Winder Family Mentioned in Ambiguous 19th Century Text
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a Winders family figure and a James Jone style name in a Mesvillt area record. Details are unclear due to garbled handwriting and missing context.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1936
Page
5
Fragmentary OCR notes reference a Winders family figure and a James Jone style name in a Mesvillt area record. Details are unclear due to garbled handwriting and missing context.
Ath ens County elderly miss pension checks as state officials blame county commissioners for delayed reapplications. Berrodin offices reply nothing can be done while local staff and civil service disputes fuel ongoing delays.
Ray Noble, WPA District No. 5 supervisor, announces the second of a series of programs to furnish recreational facilities in small communities. The plan sets up recreational supervisors to lead handcrafts hobbies athletics and social groups. Another Jackson County project funds restoring transcribing recording and indexing records in the County Courthouse using relief personnel only.
Athens County Republican hopeful Harry L. Sayre longtime resident born in Buchtel moved to Trimble at eight then Jacksonville recently. He ran Sayre Bros until 1929 and Kasco Milling Co in 1933, now operates a Jacksonville grocery. Married with six children Grace Bonnie Jeanne Harry and Joe in Jacksonville Trimble schools.
The elimination tests for 15 subjects will be held at Athens Junior High School Saturday at 8:30. Eleanor Minister will oversee the exams for County Schools Superintendent Kenneth C. Ray. Top two in each subject form a 30 member team to travel to the district finals at Ohio University. The district includes 17 counties and five state universities. Any enrolled high school student in the listed courses may be chosen.
Richard Parker of Richland Ave was fined $5 and costs by Magistrate T. R. Bennett for failing to stop his car before entering a main thoroughfare on Monday night. Parker was arrested at an Athens State Hospital driveway by State Highway Patrolman M. J. Davis of the Athens Sub-Station.
Athens leaders announce details for the Athens County Democratic love feast at Hotel Berry Thursday night. Mayor Len B. McCune will give the welcome, Dewey W. Goddard is temporary chairman, C L Jordan speaks for the Central Committee, and D A Bardin is master of ceremonies.
City repaving work on three Ath ens streets sped up this week thanks to favorable weather. Moore Ave was started last winter by city and WPA workers and should finish late this week weather permitting. May Ave and Morris Ave work resumed but completion dates are unknown. Funding added for Strathmore to F State St waterline allows early next week resumption.
Athens Junior High students present Evangeline with a Noble Cain musical setting on Wednesday at 7 30 p m. A mixed chorus opens the program followed by a girls chorus and the High School Orchestra performing Handel and Grieg selections. The eighth and ninth grade music classes sing the cantata with Miss Joy Cutler leading the Mothersingers Club. Music Supervisor Miss Ruth Lambertuas directs. No admission charged.
Ernest Johnson of Columbus suffered cuts on his hands when his automobile smashed after leaving Route 31 and hitting a sewer tile five miles south of Nelsonville Tuesday morning. State Patrolman M. L. Davis said Johnson was forced off the road by an oncoming car that crossed to his side on a curve. Damage was estimated at 75 to 100 dollars.
Probate Judge S M Johnson orders a continuation of the will case for Raffaele Guerra. The court approves private sale of executrix personal property in the James M Brookins estate. Applications to admit wills of A B Wingett and John E Lawrence. William Smith released as administrator of Lenzie Smith estate after final account shows no assets. Earl R Bean estate not subject to inheritance tax. Perry G Coe granted six months as executor to collect assets for John P Coe estate.
The Rufus Putnam Training School staff will host a tea in the school auditorium on Wednesday at 4 o clock. All student teachers and other guests including the College of Education staff and their wives Dean and Mrs. Thomas C McCracken and President and Mrs. Herman G. James are invited. About ninety attendees are expected with Miss Jane Atwood speaking.
Ralph Steinett of Amesville pleaded guilty after arraignment before Mayor Len B McCune on a Tuesday intoxication charge. He was fined five dollars and costs after arrest Monday night by Chief EB S Finsterwald and Captain Charles Maple.
The first new troop in Glouster, part of the Hock-Hocking District, has registered with Boy Scout Headquarters in Parkersburg. Troop No. 71 is sponsored by Glouster Methodist Episcopal Church with Charles Sorrell as Scout master and Charles Clark as assistant.
State Highway Patrolman J R Grogan chief of the Athens Sub Station went to Columbus for the second anniversary and reunion of the first class that graduated from the patrol training school at Delaware He will return Wednesday night.
Central Grade School Toy Band will join the Athens Schools department music assembly Thursday at 2 pm in the high school auditorium. Leaders Miss Louise Young and Miss Ruth Lambertus supervise the First Grade musicians and many Junior High and Allens High School players join for a program of drums bells cymbals and strings.
An old time medical advertisement claims two pounds of Haid bile clogging bowels can be cleared by Carter's Little Liver Pills. It warns against laxatives and promotes the pills as a harmless, effective cure to restore flow and improve daily well being.
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