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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1936
Page
7
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Eight of the county’s ten top seniors were from Gallia County High School in Gallipolis. Principal E E Higgins announced the winners after exams in English social science mathematics science and foreign languages. Half the entrants could not reach Gallipolis due to high water, and Rotary Club officers were installed with Stanley A Evans as president and Dr W Lewis Brown as VP.
First arrest under Gallipolis new barber shop closing ordinance occurred Wednesday. George Clark pled guilty to keeping his shop open after 6 pm last Friday night. Municipal Judge A. S. Stormont fined him five dollars plus costs.
Gallia Academy High School selects scholarship teams to compete in Athens on May 2. Dorothy Lanier chosen for English and Algebra but may be replaced in one subject. other entrants include Janet Booth, Mary Louise Mohr, Marian Alexander, Virginia Willis, Archie Priestley, Eunice Fierbaugh, Myrtle Watson, Margie Dillon, Dessie Russell, Margie Dillon, Dessie Russell, and several language and science subjects with pairs listed for each course.
In Common Pleas Court Wednesday Hazel Cundiff sues Daniel Rus sell over a disputed life estate at property above Cheshire. Plaintiff says Russell forfeited rights by neglect and tax delinquency. Easter pageant planned at Gallipolis High Friday morning with music departments Girl Reserves and Miss Anne Bradbury in charge.
James McQuaid 55 burnedFeb 9 when lighting a box car fire, died at Holzer Hospital. Son of Harry and Nancy Walters McQuaid, brother Dan of Neil Ave, husband of Mary Crawford, father of four Lawrence Herbert Mary Jane and Virginia Crowley. Funeral at Mill Creek Road home and Fulton Cemetery burial.
Mrs. Joseph Lewis, a Black woman of Bidwell, was fined 25 dollars for failing to send four children to school. The court suspended the fine after she paid the costs. The four Lewis children James 6 John 9 Helen 15 and Grace 16 had been out of school since Shady Grove school burned weeks earlier. Truant officer Alphonso C. Sheets made the arrest.
McDougal Sunday School will be held at the McDougal Church on April 12 at 10 o clock. Mr and Mrs Ross Gandee Cleveland and Mr and Mrs J W Grover Athens spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Hixson and Ed Donaldson. Bobby Cone son of Mr and Mrs Frank Cone underwent a tonsil operation at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Mr and Mrs Everett Eddy Marietta visited Eddy’s brother Errett Eddy and family Sunday. Mrs Sadie Landis arrived to spend the summer with her brother Cal Robinson and family. Mrs Fred Conner went to Lancaster for a few days visit. In the arctic butterflies spend two summers and a winter in the caterpillar stage.
Amos L. Walker age 78 died Tuesday at the Horace Herman home near Cheshire. Known as Potato King of the Cheshire Bottoms for potato raising. Daughter Florence Hatch Maumee Ohio and son George Walker Delaware to arrive to arrange funeral. Wife Emma Rosener Cheshire died five years ago. Dr Joseph William Mauck Hillsdale College is his first cousin.
City Manager Adolph Henke announced two WPA projects in Gallipolis will begin April 15. The fill above the water works will be completed with a widened street a curb and guard rail. Four painters and two helpers will paint the water works pump station interior in cream and aluminum colors.
Republican Bailes has pulled out of the nomination contest for prosecuting attorney. John Howell emerges as leading candidate for the GOP side while John Halliday remains the Democratic nominee.
Mary Goddard filed suit for divorce and alimony against Harry Goddard alleging gross neglect, failure to provide, and use of profane and abusive language. They wed in 1932 and have no children. A prior divorce case by Mrs. Goddard was dismissed in Common Pleas Court last October.
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