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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1950
Page
3
A pie supper is planned at the Long Bottom school building on Friday evening to raise funds for equipment. Proceeds will be used to buy equipment for the school.
County commissioners hired Pomeroy Elmer S. Barrett Associates to trace and plan Laurel Cliff road improvements from Route 143 to Route 33. Project aims for early spring completion with 20 foot hard surface over about three miles funded by county and federal shares.
Clerk Virgil V. Brown of Meigs County reported to Judge Edgar Ervin that 1949 saw 249 cases filed and docketed in the common pleas court. Civil cases reached 197 and criminal 52, with 615 journal entries. The title office issued 5077 certificates of title, 2197 liens notations, 1437 memorandum certificates, 1408 lien cancellations, 1748 applications and assignments, and 133 certified copies of titles.
Don H. Ebright state treasurer and GOP gubernatorial candidate stopped in Pomeroy at 11 am Tuesday to greet old friends including Edison Hobstetter of Pomeroy National Bank and Theodore Reed of Farmers Bank en route to Gallipolis for a Tuesday night speech. A foreclosure suit was filed in common pleas court today by Farmers Bond and Savings Co. against Luther and Violet Asbury per clerk of courts records.
At the Meigs Chapter meeting Harmon O'Brien was chosen chairman and J. H. Grate vice chairman with Mrs. George Parker as secretary and Mrs. R. W. Finsterwald treasurer. The executive committee includes E. L. Howery, Robert Clark, Avery Nelson and many others. The annual fund drive begins March 1 with E. J. Tracy as county chairman.
Pomeroy Troop 49 of the Boy Scouts of America celebrates the organization’s founding 40 years ago on February 8. Services at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church feature a special sermon by Rev. L. M. Mohrhoff. Scouts wear uniforms this week and display work in Elberfeld’s store window. Board members are Harry Ohlinger W. P. Lochary J. Ed Foster and Dr. K. D. Amsbury. Officers include Eddie Burkett as councillor Kennelworth Nease assistant scoutmaster Ralph Spencer scoutmaster and Rev. Robert L. Hegnauer Cub scoutmaster.
A motorcycle rider Charles Rayburn Jr. 21 Middleport was thrown on Mulberry Ave near Breezy Heights Tuesday at 445 pm. He was taken to Meigs General Hospital where X rays showed no broken bones and he remained hospitalized overnight with severe bruising.
Mr. and Mrs. Cash Bahr announce the birth of a daughter by caesarian section at Holzer Hospital on February 7. The baby, their second daughter, is named Candace Ann. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. George Childs of Middleport and Mr. and Mrs. Maynard L. Bahr of Chester. Great grandparents include Mrs. Minnie Gilmore, Mrs. Lillie Childs, and Mr. and Mrs. William Bentz.
Grace Horton reports the death of Mrs. Carl Crissman of Alhambra California. The former Helen Osborne daughter of the late Will and wife lived on Mulberry Ave. Survived by husband a daughter Nancy Barbour a grandchild and brother Allen Osborne all of Alhambra.
POMEROY An automobile skidded and overturned on W Main St early Tuesday as the driver swerved to avoid two pedestrians. Marcella Custer 33 Minersville said she was driving east about 1230 am when two women in the road caused her to veer, the car knocked a service sign and flipped onto its wheels in a ditch. Burton Arnold Laurel Cliff was with her and both were treated by a West Virginia physician.
Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Fred Bay of Marietta the former Clara Koester of Pomeroy who died Sunday evening at her home. She is survived by her husband five daughters one son one brother Will Koester of Montgomery W Va and one sister Mrs Anna Eppelin Marietta.
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