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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1935
Page
3
Township leaders discuss funding for pensions and tax reductions in the coming year. Officials anticipate revenue shifts and consider state provisions while residents attend the meeting. The program highlighted by George Saxgen and other speakers included patriotic experiences from Dolce and Miss.
Harrisonville F F A boys from Meigs Farm travel to Columbus for the vocational agriculture congress May 31 and June 1. Participants include Clyde Lambert Dye Ball Raymond Wilson Leodell Davidson Cecil Morris Ivan Cotterill Clayton Waggoner Jackson Waggoner Fred Whaley Granville Reeves Kenneth Welsh Warren Reeves Mark Clark with instructor Harold H Pickering and bus driver Ernest Carr. Over 2 500 V A students will attend. Harrisonville teams enter Dairy Cattle Poultry and Crops contests. Dye Ball and Clyde Lambert named official delegates to the Future Farmers of America convention. State Education Department arranging educational trips for the boys.
Twentieth annual Pomeroy High School alumni meeting will begin with a 6 o'clock banquet at the Junior High Auditorium followed by a business session and dancing with the Dutch Zimmer Orchestra of Logan. Non graduate guests admitted to the dance after the banquet and meeting.
Flags lined streets and the road to the cemetery in Middleport for Memorial Day. The cemetery enjoyed displays of potted plants and flowers as hundreds visited to honor the day.
Columbus Grange and Carpenter-Columbia Grange held an officers conference at Harrisonville. Columbia will visit Harrisonville Grange on June 21 to present a literary program featuring H E Starkey, Gerald Starkey, H W Dudgeon, Ada Belle Trainer, Marvin Chase, Alta Dudgeon and musical numbers by Willie and Walter Swett. Rural Life Sunday drew 30 Columbia Grange members to Carpenter Church.
Laurel Grange met Saturday with about 40 members present. Officers conference discussed and a visit to Star Grange set for June 15 to present the literary program. A pan tomime titled Father's Day of Rest was performed and a youth game followed. Memorial services are planned for the next meeting, and a two week drive for new members plusJuvenile Grange plans are in progress.
Veterans of Land and Sea were honored Thursday in Gallipolis during Memorial Day services at Mt. Cemetery. John A Logan’s Memorial Day observance featured civil services and cemetery decorations reflecting dedication and remembrance.
Forty children led a flag drill and scattered flowers in a cemetery plot for Civil War soldiers buried there, many unknown. The O. H. E. Band directed by Prof. James Lewis of Middleport provided music, joining the parade at Fourth Street. Crown City quartet sang at services, with Major H. E. Houck introducing numbers and Miss Grace Jones delivering a tribute.
Gallipolis reports a Saturday crowd of about 10 000 at the Proctorville Fairgrounds for the first full Tri-State auto stunt program. Jimmy Edwards led early by radiator cap defeat, then suffered a rollover on Route 7. Demons Lloyd and others staged air jumps and head on collisions, with all drivers unharmed.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church schedules two sermons by Rev H H Wilbur with morning topic A Personal Question and evening The Seventy Sent Forth Junior sermons titled The Power of Little Things and Eyes for Others Regular services occur at Baptist Episcopal and Presbyterian churches Sunday.
Crown City marked Memorial Day with a noon ceremony at Crown City Cemetery led by American Legion members. Arthur Syrus, World War veteran and son of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Syrus, attended with relatives present. Five Civil War veterans and two Spanish American War veterans rest there, with the Crown City quartet performing and Taps followed by a firing squad salute by Lafayette Post. In Gallipolis, police reported no arrests through Thursday night, a quiet holiday for the area.
Middleport residents share Memorial Day visits with relatives and friends from Columbus Pomeroy Sprigg and Steubenville. Nearby towns note calm holiday with county officers reporting no major incidents as races and visits unfold.
Judge Russell E. McCurdy delivered a Memorial Day address in Pomeroy urging courage and national heritage. Civil War veterans Charlies Craft J E Warner and Robert Griffith attended, with local groups in the parade. Dixie the beagle hound owned by Sheriff Roscoe C. Fowler died after a Caesarian operation at the county jail.
An advertised plan touts Mayets as a million dollar laxative offering quick introduction without costly ads. It claims liver activation, bile wake up, removal of poisonous waste, and lasting energy, urging readers to pay 9c now and 25c after Saturday.
Relatives and friends gathered at Mrs. J. S. Dudgeon’s home Sunday to celebrate her sixty fifth birthday. She will spend a few days with her granddaughter, Mrs. Henry Turner.
Local residents from Bunker Hill and surrounding towns gather for weekend visits. Families from Columbus Ferrys Run Athens and South Vienna visit Will Wells and family, while several others attend the Herrisonville high school play and share Sunday guests.
Local residents visit relatives across Ohio during Memorial Day weekend. Families from Columbus Glouster Pomeroy and Maggie West Virginia join relatives in Middleport for visits and local trips. A Washington D C trip group includes Postmaster J H Smith Priscilla Barnes Barnes May Grate Hennessy and Van Cooney.
Rocksprings friends attended the Weaver Wolf funeral at Minersville conducted by Rev. Bert O Connor. Sunday School attendance reached 72 on May 26.
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