Coal Exhibit at Ohio State Fair Seeks Historic Articles
The Ohio Coal Foundation seeks articles from the coal industry for display at the Ohio State Fair opening Ohio Coal Day. They want items like a miniature tipple, old miners hats, lights, and tools, with a miners parade planned for Aug 24 in Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Coal Foundation
Foundation
Glouster
Charles Wallace
The
Ohio
Columbus
Harry Mettler
Sec
Old Mohawk Bitters Offer At Gallaher’s Athens
A Gallaher’s Drug Store advertisement promotes two big family size bottles of Old Mohawk Bitters for 95 cents or one bottle for 49 cents, with a full refund if not satisfied. The copy claims the tonic eases dizziness, biliousness, gas, insomnia and sluggish liver, urging a thorough cleansing of waste matter as the cause of pains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallaher’s
Athens
Escapes With Cut as Car Overturns on Route 50
Edwin Parker 31, a salesman from Columbus, escaped with a slight head cut when his car left Route 50 east of Hebbardsville and overturned last night. State police said he failed to negotiate the turn and reported about $300 damage, with the top of the car crushed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Parker
Columbus
Hebbardsville
Hemlock Homecoming at Hemlock Grove Church
A Hemlock Homecoming is planned at Hemlock Grove Christian Church on Sunday August 11 with a basket dinner at noon. Everyone is invited to attend the gathering and share in the community event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hemlock
Hemlock Grove Christian Church
Busy 4-H Club Gatherings Across County
Multiple 4-H groups meet at homes and local venues in August. Members share demonstrations and roll calls, plan future meetings, and conduct games and social activities. Visits to ill members and outings to Lake Hope and state park are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolville
Ruth Smith
Jean Kincade
Romettes
Wyona Moore
Carthage Gap
Stewart
Athens Youths May Enroll at NYA Work Site
The Muskingum Work Experience Center at Leesville Dam operated by NYA in Ohio has openings for Athens area youths for the August Fall term. Eligible unmarried men 18 to 25 out of school and unemployed may enroll, with classes linked to work. Names of local enrollees and their assigned jobs are listed, including construction and kitchen work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskingum
Leesville Dam
National Youth Administration
Ohio
Athens
S. Burns Weston
NYA
Charles Barlow
N. Congress
Leland Davis
Malta
Gerald Donahue
Radcliffe
John Donahue
Makes Liquor Pays in Court
Edward Vess, 22, of near Gloucester, pleaded guilty in Athens County Common Pleas Court to manufacturing whisky. Judge O F Rowland fined him 100 dollars and costs and sentenced him to 30 days in jail with 50 dollars of the fine and the jail term suspended on obeying laws and seeking employment. Vess was arrested by state agents and arraigned on an information filed by Prosecuting Attorney Harold J. Rose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Vess
Glouster
O. F. Rowland
Athens County
Expect Large Crowd At Legion's Picnic At Athens County Fair
A large attendance is expected tonight at the K. T. Crossen Post American Legion stag picnic at the Athens County Fairgrounds starting at 5 PM. G. O. Gorham directs a buffet dinner while games and contests fill the evening, with John DeMolet as general chairman. Tickets are sold on the grounds. Republicans meet Athens County Executive Committee holds Friday at 8 PM in the Courthouse court room per Rufus C. Hopkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K. T. Crossen
American Legion
Athens County Fairgrounds
G. OD. Gorham
John DeMolet
Post
Athens County
Republican Executive Committee
Rufus C. Hopkins
Legion Asks Action by OU Against Student Liberals
The K. T. Crossen Post of the American Legion urged Ohio University President Dr Herman G James to dismiss students who published a liberal Young Communist League editorial. The letter demanded an immediate university statement denouncing radicals and warned that such influences threaten American democracy.
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Legion
K. T. Crossen
American Legion
Athens Messenger
Ohio University Post
Meaidant of
Ohio
Sweet Maes
Wormoree
UVA Wreeey
Herman G. James
Ohio University
Athens
James
Young Communists League
K. T. Crossen Post
Work Hard, Intelligently, AHS Class Told by Dowell
Athens High School summer school commencement speaker E S Dowell urged hard and intelligent work for individual and national success. He warned of France’s fate if work is shunned, urged Americans to wake up, and proposed the motto Let Us Work. Diplomas were awarded to Louise Blackford, Bill Van Dyke, John D Junior, and Bill Mulpas with a long senior and junior honor roll and attendees from surrounding towns.
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Dowell
E. S. Dowell
Athens High School
France
Mr. Dowell
George Maxwell
Rosalie Shafer
Betty Bird
Franz
Ganz
Virginia Segale
Kreisler
Bill van Dyke
Sylvia
Speaks
Oliver L. Wood
Roy Johnson
Louise Blackford
Bill
van Dyke
Athens
John D. Juniper
Nelsonville
Bill Mulpas
New Marshfield
Carl Johnson
Jeanette Landis
Hattie la Grones
Betty Griswold
Mary M. Graham
David Goldsberry
Ruth Bentry
Betty French
Jane Finsterwald
Martha Dowler
Betty Henderson
Dee McKinstry
Gene Kissner
Elizabeth Kolenich
Eugenia Kresge
Joan Leben
Jane Maccombs
Sylvia Schuler
Jacqueline Sanders
Elsie Rowles
Joan Wooley
Mary Jean Williams
Ruth Wright
Louise Burris
Patty ‘Daugherty
Henry Miller
David ‘Nichols
Bob Sprague
Dix Schenz
Marion Wood
Jerry Ferrell
Cecil Johnson
Howard Bobo
Virginia Weaver
Lakewood
George Reynolds
Murray City
Martha Ringhiser
Logan
Lois Ann Shafer
Chauncey
GladysShields
the Plains
Keith Glendenning
Dixie Coleman
Irene White
Williamsberg
Mary Kennedy
Edward Bexfield
Helen Bettner
Theodore Crane
Jean Dow
Jausanta Young
Judy Johnston
Gretchen Barstow
Don Bingman
Mary Daugherty
James Cumley
Bob Cable
John Caskey
Mary Nash
Joe Walburn
Cope Vickers
Jack Stewart
Bill Mason
John Reed
Jack Manning
Mary Bell
Helen Russell
Doris Buck
Anita Bowles
Arlina Race
Jeanette Berry
Wanlda Cole
Betty Jane Harris
Virgiel Quisey
Edward Wilsey
Bill Hammerle
John Shust
Mary Cisille
Richard Ingerham
Marian Wood
lCoover Staats
State lends funds for stamp plan and county aid
The State Emergency Board in Columbus voted to lend 20000 dollars to Athens County to set up its rotary fund for the Federal Food Stamp Plan. The board also approved grants to three counties for poor aid programs: Muskingum 25000, Scioto 15000, and Meigs 10000, and allowed the Ohio Penitentiary 13394 for fire hazard elimination.
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State Emergency Board
Columbus
Athens County
Rotary
Musxingum
Scioto
Meigs
Ohio Penitentiary
Chicago Dean Will Address Ohio U Class
A class of 171 will receive degrees and diplomas at Ohio University summer session graduation in Memorial Auditorium Friday at 10. Dr. William Homer Spencer, dean of the University of Chicago School of Business, will deliver the address. The procession will include marshals, officials, faculty, degree candidates, and diploma recipients. Dr. H. T. Houf provides invocation and benediction. Allen R. Kresge will play the processional and recessional.
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Ohio University
Memorial Auditorium
William Homer Spencer
School of Business
University of Chicago
H. T. Houf
Allen R. Kresge
Ten Thousand Farmers Expected At Tri State Meeting
Athens County farmers plan to travel to Montpelier on August 15 for the first Tri State Farmers Day at Williams County Fair grounds. More than 10,000 farmers from Ohio Indiana and Michigan are expected. Speakers include Lyman O Cook Claude R Wickard Elmer F Kruse Perry Faulkner Maurice A Dean and Marshall Vogler. A basket picnic opens the event and speakers appear at 1 30 p m.
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Athens County
Montpelier
Williams County Fairground
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Lyman O. Cook
Williams County
Claude R. Wickard
Elmer F. Kruse
Perry Faulkner
Indiana American Legion
Maurice A. Dean
Marshall Vogler
Kidney Trouble Relief Promotes Oil Capsule Cure
An advertisement touts Gold Medal Haakem Oil Capsules as a remedy to flush poisons from kidneys and relieve bladder irritations, promising fewer nightly awakenings. It lists other symptoms like burning pain, backache, leg cramps, and puffy eyes, urging readers to refuse substitutes and buy the original Gold Medal.
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Hocking Valley
Fairgrounds
Malcolm Higgins
Leonard Orndorf
Oliver Spencer
Avard Hashman
Harry Vaughn
Robert Morris
George Johnson
Foster Goodman
John Woods
Andrew Goodman
R. Bland
Harry Thomas Moore
Denzil Leach
Theolo Newman
Darren Morris
Lawrence Williams
Loyal Morris
Norman Jenkins
Nte
Fune A
W. State
Stitchers
Lake Hope
Zaleski
Martha ‘Smith
Shade Loyal
Helen
Florence Smith
Angel Ridge
Virginia Rogers
Poston Boys Chieftains 4-H Club
Roberta Pierre
W. Union St
Charles Beckley
Legion’s
DAD
Tate
DAD Ohio
John W. Bricker
John T. Brown
Win H. Kinnan State Fair
Mae
Chicago
Tri - State
Harris
Yic
N. Court St
Miller Bros
Aity
City Loan and Guaranty Compan
YS. Court St
Fred Sanders
Mgr
S. Court St
HDW. Co
Athens, Ohio
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