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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1938
Page
3
Gallia County choral groups perform Friday night at 8 o'clock in Rio Grande led by Lois Fasig with 230 all county voices. The program includes The Viking Song The Crimson Rose We Praise Thee and Night in the Forest among numerous selections. Admission is free and patrons from across the county are expected.
A member of a Federal grand jury, Morris Kins, traveled to Columbus on Thursday to serve in Judge Mel Underwood's court.
Barton Jones, prominent Pt. Pleasant businessman, is recovering at Holzer Hospital after an appendicitis operation.
Robert Gibbs local merchant policeman attended funeral services for his brother John H Gibbs in Hartford West Virginia on Thursday.
Local names and events fill Kyger News Notes with Easter gatherings visits and property transfers. Rev H N Snider preached. CCC camp entrant Roland Rupe. W R Athey buys Dr C A Rife property. families relocate and visit Columbus Middleport Seman Longsville and Zaleski are mentioned along with D A members Easter supper and several local visits.
In Gallipolis the Rotary Club names Morris Haskins 27, president, and Carl C. Byers 27, secretary, as likely the youngest officers chosen in Ohio. Haskins heads the citys largest mercantile establishment while Byers serves as principal of the local high school. Both are active in civic Rotary affairs.
Sherman White vice president of the new Garden Club proposes to supply plantings and care if suitable metal containers can be placed along the approaches and side rails of the large concrete bridge over Chickamauga Creek at Garfield and Portsmouth Avenues. The bridge, city entrance landmark, would host floral decoration pending favorable consideration by several civic groups.
The Gallia County Rural School Music Festival will be at Community Hall Rio Grande at 8 p m April 29. Seven high schools enter vocal and instrumental numbers with 230 county youths in the vocal program and a later announcement for instrumental entries. Cadmus 39 Bidwell-Porter 25 Cheshire 61 Centerville 12 Vinton 14 Rio Grande 46 Mercerville 80. A 100 voice mixed chorus will be chosen from all county chorus with separate boys and girls choruses. Chorus representation: Cadmus 12 Bidwell-Porter 9 Cheshire 20 Centerville 9 Vinton 6 Rio Grande 16 Mercerville 28. Supervisors of music and their students include Miss Dorothy Titus Cadmus, Miss Evelyn Pierson Bidwell-Porter Cheshire, Miss Mary Syler Centerville Vinton, Miss Dorothy Mae Ertel Rio Grande, Miss Lois M Fasig Mercerville and County Supervisor A Kimball Sutter instrumental director.
Gallia County Board of Elections balks at the state plan to meet in Columbus May 23 24 to discuss cutting election costs. They cite high costs from hiring dual sets of judges and clerks at primaries and general elections. Officials say costs are steady except for extra staff in each precinct. The plan has not met expected results in the county, with night officials taking hours to prepare counts and returns not filed earlier than under the old system.
Rio Grande College under its student self help program announces a new plan advancing curriculum changes. President W A Lewis notes a pamphlet on the plan and urges requests for literature while detailing state requirements for teacher training and a temporary no summer session for 1939 with four quarter academic work forthcoming.
Gallipolis report states a Covert Baking Co. truck from Middleport driven by Branch Fleming struck a herd of 12 dairy cows owned by Miss Mary Kennedy at a Swan Creek crossing Wednesday morning. Two lead cows were killed, one instantly, the other soon after. Deputy Sheriff Harold Wood investigated. Fleming said he did not see the animals in time to avoid the collision. The truck suffered heavy damage with the radiator folding back over the engine.
Federal jurors will visit Gallia County farms on May 16 and 17 to adjust compensation for government use in condemnation suits linked to higher pool levels of the Ohio River. Owners include Shelton Loucks Addison Russell and Mary Bane Raccoon John R and Edith Bane Gallipolis McCoy and Ethel Trimble Green Township Lydia Randolph Fred E and Ella Northup Northup Clair O Hara Lillie McKinney William R Lafayette Maude Nelson Addison H H Bane Harrison Township. Parcels range from a tenth acre to six acres along Ohio River tributaries.
Gallia County reports a diminutive Percheron foal born at C. L. Ritter farm Swan Creek. Weighing 20 by 20 inches the colt thrives under S. A. Wallace care in Huntington fed by milk and hay tea from a nursing bottle. Newsreel photographers captured its feeding moment.
Mrs. William H. Porter 40 and her sons William 17 John 15 were hospitalized after their car left a sharp Rio Grande turn and struck a tree. Mrs. Porter had a broken arm and cuts, while both boys suffered numerous cuts and bruises. The trio were taken to the hospital by Harvey Calhoun and E. E. Langdon.
Eight year old Jean Hickman of Bidwell daughter of Angela Hickman died in Holzer Hospital from a lung disease. Funeral services were held Thursday at Bidwell.
John A. Baker age 22 son of Homer and Mrs Baker of Clipper Mills wed Opal Daniel age 21 daughter of Floyd E Daniel and Mrs Daniel of Gallipolis on Wednesday. Baker is totally blind from a dynamite blast injury and served last year as assistant truant officer for the county rural schools.
Principal Carl C Byers announces rankings from the annual state education department sponsored pupil tests. Notable winners include Louise Evans Gordon Stewart Hilda Oliver and others across subjects such as English Typing Chemistry Algebra Geometry General Science Biology American History World History Physics.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation through Judge John Halliday filed suit in Common Pleas Court against Edgar T. and Clara D. Morrison of Bidwell seeking $4407.24 on a mortgage note backed by the Morrison residence, the village’s largest home. The petition seeks foreclosure and sale of the property. Morrison, a former merchant and postmaster at Bidwell, is named as defendant.
Many sufferers learn nagging backache stems from tired kidneys. Doan's Pills have helped millions for over 40 years by aiding kidneys to flush out toxins and reduce symptoms such as headaches and swelling.
Gallipolis forms a local committee to plan a one day Northwest Sesqui Centannial celebration on Oct 24. The group will include Paul Mossen man C Wayne Booth Mrs Margaret Carter Morris Haskins E E Higgins D O Taber and is appointed by the Chamber of Commerce at the request of the Federal Commission at Marietta. The celebration features a tabloid ball in the city park period dancing a five cent souvenir centime and planned banquet street decorations a colonial wedding and parade of floats. The Our House Museum hosts relic displays while merchants run window displays capturing the event with a French flavor as local civic groups are urged to appoint advisory members.
Mrs Ada Green aged 48 has recovered from a revolver wound to the abdomen inflicted by Mc Kinley Peck aged 45. Green is to be discharged from Holzer Hospital to her home on First Ave near Spruce. Peck remains in serious condition in Holzer Hospital with two chest wounds.
Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at King Chapel in Ohio Township for John Henry Bush 66 who died two days earlier at his son David's home in East Gallipolis. He and his wife formerly lived at Bladen and survive several children including Nora Glover of Eureka.
Oscar Terry of Thurman went to Letart on Wednesday to attend the funeral services for his father Albert F. Terry aged 71.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle laxative that improves breath and vitality by relieving constipation. It emphasizes vegetation based formula and notes prices of 15 30 and 60 cents at druggists.
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