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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
2
Pomeroy fans plan a large Columbus trip to see the Purple Panthers play Defiance at 3 p.m. The crowd aims to carry the Pomeroy banner and cheer the team as Coach Farnham and the Panthers express confidence in their playoff bid. If they win, the Little German Band may accompany them to the next game.
A three act comedy drama The Strange Bequest will be staged next Tuesday night in the High School Auditorium. Presented by the Happy Hustler Class of the M E Sunday School, the cast includes Robert Owen Carl Lewis Jack Fenway Brooks Beegle Rene Louvre William Stewart Lincoln Long Ben Spencer Janet Benton Claudia Schaefer Mamie Drew Hilda DeWolfe Helen Cooke Flora Stewart Tilly Murphy Helen Roush Carriel Trenton Hazel Cleland.
Mrs. M. R. Chambers hosted her bridge club Tuesday evening with Mrs. W. G. Davis taking high score and a guest prize going to Mrs. Neil Cooper. The Parkersburg visit of Mrs. Lulu Mason and family ended today. State supplies for needy school children arrived for PTAs soup project next Friday. Winter outlook improves, emergency meals likely brief. Mrs. Walter Owens travels to Columbus with her mother and daughters. Mrs. Henry Ultz hosted a bridge gathering with three tables and Mrs. Starling McCullough winning high. Charles Entsminger is ill with measles. Miss Nella Calderwood and Mrs. M. D. Hartinger were in Gallipolis.
An advertising blurb promises Ila's Cascara Quinine will knock a cold in hours with a two tablet dose and a water-rich regimen. It claims quick relief from pain and congestion, clears the mind, and returns you to work, with a money-back guarantee if it fails.
A local note lists Mrs Ward at Holzer Hospital visit and Dr Stull delay due to wife illness. Fellowship dinner canceled. J A Kent visited Columbus to hear Ethel Barrymore. Clinton Fisher plans move back from Zanesville to a Third and Cole Streets apartment. Roger Emish and Dorothy Nelle Stewart suffer measles.
POMEROY March 17 The Meigs County Recorder's office is busy with oil and gas lease records for Ohio Fuel Supply Company. this month $75 of work already and 156 leases brought in for record on Wednesday morning. The company cancels leases at 1 per acre and re-leases at 50 cents per acre, costing landowners more to record than to lease.
The Syracuse Council Junior Order voted Monday night to favor the Buy Ohio Coal movement and ordered an appeal to national headquarters asking officers to aid and influence the effort as much as possible.
POMEROY March 17 John Coldwell a 70 year old farmer of Danville in Salem Township died at his home yesterday morning about two oclock from heart trouble He had been in poor health but his death shocked friends He is survived by his widow and son Everett at home Funeral arrangements have not been made.
Members of the Pomeroy Odd Fellow and Rebekah Lodges and families attended a social meeting at the S. O. O. F. Hall. A large crowd enjoyed I orchestra music by local high school pupils led by Pete Drummond, string music from Rutland, a Pomeroy quartet, and several short plays.
Gallipolis March 17 local good roads enthusiasts expect an early state highway department announcement. The 1932 project for the up river road will likely include the Meigs County line to the Middleport corporate line sector. Plans near completion call for surfacing a five mile section from Addison underpass to the Meigs line.
Pomeroy reports an odd market trend with a surge in demand for dark brown sugar. Residents visit grocers seeking the dark variety, not light, a shift noted amid memories of post Civil War sugar shipments and river packets.
Mrs. M. E. Rathburn of Rutland did not file for re election to the Republican State Central Committee despite earlier indorsement. Mrs. Mary Bartlett of Nelsonville filed for the post and faced no opposition. Rathburn, popular in the county and district, declined further political attempts, and is sister to Dr. Lewis C. Bean.
A spelling contest will be held at the M. E. Church in Forest Run tomorrow starting at 7 30 p m. After the contest church ladies will sell refreshments in the basement.
Middleport residents announce the birth of a ten pound son to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Richards on Tuesday evening March 15. He is the couple's second son and their first two children are a boy and a girl. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. H S Root of South Second Avenue.
W. G. Sibb ley of Gallipolis writes in The Chicago Journal of Commerce about the Ellis family pioneer settlers of Racine and their descendants still living in the village.
Hemlock Grove reports the Meigs Grange has completed a new library in Grange Hall with 100 books ready for distribution toward a 2000 volume goal. The library will have no user fees and a librarian will be appointed. George F. M. Paulsen donated 75 volumes to start the collection.
In Meigs County Catholic Daughters hosted a St Patrick Day party at the school hall with a potluck dinner. Pomeroy Chapter Eastern Star met with refreshments at close. Local illness and hospital news include Mrs Frank Chapman and Mrs Amanda Cross.
Mary Butterfield of Kansas City won unanimous election as queen of St Patrick’s Day festivities at the University of Missouri College of Engineering in Columbia. The event marks auburn hair as the ruling hue after years for blond or brunet contestants.
The Middleport Literary Club met Wednesday afternoon at South Third Avenue with Mrs. R A Miller presiding. The program featured responses on architecture and needlework by Miss Mella P Calderwood and Spanish architecture by Mrs. James Titus. The next meeting is set for March 30 at Mrs. C W Clark.
This notes Potato Day in Pomeroy on March 17 urging early potato planting in Meigs County. It recalls late Patrick Hogan of Upper Syracuse who always planted potatoes on St. Patrick's Day no matter the weather and produced the town’s earliest harvests.
Group No 3 of the Whatsoever Class will host Rotary Club and wives at the Presbyterian Church for a three course dinner at six. The annual event is known as Ladies Night and continues this evening.
Harrisonville school plans an operetta The Palace of Carelessness to be staged Thursday evening March 24. School reports strong musical talent and expects a large audience for the performance.
Word reached Langsville of Warren and Roger Lee, former locals, dying from a acetylene welding tank explosion in Michigan. Warren died instantly, Roger died about twelve hours later. The Lee family had left Langsville years ago.
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