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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1934
Page
2
POMEROY Oct 18 The town council met in adjourned session to act on the bond refunding ordinance giving it a second reading after a first at the regular meeting. With four members present the ordinance could not pass under suspension. Parking ordinance discussion yielded no action and a final vote is planned for the next regular meeting or a special session.
Durst urged a public meeting for businessmen and citizens to share ideas. The 1930 traffic ordinance covers most new points with minor amendments. It imposes a two hour parking limit and is currently in force though not strictly enforced.
Commissioners ordered guard rails at dangerous bridges in Meigs County after Tuesday session. Two road repairs received appropriations of 100 dollars for Nelson Road and 60 dollars for Homer West Road. Musser Road material proposal approved. Helen Carl named relief investigator home economist. A Pomeroy choral society is to organize tonight at Peace Church at 8.0’clock, sponsored by the Pomeroy Music Club.
Final arrangements for the Racine Community Fair are under way at the high school. The two day event sponsored by the Future Farmers of Racine High School expects a record crowd with support from local businessmen and Meiga County. Lunch will be served at the high school for out of town visitors.
Members of the Junior Class at Olive-Orange High School chaperoned by Miss Ruth Drake hosted a wiener roast. The eighth grade will party in the high school auditorium on Tuesday night October 28. The Commerce Club formed with plans for first meeting October 2 at the auditorium. Class officers are Phyllis Whaley president Junior McGinnis vice president Carol Guthrie secretary treasurer. A guest speaker from out of town will attend. A Halloween party for the public is set for October 30 at the high school auditorium with games prizes and refreshments.
State Senator John A. Lloyd and Judge Russell K McCurdy will address a Republican public meet ing at the Courthouse in Pomeroy at 7 30 tonight. Republican county candidates attend with Simeon D Fess slated for a 2 PM Courthouse talk Monday before Jackson. Republican HQ in Zeiher Shoe Store Building remains open under Floyd Mees as Women’s Club drives the organized campaign and rally efforts.
Mrs. T. F. Lewis leaves for Ashland Kentucky to visit Mr. and Mrs. BE L Saunders after a visit with Mrs. D H Daniels family. Mrs. Stewart of Leon West Virginia visits daughter Mrs. Charles Bennett in Beach Street. Mrs. M C Hobart and sister Mrs Petty travel to Columbus to spend the week with relatives. Hartinger property on South Third Avenue rented by traveling salesman Mr Hess. Mrs William Huggins visits Steubenville for a week with family. C L Wilson returns from Zanesville after two week stay. Dr and Mrs D Waugh plan move to Cheshire farm, rental of local property. Mrs L D Diles and Mrs Virgil Edwards host birthday dinner for Miss Fiorinel Talbott and David Diles. thirty three attend.
Howard Ray Gotehall, newlywed of Parkersburg and Dexter, fell forty feet from a ladder at the Viscose plant in Parkersburg Monday evening. He suffered skull, arm, rib and both feet fractures. recovery expected. His wife Lorene Root Gotehall accompanied him recently married about a week ago. Gotehall is son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gotschall of Dexter. The article also notes Purity Ice Cream officials Albert Scholl E M Harrah and J H Grate traveling to Cleveland to attend the International Dairy Exposition.
Donavan Mallory aged 32 died Wednesday at home after a long illness. Survived by mother Mrs Katherine Mallory two sisters Mrs Hallie Weems Columbus and Mrs Emily Carroll Middleport two brothers Milton Mallory Charleston and Charlies Mallory Racine plus half siblings Capt Guy Mallory New Orleans Mrs Ira Flesher Huntington Mrs Calvin Spencer Columbus and Ben Mallory Wheeling Funeral at Racine Baptist Church Friday at 2 pm burial Letart Falls Cemetery.
Pomeroy hosts a community Halloween with the homecoming committee backing the event. Middleport hosts an American Legion Feeney-Bennett Post party on October 31, the same night as a Pomeroy Second Ward Fire Company dance at the K of P Hall. Mr and Mrs H L Redcay attend the National Convention of the American Legion Auxiliary in Miami and will travel to Washington DC before returning. The Middleport Literary Club met at Locust Street with plans to meet October 31 at South Third Avenue. Funeral attendance included D H Daniels and Jennings Keffer among others for William Burnell, killed in an airplane accident near Holzer Airport. burial at Beech Grove Cemetery.
More than 1,500 workers aid a campaign in Ohio to collect names and addresses of all persons afflicted with infantile paralysis. In Athens County mayor Len B. McCune chairs the effort to compile case lists and gather questionnaires on current condition and care facilities. Emile E. Watson leads the state committee assembling the information. A 30,000 year old lion’s tooth pipe discovery is noted in Central Europe.
Map narrates the route of principals in the Louisville kidnapping as negotiations extend through three states and end with Mrs. Alice Stoll's return after a $50,000 ransom payment.
Mitzi owned by Theodore Weisenberger was trapped in a limestone cave for days as 70 farmers drilled and dynamited to reach her. She emerged exhausted but unharmed, wagging her tail and receiving food and water from her grateful owner.
The Arhbaugh lot hosts a completed post office and casket room now moved from Hostetter Building. The BE Ritchey barn nearby is undergoing remodeling.
Community members from Bishopville and nearby towns visited relatives and friends including Mrs. Cora Householder and Mrs. Walter Parks in Jacksonville and at the Milhoan home. Others visited Rocky Glen Sanitarium in McConnelsville and attended the Glouster Church of Christ home-coming.
Mr and Mrs Fred B Fisher of Gallipolis entertained Tuesday evening with a 6 o'clock dinner honoring Mr and Mrs J C Fisher of South Sixth Avenue Middleport who observed their forty seventh wedding anniversary that day.
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