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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1931
Page
2
Local staff notes request reader support for classified ads and circulation services. Virgil Marsh listed for assistance with ads and related services in the Pomeroy Bend Meigs County section.
The Buffington Island Civil War monument near Portland Ohio is finished and open for inspection. It stands 20 feet high and sits within a two foot wall with four entrance alcoves and bronze tablets detailing the battle fought July 19 1863 between Union and Confederate forces.
Pomeroy reports wheat ripening rapidly with much of the crop expected to be in shocks by the Fourth of July. Some fallen wheat already cut and stored for hay. Farmers focus on cropping this week then switch to wheat cutting. a visitor from Tuppers Plains notes excellent yields between Pomeroy and Tuppers Plains.
Middleport June 24 Charles Winetgar owner and manager at Midway Hall Cheshire is in Holzer Hospital Callipnits with swollen chest and throat. Doctors removed a piece of flesh for analysis by Cincinnati specialists to determine the cause of the natal mavelling. Mr and Mrs A A Chappelle of Columbus visited daughter Mrs G Talbot and family. Effie Rice spent Monday in Mintla.
George Mourning was injured while picking cherries in Middleport when a limb broke causing him to fall from a ladder. He suffered fractures to both bones in his right leg and was treated at the scene before being transported for further care.
Tu Mire J H Grateron, Gene and Ruth motored to Columbus Tuesday to visit the foreseen daughter Mrs EL Beemick. Emmett Kersey and family arrived from Charleston for a few days visiting Mrs Foster Reed. A McCullough and Sam Biarting were in Parkersburg Monday evening. Dr McCullough is improving.
Annual commencement exercises held Friday night on the grounds of Central School Building. Gardner, superintendent, will preside. The public is invited.
POMEROY June 24 The grand jury will be called to investigate the killing of Harley Canode in Cunh ia Township last Friday by E Martin, who is held in jail on a manslaughter charge. The sheriff and deputies spent yesterday in Columb iship investigating the case and returned there today with subpoenas. The grand jury will convene on call of the sheriff.
In Middleport a June 50th anniversary for Mr and Mrs Charles Winchrenner is celebrated with family members including the Winchner children and relatives from Evans and Buckner. The event recalls a second Sunday gathering with Auda Evans and others. few children could attend.
A child injured by a tombstone in Cheshire Cemetery near Dayton started speaking again after a long recovery. The family returned from Michigan to Dayton to care for the girl who spoke the word Mother during a Monday visit, with plans reportedly to move her home soon.
A coal miners meeting drew about 500 attendees at Rene Grove after the Ming Na 36 shutdown. Speakers urged plan Glass Picnic at Littleport, while the Presbyterian Time School class and teacher Den Hayes planned a Rathbumn golf outing at Rutland.
A fragmentary notice from Meigs County describes a bird incident near Long Bottom and Pomeroy. It mentions a Pearl White individual and persons Lice F. W. Gilmore, with incomplete details about injuries or outcomes.
A visitor named William M. Fink formerly of Jado appeared in Longdale and told residents he would bathe in the river. His clothes were found on the shore and his body floated upriver, believed drowned while bathing. He was a stranger to the area.
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