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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1928
Page
2
The Girls' Glee Club at Pomeroy High School directed by Miss Irene Blaettnar performs the musical comedy Miss Carruther's Return at the High School Auditorium on Friday night November 2. About 30 girls in the cast with specialty numbers including Japanese Maidens Tin Soldiers and Topsy and Eva.
A V Howell of the poster board system in this part of the state was rushed to Indianapolis for treatment after a serious illness while at French Lick. He is now at Bedford with Dr and Mrs W H McKnight receiving vigorous care for bladder inflammation and complications. His condition has limited the bridge celebration publicity committee and the steam boat race in which he plays a leading role.
Last night at Vale Street Mrs G A Hartley hosted a gathering for Past Chiefs of Pomeroy Loyal Lodge of Pythian Sisters. Attendees included Mrs D Maag Mrs Wit Phillips Mrs John Leitwiler Mrs John Hite Mrs Bernice Durst Mrs Boyd Dilgard Mrs Anthony Off Mrs Charles Price Mrs W Koester and Mrs C A Hartley. Refreshments followed for an enjoyable evening.
In Pomeroy on October 24 Mineral Lodge held special exercises during its regular session to honor Mr. Smith the financial secretary for 16 years. He recently resigned due to ill health. Members presented him with a fountain pen and a luncheon followed.
Mrs Mae Bye of Washington D C is here for a few weeks visiting sister Mrs R C Sansbury and other relatives and friends and enjoying the hospitality of Middleport community.
Walter Compton of Meigs County and Columbus-Charleston Highway Association led a convoy across the new Silver bridge over the Ohio River between Pomeroy and Mason City. The group from Athens Pt Pleasant Ripley Racine and others joined the ceremony signaling a decade of effort to complete the vital Ohio West Virginia link.
A large crowd gathered in Pomeroy for the inspection of the new bridge over the river. Kiwanis Club hosted an afternoon event and dinner at the Old Inn with S. L. Tone and William H. Fowler as honored guests. Officials announced plans for the November 12 governor visit and a related procession and salute with military escorts, a delegation from Athens, and the Ohio University Band.
The Auxiliary to the Feeney Bennet Post scheduled the annual Armistice Day dinner at 6 o clock at the Baptist Church. A program and orchestra music will follow the meal. The event has been well received in past years.
Miss Lucile Dutton crowned Miss Meigs at the Fall Festival last week has been invited to perform a special dance in the upcoming Minstrels by the N Y C Athletic Association. It is described as a new and beautiful piece.
Funeral services were held for Mrs. Frank Price of Portland who died suddenly at age 71. Cause believed to be heart failure. She is survived by her husband. Services were at Stiversville Church with burial in Bald Knobs Cemetery.
Jack Eiselstein, one year old and son of Mr and Mrs Gerald Eiselstein, fell from a second story Mulberry Avenue porch yesterday afternoon fracturing his skull. The child was taken to Holzer Hospital after a three year old brother opened the door and caused him to tumble two steps to the cement walk.
The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of Simpson M E Church met at Mrs. John Phillips’ home in Naylor’s Run. Devotions by Mrs. Fred Leiffeir, who plans a winter in Baltimore with her daughter. Officers installed include H. V. Carl president and Ebersbach vice president. Hostesses served refreshments.
Thornton is reported to have sold his downtown Middleport store and plans to move likely to his farm near Kananga. He also owns another store near Charleston. Gardner Reynolds will move into the Martha Bryant property when vacated by the Thorntons around November 1.
Miss Gladys Beard, nurse graduate from Holzer Hospital Gallipolis and Cincinnati General Hospital, arrived in Middleport October 24 and is being hosted by Mr and Mrs R W Russell. Friends say she plans to wed a Middleport man soon.
Mrs. Bull of Huntington visits sister Mrs. Frank Guinther for the week. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings Wayland resume light housekeeping in an apartment over the Under selling store with rail line marks. Ernest Hartinger family move from Dr W F Stansbury residence to Edward Fugate property on Brownell Avenue. Mrs. Guy Thomson of Columbus visits brother Dr E F Maag. Mrs. Jessie Johnston of Columbus visits her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Boice and her daughter Betty Sue.
In Pomeroy a Common Pleas hearing on K. B. Stevenson vs. E. B. Beegle was postponed indefinitely after the plaintiff requested delay following a railroad crossing accident Sunday in Chicago that killed his nephew, wife, and six year old daughter.
At convention Chauncey on October 24 the Churches of Christ sent Mrs. Lottie Cannon Greens Run Mrs. Carl Welling Taylor Ridge Mrs. George Hickman and Mrs. Gertrude Rainey Trimble and G B Courtney to represent their communities at the district meeting held at the First Church of Christ in Zanesville on Tuesday.
Virgil Thompson of The Plains returned from a few days in Columbus. Mrs. Fred Porter of Athens visited Chauncey Tuesday with her son Paul Porter. Donald Figgins of Columbus visited Chauncey this week. The Rev and Mrs V Ahlbrand conducted services at the county home chapel for inmates Sunday afternoon.
Chauncey Oct 24. Chauncey High School Assembly Room packed for the monthly P T A session. President Mrs Stella Cunningham presided as new members joined. County nurse Miss Viola Fell spoke on child welfare, with Louise Dew reading a piece.
Washington Oct 24 Fifty airports and landing fields are listed in Ohio in the latest Commerce Department compilation. The Pedérat report marks fields along airways such as Gerald Hartford and Huron as intermediate and notes six Ohio airports with rotating beacons and landing lights. Additional sites include Blue Ash Wat son field Bryan municipal Cincinnati Lunken Cleveland Columbus Norton Dayton Wilbur Wright and many others with commercial or auxiliary designations. A second list names 37 Ohio cities where airports are proposed, including Akron Ashland Cincinnati Columbus Dayton Elyria Findlay Lima Mansfield Marietta Middletown Newark Painesville Toledo Wellsville and Youngstown.
George C. Duncan and family move from Santoy to Murray City where Duncan becomes manager of a Sunday Creek Coal Company store. He previously managed a Sunday Creek store in Santoy and served as Santoy postmaster during mine operation.
In Oct 24 issue, the Loyal Women's Class plans a Friday night meeting at the Church of Christ. The event features a masquerade pot luck supper and officers seek strong attendance.
Fifty women from across Ohio attended an institute for group leaders in parental education at the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Museum in Columbus. The program was sponsored by Ohio State University and the Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers.
A Kansas City reader reports three months of severe itching and large red pimples that became hard and scaly. After trying various preparations she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment, declaring her skin fully healed after three products and several boxes.
Earl Johnston, a former Trimble resident, is in serious condition in a Covington Kentucky hospital after being admitted last Saturday for gall stones. He is the son of the late Mr and Mrs W H Johnston of Trimble and spent his childhood there.
Mrs Frank White also known as Bess Harper has recovered from a major operation in a Columbia hospital and left for her parents home in Glouster. She then traveled to her home near burgra where she had worked as a county nurse for years.
Mrs Neal Wyatt Kyle associate editor of The Somerset Press traveled to Glouster on Tuesday en route to Pisgah for an address at the Farmers Institute She focuses on home school and community issues and has spoken to religious civic educational and social groups.
GLOUSTER Oct. 24 Game Protector B T LeFever reports the arrest of Roy Curtis near Pomeroy on a charge of hunting without a license. He appeared before Justice Clyde White at Hemlock Grove and pled guilty, being fined $25 and costs. Deputy Game Protector Al Clark of Meigs County assisted in the arrest.
Mrs Her man Exenkamper hosted dinner guests in Jacksonville on Thursday. Attendees included Mrs Marie Hedfelt, Mrs Mary Welsch, Mrs William Exenkamper, Mrs A H Chute, Mrs John Witzie, and Mr and Mrs Marl Mandrell and family.
Much interest surrounds Chauncey PTA activities as large crowds attend meetings showing strong community engagement and support for school efforts this year.
Mrs. Harry Moore and sons Wendell and Melvin visited at G. W. Shafer near Athens. Mrs. John Shafer of Columbus stayed with her mother and sister, Mrs. Annie Waymer and Mrs. Ralph MacCathran. Clifford Gabriel and family visited Mrs. Gabriel's parents, A. M. Linscott, at Hooper Ridge. Russell McHarg and wife spent Sunday with her parents, W. E. Helrich, in Athens.
Police Captain Charles Maple announced that tramps choosing Athens for lodging must work on the streets to cover a night. Three men were found last night, two on the fairgrounds and one on a street, kept warm with canned heat. Residents complain of disturbances prompting police action to curb nuisance.
A class under Mrs. Pearl Henry plans a Masquerade Halloween party and pot luck supper tonight at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jackson their class and organization invite those wishing to join or attend.
Chauncey Schools sponsored the Lyceum course first number presented Tuesday evening in the High School Auditorium. Local talent performed before a gathered audience in Chauncey, Oct 24.
Myron I. Arms, president of the Aetna Standard Engineering and Foundry Company, said the plant destroyed by fire last night will be rebuilt after insurance adjustments are completed.
Preferring death by his own hand to hanging on the prison gallows, Leong Ying, a young Chinese ranch hand sentenced for the murder of 11 countrymen, killed himself in his Death Row cell at San Quentin Prison.
An ad touts KEEN Shaving Kreem as a premium product for men offering a thick lather that reduces razor drag, keeps skin cool and smooth for hours, and claims to contain ingredients of a woman's beauty cream. It invites readers to send 50 cents to Glessner Co. in Findlay, Ohio for purchase and guarantees a money back if not delighted.
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