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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1940
Page
3
Middleport coach Marshall McCuen prepares the Yellow Jackets for a tough home game against the Athens Bulldogs. The varsity tips off around eight after a junior high opening and a reserve contest, with fans chanting Sting Those Bulldogs.
Malcolm Hartley notes Meigs County shifted from tepid support for the President’s birthday fundraiser to a successful series of events led by Lowell Wingett. A thousand attended the Pomeroy Junior High School minstrel show and dance, boosting funds for infantile paralysis. The piece also urges local self-help through a proposed Meigs County state forest and lake project to spur regional growth.
Meigs County Probate Judge E W Peoples announced a consolidation of offices affecting the Aid to Dependent Children program with probate court. Ruby Tracy will replace Harvey L French as County Visitor on February 1, with Tracy and Robert Peoples each slated for $1500 annual salaries. The plan moves blind relief to county commissioners and adjusts office locations and duties within the probate court framework.
Mr and Mrs R B Laughead hosted a dinner at their S Fifth Ave home for the birthday of their daughter Mrs Alfred Elberfeld Lincoln Hill with a pink centerpiece cake. Dan White was honored at a birthday dinner at his parents home with Mrs White and others in attendance. The Busy Bee Class of First Baptist Church plans a cafeteria supper Thursday evening and the Woman's Music Club chorus will rehearse tonight at Mrs O H Stewart’s home due to cold weather.
Charles Snider and three Seaman sons were guests of friends over the weekend. E M McCarty of the New York Central is ill at home. Thomas Mankin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Mankin, goes to California for aeronautics school. Diane Reichman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Reichman, recovers from pneumonia. Mrs. Richard Hayman of Chicago visits her in law's home. Hayman travels to Cincinnati for two weeks of business. Frank Vroman and wife head to Charleston for hospital observation. Eleanor Roush returns to Columbus after weekend with grandparents Frank and Lera Booth. Mrs. Donovan Allen of Buffalo and friends visit Florida. she joins her father A. H. Bradbury at Orlando for a visit.
In Pomeroy the county faces a stalemate as the adopted budget exceeds income estimates by about $16,000. The auditor has not certified the budget, preventing payment of bills. Solutions: raise income estimates or cut the commission’s budget.
Mrs Lillian Gatewood 79 died Monday at her home on S Third Ave after months of illness She had been bedfast since a fall last fall that fractured her hip She is survived by her son John Darnell who is deaf and blind Interment is expected at Bellaire viewing at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home
Meigs County agricultural agent Wesley Green reports plans for Farmers Institutes in 1940. A Saturday meeting at the Court House drew twenty representatives from seven communities to review last year and outline improvements. Suggestions included Grange and school cooperation, classroom exhibits, fundraising by families, publicity through schools and churches, newspaper coverage, and student posters to boost attendance.
Middleport public library expands its shelves with many new titles led by Queen Victoria's Daughters and The Rest of My Life. Librarian Miss Alpha Somerville notes strong countywide circulation as titles span fiction, biographies, mystery, religion, and social issues.
Pomeroy Village transfers include Grace Evelyn Campbell from William and Mary FE Campbell for lot 491 in the Pom eroy addition. Sutton Township sheriff sale 4.10 acres to David T and C Edna Duckler for 1150 dollars. Racine Village Ruth Walden lots 16 17 18 West Addition to Hilton and Ruth Wolfe. Nannie P and Ira B Foster 44 100 acres to Dale and Lillian Lee. L E Sayre lot 46 Racine addition to Richard and Mabel Powell. Syracuse Village sheriff sale three lots 0 3 1 acre taxed in Edith M Salser name to David and Edna Cuckle r.
Joseph P. Ryan head of the International Longshoremen's Association and ten others appeared in federal court in New York on charges of violating federal anti trust laws. All released on bonds of one thousand dollars each pending trial.
Funeral services for Mrs. Gustav Wolfe aged 72 who died at her home in Great Bend were held Sunday afternoon at the residence with interment in the family burial grounds. She is survived by her husband Thornton Wolfe two daughters Mrs Frank Allen and Mrs Dale Holter Middleport and three grandchildren Malcolm Allen Betty and Sonny Holter. Attending were Mr and Mrs Harold Hubbard Mrs Willis Anthony Mrs Charles Wise Jr.
MIDDLEPORT The MHS Girls Glee Club rehearses for the operetta Maid of Tokyo to be performed April 12 under the direction of Miss Vesta McCoy. Non members assist in production. The group also sponsored infantile paralysis tags for the Meigs County March of Dimes drive. ARE PARENTS OF SON MIDDLEPORT Mr and Mrs Joseph Wolfe announce the birth of a son Harold Edward weighing nine pounds. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Edgar Wolfe and Mr and Mrs Raymond Blosser. RACINE Mrs Mattie Yost and son Gene attended the capping service of the White Cross School of Nursing in Columbus where Carolyn Yost was in a class of forty six nurses. Aden, though long British, is the youngest British colony since 1937.
Meigs County probate notes detail a $12 748.41 market value for Frances M. Byran estate assets with $2 248.41 taxable after exemptions. tax of $22.47 to be paid to Middleport. Other items: W E Bryan estate not subject to inheritance tax. Hank Young appointed guardian for Frederick J Zahl. Perry Riggs named administrator for Mary Sponagel with $1 000 bond.
Gilbert Weeks and George Hobstetter of Salisbury Township joined about 1,400 delegates in Columbus for the state convention of township trustees. Weeks announced the next gathering will be June 15 to 17 in Dayton, as the Meigs County Association plans a monthly meeting at Grange Hall in Bedford Township.
Funeral services for Mrs Mina Lowe who died in Columbus were conducted at Rawlings Coats Funeral Home on Monday at 2 PM with burial at Milee Cemetery. She was the mother of William Lowe owner of the Big Three Grocery on Mill Street. Jesse James, the outlaw, was killed on April 3, 1882.
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