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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1937
Page
3
Meigs County faces a tense election as candidates for township and county school boards clash over district reorganization and four two year terms. In Pomroy and Middleport village races heat up over a proposed municipal building bond and a three mill levy awaits a decision.
J F Cordrey federal site inspector in Middleport reviews bids for the new post office. Bids that fail government specs will be discarded as a 100 foot building cannot fit on an 80 foot deep site. Two bids meet specs from J H Williams and Dr M D Hartinger on Second Ave and the Central School Lot.
Surveyors worked this week on a Second Street property selected as the site for a new post office in Pomeroy. The Ebersbachs own the three story apartment building to be removed before construction can start.
Two bottles of the deadly elixir sulfanilamide were found in Pomeroy as a nationwide search continues. The unnamed purchaser shipped the bottles back to the Tennessee firm that distributed the medicine, after local attention was drawn by recent newspaper reports.
Funeral services for Mrs. Helen McBride Foltz 39 who died in Columbus Tuesday night were held Friday at the Syracuse Methodist Church with burial in Carleton Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, her parents Mr. and Mrs. William McBride, two brothers Pearl and Russell of Syracuse, and two sisters Mrs. Ruth Cundiff of Canton and Mrs. Adeline Wood of Rio Grande.
Local residents and visitors are listed with trips to Pomeroy and surrounding areas. Notables include the Porter family, Nora McClain, Kate Rowley, Clyde Watson, Eddie Blake, and Ray Crumbly visiting relatives. Also noted are church missions, bake sales, club entertainments, a birth, and a PTA masked party with refreshments and prizes.
Firefighters from Pomeroy extinguished a Thursday night blaze at the Neiman Iron and Equipment Co on West Main Street before it could spread. The frame structure suffered no damage beyond smoke and heat exposure, and the cause remains undetermined.
Mr. and Mrs. Kit Cowdery and Miss Minerva Pryor hosted Pomeroy guests at the Cowdery house in Reedsville on Thursday night. The evening featured games and contests and ended with a midnight supper. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Heaton and Ray Gibbs plus Virginia Brown Herman Beards and several others.
After a Better Business and Civic Committees report the Junior Chamber of Commerce voted in secret ballot to back a $40,000 bond issue to be voted on Tuesday. Other committee reports were heard and a park plan for the Central School site may be next. An invitation to the Ohio JCC meeting at Sulphur Lick Hotel November 6–7 was read and the group adjourned to November’s third Tuesday.
Completion of the Ohio Power Co. building on Mulberry Ave is expected by the end of next month. Builders have rushed the concrete and brick structure with day and night work under flood lights. Exterior work is nearly finished. walls are up and the roof is being put on. The building will be the first completely electric edifice in the city.
In Florida, Hardy Lt Bouree failed to contact the sheriff by phone for a full day while involved in a shooting case. He then drove into Kissimmee and surrendered to authorities, ending the pursuit.
A Athens farmer described constant dull pains and dizzy spells that worsened, threatening his ability to work. He credited Vendol with providing real relief.
A rural Athens farmer Mr Grove Love credits Vendol with ending pain from rheumatic like aches after constipation relief. He reports improved sleep and return to work, claiming similar benefits for gassy stomach dizzy spells and headaches. Athens Pharmacy offers Vendor with Nelsonville Hickmans Pharmacy also selling it.
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