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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1930
Page
2
Pomeroy Salt Association Plant at Minersville resumes operations after a three month idle period. Officials anticipate a steady ten month run with an average of three carloads shipped daily, supporting many local jobs in salt making, by products, and coal mining for plant operations.
Middleport area social notes list visitors and residents visiting or traveling to Columbus Pittsburgh Athens and Zanesville with births weddings and hospital stays. Meigs County reports fines for intoxication and liquor offenses. Pittsburgh court convictions for robbery and felonious assault. local councilman travels to Cleveland with family.
A Chester pest killing contest ends with 4 700 rats 7 092 mice 1 109 sparrows 615 crows 398 gophers 72 hawks and five chipmunks killed. Two teams of thirty men led by J S Frank and Earl Hartung competed. the Frank team won and was given a banquet by the losers. The event is expected to be staged each year.
Chicago reports indicate eight deaths in gang warfare over the past week. Missing Moran foe George Bugs Moran and other gangsters are feared dead or missing as Capone gunmen suspected in a spree that left Eugene Red McLaughlin tortured and killed. Frank Thompson wounded after confrontation at a New Milford gas station. Police probe links Red to previous machine gun slayings at Fox Lake.
Dr Caldwell created a harmless laxative in 1885 to treat constipation by addressing its cause. The mixture of herbs and pure ingredients became the world’s most popular laxative, praised for gentle action and pleasant taste for both adults and children.
Pomeroy June 9 county officers raided the old Forest Run mining camp and seized a complete liquor manufacturing outfit in a derelict house. They could not locate the owner or mash supply. The camp’s 109 houses were removed except four and the wartime coal camp site is now a cornfield. Later Meigs County and Gallia County officers raided a river fishing camp finding beer and whisky. one man and two women were arrested and taken to Gallipolis.
Trucks loaded with milk cans pass through Pomeroy under official watch after a tip claimed some convey 1000 gallons of liquor per trip. Misplaced liquor is said to be hidden in milk cans with empty cans on top to mislead inspectors.
Mrs. Fred Gardner and daughter Joyce traveled by car to Roseville for a family Kiles reunion. The gathering occurred Sunday with uncle Walter Kiles from Russell Kansas joining local relatives.
The Pocahontas Camp organized Friday night in Pomeroy lists officers from Middleport Rutland and Racine with Mrs C W Cooper as Pocahontas and Mrs Ed Spencer as keeper of records and wampum. Minnie Hoffner heads the Degree of Pocahontas as Ella Browning attends from Ulbrichsville with Ports mouth aiding initiation.
Pomeroy notes Saturday afternoon issued two marriage licenses from the Probate Court. The first was to Harold E.
Russell, store manager at Middleport, and Phyllis G. Chase aged 18 of Pomeroy, wed in a home ceremony announced by The Sunday Messenger. The second couple, E F Boyd 24 of Marietta, an auto salesman, and Eileen Kidd 21 of Reedsville, planned to marry by Rev D W Watkins who could not be located and they married elsewhere.
A Wednesday evening procession of seven new automobiles is expected to arrive in Pomeroy from Pontiac Michigan after a two day drive. Five of the seven cars will be driven by Pomeroy women with two men supervising in the remaining two cars.
Middleport reports the Rev. J. H. Holcomb at Heath M. E. Church for the last quarterly meeting of the year before conference.
Pomeroy and Middleport in Meigs County expect a refund from the Bellefountain Construction Company project. The highway work on No. 7 cost a total of 166 956 14 after additions, below the original 161 200 84 contract. The final refund amount is not yet calculated but will total several thousand dollars.
Otto Link, 61, former Athens resident and tailor, died at his Marietta home Sunday night. He lived in Athens about 25 years ago and worked as a tailor there.
Born in Cincinnati, the deceased is survived by his wife two brothers Henry in Athens and E J in Chicago and a sister Mrs Rosie Slaybeck of Athens Funeral services and burial will take place in Marietta.
Mrs. Rebecca Lopez, 9, died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Oscar Dabritz after a long illness. She leaves three daughters Amanda Powell Vermillion SD J Clark Carbondale and Pat Loper Murray City. Funeral services will be held at Asbury M E Church Wednesday with burial in the church cemetery.
Arthur E. Buchannan has been named assistant coach at West High School Columbus to assist Coach Harold Wise in football and basketball and to oversee other school athletics. He is a veteran coach with 12 years in teaching and coaching at Pickaway Newport Marietta Williamstown and Mound Junior High Columbus.
Attendance at Pomeroy’s Presbyterian Church marked the first combined meeting of merged Presbyterian and Peace Church schools. The event sparked renewed talk of merging Simpson Chapel and Bethany Church in town and uniting the town’s two Methodist congregations.
Mary Rose Ralph five day old daughter of Mr and Mrs Stanley Guy Ralph was found dead in bed beside her mother Sunday morning near the Ohio end of the Pomeroy Bend Bridge authorities believe suffocation caused the infant death.
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