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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1939
Page
6
Gallia County WPA offices report no official word on staff cuts by Saturday but expect a 20 percent reduction under a federal order. Smaller projects like records copying maps and graves registration may end first while major works such as road repair and a women sewing unit likely continue. Indigent school lunch programs may be cut as spring ends sessions.
Gallia County farmers and stockmen will receive three car loads of bred Hereford heifers about 120 head. F C Christ coordinating the project and a purchaser committee will travel to Kansas City on April 15 to select stock, with another similar order likely after arrival and inspection at the local stockyard.
Gallipolis reports E. E. Higgins, superintendent of schools, announced that at the start of the next school year all teachers and employes must present health certificates from a reputable physician. The measure is stated to protect students and staff and is a health initiative.
State officers report no arrests in Gallia County for attempting to use obsolete automobile license plates after the deadline. This follows the monthly turn of the month enforcement.
Knights Templar in Gallipolis arrange Easter Sunday events with Rose Commandery members meeting at the Masonic Temple at 10 a.m. in full uniform. A parade proceeds along Second Street to Grace Methodist Church for the Easter sermon by Rev. W S Westerman, then returns via Cedar Third Court and Second back to the temple.
Gallipolis announces formal opening of the citys new swimming pool on school property Friday night June 6. Board of Education will control the pool with Supt E E Higgins as supervisory officer Principal Carl C Byers as manager and financial officer and Coach Garland Griffith as swimming instructor and life saving head. The dedication includes a pageant and water show with Chamber of Commerce and WPA officials participating. The pool area will feature electric lighting and amplifiers for program addresses.
Local Republican leaders and a partisan committee weigh delaying appointments for state liquor store posts. Democratic Store Manager Gomer Phillips plans to step down after a successor is named, Roy D. Rothgeb to take over as store cashier, with Maurice Grover slated to replace Rothgeb if committee recommendations are approved.
Rev. Thomas Taylor will preach nightly sermons at 7 p m during Holy Week on the Rodney Methodist Circuit with services tonight at Cora Tuesday at Alexander Wednesday at Centenary Thursday at Fairfield and Friday at Rodney.
Large attendance at union services of Episcopal and Presbyterian congregations in Saint Peter's Church. Palm Sunday sermon delivered by Rev. L. W. Gishler, Presbyterian pastor.
Saturday night raid on four gasoline service stations in Gallia resulted in the arrest of three persons and seizure of four coin slot machines. Officers Shato and Lawrence found two machines at Herbert Smith's Kanauga location and one each at Ed Sibley’s Chickamauga Park station and Stanley Ward’s station on Route 35. Machines stored at Officer Shato’s home. Kanauga restaurant searched but yielded no machines. The accused face a magistrate’s hearing today. Affidavits signed by Harry S. Junior of Cleveland reportedly supported the raid. his exact identity to the magistrate and bailiffs is unclear.
Gallipolis scouts welcomed Frank Vance's offer of 93 acres of woodland adjoining the city for a camp site. A log cabin built this year is on the tract, with several tenant houses usable by the Boy Scouts. If title transfer occurs the new camp will be named Vance Park.
Rush of late comers to buy auto license tags continued in Gallipolis this morning and through the day as WPA workers missed paychecks before Friday’s deadline. Many tried to purchase Sunday but were refused due to Palm Sunday observance.
Gallipolis Florence Nuckles Fulton second wife of Stanley Earl Fulton will remain in the county jail for more than three weeks to complete a $50 and costs sentence on an intoxication charge. She refuses to comment on indictments against her husband for murder and bigamy, saying she knows nothing about either case.
Mrs Margaret McCormick reports sixteen suits filed in March at the Clerk of Courts office for Gallipolis including six for divorce the fewest in months. A senior class play will be presented at Vinton Town Hall Saturday night with all class members participating.
Large turnout expected as the local Elks initiate newly elected officers tonight followed by a social hour in the club rooms. James Northup 11, son of Mr and Mrs Herman Northup of Green Township, remains in Holzer Hospital after ruptured appendix surgery with fair condition reported. Mrs Charles Ingels, widow of a native Gallia Countian, dies in Washington D C. their daughter Nelle Ingels, a practicing attorney, resides in the capital.
Alfred Davis of Gallipolis appointed administrator of the estate of his wife Anna Cheney Davis. The brown trout was brought to the United States from Germany.
In Gallipolis farms the April Easter spirit finds boys and girls under 16 concealing eggs for weekend celebrations. Egg rollings and egg fights remain long established youth customs as spring arrives.
City Manager John Gwinn reports a state plan change will delay Second Ave from Cedar to Court Streets. The project calls for hot mix on the brick base, concrete curbs, water carriers, and bids to be advertised soon with estimated cost about 16000 dollars, about 2000 more than prior plan.
Charles Johnson a WPA foreman says his indictment by the Friday grand jury for non support of three minor children at the County Children's Home is a mistake he claims to have paid 45 dollars to a local magistrate for support and holds receipts while W A Blazer superintendent of the home says only 12 dollars was received to credit Johnson's children. County Prosecutor John Howell is probing to determine if the indictment is unjust.
Gallipolis reports that plates and small baskets of colored boiled eggs will be given to more than three dozen children at the Children’s Home Easter morning. Superintendent W A Blazer and matron Mrs Celia Brown arrange the treat.
At the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics in Gallipolis Sunday school brings Catholics Protestants and Jews together in harmony. Officers and teachers are chosen from patient ranks with male and female attendants assisting but not directing. Services begin at 9 30 a m and many adults participate alongside children in the shared hymn singing and devotion.
Shirley Temple stars in The Little Princess in Technicolor at 20th Century Fox. The London set tale follows a girl turned poor as Miss Minchin tortures her in a Queen Victoria era school. Cast includes Richard Greene Anita Louise Ian Hunter Cesar Romero and others under Walter Lang’s direction.
Funeral services were held Sunday at the family home near Thurman for Mrs. William H. Whealdon 75 who died Friday evening. She is survived by her husband and children Mrs. Robert Thaxton Mrs. John Call Eber and Lola Whealdon all of this county.
Buckeye Rural Electric directors recommended to the Federal Board a loan of 154000 to finance engineering for a construction contract in Gallia and Lawrence counties. Putnam and Wolfort of Dayton are named as the engineering firm to receive the contract.
Dedicatory exercises for a new memorial window in the Baptist Church will be held Good Friday night. The circular art glass window, over the pulpit, depicts the Garden of Gethsemane and was given by relatives as a memorial to the late Mr and Mrs Isaac N Dearhorff. A special music program will accompany the service.
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