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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1935
Page
7
The 1934 Homecoming will feature gifts worth dollars in merchandise for the week of September 29 to October 5. Pomeroy merchants contribute a variety of goods and services, including hats, groceries, dental care, and oil changes, with prizes awarded to attendees.
Pomeroy stores offer extensive first class merchandise during Home-Coming Week from Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 as L. D. McMaster urges residents within fifty miles to visit. He notes low prices justify a shopping tour and staying for the evening. The item mentions Newfoundland fishing industry with a separate estimate of workers.
Pomeroy Home Coming committee offers 15 dollars in prizes for best slogans. First prize 8 dollars, then 5 1 1 1 1 1 prizes. Entries must be mailed to Home-Coming Slogan Judges by Sept 30. Open to all except committee members with rules on word limit and full business list.
Pomeroy residents nicknamed the Homecoming the Frankenstein Show after the wall funding the lower riverbank parking lot collapsed weeks later. Firemen had urged the event to raise funds, yielding over six hundred dollars before the wall’s destruction and river debris. Pomeroyans want a WPA rebuild for a secure wall.
New amplification equipment recently released to the market has been bought for the Pomeroy Home Coming event. An outdoor moisture resistant microphone was also secured for use outside.
Community Night for Pomeroy residents and former locals is planned for Sunday September 29 at 7 30 PM at the Junior High School. The event led by Mrs C E W Downie unites workers from several churches with community singing a worship period for children and a peace pageant finale by local church children.
Residents of Athens Nelsonville Logan and other Hocking Valley communities are invited to attend the Pomeroy Homecoming opening next Monday. The festival runs Sept 30 to Oct 5 with carnival attractions free acts music shows prizes and a loudspeaker system. Amateur Night is Oct 3 with prizes for top acts.
During Home Coming Week from Monday through Saturday the Howard Brothers Show will be in Pomeroy offering rides shows and carnival attractions. The event returns after last year and will occupy East Main Street and the parking lot with Main Street closed to traffic and detours in place.
The suggestion proposes moving the first week of October to establish an annual Pomeroy Home Coming date. A permanent schedule would prevent conflicts with events in other communities and provide consistency for organizers and attendees.
A Southeastern Ohio and West Virginia region focused editorial invites all locals to the Pomeroy Home-Coming. It emphasizes shared coal and agricultural life, welcoming strangers and neighbors to join the celebration and enjoy fellowship during the event. The Home-Coming Committee signs the appeal.
No admission charged for the Pomeroy Home Coming making attendance impossible to count. The article notes a historic shift in classification from vegetables to animals describing bacteria as animala.
The article advises buttering fruit tea and coffee stains before washing in hot water with soap to remove them. It also notes that “acid mouth” appears less in excitable individuals than in calmer persons.
Mrs Mary Dew assumed Hollister P T A presidency at the opening meeting in the school auditorium. Committees were named for Finance Hospitality Membership Publicity and more. A membership drive is set before the next meeting. Attendance prize went to the seventh grade.
Mrs Rob ert Wilson Jr and infant son have returned from Shawnee visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Giles McCarty. The high school banquet was attended by Mr Potts and Jack Jones and Jack Bronn in Columbus. Several locals travel to Columbus for Ohio M F Conference and jury duty in New Lexington. Baseball game on Legion field tied Shawnee and New Straitsville.
Cheshire W. W. met at the home of Mrs. Clara Ward Friday with new president Lloyd Roush in charge. Readings and a season prayer followed by a social hour and refreshments. Next meeting slated for Miss Thelma Roush on Addison Road.
The broadcasting room of the loud speaker system will be located at the Eagles Club this year. Passes will be issued to designated broadcasters only and no others will be admitted.
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