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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1930
Page
5
A Sigma Sigma Sigma annual dance Saturday night drew 64 attendees. Edith Anon led the grand march with Everett Leadbetter. leather seal favors were given by Betty Brooks Griswold, who also performed a solo.
Miss Katherine Figg visits Columbus for business. Pocahontas Lodge Tepee of Rippling Water Council No. 131 to hold a meeting Wednesday evening at 7 30 in Red Men's Hall.
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland reports gradual improvement across industry and finance. Credit is easier and building activity in early March reached the best level in over a year, with contracts up sharply from February and March 1929. Steel and auto output dipped in early March, while retail and wholesale trade lagged. Coal and cement production fell amid warm weather, and shoe factories in the south were down about 20 percent from last year. Agricultural areas show promise as winter wheat stands well and spring work progresses earlier. Overall activity remains below early 1929 levels, but some gains show since year start.
Nineteen girls from seven sororities will vie for the Junior Prom Queen at Ohio University Friday night. Six entrants come from sororities selling 20 tickets and five from groups selling ten tickets. A student-alumni judging panel will select the queen, with dean and faculty members in the receiving line and fraternities and independent groups set to host booths around the dance floor.
Urge Branch Libraries note Mrs. E T Rose a blind patron returns tonight after winter in New York City with her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Phillips Rose. The item mentions social visits by Emma Waterman Eva Simms of Pomeroy and a Higley Study Circle meeting set for Wednesday at 2 in Chamber of Commerce rooms. Mr and Mrs Earl Frost visited Pomeroy Sunday.
Mrs. Jess Henry hosted at 20 Walker Street with brief reports on women after roll call. Mrs. Ifred Stauffer read humor. Mrs. Mary Fryburger sang in German. Mrs. Henry read two articles. Mrs. Bennett spoke on a East travel trip. Mrs. A N Johnson, now in Parkersburg hospital after surgery, is slowly improving. Next meeting set with Mrs. John Roach on April 25. guest Mrs. May Kline of New York attended.
Mr and Mrs John D Gist and daughter Jean return from six weeks in Florida with Miami as their objective They toured East and West coast resorts in St Augustine and Sarasota joined by Dr and Mrs C B Parker now en route to Gallipolis Also Mr John H Dana of Loudonville motor to Athens to visit relatives Jolly Sewers Club set to meet Wednesday at 2 30 PM with Mrs Sam C Warren 11 East Washington Street
Miss Laura Gift hosted a small birthday gathering at her Albany Road home in Hebbardsville on Saturday night assisted by sisters Adena and Mary Gift. Remembrances were exchanged and guests enjoyed games music ice cream and cake. Attendees included Lena Hoisington Alice Lax Pauline Riley Mabel McKnight Grace Warren Margaret Hoisington Hazel McKnight Elizabeth Riley Pauline McKnight William Hooper Elmer Mills Jack Lax Charles Carsey Clarence McKnight Raymond Hooper Arlo Gift and Mr and Mrs Plummer Lax Harry Fitch Worley Huston Esta Wagner rounded out the invitees.
Brooklyn Robins halted in Jacksonville on April 1 on the way to meet Rube Marquard and his snappy Jacksonville Southeastern League Club.
Washington April 1 The Census Bureau readies a 39 day census campaign starting tomorrow with 100000 enumerators visiting 100000 homes and offices to gather facts on population living patterns employment rent ownership and radio ownership. The drive covers six million farms and three million business establishments for data on living conditions agriculture and commerce.
Betty Gannetti and Zorki Yoki were convicted of spreading criminal syndicalism in Martins Ferry and await sentencing by Judge George O. Canaga. Bond set at $1,000 each. a new trial motion will be filed Saturday.
Marietta observer L H Scott announces a newly purchased glider now tested and ready for flights from Scotty’s aviation field East End. A public meeting at Elks Club on Front Street Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. will feature Scotty Elmer Bennett and others to discuss the glider that needs no motive power and can be towed by motorcycle car or airplane.
Frau Costa Wagner widow of composer Richard Wagner and daughter of Franz Liszt died in Beuryth at age 93. The passing marks a notable end of a lineage tied to two famed European musicians and ends a long life in Beuryth.
The article asserts Marmola tablets cure obesity by a gland factor and warns against starvation. It claims 22 years of use with millions of boxes sold and that late excess fat is vanishing as people follow Marmola's method. Drastically priced at $1 per box, druggists supply Marmola.
After four years of illness Tittie Trenva of Lankin ND says she could not clean or work, then took three bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s VegeTable Compound and felt much better, offering the letter as a testimonial for others to read.
New York report says Capt. Lewis A. Yancey and two companions launched from College Point on a nonstop flight to Bermuda in a Stinson monoplane covering about 746 miles. Navigator Yancey, with pilot William H. Alexander and copilot Zeb Bouck, aim to complete the first Bermuda air crossing amid a $25,000 Bermuda Development Board prize.
CLEVELAND April 1 UPS Paul Markham and his wife Ruth who had been sleeping in the prison ward of City Hospital since last Thursday regained consciousness yesterday. Detective Seret Willian Kitager ald reported they had taken a large quantity of drugs in an attempted death by own action.
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