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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1934
Page
2
Pomeroy High School alumni meet Tuesday night at the Junior High Auditorium with the 1934 class as guests. A new feature allows guests to attend the social period after the banquet, pending business discussion on attendance eligibility and a vote by the executive committee.
Forty Pomona and subordinate grange members of Meigs County met at Rocksprings under state deputy Harvey Musser. They plan mutual visits, open meetings before Sept. 20, Booster Night on Sept. 30, a Booster Contest, and a Meigs County picnic. Pomona initiations target Tuppers Plains in six weeks.
De and Myre Cluff arrive from Akron and live in a Chambers apartment on Mill Street W. A. Giles returns from Toledo with son-in-law and daughter. Mrs Jennie McEthinny arrives to visit cousin Miss Susie Taylor after a Cary visit. Jr family visits and Columbus trips noted. Also Dena Sorden and Abram Woods brought to county jail. Woods arrested on an old assault charge.
A passenger on American Airways coast to coast air Pullman urged airline staff to quiet fellow travelers to avoid disturbing his sleep. Steward Rhoda Rhine of American Airways recounts the incident, noting the service was less than a month old.
Mr and Mrs M W Masex visit Mrs Davis and family in town while Betty Reed stays in Columbus with her uncle Walter Reed. Mrs Jesse Johnston returns from a weekend with her daughter Betty and her parents the Boices. Jean McKay Ohio University student spends weekend with Prof and Mrs W McKay and sorority friends. Mr and Mrs Fred Sebroath plan to settle in Diamond West Virginia. Mr and Mrs Mink return to Akron after visiting Ben F Fultz Sr and family. Columbus visitors P J Clancey and wife stay with W G Davis. Joe F E Saunders visits from Columbus with his sister Daisy Saunders. Herman Batley family vacation with Mrs Bailey’s mother in Levi West Virginia.
Miss June Bans hosted a slumber party on Mill Street Friday night with guests Edna Hayes Rowena Harrah Elizabeth Bradford Pauline Millis Anna Margaret Wylie and Dorothy Michard. Mrs A Hoffman traveled to Chicago after visiting family including Mary Cook and H E Cook. her brother and family accompanied her to Columbus. Mrs Thomas of Cincinnati visited sister Mrs Joa chim and family on South Third Avenue.
In Middleport Mrs Edward Spooner completed a tally of school age children showing 307 boys and 423 girls ages 6 to 15, plus 66 boys and 65 girls ages 16 to 17, for a total of 861. girls lead by 115.
Funeral services for Arthur Badgley were held in Letart on Thursday with the Rev. Clary presiding. Mrs. V. E. McCade hosted Meigs County Board of Education members in honor of her husband. Various local residents were noted visiting relatives and attending lodge events in Racine.
Miss Bertha Wagerly returns home from weekend visit with Miss Margaret Heilman. Ohio State and Ohio University students Albert Franz George Angelleti and Dorothy Ebersbach visit relatives. Bishop Henry Hobson visits Grace Episcopal Church in Pomeroy. Mrs Emma Franz now in Midland Michigan visits Franz family on Mulberry. Lincoln Hill hosts dinner honoring Miss Katie Bengel of Chicago. Amesville visitors Mr and Mrs Patrick Lochary stay through Memorial Day. Edison Hobbetetter and Mrs Cham bers visit in Columbus. Mrs George M Holmes and Barbara Smith move to Youngstown after six weeks in Pomeroy.
Over 30 Star Grange members surprised Columbia Grange Friday and presented a literary hour program featuring recitations by Vesta Nelson and Margaret Gill, a 4 string orchestra, essays by Mrs. Everett Caldwell, Mrs. Frank Nelson, and Mrs. Sadie Cain, a sermon by Selby McCann, a Miller family playset, and readings. The visiting group served lunch to 125 attendees.
Mrs Sally Rasp age 63 widow of William Rasp dies Saturday at her home near Syracuse after a long illness of drops. Survived by two sons and two daughters. Services begin next Sunday at the Presbyterian Church. Federated Church continued services at Peace Evangelical Church. The Federated Church is a consolidation of both congregations.
Surviving relatives include three sisters and two brothers. Miss Susan Bentz died Friday at her Columbus home. She was a former Pomeroy resident and a niece of Mrs. Emma Ebershach and Mrs. Mary Starkey. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs C B Stout of Pittsburgh attended the funeral in Middleport for Dr W E E Stansbury and visited the Humphreys before returning home Sunday night. Also present were Mr and Mrs George Stansbury of Parkersburg, George Lasher of Columbus, Fred Jackson of Huntington, and Raymond Bell and daughter of Columbus, with Bell long employed by Stansbury Drug Co.
Mr. and Mrs William A Belt spent Friday to Sunday at the home of Miss Le nore Giles. Mr Belt is a law partner of Crarg Davis, a former Middleport resident now practicing in Toledo. The Belt couple returned to Toledo on Sunday.
Twenty Epworth League members from Heath M. E. Church drove to Dr A. McCullough’s Bashan farm Friday evening for a wiener roast. Mr and Mrs Noah Haskins served as chaperons.
A daily average of more mines operated in the Chauncey district last week than the prior week. Chauncey Mine No. 25 was idle all week. Nine mines ran Monday, seven Tuesday, eight Wednesday, nine Thursday, and nine Friday.
Mr and Mrs Harris Wood and two sons Buddy and J P of Columbus stay with the Wood family in Columbus after Memorial Day. Dr and Mrs W H Hyde and Mrs Catherine Spencer spent the weekend in Cincinnati. Mr and Mrs Jess Vanbibber and daughter were guests of the former's parents at Laurel Run.
Mrs Homer Kirkendall entertained friends at her Chauncey home on Tuesday night in honor of her husband celebrating his thirty first birthday. A large cake and ice cream were served to Hershel Kirkendall George Dale Ralph Kirkendall Henry Cass Jo Ann Paul Donna Jean Barbara Lou Frances Doris Dewey and others from Chauncey and Athens.
The Steamer Fairplay was ordered to turn back above Pt. Pleasant W Va with a tow of three tin plate barges a scrap paper barge and a gasoline barge from Pittsburgh. It will head to Cincinnati to meet the Eclip se as crews change. Capt Burt Clare became master of the Fairplay replacing Capt Henry Adama who returned to Jeffersonville Ind.
Four Ohio University students receive top honors for Latin and Greek studies. Miss Mildred Mae Fisher wins the Super Prize 93 dollars, Frank D. Cohen secures 50 dollars, Mary Kupir earns Evens Prize first 25 dollars, Julia Malo second 11 dollars. Awards funded by the Ohio University Alumni Association honor Dr. Charles W. Super and Dr. Dafydd J. Evens.
Report from Sheltering Arms Hospital lists patients admitted over the last week including William N. McHenry Athens medical Maniey Ellis Carpenter surgical Denver Shover Carbondale medical Harry Rasp Jacksonville surgical James Wood Albany surgical Howard McKinley Athens medical Miss Mary Moran Athens surgical Mrs For rest Guthrie Athens maternity Leland Willison Athens surgical Mrs R L Densmore New Marshfield maternity Joseph Dalton Nelsonville surgical Mrs Frank Ferry Athens surgical Howard Tanbor ey Coolville bullet wound Mrs Flossie Story Hemlock Grove surgical Miss Freda Pollack Carbondale surgical Miss Irene Miener Trimble surgical. Convalescents include Mrs R J Densmore and son Mrs Forrest Guthrie and son and others. Dismissals: Denver Shover William N McHenry Harry Rasp Manley Ellis.
On Memorial Day the Glouster Post Office will be closed for most of the day. It will operate from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with mail dispatched on all trains as usual. Rural and city carriers have the day off and mail will not be delivered or collected along routes.
Clair Lises, a Troy Township High School junior in vocational agriculture, is nominated for the Ohio Future Farmers of America State Farmer Degree. He will travel to Columbus on June 1 with seven peers and instructor Samuel Pailet to compete in judging contests and receive a gold key. He led the FFA chapter as president, built up the home flock, added a new poultry house, raised 44 bushels of potatoes per acre for profit, started a crop rotation, and has run a two year pig and litter project influencing his father to sign a corn hog agreement.
Mrs. Ora Bruen, longtime treasurer of the Reunion Society of the Jasper Presbyterian Church in Hornell, N Y, faced questions of old funds after turning over an old dollar bill and four Indian Head pennies to the church missionary society.
A get-together of the Ep worth Leagues of Glouster Trimble and Jacksonville meets Tuesday evening at the Millfield M E Church. The Trimble Grange confers third and fourth degrees on three candidates at their Saturday meeting.
At a union service Sunday night at the Church of Christ Rev. G B Courtney spoke on the Chauncey church survey. John Marshall sang a solo and a chorus choir provided music. Four ministers attended with invocations scripture reading and benediction by local pastors from Church of God Holiness M E Seventh Day Adventist and Church of Christ.
Chauncey Young People's Society of the Church of God will hold the cottage prayer meeting Tuesday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Crabtree on May Avenue.
Chauncey veterans meet at K of P Hall at 7:30 PM to plan Memorial Day observances on Wednesday at 10 AM in Church of Christ. Music by orchestra and drum corps, readings, and church participation followed by a processional to Nye Cemetery with firing squad and grave decorations. W. D. Hines named marshal. flags provided for graves. Beebe funeral.
The Rev. and Mrs. Damon Watkins and their three children from Parkersburg West Virginia visited Mrs. Watkins' parents Mr. and Mrs. William Dennis in Chauncey. The minister preached at the local Church of Christ Sunday morning and taught the Men's Bible Class before leaving today for Columbus.
Mr and Mrs Frank Brendan Akron spent the weekend in Chauncey with Mrs Brendan’s parents Mr and Mrs Robert Hillyer. W H Hines Burr Oak visited his son Mayor W D Hines in Chauncey Sunday. The Tippett and Jackson families hosted a chicken dinner at Band Ridge. Supt Wesley Walburn and Mrs Walburn with Mrs Sam Tippett Chauncey and Mrs Thompson Athens were in Columbus last week. Theilman of Dayton visited Chauncey guests of Lewis Canter over the weekend.
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