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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1925
Page
2
Miss Pauline Wetzel is steadily improving at Holzer hospital after being struck by a Ford truck when she stepped into its path Tuesday. Initial fears of fatal injury have given way to optimism about a full recovery.
Mary Wilemetta Farmer daughter of Mr and Mrs Dave Farmer of Fifth street entertained a number of friends with a masked party Sunday evening. The house was decorated with Halloween colors and refreshments of pumpkin pies nut bread and cider were served to twenty five guests. Attendees included Bessie Graves Harry Louise Ervin Nancy Reed Edith Russell Maxine Smith Maxine Lewis Ruth McKinley Grace Overholt Lucille Mayers Beulah Forquer Lucille Dutton Paul Parsons Chappell Talbott Paul McClure Elmer Gaskill Harold O Neal Frances Lewis Knopp Robert De Lyle William Stansbury Dal Vance Ellis Overholt and James Somerville of Point Pleasant.
Hart Roush of Cheshire was arrested Saturday in Middleport for possession of intoxicating liquor after officers found a pint of moonshine on his person. He has a hearing this evening. Ross Shumaker was also arrested Saturday on intoxication charges and will have a hearing this evening.
The body of Mrs. O B Martin of Niagara Falls arrived in Pomeroy Ohio and was taken to Finst erwald parlors. A former Meigs county resident she had many friends who regret her death. Funeral services were held Monday at Dorcas with burial at Kinzie Reed cemetery.
Leonard Bing of Akron died at sixty one from paralysis. Funeral services were held Sunday at Dr Byron Bing's home in Pomeroy with burial at Cheshire Cemetery. He was a former Cheshire resident and left many friends.
Meigs County Tax Payers League presents ten reasons urging a courthouse bonding measure. The list argues defects exist, voting is needed, stopping work risks deterioration, state orders threaten closures and rents, cites Hocking County as costly precedent, claims bond costs are per thousand and modest, and stresses timely action next Tuesday.
POMEROY November 2 very little interest is shown in the elections to be held tomorrow. The primaries also saw a decrease in the number of votes cast.
Miss Harrie Marie Smith of Middleport plans a two week visit in Huntington. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Cottingham of Jackson spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. William Michael of Middleport. Miss Thelma Beards of Columbus visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beards, over the weekend.
Griff Thompson and Mise Helen Corbin of Portsmouth spent the weekend with Ed and Mrs Thompson in Middleport. Allen Radford of Zanesville visited his parents here. D Curtis Reed went to Logan on a short business trip. Walter Franz of Parkersburg remained with his parents. Milton Elberfield and school chums Paul Ray of Huntington and Charles Rhodes of Youngstown returned to their Granville studios after a local weekend visit.
Bucyrus Oct 31 A man, Charles Schieber 47, was seriously injured when he walked into the path of Lt Governor Charlies H. Lewis’s automobile on the Scioto trail four miles north of Bucyrus. He suffered a broken leg a dislocated shoulder and other injuries.
In Washington on October 31 a police guard was posted around the Hungarian legation after protests over the Karolyi case. The State department barred Count and Countess Karolyi from entering the United States and Count Szchenyi, Hungary’s minister, reported threatening letters from anti Horthy Hungarians.
L. V. Shrider, 62, former county commissioner and Glenford board of education president, one of Perry county’s leading farmers, died suddenly at his home in Glenford after a funeral service. He collapsed with apoplexy while attending the funeral earlier today.
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