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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1920
Page
6
Richard Thomas travels from Huntington to Colum to visit his ill brother in hospital as he learns of his sister Mary Mees death. Mrs Abe Diel was also called to visit family on Saturday.
An advertising feature explains how chronic colds inflame air passages and invite germs. It promotes Vicks Vapo Rub as a local remedy, detailing nightly chest and throat application, warming cloths, and inhaled vapors, with free samples from The Vick Chemical Company in Greensboro, N C.
Pomeroy and Middleport councils sent joint committees to oppose a planned increase by the Pomeroy and Middleport Telephone Company. The utilities commission denied permission to raise rates after hearings. The article notes the company employed two managers and paid directors, with recurring meetings and substantial salaries.
William H Manley files in common pleas court seeking divorce and custody of three children from wife Freda Manley. They wed August 10 1907 and lived in Middleport. He accuses her of adultery naming Wm Estep and Rice. Children reside with her brother's family while she works in Columbus.
Village officers rounded up four or five violators Friday night and Saturday for trafficed violations. Three offenders faced $1 fines plus costs totaling $4.85 for no tail lights. Two more were fined the same for wrong parking. Mayor Diehl warned heavier penalties on repeat offenses.
Arthur Jobes, 40, a Pomeroy farmer, married Miss Mabel Wright, Columbus telephone operator, in Columbus Tuesday. Rev. C. W. Brady performed the ceremony. Both locals are well known. Jobes lived in Pomeroy for years and Miss Wright, former Pomeroy resident, is daughter of Mrs. W. G. Wright and a Pomeroy high school graduate.
Mrs James Harley and Mrs Ray Nond Sherman of Middleport will go to Columbus for the wedding of Miss Margaret Davis and J Ray O'Donnell set for May 5 at St Patrick Church.
Emory W. Hudson aged 18 and Ruth Bolin aged 16 were married by Justice Martin in probate court Saturday morning. The groom’s father witnessed. The couple plan to establish their home at Forest Run.
A class party hosted Friday evening at the high school auditorium drew about 75 attendees. The junior and senior students shared a luncheon and enjoyed a pleasant social evening together.
Funeral services for George Werner were held Sunday afternoon at Storys Run M E church following a one oclock service. The 67 year old Storys Run resident died Friday evening at his home from measles and is survived by his wife and one daughter.
George Krauss Jr. of Columbus visited in Pomeroy late last week to see his parents Mr. and Mrs. George Krauss of Mulga. The outing touched on family updates and community happenings in the bend.
A gathering of about fifty people met at E. E. Dille's home to bid farewell to his son Ernest Dille of Akron who was visiting before heading to California. Mrs. Charles Mingus visited Frost with her parents. Leonard Harris of Westerville was in the area on business. Mr and Mrs F E Dille visited Abe Mehlmeier. Joe Bailey ends his school term duties at Lathrop. Irvin Clark delivers the mail this week.
Gallipolis visitors stopovers and weekend travels involve Rev L L Cherrington Blanche Zipprich Bliss Helewick and others for visits to relatives at Cincinnati Holzer hospital Akron Columbus and Jackson ville. OVA student Beatrice Roberts at home with mother. Miss Lucy Richhart and Nora McCoy visit relatives. several residents travel for family matters hospital stays and education across Ohio and West Virginia region.
Mt Hermon residents raise funds for a new church as area farmers express discouragement over slow plow work. Miss Freda Fawcett returns from Defiance after completing a successful term of school there. The Sharpsburg district reports rain benefiting crops and a cautious outlook for corn planting.
The body of Chas. Watkins, who died April 24 in Alamogordo New Mexico, arrived in Mountville Friday and was taken to the Lewis home. Funeral services were held at Mountville church Sunday at 2 30. Interment followed in Mountville Cemetery. Local relatives, including Mon roe Watkins of Bishopville and Mrs. T. A. R. Lewis, traveled to New Mexico after learning of his condition.
A series of spelling contests near Rutland Ohio closes western Meigs county schools under Supt Will Merritt. Third and fifth graders held perfect scores, with named students excelling in oral and written tests. sixth graders also achieved high marks. The Rutland second grade contest April 23 produced several students with perfect scores in both oral and written tests.
Bad breath sufferers are urged to try Dr Edwards Olive Tablets a vegetable laxative that cleanses blood and stimulates liver and bowels without calomel side effects. Take one or two nightly for a week and note results 10c and 25c. A ragtime wedding features Homer Baird ministers and a cast including Harold Wise Meryll Atkinson.
Members of the Mohicans class plan a minstrel show for Friday May 7 with tickets offered in stores and homes. Rehearsals hint at an elaborate program including solos, a quartet, chorus numbers, eight end men performing a dance, and a comic white-face act titled Hippity Hop.
In Pittsburg, May 3, Joseph Staub was found guilty of first degree murder for killing his brother George and setting fire to the home. Two children perished in the blaze.
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