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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1931
Page
2
Notice outlines telephone submission lines for society and locals to 40-3 and directs readers to contact Virgil Marsh for classifieds and circulation items in The Messenger. Mentions A Hartley staff correspondent and encourages telephoning news and society notes.
Dr. Jane Nye Gilliford, Meigs County health officer, issues a drastic vaccination order due to smallpox. Pomeroy and Middleport public schools will not reopen until Tuesday morning, with all teachers and pupils required to be vaccinated or face 21 days quarantine. A Tuesday check-up will verify compliance, and extra vacation day is granted for vaccination.
Meredith Marion White aged 83 died suddenly at his Portland home at 10 30 Saturday morning after a brief illness. He had been able to walk the day before. He is survived by his wife a daughter in Wheeling and a son in Shreveport Louisiana No funeral plans will be set until the son arrives.
Meigs County Commissioners plan to reorganize with W A Compton starting a third term and a contest for the chairmanship between Karr and Compton. William Smith holds the deciding vote, while Karr won last year. Pomeroy council gains no officer changes as incumbents stay.
Meigs Temple Pythian Sisters will install officers Tuesday evening in Middleport. Knights of Pythian and Wilkesville Pythian Sisters Lodge are invited. After the ceremony refreshments will be served and a social hour will follow.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Hartinger their daughter Clara and Harley Devol traveled 86 hours from Kanawa Oklahoma to Middleport arriving Friday to stay with Mr Hartingers mother Mrs Sadie Hartinger they plan to visit.
Merl Millison 28 and Fiva Knapp 24 both of Cheshire KR FLD No 2 married at the Courthouse Saturday afternoon in a ceremony by Justice FE R Titus. The bride had prior marriages and children, having been known as Fr Sheline and Knapp in earlier unions.
In Middleport on Friday evening a yearly union prayer service will be held at the Presbyterian Church. Three ministers Revs Eichinger Kreager and Gardner will speak for quinze minutes each on the topic What the Church Means to Me and What I Mean to the Church.
Mr and Mrs H F Cook and daughter Betty visited Charleston with Mrs Arthur Stuart family and returned home Sunday. John Frecker and daughter Flossie returned from Columbus visiting Ralph Frecker family. Miss Helen Beeson returned to Columbus school duties after a home visit. Haliman cousins visited from Reading Pa and will travel to Columbus.
The 6 H. Sanborn 9 Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. M J Mygatt for its January session. The society is trying afternoon meetings instead of evenings and hopes the change will benefit the organization.
Middleport report Gilbert Mattox, son of Mr and Mrs Elmer Mattox, remains in serious condition at Holzer Hospital after surgery. his parents stay by his side.
The Monthly Meeting in Middleport is postponed one week because of union prayer services at the Presbyterian Church. The society will meet the evening of January 16.
The Music Club will start rehearsals Tuesday night at Heath M. FP Church. Practice sessions will continue every Tuesday night thereafter in Middleport.
Mrs Eliza Swisher 77 died at her home near Cheshire interment followed at the old Roger Church with funeral services held Sunday afternoon. She was the widow of Matthew Swisher and is survived by two sons Galen and Samuel, both residents of Gallia County.
In 1856 Meigs County officers included Simeon Nash as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, Gal lipolis as Probate Court judge, Rodney Downing as clerk, Joseph V. Smith as sheriff, N. Simpson as prosecuting attorney, H. H. Swallow as auditor, O. Branch as treasurer, S. B. Paine as recorder, John C. Golden as surveyor, Major W. Collins as coroner, and William Ledlie Milo Guthrie Orance Thomas Smith as commissioners. Sutton Township examiners were Rev. R Wilkinson, George BR Grow and A A Keen.
POMEROY Jan 5 Delbert W Welker retires today as Meigs County deputy sheriff after four years of service. He drove more than 10 000 miles delivering papers pursuing criminals and transporting inmates with no serious wrecks besides accidentally running over a duck. He handled 2029 prisoners at the county jail without losing one, a record officers say may never be equaled.
Ohio University students Pearl Williams and Helen Guthrie married in Athens Wednesday. They received an old fashioned beiline at Jewell Story Saturday night as friends from near and far gathered to serenade them, making a memorable community event.
POMEROY Jan 5 A. O. Tracy begins as Meigs County sheriff and takes command of ten prisoners and a vacant building. Deputy John H. Young is sworn in, alongside matron Effie Tracy and her helpers, as the new administration assumes duties.
Mrs Georgia Ballard died in Milwaukee after a period of critical illness. Her sister Mrs Sarah Lant of Middleport reports the death. The body will be taken to Coolville for funeral services at 2 o clock Tuesday afternoon with burial in Coolville.
Columbus January 6 initial session of the Fighty Ninth Ohio General Assembly to organize and elect Republican officers. Insurgent senators Emmons Whittmore Nickels Anderson and Johnson may back Republicans or withhold votes to force a compromise candidate. Democratic Senator DeArmond named minority floor leader.
Ohio recorded 104,171 births in the first ten months of 1930 versus 102,593 in the first eleven months of 1929, a gain of about five births per day. The health department also reported 4,615 fewer deaths in the same comparison period, signaling improved net birth outcomes.
In Chicago on January 6 U R Com reporting, parishioners at St Mary Magdalen protested Fr Edward A Kowalewski’s removal. Police guarded the church all day after rioting by Polish faithful. 14 arrests were made but later released as Cardinal Mundelein named Msgr Anthony Halgas to succeed Kowalewski.
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation reports dividends on stock and growth in co operative activity amid drought. Service Company retail branches rose from 20 to 36 with 1930 sales near $1.87 million and fertilizer tönage at 84 555 tons, up from 56 807 in 1929.
In England Arkansas on Saturday more than 100 farmers many tenants marched into the business district and threatened to raid provision shops for food. A local committee warned them against depredations and arranged to supply them until Red Cross relief from St Louis could arrive.
Herbert S. Bigelow, pastor of the People's Church in Cincinnati and former Ohio Constitutional Convention chair, announced a proposed constitutional amendment to create a nonpartisan general assembly. Petitions will circulate to place the measure on ballots, needing 200000 signatures by next June.
Joseph Leon Lazarowitz 25 once Brooklyn born hobo king abdicates his title at a Minneapolis convention. He plans to become a journalist and marry a Superior Wisconsin woman, travel to Spokane before settling, saying he will no longer rely on hobolife. He claims his travels brought him in contact with presidents and mayors and that he never paid for meals or clothes as king.
Mrs Beryl Hart and William S Maclaren Jr halted near Bermuda due to lack of funds for a new sextant. They landed in Hampton Roads after a damaged sextant darkness and dwindling fuel forced an emergency return. They secured a navigation instrument from the U S Naval Academy Annapolis and planned a new takeoff this morning.
Bellefontaine High School was partly destroyed by a fire Saturday night with damage estimated at 15000 dollars. State fire investigators were to examine the scene to determine the cause.
Frank Stevenson, 64, longtime newspaper vendor for The Ohio State Journal, was struck and killed Sunday by a car driven by Grover Radcliff in Columbus. Stevenson had sold papers for more than 30 years.
Marion Q January 6 The Harding Memorial Association plans a meeting to draft an invitation to President Herbert Hoover to dedicate the $800,000 memorial completed here six months ago in tribute to President Warren G. Harding.
Morning report notes hundreds of Athens County pupils returned to classes after holiday recess. Athens City schools dismissed December 19 while county rural schools ended vacation on December 24.
Jan 5 Bradbury public schools remain shut by order of the board of health after several new smallpox cases appeared. Schools will stay closed until further notice.
The Princess Royal, sister of King George V and Queen Maud of Norway, died in her sleep in London. Known for her shy disposition and rare royal honor of gaining two titles on a single day, she became Duchess of Fife at her wedding and later held the Countess of Fife title.
Westerville Ohio January 5 The Anti-Saloon League director Dr Ernest H Cherrington says prohibition is a political issue opposing Senator Simeon D Fess stance that it would split party lines He notes voters were told prohibition was not an issue in fall elections and wet candidates could be elected without changing policy
The speaker states that despite no clear victory, the wets hope to keep prohibition as the dominant political issue through 1932. He stresses intensified organization to unite groups around anti and pro prohibition factions as national opinion shifts.
Columbus dispatch reports Starr, 17, a Negro from Dayton, being questioned by police in connection with several robberies in Marion, Cardington and nearby areas with three others said to have participated. A second item notes O'Goofty reading "Oy People" about Ho wood folk, bought thinking it a boxing commission story.
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