Middleport Legion Meeting Draws Huge Crowd
Middleport filled to capacity as the Eighth District American Legion gathered for a Sunday meeting. About 600 participated in a morning-to-evening parade, with 218 registered for the noon meal at Knights of Pythias Hall. Civil War veterans led the parade, followed by nine Spanish American War veterans on foot, and a large turnout from Athens through Middleport and surrounding towns. State and district officers attended as the Masonic Temple auditorium overflowed with onlookers.
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Middleport
American Legion
Gillistown
Atreeta
James Salisbury
M. C
Bolce
Cheshire
Marl F. Bryan
Amercan Legion
Athens
Athens Post
Gallipolis
Jackson Post
Jackson-Oak Hill
Jackson County
Nelsonville
Jackson
Corning
Glouster
Crooksville
Lancaster
Zajeski
Paul McHubert
Columbus
Masonic Temple
Make This Model at Home Pattern 2162 Diagonal Seaming
The Athens Messenger presents Pattern 2162 by Anne Adams detailing a frock with diagonal seaming forming a yoke and flare skirt with two inverted pleats. Suitable for sheer wools and crepes, the design suits sizes 14 to 34 and includes step by step diagrams.
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Anne Adams
Pattern pattern from The Athens Messenger offers mailed orders
Size 16 requires 4 yards of 39 inch fabric and exact yardage for all sizes. No dressmaking experience needed to make this mode with our pattern. Send fifteen cents for each pattern, or catalog with pattern for twenty five cents. Include name address size wanted and style number. Mail to Pattern Department 243 West 17th Street New York City.
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FRICE
Athens Messenger Pattern Department
West 17Th Street
New York City
Olive Tablets Offer Youthful Vitality Claims
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle, effective remedy to brighten the face by cleansing the liver and bowels. The copy links a bilious look and dull eyes to inactivity, promoting the olive colored tablets as a natural boost to buoyancy and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwards
Ohio
Dr. Edwards
Quiet Wedding Unites Miss Anna Kinnard and Burton Langsville
In Middleport on Saturday at noon at the Baptist church parsonage Rev. Frank C. Kreager united Miss Anna Kinnard of Middleport and Burton Riggs Langsville in marriage. The bride's father Mitford Kinnard attended as the sole witness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Midpleport
Baptist Church Parsonage
Frank C. Kreager
Anna Kinsnard
Middleport
Burton Riggs Langsville
Mitford Kinnard
Kathryn Taylor Weds Wayne Matthews in Gallipolis
Miss Kathryn Taylor daughter of Clyde Taylor of Rio Grande and Wayne Matthews of Cheshire were married at the Baptist parsonage in Gallipolis on Saturday. The notice lists friends and relatives visiting in Middleport and nearby towns, with accompanying social updates from the area.
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Kathryn Taylor
Wayne Matthews
Middleport
Mis
South First Avenue
Hamilton Street
Cheshire
Baptist Parsonage
Gallipolis
Clyde Taylor
Tobacco Attracts Gaze Of Curious Onlookers
POMEROY Oct 12 Joe Boyd an industrious colored man living at the Pomperoy Middleport line shows a drying shed of tobacco to passersby. He has a crop hung in a shed along the sidewalk and plans to cure strip and twist the stalks. Meigs County this summer reports more tobacco and other crops than usual with corn wheat oats and potatoes also plentiful.
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Pomeroy
Joe Boyd
Pomperoy-Middleport Hne
Meigs County
Mra. A. V. Howell
Offce
Mra. C. E. Peoples
Elisa Neu Bing
Tiertha Chyge
C. W. Jones
Tressurer
P.L Peoples
Carlos Hartley
Steubenville
Syracuse
William Rupe
Gallipoka
Clarence
Middleport
H. C. Wiltshire
Dam 24
Racine
Gallipolis
A. V. Howell
Stranded in Pomeroy On Matrimonial Trip
A woman traveling from Akron to marry a Logan, West Virginia, groom finds herself misrouted to Logan, Ohio, then Pomeroy. With funds short after a bus error, Matron Mrs Tracy provides a bed and a bus agent covers a few cents for a ticket to continue her journey.
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Pomeroy
Akron
Logan
W. Va
Columbus
Ohio
Pomuroy
Tracy
Notable Bishop Cannon Faces Federal Charges
United Press reports on Bishop James Cannon facing federal charges, revealing lesser known facets of his character beyond his political life. The piece recounts Cannon’s cantankerous, guarded nature, his habit of carrying crutches at hearings, and a chaotic encounter with a newspaper editor over an ultimatum to publish a statement in full. It also notes Cannon’s meeting with H. L. Mencken and a Treasury blueprints mishap affecting night shift guards.
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United Press
Washington
James Catinon
Senate
Cannon
Great Forest
Jocker
Grand Jury
Cannnon
Tep
Tinkham
Massachusetts
Tartar
HH. L. Mencken
The
Treasury
Y W C A Discussion Topics Set for Ohio University
Topics for Y W C A discussions are chosen for Ohio University faculty and Athens women with meetings in town homes. Dean of Women Trivia Voigt reports sign ups this week. groups split by class year and servant roles. Discussions start Wednesday Oct 28 and run three weeks culminating in a dinner hosted by United States petit jury host.
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Ohio Unversity
Athens
Dean of Women
Voigt
Serors
Here Is the Life Story of Thomas Alva Edison
A condensed biographical sketch recounts Thomas Alva Edison born February 11 in Milton Ohio to Samuel and Nancy Edison. It notes his poor school performance yet strong early curiosity in science, early jobs selling papers and candy, and his first laboratory in a moving train car. It covers his journalism stint on the Grand Trunk Express, the famous lamp and phonograph sparks, and his establishment of the Menlo Park laboratory in 1870 as a turning point in his prolific invention career.
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Thomas Alva Edison
Milton
Ohio
Samuel
Nacy Edison
Edison
Port Huron-Detroit
Holl
Ron
Grand Trunk Express
Grand Trunk Herai
Menlo Park
N. J
Chance
Nendy
Hicigon
Naval Consulting Board
Thomas Alva, Jr
William Leslie
Marion Estelle
Mila Miller
Charles
Madeline
Theodore
West Orange
Scenes From Edison's Life on A New Dimension Screen
The painting portrays a young Edison engrossed in testing a lamp and endurance in a vigil scene. In the upper right the inventor responsible for motion picture projection taps a key starting a projection in a distant city. Below, with Charles Steinmetz, the late wizard of electricity, Steinmetz demonstrates to Edison the destructive results of artificial lighting.
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Edison
Charles Steinmetz
Steinmetz
Edison and the dawn of motion pictures from 1870s tests
Long history notes Edison’s experiments including carbonizing thread for a 49 hour burn and his role in inspiring the motion picture camera. It also covers Stanford’s running horse demonstration, wartime work, Edison family details, and scattered local notices about PTA activities and school tax levy elections in Ohio.
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Edison
Leland Stanford
California
Fifty year wedding anniversary at Linscotts
McDougal reports that several persons from here attended the fiftieth wedding anniversary at George Linscott’s last Sunday. A series of visits and trips to Athens, West Virginia, Trimble, Chesterhill, Chauncey, Pomeroy, and Akron are noted among residents and relatives.
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Sovnleport
B. Hartinger
Bertha Rathburn
J. E. Harley
George Nye
Columbus
J. A. Kent
Max Harrah
Huntington
W. Va
Maxine
Kaysler-Hatfield Hospital
Charles Yast
Fidward French
Karl French
Walter Sommers
W. H. Sommers
Bench Hil
W Va
and Afra
Lawrence Bing
Theodore Wilson
Helene
Jacqueline
Clifford Erwin
Caro Louise Erwin
Helene Wilson
Charleston
University-University of Virginia
Daniel Boone
Eport
H. M. Russell
Ton
M. J. Hamilton
T. A. May
Pittsburgh
Ralph B. Wilson
Walter Chambers
T. J. Wilson
Chillicothe
Chambers
Wellsley ‘Hil
Boston
Nancy Creger
Marysville
Tenn
Chester Andrew
Pomeroy
Lawrence Reed
Athens
Leland Welch
Clinton Welch
Gassaway
W.va
Roush
Maggie
Hamlin
W. Ve
George Linscotts
E. T. Linscott
Q. B. Oneal
West Virginia
Elizabeth Phillips
Will Mickel
Henry North
Garnet
Wilson Howard
E. Notestein
Barberton
Leslie Bobo
Sarah Morris
Bart Easter
Trimble
Warren Munn
Chesterhill
John McClellan
Chauncey
Roy Love
Ora Bobo
Milan
Ed Donaldson
Fred Conner
Naomi Nell
Mary I
Herb Smith
Liberty Hill
J. W. Grover
Jack
Leonard
Allscott
Harriett
Adda LaFollett
Akron
Dayton Kierns
Mary Kittle
John McClelisa
Shade School Opens First Six Weeks End With Progress
The first six weeks of school end on Friday October 16. Every department shows splendid progress with strong pupil and community interest. Seventy five are enrolled in the high school. The season’s first basketball game dated October 9 against New Marsh Held ended in a victory for the girls team. The score remains to be reported.
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Lod! Hirsh School
The
Shade P. T. A
Margaret Gaylord
Earl Cowan
Clyde Smith
Fern Sargent
Lawrence Niggemeyer
Cora Robinson
Frank Lowther
Lola Blackwood
George Grimm
Payo Pierce
Fervl Weiliams
Bessie Jones
Posworth
Ray Morrise
Carre Smith
Della Wilson
J. H. Rogers
New Marsh
Ledi Girs
Newly Married in Marshfield as Magistrate Officiates
Miss Maurice Allen and Mr Fran ciy Kyle were wed by Magistrate Carl Russell at his home on a Tuesday evening. The notice covers school district tax levy proposals in Athens and Chauncey‑Dover districts, citing state law limits and election timings for November 1931.
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Maurice Allen
Franciy Kyle
Carl Russell
Election notices on bonds for Rome Township and Albany District
Notices announce bond issues for Rome Township Rural School District to fund additions to the Areproof School Building and for Albany Consolidated School District to levy taxes beyond the fifteen mill limit. Polls open 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM EST on election day in Athens County Ohio.
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Board of Education
Trimble Township
Athens County
Ohio
Sala
Trimble Township Pastriot
Said
Board of Elections
David Johnson
York Township
G. C
Asid
York ‘Township
Thea Board of
Etec- Hons
Flains
Sehool
Flains Rural
Plains Rural
Ohto
Rome Township
Rome
A. Bardin
Albany Consolidated
Athen
Bald Albany Consolidated
Albany
Polly Tor
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Caras
Jimmie Miller
Mergy County
Broxbury
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United States
Petit Jury
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St. Clair
Stock Exchange
Marshall Lefferts
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Oscar Andrews
Reece Dinsmore
Sam Allen
George Kyle
Daisy Cavindish
Bily Schall
Lydia Rames
Beatrice
Zona Kyte
Gerald
Cora Nanni
John Smith
Donald Clutter
Orin Devere
Chilhcathe
Louisa Devere
Mary Knowlton
Nora Frank
Rhoda Kichead
Jasper Cox
Belle Doolittie
Carbondate
Eastern Star 1
Raymond Erwin
Clyde
F. J. Burt
Davidson
M. P
Cora Nanna
Jennie Wawk
Eva Wert
Mra Mina Gaker
Cadmins
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Henry Allison
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Uli
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Geirttitutia
Chtan Co
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State
General Assembly
Emergency Board
Public Welfare
State of
Ceneral Assembly
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OFIO
Secretary of State
I. Clarence, Brown
State of Ohio
89Th General Assembly
Jem Pi Y
Tala
Clarence J. Brown
McDougal
New Marshfield
Woxten
Chauncey-Dover
Chauncey- Dover
Walday
Athetts County
aiHotw
George Mace
Everett
Magonic Luc
Beverly
Floyd L. Bridge
Co. W. Waler
Frank Brewer
A. EB. Judy
Bret Wigal
Joseph Barron
Circe Runnell
Adrian Townsend
Atheny
Rome Mace
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