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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1935
Page
3
Groups in Pomeroy Bend observe Safety Week with activities organized by local churches and community groups. Middleport residents plan a February carry out as part of the community effort.
A garbled snippet of health product language mentions life, blood, organic will, and secretions. It references safeguarding health, purifying the body, and drugstore offerings, but the text is incoherent and contains no clear event or person.
The Peoples Rest farm in Pine Grove owned by E W Peoples of Pomeroy displays the name on a front porch sign. Local businessmen J Elberfeld W A Compton and A D Russell own farms nearby and discuss returning to rural living. Peoples plans a small log house and a dam with a future fish stock on the property.
Oma Mills was granted a divorce from Frank Mills on Friday in common pleas court for extreme cruelty. The custody of their minor child was awarded to Mrs Mills. A second divorce was granted Saturday in Pomeroy to Thelma M Crumley from Harold M Crumley, with cruelty cited by Crumley.
Mrs Charlies Bing celebrated a birthday Sunday hosted by Mrs A A Bing of Cheshire and Mrs J K Smith at the Smith home on South Sixth Avenue. Attendees included Charles Bing A A Bing Genevieve Bing Emma Jean Smith Harry Teal John Jr and Beulah Lee Smith. The honoree received many gifts from friends.
Mr and Mrs William Winigman Jr announce the birth of a daughter Dixie Faye on February 2. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Wm Justice of Longstreth and Mr and Mrs William Winigman Jr of Carbon Hill. Great grandparents are Mrs Jane Bay and Mrs Mary Brooker of Longstreth.
During the period from December 3 to January 25 Athens city schools showed 16 removals and 16 withdrawals. Attendance started at 1336 with nine new entrants and 16 reenrollees mitigating losses. Accredited average daily attendance reached 1312 amid 253 tardies and 13 truancies. 400 pupils were neither absent nor tardy.
Mrs Geiger returned to Columbus after two weeks in Pomeroy with her mother Mrs Meier and sister Mrs Rudisill. Mrs Evick left after a three week visit with her daughter Mrs Kim and family. Mr and Mrs Rudisill visited Circleville for the weekend. James T Lewis has been seriously ill at his First Avenue home. An extension study class meets Wednesday evening from 5 30 to 10 00 with 40 members. Co B Smith is seriously ill.
Pomeroy residents report convalescence for Mrs. John Chase in Columbus near her daughter Mrs. William Waters after a three week post operative stay in a Zanesville hospital. Ohio visitors Dr. and Mrs. Roland Boice of Cleveland join relatives for a weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Hartley of Columbus plan several days at Lincoln Hill home. Racine Scouts beat Racine Scouts 14 to 12 in a local basketball game. Five Hundred Club hosts at Mrs. James Stevens home with high Mrs. Lee Rudisill and second Mrs. Chris Beards. guest prize to Mrs. Esther Crews. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher Russell and daughter Dorothy return to Muskogee Okla after nephew Richard Kelly Grogan’s death. They stayed with Mrs. Russell’s mother Mrs. Bessie Grogan and son Kelly. The United States remains a leading producer of cornstarch.
United States Forestry Service to run land acquisition for five Ohio units forming a new national forest. Office to direct land exam, protection, and administration will be in Chillicothe with regional ties to North Central headquarters. Five units include Muskingum Hocking Valley McArthur Little Scioto and Symmes Creek with tens of thousands of acres each.
Rome reports Italy mobilizes between 100000 and 250000 troops as Ethiopian Italian Somaliland border tensions rise. Two army divisions ordered to concentrate, 1911 class recalled for precaution. Public excitement and a sharp stock market fall follow the mobilization news.
B M Covert an Athens optometrist and chair of Zone 6 of the Ohio State Optometric Association will preside at a joint meeting with Zone 6 of the West Virginia Association of Optometrists at McConnellville on Tuesday night.
Chicago based Chicago Wine and Food Society promotes its fourteen points for discriminating dining. Joseph D. Wehl ing endorses America as culinary Moses with natural resources and mechanical facilities. The plan urges education of masses to regard eating as art and bans pre meal cocktails and drunkenness. Also notes Racine Chester basketball game postponed due to illness.
Chauncey February 11 Leander Dorr 80 pioneer Dover Township resident dies at home near Chauncey. Funeral Tuesday at 2 from the residence with Rev Gilbert Courtney Chauncey Church of Christ officiating. T O O F lodge rites at cemetery burial in West Union Street Cemetery Athens. Survived by Carlos Dorr Nellie Giesecke Watt Ferrer Elmer H Dorr James H Dorr Helen Brown. wife Mary Harvey Dorr died 1914.
An advertisement offers a 35 cent package of Gold Medal Haarlem capsules claimed to flush poisons and acids from kidneys and ease bladder irritation. It lists symptoms such as night awakenings, burning sensation in the urinary passage, backache, leg cramps and puffy eyes and urges use as directed.
Twenty three mines in the district are in operation today. The active list includes No. 9 No. 15 No. 68 No. 107 No. 68 No. 24 No. 87 No. 219 No. 24 No. 267 No. 285 No. 10X Ohio No. 1 Lick Run Chauncey No. 25 Poston No. 6 Hocking Carbondale Luhrig Black Diamond Kimberly Coonville and Salem Hollow.
Chauncey Ladies Auxiliary to the United Mine Workers will meet Wednesday night in their club room for a business session followed by a Valentine party a monthly birthday observance and refreshments.
Philippine Lodge No. 708 in Chauncey plans to reorganize at a lodge hall meeting Tuesday night. Former members are invited to reinstate with a modest fee. officers will be elected as the lodge resumes after several months’ pause. Grand Chancellor Robert Featheringham recently visited to discuss the revival. Leonard Albert Lennigar Jr. born February 7, with grandparents George Lennigar Edison Riley.
The Friendship Bible Class of Chauncey Church of Christ will meet at Mary Stalder’s Main Street home for a February gathering. The program includes a devotional, business session, and a social hour with a Valentine box feature.
Athens district Odd Fellows plan a 1 p.m. gathering at Sereno Lodge Temple Court Street to attend the burial of Leander Dorr who died Sunday and will be laid to rest at 2 p.m. Tuesday in West Union Street Cemetery Chauncey area.
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