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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
2
Pomeroy council asks for urgent surfacing of river bank parking lots ahead of October homecoming. Street Commissioner A H Ebersbach and the street committee to confer with FERA officials on using cinders if limestone is unavailable or costly. Council adjourned after routine business.
A list of Labor Day visitors to Mrs. 8 A Eblin and Mr. John Eblin of Union Avenue includes Peter Stace Billy Schneider Rose Hawkins Nora Stace Grace Stace Elmer Russell Nora Bell Pauline Stahl Elmer Schaefer and families from Millfield Naylors Run and Columbus areas. Also reported are travels to the Columbus races and visits to the World’s Fair in Chicago. June Dugard enters nursing training at Mt. Carmel Hospital. Bertha Rethel returns from Mt. Carmel observation. Gerald Reuter visits from Columbus. Starling Maniey returns home to Columbus. Long Bottom notes: school building updated and opened with staff listed.
A Logan family reunion gathered Sunday September 2 at the Naylora Run residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Reiber. Attendees included multiple Logans from Harrisonville Columbus Springfield Pomeroy Portland Alfred and Tupplers Plains along with spouses and children.
Mr and Mrs Frank Davis and daughter with Mr Spaun of Columbus visit friends here over Labor Day. Mrs W E Johnson of Kansas City visits her sister Mrs Elmer Ashworth and spends time with Mrs Bramlage of Athens. Several relatives from McRoberts settle travel and hospital training plans while others visit family in Columbus Elyria and nearby towns.
Harold Wiggins, former Pomeroy High School star, is hired as athletic director at Rootstown High School. He won three letters in basketball and football plus track at Pomeroy, graduated from Ohio State, and will also run the industrial arts department while his family resides in Ravenna near Rootstown.
Middleport brief notes list residents visiting relatives then returning home to McMechen West Virginia Cincinnati Georgia Florida Columbus Huntington and Canton. Several families and individuals including the Childs Powells Hawkins Anniel Fugate Bradford Michl Emmush Moore Young Gillfillin and others are mentioned with travel and hospitality at various local homes and cottages.
The Sunday Messenger extended the obituary of Richard H. Lee in New York City with memories from acquaintances. Lee, son of Leonidas H. Lee a pioneer Pomeroy resident and famed US marshal, studied at Pomeroy schools then Ohio Northern Law School and practiced in Cleveland before moving to New York. He led the American Advertising Association and the New York World legal staff and was a noted corporation law expert. He visited Pomeroy recently and was brother to the late Albert H. Lee, a noted local insurer.
A Columbus paper notes Col L Crary Davis of Meigs County as a candidate for the Lucas County court of common pleas. Davis, son of Mr and Mrs Will G Davis of Middleport, previously served as Meigs prosecuting attorney, later became first assistant to the Ohio Attorney General, and now practices in Toledo with the firm Marshall Marior Methorn and Martin while holding a colonel rank in the officers reserve corps.
The condition of Miss Neva Pryor grew grave leading to her transfer to St Josephs Hospital Parkersburg where she received a blood transfusion on Thursday. The blood was supplied by William Matlack.
Middleport notes include Mr. and Mrs. O. J. Marcum and daughters with Harold Krause family at Hawk's Nest W Va. Maggie Gordon returns to Columbus after two weeks. Several families from Brownell Ave and Circleville spend Labor Day visiting relatives. Burnside reunion in Winfield W Va. Jack Healy heads home to Chicago via Grove City. W. L. Hobart return for death in Lakewood. trips to Columbus Pomeroy and Delaware. Ranch near Delaware houses 26 000 head of cattle amid visitors’ reports.
Long Bottom reports the M E church packed for the funeral of Raymond Torrence with a strong show of esteem. Rev. O Connor and Rev. H A Sayre led services. flowers and crowd size marked the event.
Rocksprings residents welcomed relatives from Pittsburgh and Columbus over Labor Day weekend while Amelia Conant returned home from New Albany Indiana after a two week visit with her mother Lavina Jenkinson. Ralph Voss of New Albany joined Reed Jenkinson for a holiday visit.
Louis Piquett, alleged organizer of Dillinger operations, pleaded guilty to harboring and assisting bandit John Dillinger. Dr Wilhelm Loesser Kenter and Dr Harold Cassidy admitted performing plastic surgery on Dillinger. Prosecutors say Piquett arranged the operations.
The regular meeting occurred last evening at the Hall on Second Street. After the business session the mothers served refreshments.
State highway crews salvage an A-foot steel truss bridge knocked into Federal Creek by a speeding car on Route 230. Harold Brown says over 100 workers are involved in 40 miles of county roads while a new single span bridge will replace the damaged structure two miles east of Amesville. Traffic detours via Routes 30, 31 and 13.
William B. Eells an 85 year old civil engineer who planned and directed the 1878 T and C railroad construction in Ohio died at his Mt. Gilead home. Surviving relatives include sister Mrs. Ann Franchot of Washington DC an aunt of actor Franchot Tone.
New car sales in Athens County for August stayed on a similar pace to summer levels. The clerks office reported 100 new passenger cars and 18 new trucks registered, with 427 used car bills of sale bringing the total to 45. Hunting season activity appeared as 38 hunting licenses issued by Miss Burdette.
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