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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1933
Page
2
POMEROY, June 1. Bedford and Long Bottom districts must extend the school term to July if boards approve. The extended term stems from voters rejecting a three mile levy earlier, delaying openings since 1932. Bedford closed February 1932, Long Bottom delayed after 1931-82 term.
Prof and Mrs Saunders of Ashland Kentucky spent Monday and Tuesday with Mr and Mrs W L Stivers on Main Street in Pomeroy. Windsor Stivers also joined guests from Saturday to Tuesday.
An old newspaper ad promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a gentle venous bile stimulant that frees two pounds of bile daily. It warns against harsh laxatives and salts, claiming the pills improve digestion, banish bad breath, clear skin, and relieve headaches. Look for Carter's on the red label.
Eighth grade exams for Long Bottom school district will be held there on Saturday September C O Chapman announced. Students who missed due to illness or were on the border in grades may also take the exam. Bedford school board has not yet set a date for its exam. A teachers examination will occur Saturday at Pomeroy High School.
Bertram McDougal Lawrence Ward Ralph Johnson and Kenneth Cornell left Sunday for Camp Knox for forestry training. The Epworth League hosts an ice cream social this Saturday night for church funds. Mr and Mrs W G McKelvey and two sons visited Parkersburg with their daughter Mrs Robert West. Mr and Mrs Earnest Gross and daughter and Mrs Jessie Crow of Athens visited W E McDade and family. Mrs W E McDade and daughter joined Mr and Mrs Gilbert McDade to Mt Pleasant Michigan for a two week visit. Dr Lawrence Idle and his wife and Mrs Vera Thompson Howard of Columbus visited Memorial Day with Mr and Mrs Von Adams. Harry Adams and family of Clendenin WV spent Memorial Day here with relatives. Adam Slaughter is seriously ill in a Charleston hospital.
The Bashan baseball team plans an ice cream supper Saturday night. A series of visits occur as Mrs. Minnie Orr stays with siblings in Buchtel and Plainview, John Sanborn and family visit Columbus relatives, and an assortment of relatives gather in Pomeroy Miami Beach and Rutland. A fire of undetermined origin destroyed Arthur Orr’s house Tuesday night around 10.
The house was being painted at the time of the incident and no resident occupied the dwelling.
Miss Au dell Phillips, colored, home economics teacher in the Edgar Walters College at Jacksonville, Florida, arrived Wednesday evening to spend the summer with her father, George Phillips, on Oliver Street in Middleport. She graduated from Middleport High School in 1926 and Wilberforce College at Xenia with honors five years later after working her way through.
Racine dispatch reports Miss Eva Park daughter of J L Park transferred from City Hospital Parkersburg to her Dorcas home by ambulance on Wednesday and is said to be improving.
Mr and Mrs Harley Amos and children visited Harrisonville while Beatrice Pond shows improvement from illness. Kermit Brown spent days in West Virginia and Kenneth Bradford, teaching near Cincinnati, stayed with his parents. Mr and Mrs Jud Bradford and Mr and Mrs Paul Winn visited Columbus. Pearl Lanning spent Memorial Day weekend in Huntington. Mrs Lorenzo Davis of Harrisonville visited Amos family. she wed Mr Davis in Washington D C on April 19 last.
Mrs How ard Lewis of Betsy Lane Kentucky attended the alumni banquet and Memorial Day in Middleport and stayed several days with Mrs Frank Williams. She formerly was Miss Clara Watson and graduated from Middleport High School in 1914.
A neighbor gives Allenru to a man crippled by rheumatic pains. Within 2 days agony eases and in 48 hours the pain vanishes. The family celebrates. money-back guarantee offered if relief does not occur. Available at Quick’s Cut Rate Store or any leading druggist.
Middleport June 1 The Women s Missionary Society of the Church of Christ presents a benefit program at the church tonight with readings vocal and organ solos and a playlet titled A Dream With a Mission.
Mrs Ann Jones and daughter Alvira hosted Memorial Day visitors at their South Fifth Avenue home in Middleport. Attending were Mr and Mrs John Price of Charleston Prof and Mrs E O Saunders of Ashland Kentucky Mr and Mrs Sherman Walter Mrs Harbarger and Mrs Wilson of Coalton.
Middleport residents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stark of Huntington and Mrs. Bina Sanborn with family spent Memorial Day in town. They later traveled by car to Reedsville with the Sanborn group and the Hoyt family, including Esther and Carolyn.
Rutland residents and visitors share weekend visits with friends and relatives. Mrs. Margaret Metters ends a week with her sister Mrs. C Y Brideman in Columbus. The Karr and Crance families join relatives here for Monday and a Bethel Methodist conference attendance includes Avery Roberts Tillie Bentz and Marcia Karr. Henry Roush relocates to Portland and several locals complete teaching duties in Pomeroy and Middleport.
A string of short visits and returns is noted with residents travelling to and from Columbus Cincinnati Albany Akron Gallipolis and Athens. Harry Gaskill stays in McArthur with his brother while others return home after visiting relatives including Miss Nelson Mr. and Mrs. McCarty and Miss Doris Gibbs among many.
Mary Luella Dean is improving from pneumonia after a serious illness. Local families attended a birthday dinner for Carl Koker in Lancaster. Emma Poston attended George McDaniel’s funeral in Columbus. The Hublers hosted guests including Herbert Everett and Pearl Robinson with Rex Nickoson from Strouds Run.
Nine year old Dorothy Ellen Heatherlin of Sugar Creek died in a house fire after escaping with her parents and four siblings. The blaze yesterday left the Heatherlin family recounting the tragedy.
Memorial Day observances were held in the town and at the Forestry Camp with assistance from the K. T. Crossen Post American Legion members arriving from Athens. Various local residents and families visited relatives, attended piano recitals, hosted dinners, and shared gatherings across Nelsonville Chillicothe Albany Athens and New Marshfield through the weekend. Dorothy Vanaky remained for three weeks with relatives after attending the recital and visiting in Athens.
Mineral May 31 report of Theodore Knowlton death in Giedwin Michigan. He was brother of the late Irvington Knowlton and uncle to Mrs. D. T. McAfee and Mrs. Errett Carmen who reside in Mineral. Locals Rev James Maffin and Rev Herman Secoy visited area residents. Miss Dorothy Clark remained seriously ill.
The Grafton Savings and Banking Company resumed normal operations today in Lacrain County after the national holiday closure. The Elyria suburb bank becomes the first locally to reopen since the holiday declaration.
Gallia Academy High School poster contest results announced by the committee. William Lambert won first, Mary Foster second, and Orville Vance third for the Gallia Academy poster content in the Spring Flower Show. Local sponsors Kerr Drug, McKnight Davies, Womeldorf & Thomas, and A M Blake & Co aided with window displays.
Mrs Fred Root visits sister in Walbridge. Colum bus visitors Charles Richards and daughter with S E Jenkins. T W Jones of Columbus visiting Flora Carter. College Association banquet and election set for Friday June 2. Rev W T Packer sermon Sunday June 4 Divine Deliverance. Margaret Jenkins guests Aldeth Looks. Dwight Tanner family visit Rio Grande relatives. J P McDonald visits. Jesta Reese visits Ina Lewis. Mrs J L Miller and family attend double funeral near Langsville.
Gallipolis June 1 report that Franklin Maerker and his brother Charles plan a Rio Grande barber shop catering to college students. Franklin, Coalton High School graduate, intends to support two years of college by barbering.
Memorial Day services were held at the Troy Baptist Church under Sons of Veterans and Ladies Auxiliary. The Rev. Samuel Helmick spoke as children from Universalist and Centennial Sunday Schools presented a program. Several families visited relatives in the area over the weekend and hosted guests from Cincinnati, Sidney, Akron, Columbus, Detroit, and Guysville.
Broadwell May 31 The Willing Workers Sunday School class met at teacher Mrs. Freda Nice home and served lunch Then they cleaned the cemetery and planted flowers. Several locals attended the high school commencement at Stewart.
Memorial Day observances at Camp Zaleski included services at Town Hall and the cemetery with a National Guard salute. Corporal Alton Shelton sounded taps, joined by Lieut. John Lininger and Sergeant Virgil Fitzgerald representing the camp at McArthur services. Local Legion members from Athens attended and a musical program followed with songs by Frank Sumutku and Gus Redelman.
William Smith of Georges Creek was fined 25 dollars and costs after pleading guilty to capturing a live fox out of season before Justice Leo Carter. Game Protector Charles Phillips arrested him. Leslie Smith of Guyan Township pleaded not guilty to destroying a fox den. decision pending. Ernest Camp near Miverton was fined 100 dollars and costs for possession of two gallons of liquor and jailed for nonpayment. Dan Morris and Charles Bevant near Morgan Center were released after pleading guilty and paying 10 dollars and costs each.
Gallia Academy High School selects five vocational agriculture students to represent its FFA chapter at the fifth annual Congress at Ohio State University in Columbus June 2 and 3. Max Tawney Willard Shoemaker John Blazer will form the general livestock team and dairy cattle judges. Raymond McCombs will judge poultry and Joe Clark sheep. Tawney and Clark will attend the FFA business meeting.
Exterior of the Park Central Hotel is being repainted after work began Wednesday. The interior has also been renovated.
In Gallipolis on June 1 a luncheon honored Miss Ceota Evans and Miss Isabel Dye, brides elect, hosted by teachers from Washington No 1 and Washington No 2 buildings. Seventeen teachers and both guests attended.
Gallipolis defeated a Yon ball team in an Inter-ctieg night game at the manga field Tuesday night. The report notes marriage licenses issued by Judge J. G. Clark and mentions a jail fence project with material received Wednesday and workers proceeding with the enclosure.
A birth at Holzer Tuesday night to Dr and Mrs Jen of Wellston is noted. Discharges Wednesday include Katie Davis of Oak, Helen Rogers of Ferry West Virginia, with Gallipolis listed for June.
Mrs Bertha Dailey spends Memorial Day week with her daughter in Huntington and is accompanied by Mr and Mrs Frank Sibtpanied their daughter Mrs Edwards of Huntington. The Dailey party shares time with Wetherhott family and son-in-law during the holiday period.
On June 1 at Chi Park near Intersections Routes 11 and 160, Pra Higgins and George Wood charged a morning breakfast for the Academy High School faculty.
Banking department approves reopening of Citizens State Bank in Perry County at full 100 percent basis in Columbus on June date. Event marks restoration of bank operations under state oversight.
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