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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1930
Page
3
Nelsonville fire department, led by Fire Chief Dana Windon, bans piling and burning rubbish in alleys until further notice after a long drought. Citizens are urged to reduce fire hazards and prevent spontaneous combustion from trash in coal sheds and garages, as alley sparks are especially dangerous.
Local residents and guests are listed returning from trips and visits. Ohio families including the Hammonds and Love clans hosted relatives in Columbus and Cincinnati. Others travel to Atlantic City Niagara Falls Great Lakes and Ash Cave for visits, hospital stays, or worship events with several Cincinnati Logan and Columbus connections.
Buck Reynolds, a longtime tobacco salesman in Nelsonville, notes rain on his visits. He forecast rain again and collected his bet as forecast proved correct. A local committee considers adjusting his schedule to increase visits.
Mabel Maxine Addis three months old daughter of Mr and Mrs Everett Addis died at their Mineral home Tuesday. Funeral services are set for Thursday at 1 30 PM with burial in New Marshfield.
Mr and Mrs Tracy Whaley announce the birth of a daughter on Sunday August 3 at their home in Nelsonville. The baby has been named Gloria June.
Miss Phyliss Mills left Friday for England after being the guest of honor at a bridge party Tuesday hosted by Mrs. Bob Keynes and Miss Florence Wood at the Keynes home in Logan. Five tables competed with trophies awarded to Stacy Sharp, John Zeller Jr, and Catherine Spencer for first through third. Miss Mills received the guest prize.
A group from Athens shared a Tuesday evening picnic at the Grotto Grounds. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. Dow Bowers, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Worth, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Henry, Mrs. Joe Verity and daughters Betty and Jane, and others such as Dwight and Donald Harvey, Glen Allen and daughter Jean, Beth Esther Lucille Verity, Mary Jo Bowers, Paul Davis, Sam McNamee, and Ward Hamm.
Mrs. Leslie Cavanaugh entertained Monday dinner for her guest Miss Kathrine Leist of Columbus. Also present were Miss Vivian Dowler and Miss Gay Ervin.
Nelsonville announces the Rotary Club committees for the year. Aims and Objects include W H Hyde and R W Parks. Club Service lists C H Bartlett and R W Parks. Program features R W Parks and Lloyd Evans. Fellowship and Attendance names Lloyd Evans and Corwin Cookson. Classification and Membership lists C S Mechem and John Lawson. Vocational Service includes W H Badger and Victor Oakley. International Relations has William Mills and R W Parks. Community Service features William Morgan and FP Morris. Boys Work names Harry Zuber. Crippled Children lists C L Stout. Rotary Bulletin credits D R Johnson and Lloyd Evans. club officers are Dr W H Hyde president, R W Parks vice-president, John Saltz secretary-treasurer. Directors: Hyde, Parks, Saltz, C E Bennett, William Morgan, D R Johnson. Guests at last night’s meeting at the American Legion building include Barton Holt and John Krieg of Lozan Club, James Oakley of Elkins club, Leonard Cooley, and Billy Somerville.
Logan Knights of Pythias Band directed by Jack Kinser will give a Friday evening concert at 8 o clock in the yard of Central School. Several Nelsonville boys are members of the group.
Mrs. James Coleman of Poplar Street entertained a group of friends and Esther Class members from the Christian Church Tuesday evening in her home. The gathering honored Mrs. Frank Betts who received several gifts from her friends.
In Columbus on August 6 192? two men confessed complicity in a long series of school thefts dating back to 1922. Orrta Goodyear and Raymond Eagleson linked to Louis Sherman murder case named Harry Laroy head of American Show Company as shopper and fence. Laroy allegedly paid $15 per projector and resold machines to private buyers.
At Sheltering Arms Hospital nurses use identification tags on newborns wrists and place babies in marked baskets in the nursery to prevent mixups, a practice likened to the Watkins Bamberger Chicago case. The Athens Hospital offers parent inspection of tags to ensure correct identification as well.
U S congressman L C Dyer defeated rival Walthall M Moore in the Eleventh Missouri District Republican primary by 8656 to 4572 after returns from the district were tabulated. Moore, a Negro state representative, had campaigned on the race issue.
Miss Florence Mulligan of Columbus is spending a two week vacation with her mother Mrs Thomas Mulligan and family. She was a guest Tuesday and Wednesday of Miss Florence Wood.
Elizabeth B. Smith and Samuel Watson Smith II of Cincinnati are named principal beneficiaries under the will of Mary Perkins Lawton, which distributes an estate estimated at several million dollars.
Miss Julia Nichols of Columbus is spending her vacation in the city with friends and relatives, enjoying the visit and local sights.
Orange Mr and Mrs Hartsel Windland and family travel to Palestine West Virginia after the sudden death of Mr Windlands father J W Windland. Mrs Ottie Gillian recovering. Grace Kelly of Athena visiting farm folk Irene of Gallipolis on vacation. Hartsel Windland family visited Mrs S B Blakre Vienna West Virginia Sunday. Anvil of drilling rig moved from C E Woode farm to Day farm for drilling. Charles Kincaid of Tuppers Plains visited P B Castle Thursday. Hartsel Windland and children dined with sister Mrs Ivan Loeckhart Parkersburg Tuesday. EB H Chapman Athens and family were Friday farm visitors.
Stewart and Edward Bailey with daughter Helen hosted at Rockbridge for a weekend. Mrs. G F E Wharff and granddaughter Martha Jean Brown visited Portamouth relatives. Harold White and son Gene visited Layman hosts Roy G and Roy Lee families. Ferb White and sons joined Sunday at Mrs. WCC Young. Wagner and Polland families visited Athens for business. William Faulkner and son Billie hosted by Harry Faulkner. Herman Hopkins and children Lucille and Clifford stayed in.
Mrs. Martha Petty of Bethany visits daughter Mrs. E Norris. Mrs. Charles McBee visits aunt and uncle Lou and Eli Spaulding in New England. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Pierce travel with children Alvada Clyde Clyde and Bobby Gene to Logan. Ernest Seaman and Mrs. Ernest Rittenhouse of Clarkeburg West Virginia visit Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Seaman. Mrs. R. W. Seaman returns home to Stewart after visiting son Ernest Seaman in Clarkeburg.
Educational tours and inspections of crop growing experiments will be part of the annual field day at the Washington County Test Farm near Marietta on Thursday under the supervision of the Washington County Farm Bureau. More than 1,000 persons are expected, with many coming from Athens County, according to superintendent S. C. Hartman.
Notable speakers include M A Bachtell from Wooster in charge of test farms Bo Cutler crops expert A Koffman from Wooster and Professor Dodd from Ohio State University with President George W Rightmire in Columbus set to speak in the afternoon.
In Urbana Illinois James Kidney a 45 year old machinist shot Laura Howard a 55 year old hotel proprietor at the Colonial Hotel then killed himself with a bullet to the head. Police say Kidney sought revenge after Howard had opposed his arrest for disorderly conduct at the hotel where he once roomed.
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