Service Available to Every Farmer in Meigs County
Meigs County has had a resident agricultural agent since July 1920 when the extension service of Ohio State University placed the position in the county. The extension service remains accessible to all farmers, regardless of affiliation, with funds allocated to the agent’s salary travel and office needs, not to Farm Bureau dues.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Ohio State University
County Farm Bureau
Board
Farm Bureau
Officers elected by cattle club in Ohio meeting
At a Guernsey Cattle Club of Southeastern Ohio gathering in Gallia County Harold Carnahan of Meigs County was elected president Cecil Robinson of Athens County vice president and C E Carmichael secretary A cooperative bull association was organized and members will travel north next week to buy a bull An annual field day is planned at Cecil Robinsons home in Athens County on August 12
Assault Charged in Rutland with Constable and Telegraph Operator
Alvadore Hulls of Langsville was arraigned before Justice I W Gilmore on a charge of assaulting Floyd Dumfee a Rutland Township constable and Hobson Station telegraph operator. Dumfee was about to levy on Hulls team during an execution. Hull pulled the constable from his car. Hull waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury in $500 bond.
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Rutland
Alvadore Hulls
Langsville
I. W. Gilmore
Floyd Dumfee
Rutland Township
Hobson
Dumfee
Hull
Court of Justice
Gardner
Local Social News and Health Updates
Mr and Mrs Ross Wiley visit relatives in Washington D C over the weekend. Daisy Barker improves at sister Mrs Walter Allens home after illness. Burn Barker injured in a Christmas accident can walk with crutches and won’t work till spring under physician care. Kepler and brother Eldo Warrier return to Columbus with relatives. Dr W E Stansbury ill but improving after more than 50 years as a druggist. Fannie Lippi visits Columbus relatives. Dorcas Society meets at Mrs Harry Howdashelt with 25 attendees. Mrs J O Leonard presided. new president Mrs B E Talbott. Mrs Ross Wiley hosts next meeting. Rathburn improves at Holzer. W E Russell back to work at Citizens National Bank after illness. Mrs Arthur Boice entertains guests for dinner. Bible School class Loyal Pals formed. Teacher Mrs Dwight Kim.
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Ross Wiley
Washington D. H
Daisy Barker
Walter Allen
Burn Barker
Holzer Hospital
W. E. Russell
Citizens’ National Bank
Arthur Boice
R. N. Barnes
M. A. White
Frankie Gaylora
J. ©. Leonard
Christian Church Bible School
Dwight Kim
Loyal Pals
Meigs County Local Notes Highlight Absence and Board Actions
Phillip Meier, a Pom eroy shoe repairman, has been absent due to illness. Pomeroy women Fred White and Debet Williams visited Athens. Pomeroy village council opposes lodging for tramps. George Starcher, 18, joins county Children's Home, which is overcrowded. Meigs Savings & Loan elects KE Peoples president and others to key posts. County treasurer reports $245 400 in December taxes collected.
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Meigs County
Philip Meier
Second Street
Pomeroy
Fred White
Debert Williams
Athens
George Starcher
Effie Davis
Bunker Hill
Meigs Savings & Loan Company
KE. Peoples
John Sauvage
Robert Warmer
Edna Fisher
Cedric W. Clark
Journalists Gather for Newspaper Week in Columbus
Six journalistic conventions will attend the observance of Newspaper Week in Columbus during the week of February 10.
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Columbus
U.P
County Commissioners Trim Budget by 7000 Dollars
Pomeroy Jan 22 The county board cut seven thousand dollars from the current year budget chiefly from minor funds to balance receipts and expenses. Farm Extension and County Fair remain funded as do the Children's Home and County Infirmary. Salaries at the Courthouse were not reduced and tax receipts and fines are expected to help. A defunct Brocalsa Company tax due from Syracuse and Ebersbach interests are hoped to yield large sums. The 1930 budget final draft was adopted unanimously.
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Pomeroy
Brocalsa
Syracuse
Ebersbach
Banquet Held by American Legion in Middleport
A joint banquet of Feeney Bennett Post No 128 American Legion and its auxiliary was held at the new hall with nearly 80 attending. Post Commander Virgil Edwards named Capt H H Bennett toastmaster, as Frank W Harden urged support for veterans programs and lobbying with congressmen. Toastmaster Bennett announced a love feast at their soon to be furnished new home.
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Middleport
Feeney-Bennett
American Legion
Virgil Edwards
H. H. Bennett
Bennett
Feeney-Bennett Post
T. A. May
E. A. Reed
Clinton Webb
Logan
Athens Messenger
Frank W. Harden
Harden
Eleventh
United States
Legion
Veteran's Bureau
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Mellon Called to Give Opinion on Day Change
Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon testified before the House Expenditures Committee on transferring enforcement duties from the Treasury to the Justice Department. The open session followed a Law Enforcement Commission bill to shift all prohibition units except industrial alcohol control. Mellon, facing dry attacks, was believed to favor the change, a proposal that originated with Carter Glass ten years ago.
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Washington
U.P
Andrew W. Mellon
the Treasury
House Expenditures Committee
Treasury
Justice Department
Williamson
Republican
South Dakota
Law Enforcement Commission
Mellon
Drys
Carter Glass
Virginia
Norris and
Brookhart
Irene and Dague on Way To New Castle
Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague, sought on murder charges, were moved by Pennsylvania officials from Chandler Arizona toward New Castle. They escaped habeas corpus efforts and followed extradition after swift actions by authorities. The pair are to be tried in March for the killing of Corporal Brady Paul of the Pennsylvania Highway Patrol.
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Tucson
Ariz
U.P
Irene Schroeder
Glenn Dague
Lawrence County
Chandler
New Castle
Brady Paul
Pennsylvania Highway Patrol
Pennsylvania
Phoenix
John C. Phillips
Lordsburg
N. M
State Line
Bankers to Meet Columbus for Midwinter Session
The Ohio Bankers Association plans its annual midwinter meeting in Columbus on February 12, using the holiday to convene.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Bankers Association
Fruit Growers to Receive Bulletin from Farm Bureau
POMEROY Jan 22 The Farm Bureau extension will notify 42 commercial fruit growers in Meigs County of spraying dates for fruit diseases and insects. Blossom times vary, so stations monitor blossom advancement and inform growers when to spray and what to use. Coolville hosts a station with an expert for Athens Washington and Meigs Counties and will issue first spraying data. G W Kreitler heads the local bureau preparing the initial notices.
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Pomeroy
Farm Bureau
Meigs County
Coolville
Athens
Washington
Meigs
G. W. Kreitler
Death of Gordon L. Wilburn After Civil War Service
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wilburn returned home from Beckley West Virginia after the death of Gordon L. Wilburn aged 88 born in Giles County Virginia He enlisted with the South after the war began served under General Lee fought in principal battles and was wounded in 1864 He leaves nine children and was buried at Sunset Memorial Park Beckley last Wednesday.
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Middleport
W. B. Wilburn
Beckley
W. Va
Gordon L. Wilburn
Mr. Wilburn
Giles County
Virginia
Robert E. Lee
Lee
Grant
Appomattox Courthouse
Wilburn
Sunset Memorial Park
Victim of Fight To Control Rum Trade
Charles O'Neil, 31, was shot to death in Cleveland as police said the killing grew out of a feud over control of the "Little Hollywood" liquor trade. He and his wife Pauline, 26, and friend Morris Asher were indoors when five shotgun charges ripped through a dining room window.
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Cleveland
U.P
Charles O'Neil
Little Hollywood
Neil
Pauline
Morris Asher
Asher
O'Neil
Milan Driver Killed in Bridge Crash Near Sandusky
W. S. Taylor, 65, was killed when his automobile struck a bridge abutment at Milan near Sandusky. Police reported the fatal accident occurred on the highway as Taylor's car collided with the bridge structure.
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Sandusky
U.R
W. S. Taylor
Milan
Here
Classified Advertisements to Run in The Messenger Column
Classified notices and small ads appear under the Messenger column with contact at telephone 822-L for placement. The item notes brief listings and pricing opportunities for readers seeking quick services or goods.
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The
Messenger
Telephone 822
Local Fair State Animal Exhibit Promised for County Fair
Byron Davis and R G Webster of the Meigs County Agricultural Society secured a promise from the Fish and Game Department to send a state animal exhibit to the Meigs County Fair on August 5 6 and 7 This marks the first such exhibit for Meigs County and is expected to interest local residents.
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Pomeroy
Byron Davis
Meigs County Agricultural Society
R. G. Webster
Columbus
Fish and Game Department
Meigs County Fair
Meigs County
Meigs
Glasses snatch arrest ends in county jail term
John Young, 45, was jailed for 30 days after snatching eye glasses from Mrs. Lawrence in a Long Bottom store. He was arrested by deputy sheriffs, fined ten dollars plus costs, and ordered to leave the county within ten days.
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Pomeroy
John Young
Long Bottom
Young
Couple Granted License to Wed in Pomeroy
Raymond Brown 21 of Minerv ville and Virginia Hubbard 18 obtained a marriage license in Pomeroy yesterday. The bride's father Thomas Hubbard gave consent. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. G. Pileh of St. Paul Lutheran Church.
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Pomeroy
Raymond Brown
Minersville
Virginia Hubbard
Thomas Hubbard
J. G. Pileh
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Thomas Arrested in Desertion Charge in Columbus Case
Jesse Thomas, 44, was arrested in Salem Township Monday night and jailed in Pomeroy on a charge of deserting a minor child in Columbus. A Columbus officer secured the warrant and transported him to the city Tuesday.
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Pomeroy
Jesse Thomas
Salem Township
Columbus
Thomas
Portrait of Bryan Placed in Union Reading Room
In appreciation of President E. B. Bryan of Ohio University the Men's Union has installed a large tinted portrait in the Union reading room. The Men’s Union acquired the Union facility in 1922 from the Athens Chapter of the Masonic Lodge, converting it into a student center with reading and recreational spaces and a ballroom for dances.
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E. B. Bryan
Ohio University
Union
Athens
Masonic Lodge
Marietta Jury Acquits Two In Liquor Case
After a three and a half hour deliberation the Marietta jury acquits Willard Ransom and Chester Mayle in the State of Ohio vs Ransom and Mayle. The case stemmed from a November 8 1929 raid in Barnett Ridge Washington County where a still was found. The defense argued a third man owned the still, leaving the two defendants innocent of manufacturing liquor. The six women and six men jury reached its verdict at 445 PM Monday.
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Marietta
State of Ohio
Willard Ransom
Chester Mayle
Barlow Township
Barnett Ridge
Washington County
Mayle
Ransom
Youthful Bandit Gang Nabbed by Detectives in Akron
Akron police broke into a deserted-house hideout to seize a gang of 10 youths aged 16 to 21 involved in burglary and theft. Six guns were recovered as detectives dismantled the outlaw group.
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Akron
U.rp
Stay-at-home women feel left out as London delegation draws praise
Washington and London buzz over the American Naval delegation. The piece notes melancholy days for the stay-at-home women of the State Department who were not selected to join the London voyage. The tone contrasts their absence with the clamor for colleagues abroad and hints at imagined titles they could have earned.
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Washington
U.P
State Department
London
Martin Elected President of Athens State Oil & Gas Co
J. D. Martin was elected president and general manager of the Athens State Oil & Gas Company at the annual meeting, succeeding the late Frank Gross who had led as acting head since his death three months earlier. F. P. Kircher was named vice president and F. P. Freibault secretary and treasurer. Directors include C. P. Kircher, F. P. Freibault, A. D. Phillips, James Ginnan, Thomas Lynch, AS BE Martin, and Fred Gross.
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J. D. Martin
Athens State Oil & Gas Company
Frank Gross
Martin
Mr. Gross
F. P. Kircher
F. P. Freibault
C. P. Kircher
Ten men placed under peace bonds in Bloody Twin Creek
Portsmouth January 22 ten members of the Blevins and Moore Williams families were placed under peace bonds to keep order after a feud that flared when Robey Williams killed Lafe Belvins in the Bloody Twin Creek District.
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Portsmouth
U.P
Blevinsite
Moore-Williams
Cooper Brothers
Twin Creek
Robey Williams
Lafe Belvins
Youths Guilty of Vanlue Bank Robbery
Findlay reporter notes youths Abbey Fleming 17 and Arthur Burkhart 22 found guilty after a five hour jury deliberation for the December 17 Vanlue Banking Company robbery of 568 dollars. Mercy recommended in sentencing to avoid life terms demanded by the state. Each testified blaming the other for luring into the crime.
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Fleming
Burkhart
Renewed violence linked to Blevins-Ite family feud
Last week gunmen tied to the Blevins-Ite family reportedly ambushed Robey Williams and Robey Moore. The Cooper brothers, rising in notoriety years ago for rival shootings, are split and two are now confined in the State Penitentiary.
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Blevins-I*ite
Robey Wiliams
Robey Moore
Twin Creek
Cooper Brothers
State Penitentiary
Oil Fire Threaten So' Oil Yard in Cleveland
A fiery blaze threatens the So' Oil Company yard in Cleveland with a 400.05 gallon tank burning as firefighters pour thousands of gallons of wax on the flames.
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Cleveland
So’ Oil Company
Coaster Killed as Sled Hit by Auto Near Akron
Akron January 22 Buck Anderson twelve was killed at Auste man near Akron last night when his sled was struck by an automobile.
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Akron
U.P
Buck, Anderson
Austeman
Here
Want to Look Young Olive Tablets Marketed by Dr Edwards
The ad claims youthful vitality comes from a healthy liver and bowels and promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetable substitute for Calomel. It asserts most sickness stems from inactive bowels and liver and promises natural buoyancy through liver detoxification.
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Edwards
Qobijo
Dr. Edwards
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