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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1935
Page
3
The board approves new teaching positions for next year adding Mary and Charles to the staff alongside existing teachers. The action follows local budget discussions and spells a larger faculty for the upcoming term.
Fragmented OCR text lists names such as Pomeroy Entsminger and Kermit Brown with family members. It references a Saturday after a Sunday event and various local names, suggesting a family notice or social item in Columbus.
Fragments describe an evening in Rock Springs with mentions of Alfred, James Foreman, Anne Lewis Hamder, and Hallie Tucker. References include visits to Pomere, Columbus, Terrell Provemtire, Pomeroy, and Delaware with relatives and friends noted.
Rid Kime and Mrs Rilta Hawk are listed in a brief local notice including names and relations. The fragment reads as a civic or social note with two individuals mentioned.
Meigs County Fair preparations were discussed by the Fair Board at Pom ery City Hall. A tentative fair date was not announced due to possible conflicts with nearby fairs. Committees will begin work and discuss fairground improvements at the next meeting.
Four generations were represented at the baptismal service for James Sanborn held at Lincoln Street. Dr. Skinner officiated. The baby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sanborn. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Sanborn’s relatives including Mrs. Ida Bailey and grandmother Alice Fitch.
Final honor roll for Middleport High School lists students by class including Freshman Sophomore Juniors and Seniors with numerous names. The article also oddly ends with a note about male Australian monitor lizards standing upright and wrestling for a mate.
Middleport brief mentions Mr. and Mrs. A A Chappelle travel to Athens to visit friends. Dorcas Society of the First Baptist Church holds a Friday meeting with Mrs. Florence Bush and Miss Lulu Handley. Mrs. Sam Roy returns from Dexter caring for a sick uncle. Hill Top Troop Girl Scouts plan Friday ice cream sale with Philathea Women sponsoring. Dorothy Harper visits grandmother Mrs Henshaw. Mrs. Wesley Ely recovering from surgery at Holzer Hospital. Mrs. Tom Mills and daughters visit Charleston social.
Troop 1 of the Vomeroy Girl Scouts, led by Mrs. A. R. Knight, will leave Monday for Flora on Shade River for a five day camping trip. They aim to qualify for tests to earn First Class Scout rating. Investiture services presenting medals will be held Friday evening June 14 at 6 oclock, with the public invited. Final trip plans meet Thursday night at the Episcopal Parish house.
Portland personal social notes list Sunday visit by Mills and Mr Withers of Gallipolis to Harlan Mills family. Grace Middieawart returns from Piqua to home. Maxine Swan back at Bliss College Columbus after visit with parents. Elmer Daugherty Bast and Norman Owens Syracuse visit. Gale Price recently at medical school in Columbus with father Abner Price. Mrs. Louis Sharp and kin visit Huntington area with brother J A Siders family.
The Meigs Countiana residents living in Columbus and nearby areas will hold their annual picnic on June 25 at Franklin Park in Columbus.
Richardson Baking Company promotes Honey Flaked Wheat Bread as a natural laxative relief. Claims say daily baking with crushed whole wheat kernels and pure honey nourishes digestive glands and regulates elimination, with quicker results after a ten day trial.
David Matthews visits family in Poca West Virginia and Charleston for a week or ten days. Mrs. Mercer travels to Charleston to visit her daughter after a three week stay with Mr. and Mrs. O J Marcum. Mrs. Mercer plans Florida return after Charleston visit. Mrs. Mark Roller and daughter Jean visit Huntington two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. C A Bartels. Mrs. Everett Childers of Canton visits two weeks with her mother in law Mrs. Minerva Childers and family.
The Whatsoever Class of the Presbyterian Bible School meets Friday at 7 30 in the church lecture room for a regular session. President to lead the business portion. activities planned. Hostesses include Mrs H F E Thomas Mrs BE M Harrah Mrs Herman Batley and Mrs Huddleston.
More than 155 million books were sold in the United States in 1929 excluding school copies. The figure reflects a strong reading market and broad publishing activity across the year.
Maurice Thornton Jr and Bruno Pierotti expected to arrive home Friday after a year at Oxford University in Miami. Mary Schaefer spoke on a Mary Martha League meeting at Mary Bowen's Liberty Lane home with refreshments served.
Mr. and Mrs. Harley Collins of Lancaster visited their in laws G. W. Collins and wife from Thursday to Sunday. They were joined by Collins's sister Ardis and by Byron Phillips and guests Archie Phillips and daughter from Shelbyville Indiana. Other visitors included Ella Hilton Mary Virginia Cocoanore of Dayton Charlie Randel Freadland of Coalton Mary Yunt Byron Adame Detroit Arch Arhaught and Mal Davis of Columbus Ernest Stanley Autumney John Stanley and Boyd Williams who spent Sunday with relatives in Sabina.
Mr and Mrs Albert Combs and Mr and Mrs Owen Dick and Mr Sterling have been visiting in the Entsminger home. Mrs Dick formerly Agnes Combs and Mrs O R Nelson of Columbus were here recently with her mother Mrs Jane Kennedy. Mrs Eva Taylor also visited her mother Mrs Kennedy. Mr and Mrs W E B Wright remain seriously ill with two nurses caring for them. Mrs Ethel Lesleriad Mr and Mrs J T Ledlie and daughter attended Athens commencement. Dorothy Ledlie was a member of the Ohio University graduating class. Agnes Carson Rutland accompanied them to Athens. Wendell Miller and family and Mr and Mrs Fred Miller and son Columbus and Mrs D N Entsminger and children Middleport spent Thursday here with the Robert McKnight family.
Marriage licenses granted Wednesday in Pomeroy to Herbert Davia 22 farmer of Vinton County and Arlene Beckley 24 of Albany and to Sheridan Young 23 and Beverly Wood 18 both of Long Bottom. All couples were married by Justice of Peace J W McCullough.
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