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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1920
Page
8
Hattie Kendricks aged 24 and Eva Ruschel aged 19, both of Ideroy, took out licenses and were married Saturday at the probate court rooms by Justice Stephen Martin.
The Meigs county Board of Election, which paused the sheriff vote recount Monday, met and adjourned until one o clock Tuesday afternoon.
Marion Swyers suffered a painful injury to his left foot while at work in the Forrest Run mine. The incident occurred as part of the frame of a cutting operation.
A worker suffered a foot injury when a machine jammed and cut through his shoe. He requires crutches to move around while he recovers.
The 27th annual Meigs County Sunday School Association convention met at Pomeroy Simpson Methodist church with Rev. Barnhart of Portsmouth and I. B. Richmond of Dayton as main speakers. Officers were elected including T. W. Karr as president and Louise Ebersbach as elementary secretary. The group adopted eight resolutions urging Bible teaching, teacher training, local conventions, county grouping under the State Association, and publishing the resolutions. The next meeting is planned for Rutland in fall.
Numerous residents and visitors from Pomeroy Racine Columbus and nearby towns gathered over Labor Day weekend. The Meigs county Fair opens today with locals traveling for family visits and community events.
Police Justice Fish processed motorists led before him for driving onto Pomeroy sidewalks. George Collins Rock Springs William Wolf Texas Clinton Fisher Middleport Milard Quivey Albert King Fred Swatzel Pomeroy each paid a $1 minimum fine plus costs, totaling $5.30. Most offenders claimed ignorance of the rule, with one driver saying he followed the car ahead. Continued on page four.
The presbytery recounts New Era and New Fra efforts from 1898 to 1901 and notes pledges, including $8,798 raised in 1901, toward Home and Foreign Missions, Education, Sunday School, and other benevolences. Totals for the past half century reach 1,371,245 across multiple funds, with emphasis on continued prayer, labor, and generosity.
The Presbytery shows 1813 communicants in 1871 rising to 3746 in 1920 with a fifty year average of 2903 and gifts per member averaging 472 dollars total and 9.44 dollars per member per year. It notes emigration floods epidemics and Spanish influenza as handicaps, and pike building wealth and endowments like the McClurkin Fund as helps. Synod meetings at Athens in 1878 and 1919 are cited as encouragements.
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