CCC Workers Expand Erosion Program In Athens County
In Athens County Camp Athens CCC men broaden erosion work aided by better weather. A Waterloo Forest squad targets brush and waste. Robert Fechner cites CCC nationwide impact: 2,000 camps cost about 660 million. camp spending 867 million. about one million enrolled. each enrollee sends 25 dollars monthly to families aiding around three million people. Fechner notes hogs steers potatoes and flour sold to farmers with CCC aid. forestry unemployment ends and 53 percent access educational facilities. 1,500 teachers in CCC camps. Fechner urges CCC as a permanent federal program.
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CCC
Camp Athens
Athens County
Waterloo Forest
Robert Fechner
United States
Fechner
A. C. Eubank
Camp
Athens
Youth Needed For Athens County CCC Enrollments
W. R. Shafer reports Athens County seeks more applicants for the Conservation Corps quota. The county aims for 155 of a 300,000 national allotment. Selected youths, aged 18 to 25 and physically fit, from relief families preferred, will serve six months with possible extension.
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Athens County
An Conservation Corps
W. R. Shafer
Athens
Legion Post 21 Meeting With DeMolet In Charge
K T Crossen Post 21 of the American Legion will meet Wednesday night at the Legion Home. John DeMolet vice commander will be in charge due to the absence of Commander M C Morrison who left Monday for a two weeks vacation in Florida.
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K. T. Crossen
American Legion
Legion
John DeMolet
M. C. Morrison
Florida
Sons of the American Legion Meet For Drum and Bugle Corps
Members of the Sons of the American Legion urged to attend a Friday night meeting at the Legion Home to fill vacancies in the K. T. Crossen Post Drum and Bugle Corps. The unit plans to participate in Decoration Day services with committee members John W. Dowler Clyde Gibson Don Strawn and Raymond Connett overseeing.
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Sons of the American Legion
K. T. Crossen Post
Legion
John W. Dowler
Clyde Gibson
Don Strawn
Raymond Connett
Clover Farm Store Vendors Meet at Berry Tuesday
Southeast Ohio Clover Farm store owners gathered at Hotel Berry Tuesday night with 75 attendees. After dinner, a business meeting was led by George Berfers of Corning with speakers Carl H. Beasley R. C. Hess and B. F. Davis of the F. J. Beasley Company outlining merchandising and summer operation plans.
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Southeast Ohio Division
Clover Farm
Hotel Berry
George Berfers
Corning
Carl H. Beasley
R. C. Hess
B. F. Davis
F. J. Beasley Company
Materials for Factory Ready at Nelsonville FERA Plant
J D Garrett director of the Works Division said mattress manufacturing at the Nelsonville FERA plant will resume soon with a truckload of material arriving Tuesday. Two shifts of about 40 workers each will operate Monday and Tuesday and Thursday and Friday each week. Bed sheets were produced last week, about 400 finished, with more material on hand. The Glouster and Athens comfort factories are producing about 175 comforts daily with two shifts weekly.
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Nelsonville
FERA
J. D. Garrett
Garrett
Glouster
Athens
Intyre and Wite Announce Gallipolis Summer Visit
New York gossip column reports McIntyre and Mrs Wite plan a summer trip to Gallipolis. Judge Clark invited them to stay at the Lafayette Hotel and attend a gathering with residents, with hopes they will also visit neighbors and see the remodeled old Bovie home on State Street.
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Olis
New York
McIntyre
Gallipolis
Telesige
J. S. Clark
Judge Clark
Clark
Maybelle
Bovie
Proctorville Row Boat Theft Case In Probate Court
In Clark County Probate Court on Tuesday a case involving Marion Null age ? was heard over a boy who stole a row boat from orthup and rowed to Proctorville Laws. The boy stated to Judge Clark he intended to return home use for fishing. His father Charles Null of Rome Ohio was mentioned and the case noted support of 2.50 dollars weekly.
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Marion Null
Clark
Orthup
Proctorville
Laws
Charles Null
Ives
Rome
Ohio
Herth
Scarlet fever alerts prompt school dismissals
Seven new Scarlet fever cases have appeared in recent days. School officials on Tuesday ordered the dismissal of all children in affected families to curb the spread of the disease.
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Adolph Henke
Total Crop Acreage Not To Be Limited
Gallia County notices that total acreage planted to crops shall not be limited. The barley tobacco adjustment states that the basic commodity cap applies only to wheat cotton tobacco and peanuts in 1935. Rented acres may be used for home food crops or feed crops for livestock in 1935.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
R. R. Starbuck
John A. Slipher
Evans Robbery Partly Solved In County Case
The Evans wholesale house robbery is partly solved after Arthur Persinger and B. Willis were arrested Tuesday. Willis confessed he helped move two baskets believed to contain liquor but contained groceries. Persinger, a suspected fugitive from Mansfield Reformatory, was found at his home near Sycamore Street with a cut hand from a fall on the tracks.
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Edler
Willis
Persinger
Syccamore Street
Mansfield Reformatory
Will Spear
Evans
Commencement Dates Set for Mercerville and Cadmus
Commencement exercises are scheduled for Friday April 19 at Mercerville with Dr Donald Tibbett Methodist minister of Bexley as speaker The Cadmus ceremony will be Monday April 22 with John Matthews former county superintendent now a prominent Columbus attorney as speaker
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Gallipolis
Mercerville
Donald Tibbett
Bexley
Columbus
John Matthews
Cadmus
Ladies Auxiliary Holds Meeting Discusses Japanese Americans
The Rio Grande Ladies' Auxiliary of the Baptist Church met Tuesday with 19 members. Officers were re-elected and guests included Mrs. Fred Mills Gallipolis and Mrs. Romaine Stamper. Several local residents traveled to Cincinnati and Columbus for visits and events, including cantata planning and weekend stays. A birth was announced as Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wood welcomed a daughter on Saturday, April 6.
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Rio Grande
May
Mollie Fulton
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Baptist Church
Thomas Richard
Anne McCarley
Taylor
Anna Wood
Helen Dean
United States
Fred Mills Gallipolis
Romaine Stamper
Dean
W. E. Clark
Cincinnati
Wanda
Mareena
Robert Hall
W. A. Lewis
Rose Eagle
Columbus
Dean Edna Arundel
Nora Varney
Gallipolis
Sarah Broughman
Lois Fasig
Harley Cloud
Bellvue
Fichter To Address Centerville Seniors
Seven Center vile High School graduates will receive diplomas Saturday night with J W Fichter Ohio education official slated to give the commencement address County Supt H Bion Bradbury to award diplomas and the Rev L C Watts to deliver the baccalaureate sermon Sunday Graduates include Floyd Beman class president Willodene Wilmore valedictorian Charlene Watts salutatorian Clyde Lindamood Lester Lawson May belle Denney and Ida Wells
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Gallipolis
Centervile High School
J. W. Fichter
Ohio
H. Bion Bradbury
L. C. Watts
Floyd Beman
Willodene Wilmore
Charlene Watts
Clyde Lindamood
Lester Lawson
Maybelle Denney
Ida Wells
Dinner Bridge Planned for Miss Mary Tabit Bride Elect
A dinner bridge will honor Miss Mary Tabit, bride elect of Fred Gordon, at the Hotel Lafayette Saturday night. Hosts are Mrs. George A. Tabit Sr and Miss Margaret Tabit with Mrs. Ned Eachus. Invitations went to 75 women across Gallipolis Dayton Columbus Mowrystown Jackson Pt. Pleasant Charleston and Huntington W Va.
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Gallipolis
Mary Tabit
Fred Gordon
Dayton
Hotel Lafayette
George A. Tabit
Margaret Tabit
Ned Eachus
Columbus
Mowrystown
Jackson
Pt. Pleasant
Charleston
Huntington
W. Va
Fire damages Gallipolis residence of John Wooten
A Gallipolis house owned by John Wooten and rented to the Powers family at Addison was damaged by fire on Tuesday. All contents in the living room were destroyed and the Gallipolis Fire Department responded to the blaze.
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Gallipolis
John Wooten
Powers
Addison
Unique New Guinea mammal lays eggs carried in pocket
The New Guinea anteater, a mammal, lays eggs and carries them in a pocket until hatch. This surprising trait merges mammalian and avian reproduction in one unusual species.
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New Guinea
Extra Day Added City Trucks To Collect Rubish
Athens Service Director C W Gross announced an extra collection day Friday for residents whose rubbish was not picked up. Two city trucks will work all day and collect curbside rubbish from homes that notify the service department. On Thursday crews will sweep all streets west of Congress and south of West State Street.
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Athens Service
C. W. Gross
Gross
Athens Service Department
Congress
West State Street
Store Proprietor Fined For Improper Potatoes Sacks
Virgil Baughman proprietor of a grocery at 178 North Lancaster Street was fined five dollars and costs by Magistrate T. R. Bennett after being charged with selling sacks of potatoes without proper markings. Ronald McVay, his employee, also faced fines for the same offense. Inspector A. C. Secrest stated the sacks were originally used for other products and should have borne the label not original contents and that they contained potatoes.
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Virgil Baughman
Lancaster Street
T. R. Bennett
Ronald McVay
Baughman
A. C. Secrest
Department of Agriculture
Secrest
March Diseases Reported Across Athens County
A county health department notice shows 383 communicable disease cases in Athens County during March with 18 in Athens City. Scarlet fever led county cases, followed by syphilis and measles. city counts include measles and German measles plus scarlet fever and other illnesses.
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Athens County
Athens City
County Health Department
Living on a Volcano Peak Raises Eruption Fears
Governor George H. Earle of Pennsylvania comments on residents living atop a volcano uncertain of when it may erupt.
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George H. Earle
Pennsylvania
Ohio Home Economics Association reelects leaders in Columbus
In Columbus last week the Ohio Home Economics Association reelected Dr Velma Phillips of Ohio University as state president and reappointed Dr Florence Justin as public relations counsel. Dr Justin authored a statewide high school publicity study to be published in the Journal of Home Economics.
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Ohio Home Economics Association
Columbus
Velma Phillips
Ohio University
Florence Justin
Justin
Journal of Home Economics
Holy Week Services at Methodist Church
Holy Week services run Wednesday to Friday at the Methodist Episcopal Church with Rev. Dr. Wilbur H. Fowler preaching Pilot-Compromise. The vested choir sings That Sweet Story of Old. An adult class meets nightly. 90 people have indicated intent to join Foster class. New members may be received Thursday night or Easter Sunday at 4 during the baptismal service for children. Last Sunday 85 youths were received for preparatory membership.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Wilbur H. Fowler
Doctor Fowler
Life Extension Balanced by Modern Times Tempo
Dr H W Cook an insurance executive notes that advances allowing longer life are offset by the faster pace of contemporary life. He suggests a need to adapt routines and policies to sustain longer lifespans amid rapid social change.
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Times
H. W. Cook
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Seattle
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Jimmy
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