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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
3
influenza of mild form has reached near epidemic levels in Pomeroy with many schoolchildren missing days. Other illnesses including pneumonia are rising as health officials warn crowds to limit colds and influenza despite cold weather.
Pom ery stockholders re elected the bank’s officers for the new year led by Hart Stanbery as president and chairman P B Stanbery as vice president Edison Hobstetter as cashier Mildred M Stanley and A L Franz as assistant cashiers and Robert Coates and George Hobstetter as bookkeepers Directors include Margaret H Stanbery Hart Stanbery Edison Hobstetter Henry Stanbery and P B Stanbery
The Athens County Probate Court suspends publication of hearings on numerous estate and guardianship accounts until February 1 1937 at 9 AM. Interested parties may file written exceptions by January 27 1937. Judge M Johnson presides.
Middleport State Senator Tom W Jones was placed on seven committees of interest to his district including finance schools utilities highways commerce labor and enrollment. His long experience aids his minority status and helps keep his district on the map.
Reedsville obituary for James H Randolph who died at home aged 86. Born in Reedsville he lived there his entire life and shared memories of Morgan’s Raiders visit in 1863. Survived by wife Ida Adams and two sons Earl and Will. infant son and daughter Katie preceded him. Funeral at home 10 a.m. Friday led by Rev. A L Clary. burial Hetzer Cemetery.
Roger J. Jones as administrator of Frederick H. Nice has filed a petition in the Athens County Probate Court for sale of three real estate tracts to pay debts. Ethel Gilbraith of 2212 Jackson Street Anderson Indiana and The Federal Lands Bank of Louisville are named as defendants and must answer by March 1, 1937. The property lies in Waterloo Township and includes 120, 60, and 40 acre tracts with coal rights excluded in part. Proceedings are cause No. 15262.
The fragment lists multiple monetary amounts such as 51 778.87 31 30 59 525.00 15 258.64 and a stray 3 27 881 87, with no context or identifiable entities to establish a concrete event or outcome.
The article Portrays Crown Prince Akihito Tsugu on his third birthday as a child with immense future burden and potential to become emperor reflecting the serious tone of royal life.
Funeral services for William Blackwood were held at Bethel M E Church. A large crowd from the region attended with many relatives and friends listed from multiple towns. Also noted were social visits, birthdays, and a funeral party returning from Middleport with Mrs Gladys Watts Updike’s body cremation planned in Portsmouth.
Pomeroy social notes recount the arrival of Miss Nancy Rawlings from Columbus after her father’s death in Tallahassee Florida. Activities include hospital visits, club meetings, a card party at the Dillard home, and plans to mark Revolutionary War graves with the DAR and Sons of the Revolution committees.
Mrs Arthur Skinner entertained her bridge club at Union Avenue home Tuesday evening. The club prize was awarded to Miss Marion.
Margaret Riley of Middleport filed a common pleas court suit for 12000 against Cecil Bradbury and the Village of Middleport after an automobile accident on November 21 1935. The suit claims a village sewer ditch across Second Street was dug with a 20 inch by 30 inch unguarded unmarked trench causing Riley to be permanently injured when her car struck it.
Middleport residents report new home purchases and moves including S Fourth Ave to Rife property and Cecil Bolin moving in. Families relocate to Zanesville for work and locals recover from influenza with many homebound.
The Busy Bee Class of the Baptist Church will meet this evening at 8 Fifth Ave and Hooker St with teacher Mrs J O Leonard. Mrs Shirley Mills presides and will lead a program and brief business session. A social hour and refreshments by hostess group follow.
George Miraden, Racine High School coach, resumes duties after pneumonia. M B Guild hosts a well attended soup dinner. Mrs. Hall and son visit Mrs. Crew in Racine. Mrs. Owen Watson and sisters visit Mary Thomas in Bidwell. Mrs. Thomas again seriously ill. Stephen Compton, former Racine resident, dies in Columbus. Wilbur Lee gravely ill with pneumonia at Racine Route. Mrs. Charles Sharp returns from Huntington after two week visit. illness of Mrs. Booth prompts her return.
Miss Anna Ebersbach of Monkey Run was rushed to Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis with pneumonia. Miss Sybil Mulholland, daughter of Mr and Mrs Woll Mulholland, was admitted after an appendectomy. Dr B A McCullough, recovering from illness, is also ill with pneumonia at his Bashan home.
Frogs lay hundreds of eggs in large gelatinous masses. Each mass holds many eggs that, with luck, hatch into tiny tadpoles.
Mrs Emma Wogan aged 75 died Thursday at her sister Mrs Ira Ralphs home on Harrisonville Road after a brief illness of pneumonia. She is survived by brother Burt Wogan of Bailey Run, sister Mrs Ralph and several half sisters.
A common pleas court action filed Wednesday by White & Sons Co. of Coolville seeks judgment against Okey Pullins for 124 dollars claimed as money owed to the plaintiff per the petition.
Mrs. Albert Cone of Carpenter Ohio praises Vendol a double action root and alkaline remedy for back pains leg pains stomach upset constipation and sleep. The sales pitch notes Vendol acts as a mild diuretic and is sold at Athens Pharmacy and Hickman’s Pharmacy in Nelsonville with a daily explanation by the Vendol Man.
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