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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 18, 1929

Page

2

P. T. A. Meeting Set at Park Street School

Middleport Oct 18 The monthly Park Street School P T A meeting will be held this evening in the school assembly room at 7 30. Music led by Miss Vesta McCoy opens the program followed by secretary and treasurer reports and association business. President leads round table talks and first grade drills. J C Fisher will speak on child benefits from parent teacher cooperation. A roll call answers How to Make a Bigger and Better P T A.

Middleport Parent- Teacher Association Park Street Vesta McCoy Frankie Gaylord J. C. Fisher Board of Education

Ohio River Verse by Clara Ervin at Middleport

Nine year old Clara Pauline Ervin, daughter of Columbus attorney Edgar Ervin, visited relatives in Middleport and wrote a short poem about the Ohio River. She sat on a porch with cousins, captured green riverbanks and blue sky, then typed the lines at home.

Middleport Clara Pauline Ervin Edgar Ervin Columbus O. H. Stewart Clara Pauline Ohio River

Mrs Sullivan Hosts 609 Club Bridge Luncheon

Mrs. D W Sullivan hosted the 609 club with a Wednesday bridge luncheon at Mary Jane Coffee Shop and her Grant Street home. High score trophy went to Mrs. I F Maag, second prize to Ms. W F Harris, and guest prize to Mrs. C E Smith.

Middleport D. W. Sullivan Mary Jane Grant Street I. F. Maag W. F. Harris C. E. Smith

Fishers celebrate 43rd wedding anniversary in Middleport

Middleport October 18 Mr and Mrs J C Fisher marked their forty third wedding anniversary with a chicken dinner at their Sixth Avenue home Attending were Clinton Fisher and son John Fred Fisher Pearl Childers and W J Fisher Others dropped in to offer congratulations and best wishes to the couple

Middleport J. C. Fisher Clinton Fisher John Fred BR. Fisher Miss Pearl Childers W. J. Fisher Sixth Avenue

Konjola Alleged Miracle Cure Recounts Health Escape

A testimony claims Konjola freed a person from stomach and kidney troubles and nervousness, portraying the remedy as a rapidly effective treatment. The account emphasizes dramatic relief and pleads for wider recognition.

Woman Credits Konjola For Stomach And Kidney Relief

Mrs. Hattie Mixer of Ashtabula Ohio reports severe stomach pains headaches and dizziness improving after using Konjola. She credits the remedy with vanished stomach and kidney troubles and better sleep and energy. Konjola is sold in Athens at McKee drug store and by leading druggists in the region.

Hattie Mixer Ashtabula Ohio Kenjo Konjola Athens McKee Drug Store

County Teachers Meet Here Saturday in Meigs County

Meigs County teachers will gather at the Pomeroy Court House on Saturday October 19 for the first meeting of the school year. The program includes opening exercises, discussions on consolidated schools, teaching writing to beginners, athletics for grammar grades, grading standards, and curriculum options under current school law. William Kesterson is named chair.

Pomeroy Meigs County G. O. Will W. H. Hampton Bertha Mell W. O. Johnson Bonnie Brown Ruth Orville Brown Montgomery Will F. G. Mutchiler Charles Young Charles Shayman Low A. L. Flanagan D. DB. Willams J Rhodes K. RO Hayes William Kesterson

Legion Elects New Officers at Meigs County Post

Feeney Bennett Post No. 128 in Middleport elected officers for the coming year at a Wednesday meeting. Virgil Edwards was named post commander and Capt Harry Bennett earned second vice commander. Reports from the National Legion Convention in Louisville were favorable. Plans were set for a Halloween event and a Christmas program. In Meigs County, Mrs Oru DeWolf and Lester Mamsey of Syracuse were bound over for living together unlawfully after a hearing, each in $500 bond.

Middleport Feeney National Legion Louisville Harry Bennett National Military Hospital Chicago Meigs County Oru DeWolf Lester Mamsey Syracuse R. G. Webster Pomeroy Jai

Mrs Henry Seidenable weighs 63 pound pumpkin

Mrs Henry Seidenable of Pomeroy grows a pumpkin this year weighing 63 pounds with a circumference of 40 inches and a length around 73 inches noting its remarkable size for the season.

Henry Seidenable Pomeroy

No Admittance Sign Draws Police Stiff

Middleport Oct 18 Chief Herman Mayer posted a large placard on the jail reading No admittance Stay out. Moments later Bert Stewart commonly called Wing Lee chased his 90 year old mother from their home, police say, and Stewart was jailed.

Middleport Herman P. Mayer Bert Stewart Wing Lee Stewart

Frost farmer and Clark wed at Pomeroy Courthouse

Carl Deters 25 and Eva Lena Clark 26 were married Thursday at the Pomeroy Courthouse by Justice R G Webster. D Morgan sues Reid and A A Circle Racine for 250 dollars in a note collection in Pomeroy courts. Six year old Elizabeth Pierce, daughter of Clifford and Mrs Pierce, was struck by a car in Lancaster and badly injured on the way to school. she is granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Clish Jacobs of Pomeroy.

Carl Deters Frost Eva Lena Clark Pomeroy R. G. Webster D. Morgan Reid A. A. Circle Racine Elizabeth Clifford Pierce Lancaster

Miner David Landers Killed in Pittsburg Coal Mine

A telegram from Pittsburg reports the accidental death of David Landers in a coal mine incident there. Landers formerly lived in Pomeroy. Jed Guth of Pomeroy, a Second Street merchant, was seriously ill Thursday morning but has shown some improvement. Bradbury Bible School sets a new attendance high this year and plans to break it this Sunday with a special 9:30 program.

Pittsburg David Landers Landers Pomeroy Jed Guth Bible School Bradbury

Work on sidewalk cuts mars Pomroy street front

A Pomroy street scene shows a road crew cutting a six foot wide section from the sidewalk in front of the Majestic Theater and A A Massar grocery to widen the block for a 30 foot street. The job alters awnings and curbing, with multiple sandstone curb sets observed.

Pomeroy Majestic Theater A. A. Massar

Hospital progress brings good news to Mille family

A telephone call to Mrs. Kt. A. Mille reported David Chase, operated on two weeks earlier for tumor removal, was able to walk at the hospital yesterday. The column notes several local visits, moves, and social events including the Royal Neighbors program and dance, and a birth announced by Mr. and Mrs. Russell Bailey.

Columbus Kt. A. Mille David Chase G. H. Stansbury Jane William Will

Glouster Man Jailed for Multiple Marriages

Columbus Oct 18 Henry W Lohstroh of Glouster must serve an indeterminate term in Mansfield s reformatory for marrying Beatrice L Carter of Chillicothe May 25 while his first wife Margaret Farley Lohstroh resided in Cincinnati He pleaded guilty to the wedding and faces the consequences in the reform school system

Columbus Henry W. Lohstroh Glouster Mansfields'reformatory Beatrice L. Carter Chillicothe Margaret Farley Lohstroh Cincinnati

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