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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1929
Page
2
Dr E E Paddock of Kansas City promotes medicinal therapy for gallbladder and liver stones to avoid surgery. He claims surgery should be emergency only and offers a free booklet The Liver and Gall Bladder detailing his experience, symptoms, and when to seek treatment. Clip and mail coupon today for the booklet.
George Gano, wanted on auto theft charges in Marietta, fled through a pine thicket during a midnight chase by Sheriff Willock and deputies. He was tracked from Linscott’s home to an abandoned church, caught at a barbed wire fence, and jailed in Pomeroy before transfer to Marietta. He admits multiple prior charges and uses several aliases.
At a county commissioners meeting in Pomeroy the heater for the jail furnace was let to Chauncey Shumaker, a local plumber, for 497.87 dollars. George Childs of Middleport was the other bidder at 549 dollars. The coal contract for jail and courthouse went to Shay and Howell of Thomas Fork at 2.72 dollars per ton delivered for 1929 and 1930.
Roy McCullough a 16 year old from Long Bottom was shot in the left shoulder while hunting on his uncle H H Hemsley’s farm in Meigs County. He walked a mile and a half home after the accident and received stitches to torn muscles. Authorities note a week of hunting accidents in the county with similar triggers as two armed hunters tripped and the guns discharged.
Fragments show Fariey Wells Akron and several relatives from Cleveland Columbus and Detroit traveled to Middleport for Miss Berta Wells funeral. Local society notes mention Dorcas Society Christmas bazaar planned for December 7 at H M Cross music store with Dorcas activities and travel of families to Columbus and Cincinnati.
Mrs Jennie C White, widow from southern Athens County, currently visiting her son Fred White, bus driver between Pomeroy and Columbus. She recounts a year on a Wyoming ranch with hair-raising plains adventures and rough frontier life, noting a preference to settle where people are less boisterous. She has seen the real Wild West as it exists today.
Pomeroy boys show a makeshift whirligig by pinning paper to a clothes pin cap bill so it flutters as they ride bicycles. The stunt lets them steer with one hand while the other remains free.
Arthur Sayre of Ravenswood was shot in the shoulder by Mrs. James Kidder after allegedly failing to leave his garden adjoining hers. Two shots were fired with a shotgun and buckshot struck Sayre. Kidder faced a preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury. She awaits grand jury action in jail after being sent to Ripley.
Middleport High School Yellow Jackets crushed Mercerville High School 32 to 0 in the season opener at Middleport Friday afternoon. Five touchdowns powered the win with Lampert scoring twice and Allensworth Darst and Wiseman adding scores. Phode kicked two extra points as the band performed before and at halftime.
Four local youths left Pomeroy Sunday for Ohio University Athens to enter college. Miss Fredona Gleasen of Pomeroy married Robert Vincent Ferguson in Charleston and is on a wedding trip. Maria Cunningham 60 died in Hartford W Va leaving a husband and large family. Dr I E Jones Toledo nephew of Mrs Byron Bing critically ill cerebral hemorrhage. Mrs Bing travels to Gallipolis. A Wood couple visit Oregon. a Chester child needs appendicitis surgery at Holzer Hospital. J H Karr of Bliss College Columbus visits his mother.
W C Culkins secretary of the Ohio River Improvement Association has secured copies of The Story of the Royal Apple from the Messenger. He plans to use material from it for a forthcoming Ohio Valley book tied to the lock and dam system celebration. Much Bend information will be drawn from the story.
John G Lonsdale, president of the Mercantile Commerce Bank and Trust Company of St. Louis, was named the new president of the American Bankers Association at the annual convention in San Francisco. Orphaned at age six after his parents died in the Memphis yellow fever outbreak of 1878.
Six year old Margaret Quick, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Quick, stepped from a parked car near the Post Office and was struck by a passing sedan driven by Walter Holter. Witnesses say Holter was not to blame. The child was rushed to Holter Hospital with critical injuries to the head and chest.
Justice R G Webster received a certificate allowing him to act as a real estate broker in the state. He joins two others, J B Downing of Middleport and Marion Franch of Pomeroy, as licensed brokers in the area.
Mrs Charlotte White aged 66 wife of former congressman George White died in Atlantic City New Jersey from asthma and will be buried in Marietta. She was daughter of the late David McKelvey former Standard Oil director.
The degree staff of the Pythian Sisters travels to Logan for initiatory work and a fancy drill at the Grand Lodge session. Grand Chief Grace Downing joins the group, with many Past Chiefs expected to attend the two day event.
Middleport residents report the Sophomore Class at the high school elected Karl Kearn as president, Miss Jean McMaster as vice president, and Paul Cunningham as secretary-treasurer at a recent meeting.
Mrs Zieher and Mrs John Kent entertained with a miscellaneous shower for Mrs Theodore Wilson of Columbus who is visiting her mother Mrs H E Thomas in Lincoln Street. The event surprised the bride who will be wed September 5. Gifts were displayed with a miniature bride and groom and two bridge tables tested guests. Rodney Downing won high score and Dahlia Pauley placed second. The bride departed Sunday for Columbus. the Wilsons are already housekeeping.
Canton Ohio September 23 W I Ringgenburg announces Clarence E Aurand as district deputy state councilor for the 20th Ohio District covering Athens Hocking Perry and Vinton Counties The campaign runs October 1 to December 31 aiming to add 5000 members in honor of J G A Richter Canton who died after serving as Ohio council secretary for 33 years Senator W A Clark of Urbana is state secretary
Steubenville marks its opening of the new Pike with the deaths of Deputy Sheriff Edward Shoemaker 42 and Patrolman Pat Costello 36 both of Weirton West Virginia. Their car plunged over a 50 foot embankment where guard rails were absent.
Bridgeport Sept 23 A G Brannum 77 former sergeant at arms of the Ohio Senate and former postmaster here is dead after a long illness Funeral services will be held Wednesday.
In Cleveland, a cream colored car linked to the strike leaders was sought after a mob of more than 20 attacked nine drivers from the Scott Transportation Company. Two drivers were injured. attackers fled as police and detectives arrived. Freight trucks between Cleveland, Buffalo and Erie were halted and ignition systems destroyed.
The Ruth family met at Coolville Campground for the second annual reunion. Leslie Ruth of Joppa was elected president and Mrs. Car Ruth Herdman of Athens as treasurer. J. F. Bailey and Leslie Ruth spoke, a noon dinner was served, and many relatives attended from Joppa, Belpre, Lone Cedar, Huntington, Gallipolis, Parkersburg, and nearby towns.
Mrs Sarah Shields Mitchell 77, formerly of Athens and Tuppers Plains, died at her daughter’s home in Eustis Florida after a stroke.Survived by husband Israel, sister Mrs Martha Henry, five sons Ed ide Cert Nile Eldo Eli do and one daughter Mrs Jason Smith. Funeral arrangements include arrival in Athens at 2 35 Tuesday morning and services in Tuppers Plains at 3 PM.
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