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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1933
Page
2
After months of delay, work on the Civil War Monument in Pomeroy will start today and be rushed to completion before Memorial Day. Unemployed men on relief orders will perform the improvement, following a monument committee meeting held Thursday afternoon to map funding and methods. Assistance was voluntary.
The local American Legion Post and the Daughters of Union Veterans will cooperate to decorate the monument. A committee report urged a higher wall along Mulberry Avenue and Second Street, with work limited to preparations needed for Memorial Day.
In a quiet ceremony at the Baptist parsonage in Middleport on Thursday at 3 o clock Miss Nina Frecker of Cheshire wed Land Brown of South Sixth Avenue and Palmer Street. Rev. F C Kreager performed the rites. The couple plans to live in Cheshire.
Mr and Mrs Morehead of Belleville West Virginia spent Thursday night with Mr and Mrs Paul Orr. Mrs Nelson Torrence of Reedsville is visiting her son and family. Mrs Ebbin White and children of Follawsbee are visiting in Bashan. Mr and Mrs A H Bailey visited their mother Mrs Singer at Spiller Bunday and attended the dedication at Portland. Pauline Morris of Middleport spent the weekend with Maxine Bailey. Born last Saturday night to Mr and Mrs Dayton McElroy a son.
Chester reports Mr and Mrs E R Hayes and Miss Lucille Smith traveled to Columbus on Monday to see Walter Hampden in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Rev. W. B. Patterson of Heath M. E. Church visited Wheelersburg on Thursday to take part in the Portsmouth District Conference.
Middleport residents Mr and Mrs Lee McComas are spending the week with his parents near Carpenter. Mr McComas plans to attend Ohio University Athens this summer.
Memorial Day services will be held Tuesday morning at Pine Street Cemetery in Gallipolis to honor veterans of five wars and civilians. Harry M. Miller will give the address. Music will be provided by the Masonic Drum and Bugle Corps and the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics Band. The parade forms at 8 o clock at the City Building with multiple veterans groups and scouts marching to the cemetery.
Memorial exercises honor Spanish-American War veterans with General Logan’s order observed. O. H. E. Band and G. A. R. members lead music and flag drills as Stan ey Wagoner and Harry M. Miller perform. Taps by a bugler. Boy Scouts salute.
Forty five youths aged 18 to 7 and two substitutes have enrolled with local relief authorities for the Federal reforestation service. They will depart Gallipolis at 8 o'clock Sunday morning for Athens for a physical examination with peers from Southeastern Ohio counties, then entrain Sunday afternoon.
Two weeks of training at Camp Knox Kentucky draw 26 Gallia County youths and several more from nearby communities. Listed from Gallipolis are Edwin Baldwin Wayman Barcus Everett Carroll George Cromley Walter Calloway Alfred Fuestal Joe Gills Enos Harrison Herman Heyman Howard Hill Robert Henry Charles Johnson Floyd Johnson Charles M. Long Kenneth Lawson Chester Mayes John Mayes Clyde Mooney John McCalla Carl North William Putney Charles Queen Elmer Rusk Wayford Rathburn Lawrence White. Selected from the county are Albert Allen Kananga Arnold Boster Patriot Ira Barcus Bladen Oddie Bush Northrup Robert Curfman Thurman Ernest Dass Bidwell Darnall Thurman Robert Hatfield Bidwell Edward Kirby Gallipolis R. D. No. 1 Stephen Lewis Bladen Edgar Mahan Patriot Isaac Osler Vinton Basil Randolph Bladen Joseph Rhodes Northrup Frank Smart Glenn Herbert Simpson Merchant Thorn Perry Taylor Thurman Wilbur M. Scott Bidwell Albert White Northrup Wayne Denney of Gallipolis and
Party planners praise Littler's Pan Rolls as top choice with outstanding taste and crowd appeal. Critics note their consistency and strong flavor, comparing favorably to all other brands in the market.
Ruby Powell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Do M Powell, is recovering satisfactorily after a copperhead bite on the foot. She received medical treatment. Other local notes include a Pittsburgh-bound cargo crew change and church activities.
Noel Shafer of Glenn has been selected as a substitute. The announcement lists Shafer among the substitutes for the upcoming event.
Gallipolis reporters note the Park Central Hotel room once used as Republican headquarters is being converted into apartment quarters.
Mrs. Florence Wagner was chosen as delegate and A. S. Lloyd as alternate from Grace M. E. Church for the Ohio Methodist Episcopal Church annual conference in Columbus next September.
Rain halted the Twilight League game between the K. of P. team and Rocky Feek in Gallipolis last night. The game will be completed tonight.
A local drum corps competition concludes with a vibrant display of marching precision and community pride. Teams from nearby groups compete for top honors as judges tally scores and celebrate the ensembles' teamwork and discipline.
Middleport residents Mrs Charles Howard Mrs Thelma Young and Mr and Mrs F W Gilmore with Mrs Elizabeth Darst of Pomeroy traveled to Ragor Wednesday evening for a Daughters of America council inspection. Mrs Darst district state inspector served as inspecting officer.
May 26 report notes Mrs. R H Horden hosts. Other items list local travel to Columbus for Mrs. Arthur Covert and Mrs. Fred Lemley, plus health updates and visits in Syracuse and Pomeroy. Meigs County scouts project 60 troops from 1208 eligible boys.
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