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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1940
Page
3
Meigs County officials finalize a revised appropriation under 75 000 dollars to cover salaries for courthouse employees and accrued bills. Changes cut sheriff, children’s home, courthouse and jail, county home, and miscellaneous items while boosting the agricultural fund and adding sums for agricultural society debt and the state extension fund.
Don Os borne Green of Tuppers Plains, a Davis and Elkins College junior in Elkins West Virginia, is named among second honor students for the first semester. He majors in Arts and Sciences, serves as a Varsity Club officer and stars on the college basketball team. He is the son of Mr and Mrs H Green of Tuppers Plains.
Announcement from Dunbar West Virginia states Mr and Mrs Fred Hoffman welcomed a son. This is the Hoffmans third boy. Mrs Hoffman is formerly Frances McClure.
Advertisement claims FASTEETH powder improves denture fit on upper and lower plates. It is described as alkaline, non acidic, with no gummy taste, reducing plate odor and creaking. Sold at drug stores with brief brand endorsement.
The seventh anniversary of the National Farm Program will be celebrated at the Senkus Hotel in Pomeroy this Friday at 7 30 PM with a dinner for Meigs County ACA township committees and prominent farmers and business people. A 10 PM WOSU program will feature speeches by President Roosevelt Vice President Wallace and Secretary Farley on the program’s accomplishments and goals urging all Meigs Countians involved in farming to listen.
County wide sportsmen and farmers formed a group under Ohio Conservation Division to improve citizen representation. Clyde Srofe outlined the program before officers were elected Edison Hobstetter chairs with Dr E F Maag as vice chair Kenneth Grueser as secretary Arthur Rosenbaum will represent sportsmen on a district board Dan Hartinger will represent farmers. Committees on game fish forestry lakes and parks social law enforcement and finance will be chosen later by officers and district members The meeting drew a large, balanced turnout of farmers and sportsmen voting together for representatives.
The trial of Damon Watkins an Athens County minister on a grand larceny indictment was postponed to March 26. Watkins is accused of stealing about $100 from a parish collection.
Special pre Easter services are held each Wednesday and Sunday night at the Church of Christ. The Rev Don McMillin leads the services and Charles Walburn directs the singing.
POMEROY H Rainey division representative of the United Mine Workers spoke at a meeting in Pomeroy City Hall. He denied reports of participating in a January wage agreement with Peacock Coal Company and said he would not discuss any scale beyond the UMW contract.
Middleport social page covers a B Y P U skating party at Rutland Skating Rink with many attendees and chaperones. Jitterbug Club gathering at the Roush home followed by Hamilton's visit. Church program in Syracuse features Mrs C P Bradbury and Ginny Wise with Bill Anderson. E M Wood visits Kokomo Indiana to see daughter Helen Wood director of John B Rogers Producing Co. Charter Day luncheon of Return Jonathan Meigs DAR planned at Mrs M E Rathburn’s with Mrs Leo Bean guest reviewer. Funeral out-of-town attendance for Mrs E E Stansbury, Stansbury home closed, niece Myrta Musser accompanying to North Carolina.
Racine high school prepares for baccalaureate on May 19 and commencement on May 20 with Rev Charles Stephenson delivering the sermon and Samuel W Grathwell of Cincinnati the commencement speaker. Noon Basketball League near end with Roush leading and Wolf second. a class tournament to follow with noon preliminaries for girls and boys finals and a faculty game at night.
A Rutland area singer and native son Edgar Tuckerman died at his Lincoln Nebraska home. He was born to Carleton and Lucetta Tuckerman and is survived by brothers Fred and J H Tuckerman and sister Mrs G E Durst of Rutland. The unrelated Pomeroy case of Charles Calkins, a discharged highway employee, was postponed to next Wednesday for Civil Service Commission hearing in Columbus.
Mr Charles Ervin of Route 1 Athens reports Vendol relieved his constipation and acted as a diuretic aiding kidney function. He says relief came after starting the regimen with Vendol laxative tablets and endorses buying Vendol from local druggists in Athens Nelsonville and elsewhere. He urges others with similar pains to try Vendol and visit Athens Phev for details.
In MIDDLEPORT 26 members of the Future Homemakers Club of the Home Economics Class at MHS received the first degree of the Future Homemakers of America by candlelight. Miss Louise Drake instructed as Miss Sylvia Mayer led the vows and badges were awarded to each candidate. Attending were Sylvia Mayer Betty Brown Doris Bailey Iris Winebrenner Elizabeth Swindler Ruth Seiies Jeanette Stewart Mazie Wise Peggy Robson Jean ette Grueser Kate Smith Margaret Wolfe Mary Miller Louise Winebrenner Yvonne Graham Wanda Frazier Bertha Hoffman Ulah Jones Betty Snyder Dorothy Nelle Stewart Dorothy French Marjorie Diles Anna Barker Lois Ann Roush Miriam Kauff and Marcella Walburn.
POMEROY Meigs Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans hosts its sixth anniversary dinner at the Legion Hall in Middleport with members and the Ladies Auxiliary. Commander Edward H Reuster notes a 10 percent surplus in the recent membership drive and service for veterans, with officials Clin ton Kramer W K Adams Albert L Daniels present. Mrs Richard Chambers recovering from goiter surgery at Grant Hospital Columbus.
Mrs. George Heber Jones discussed the 1930 Oberammergau Passion Play at the Foreign Missionary Society meeting of Simpson Methodist Church. Other reports noted merger plans, a sweater and skirt dance fundraiser, and Lent bandage drives by church groups.
Home Builders Class of the Middieport Church of Christ met at Mr and Mrs Ernest Nelsons Lincoln Hill on Tuesday evening. Social hour included games and an Easter egg hunt. Refreshments were served by the hosts with Easter and St Patrick's Day color scheme. Twenty six members attended.
The monthly fellowship meeting at Hemlock Grove Church in Pomeroy has been postponed this evening due to bad roads.
An advertising insert urges readers to improve kidney and bladder function by taking Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. It claims to reduce waste in blood, alleviate night urination, and features a priced box at 85 cents or 35 cents with Gold Medal branding. The copy touts safety and swift results from the Haarlem origin product.
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