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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1936
Page
3
Wyllis Hill residents urged Pomroy Council for water service as dry weather leaves cisterns empty. Council approved pumping water to accessible cisterns. Clerk Alvin Norris read the budget for the coming year with about 23000 for bond retirement and 10000 for the General Fund, similar to prior years.
Fred Thompson aged 62 died after two weeks illness at his Bradbury home. Survived by wife Jessie, son Durst, daughter Agnes Simmons of Pomeroy, three sisters Nellie Stewart Hattie Stewart Bertha, and brother William of Cleveland. Funeral at Mt. Moriah Baptist Church at 10 AM with burial at Chesapeake.
Margaret Heilman aged 64 died Monday afternoon at her Monkey Run home after a long illness. The funeral was Wednesday at 2 PM at Bethany M E Church with Rev Frank Beuscher officiating. Burial will follow at Beech Grove Cemetery.
The Loyal Berean Class of the Church of Christ holds a social gathering tonight at the church. Mrs Homer Rices group serves as hostesses for the event.
Hom er Hysell, clerk for the Meigs County Board of Commissioners, recounts a misunderstanding over a long distance call from Ray Stein, a state highway official from Marietta. Hysell struggled to catch the caller's name as Stein repeated his name, prompting him to misinterpret the caller as being from Racine.
A public hearing in Pomeroy addressed the State Highway Department taking over 33 miles of Meigs County County Route 4 from Reedsville to the Athens County line at Albany. Dissent emerged over whether Flora to Darwin or Flora to Burlingham should be the route. A WPA project on this road, begun over a year ago, was halted, leaving three quarters of a mile unimproved with the top surface removed.
Miss Lide Hawkins funeral was held Monday. She leaves ten nephews and thirteen nieces. Six reside here including Lelia Hawkins Edith Hawkins Mrs Davis Mrs A J Beaver and Howard and Ed Hawkins.
Members of the Past Chiefs Association plan their annual picnic at Shenang Springs on Wednesday evening. An effort will be made to have all members attend.
Middleport Council No 292 Junior Order of United American Mechanics plans a membership drive. The group, among the oldest in Meigs County, has 53 members. Regular meetings are the first and third Fridays at the K of P Hall. A Wednesday social at Leroy W Bart rum’s home on the Pomeroy Rutland Road invites members and the public for ice cream.
Middleport social notes report visits by Mr. and Mrs. R. C. McBride and others at Camp Molly Lauman near Portsmouth to see daughters. Mrs. James Faulkner returns home after two weeks in Holzer Hospital. Mary Hoffman takes a week's vacation from Middleport Department Store duties. Rev. and Mrs. F. Gardner and daughter Joyce return from Glouster with Mrs. Gardner’s Chicago sister and family visiting. Rob Ryan and sister Miss Jones tour with Major Mones unit on the Golden Red and stay with Alice Burton. Local residents visit Haydenville and Bidwell areas. Further, Magdalene Young remains seriously ill at home on Third Ave. Noah Haskins and son Charles home after visiting Mrs. Oliver White near Bidwell. Sunday visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell and Miss Gertrude Mayer and mother of Zanesville.
Mrs. Fagan Price of Portland spent Thursday with Mrs. W. B. Cross. A new son born Thursday to Mr. and Mrs. Curt Johnson, their third son, joining three sisters and three brothers in the Johnson home. Mrs. W. N. Hovis returned to Mercer Pa after visiting Adelia Petrel and friends. Henry Shepard and Seth Shepard of Toledo and Mrs. A. E. Chittenden hosted weekend guests. Seth and two daughters joined Mrs. Shepard’s mother. Ben Spencer and sister Kelley Coe visited Marmet W Va with the Wiltshire family. Epworth League members from Racine M E Church returned from Lancaster Camp meeting. Harold Weatherholt and two sons of Gallipolis spent Sunday with Emma Jividen.
Mrs. Joe Pratt of Covington Virginia spent ten days at Holzer Hospital after injuries from a vehicle wreck near Vinton. She was brought to her brother J. O. Leonard's home Sunday evening with her daughter Mrs. Dodson who also suffered bruises. They plan to return home once Mrs Pfadt can travel. Mr. Pfadt arrived Monday.
John Sauvage Jr and Theodore Custer, youths camping on the Price farm near Portland, moved their tent 20 feet before lightning struck the base of a tree. The flash lit their tent brightly and they escaped injury, believing fate saved them.
Pomeroy county records list real estate transfers in Meigs County from the Auditor. Properties in Columbia Township Letart Orange Salisbury and other towns show sheriff sales and certificates transferring hundreds of acres and multiple lots to various buyers including Ruth Bentz Earl A Price Floyd E Sayre Sam Bachus Ervin Hall Jennie Smith Francis Larkins Myrtle Griffin Ed J Smith Frances Clanck Bertha Bryan Myrtle Rumfield Eva Bailey Edna Morris Pearl Wolfe Veda Foley Roy Strickland Lucy Stotts The Ohio Oil Co and others are named in transfers and affidavits of transfer.
A public hearing to consider the proposed annual budget for Deveree will be held at the clerk's office in Chauncey Ohio on July 30 1936 at 8 30 a m Guy E Osborne clerk confirms the details and venue for residents to attend.
A social gathering celebrated a guest of honor with a warm reception. The guest received numerous birthday presents as attendees expressed appreciation and admiration during the event.
The Slim and Jim team remained undefeated with a 17-10 victory over Haven on Monday evening in the community recreation league. The winners led 17-3 late before letting Haven score seven runs. In a separate item, Imogene Grueser filed for divorce from Nicolas Grueser in common pleas court on grounds of cruelty.
A Senate committee reported 831 sales tax violations by Ohio vendors blaming changes in law and stamp shortages. They urged the Tax Commission to account for a nine percent drop in food tax collections despite higher employment and rising wages. The second annual report was signed by Senators Foss Pollock and Emerson Campbell.
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