Stuckey of Middleport was jailed in the county jail Tuesday after failing to pay a $25 fine and $13.55 in costs imposed by Justice of Peace E. R. Titus for wilful destruction of property.
Christmas Day marked the 84th birthday of Mrs Arilla Hayman with a noon dinner for sixteen. Preparations were by Edith Hayman and Homer Hayman, with guests including Fred Philson family Kathryn Philson Mary Lew Philson Ben Philson Harry Hayman and children Audrey Gene and Ruth Jane Ellis and Mrs W S Ellis who could not attend due to illness.
Mrs Archie Rumfield and her nephew Earl Ward are at their Gravel Hill home after spending Christmas with Mrs Rumfield's mother in Chauncey.
Buckley’s Mixture triple acting cough remedy claims rapid relief for bronchitis and colds. The ad cites medical fact findings, safe use for children, and speedy reduction of lingering coughs. Sold at stores including Quick’s Cut Rate Drug Store in Canada with over 9 million bottles sold.
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