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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1930
Page
2
Meigs County officials face salary cuts as census fell from 28 189 to 23 961 reducing pay for most officers. Sheriff Tracy starts at 1 445 dollars, prosecutor Clark 1 630, recorder Hartinger 1 330, probate judge 2 020, treasurer 2 215, auditor 1 etc.
Local residents share travel visits after Christmas with relatives in Charleston Barkersburg and Marietta. Several families return home after funerals and illness, including Joan Gilmore and infant sickness concerns. Naomi Owens returns from Toledo for an indefinite stay.
A social column records a family dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. A W McKay with their daughter Mian Jean joining guests Mr. and Mrs. PC Milles and others in attendance.
Two men appeared in Pomeroy claiming to be Amos and Bill Hay from the Amos and Andy radio team. A company letter labels them impostors and warns the act is a bit of talk fiction. The episode suggests they were joking to prank listeners.
Pomroy story recalls William Prall a famed Southeastern Ohio hardware dealer known for parading a cooking stove on his back. In 1856 he issued a public appeal begging delinquents to settle debts at the captain's office, warning no further extension would be granted.
An unusual service is set for Wednesday night at the Middleport Church of Christ. It will start at 8 o clock with devotional and study, followed by varied features and reports from church organizations. Special music and talks about the past year and plans for the new year will be included, ending with a consecration at the stroke of 1931. A large attendance is expected in the church auditorium for comfort and reflection.
In Pomeroy Ohio a Huntington West Virginia couple the Honicons face foreclosure and a cognovit judgment on a note after buying a 117 acre Orange Township farm. They borrowed over eight thousand dollars to pay for the property and improved the old homestead before abandoning it for rural Huntington. Frank Guthrie secured a judgment for 339.75 on a cognovit note and Calvin T Hager foreclosed on the mortgage.
On December 31 1931 the Young People's Society of the First Baptist Church will hold a watch meeting at the church with a midnight prayer service. Similar gatherings are planned at several other churches in Middleport.
Miss Evelyn Eichinger hosted a 6 oclock dinner in Middleport on Tuesday evening honoring Miss Frances Kreager a Denison University senior visiting with her parents the Rev and Mrs I F Kreager of South Sixth Avenue The guest list included Frances Kreager Louise Hetteselmer Clara Frances McCarley Frances Dillard and Louise Tabbott.
William N. Hanley, former Ray-Glo Corp sales manager, will assume the sales manager role at the Cleveland Co-Operative Store Company and begin Thursday. His wife and children stay in Athens until spring then sail to England to visit Mrs. Hanley’s mother. Dwight E. Williams becomes sales and advertising assistant to R. F. Cuyler.
Eastle Heines, a Middleport businessman, was rushed to Holzer Hospital late last night for observation. The exact nature of his trouble is not learned, but he is said to be in a serious condition.
George Rasp new deputy sheriff of Athens County, cousin to Henry Rasp, formerly a Meigs County resident. Robert Musser, 12, Rutland, injured in bicycle fall and hospitalized in Gallipolis. Edgar Firvin, former Meigs County attorney, bonded in Columbus as receiver of the Associated Oil and Cash Co. Sixty children in Meigs County Children's Home with two added Melvin and Leonora Stucky. Jeb Bentz of Pomeroy injured from a broken arm in a fall. Elizabeth Bright of Coshocton High School Faculty vacationing in Pomeroy with Rev. P A Bright.
At its annual meeting in Fremont Ohio the Sandusky County Bar Association passed a resolution urging State Representative-elect George C Sheffler to push for Cratche Act modification and repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment during his tenure in the Ohio Legislature. Sheffler opposed the measure but the resolution carried 10 to 2.
The Rev. W Williams new pastor of the Pomeroy Christian Church arrives from Columbus with his wife and young child and takes residence in Judge Peoples’ Brick Street property.
Elizabeth M. Barton aged 17 from near Mt. Sterling married farmer H. Daniel Scott 55 of Mt. Sterling. The ceremony was performed here by Justice W. W. Deweese.
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