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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1948
Page
9
Sale of tax delinquent lands has brought $4,552 into the Meigs County treasury since May 14. Seventy-nine property sales and 43 coal rights were recorded with taxes paid on 16 properties. Coal rights yielded $424 and Olive Orange led with $1,434.92 plus $121 coal from unpacked entries.
An open meeting at Rocksprings Grange Hall Friday at 8 p m will feature General Electric Production showing the film Ingredient Mae. Mr and Mrs Darwin Bryan recreation leaders of the Ohio Farm Bureau Association will guide activities for youth.
Mr and Mrs Ronald Burnett of Nitro West Virginia hosted Karr Sunday guests. From Pomeroy several members attended the Eastern Star inspection in Athens Monday evening including Mr and Mrs Harry Smith Mrs Lulu Nease Miss Anna Vaughn Mrs Norma Parker Miss Anna Durst Mrs Gertrude Mitchell Mrs Edith Joachim Mrs Nellie Smith Mrs Thomas Young and Mrs Fred Blaettner.
The Pomeroy social column notes committee leadership with Mrs Edith Ament as chairman. Theodorus Council Daughters of America met at IOOF Hall with 40 members, Miss Iva Griffin inspecting and the chapter rated excellent. Three new members joined, gifts given to officers, and plans set to sponsor a District Union meeting in June. Weekend visitors and relatives are listed along with multiple social visits in Pomeroy and nearby towns.
Sales occurred May 14, 17, 18, and 19 covering properties and coal rights in Chester Lebanon Letart Olive-Orange and Rutland townships.
Meigs County sees potential severe losses from early and late tomato blight after nearly 100000 Georgia shipped plants in Letart Falls were found infected. Experts from Ohio State University warn weather influences spread and urge copper sprays or dusts and alternating treatments with Zerlate for early blight and copper for late blight.
A list of issued marriage licenses shows couples from Lavalette Ohio and West Virginia towns with ages and occupations including warehouse man and inspector, farmer and clerk, sheet metal worker, and forester. The render details partner names and home towns such as Pomeroy Middleport Dexter and Parkersburg in a multi entry notice.
Seven year locusts and snakes that roamed Middleport this week were joined by a swarm of bees. The bees attempted to settle in trees behind the D. S. Farmer home on S Fifth Ave and at the Forrest Bachtel mailbox on S Fourth and Main before finally nesting in a tree at Robert McElhinny’s residence on S Third Ave.
Meigs County records show multiple property transfers including Louis Schreiber to Walter W. and Eva S. Schreiber for 60 acres in Salisbury. Edward C. and Edna L. Evans to Ross Evans for 2 acres in Salisbury. Elia F. Douglas to Virgil E. and Hester V. Blackwood for 2.8 acres in Bedford. Samuel Jobe to M. Mollahan for 22.5 acres in Salem. Harold G. and Charles R. Boggess to Edna Boggess for 68 acres in Orange. William and Mary E. Brasham to Sam and Rachel Hicks for 40 acres in Salem. M. Mollohan and Iona Mollohan to Samuel and Eugenia Fowler for 22.5 acres in Salem. Jesse and Gertrude Aumiller to C. W. Hoback for 10 acres in Lebanon. Robert Cundiff to Walter and Edna Gilmore for tracts in Pomeroy. Alfred E. and Bessie Young to Olf and Esta Dailey for 5 acres in Lebanon. Florence B. and G. E. M. Mughugh to Guy V. and Maud Sargent for 40 acres in Bedford.
General Hospital logs admit Walter Russell Middleport Albert Christy Pomeroy Route 3 and Mrs Nancy Jones Middleport. Births Mrs Kenny Lee New Haven a son. Discharged George Gaskins Harry Davidson. Emergencies Johnny Motley five son of Mr and Mrs John Motley laceration.
Mrs James Hawley and Mrs Roy Biffe of Rose Hill School plan a noon potluck picnic for grades one through five on Wednesday.
A Racine bake sale is planned at Gaul's Clover Farm Store Saturday under sponsorship of the Racine Chapter of CES. The group also plans a practice session Monday, May 24.
The Second Annual Flower Show by the Amateur Gardeners Club and the Middleport Garden Club now runs Saturday 2–9 p.m. and Sunday 2–6 p.m. at Heath Methodist Church. On Saturday at 2 p.m. Mrs James Richards Southeast District director of the Ohio Association of Garden Clubs will meet district officers. Mrs Thomas Wolfe of Athens state president will attend.
Milton Lee Fisher of Pomeroy has enlisted for three years in the Marine Corps. He will report to Parris Island for eight to ten weeks of recruit training, receive a ten day furlough, then return to active duty.
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