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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1920
Page
8
George Clifton Cliatham aged 24 a Rutland track laborer and Augusta Alice Taylor aged 16 of Middleport daughter of Mr and Mrs William Taylor were married by Justice Stephen Martin Thursday noon at the probate court rooms.
Union meeting of all Churches of Christ in Meigs county to be held at the Pomeroy church on Sunday next Sept 19 at 2 30 in the afternoon for the purpose of completing and perfecting the or
Organization of the county work began at Bradbury on August 31 and all members of the Churches of Christ are urged to attend the upcoming meeting.
The funeral services for O. G. Bentz who died in Akron will be held Sunday in Akron with interment in a local cemetery. He is a son of John Bentz of Bowman's Run.
Meigs county ex service men planning to attend the American Legion National Convention in Cleveland September 27 to 29 must notify Frank Will by Friday evening. Arrangements are being made for a special car from Hobson leaving Sunday the 25th.
The Meigs County Chapter of the American Red Cross has established a community nursing center at its Pomeroy headquarters over Reed's drug store with a graduate nurse in charge. The unit will handle school inspections infant welfare work and any emergency needs while seeking donated or loaned equipment and linen to outfit a clinic room.
State aid farmers institutes will be held at Rocksprings November 8 and 9, Chester November 17 and 18, Rutland November 17 and 18, and Long Bottom November 19 and 20. Lectures cover production problems and farm management.
The article links apple marketing talks, farm bureau support, and farmer institute funding cuts in Ohio. It reports court actions with sentences and fees from Rutland's Rat Row, including a guilty plea over potatoes and a rough breach of peace case. An election board official is ordered to Columbus by the Secretary of State.
Frank Leifheit and Oliver Brandbury lease 2000 acres to Pomeroy and Hocking Coal Company a new entity capitalized at 25000 with plans to extend the Middleport and Northeastern railroad to the site. A 18000 ton daily tipple and a forty car switch will be built as work starts immediately as a subsidiary of Essex Min company.
Auditor W S Hart received final papers from the state highway department and called a county commission meeting to authorize bids for grading and drainage on the Pom eroy Athens road. If funds are on hand, bids will be sought and work could start next month, with grading and drainage the intended fall let.
Justice court scene recalls old police court days as May Hager sues Thomas McGlothlin for entering a garden and taking Irish spuds. Lathem Bass owned the garden and sold produce to the Hagers for 15 dollars in total value. McGlothlin claimed possession after Bass left, was held to next grand jury in 100 dollar bail, then led toward jail as his case unfolds.
Smith alerts W L Stivers clerk of the Meigs county board of deputy state supervisors of elections and Prosecuting Attorney H Peoples to attend his Columbus office Monday. The clerk must bring board minutes from the recount decision on Republican sheriff ballots from the August primary. The secretary of state will hear petitioners from both sides at that hearing.
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