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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1933
Page
3
Gallipolis retailers gathered at City Hall to urge state and NRA support for a 48 hour workweek option under the code. Merchants argued shorter hours would raise costs, reduce profits, and keep shops open but questioned whether to sign the 40 hour standard. Local firms reported higher wages already and fear increased overhead without clear benefit.
Gallipolis reports William Winemiller district superintendent of the Ohio Farm Bureau will meet with local bureau officials to plan a county wide farmer's picnic in late August. Murray Lincoln national officer and executive secretary of the Ohio Farm Bureau will assist and may speak. efforts are under way to invite a national representative as speaker.
Charles Arthur of the Acme Boiler Shop in Gallipolis returns from Cincinnati after installing a new pair of smoke stacks on the Greene Line Packet Steamer Chris Greene. The shop loads three boilers for towing to Pittsburgh to be installed on the Eclipse of the Campbell Barge Line. Prospects for new orders are bright, rivermen note. Senator Cordill travels from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh with light freight and a small passenger list.
In Gallipolis on Monday Mayor A J Stormont fined Margaret Smith of Neal Avenue $100 and costs for liquor possession with payment deferred to Saturday. If unpaid by then she faces prison and her two year old child would go to the county home. Other defendants included Andrew Arnold fined $25 for intoxication and resisting an officer. Roscoe Redmond's intoxication case set for Wednesday. he remains jailed. W T Slack and Roy Knopp released on $15 bonds pending Tuesday appearance for intoxication charges.
Gallipolis plans for the Eighth Annual Fall Festival October 3 to 7 include a food exhibit with local retailers and jobbers partnering with national producers. Will Levissay named exhibit chairman. Latlip family troupe to provide free entertainment and concessions. Solicitation aims to raise at least $500 for festival costs as 30,000 attended last year.
Three couples filed for marriage licenses in Gallipolis over the weekend. Wilbur Bohner, 22, an electrician from Ironton, to Maida Fowler, 21, of Kanauga. Bernard Henson, 21, a Bluefield printer, to Emogene Moore, 21, of Gallipolis. Willard Carter, 21, a coal miner from Radcliff, to Fay Riffle, 21, of Gallipolis. Riffle is the daughter of William and Mrs Riffle.
The Gibson reunion is set for August 13 in the grove near L. C. Gibsons home. Local residents gathered at Pearl Chapel to help with church cleaning painting and varnishing. Mrs. Conrad Steinmetz was taken to Columbus for cancer treatment. Visitors included Mrs. Blanche Stanley and two daughters and Mr. and Mrs. Gar Cheadle and family.
Mrs Arley Adams a 34 year old Belpre Township resident was injured when her left arm was crushed in a traffic accident on the Putnam Street bridge as a Warren Township school bus carrying a ball club and fans was forced toward the bridge girder A motorist driving out of line caused the bus to narrowly miss the girders and Adams arm was outside the window when caught by the structure She was hospitalized at Memorial Hospital with the fear of losing her arm.
Funeral services for Mrs. Sadie M. Rossetter 79 who died at her home on the Athens Albany Road will be held Wednesday at 1 PM at the residence. Burial is in Hebbardsville Cemetery. She was the widow of C M Rossetter who died in 1927 and is survived by son James A Rossetter at home.
The new cosmetic excise tax sets a 10 percent levy on consumer prices excluding existing state taxes. Selling price is the usual amount paid for the item, with stamps indicating tax. The law defines cosmetics broadly and imposes a $1 license for all wholesale and retail cosmetics dealers, expiring on the fourth Monday of next May.
The Kierns family will hold an annual reunion at Hooper Ridge next Sunday, August 18, with a noon basket dinner and a short program. Attendance invited for Bible School members and friends. Also notes Missus Linscott attended Boudinot reunion near Millfield and visits by Huffman and Morris families to Hooper Ridge.
Mr. and Mrs. Kierns and family and Edward Linscott were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Keefer. Asa Wemmer and son Donald with their spouses, plus Wilbur Kaster and two children, entertained at the Ace Kaster home. The Anderson reunion near Columbus on Sunday August 6 drew A. M. Linscott with Harry, C. R. Kasler with Warren, and Harold Gillette with Allen among attendees. Edson Hawk and son from Athens visited H. C. Linscott, while Earl Linscott and Don Betts families from Nelsonville joined the Styre home.
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