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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1919
Page
10
A notice seeks a carrier boy for the Athens Daily Messenger at Pomeroy Bend Branch. The route is light and doable in under an hour and a half after school. Applicants must provide a small bond and strong references. See L. H. R. Foulk at 364 Main Street. Dated 9 17 83.
An attractive program for the Meigs County Sunday School Convention to be held in Racine next week has been prepared and distributed. Delegates from Sabbath schools across the county will attend in large numbers as workshops and talks by county and state workers L. B. Edgar and Herbert Mayer are expected to boost Sunday school work. The convention runs Thursday afternoon September 25 through September 26 with sessions each evening at the M. E. church Racine.
The Upper Essex Mining Co. property was sold Monday to Burns, Francis and ex congressman Bernab of Martins Ferry, Ohio, and Mrs. Jones of Steubenville for 250000. Possession to follow after arrangements. Supt. Robinson, in charge for six months, will return to Pittsburgh next week.
William J. Mc Donald, once employed on the Racine government dam, is alleged to hold more wives than allowed. He wed Eva Roush of Ravine on August 13, and a prior marriage to his first wife, whose residence is in gport, was shown by a Parkersburg certificate dated July 22, 1912. The union produced two children, Jane born April 21, 1913 and Elizabeth born November, while the first wife, Reeronsia Anna Ator, claims prior service in Pershing's A E F.
Mrs. McDonald reports her husband, last seen at Huntington Dam 27, left two weeks ago for Millwood West Virginia to work on a dam. She, reading of his latest marriage in papers, vows to continue the search and recover what is coming to him.
Kautz son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kautz married Ina Stobart daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W W Stobart at the Lutheran parsonage in Pomeroy on Wednesday officiated by Rev. Hunziker.
The Pomeroy Democrat demands disclosure of how Meigs county War Chest funds were spent. It cites a clipping from Antiquity Ohio and asks the War Chest administration to show disposition of contributor money and inform citizens.
D F McNaughton hosted a family reunion at the old Wolfpen residence last Sunday the first gathering in fourteen years. Attendees included son Charles and grandson Daniel Helen and daughters Mrs M P Hope and family of Point Pleasant Mrs E H Morris and family Mrs M Vining and husband who reside with their father. Music and a fine dinner followed a group photo of the entire clan.
Mayors from local municipalities and chairmen of township boards met to organize a District Advising Council. Mayor Gardner of Rutland was elected president and Charles Yost of Syracuse secretary. Dr. Shaffer of the State Board of Health explained the new law dividing the state into districts, with Meigs County forming one.
The board nominates two physicians a farmer and a lawyer with a fifth member from another calling A health commissioner a public health nurse a full time clerk and deputies are funded by state county and local funds The commissioner must be a physician of high standing and may not practice another calling A budget of 11200 for state aid plus 13200 annual district expenses is certified for the first year A teachers extension class begins next Tuesday and local residents take short trips or return home after summer visits
Mr. Charles Hecker came from Holzier hospital Gallipolis and yesterday much improved. Hecker accompanied home by Mrs Jones and Dr T Jesse Jones and daughters Gwendolen and Car. Continued on Page Four.
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