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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1935
Page
3
Heaviest of the season reported at Gallipolis real warehouse on Monday. Kelton notes sale on the floor with an average of 17.47 dollars per hundred pounds. Crown City and others realized about 36 cents per pound. 0 to 0,000 pounds went “over the brakes.”
After two weeks illness Aaron Rife died Monday at his Addison home. He is survived by three brothers Levi Jerry and C L ja and a sister Mia plus a grandson Earl. Services will be held at 1 Wednesday at Bulaville Cemetery. Rev B C Venz to officiate. Burial to follow.
Three children named Warder Harold and Mary were taken into custody Monday in Ringgold Georgia on charges of theft in the county. An armed companion, Miss ie, is jailed as well, both unable to post the $1 000 bond.
A fragment from JAUGA NEWS reports a Saturday sale, multiple relocations and moves including Mrs. William Perry moving property, Evelyn Rothgeb, and Mrs. Roy Roberts. It also mentions Orville Vance seeking work, a relative funeral, and local employment activity around Marmet and nearby areas.
FERA faces uncertainty over the future office site as plans to move from Our House proceed. Some rooms in the Ohio Valley Bank Building are empty on the second floor while directors seek funds to build a frame office for FERA NRS and health officials. A three person staff reduction was ordered to cut administrative costs including Crilla Stiverson Norma Horner and Ed Sherman.
Mrs. Otho Shiers returns home after weeks with her mother. Dr. Brenton Allison of Oak Hill visits family here. L. F. Allen travels to Columbus on business and later to Zanesville. Mrs. Thomas McCarley improves after illness. Mrs. Richards and daughter Marianna spend Saturday afternoon in Jackson. Miss Marian Sharp and Margaret Jones visit Wellston. Albert Lewis falls ill and Victor Fowler fills a high school vacancy. Morris Fowler moves to sales at Payne Motor Co. in Gallipolis. Faculty study group meets with Miss Florence Chubbuck leading. Baptist cottage prayer meeting at Fulton home this week. Rev. W. T. Packer speaks at Presbyterian youth rally in Jackson. Packer to read The Green Pastures at the college. Vic Fowler attends Gallipolis-Waterloo game in Waterloo. Miss Marie Fowler weekends with relatives. Mrs. W. O. Aleshire returns to teaching after scarlet fever quarantine. Mr. Aleshire recovering at relatives’ Mid dleport home. Edna and Maybelle Corier visit from Minford. Carrie Lucas returns from a month in West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Calhoun and family visit Jackson and Thurman.
Gallia hearings proceed with three cases listed. Leslie Elkins, son of Paris and Mrs. Elkins Thiven er, died December 15 1933 after being struck by a car while transferring gasoline for Gill Produce Company near the airport. a $600 settlement with William H. and Stephen K. Vaught is noted. The remaining two cases concern the heirs of Charlies Burnett and James Rickman.
A portion of Route 2 in West Virginia from Pt Pleasant to Charleston is designated as part of U.S. Route 580 connecting with Routes 21 and 60 at Charleston, improving interstate linkage.
Mrs Emmett Olbers received a surprise party at her Chauncey home on Friday night planned by Helen Fierbaugh. Guests included Gilbert Courtney, Virgil Fierbaugh, Charlie Cordray, Doris Cordray, William Dalton, Leona Dalton, Dave Swartz, Verna Swartz, Myrtle Olbers, Ada McConkey, Gertie Brown, Isabel Leffler, and Mae Maynard.
Nineteen mines in the Chauncey district were active Monday and again today. Chauncey No. 25 Poston No. 6 and Hocking are listed among today’s operating mines. Other active pits include No. 9 No. 27 No. 138 No. 28 No. 24 No. 68 No. 107 No. 219 No. 68 No. 10X Ohio No. 1 Lick Run Black Diamond Luhrig and Kimberly.
At the Morristown Holiness Church annual election Andrew McKinney was chosen class leader with John Bullock as assistant. Mrs. Andrew McKinney will be clerk and Mrs. James Mullins treasurer. Deaconesses elected were Mrs. McKinney and Vera Bridgewater. Rev. Charlies Hook preached. attendees came from Newark Concord Floodwood Millfield and Columbus.
Mrs. Mary McKinley of Akron rents rooms from Mr. and Mrs. George Ford on Sand Ridge and will stay until her son James finds a Millfield house. James works at Sun day Creek Mine No. 6. C. H. Boudinot, ill with pleurisy, shows slight improvement. Mr. and Mrs. George Shaner hosted sons Fred of Columbus and William of Nelsonville. Jefferson Keirns of Rural Route 1 visited Athens on Thursday.
In Gallia County Stanley Waugh and the Board of County Commissioners agreed on the sale of a road right of way through the Waugh property in Ohio Township with a $25 increase over the original offer. Surveyor Farnom Haskins was asked to install sewers in front of the Morton Neal property in Harrison Township. The Monday meeting focused on relief needs and possible Cheshire Township projects. Resident Hortie Shafer urged more road graveling and brush cutting, noting relief laborers were being sent elsewhere. Relief Director George W. Haney said Cheshire trustees had submitted projects two weeks earlier, but could not start work Monday.
Miss Frances Worman and Mrs Edna C Hurn were sworn as notaries public before Clerk Margaret McCormick their commissions run three years Miss Worman works as a stenographer in local law offices and Hurn helps publish The Gellia Times In Gallipolis Ohio the alienation of affections suit Virginia Phillips versus Fred Phillips valued at 5000 is heard today by Judge Charles Jepples in Common Pleas Court with R W Fillinger as plaintiff's father-in-law.
January meeting of Chauncey Church of Christ Men’s Bible Class reelects Dannie E. Johnson as president with Paul Fiske as vice president Wesley Walburn as secretary and George Wilson as treasurer Henry Cass leads program presenting Peter Keasey in a vocal solo James Nye on piano and a chorus number James Rankin humorous reading Gilbert Courtney gives a short talk Social committee serves sandwiches pie and coffee Two guests Zane Kassler and Ellis Earich play violin duets.
Chauncey residents visit Mrs Katzenback near New Marshfield where she lies seriously ill, and her daughter Mrs Mullins stays by her side. Several families from Chauncey and Columbus join Mrs Sidney Simpson at her ill home. O g Jackson funeral gathers Athens residents including Charlie Ogg. Leander Dorr and Mrs Adkins are noted as ill or visiting.
Rev J H Wallace of Oak Hill will preach tonight Wednesday and Thursday at 7 pm in Morristown Holiness Church. He led a revival here last winter. Public is invited.
Mrs Ida Hill will host the Martha Bible Class January meeting with an officers election. Mrs L L Howard, class president, will conduct. Guy Wemmer suffered three fractured ribs and bruises in a fall at No 28 Mine College Hill. Mrs Jane Matson returned home from Mountaville after visiting her son in law and daughter.
Plans are completed for an all day quilting party and a dinner at the Church of Christ on Thursday to celebrate the twenty fourth anniversary of the Ladies Aid Society. Charter members are expected to attend. Wiley Patterson, a snapper at Sunday Creek Mine No 6, was injured Thursday. D W McDaniel resigned a position in Columbus and returned home Saturday.
Lodi High School juniors held a party at Marie Bobo home with music by Pearl Douglas Claudis Chappel Clarence Creamer and Walter Smith. They danced played cards and engaged in games with numerous attendees listed including Bobo family members and friends. Refreshments were served around 7 o clock.
Five Meigs County communities will host birthday parties on January 80 to celebrate Franklin D. Roosevelt's birth and raise funds to fight infantile paralysis. Sheriff Roscoe O. Fowler chairs the event plans with committees named in Chester Rutland Pomeroy Middleport Racine and more. Funds will be distributed 70 30 between local needs and national research.
Pomeroy area women of the Grace Episcopal Church will gather Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Greta Price's Main Street home. Mrs. Theodore Reed will host the Grace Guild Friday night at her Mulberry Avenue residence with assistance from Mrs. M. D. Hartinger and Mrs. Scott Ridgeway. Mr. and Mrs. Homer Ashworth hosted weekend visitors, their son and daughter-in-law from Columbus. Ralph Gilmore of Butternut Avenue is in Columbus on business. Mr. and Mrs. Edison Hobstetter and Dr. and Mrs. P. E. Stanley returned from Columbus Sunday.
Reports say the Church of Christ Sunday School attendance improved with last Sunday totaling 300, announced as a notable increase.
Mrs. Jessie Lans bury hosted the Heath Methodist Episcopal Church Guild Society on Monday night. A large attendance heard plans for the annual Washington Birthday dinner after the business session followed by a social hour.
A Bradford Church of Christ member and Bible School worker, A. L. Hysell, has not missed a Sunday at Bible School or Church for ten years.
Nobles and Baker were arraigned before Judge PeoR, after Friday grand jury returned indictments. Nobles faces two counts for cutting with intent to wound and assault, Baker indicted for assault for striking Cliff Williams of Syracuse with a beer mug. Both enter not guilty pleas.
August C Snyder of Tuppers Plains died suddenly at his home on Route 5. A prominent farmer, he had been a 22 year tenant on Major Foster’s Higby farm. Survived by his wife and nine children including Rev. D Vause Snyder. Funeral led by Rev. EB Keaton of Chillicothe.
The Loyal Pals Class of the Church of Christ Bible School marked its fifth anniversary with a dinner at Hillcrest Inn in Athens. Attendees included Mrs. Whitlock, Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Stoneking, Mrs. Betts, Mrs. Frost, Mrs. Jenkinson, Mrs. Quivey, Claire Minor, Mabel Hysel, Nine Russell, Frances Roush, and Mildred Hawley, the teacher.
The Pomeroy Civic Club holds its first meeting of the year at Elmhurst Tavern starting 6 30 PM. A special town council session follows at 7 00 PM to finalize the 1935 budget after its first reading at the last regular meeting.
A delegation from Asbury Chapel Church visited Rev. and Mrs. D. Vause Snyder at the A. B. Parsonage in Tuppers Plains and presented them with several packages of valuable gifts.
Middleport residents report weekend visitors as Mrs Jess Johnston and Mr Leath stayed with the Boice family. Several relatives travel to Columbus and Athens while others return home with updates on health and hospital stays including Mrs M L Kelly and her infant daughter remaining in Holzer Hospital.
Rev. John A. Wilson Jr. reports Mary Moore, formerly of Middleport, sustained injuries in a fall. She lived here many years with her niece Mrs. L A Fulcher and now resides at Oak Hill Hospital where her nephew Dr. McCullough practices.
Daughters of America No 245 holds annual installation of officers including Ida Staats as Jr past councilor Estella Roush as councilor Wilmetta Mulford as associate councilor Rebecca BSt evena as vice councilor Francesa Roush as associate vice councilor Agnes Staats as warden Marie Williams as conductor Ethel Jones as inside sentinel Edna Howard as outside sentinel and Wilmetta Mulford as trustee for 14 months Refreshments served after the meeting.
In Columbus on January 16 nine commutations and one pardon were issued to Ohio convicts as Governor George White completed his term. Notable cases include William Norris of Meigs County serving a life term for murder and Ellis Simpson of Gallia County with a 10 to 20 year robbery sentence.
Rev. W. Colegrove began two weeks of evangelistic services at the First Baptist Church in Middleport. Morning sermons urged more Christian service. evening talks covered prayer and the value of faith. The Resurrection of Lazarus was discussed Monday night. Tonight's theme is Our Bible Is It the Word of God. Attendance urged for all sessions.
Charles E B Smith representing Ohio Edison argued before the Public Utilities Commission that company reports differ from balance sheets and the court resumed a stockholders suit in Youngstown seeking an accounting of dividends paid to Commonwealth Southern and an injunction on further dividends. He objected to deposition testimony from Prescott Murdock about sources for the company balance sheets and commission reports.
The Blue team defeated the Red team in a church contest. A party at the Middleport Presbyterian Church will be held Thursday night at 7 o clock with a miscellaneous program social hour and light refreshments for all Bible School members.
Rutland Kenneth Bradford and sister Mrs Harold Smith are summoned home as Jud Bradford lies seriously ill. Betty Jean Reeves marks her third birthday with a family dinner and gifts. Rural Economics class in Middleport, led by Dr W F Copeland of Ohio University, continues weekly.
Fourth annual Middleport Chapter banquet at Riverside Hotel with a 6 30 start preceded by a business meeting. John T Owens Cincinnati guest and sergeant at arms praised the chapter. M B McAllister Rotary guest spoke. New officers pledge an active 1935 program.
Mrs Margaret Young aged 89 died late Sunday at her son Arthur Young's home in Pine Grove. She leaves four sons and one daughter. The funeral was held at 2 PM from Pine Grove Church with burial in Pine Grove Cemetery.
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