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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1933
Page
4
Meigs County sportsmen gathered at the Pomeroy Gun Club for the annual Fish and Game outing and banquet. Commissioner Reinhart spoke on conservation work and the likely building of a Meigs County lake, noting very good chances.
An advertisement extols regular elimination as a health law and promotes Kellogg’s All Bran cereal. It claims bulk from fiber aids bowel regularity, notes vitamin B content, and states All Bran has twice the iron of beef liver. The ad suggests use as cereal or in cooking and lists Battle Creek as the maker.
Miss Elsie Bahr of Alfred cared for her grandfather A A Bahr last week. Athens visitors Mr and Mrs E J Pearson came Friday. Michael and daughter Francis of Athens called on Mrs Riva Dean Saturday. R B Stewart and daughter Myrtle Frost visited Parkersburg Monday. Bliss Springer and family of Clarksburg visited Saturday and returned Sunday with their son Guy Everett who spent winter with grandparents Guy and Mrs Springer. J W Arbaugh family spent the weekend at home. Mrs Carrie Bahr helps Eva Wilson of Coolville with housework. Alma May and Elma Fay Kincade spent the past week with aunt Mia Castle near Alfred. Will Keebaugh of Sumner visited L L Keller Sunday. Melvon Shields is ill with chicken pox.
An exhibit at the Presbyterian Church in Middleport showcases rare and old articles. Highlights include a 1790 Holy Bible, a pewter teapot from about 200 years ago, Louis XIII seals, age-old quilts and coverlets, a burnt-wood chair that becomes a table, a 300-year-old wooden cash box, and a 1808 iron kettle linked to Blennerhassett Island.
Wilkesville guests Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Major visit Miss Virgie Major in Middleport and travel home with Mrs. Franken and son Mark of Columbus. Others — Mrs. George Russell and Loren Russell family, Mrs. Pfadid of Covington, Mrs. Ralph of Gallipolis, and Mrs. Pladd and Miss Minor — also in town to see relatives. Mary Martha Roller ill with chickenpox. spike in whooping cough and mumps among schoolchildren. Easter death of Ethel Gale Doddrill, 21, in influenza complications. services planned in Vinton with relatives attending from Middleport.
Announcement from Syracuse dated May 19 states Miss Gertrude McBride and Mr Harry Dye, both of Syracuse, married May 11. The ceremony took place at the First Christian Church of Charleston, officiated by Rev Frank Donaldson.
Two youths and possibly others used the backwater for a pre summer swim on Thursday. They violated village ordinance against indecent exposure, with rules covering persons twelve years of age and older.
The text notes that any person found bathing or exposing themselves between 4 am and 8 pm may be convicted and fined by the Mayor from fifty cents to five dollars. The language reflects a municipal ordinance enforcing modesty and public propriety.
Meigs County Relief Commission calls all eligible men to join reforestation work at the Courthouse at 9 o'clock Monday morning. Eligibility rules posted countywide. Government pays $30 monthly plus board clothes and medical care with $25 monthly sent to dependents. Meigs County quota about fifty.
Prizes for the Izaak Walton League of Athens field day to be held May 30 during the opening of the Waterloo Forest park are now on display in the Southern Ohio Electric Company window.
Pomeroy May 19 occupants of the county jail fear a major landslide along the Second Street cliffs after a shower of stones and a large mass of dirt and rocks slid from midway down the steep hillside behind the jail. The scene recalls a past Florida land sale involving a real estate deal and an Indiana man who traded a drug store for a Breezy Heights lot near the courthouse.
Chicago will host a charity game on July 6 with select players from both leagues chosen by a popular poll. Proceeds go to the Baseball Players' Charity Organization, under the Chicago Tribune auspices.
Athens merchants host Albany at Rufus Putnam Diamond in their first home game of the season. Either Cross or O Prezta will start on the mound. The game is set to start at 2 30.
Ohio State captain and halfback Lewis Hinchman will play for Dick Hanley’s Mid-Western team against Howard Jones’ Pacific Coast squad in Chicago on August 24 during the century of progress exposition.
Syracuse telegraph reports on May 19 that home grown strawberries, claimed as the first in Meigs County, were being sold locally. The item notes the novelty and local cultivation without naming vendors or exact prices.
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