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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1928
Page
2
A town council meeting in Pomeroy drew many residents who opposed a proposed gas rate increase set to last 25 years. The gas ordinance, read twice, was laid over to November 19, awaiting a four votes needed for passage.
Gerber Camp the lone Spanish American War group in Meigs County plans a November 11 meeting at Middleport City Hall at 2 PM to discuss consolidating with Athens Camp. Also on the agenda are electing a new camp quartermaster after Fd Parsons resigns to take a post at the National Military Home in Dayton and a potential move for the camp location.
James Jenkinson, a Navy man, says he has five children who own seven automobiles but he walks almost everywhere daily. He claims walking helps him sleep well and enjoy meals after covering several miles each day.
Misses Margaret and Marcella Raub of Corning visited with their aunts Mrs. Clamence Clark and Mrs. Jamesworthy. Mrs. Mittie Powell went to Wellston to spend winter with daughter Mrs. Leigh Crowell. Warren McHaffie moved to the Ernest Mulford house on Gravel Hill near Hobson. Rev. Fred I. Gardner preached at Bradbury Church Monday in his third meeting there with rising interest.
Meigs County Board of Elections mailed 215 absentee ballots for the election but many were not returned by closing time. The total is not as large as absentee ballots in the August primaries.
Wesley A. Race, 88, of Pomeroy, is noted as the oldest continuous voter in the state. He began voting at 21 and has not missed an election in 67 years, supporting Republicans from Lincoln to Hoover through each national and local contest. He voted early in Precinct C, Pomeroy, Third Ward.
Middleport reports the Women’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will gather in the assembly room Friday evening. The program features Siam and The Southern Mountaineers with leader Mrs. Louis Seyfried. Hostesses include Mrs. Jennie Middleton and others.
Middleport report: Miss Martha Hartinger elder daughter of L C Hartinger had tonsils and adenoids removed at Doctor Maag's office on Tuesday morning. She was taken to her grandparents Mr and Mrs Dell Farmer's home to recover for a few weeks.
From Columbus a wedding notice in the Middleport Rutland circles reports Miss Nelle L Price daughter of Mr and Mrs Charlies Price of Rutland Ohio wed Dr William W Ford formerly of East Rich Street. The ceremony occurred Saturday at 5 pm in the Gladden study of the First Congregational Church with Rev M H Lichliter officiating. The couple will reside at the Normandie hotel. The bride wore tan georgette and lace with a tan velour hat trimmed with jade and an ocelot fur coat. The groom is a chiropractor with his son Dr Roscoe L Ford at 8 East Long Street.
In Pamunkey Run near Williams Schoolhouse Andy Kohl reports a chicken with a wooden leg. Mrs Kohl accidentally severed a leg as a chick and a blind daughter crafted a wooden replacement using a clothes pin. The bird moves about with the flock but struggles to scratch.
Meigs County Farm Bureau schedules two sheep meetings. Harrisonville Grange Hall hosts November 18 with L. A. Kauffman Ohio State University expert leading at Salem Center church the next day. Focus is winter feeding of flocks especially brood ewes.
In Pomeroy on November 7 the sheriff is ordered to notify the petit jury summoned for November 8 to appear on November 13. Court will proceed after the bridge dedication concludes the bridge ceremony timeline.
A car in Mason West Virginia drew a crowd after a man showed a Hoover lithograph on the front and a Smith portrait on the rear. Spectators joked about a divided household as the owner explained the photos were in his car so they could watch each other and to explain recent gas thefts.
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