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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1930
Page
2
L C Nye recalls a 1921 trip from Athens to Boston via New York. In Grand Central and Times Square, he endures heat and language mixups as subway riders guide him with vague directions until a cab finally delivers him to the correct station.
Crooksville residents mourn the loss of a valuable parrot belonging to Dr J P Wortzman and wife. The bird died from gas fumes after a wing blew out near its cage. It could utter over 105 words and aided the doctor by directing callers.
Census workers in Meigs County prepare to count all residents as of April 1. The tally includes those living on that date even if they die before counting ends, and unborn children are regarded as unborn at the close of the count though they may develop before enumeration ends.
Pomroy report recalls Homer Smith, 21, who stayed with Mt. Vernon Bridge Co as the Gauley River bridge was built. He began as a transfer wagon driver, sought better pay, earned trust walking a plank high above the river, and remained with the firm until the project’s end before his death in a recent accident.
A young girl arrived before counting began and beat the cen sus team to the Williams home on Vale Street in Pomeroy. Mr. Delbert Williams is a Pomeroy Columbus bus driver and the family residence was the scene of the early arrival. In other notes Oren Stansbury of Rutland returned home from Parkersburg Hospital, Mrs Otto Karr and her Rochelle Ill. baby visit Lincoln Hill, Richard Campbell returns from Columbus for physician consults, and Curtis Hamilton, a Spanish American veteran, shows improvement at his Pomeroy home.
The Walter A Windsor, a 200 foot all steel steamboat with 24 compartments and five boilers, debuted at Pomeroy Bend on a maiden trip to promote river trade. Owned by Capt. Rush H Burnsides and Mayor B W Kroedel, it targets Pittsburgh St Louis and Memphis traffic. The vessel features a 37 foot beam, 24 foot wheel, 38 inch buckets, and reaches about 12 mph upstream.
The Spanish American veterans hall in Middleport hosted a muster in of five new recruits followed by a banquet at Mary Jane Coffee Shoppe. Recruits included John L. Steel Rufus D. Harrison Jacob N Rhodes Frank Woods and Sanford W Hally. The camp now has 34 members and the next meeting is the fourth Sunday in April.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sullivan Sayre who died Saturday in Columbus were conducted at 2 PM in First Baptist Church with Rev W H Eichinger of Heath M E Church officiating in the absence of the pastor. The ceremony drew a large crowd and abundant floral tributes. Burial followed in Middleport Hill Cemetery beside her son Warren.
Syracuse hosts a record gathering of oil and gas men from Standard Oil Pure Oil Ohio Fuel Supply and others to witness the first shale gas well shoot in the area. Three charges totaling 590 quarts of nitroglycerine produced a volcanic eruption sending rocks and water 100 feet skyward. Gas vents from a two inch pipe as the well is cased and cleaned for future deep wells with Columbia Carbon Company signaling purchase of shale gas from Meigs County.
The piece notes Pomeroy Bend’s notoriety from Cincinnati radio coverage of the 1926 Wryllis Hill triple murder and related executions, mentioning John Hedrick and John Morgan, while contrasting with unreported good deeds such as local farming, gas strikes, bumper crops on Letart Bottoms, and a man with 1,000 laying hens.
Sheriff deputies with search warrants raided two Letart Falls area homes. They arrested Fd. Griffith and Okey Wandermilk who admitted entering Will Barnitz's building and stealing a two and a half bushel bag of seed potatoes. Potatoes recovered. burglary and larceny charges expected.
Middleport residents hosted a string of visitors over the weekend. Huntington's Mrs. H. J. Bell and children joined Mrs. Bell's sister, Mrs. Max Harrah, for a Sunday visit. Pt. Pleasant's Mr. and Mrs. Greenlee spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Ohlinger. Columbus' W. B. Kent stayed several days with son Harry Kent. Oberlin's Mrs. W. G. James and daughter Jean traveled Saturday for a week with Mrs. Dana Hamilton and friends. Wellston's Mr. and Mrs. Pope and children visited with Mrs. Pope's mother, Mrs. Waltz, and daughter Mrs. Kenneth Guinther. Athens saw Mrs. Warren Carrier on Saturday visiting relatives and Sheltering Arms Hospital with husband. St. Albans-bound Irving Johnson visited Hobson relatives W. P. Oblinger and wife. Mr. Tucker and ill health were noted. Columbus' Mr. and Mrs. Mark Jones spent days with his mother in Hobson and with Hamilton Karr in Pomeroy. Mrs. Hi. IL Ward and Mrs. G. Hi. Stansbury with daughter Jane were mentioned.
Fire departments from Nelsonville Logan and New Straitsville battled Sunday morning after 5 30 o clock when the cottage home of Mark Shelton in Murray City burned to the ground. The M K E Church adjoining was saved by quick action though its side was scorched and windows broken. Shelton was alone in the house and awoke to the blaze. Mrs Shelton and children are in Detroit with younger children in school and planned to return in April.
The Friendship Circle will meet Tuesday evening at 7 30 at the Methodist Church. A good program has been provided. Mrs. Bulloch's committee will serve refreshments.
Miss Caroline Pico completes a three year nursing course at Grant Hospital Columbus, returns home in Glouster and plans to remain about a month before resuming her profession.
In Glouster during the last week mining activity improved with one mine operating five days and several others four days. This marks a sharp contrast to the prior week when many mines were idle for most of the time.
A mass meeting is announced at the Lamborn dance pavilion in Glouster Tuesday night at 7 o clock by the United Mine Workers of America to support the eight hour day. Speakers include David Fowler and Ben Williams with Fowler in charge of the district re organization movement.
Mr and Mrs J L B Stiff of this city and Mr and Mrs Tom Gibson with daughter Mary from Athens plus Mrs Joe Bird of Shawnee motored to Wooster Sunday to visit Mr and Mrs Girard Blower. They returned Sunday night while Mrs Stiff remains for a week in Wooster.
The Esquire rank will be conferred at a regular Glouster Lodge No 336 Knights of Pythias meeting tonight. Visiting knights will receive a cordial welcome according to the statement.
GLOUSTER March 31 The fire department was called to the home of Mrs Nora Dart on Spring Street about 6 30 Saturday evening for burning soot that triggered an alarm No damage occurred This marks the second run to the Dart residence for soot catching with a previous incident occurring several months earlier.
Orville Holbert pled guilty to a drunkenness charge in Mayor Penman court. He paid $5 toward a $25 fine with costs and arranged payments for the balance after arrest by Marshal W. Fisher. While jailed awaiting arraignment, Holbert tore down the prison stove and smashed the toilet.
Amos Stoner 80 a retired farmer died Saturday at his son Levi Stoner’s Brennan home from injuries after falling Friday in a stairs flight at the same residence. He will be buried Monday at Thornville near here according to funeral plans.
Bishopville Church Community Club will host a Tuesday night social at the town house. Proceeds support improvements to the town house used as the club meeting place.
Police probed the death of Sam Salamony of Kansas City found in bed apparently from poison whisky. Salamony's brother Anthony, 27, was killed in an automobile accident here last week.
Edgard Trimmer Jr. died after an electric heater ignited his bed in a Cleveland residence on Sunday. Fire officials reported the fatal blaze occurred late at night with investigators examining causes and safety measures.
Residents from Columbus and nearby towns visited relatives in Mount Carmel Hospital and at home. The report notes several transfers and family gatherings, including Mrs. Myra Stanley, Mrs. Stansbury, Mrs. Rowley, and Mrs. Adams. Illnesses touch Conductor W W Brown and others, with the Sayre funeral drawing regional attendance.
Capt. Frank Hawks prepares for the second leg of his trans continental flight to New York in the motorless glider Eaglet. He completed a 420 mile 12 hour flight from San Diego and landed at Tucson after previous stops in Yuma and Phoenix.
In Minneapolis on March 31 the Eleventh National Flower and Garden Show highlighted grandmother favorites. Geraniums Boston ferns and hydrangeas drew attention amid roses and acacias, with a bustle and a bicycle built for two as touches of nostalgia.
Fay M. Newton of Newton Foraker Company showcases a rifle once carried by L. L. Gray a Civil War Underground Railroad founder. Gray led the Deavertown branch officers based at the old M. B. Church and left the gun to his son C. Gray who then gave it to Newton with the stipulation it never be sold or given away.
Charles Bethel, a grocer on Court Street, hurled a brick at a dog near groceries. The brick hit a lamp post, deflected into Jacobs Jewelry Store window, costing $80 for glass. Bethel paid the bill by check. glass was insured.
In New Straitsville Ohio a well dressed stranger invited to sample brands of Mine Run and other hill liquor proved to be a state undercover agent on the job two weeks. Raids followed, with several locals cited for Federal Court in Columbus and seven more ordered to appear. About 200 bottles of beer and 26 gallons of whisky were seized.
March 31. Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel and Charles Schwey and Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel push for control of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. as proxies battle for stockholders.
The latest Spring fashion features a cape en ensemble with a sleeveless collarless frock, surplice bodice, and flared skirt. It uses a narrow neckband that ties to secure the cape, with small buttons for a smart touch. Pattern design 1907 offers printed silk crepe or pique in opaline floral prints and sizes 14 to 88. Orders cost 15 cents per pattern, 10 cents with a pattern, plus a separate 15-cent pattern book. Send requests to The Athens Messenger Pattern Department, New York City.
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