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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1939
Page
3
Pomeroy Ohio State speakers Prof. L. E. Kunkle and Prof. C. G. McBride will headline an Agriculture Night by the Pomeroy Chamber of Commerce. The event at Hotel Martin Tuesday includes a dinner, program, business session, and a film on cold storage locker plants.
Rock Springs Grangers hosted a Friday shower at their hall honoring newlyweds Mr and Mrs Floyd Will. Ninety two attendees brought many gifts and refreshments of cookies ice cream and coffee followed a brief program. Robert Raine Geyer Ralph Van derwood and Mildred Jean Geyer visited Pomery from Blackfoot Idaho while studying at Asbury College in Wilmore Kentucky.
Mrs Flora Williamson to be cared for at her brother Charles Radford in Flatwoods after illness. Rollin Beards family and Miss Harriett and Jimmy Beards visit Parkersburg. Jimmy treated for infected knee at hospital. Mrs Gilbert Weeks recovering from serious illness at Enterprise home. Mrs Catherine Wipple returns to Huntington after visiting Sophia Meier Spring St. Addie Stalder improving after heart attack at cream station. John Hite buys Hetzel property on Lincoln Terrace and will move in April. Williams family to move to Compton home on E Main St. Graber brothers at Ohio State University spend spring break with parents and aunt Ella Hennessy Mulberry Ave.
John Gleason and James Laudermilt were arrested Saturday night by Patrolman Fred Swatzel for intoxication. They are being held at the county jail pending a hearing.
Charles B. Warner, charged with kidnapping Timothy O. Bishop, will be publicly defended Thursday in common pleas court. Judge C. E. Peoples will preside as Warner’s lawyers present a large number of witnesses. Unofficial reports suggest additional legal talent may join the defense for the hearing.
The Middleport High School trophy case gains a new symbol as the Reserves are crowned Southeast District champions. Co captains William Walters and Lewis Sauer presented the trophy at a regular assembly, with Sauer delivering the speech. Coach Marshall McCuen awarded varsity medals and letters, noting the team’s third place finish.
Saturday marked the opening of the new post office on Second Street with keyed boxes replacing the old combination locks. The compact rental boxes overlook a central area with an outer vestibule and two lobby doors. The lobby features two large writing desks and the newest postal equipment.
Middleport Franklin Guinther cornetist and Milton Smart trombonist won high bracket ratings in the southeast district music festival in Nelsonville. Both students of Gordon K. Harris and members of the band accompanied by their instructor. Franklin is a sixth grader, Milton a fifth grader, sons of local families.
Clarence Van Sickle a well known Route 4 Athens farmer spoke to the Vendor Man at Athens Pharmacy about Vendol. He says long standing constipation and kidney diuretic needs caused widespread aches and sleepless nights before Vendol relieved symptoms after a month of treatment. He praises rest and energy gains and urges others to try the remedy at Athens Pharmacy and Hickman’s Nelsonville store.
Eunice Vining suffered a deep cut and back injury while Walter Eblin, Earl Dodd, and Harry Eblin sustained cuts and bruises in a wreck near Pat Thornton's home. Victims were treated at Meigs County Infirmary. Myrtle Eblin, sister of Walter and Harry, is the third Eblin child to die in crashes linked to Tom Eblin’s family.
Meigs County schools present a week of folk music with an all county orchestra directed by Mrs. Kathleen Hartsough. Performances include Indian music by Salisbury Grade Schools, Pilgrims Going to Church by Racine High School, Spirit of 76 by Syracuse Grade School, a Chester High School barn dance, Rutland High School songs, and finales of Spirit of America by Bloch and The Home Road by Carpenter under Mrs. Lois Fling.
The directory lists multiple Baltimore and Ohio and New York Central rail time cards with daily and Sunday variations for east and west bound trains and connections at Athens. It also notes Athens Municipal Airport air tax service and pick up times from sunrise to sunset with through airline connections and flight departures from west and east directions.
Card clubs hosted by Mr and Mrs Roy Barnes and Mrs Paul Grueser reported high scores by local players. Meigs visits feature Mrs Winifred Skidmore returning to Cleveland with multiple weekend trips and relatives from Gallipolis Huntington and Charleston. Ohio State students Lawrence Bradford William Reynolds and William Cooper enjoy spring vacation in town.
A Rome F F A chapter staged a variety show Thursday night at Rome High School Auditorium featuring Frost fiddlers Paul Parsons Roy Root Roy Parsons Ada Ruth Sutton and other acts. The post hunt ended March 15 with Ralph Maxwell first Clyde Van Horn second and Foster Starlin third. Pest counts listed include fox 20 rats 870 mice 219 moles 1013 crows 19 sparrows 190 and woodchuck 14. A spring party is set for March 22 and the Future Farmer Future Homemaker banquet is planned for April.
In Middleport the church marked Youth Sunday with a sermon by Rev. H. A. Rothrock proclaiming youth as a door to life through service and love. A twenty-voice choir led by Willis Aleshire performed Come, Ye Blessed and welcomed new choir members Bettie Cook Mary A Smith Ruth Eastminger Kaye Monahan Marvel Schmoll Catherine Hennesy Marjorie Miller and Charles Entsminger while youth conducted the morning offering. Rev. Charles W. Graham of Logan Methodist will speak at Family Night Wednesday with a 6:30 covered-dish supper followed by Men’s Class program.
Funeral services for the late C. H. Snider were held at the Rawlings-Coats Home Saturday with large crowds including New York Central Railway employees. Pallbearers were O R C members John Powell Columbus A A Dillard S P Tinklepaugh Walter Howell C H Shumaker Walter Hayes. Relatives and friends from Seaman Huntington Chesapeake Upper Sandusky attended.
Middleport funeral home to conduct 10 30 am Tuesday service for Mrs. Tom Sharpley who died at St Marys Hospital Huntington. Interment at Sunset Memorial Cemetery Charleston. She was born in Richmond Virginia and sister of Frank Harris of Montgomery W Va and Walter Harris. Pallbearers include Robert Gordon and Walter Burns Harris.
In Beatrice Nebraska thirty Beatrice High School boys under strict orders will not receive haircuts until March 18. The action accompanies the school operetta The Frantic Physician with students using their own long hair for authentic roles.
California Agricultural Commissioner Harold A. Crane hunts the nesting site of 300 to 500 crows raiding almond orchards in Marysville area. The birds threaten to ruin the crop with daily raids.
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