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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1936
Page
3
New Pomeroy village government resumes with Hess and Tracy assuming offices today. The town forms a new council and hires set salaries while facing traffic safety and budget challenges amid shifts in clerk, treasurer, and police roles.
A New Year’s Eve gathering was held Tuesday at the home of Miss Sybil Mc with Josephine Emmish Zamice Hennesy among attendees. About 20 guests attended the social event.
The Army may finish Bluestone inton work in Bluestone West Virginia if sufficient funds become available before year end 1939.
Public sale notice for Lyons vs Bns et al in Ohio Common Pleas No 16211 on December 13, 1925 at 1 30 PM. Real estate includes Township of Athens parcels with coal and mineral rights, several tracts and lots, located in sections 24 and 34, Town 9 Range 14, with cash terms and right to separate or whole sale per court order.
Miss Golda Mae Moore and Charley Fridley united in marriage Saturday evening in Middleport. They plan to reside in Middleport.
Feeney Bennett Squad Ron, Sons of the American Legion, held a Saturday night meeting at the Legion hall in Middleport. Officers elected included Commander Carl Mourning Adjutant Harold Kauf First lieutenant Billy Hamm Chaplain Oliver Long Sergeant-at-arms William Bolin Treasurer Jack Kauff with Matthews Kauf and Bolin as committeemen. Refreshments followed.
Mr and Mrs Francis Gapie moved to the McMaster apartment on Second Street from the Shiffet property on Williams Street. Mr and Mrs Bart H Rawlings hosted a turkey dinner with guests including Mr and Mrs Co B Stout and Barbara, and Mr and Mrs C F Dutton and Lucille. Millard Lampert and son Wana visited Middleport recently. Tom Mays traveled in Cincinnati and Southern Ohio for Southern Ohio Electric Co. Supt M W Essex attended a state teachers convention in Columbus. Elizabeth Jenkins from New Lexington visited relatives for the holidays and left for home. Clifford Cunningham returned for a visit to Bucyrus. Frank White Jr. is recovering from illness. Ben Wolf and family of Washington PA visited the Tituses for the holidays and returned home. Martha and Peggy Robson hosted a watch party at Cravel Hill. Mr and Mrs Arthur Stuart and their daughter from Charleston spent New Year’s with Mrs Mary Cook and visited relatives.
Huntington district faces a milk shortage that strengthens the push to keep Meigs County dairymen in the market. County Agent George W. Kreitler explains demand grows as supply declines, with three years needed to rebuild dairy herds. Whole milk fetches higher prices than processed products, and butter production uses separated milk.
Members of the Sanborn Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church held their regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Lawrence Bing Monday evening. Mrs. L. L. Lyons presided. Mrs. Bertha Mygatt reviewed a chapter of the year’s study book. Refreshments were served during the social hour.
Miss Wanda Byers hosted a New Year’s Eve party for her club of girls at her Third Street home. A late hour brought refreshments and socializing for attendees.
Magic City Lodge I O O F will hold a regular meeting Friday night with practice in first degree work for members seeking initiation.
Glouster officials convene a two year term with C F Wallace presiding. Zern Cunningham resigns and is replaced by J R Binford. Thomas Stephenson named to fill a vacancy on the board of public affairs. Norman Smith named fire chief. Stephenson joins board of public affairs alongside Lunsford and Robinson.
Dodge City report notes the New Year’s Day game was not played due to rain. Farmers would have benefited more from the proceeds aiding the needy rather than funding the charity event.
The Glouster board of public affairs met in the city building and reorganized naming C. G. Lunsford president and William Jonas as clerk. Malcolm Dunnett was hired as superintendent and Fred H. Ervin as assistant superintendent with salary adjustments keeping total monthly wages similar. The board adopted monthly hires with firmer performance expectations.
The Progressive Study Club will meet Friday night at the home of Mrs. Ruth Watkins.
A Monday evening bingo party was hosted by Mrs. Fred Whitlock on Seventh Ave in Middleport. Prize recipients included Mrs. B. O. Gilfilen and Mrs. C. F. Hawkins with a door prize to Mrs. Lee Rudisill.
New Year's program of the Middleport Music Club at Heath Methodist Episcopal Church drew a large audience. Greetings were given by club president Mrs. Cedric Clark. The program featured Miss Freda Faehnile, Willis Aleshire, Dan Farmer, Mrs. Homer Cook, and others with Mozart and Sudds pieces concluding the concert. Out of town guests included Mrs. Dan Jenkins and several Rio Grande and Pomeroy residents.
The annual mask hall sponsored Tuesday night by the Firemen at the K of P Hall drew a capacity crowd. Dancing was the main activity and a midnight luncheon followed the New Year's Eve Eagles Club party for members and friends.
Ralph Stedman and Miss Kathleen Smith wed at Holy Cross Church parsonage Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock with Rev. Father A V Kessler officiating. Attendants were Miss Genevieve Smith and Charles Beshara. The bride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith, is a Glouster High School graduate of 1932. the groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. L L Stedman, is a 1930 graduate. They plan to reside in Glouster City.
Mrs C C Shayne aged 87 of New York died Tuesday night at Lomacong Maryland after a stroke of paralysis. The former Margaret Sloan of Pomeroy helped found the Ohio Society in New York and led the Daughters of Ohio. Funeral services will be held in New York.
Mrs F F Thornton and daughter Sue spent Christmas Day with relatives in Buffalo West Virginia. Albert Spencer arrived from Columbus and returned with his wife on Christmas Day. Ed Vance and Walter Schoonover are home from Belle West Virginia for the holidays. Lizzie Adams visits relatives in Huntington West Virginia. Homer Daugherty moves to Lettie Black property near Modern Markets Store. Emma Comstock spends Christmas with relatives in North Point Pleasant West Virginia.
Funeral services were held at Horeb Church Wednesday for Mrs. Elizabeth Davis 92 pioneer Welsh resident of Jackson County. She is survived by four children Elton and W. F. Davis of Jackson Route 2 John J. Davis of Detroit Mich and Dan E. Davis of Washington D C.
Mrs. Arius Cook and her three daughters Juanita Virginia and Donna June travel from Columbus to visit her parents Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Tope. They stopped to visit relatives in Wellston during their trip.
Mrs. Ellen Saunders Casey aged 68 died at her home near Thivener Tuesday. Funeral services were held at St. Nicholas Church at 1 p.m. today with burial in the church cemetery. She is survived by her second husband James Casey and a daughter.
Los Angeles reports the 18 mile east Coachella bore of the Colorado River aqueduct nearing completion. The project aims to secure a major water supply for the region as construction continues.
Funeral services for Roy Brooks 42 of Gallia County will be held Friday at Dry Ridge Baptist Church after he died from injuries when struck by a car just before the new year. Police questioned CCC workers involved but released them. Brooks died at Holzer Hospital. He is the seventh Gallia County traffic fatality of 1939 with survivors including his mother Mrs Anna Brooks and siblings Mrs Viola Jenkins Homer Oakley and Leona.
Gallia county judge A J Stormont remembered his New Year birthday easily. He turned 79 on Wednesday and planned his annual duck pins match with his son Floyd, continuing a family tradition in Gallipolis.
Eight children survive prominent Rio Grande farmer David C. Richards aged 82 who died Tuesday night. His wife Anna Davis of Thurman also survives. Funeral services were conducted at the Rio Grande M. and E. Church with burial in Tyn Rhos Cemetery. Richards was born near Tyn Rhos and was a road contractor and threshing operator in Gallia and surrounding counties.
A New Year custom in Gallipolis involved cooks placing silver dollars in boiled cabbage served at homes and one restaurant. Patrons could keep any quarters or dimes found, upholding the money in the dish across several households and at least one eatery.
Mr and Mrs Randall Nelson who ran the Lock and Dam Inn at Eureka for two years have left for Huntington West Virginia to spend the winter and will return to Iowa in spring Mrs Mary Hamilton of Chillicothe has taken charge of the inn at Eureka.
B. F. Weiss, 45, principal of Troy High School, died today in Troy from influenza and pneumonia.
GALLIPOLIS A former milliner of Bidwell Mrs Mary Buck Fee aged 85 died at her daughter Mrs T L Taylor in Dallas Texas burial was there Surviving are a son Howard Fee 80 of Dallas a step daughter Mrs R L Abbott of Tucson Arizona and a sister Mrs Florise Webb of Chicago Ill Her early life lived on Front St opposite the Holzer home later she ran a millinery store in Bidwell Her brother Charles Buck former mayor of Huntington W Va died last spring
John O'Brien storekeeper at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics suffered fractures to several toes when his foot was caught in an elevator in the store room. He received treatment and was admitted to Holzer Hospital for X ray and further care.
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