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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1929
Page
3
Cc H Bartlett serves as the Messenger correspondent from Nelsonville and invites readers to telephone news to 412 W. Bartlett also handles Classified Advertisements for the Messenger at that same number.
In Nelsonville on August 20 a meeting of Y M C A officials and community leaders discussed a proposed budget of 6100 to cover heating and repairs. The treasurer expects to finish the year with all bills paid and a fundraising campaign will be launched within one or two months.
Mr and Mrs Ti Rosser and other Rosser families gathered for the McGravey reunion at Crystal Springs on Sunday with attendees from this city and Detroit Michigan including Mr and Mrs Ed Rosser and Becky Ann North Pritchard.
Fred Briggs and sons Stanley and Arthur Briggs of Cleveland with Mrs. Stanley Briggs visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tedrow. Also noted are visits by Miss Margaret Morris of Cincinnati to Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Acomb, and many locals joining gatherings and calls in Columbus, Mt. Blanco, and Armitage amid family illness.
The Single Men beat the Married Men 7 to 5 in a Twilight League game at the city playgrounds. Carlin pitched well for the Colts, limiting Old Winds scoring to singles in three innings while the Married Men gathered five hits off his delivery. Key hitters included Sharp Garner and Cheshire for the Married Men and Carlin Jenkins for the victors, with box score details and pitching lines provided.
Aug 26 Nelsonville residents Dr and Mrs L E K Butt return from Brunswick Mo where Mrs Butt visited parents and Dr Butt joined after a western motor trip Blake Meechen stays in Santa Monica Cal to take a newspaper job Mrs G H Gigher returns to Dayton after visiting East Columbus Street with Barron family and other local visits and travels listed including Lancaster Wellston Van Lear Newark and Embree Park Pennsville kinship reunion attendees.
Mrs Dora Sain of Fort Wayne Indiana visited Monday with Mrs M Walker. Several friends and relatives from Columbus Logan Murray City Huntington Baltimore and Phoenix joined gatherings and travels including a homecoming at Locust Grove Vinton County and trips to Canada and the East.
The body of former Virginia senator Cyrus Locher, who died Saturday in Cleveland, will be buried in Bluffton today. Hundreds attended his funeral in Cleveland yesterday. Bluffton is the senator's wife’s birthplace.
Rites for three year old Betty Waverline Imboden will be held Wednesday near Allensville with burial in Mt Olive Cemetery. The child is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Imboden of Haydenville.
Lloyd Mechem of Cleveland is staying with his parents in Mellonville after surviving a Sunday train wreck near Sunbury with only minor scratches.
The records show final distributions and admin reports in multiple estates including Amanda Smith Peart Reed and William Rieck. An inventory was filed for KE J Bell. Cases State of Ohio vs Lew Loudermilk and vs Flossie Johnston were dismissed or unresolved. Ralph Lattimer and Willian Barnhart faced non support charges with bonds and jail detentions. A guardianship action involving Georgia Gaskins Stout was filed.
Herbert Moore age 23 of Hoeckingport a salesman son of Jobe and Bertie Moore and Goldie Wemner age 18 of Millfield daughter of W A and Bessie Wemner appear in a notice involving The Rey and L B Roberts in this brief societal item.
Columbus August 20 The newspaper exhibit at the Ohio State Fair will be the most elaborate display of the newspaper industry ever shown at any state fair. It will be housed in the Ohio Building as a replica of Benjamin Harrison's home and marks the second year of the newspaper exhibit and registration contest sponsored by the Ohio Newspaper Association.
Helen Guinther age 13 daughter and her aunt Mrs Jared Guinther from Akron survived the derailment uninjured but shaken. They were delayed returning to Jacksonville after the wreck on the crowded Pennsylvania Railroad near Sunbury Delaware County. The Glouster board of school examiners will hold a final teachers exam August 30 at 8 30 am in the high school Room 1 using uniform state questions for certificates and renewals.
Glouster officials say the water softening and filtration plant will likely be finished by week’s end after delays. Once complete the city will flush and clean water lines and provide soft water for domestic and other uses.
The annual Bethel Church reunion and home coming will be held near Bremen on August 31 and September 1.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Hancock and their two children of Orange California will sail Saturday for England for a six week stay after spending several days with Mr and Mrs Thomas Blower in Glouster.
Mr and Mrs A L Cunningham and three children Gene Jack and Sallie Lou of Elwood City Pa are spending the week in this city guests of Mr and Mrs E H Taylor Mr and Mrs D J King of Chicago are guests of Mr King s brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs M M Bryson
Syracuse remembers Ana Marian Dall Stobart a lifelong United Brethren Sunday school worker born April 1850 in Tuppers Mining. She served ten years as superintendent at Nease Settlement and taught young ladies while remaining active in church and family in Syracuse for over six decades.
Newark city council adopts a resolution proposing a $60 100 municipal airport for the city. It will be presented to voters at the next election.
The Athens County Board of Health urges parents of five and six year olds to vaccinate before the fall reopens. Pre school vaccination is required and local offices advise immediate inoculation to ensure the area is prepared ahead of the new school term. Parents may use their family physicians as city doctors are ready to administer the shots.
Columbus Aug 24 A $45 000 addition to Campus Martius state park in Marietta will enclose the Rufus Putman home the leader of the Ohio Company who founded Marietta in 1788 Preliminary plans are being drawn for the project with partial glass enclosure proposed. Other state projects include dormitories at the School for the Blind Columbus greenhouses at Wooster and a cottage at Olio Epileptic Hospital Gallipolia totaling 120 000
Columbus reports the Court of Appeals overruled the motion for rehearing by former Cities Mortgage Company officers A Quesingjesn and Ray H. H. Catterson on embezzlement convictions. Both have filed appeals to the State Supreme Court.
In Marietta on August 24 five peremptory challenges were voiced by opposing counsel during the Mayle murder trial. Eleven jurors sat as the panel was filled with alternates and changes, with jurors from Warren Bartlett Salem and Marietta townships. Several prospective jurors were excused for cause or by agreement, including Mr Harold Pratt and Mrs Hertha Parnsworth, while Mike Zide faced questions about understanding proceedings.
Wellton Arizona August 20 19 9 as 200 searchers push through desert brush hunting a plane believed to be that of Misa Marvel Crosson entrant in the women s air derby.
Witnesses recalled a crash in brushy territory near a derby site as authorities searched with horsemen and lanterns. Miss Cragson remained unaccounted for while volunteers braved rough terrain to reach the wreckage amid poor weather.
Descendants of Abner and Mary Stout gathered for the ninth annual reunion at Eva Griffin’s home in Sanday. Thirty eight attended the potluck dinner as Miss Ima Stent sang, and a letter from 1856 was read followed by announcements. Attendees included many Stout relatives from Sumner, Leesburg, Coolville, Athena, Albany, and surrounding towns, noting several recent deaths in the family.
European corn borer found in Washington County near Macksbury and Waterford Township near the Morgan County line. Scouts from the TB department of agriculture reported the discovery to County Agent St Nervey during Saturday evening inspections.
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