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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1931
Page
4
Dr H L Ward a longtime Middleport dentist died at Cherington Hospital Logan after collapsing at the Middleport Logan football game Friday afternoon. He had suffered strokes and attended many games despite illness. Funeral plans pending with burial expected in Middleport Cemetery.
Official results list trustees and clerks across Athens County townships including Athens Township electing Jacoby Moore and Brown, plus justice of the peace winners Miller and Porter. Mayors chosen in Nelsonville Albany Buchtel Chauncey Glouster Trimble and Rome area results noted.
Four prisoners linked to a large wire theft at the Syracuse mine pled guilty to grand larceny in Judge Peoples court. Andy Spencer night watchman Edward Wittitoe Frank Parker and Raymond Baldwin, miners, received sentences with probation terms. They must work abstain from liquor and report monthly to the Meigs County sheriff.
Town residents rushed to Sugar Run School Building after a reported fire alarm. Fire crews raced a half mile to the scene, crowds gathered as a chimney blaze in the Steinbaner home near the school was found burning out with no damage to the school.
POMEROY Nov 7 Those interested in river affairs will be pleased to learn that the famous oil Kate Adams which was destroyed by fire at Memphis in 1927 has been rebuilt and will be loaded with cotton and taken south from Memphis Ste may again ply the upper Ohio where she was a favorite. Among the marriage licenses recently issued at Ripley the following: George Nesselraad 40 Pom eroy and Mary Kerr 33 Ravenswood. The Bankers Association of Meigs County met at the Cooper House in Racine. W L Johnson Plants a Civil War veteran recently celebrated his 1st birthday anniversary was a guest of the club. He is a stockholder in a formeroy bank. Dr M S Daniels who has been in a Gallipolis hospital for several weeks as the result of an injury to his arm in an automobile accident will be brought home to Pomeroy Sunday. Mrs James Rauch died at her home above New Haven W Va from a paralytic stroke. Survived by husband and six children. Mrs L B Weed was reported sick at the Weed home on Cheddar Road midway between Pomeroy and Chester. Mrs Weed suffering from pneumonia and was taken to a Gallipolis hospital last night. Emereon G Harper died at her home on Thotes Fork. Born Friday a daughter to Mr Herman Warder Lincoln St Pomeroy father a bartender. A marriage license was issued at the Pomeroy Courthouse Friday evening to Long 22 a resident of Gallipolis and Mooney ? .
Mrs. Lavonia Bennett 92 widow of Civil War veteran Captain Thomas Bennett died at her Middleport home at 2 Friday afternoon after a long illness. She survived by son Captain Harry H. Bennett daughter Mrs Fred Russell and Millard Bennett. Funeral Sunday at 220 with Rev. Walter Fowler from Cambridge officiating. burial in Cheshire Cemetery.
Mrs Mary A Duerr, wife of Phillip F. Duerr and mother of Councilman Ernest Duerr, was stricken and fell in her Carleton Hollow home this week. She remains conscious but helpless, delaying their planned November 8 wedding anniversary celebration due to her illness. Mary Prinde, before marriage, was the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Prindt of Nease Settlement.
Mayor Thomas Roush of Athens died Friday morning. A native of Meigs County he was the son of Ju and Elizabeth Roush. He left behind two sisters Laura Willmy in Colorado and Nelle Smith of Pomeroy and brothers Robert in Pomeroy Glenn in Pomery Chattea Forest Mum Homer and Hayes of Minersville.
Howard Bolin and Mrs A A Nelson plan two Hemlock Grove area meetings to teach women about a Meat and Meat-like Dishes project. First meeting at Hemlock Grove Grange Fall on November 12 at 1 00 p m. Second at Woodmen Hall Burlingham at 1 p m November WB. Local training follows county and Ohio State University home economics guidance from Miss Elizabeth Graddy.
Patrons in Long Bottom oppose the three mill levy for school purposes while Orange Township supports it and may receive state aid. Long Bottom and Bedford Township face bond payments for a new structure with no state aid, as nineteen other districts vote in favor. Also noted is the distressing relapse of former Middleport merchant B E Talbott.
Citizens along the Unk east of Portland to Little Hock Ing complain that the connecting roadway is not completed. They say finishing the link would cut a round trip from 62 miles to 32 miles to reach Parkersburg, forcing travelers to go via Pomeroy on Route 7.
Chester prepares for Nov 11 and 12 events featuring the Farmers Institute directed by 0 M Musgrave aided by Arvil Holter Buel Summerfield Franklin Bailey Ronald Bailey and others. Willam Grierson Alph Musson will address the institute with a poultry show minstrel and egg packing talk. Local stores and restaurants sponsor generous premiums for fruits, vegetables, poultry, grain and more.
Mrs. Tedrow of Sheltering Army Hospital sustained serious burns Friday night when her clothes ignited near an open grate. She suffered burns to her left hand forearm arms legs abdomen chest and side. Attending physician Dr J C Henry reports she is alive with two children.
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