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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1931
Page
2
Meigs County plans an airport on a ten acre river bottom field at Letart Falls prepared by Edward Chapman. The site on the main highway aligns with Pittsburgh Huntington routes and Pittsburg Cincinnati air traffic. Chapman aims to install a gasoline station and restaurant once surveyed.
Samuel F. Clark of Syracuse, a township trustee candidate, reports finding pennies while cultivating his garden on the site of the old pioneer Methodist Church. He has planted the three lots with potatoes for fifteen years and believes the pennies came from children playing on the lawn during Sunday School.
The Rally Day at the Presbyterian Church in Middleport is moved to Sunday October 25 due to the American Legion memorial meeting on October 18. A class committee of the school has been formed to promote the event.
O R Faris of Excelsior Salt Co itinerant clerical and sales worker fell ill with a carbuncle while traveling through Kentucky and Tennessee. His condition worsened Sunday and he was moved to Gallipolis hospital. He has long ties to Pomero y and Meigs County public life.
The Columbia grade school reports pupils who were neither absent nor tardy in the first month. First grade names Betty Malihan Pearl Jewell Irene Stout Reva Whitt Helen Cheadle Victor Perry Clay Jordan Lester Swearingen Edward Rife. Second grade includes Dorothy Maiden Marie Cummings Doris Radekin Madge Jackson Ellen Perry Alvin Dye Darrell Perry Fred Cheadle Gerald Starkey Downie Nelson. Miss Ina Radekin is the teacher. Third grade lists Margaret Brooks Helen Holcombe Aldena Jewell Verna Jordan Virginia Tewksbury Margie Chase Margie Smith Phyllis Rife Annie Cheadle Eileen Saulers Lucy Dye Clair Steward Marcus Burns Carlos McCall. Fourth grade Marcella Turner.
A list of students by grade from fifth through eighth with teachers Mrs Nellie Radekin and Mr W H Hampton. Names include Freda Turner Lula Wells Maxine Caster Beuieah Galloway Adrian Holcomb Madeline Bolton Amy Perry Marvel Canode Edwin Jordan Alma Swan Beatrice Chase Freda Rupe June Jordan Hazel Perry Laura Holcomb Dorothy Morrison Inez Smith Thelma Galloway Elizabeth Stout Doris Lowther Auta Verigan Irene Jewell Lily Price Alice Turner Georgia Radekin Denver Rawlings Rolland Crabtree Burton Bable Lawrence Bowen.
Mrs. Edmund Kingsland departed Pomeroy by auto Sunday morning for New York City accompanied by Mrs. Catherine Rousey and Charles Calkins. She plans to return in about six weeks to attend to her mother Dr. Amy Whaley’s feeble health and finalize real estate transfers and related legal matters from her late sister Miss Cady Whaley.
Mrs. Jennie Lehew, 75, wife of David Lehew, died at home in Pomeroy's Second Ward Saturday night after a long illness. The Lehews had lived in Pomeroy many years with Mr. Lehew employed at the Koehler salt works. Survived by husband and daughter Mrs. S. Young of Kerr's Run.
October 12 report from Pomeroy describes a two car crash on Route 31 near the Rock Springs exchange. Ralph Hutchins of Athens and his cousin Albert Hutchins of Parkersburg were northbound. W E Spielman of Elba West Virginia drove southbound. Ralph suffered cuts and bruises and was taken to Pomeroy for treatment. others had only minor injuries.
Barbara Kaspar aged 81 died Saturday night at her son Albert Kaspar’s home on Naylors Run in Pomeroy She was a widow and leaves two sons Albert and Will Kaspar a local plumber Funeral services were held at Peace Evangelical Church this afternoon at 2 30 with burial in Beach Grove Cemetery
The Rutland Home Coming week featured a county fair style horticultural display, fun and entertainment. Cyntha Glaze of Columbus enjoyed a visit with her parents in Grass Run. Local families hosted relatives from Tuppers Plains and Hysell Run while Harley Garvin returned from Boomer for a niece's death.
Typhoid fever cases rise in Hyse Run with Daniel Hysell seriously ill at home near the Depot. Health officer Dr Elis condemns local wells and springs. Rutland High beats The Plains 20 to 0 on Friday. Community notes on cherries, eggs, strawberries, and visitors from Chillicothe and Pomeroy.
Athens pilot Rodney Young took first in the deadstick landing event at Marietta's Ohio Valley Airport on Sunday. He guided his Bird biplane powered by a Curtiss Wright OX-5 engine to land 23 feet from the mark, beating the next-closest by 22.5 feet and claiming the silver trophy.
Forty seven thousand members of the Catholic Holy Name societies of Hamilton and nearby counties marched through downtown Cincinnati to Redland Field to repeat in unison the pledge against profanity.
In a Sunday talk at The Christian Science Church Athens Ohio Dr John Tutt outlines Christian Science teaching on salvation as a harvest of human consciousness. He explains the fan as a precision tool to separate truth from fable, detailing three levels of thought from depravity to understanding and the role of Mary Baker Eddy.
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