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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1929
Page
2
Meigs County will apply to the state auditor for Green Law aid for 1929 road projects. Township trustees will meet February 4 to choose which roads to include. Officials expect about 1000 dollars per mile per township if the legislature approves the appropriation.
Pomeroy January 28 Judge Crow had leniency for Kindle Little age 21 of Hobson on a misdemeanor sentence three months in the workhouse and a $35 fine suspended for good behavior. Little later resisted officers on a freight train, lied, and was rearrested. Suspension revoked and Little ordered to the workhouse with time to pay costs to avoid parental burden.
Middleport farewell notes say Lyston Fultz leaves Middleport High School after a year and a half to join Bexley High School in Columbus as an instructor in biology plain geometry economics and sociology He also coached the girls basketball team last year and several social functions marked the departure
Rep. Tom W. Jones, recovering from flu, returns to Columbus duties and announces the School Aid law has passed. The $1,800,000 appropriation is in the state treasury ready for distribution, covering all school needs through June 1.
Middleport residents report the Park Street Parent Teacher Association will stage an all day and evening Valentine celebration with public activities in the evening and a large program being prepared by local women. A Middleport High School graduate, Mrs Claude Fieming of Tampa Florida, is visiting her parents Mr and Mrs J Fisher after many years away in the South.
A fire in the Middleport lock-up after noon Saturday is blamed on a prisoner smoking in his cell. His trousers were badly burned and the mattress and bedding scorched. The fire alarm was sounded and inmates nearby assisted.
Albert Borham 58 died at his Minersville home yesterday morning after influenza led to double pneumonia. A lifelong miner, he leaves a widow and daughter Mrs. Roush of Logan. funeral likely Wednesday afternoon. FRAZIER FUNERAL Middleport Jan 28 Bert Frazier 60 died in Detroit. Funeral Sunday at Story's Run M E Church with Rev C H Eichinger. burial Cheshire Gravel Hill Cemetery.
Mrs Ivan C Erwin taught near Huntington and family trips to Parkersburg are noted. F A Shifler travels to Columbus for a Federal Grand Jury, Buckley trial looms with Don Mattern ill. Helen Hess and OSU link, Densmore funeral draws relatives from multiple cities. Conductor Ernest Agee in serious condition at home with Charleston kin visiting.
January 28 The program committee met at County Superintendent C N Wagner's office to outline the February 16 meeting at the High School auditorium. The day is planned as an outstanding event in the series, with an intellectual bill of fare. The county system excludes Pomeroy and Middleport as independent districts with separate taxes and governance. Salisbury Township is also outside the county framework.
State Prohibition Officers Lines and Yates with sheriff’s office attaches arrested Jesse Little David Osler and Richard Wise of Cheshire Township for possessing equipment for liquor manufacture. Taken to Gallipolis before Mayor Stormont they pleaded not guilty and were released on $200 bonds for court tomorrow at 1 PM.
Phi Beta Kappa Lambda chapter installation at Ohio University scheduled for March will be conducted by Charles F. Thwing. Thirteen OU faculty members with Phi Beta Kappa chapters elsewhere will form the charter group. selections for graduation will require a B plus average. Alumni eligibility requires distinct postgrad work and 15 years since graduation. Temporary officers are Dr. John A. Hess and Dr. E. W. Chubb. A charter was granted last September at Ohio Wesleyan University.
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