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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1934
Page
3
Omeroy on October 11 reports a Merchants' festival and Home-Coming collection totaling about 600 dollars for a parking lot fund. After financing is settled, funds will back Halloween party parking lot plans and a general committee meeting sets next steps for program proposals and entertainment.
Mr and Mrs Garth Beal and Rev Evan Genheimer visited Success on Sunday where Genheimer led appointments. Local families hosted guests from Harrisonville Dar win Nease Settlement and Hemlock Grove. Rev Shelby Light slated to preach Sunday morning. Victor Sponagel Jr is ill.
Mrs. Jessie Coe of Athens visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Crow. Ben Spencer Wilbur Rose and Homer Haymen came back Tuesday from attending three World Series games in St. Louis. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hayman also returned Tuesday from Dayton with Mrs. Hayman's sister Miss Mattie Weldon who will stay two weeks.
Middleport faces Columbus based South High School on Friday October 26 in a landmark football event. The Southeast Ohio league champions Yellow Jackets seek a rare road test against a 1 800 student Columbus school expectations.
Mrs. Robert Warner hosted the Foreign Missionary Society at Mulberry Avenue this afternoon. Lend-a-Hand met at Simpson Church Wednesday evening with Eva Simms, Mary Huber, and George Parker as hostesses. Mrs. Jennie Geier of Columbus visits Pomeroy for the week. George Kreitler and Curtis Gilmore planned trips to Lima for the Knights Templar Grand Commandery. Oliver Hartley and Frank Vorhees visited C. A. Hartley on Lincoln Hill. Mrs. Edison Hochsetter recovering after recent surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital Parkersburg reports improvement.
Vanhorn and son Carl of Akron visited Mr. and Mrs. Homer Glaze. Alma Vanhorn, who assisted Mrs. Glaze, returned to Akron. Norman Will came back from Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens. Ernest Perry returned to Barlow after farm drill at E. B. McCumber. Mr and Mrs Perry Brown returned from four weeks away at Rutland while Mr Brown was at Holzer Hospital. G F Morris hauled football fans to Columbus for Indiana vs Ohio State. William Nicholson completed his silo.
Middleport reports Mrs. Lilly Hudson with daughter Mrs. Edith Lord and sister in law Mrs. Eva Probst from Columbus arriving to stay with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Probst on North Second Avenue. Cincinnati guest Mrs. Jane Jones visits relatives including Mrs. T. H. Davis as Mrs. Edwin Hull departs for Fort Leavenworth.
Warren Davis, in McMillan Hospital Charleston since Monday, underwent a tonsil operation Tuesday. his wife remains with him. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer Beeson visited Charleston Tuesday and returned the same evening. A J Conde, Charleston employee, stayed at his Maple Street home Wednesday. W E Chase, previously at McMillan Hospital, is back at home. Mrs T A Elder and son Tommy, and Mrs Martha Sargeant of Schenectady N Y arrived Tuesday for a week with Mrs Sargeant's mother Mrs Julia Lee and sister Mrs Nan Agee on South Second Street.
A driverless automobile, reportedly owned by Fred Clark, rolled backward from Jacques Restaurant on Main Street about 7 PM Wednesday. It backed across the street, crossed a railroad track, circled parking cars, then struck the plate glass window, shattering two panes.
Mr and Mrs Charles Willcox of Alvada spent the weekend with sister Mrs George Wood and attended Pine Grove Church homecoming. Dyesville guests included F R Vale and family plus Miss Nella Radekin and Electa Vale. Edmundsons reside in Anna Goff home caring for the cowitch. Don L Wood of Pomeroy visited parents. son Pat Wood ill with scarlet fever.
Chesterhill P T A held a program featuring Harmony Orchestra with a cornet solo by Clayton John Vera Michener reading talks by Mrs Stellan Williams and J W E Dunbar a Kenneth Dulaney solo and Rev Mr Householder a potluck supper followed by social visits with local residents and former Chesterhill residents noted.
Caviar imports into the United States fell to 215000 in 1983, a decline from 9674000 in 1920, reflecting a major drop in import value over the period.
J. M. Sands and sister Mrs. Jean Sweeney will reside in Akron this winter. They have rented their home to Capt. and Mrs. Albert J. Aylor and family, with Aylor serving at Camp Zaleski. Nearby relatives visited Belpre and Columbus. students attended a Columbus football game with school leaders.
Sunday at the Dexter Christian Church will feature Sally Day with a basket dinner at noon and preaching by Rev. Morris of Bucyrua. In the forenoon and evening Mr and Mrs Elmer Dent and daughter Betty Jane of Charleston spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Lewis Saxton.
C H Janssen chair of the national code authority writes to F E Dowler secretary that Food and Grocery Distributors Codes remain fully in force. Violations must be pursued vigorously as trials show code safeguards curb destructive loss leader selling benefiting few merchants not consumers. Janssen says no change to markup provisions and NRA has not altered existing code terms without public hearings.
District Presbyterial gathering for Southeastern Ohio was held today in the Presbyterian Church at Pomeroy. After the morning season the women served lunch in the Sunday School room. Speakers included Mrs. Heorge Heber Jones of New York, Mrs. Weimer of Marietta, and Miss McDowell of Deanville. The district covers Middleport Gat Polls and Pomeroy. Attendance totaled 36 visitors.
Ad urges readers to buy Gold Medal Haarlem Ol Capsule for 30 cents to flush kidneys and stop night awakenings. Claims the stimulant diuretic removes waste, poisons, and acid, easing backache leg cramps and burning urination with a harmless formula from Haarlem in Hofland.
The Golden Circle class was entertained at Mrs. May Wood's home with Mrs. Eliza Jordan leading the devotional. After a six week visit with her children, Mrs. Nancy Caster returned to Chicago.
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