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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1945
Page
8
Pomeroy Council unanimously awarded L. P. Cavett Company the contract to resurface and repair streets including runs and byways. Cavett will start immediately, having done road work in Racine and Rutland. Middleport discussed sewerage and street repairs, with routes and ordinances approved.
Members met for luncheon at the Martin Hotel and voted to pay expenses for representatives attending the 12 County meet at Chillico next week. Mayor George Hoyell and W A Smith the Supt. of Schools and Chamber president will attend. Representatives from 18 counties push conservation highway improvement and industrial development.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Jeffers of Bladen received word from the War Department that their son Staff Sgt John Jeffers a German war prisoner has been released from U S military control and will return to the United States when transportation is available. He was listed missing in action last July and later learned captive.
Middleport Social Notes report a Monday meeting at Mrs Edward French home with 32 members and 5 guests. Speaker Mrs James Titus discussed flower arrangements and urged attendance at the Pomeroy flower judges school with June 6 instructors including Prof Victor Reis. Prizes were awarded for garden counts, and next gathering is a picnic at Roadside Park. Personal mentions note numerous local visits and assignments.
In Meigs County 1935 to 1944, Pomeroy National Bank and county agent backed broiler farming boosting local income. Broilers rising from 5,000 yearly to weekly levels, with growers earning profits and loans repaid. Bank investments also expanded beef cattle by purchasing 216 heifers and six bulls, growing the herd to about 1,000 cows alongside beef sales.
POMEROY MSgt. William Carman arrives home on furlough after 30 months overseas service in North Africa Sicily England and France. He carries the Presidential Citation the Silver Star and three oak leaf clusters. He will report back to Camp Atterbury for re assignment. Also at home T Sgt Ralph Carman recently returned after mission completion holding the Purple Heart and other awards. Mrs Betty Carman Evans and Miss Helen Carman, Air Service Command employees in Dayton, visit their parents as part of the family gathering.
Howard K. Ewing known as Howard the Trader purchased the Huber Building in Pomeroy from Mrs. Elizabeth and Mrs. Mary Huber. The brick one story structure on Second and Mechanic sits between Krogers and Major Clover Farm. Four tenants include Tewksbury Barber Shop Meier's Shoe Repair Watson's Dry Cleaning and the Thrift Shop. No changes to tenants planned as the purchase was an investment.
Charles Hayden, a guard at Parkersburg Rig and Reel, pleaded guilty to intoxication and property destruction charges before Mayor CC Fisher. He was fined 94.50 and returned to Meigs County Jail after failing to pay. Hayden had been jailed in Middleport after Chief Adams arrested him on Saturday for intoxication and set fire to mattresses and bedclothes, damaging jail property.
Advisory Council 2-A met Friday evening with Mr and Mrs Henry Whipple. Discussion covered fast and slow time with unanimous vote for slow time. Thursday holiday hours in Pomeroy deemed inconvenient for farmers. Refreshments were served by hosts Mr and Mrs Roy Biffle and others.
Tickets urged for the Meigs Chapter Izaak Walton League gathering at the Boy Scout cabin in Chester. Dr. T. H. Langlois of the state conservation department and Ed Rinehart, Pittman Robinson coordinator, will be guests for the evening on Thursday June 7.
Members of the Pomeroy and Twilight Garden Clubs host a flower judging school at Pomeroy Senior High School on Wednesday June 6. Prof Victor Reis of Ohio State University and Mrs Van Patten of Dayton lead the event which opens at 10 a.m. EWT with a $1 registration fee for spectators. Attendees should bring flower arrangements and a box lunch for noon. Only designated club members may take the course and attendees from other communities plan to join.
The Drew Webster Post in POMERGY announces the 201st member joining Legion membership. Gramm of Levitt and a World War II veteran are noted among recent additions. It was announced that adjusted service compensation bonds are payable June 15. Arthur Wandiing received a prize.
Infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Kime died at their Thomas Fork home after a short illness Surviving are the parents two brothers Eugene and Lawrence and grandparents Iwill Kime and Mr and Mrs Cleveland J Russell of Thomas Fork Masons Meet Tonight Middleport Stated meeting of Middleport Masonic Lodge will be held this evening at 730 pm Members urged to attend
Gallipolis hosts the state federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs as Miss Florence Kerr visits with relatives and attends the annual convention at Miami University. Miss Ethel Maud Young of Cincinnati was elected treasurer in the Gallipolis division, and former hardware dealer Miss Catherine, daughter of Mrs. Nora K. Vanden and Mrs. Ella K. Fuller, helped in the event. New officers were installed by national president Miss Margaret Hickey.
The drive to restore allocations deleted from the 391 million biannual appropriations bill moved in the Senate Finance Committee. Assistant agriculture director Bryan P. Sandles urged returning 240,810 for the State Fair next year, contingent on Army release of fairgrounds by year end. Public works director Raschig and Leonard Stern of the Ohio Water Supply Board said 224,470 was needed instead of 80,520 to fund a 1947 plan to improve the state's water supply.
The Ohio attorney general ruled that merchants and public places cannot obtain insurance to cover damages from civil rights violations. The opinion to Walter Dressel, state insurance superintendent, states such insurance would counter public policy and enable willful discrimination to escape penalties.
iJAllipolis residents share weekly updates including W T Comer's Detroit return after visiting relatives in town and at Vinton. Clair Kimball heads to Mt Oreb to spend two weeks with his parents Charles and Mrs Kimball, while Mrs Kimball enjoys vacation from Davis Shuler Co. Grover Gill of Langsville visits Gallipolis. Cpl. Theodore Baker visits with wife Mae Brown and parents Sam and Mrs Baker in Cheshire. Guests of J A Burris include Pearl Kinnaird family from Lancaster, Lewis Lanier of Hogsett W Va, and Jack Matthews of Cincinnati. Mrs Patrick Buchanan traveling to California to join Capt Buckhanan of the U S Navy pauses with daughter L C Armstrong on State Street.
Milton T. Start Jr., 17, died in Columbus after a skull fracture from a motorcycle crash on Lockbourne Road south of the city. Son of Milton T. and Ruth Start, former Mercerville residents now near Columbus. Funeral Wednesday at Mercerville Baptist Church with burial at Ridgelawn Cemetery.
Bobby White Lewis Stiverson and Paul Smith left Monday for Knoxville Tennessee to take jobs at the Aluminium Company of America Alcoa plant. The firm advertised for help and especially sought high school students. Also noted is a wedding in Columbus where Mrs Virgil Benson served as matron of honor for Miss Mary Virginia Barker and Albert H. T. Waidner with the ceremony at St Johns Evangelical Church Columbus on May 20.
Gallipolis Mrs Anna Gates White president of the Gallipolis Business and Professional Women's Club is a patient at Mt. Carmel Hospital Columbus She went to Columbus Saturday for the annual meeting of the State Federation of Business and Professional Women and was taken to the hospital Sunday after a series of nasal hemorrhages Miss Ethel Young who accompanied her said she visited Mrs White before leaving Sunday night and she hopes to return home within a few days.
A Navy Young Seaman II, Kathryn Ann Gallipolis, Steve Johnson, was released on May 31 after a medical discharge following months of hospitalization in Florida and at Great Lakes Illinois. He arrived Saturday with his sister Mrs. Anthony Waldenmaier and left for North Carolina where his wife has taught. Mrs. Waldenmaier and daughter will stay with her parents in Addison I, while his wife continues service. Frederick R. Carman graduated from armored officer candidate school Fort Knox after earlier five months at Fort Bragg and training at Fort Knox tank school. He will have leave then three additional training months. Mrs. Carman and two children reside with his parents in Addison I while he serves.
Cleveland tied its all time low for June 4 at 43 degrees with the thermometer reaching that mark at midnight and staying until dawn. Columbus recorded 43 degrees and Newark 44, marking new personal bests for the date in each city.
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