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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1935
Page
3
The Middleport Fall Festival will run the week of September 23 under the Amer War Bennett Post. Arrangements were completed with attractions and amusements supplied by the committee led by William Stieff as chairman. Members and various committees cooperate to ensure a week of festivities.
Miss Helen Earl and Lewis visit Pittsburgh relatives. Colum bus guests include Mrs John Russell and Huddleston family. Mr Homer Galbroner ill. Sidney Pickens hosts. Edgar Ervin returns to Columbus. Marriage licenses issued for Melvin Wilson and Katherine George. Cam eron area residents visit grandparents and attend local activities.
POMEROY organizers prepare for the Home-Coming with sub committees active tickets for the grand prize on sale Mrs Benton Penn leads ticket distribution A musical program is tentatively set for Sept 30 The plan reflects ongoing staging efforts in the community MIDDLEPORT birth announced for Don Gary son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Allensworth grandson to Art Hees and H E Allensworth
Funeral services for Edward Spooner were held this afternoon at the South Fifth Avenue residence with Rev. F C Kreager of the Baptist Church officiating. Burial followed at Middleport Hill Cemetery.
A fragment lists various orchestras and conductors including Wayne King, Romberg, Busse, Malone, Dorsey, Warnow, and Kvale. It references open road tours, Home Hour broadcasts, piano duos, and dance music acts with multiple titled ensembles and a general schedule note to be announced.
The Racine Methodist Church group hosted its sixty fourth annual meeting with Mrs. Gomer Lewis and others presiding. Officers for 1935-1936 were named: President Gomer Lewis, Vice President D E Moffit, Secretary Jliden, Corresponding Secretary Gibbie Dusker, Treasurer Fred Philson. Installation is planned for October.
Mrs. Lillian Chase Morris died in Wray Colorado on Sept 6. She taught in Meigs County in the 1870s and later in West Virginia before moving about 0 years ago to Colorado. Survived by husband Charles Morris six sons and three daughters with spouses in the west and in St Albans West Virginia and Charleston. Sister Mrs J Bradfield of Harrisonville and sister Mrs James A Martin of Fairmont Nebraska survive, along with numerous relatives in Ohio West Virginia and Colorado.
Homer Nibert was remanded to the grand jury on $200 bond by Judge A. J. Stormont after entering a not guilty plea to possession of illicit liquor. S. F. Neal of Springfield Township was fined $10 and costs for intoxication and disorderly conduct.
A special Middleport Board of Education session led by president J. C. Fisher discussed a new school building project. The plan will be submitted to the Federal Government after the Central School Building is condemned for future use.
The seventy seventh Meigs County Fair opened at Rock Springs fair grounds with bustle and expected activity. Workmen set up concessions and exhibits, carnival attractions lie on CCC grounds, and the conservation camp cooperates to make the 1935 event a success. An exhibit by J. H. Benjamin compares land worked by CCC with land not touched.
Cecilia Marsh visits at Mrs Lena Huber home on Union Avenue while Miss Katherine Huber vacationing from Holzer Hospital Gallipolis stays with her mother. Lincoln Hill residents Mr and Mrs George McQuigg and Mr and Mrs Patrick Lochary plan an eastern trip with a two day stop at Virginia Beach.
Municipal Judge William Duffy bound Joseph J. Meluch, 37, over to the grand jury after arraignment on a first degree murder charge in the alleged killing of his wife of seven weeks on August 14 in Lorain.
Gallipolis city commissioners discussed finances and will review delinquent street assessments sales tax revenues and a water bill owed by the city school board as ordered by the state A new ordinance was approved to vacate an unused alley on Eastern Avenue at Creuzer Vance present property The WPA extension project for the water system was outlined with costs split between the city and the WPA and workables for Net may shift after November The Wemeldorf Thomas Hardware leader Mrs Ethel Young plans to leave for Battle Creek and Holzer Hospital nurses
At Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis constable J H Shato was admitted Monday for medical treatment with fair condition at midnight after two days of nosebleed. Fred Gilmore of Middleport entered for treatment after a lumber plank slipped from George N Tillis injuring two fingers and a large toe. Tillis lives in Pt Pleasant W Va and sought treatment here. Co O Lancaster of Plackfork and Mrs Lewis Persinger were admitted for surgery.
Gallipolis reports four marriage licenses issued in a recent batch. The couples are James F. Hunt a 22 year old Columbus laborer with Mary Ramey 21 of Hilliards Ohio. Marcus F. Daniels 36 farmer of Gallipolis Rt. 1 with Flossie Donnally 33 of Crown City. Harland Perry 24 carpenter miner with Waveline Mace 21 of Cheshire. George Tope government employee of Gallipolis with Edna Mae Magly 21 of Lima.
Gallia County 4-H teams reach top ranks with a Health Club girls team led by Margaret Jones earning an A plus it places Gallia among state leaders. Dairy team Melvin Gatewood Jr Robert Gatewood and Kenneth Johnson scored 1 122 of 1 800 with state winners at 1337. James Venz and Virginia Fulton also earn top healthiest honors. Leaders named to attend the Columbus conference include Mrs. Ernest Blazer and Luther Reese with members Minnie Miller Daryl Halley.
Judge W. St. White grants Bata Eyre divorce from Alwin Kyre on grounds of extreme cruelty. Eyre is restored to her maiden name Esta Minor.
Gallia county officials announce details of the new AAA wheat program to run four years starting 1938. Signers establishing base production and acreage may join. adjusted acreage used for pasture hay timber shelter belts erosion control soil improvement and summer fallow. Violation can terminate contract and require repayment of previous year payments. John E Halliday sues W Harry Howell and Elizabeth Roster for 181.10. Howell’s furniture store on Court Street recently transferred to Elizabeth Boater. trustee relief sought for creditors.
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