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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1930
Page
2
A historical speech urges Young Lutherans to aid in holding the torch of freedom high, claiming natural heritage and ante cedence confer both the right and the duty to defend liberty. The rhetoric appeals to duty and heritage to motivate civic engagement.
POMEROY July 15 Local officials say a remaining $8,000 from the $60,000 vote for Main Street improvements may be claimed by electric and water creditors. The fund is tied by a court restraining order placing village funds under county auditor control, though some bills may be paid from other funds. Court action is set for July 24 to unravel the village fiscal knots.
Pomeroy reports long Meigs County family histories tied to the Revolutionary War. Details trace Amy Whaley Kingsland and Dr. David C. Whaley, James Whaley, and multiple Harper descendants, with pension records for Daniel Harper and Mary McAllister, listing numerous born children and intergenerational links to the Revolution. The piece notes three Meigs County grandchildren of the Revolutionary War and several great grand children elsewhere.
POMEROY July 15 Homer Parker a Reedsville merchant reports that Sunday rain has brightened crop prospects. Farmers plan to sow millet corn cane and oats for winter stock roughage. With favorable weather and a late fall good crops of this sort are expected in abundance.
Miss Tillie Peters from Columbus Jack Horden and two sons from New Straits ville and Mrs Hattie Powell with daughter from Racine attended the Milton Gilmore funeral at the Christian Church in MIDDLEPORT. It was an unusually large service with many beautiful flowers. Burial followed at Riverview Cemetery, the new hill cemetery addition.
Miss Mary Tall 84 long time teacher in Bashan and Alliance area died July 6. Funeral for Silas Carleton set for Wednesday at 3 PM from home with Chester Cemetery burial. Emmett Haning and Henry Stanley injured in Sunday car wreck on Long Lane near Pomeroy Athens Road. Dr Guthrie Alfred reported seriously ill.
The sudden death of Silas Carleton in Pomeroy July 15 is believed caused by extreme heat. He retired to bed after a period of weakness at age 85 and drank copiously from the old well, calling for water. he died a few hours later.
Miss Helene Radford deputy county recorder has left Gallipolis hospital after an appendicitis operation and returned to her Five Points home. She will remain unable to report to the office for several days.
Loot from Hayman Hardware raid Sunday night included pen knives watches silverware forks spoons and shotgun shells. Thieves abandoned a case of knives at Mine No. 15 two miles below Racine and fled without clues, fingerprints on the case may aid detection. Ralph Parson of Norfolk Virginia visited his mother Mrs Edw Parson and relatives.
Secretary R G Webster branded a circulating report that the Rocksprings Fair was abandoned as false He notes stronger efforts this season than ever and a contract with G J Hill Co Chesterhill Morgan County to exhibit Merino sheep and Chester White and Berkshire hogs at the Meigs County Fair prior to the Ohio State Fair The company has previously won premiums at the state fair
Helen Davis of Cleveland Schools spends her summer on the Ohio River packet Tom Greene running Cincinnati to Charleston. She organizes entertainment programs and chaperones groups of girls on trips. Reach her care of the Tom Greene in Cincinnati. Formerly from Middleport.
Helen Dorst and Misses Ruth Mossman Verne Fay Abbott Jessie Mae Edith and Elizabeth Russell travel Sunday to Buckeye Lake to spend the week at a cottage owned by Dorst's brother. The home economics class members plan fine menus for the stay.
Mr and Mrs Lewis Sauer and three children and Mr and Mrs Virgil Edwards and children and Miss Helen Hess and Carroll Pickens traveled to Hawk's Nest West Virginia Sunday. Mr Edwards stopped at Dickerson where he is employed.
Have a picnic on the Gaskill lawn as Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Johnson and others from Zanesville visit Miss Etta Gaskill. Extended family travels to St Albans and Point Pleasant for visits, with multiple trips and house moves noted among relatives in late July.
Mrs. Lemma McFarland as executor sues W. F. Mills A. E. Plummer Emmett Diehl Ed Molden and A. A. Bryant as burial fund committee of Blackstone Coal Company. The suit says the burial fund was formed May 19 1925 and J H McFarland died November 14 1929 at Orient Ohio. he owned ten shares entitling his family to burial benefits and $225 is claimed due.
Ernest Hartinger reports from Kawan Oklahoma that his family likes the country and bought a new sedan while he has oil field work. Several visits occur including the Singleton, Downing, and Jenkins families. A store in Vinegar room is reopening, a miniature golf course opens near Heath Church, and multiple relatives and guests visit or travel.
Washington July 15 The farm board criticized retailers for the bread price line for the second time in a month urging lower prices. Board member Samuel R. McKelvie noted wheat costs were down about 50 cents a bushel from a year ago and argued bread prices should fall accordingly. He questioned what consumers pay for bread now versus one year ago, saying little change is seen in retail prices.
At the International Walther League convention in Cleveland on July 15, E G Gallmeyer denounced religious propagandists seeking constitutional reform to regulate personal conduct. He warned against state intrusion into worship and questioned the idea of a complete separation of church and state when religious bodies seek to impose their views through government power.
UP-A relief expedition advances through swamp lands of Northern Burma to aid Eric Hook the British aviator seriously injured after a crash en route London to Australia. James Matthews, missing for days, crawled into Prome to report the crash and Hook’s condition.
Hook and Matthews left London on June 20 aiming to beat Bert Hinkler’s 1544 day London to Australia record. They faced injuries and harsh terrain as they traveled through forests and swampy land. Hook, in critical condition, was left among natives to speed progress toward help, with Burma orders issued when Rangoon departure was not reported.
Fourteen Newark men including Eagles and Druids members and County Recorder Vincent Boggs waived examination before U S Commissioner Horner in Columbus on liquor law violation charges and were bound over to the grand jury on 500 dollar bonds.
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