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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1931
Page
2
Local staff correspondent Hartley invites society and locals to submit news and classified ads for The Messenger. Readers are urged to contact Virgil Marsh for circulation services and related inquiries.
Meigs County Fish and Game Association seeks Ohio Conservation Bureau aid to build a 100 acre lake on a suitable stream near Rocksprings Fairgrounds. Dr A E McCullough leads a committee with J S Hartenbach and others to press Columbus on March 18, while local members and Rep. Jacob Dean back the effort.
Mrs. Byron Saxton learns of the death of her uncle John H. McCarty of San Juan Capistrano California who was killed in an automobile accident between Barstow California and Las Vegas New Mexico on Monday Burial was at Santa Anna California beside his wife He was the Kanawha and Michigan Railroad agent at Albany Athens County for years and well known in Athens and Meigs Counties
The State Highway Department of Columbus announces the contract for road improvements on State Route 7 at the east end of Pomeroy has been awarded to Bose & Ritchie of Ravenswood West Virginia. The bid totals $124 833 12 and the firm plans to begin work immediately employing many workers.
Mrs Earl Jenkins of Pomeroy, owner of the Liberty Theater at Middleport, travels with her sister Mrs John Lyons. The party sails to Florida to join Mrs Lyons and then proceeds to Cuba for a six week stay.
Orchardists across the county are pruning spraying and preparing for a hoped for good fruit harvest. Reports indicate every kind of fruit is safe so far and growers anticipate strong yields this season.
Mr and Mrs Shelby McName and their daughter Etta were killed in an automobile accident near Springfield on Feb 22 car colliding with a railroad train. News reached Pomeroy days later as relatives failed to locate Meigs County brother Charlies McName.
Carrie Atkinson of Pittsburgh announced the death of her sister Ida Atkinson. The body will be sent to Pomeroy for burial likely later this week. The Atkinson family once lived in Pomeroy and no other Robert Atkinson family members remain except Carrie, a longtime schoolteacher.
In Middleport on March 5 the birthday of T. J. Wilson, Civil War veteran, reached 88. The celebration was quiet with daughter Mrs. Ed Parsons serving a special dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, who are both in frail health.
James Handley will conduct a religious rally at the Majestic Theater in Pomeroy starting Sunday at 2 30 p m with nightly meetings for several weeks except Saturdays The evangelist formerly of Middleport will speak on topics including Many Infallible Proofs That Christ Was Divine The Divine Inspiration of the Bible The Coming of Christ The Signs of the Times The Anti Christ Evolution Only a Theory and The Genealogy of Jesus Christ and Tradition Sinvine will be featured.
Salinda Bean 88, a Meigs County matriarch, died at 8 am at daughter Bertha Rathburn’s home after age infirmities. Widow of George Bean, she leaves three living children Dr Louis Bean Dr Frank Bean and Mrs Bertha Rathburn with Adeline Rathburn predeceased. Bertha Rathburn is widowed from Senator Rathburn. Funeral plans will be announced.
Claud D Nease 60 husband of Mrs Helen Nease died in Columbus after hospital treatment. A Meigs County native he lived in East Liverpool in tile and architect work and once ran a large local business. Survived by wife Helen Hobstetter Nease and two children. funeral plans not announced.
The county recorder reports paid in full mortgage releases for three borrowers. Mike McKenzie to the Farmers Bank and Savings Company for 200 dollars, Cora B. Roberts to Buckeye Savings and Loan Company for 1100 dollars, and Jesse Rummel and Amelia Rummel to the Citizens National Bank for 200 dollars.
A veteran’s bonus funds arrive via a Pomeroy bank on Tuesday while Meigs County residents report peddlers selling sassafras bark for a spring purifying tonic. Revival services are slated in Syracuse March 9 to 20 led by John A. Waugaman.
Meigs County commissioners have not offered bounties on crow heads for two years, leading to large crow populations that outpaced extermination efforts. Three years ago a 3600 bounty raised crow numbers, prompting the removal of the program while other counties keep bounties to employ workers.
Charles Murray visits sister Mrs. Alice Sidenstricker in South Bloomfield and travels to Gallipolis to see son-in-law Pearl Neilson at Holzer Hospital for appendicitis. Several others leave for Akron Cleveland Columbus and Charleston for illness and engagements as extended family visits continue.
The community reports 19 accessions at the evangelistic church services while local families welcome guests and travelers. Mrs. Clifford Erwin and daughter Caro Louise visit Athens’s Ohio University ties and cousin Miss Helen Wilson. Jack Horden begins housekeeping at a nephew’s house as neighbors relocate to Gravel Hill and Storys Run.
POMEROY March 6 Charlotte Mees six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Mees is reported near death of an attack of scarlet fever and diphtheria Two physicians and a trained nurse were in attendance yesterday and last night The child's father is a Main Street merchant.
Mary Morris widow of a Civil War veteran marks a local birthday observance at her home in the community on March 5. The note highlights her late spouse and their family ties in the area.
An ad promotes a 25 cent Bukene test box of 5 grain tablets to cleanse the bladder, relieve irritation and frequent urination. It claims relief within four days or a money back guarantee, noting Bukene contains buchu leaves and juniper oil and is sold at McKee Drug Co.
The mother celebrated her eightieth birthday yesterday with family. Her son Ben Morris attended as part of the celebration. Another son, Edgar H. Morris, serves as court bailiff in Pomeroy, tying the family to local public life.
The House Highways Committee heard a bill to let the state pay up to 35 percent of main highway costs in municipalities to ease city burdens from heavy intercity traffic. W. A. Alishord of the Ohio Good Roads Federation spoke for the measure. Action was postponed until next Monday.
Cincinnati police seek three federal prisoners who reportedly escaped from a train near Loveland while en route from Shreveport to the Chillicothe Reformatory. The escapees are Robert Coombs aged 18, Joseph King aged 17, and Guy Stringer aged 27.
Columbus March 5 The House Codes Committee unanimously recommended passage of the Yellow Dog labor contract bill prohibiting employers from forcing workers to sign anti union agreements The measure has state labor support and was introduced by Republican Representative Marshall of Hamilton County Previous similar bills were killed in prior sessions
Prof H T Houf of the Ohio University Philosophy Department has been ill with influenza for two weeks at his home 165 Lancaster Street. He is expected to return to class next week, according to department head Dr W S Gammertsfelder.
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