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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1932
Page
3
Nelsonville community group pushes city beautification with school cooperation. Supt E J Arnold urges pupils to guide lawn care, shrubbery, painting and civic pride, linking student effort to life education and local improvement.
Nelsonville prepares for the Athletic Carnival with Friday and Saturday events. Seventeen contestants vie for Carnival Queen honors as students in each session room vote. Votes are sold at a penny, with Principal L E Buell noting the shift from May Queen to Carnival Queen due to the absence of May Day festivities.
Nelsonville April 14 Principal L E Buell announced the upper 25 percent of the Highth Grade after an exam at the Junior High School building. Names listed include Jeannette Cranmer Glenn Smith Ruth Lehman Ruth Seibert Don Martin Earl Crouse Audrey Stanley Nellie Dowler Tom Higgins Elberta Bussey Richard Allom Elsa Jane Freer Homer Pyle Virginia Galvin Clarice Wright Betty Stewart Mable Harper William Weltsheimer Margaret Springer Delbert Kuhn James Auflick Jean Hannahs Zita Bowers Margaret Collins Ida Bardain Floyd Rosser Lillian Kirk Hazel Simonton Mary Minner.
Moses Thornton 78, longtime Nelsonville resident, died at his Grosvenor Street home after a prolonged illness. Survived by widow Ida L. Thornton, son Charles, stepson James Mann, and sisters Clara Dickerson and Alice Graham. Funeral arrangements pending at A. M. E. Church. burial in Greenlawn Cemetery.
In Nelsonville on April 14 the W. E. A. Club will gather Friday evening at the residence of Mrs. Elizabeth Hallett located at 309 Elizabeth Street.
In Nelsonville on April 14 Rev C H Fowler denounced the Literary Digest Poll as biased by wet interests. He noted low ballot return rates among attendees and charged the Prohibition Association with wealth-fueled funding. A staged wedding of the Eighteenth Amendment and Patriotic Citizen featured Fowler as John Barleycorn and Mrs. Fowler as Columbia.
Mr and Mrs Joe Garinger and son Edgar of Smithfield. Mrs Ned Stanley and son Jackie of Steubenville. Mrs Retta Rife of Columbus visit Athens residents. Several locals host relatives from Huntington Huntington and Columbus. Dr and Mrs D G Candy and daughter Nancy Ellen of Baltimore spent time with Mrs Mary McCarty before returning home.
Mrs. L. L. Stout will host the Cosmopolitan Club meeting Friday night at 3414 Fayette Street with Mrs. Lydia Johnson assisting as hostess.
The King's Men gather at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Asa Hammond's Chestnut Street residence with Charles Hashman as leader. The group will read scriptures from John chapter 15.
A Chesapeake and Ohio box car delivering to Nelsonville was burglarized between Haydenville and Nelsonville. Portions of food dry goods and shoes were taken, with evidence including a burnt timber fragment and broken seals. Police recovered cans varnish potatoes and tennis shoes along the line as officials check loads and losses.
The Sayre Specials of Buchtel host Chauncey Sunday to start the 1938 season. New uniforms mark the squad as they face Coach John White from Grand Rapids held Michigan champions status. White notes a shipment of baseballs from the Cincinnati Reds via Manager Dan Howley and invites game bookings to M. W. Byron in Buchtel Ohio.
Rene Haybron aged 67 son of the late W J Haybron was found dead this morning at Marion Simonton’s residence in the Factory district Nel sonville. He had been in failing health Funeral services set for Saturday at 2 PM Pilgrim Holiness Church with burial at Greenlawn He is survived by a brother of Columbus.
Weathered markers in West State Street Cemetery honor Revolutionary War veterans. The piece details Lt. James Brice of Pennsylvania and Capt. Benjamin Brown of Massachusetts, plus other early Athens County figures, with dates, family ties, and later local commemorations.
Funeral services for Walter W. WhitLatch aged 47 who died Wednesday morning from pneumonia will be at the family home in Floodwood Friday at 2 30 under the Masonic order. Rev H A Sayre Methodist Church pastor will conduct. Burial at Greenlawn.
Mrs Eugene Pritchard entertained West Washington Street bridge club Tuesday night. substitutes were Mrs Stanley Mechem and Mrs Walter Howe. High scores trophies went to Mrs Leo White first and Mrs W F Gray second.
Miss Mary Louise Pritchard hosted a Wednesday night bridge event on Elizabeth Street for club members and guests. Prizes awarded for first high score went to Miss Ruth Kelch and Mrs. William Barrows, while guest prize went to Mrs. Marguerite Raine.
Dr. Charles W. Super, former Ohio University president, extols small towns, praising Athens and questioning city placements. He riffs on hills, German housing, riverside views, haymows, and a place near Mrs. Le Favor and Ezra, reflecting on longevity and local quirks.
Sixty children were fed at a dinner in New Fioodwood Sunday organized by Clyde Simmons Harry Simmons and Clarence Galloway with help from several women. Donations came from merchants of Nelsonville and Athens.
A mysterious illness swept Santa Paula on April 14, hitting about 300 people including 190 students in grammar and high schools. Officials mobilized to find the cause as symptoms resembled ptomaine poisoning with severe nausea and pain, while adults and teachers also fell ill but improved by day’s end.
Council may discuss and vote on a petition to improve lighting on East State Street. Rufus C Hopkins says a 12-foot lamp standard has been moved from Court and Washington to trial on East State Street and a new 14-foot standard installed elsewhere. The plan aligns with the widening contract specs for new cable.
If you admired your neighbor’s flowers last summer and wish to have some as good, make sure you prepare the beds as well as he.
Returns from 2476 communities across the country to the American Legion Employment Commission in Chicago show 498,559 jobs obtained as of noon today. In the last day 12,189 jobs were reported with 2,994 from 33 Midwestern communities. The campaign partners include the US Labor Department, the ANAd, AFL, and the Legion Auxiliary amid a 23 million member coalition.
Big Ed Walsh the former White Sox pitcher runs all concessions at Meriden Connecticut municipal golf course and also offers golf lessons.
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