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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1931
Page
2
Middleport will operate cheaper than Pomeroy in 1931 budgets. Middleport bases its appropriation at 28 997 48 including sinking and general funds while Pomeroy seeks 86 539 09. After subtracting 30 000 to pay old water and light debts the gap remains 32 641 61. Population is similar and corporate machinery costs align.
Mrs R H Heccox and Joe Heccox return from Columbus where Joe will work. Mrs Dora Boice returns from Dugger Ind to Columbus. Ray L Smith family attend aunt’s funeral in Coolville. Christine and Grant depart for Columbus. Herman Mourning and family visit Ft Pleasant. Noah and Mrs Haskins newlyweds back in town. Haskins to resume teaching. several residents travel or recover from illnesses. Rainey Doroning heads to Florida. Glee Wilson recovers from arm injury on route. Rebecker family returns to Columbus. Lemsey and Gaskill family return to Zanesville.
Miss mural Chambers entertained class No. 12 of the Wreath M FE Bible School in Port Middleport on Monday evening at the South Fourth and Main Street venue. Miss Vesta McCoy led the lesson prior to a social hour with refreshments provided by Mrs Gaimer Martin and Miss Flossie Frecker.
The store building on Second Street and its groceries and meats stock were transferred yesterday. Philip Somers buys the building and Alvin Norris takes the stock and will run the grocery and meat business for several years. Mrs Youngs retires after operating since her husband R D Young's death years ago.
Meigs County swears in Freda Hartinger as recorder after her election as Freda Nadford. Additional counties report women officials: Eva Mock in Fairfield as recorder, Fannie Myers as prosecuting attorney and Laura Smith as recorder in Morrow. E a Blizzard auditor and Catharine Minshall recorder in Madison. Mary Morris recorder and Jennie Barr treasurer in Pickaway.
A. W. McKay head of the Middleport schools fell ill at his Coal Street home Monday after receiving a smallpox vaccination the previous Saturday. Friends express concern as he had been vaccinated before and refused to require students to be vaccinated unless he personally underwent the ordeal again.
Mack Arnold, Clermont Arnold and John Arnold of Pomeroy with Mrs. E. K. Lippincott travel to Winchester Indiana to attend the funeral of A. R. Abshire who died Sunday. Abshire was brother in law to the Arnolds. Alberta Arnold, later Mrs Abshire, was born in Enterprise to the late M C Arnold family.
Mrs Paul Parsons suffered a crushed left hand after it was caught in a wringer on Monday. The hand is described as thin and small, but no bones were broken, according to local report from Middleport.
John Lake of The Plains suffers a fractured vertebra after a slate fall at Hocking Mine. He is hospitalized at Sheltering Arms Hospital with hospital attaches reporting a good chance for recovery.
A partition suit filed in Common Pleas Court by Homer Welsh and Katherine E. French, heirs of Martha I. Dye, seeks division of W. H. Dye estate land worth substantial value. Heirs named include T A Welsh, Mary J. Means, Jane Dias, Roger and John Welsh, Martha Welsh, Mary Duffield, with shares ranging from one eighth to one sixteenth.
The Loyal Pala Class at Middleport celebrates its first anniversary with a birthday cake for Miss Amith and a 1 o'clock chicken dinner hosted by Miss Myrtle Smith. Nine members attend with four guests including Mrs. Fred Gardner and Miss Etta Gaskill. Officers elected: President Nina Russell, Vice-President Delia Jenkinson, Secretary Myrtie Smith, Assistant Frances Joush, Treasurer Sarah Sidenstricker, Flower Chair Mabel Hyseil.
Village of Middleport holds Jan 7 meeting with Mayor Harley presiding. Budget for the year approved and an ordinance prepared. A night and day guard is hired to enforce smallpox quarantine rules. Quarantined individuals violating orders will be sent to the county pest house and held under guard until cleared.
Mrs Charlies Terrell, formerly of Meigs County, dies in Marion Ohio. Funeral at Enterprise Church East Pomeroy with burial Pine Grove Cemetery. Lucinda Donahue granted divorce from Thomas M Donahue Aron. Zelma Merrill infant suit against Willard Merrill heard and held under advisement. C&O Railroad passenger trains busier as highways slip. Salisbury Township School Board elected Joe Evans president and Helen Waddell clerk and treasurer.
Eithel B. Ryan of Ohio Division of Conservation will visit Nelsonville Giouster and Athens high schools this Friday to promote Nature Guardian Clubs for children ages six to eighteen. Attendees at PTA meetings invited. membership is free and includes badge certificate and instructions.
The Progressive Study Club met at Mrs. Mary Bryson’s Main Street home and reached Manchuria on an imaginary world journey. Mrs. Anna Duncan wrote a paper read by Mrs. Garnet Drury in Mrs. Duncan’s absence, with eight members named as present.
The Friendship Circle of the M E Church reports readiness for the production Corporal Kagen to be staged tonight and Thursday night at the Opera House for the Circle's benefit. Opera House opens at 7:08 p.m. and curtain rises at 8:15 p.m.
An old advertisement urges rapid cold relief with Hill's Cascara Quinine. Take two tablets now and follow box directions, drink water, and trust this traditional remedy to move poisons from the system. The copy touts Hill's as a proven method to knock a cold in a jiffy for only a few cents.
The Rev Paul E Kemper of Glouster M. E. Church assists Rev W H Reitz in a Jacksonville revival at the M E Church. Services nightly at 7 o clock with a special song leader directing the music.
The Rev F E Roberts left Glouster for New Holland to officiate the 2 PM funeral of John Orihood a 70 year old prominent local resident who died Monday night The Orihoods daughter Miss Masie had previously visited the Roberts family in Glouster.
A French village cannot elect a mayor as no candidate appears and no ballots are cast in recent elections leaving the town mayorless.
The Council of Ministers in Monte Carlo has halted publication of the monthly magazine Guillemets due to intimate details about Princess Charlotte of Monaco. The move suppresses further release of the issue and related content pending review.
Cure claim for permanent gas relief cites Baalmann's Gas Tablets reducing stomach pressure and anxious feelings, improving breathing comfort after meals. Promotes purchase at drug stores and notes CLINE PHARMACY as a source and price.
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