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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1941
Page
3
NYA workers under George Blackburn clear hillside near the field while Ellis Hysell donates engineering services to set grades and boundary lines. A state highway power shovel will level ground at the driveway entry, with the aim to have a usable field for fall practice and possibly one home game.
POMEROY George Otho Young age 56 died Wednesday at the Avalon Sanatorium Mt. Vernon Ohio He is survived by his wife and eight children three sisters Mrs S J Christy Mrs Rena Lightfoot and Mrs Lena Doerfer all of Meigs County one half sister Mrs Edna Woods of Wadsworth Funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a m at the Texas Church with burial in Texas Cemetery.
Mrs. Lida Hysell aged 86 died Wednesday at the home of William Haley near Rutland. Survived by brother Sherd Bailey Pomroy and sister Rita Hysell Columbus. Funeral Saturday at 2 p m Bradford Church with Rev J P Miller officiating. Burial Bradford Cemetery. Calling hours at Finsterwald Funeral Home Rutland.
POMEROY members of the County Board of Commissioners will discuss the State Building Commission order to repair the Meigs Infirmary main building within 30 days or face vacancy at their meeting on Monday August 3. One member called the expenditure of a large sum from current county income for repairs an impossibility.
Middleport volunteers from the life saving squad of the Volunteer Firemen repaint Red Cross first aid indicators on their equipment including the motor boat after completing a refresher course led by Arthur Hoover, Meigs County Red Cross Life Saving Instructor.
A large wire pen on the town hall lawn holds Middleport's aluminum donation. The drive seeks old and discarded aluminum for national defense. Boy and Girl Scouts and other youth groups canvas houses with aid from Edward Tewsicbury, the drive chairman.
POMEROY House to house aluminum collection will start early Tuesday morning. Volunteers divided into six sections with large cartons. village truck will gather boxes after canvass. Section details cover Kerrs Run Welshtown Ament Naylors Run Willis Hill Court St Main Second St Mulberry Ave Breezy Heights Monkey Run and west toward corporation limit on Liberty Ave.
Mr and Mrs Orin Nelson announce the birth of a son Richard Ray Tuesday at the Dexter home of Pearly Nelson. Grandparents include Mr and Mrs Wilbur Pierce of Bradbury and Mrs Virginia Del Pierce. R B Swisher visits his mother Elizabeth Swisher in Portsmouth while she recovers from illness. Marvin Tedrow leaves for Covington Ky to join Ashland Refining Co. to be the son of A R and Mrs. Tedrow of West Main Street. Walter Vaughan and Walter Wolfe visit in Dunbar W Va. William Baxter returns home to Minersville after Puerto Rico service with a defense project and injury. Miss Shirley Clement spends two weeks at Camp Dekanawida West Virginia. Mrs Grant Garrison and Mrs Reuben Midkiff travel to Athens to see son Arthur. Twenty three Meigs County Bankers meet at Hotel Martin. new officers elected. Mr and Mrs Lester Hart depart for two week east and Canada vacation. POMEROY marriage license issued to Herbert D. Knoop and Helen J. Copeland.
In Middleport Mrs Maggie Neutzling marked her seventy third birthday with a party at the McElhinney home attended by 25 relatives and friends. Gifts cards and potted plants were given as a large birthday cake and ice cream were served to guests including Mrs Addie Grueser Mrs Charles Reuter Mrs Eva Russ and others. Also Miss Janet Hecox hosted a slumber party for three Madison School for Girls classmates with a visit to Columbus planned today.
TUPPERS PLAINS The tent meeting at Tuppers Plains will likely run until August 4 ending with an all day gathering. H T Dotson who was to lead the meeting had a serious accident at Elizabeth West Virginia. Newberry of Parkersburg and Henderson of Syracuse preached last week and White continued the meetings on Monday. Fred Tice of Rockland spoke at the Success Church last Sunday.
MIDDLEPORT Syracuse and Middleport baseball clubs will play Sunday at 2 30 o clock at Pythian Park. Both teams are members of the Ohio Valley League.
Funeral services for Andrew Stecker were held this morning at Sacred Heart Church Pom eroy following his death Tuesday at his home in Steubenville.
Mrs William Ely presided at the regular meeting in the absence of Mrs George Childs who assists in caring for her mother in law Mrs Lily Childs in critical condition After the session members enjoyed ice cream.
WPA officials say the Sugar Run sewer will be finished within a week to ten days with two more five foot concrete pipe sections laid. Most tools have been moved and sections on pavement removed on Butternut Ave and Second St will be resurfaced if weather allows.
Chesterhill social items report Loretta Talbott and Patty Howard aged three and six undergoing tonsil removal in Marietta. Several residents listed with health, travel, and employment updates. a fire destroyed a frame residence near town with no insurance. others visit family, relocate, or take new teaching posts in Amesville and Layman.
Mr and Mrs Edward Parsons learn their son Paul Parsons a private in the United States Army stationed at Fort Snelling Minnesota was awarded a gold medal for excellence in the automatic rifle squad. He entered the army in March and has not yet taken a furlough.
Pomeroy Salvation Army schedules Sunday School at 2 30 led by James Gates with YPS at 3 40. A street service at 7 15 and an 8 oclock indoor service led by Mrs James Gates. Midweek address by Mrs O E Lee at 8 on Wednesday. Torchbearers meeting Friday at 8 led by Mrs Clara Custer.
Formal announcement states Mrs Helen Lyons, owner of the Meigs and Liberty Theaters, purchases the Temple and Bendvue Theaters. The Liberty Theater in Middleport has been discontinued while the Meigs Bendvue and Temple will continue operation.
RACINE-Wilmer Byers, who is employed by the Ohio Lamp Company in Warren, is spending a two weeks vacation here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Byers. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Beegle and children moved their home furnishings Monday to Beaver, Pa., to reside there, where Mr. Beegle is employed. Rev. and Mrs. T. T. Shelton and son, Billie, are visiting this week at Hillsboro with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Shelton, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Wilkins, and Mr. and Mrs. B. W. King. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Campbell of Pomeroy, Dan Reese of Cleveland, Ed Reese, and Miss Virginia Holman were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joan Cross. George Circle, who was recently painfully burned by a cup of hot coffee, is improved. Charles Idle, who has been employed in Columbus and was recently transferred to Middletown, has resigned his position and returned to his home here.
The Rev. B. R. Smith of Mt. Moriah Baptist Church announces Sunday services at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with morning subject What Think Ye of Christ and evening topic Love Not the World in Middleport.
New England Homecoming announced with services and a picnic to celebrate at Sunrise Park. Miss Forrestine Starlin returns from Columbus for the event, joined by family members from Athens Lancaster Mansfield and Brownsville. Morning Sunday School and preaching, noon dinner, and an afternoon program with singing and talks planned.
Middleport chief of police Robert Allensworth, who was vacationing in Michigan with Mr and Mrs Frank Collins, has returned and resumed police duties. Sidney Russell had acted as chief during his absence while John Frecker and daughter Miss Flossie Frecker had returned to Middleport Thursday until today.
A large turtle bearing the initials HH and E and the year 1897 was found along a Dexter area creek bank by Mrs. Sidney Russell and her grandchildren. The discovery echoes a prior carving by Homer Hill, who died in 1900, three years after he and his daughter Ethel were inscribed on the same turtle.
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