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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1936
Page
3
POMEROY prosperity rises despite drought and heat as Main St. rooms surge in demand. A new 5 and 10 cent store opens today and a theater project is planned. Countywide gains include a record June with 100 new car sales and a July week with peak sales tax stamp purchases.
Members of the Woman s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church in Middleport plan a Friday night meeting at 7 30 in the church lecture room for their July session. President Mrs J E Harley will preside with Mrs Dea Hayes as program leader and devotional head. The study topics include Rapid Changes in the Foreign Field and Review of the Year with Mrs L J Heiner and Mrs Iva Brown participating. Hostesses are Mrs Margaret Gabbs Mrs Co A Poindexter Mrs Walter Owens and Mrs L A Thomas.
Announcement of the marriage between Miss Lucille Shilling of 2454 Summit Street Columbus and Robert E. Bell of Toronto. The bride, formerly a Middleport High School home economics teacher, has moved to Toronto and works as a teacher there. The groom is a KOA merchant in Toronto.
Gold en Sunbeam 4-H Club in Great Bend met at Juanita Furbee’s home on June 24 to plan a social for July 11 after a business session. New members Lois Lanning and Kathleen Snowden joined Happy Helpers 4-H at Beulah Calvin’s Rutland home, with thirteen members and two visitors present. The Golden Glass 4-H Club in Harrisonville met at Adrienne French’s home with a tea served after the session, aided by Eleanor Gilkey and Lutie Stacy, and visitors Hazel Carl Darwin and others attended. Sabra 4-H Club in Bradbury organized at Mrs. William Sayre’s home, electing Mary Sisson president, Charlene Autherson vice president, Virginia Pierce secretary-treasurer, Mabel Sisson recreation officer, and Virginia Russell news reporter. the club will work on a sack project this summer, with the next meeting at the leader’s home. Wolfpen 4-H Club met at Ethel Martin’s, six of ten members present, with plans for an exhibit at the Wolfpen Schoolhouse later. Happy-Go-Lucky 4-H Club scheduled a bingo party for July 29 at Elizabeth Williams’s home. eight members attended and the next meeting is July 15 at 2 PM.
Oma Jean Zahl five years old wandered from her parents in Pomeroy downtown. The Zahl family broadcast street messages and called Chief Dana Tracy. The child was found safe at home on the front porch waiting for her parents.
In Rock Springs, about 300 members attended a joint meeting at the Pomeroy Junior High School auditorium. Degree work was performed by the Athens County Pomonas, with a large class of Pomona Grange candidates participating.
Miss Lydia Ebersbach returns home from Columbus with Miss Anna Vaughan who recently had a goittel operation. Vaughan is reported recovering satisfactorily. Rev. Bert O Connor to preach at Rock Springs Church Sunday night after a Children’s Day program held last Sunday.
Several local relatives and friends traveled to Cheshire Wednesday to attend the funeral of James Scott who was killed during the Charleston incident Saturday night.
The Democratic Club of Meigs County will gather at City Hall in Pomeroy at 7 30 tonight. President Charles Calkins says the group will resume activities after the quiet period and lay plans for the upcoming general election.
Mrs. E. H. Ted Coy, widow of Yale football immortal, fights poverty as a domestic in Oklahoma City. She became destitute after losing jobs and pawned her wedding ring, Coy’s fraternity pin, and other jewelry once given in affluent days.
Alfred Brief social notes list the Swartz family travel to Columbus due to illness and death of Nellie Termeer, plus visits from Ethel Follrod of Huntington, Emmet Hawk family, Bentz couple, Houdasheldt family, Lloyd Sinclair and daughters, Orlando Midkiff and others, with several Athens and Hemlock Grove mentions.
Middleport social notes show Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Byers and two sons Robert and Billie returning home from a visit with relatives Mrs. Herman Mourning and son Bobby in West Salem. The page also lists Mrs. Ray Farmer's serious influenza illness and Mrs. E. B. Smith's recovery along with several local visits and guests from New Brighton and Washington D. H. and mentions J. B. Downing returning from Cedar Point.
Mildred Springston of Middleport visited her grandparents the Genhimer Epple and Epple families. A revival is under way at Long Hollow school with Reverend Sharp from Greenfield to preach Saturday night. Mildred Heilman and Ruby Carman visited Mildred Thoma. William King of Kingsbury attended Sunday School and church here. Dena Epple of Flatwoods visited Addie Epple. Sylvia Heilman spent Sunday evening with Flora Marie Carr.
Postpaid hardy perennials advertised with mixed varieties totaling 60 plants for 1.00. List includes Canterbury Bells Linum fox glove Coreopsis Pinks Sweet Williams Shasta Daisies Wayside Daises Oriental Iceland Poppies Delphinium Marguerites and Baby's Breath. Grower direct shipment and special gift with a mailed order to Gardner Nursery Company Osage Iowa.
Gallipolis donors and organizations have contributed artifacts to the Our House museum even before it opens. Local supporters include the D. A. R. Courthouse public library Ohio Hospital for Epileptics Thursday Club and more plus numerous Gallia County residents who loaned family pieces and antiques from cities such as Huntington Topeka New York Philadelphia and Dayton.
An old advertisement claims a product eases weak bladder symptoms such as nocturia urge and burning by drinking six glasses of water daily and using a blend with botanicals like bitter leaves and juniper oil. It promises a four day trial with a druggist refund of 250.
The Rock Springs Better Health Club met at Mrs. Charlies Grueser’s home to adopt a constitution and by laws. A program committee was appointed and the first regular meeting was set for Neil Bing’s home. The club will meet today.
Elise Pettus of St Louis Missouri Mrs Madeline Le Moyn Reed of Washington Pennsylvania Mrs W B Shober of Charleston West Virginia Mrs Beth Starcher of Gallia Ohio and Mrs Frank Switzer of Addison reveal names and locations in a regional notice.
Seeds of the sabadilla plant are used in Germany to produce tear bombs. The seeds emit a gas that causes tears to flow freely.
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