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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1931
Page
6
Grace L. Coldsberry piano pupils met at Lurene and Wayne Buck’s for a Thursday afternoon music club. Six visitors attended. Participants included Jean McCune Frances Norris Lurene Buck and Wayne Buck. Snacks were served after the program.
Mr and Mrs Fred P Linscott return from a two week vacation across Kentucky Virginia West Virginia and Washington DC Daughters of Union Veterans plan a 730 pm meeting Wednesday at the I O O F Hall in Lowell and will be hosted by the Ormiston family reunion at the Dyar home Saturday led by Mrs John Vore Mrs Fred Ellis and Mr and Mrs Harry Slayback
Mrs O W Wilcox and her daughter Mrs J L M Cooper attended the Wilcox family reunion held Sunday at Rising Park in Lancaster.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert R. McVay of 158 North Congress Street hosted weekend guests their son and daughter in law Mr. and Mrs. Martin McVay of Cleveland. They were joined by Mr. McVay’s sisters Virginia and Martha McVay who will visit, along with sisters Mrs. W. E. Miller and Dorothy Abn McVay of Cleveland.
Miss Margaret Snow and Miss Doris Kerr spent a month away visiting New York City Boston and the White Mountains then traveled by boat from Boston to Yarmouth Neva tia and by motor on the St. Lawrence River trip.
Miss Virginia Lee Masterton returns home from a long visit in Charleston West Virginia, guests include Miss Jane Rupe Hardesty. Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Townsend and Mrs. Marie Hix spend the day in New Marshfield for Lafayette Hawk funeral. Mrs. Minnie Pierce visits Columbus and Zanesville relatives. Dean Kittle and Lucille Wood Kittle arrive from Ames Iowa for a month with Fred F. Kittle and family. both are Ohio University graduates. Kittle teaches at Lima High School.
Virginian Hoover daughter of Prof and Mrs T N Hoover returns home after a month with Youngstown Y W C A girls at Camp W Ota North Springfield Pa on Lake Erie. In Youngstown she visited grandmother Mrs Diana Arnold and family. Ath ens Boy Scouts Don Grones Jr Jack Fulton and Merritt Preston have gone to Camp Endubonah on the Muskingum River near Stockport.
Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Frost of 77 May Avenue entertained Sunday guests from Athens including Mr. and Mrs. Harry Small Mansfield and other relatives. The visitors also included Mr. James Frost of Toledo and Mr. Elton Frost with children, among others.
Western Reserve University in Cleveland and the Congregational Church of Cunnington Massachusetts receive $100000 each from Worcester R. Warner scientist and philanthropist who died June 25 1929 in Germany.
Youngstown district steel plant operations will stay steady at 42 percent capacity this week as workers report no changes in production.
Eighty-one persons attended Sunday School at the East Millfield Holiness Mission Church. Rev. W. B Manning of Chauncey will preach at East Millfield Wednesday night. Cottage prayer meeting of Morristown Holiness Church set for Thursday at the Mullins home. Morristown services next Sunday by the same evangelist. Prayer meeting at Morristown church Tuesday night.
Eight mines in Chauncey district are operating today with only two idle Saturday. Mines active include Nos. 9, 255, 10, 69, 24, L. D. Poston, No. 119, and Black Diamond. Chauncey No. 25 and Poston No. 6 at Millfield are idle.
Mr and Mrs Curtis Wilson of Sand Ridge near Chauncey announce the birth of a son on Saturday August 1 at their home. The baby has been named Curtis Wilson Jr.
Lorenzo M Chauncey catcher for the Run ball team suffered a hand injury during a long game. His right hand between the index and ring fingers was lacerated and required stitches.
The aged residents of Emanuel Crabtree, Sr., amid fieldwork, pieced and quilted a quilt sign named the Princess feather which was presented to Frank Shum of near Millfield.
Mr and Mrs Theisen Sr Mr and Paul Theisen and son Paul Mr and Mrs Herman Theisen Mrs Edward Wade and son Millfield attended the base in Roseville Ohio Sunday and watched nh plays on the team.
Regular meeting of the Christian Women's Bible Class at the Church of Christ in Chauncey, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed one week.
Misses Mary Louise and Bessy Belle Baughman Chauncey visit their father Virgil Baughman in Canton Ohio. Mrs Winnie Baughman and son Chester Chauncey visit Mr and Mrs G N Sidders in New Marshfield. Elaine McKinney, daughter of Mr and Mrs Andrew McKinney Chauncey, improves after serious illness. The Rev M E Hoon preached at Church of Christ Chauncey and stayed with Mr and Mrs M J Gardner. Floyd Linscott and sons The Plains visited His parents A M Linscott Hoopers Ridge with party from Marietta. Chauncey residents who had been visiting there returned to Chauncey to visit Hershal Kirkendall. Arlyn Blauser and Marie Morgan Lancaster visited the Morgans Chauncey.
Chauncey readers are told the Daughters of Pioneers lodge in Millfield will meet Thursday night to celebrate a monthly birthday social. Members are asked to contribute food for the gathering.
Postmaster Clarence E. McCafferty of Chauncey and his brother in law L D Lamberson of Columbus and Julius Pico of Glouster have returned from an outing and fishing trip in northern Canada.
Chauncey City Council will hold an important business session at 7:30 p.m. in the Mayor's office at the city building.
Clarence Darrow defends the practice of bargaining guilty pleas for predetermined sentences as used in the Capone case. He says the old custom helps handle many cases and reduces trials, while noting judges are not bound by such agreements. He criticizes the anti Capone campaign and questions the moral stance of his critics.
In Columbus, W. J. Kennedy, assistant state welfare director, said voters facing a $7.5 million welfare bond issue would allocate about $4.5 million to ease overcrowding in welfare institutions and $3 million for modernization and reconstruction. Specific allocations include $1.105 million for Cleveland institutions the Cleveland State Hospital and Hawthornden Farm, plus $75,000 for Athens State Hospital, $360,000 for the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics at Gallipolis, and $150,000 for the Boys Industrial School at Lancaster.
A public hearing on the Jacksonville Village School District annual budget will be held Friday at 7:30 PM at the clerk Harry J. Dust's residence in Jacksonville. Local taxpayers have shown little interest at prior budget hearings.
Shipment of 9 600 tons of crushed stone from Columbus quarries for the Trimble Amesville Road will begin around August 15. Part unloads at Trimble for the west end, but most goes to Amesville. After completion, Amesville to Trimble will be 10 miles instead of 24, avoiding Chauncey and Sugar Creek routes, cutting regional travel miles to Marietta.
Mrs. Joe Mingus visited Mrs. Arch Mingus of Greens Run Friday. Edwin Kennard visited his brother, Herbert, on Oregon Ridge, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Leffler visited friends in Morgan County Friday. Mrs. Arthur Cherrington and daughter, Eileen, of Glouster, are visiting Mrs. Joseph Mingus.
Slick's Band, formed few months ago, drew several hundred fans to the depot square Saturday night from 7:30 to 8:30. Out of town attendees filled High Street and Main Street parking as the group gains notice and receives calls beyond Glouster. The band previously played for miners' mass meeting near Millfield and is increasingly requested elsewhere.
GLOUSTER August 3 church notice invites young people to a Church of Christ night studying the source of ministry. Special music provided. Committee in charge led by Dr. E. F. Danford with C. F. Wallace on music and Mrs. Sara Williams as booster.
Miss Mildred Smith daughter of Mr and Mrs Harvey Smith near Bishopville was rushed to a Columbus hospital Saturday evening for emergency appendectomy after sudden illness at noon She tolerated the operation well and was accompanied by her father and sister Ruth of the city
Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Bryson and Mr. and Mrs. John Bulloch began a motor trip to the east visiting Washington and Philadelphia. They expect to return home next Sunday.
Members of Chickamauga Tribe No. 44 Improved Order of Red Men are urged to attend a regular lodge meeting Tuesday night. Important business will be presented for consideration and strong attendance is desired.
GLOUSTER Aug. 3 Several persons from this place are regular attendants at the Muskingum Valley Chautauqua at McConnelsville. Saturday was Grange day with many Grangers present to enjoy the program. An unusually large number from this locality attended Sunday and many plan to attend each night this week. The program ends next Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Girard Blower and their baby from Wooster arrived Saturday to stay two weeks with Mrs Blowers parents Mr and Mrs John S Stiff. Mr Blower takes a two week vacation and the family plans to spend much of the time in Glouster.
Miss Carrie Smith of Glouster travels to Lancaster to be with her sister Mrs. P. E. Jones who underwent a major operation in a Lancaster hospital last Friday. Smith plans to spend the week in Lancaster.
Cleveland plans a renewed investigation into former Councilman William E. Potter's murder as authorities pursue Sally Hart, a Cleveland racketeer, amid new affidavits by Betty Gray. Gray had testified at Pittsburgh Hymie Martin's trial, later recanting, claiming coercion. Queen Esther Morgan reaffirmed Martin’s entry into the Potter apartment.
Guy V. Hoopengarner of El Paso Texas once a railroad clerk lost his job recently. He now plans a worker aid cooperative modeled on life insurance with a two percent monthly premium from salaries. If unemployed, members receive 40 percent of regular pay for three months. Financiers have shown interest.
In Columbus, Carl J. West of the Ohio Farm Bureau reports lamb prices and demand are weak due to a 8 percent higher 1931 lamb crop and cautious buyers. Hog prices rise to a peak not seen since April, mainly for lighter weights while heavy hogs gain little. Dressed lamb prices fall about two dollars per hundredweight and fresh pork cuts drop roughly one dollar per hundredweight. Cattle receipts stay near 1930 levels with Chicago prices about one dollar lower.
Columbus reports that three of four administration welfare bills passed by the Eighty-Ninth General Assembly become law this week. Ackerman repeals the Norwood Law. Gillen bills trim sentences and permit parole for long-serving prisoners. another Gillen measure allows governor parole of at risk convicts. Weber bill raising Clemency Board size and salaries becomes law August 12. Other enacted measures include legalizing Sunday movies and the Yellow Dog anti card clause banning labor and employer pacts.
Edison, 84, seriously ill with diabetes and gastric ulcers, shows marked improvement after collapse on Saturday. Dr. Hubert S. Howe says he may not be out of danger, but Edison hopes to return to work and continue pursuing rubber production from goldenrod.
A week after the disaster at the Little Sisters of the Poor Home for Aged in Pittsburgh the death toll rose to 45 with the death of Patrick Patterson at St Francis Hospital.
In Columbus on August 3 robbers entered Mrs. Mary Ables's rooming house and stole $69 from her and $39 from roomer S. R. Swisher. They bound Mrs. Ables and beat her about the head before fleeing.
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