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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1929
Page
2
Deaths sweep the Pomeroy Middleport area as Clyde F. Sisson dies suddenly after flu illness leaving a wife and two brothers. Oscar Chase born in Rutland Township dies of flu with funeral at Rutland Church. William Ogden dies after a stroke in Salem Township. Also Middleport Women’s Music Club adds several new members and associates.
POMEROY Jan 17 The first coasting accident of the winter in this vicinity occurred Tuesday evening when Almont Hite ten year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Alva Hite sustained a gash between the knee and hip while coasting near the Hite home on Barkey Lane near the Sugar Run school house The wound required 15 stitches to close. Leo Vaughan son of Mrs and Mrs Walter Vaughan the Messenger carrier on Sugar Run road spilled a bucket of boiling water while removing it from a stove and was scalded along the side of his leg from thigh to knee He will be laid up a day or two.
County Auditor reports dog tag sales slower this year than in 1928. It is unclear if the canine population is shrinking or owners delay purchases until the January 20 deadline to avoid a $1 penalty. A rush to obtain tags before the cutoff is expected this week.
Ralph Woods, longtime Meigs Buick Company employee based in Pomeroy, has been reassigned to Portsmouth. He left for the city recently, with his wife and children likely to stay in Middleport until the school year ends.
County Health Officer Dr. Jane Nye Gilliford records 80 deaths in Meigs County in December with pneumonia and flu causes. She notes the rate is much higher for the first half of January and the total is expected to rise.
In Meigs County a fourth couple, Riza Chase and his wife, died within days of each other with their funerals at Salem Center and Letart Falls. Charles Quillen died after a visit to Detroit and his funeral is set for Friday at the Letart M E Church. Several others including Mrs. W R Harris and the Hordems are reported improved after flu.
Glouster reports the sale of 903 license tags for 1929 on January 17. Of these 808 are for pleasure cars and 95 for trucks, an increase from January 1928 early sales of 692 with 617 pleasure cars and 75 trucks. The aged mother of C. E. Handley of Middleport died Friday in Scott West Virginia after a lingering illness. Handley’s father has been critically ill. Dr. J. G. Pettit of Hopemont, West Virginia, spent the start of the week with his parents in Trimble.
At a January teachers meeting in Glouster plans were set to use the objective Frend in grade and high school exams. The method promises a single correct answer and less teacher judgment in grading all subjects. Separately, Harry Bernstein plans a new Peoples Store in the Cornwell Building on Front Street with ladies and gowns ready to wear featured, opening next week.
A damaged ad-like note claims bilious children suffer agony and prostration from coated tongues and foul breath. It promotes California Syrup as a remedy to purge irritating bile and undigested food, cleansing the bowels and restoring a bright, strong child.
Hollister High School Lit Society hosts an entertainment night in the school gym Saturday. The main feature is a one act play The Killer about the Northwest mounted police with Evelyn Shepard Roland Dew and Donna Hines in roles. Music and a reading by Vival Maxwell follow. no admission fee.
The public is invited to attend a forthcoming community event as announced by organizers seeking broad participation and support.
Following a Department of Education ruling, history civics and hygiene classes will spend one hour Friday on the history of the temperance movement and its value. A chapel program will be held Friday morning from 9 30 to 10 36.
A health advisory urges two daily precautions to ward off influenza without panic. Use Nujol to keep the system functioning and avoid laxatives during epidemics, then protect nasal and throat passages with Mistol. Regular use, especially mornings and evenings, is recommended along with a calm mindset. Both products are claimed safe, drugstore available, and produced by reputable laboratories.
A sensational claim describes a five hour remedy that supposedly cures a cold completely. The text suggests rapid recovery is possible even when symptoms are severe.
Representative Tom Jones of Meigs and Hambrick of Gallia push two bills in the Legislature. One seeks state funding to finance agricultural agents in all counties, noting Gallia lacks an agent. The other, with N. R. Rothgeb of Cheshire, proposes a fixed license office in each township to ease auto license purchases, addressing long delays and winter hardships under the current law.
Mr and Mrs Arch Brown of Portsmouth visited Sunday to look after property here. Browns mother stays with sister Mrs Will Engier in Germantown and is in better health. A niece Miss Mabel Sedees from the Far West recently visited for the first time in years. Miss Hodges, born and raised in Middleport, now teaches in the West.
An ad urges readers to treat lingering coughs with Bronchuline Emulsion from any druggist. It claims the medicine quickly and thoroughly relieves persistent coughs without dope or chloroform though warns to use with caution and follow directions.
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