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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1931
Page
3
Local society items and locals column note reader notices and small notices. Classified ads and circulation information appear under staff correspondent H Bartlett with contact telephone 412-W.
In Nelsonville on election day a light vote was expected but favorable weather and last minute push by many municipal contenders could produce broader participation. Three candidates run on each major ticket with rumors of independents entering after the primary. Unofficial returns will be posted at Shafer's News Stand as in years past, with early results anticipated.
The total production of soft coal in the week ended August 1 is estimated at 6,824,000 tons, up 69,000 tons or 1 percent from the prior week. Ohio shipped 457,000 tons in the week ended July 25, with 429,000 the previous week and 443,000 for the same period in 1930.
The Esther Class of the Christian Sunday School will host an annual picnic at the Grotto Grounds on Thursday afternoon. Members are asked to meet at Miss Mayme Keplar's Millinery Shop at 1:30, and travel by bus to the event.
Miss Mctaughlin of 840 Chestnut Street Nelsonville attended the farewell banquet on August 4 at the Deshler Hotel Columbus in honor of S A Stack retiring train master of the Big Four Railroad Columbus.
Class 21 of the Methodist Sunday School will meet at the home of Mrs. Carl Coakley at 267 Oak Street on Wednesday night. Attendance of all members has been requested.
Chauncey Thacker, 22, jailed in McArthur on a charge of shooting Bob Camp in Radcliff. Sheriff Ray Cox reports Camp intervened as Thacker beat a small boy. Camp was shot in the mouth and taken to Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis in serious condition.
In Tromsoe Norway on August 11 Sir Hubert Wilkins leads the submarine Nautilus toward Spitzbergen for an under-ice Arctic expedition. The vessel is reported to operate well after engine tests and new electric rudder wiring. Wilkins remains confident the mission will succeed despite rumors he may abandon the expedition’s aim to reach the Pole.
Mrs Susan K Dunkle 71 of Nelsonville died Monday at her Second Street home. Funeral services will be held at the residence Wednesday at 2 pm with burial in Greenlawn. She was the last child of Lemuel Davis and is survived by her son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Morton Hubbard a granddaughter Frederica Hubbard and a niece Miss Dorothy Hilton she reared since childhood.
Nelsonville Rotary Club president C. Mechem and secretary D. R. Johnson joined the district conference in Newark on August 11. The Nelsonville group plans a 6:15 p.m. meeting today at the Dew Hotel.
All members of Troop 46 meet at the Legion building Wednesday evening at 7 15. Scouts with a uniform must wear it and badges of rank or awards should be shown for inspection. Officers or any Scout with troop records should bring them for a staff meeting after the session.
Saturday night at 148 Monroe Street marked Jimmy Smiths 19th birthday with a five-table bridge game. Prizes went to Miss Virginia Lou Eberle and Tom Wolfe for first high scores and Miss Ruth Backus and William Lawson for low scores. Mrs Smith served a two course luncheon after the game.
Mrs. Margaret Allman returns home to Nelsonville from Toledo and Columbus after eleven months away. Many locals host and visit relatives and friends during short trips including Mr. and Mrs. Dean Coakley and daughter Virginia in Haydenville, Miss Warehime and Miss Carlin at Cantons and Akron christening, and other guests from Columbus Dayton Zanesville and Mt. Vernon.
Mrs. Maria Creighton returns to Columbus after vacation with sister Miss Agnes Raybould. Mr. and Mrs. Jack O Connor resume in Ravenna after several days with Mr. and Mrs. W F Gray. Several others report trips to Lancaster Camp Grounds Westerville and Albany with relatives and friends.
Oklahoma Governor William H Murray leads a campaign to raise crude oil prices by closing wells under martial law. Support spreads to Texas officials like Gov. Ross Sterling who threaten to shut east Texas wells. Kansas officials also discuss action unless prices to producers improve.
A Thorne Loomis Foundation sponsored group of 33 youths stopped in Athens for a six weeks tour of industrial and aceute centers. They travel from Yellowstone to Parkersburg and end at Tuxedo Park New Jersey, diary impressions to aid foundation advertising.
In Oklahoma Governor Murray kept troops in oil fields while allowing stripper wells to operate. Wyoming considered shut-down orders as producers were granted access in Texas. Prices held at 52 cents a barrel, up 2 cents since the ultimatum demanding $1 a barrel.
A large audience attended a two piano recital in Music Hall Auditorium by Mildred Maston of Trinway and David Todd, both graduates of the Ohio University School of Music. They performed Arensky Walls and Danse Macabre to strong applause. Richard McCutchan of Athens and Konrad Scholl of Pomeroy, students of Prof. DeForest Ingerham, offered several numbers including Severn and Concerto in A minor by Vivaldi Nachea, showing careful training.
Poor men were killed and another seriously injured when the Eastbound Sunshine Special of the Texas and Pacific plowed into a section crew handcar at Wickett 50 miles east of Pecos.
An Athens High School economics geography exhibit surveys price trends and global commerce. It features charts, pamphlets, maps including a coal products tree, and student reports. Edward Dowell leads with two practice teachers assisting.
The text notes Atlantic City submitting a bid for the 1982 Republican Convention. It mentions a preset invitation by party committees, a delegation led by Rep. Isaac Bacharach, and a decision by the national committee expected in December.
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