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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1928
Page
2
Police say the electric fence erected around Mr and Mrs Welland Staley 2272 Springmont Avenue Columbus is uncontrolled by the city law department. The Staleys say the fence keeps children out and protects a yard stripped of flowers and grass. The system uses four galvanized wires with a doorbell transformer to step down current.
The Athens Grange will hold a special meeting Thursday evening. A class of candidates will be given the first and second degrees. A proposal to coat the leading past the Grange hall with dust laying material will be discussed by a special committee.
A. H. Skidmore 54, a former baggage master for the New York Central Railway, died suddenly yesterday afternoon after being stricken while moving between rooms at his Grant street home in Middleport. He retired on pension two years ago due to ill health. He leaves a widow Mrs. Winifred Buxton Skidmore and a sister Miss Grace Skidmore of Charleston. Burial likely at Hebbardsville Cemetery pending arrangements.
Mrs. Lucy Downing received a Mother's Day greeting from her daughter Mrs. W T Grant of Kansas City inviting a visit with Mr. Grant in Columbus. Mrs. Downing and Mrs. Boggess then traveled to Columbus to spend two days with their son in law and nephew. Mr. Grant, president of the Business Men's Assurance Co. of Kansas City, spoke at the Cooperative Club program yesterday noon at the Neil House. he is a former Middleport boy.
Dr and Mrs C A Poindexter closed their offices and home for two weeks and left by auto Thursday for Baltimore Maryland to stay with Mrs Meriam Daniels and son Major Tom Daniels. They plan a shorter prior trip to the Pacific coast when Major Daniels was in Los Angeles.
Miss Julia Miller entertained the Pearl Street school faculty Thursday evening at her Grant street home. Six covers were laid. Mr. and Mrs. O L Bradford of Columbus visited with Mrs. Bradford's sister and relatives in the county. The Philathea women met for their monthly church gathering. Will Bradford left for Columbus for new employment. The Foreign Missionary society plans a bank offering service at Heath M E church next Sunday evening.
May 18 report that Mr and Mrs Fred J Gardner are in town and he will occupy the pulpit at the Christian church Sunday morning.
Commercial Club of Middleport holds its final meeting at the high school this evening. A. V. Howell of Pomeroy will speak on Advertising with the subject announced as the evening’s focus.
The Central School Parent Teacher Association elected officers for the coming year: Mrs. Thor Olson president, Mrs. Oral Carpenter vice president, Miss Ardella Shuster secretary, and Mrs. E. D. Cooley treasurer. A short program followed with music and a talk by Prof. A. E. Boetticher on conservation of wild flowers.
A New York City street cleaning department payroll scheme allegedly diverted large public funds into private pockets. Former officials, including a deputy head, were described to a grand jury as part of the graft investigation.
Meigs county mourns for John B. Holt 89 who died in Columbus after an operation. He ran a Rutland organ reed factory once the only one of its kind in the U S He and his son were noted for Underground Railroad activity and he was active in Meigs County Pioneer associations. Funeral was at his Rutland residence with burial in Greenlawn Cemetery. He leaves widow Mary E Holt a son R W Holt of Memphis Tenn three grandchildren and a great grandchild. He belonged to K of P Rutland and Calanthe Temple Pythian Sisters.
Gallia county Democrats near Gallipolis plan a June 1 dinner and business meeting at Grace M E church parlors. They will select the Democratic candidate for Congress and the state senate plus other offices. Organizers include J E Halliday J T Callahan and Charles Mullen with reservations through Callahan or Mullen.
Mrs Paul Bean and Miss Daliah Pauley hosted a pink and green miscellaneous shower for bride Mrs Charles McMaster at Mrs Bean's home on Thursday evening. About 30 guests attended including Audrie Fultz Irving Karr C O Fisher Lyston Fultz Clinton Fisher Hulda Klein O B Stout Cedric Clark Lenore Hobart R M Howell Frank Simms George Meinhart Ferry Rife Ralph Sayre Elenore Welch Rodney Downing Abra Bailey M L French Clyde Battin Oscar Klein Cecil Bradbury Willis Steigner C F Rathburn Reid Harris Mary F Crary Margaret Thomas Max Roller H N Lewis and J W Kincaid.
Mrs. Mabel Smith and Charles Reese were married in Columbus on May 19. The couple, residents of Middleport since Tuesday with Mrs. Smith’s father A. H. Armstrong, plan to reside in Columbus. Friends in Middleport extend congratulations.
May 18 Pomeroy survivors of the Seventh regiment O V I Spanish American War organize an association. A meeting is set for June 25 in connection with the State encampment at Chillicothe. Local company officers on the organizing committee include Capt W T Rambo New Lexington Co A Capt Frank B Lowry Athens Co B Co C Thomas Safford Gallipolis Co L Oliver Hartley Pomeroy.
Mrs. Sarah Cleland mother of Rev. Arthur Cleland died yesterday at 6 am in Letart. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 3 pm with burial in Letart cemetery.
A note bearing General Augustino Sandino’s signature warned that all northern Americans captured by Nicaraguan rebels “will have reached their end.” Found on the ashes of the La Luz mine by British supervisor Harry Amphlett, the letter was part of a raid on the mining property, with buildings burned except two.
Walter Owens caught a 25 pound carp in the river Thursday morning at Middleport. The monster fish gives the Owens family a fine meal. Kenny Dillard also reaped a large catch with a spoon fish whose head measured a foot across.
In Pomeroy Elberfeld store front windows a large display of manual training projects from Pomeroy high school under D L Kehl shows necktie racks cutting boards book racks taborets hall trees pedestals cedar chests tables medicine cabinets desks and picture frames. The exhibit runs through today and this evening with over 100 projects on view.
Mrs. O. B. Stout held a Tuesday evening gathering at her Grant street home to celebrate Miss Lucille Duttons seventeenth birthday. The party, a surprise for the Middleport high school junior, included juniors and sophomores as guests who gave gifts. The evening featured cards social time and ice cream and cake.
President Coolidge nominated Patrick J. Farrell to replace John J. Esch on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Farrell, chief law officer and longtime Washington official, will assume the post after a years long dispute over rate decisions on lake cargo coal. Esch had faced Senate opposition over commission rulings and a blocked confirmation last year.
In Coshocton on May 18, Agnes Wright was jailed for illegal possession after being accused by School Superintendent A. C. Pence of selling home brew to high school students. Authorities found 82 gallons of home brew and 700 bottles at her log cabin roadhouse. Wright admitted selling beer to students but claimed none were too young.
Colonel Isaac Newell of the 15th Infantry leads the American garrison at Tientsin as part of 10,000 foreign troops stationed in Peking, Tientsin, and along the railway linking the two cities.
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