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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1937
Page
12
La Fayette Post American Legion members pledge $1,200 toward a remodel plan for Gallipolis city hall. The Women's Auxiliary adds $700, with individuals promising $300 more and all 300 members to contribute labor. City will top up to $9,000 for the projected work.
Following funeral services at Middleport the body will be brought to First Baptist Church for additional rites by Rev H H Wilbur before interment at Pine Street Cemetery. Mrs Glenn daughter of Samuel Kerr and widow of George Glenn. a brother Edward Kerr resides in Gallipolis.
Mrs Bessie Shank Booher widow of Claude Booher died at her Columbus home after a long illness. She leaves her mother Mrs Minnie Shank a son and daughter three brothers and three sisters. Funeral services were held Thursday in Columbus.
John W. Baker, 21, blinded by a dynamite blast in December 1955, has been elected assistant truancy officer in Gallia County. He is the first blind person to hold the post in Ohio. Baker reads Braille and types, both self taught, and will be driven to duties by a relative, likely his sister Edith.
GALLIPOLIS The date for the Ohio Valley Grange dedication of a new hall was moved from August 29 to September 26 due to the absence of State Grange Master W F Kirk. The shift allows more time for program preparation and other meetings at Eureka and Poplar Ridge Home Coming. WIFE MADE GUARDIAN Gallipolis Mrs Mabel Clark is named guardian of her husband Lester Clark to aid a damages claim after he lost part of a hand on an Ohio River towboat.
Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at Mt Zion Church Gallipolis Ferry for Mrs J A Halfhill sister of Mrs Alfred Clark of this city.
Curtis Knotts 32 of Bidwell fired a rifle into the air and a cartridge fragment struck his left eye causing severe hemorrhage. He is hospitalized at Holzer Hospital with sight possibly saved.
At a recent party hosted by Mrs. Louie Roush of Mills Station many guests attended including Mr. and Mrs. Clark Latham and Miss Ables of Columbus Mrs. Clarence Swick of Marion Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Watson Mr. and Mrs. Ross Carpenter and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Carpenter of Huntington Mr. and Mrs. Willard Bayliss and Mr. and Mrs. William Litton of Hurricane W Va Mr. and Mrs. E M Rupe of Eno Mr. and Mrs. Ross Leonard and Mr. and Mrs. Taylor of Danville Doyle Freshcorn and Miss Verna Welker of Vinton and L D Freshcorn of Bidwell.
Rev H H Wilbur announces Sunday morning sermon Walking Worthily with a junior sermon titled The Slave Market. There will be no evening service.
Bible Christian Conference of Ohio to be held at Elizabeth Chapel near Thivener on Thursday August 26. A large attendance of adherents is expected.
In Gallipolis the Grace Methodist Church elected trustees Rev. H. H. Wilbur reported William McKnight Dr C F E Holzer A S Lloyd Dan Thomas Harry Miller Elias Wetherholt Dr J P Haskins L L Stone and C C E Brumfield. New Sunday School officers include Otto S Carter CC E Brumfield C D Slagle beginners' superintendent Aldeth Robinson primary superintendent Dorothy Road armour junior superintendent R R Starbuck young peoples superintendent Paul Williams adult superintendent Elias Wetherholt missionary superintendent Mrs Carlos G Niday temperance superintendent I E Myers cradle roll superintendent Mrs Clarence Booth home department superintendent Mrs J T Hall secretary Thomas Rue treasurer Estella Arthur librarians Mrs Anna Margaret Campbell Adelaide Johnson. Birds can sail against the wind.
Harry K Mills president and Fred K Mills secretary announce the Mt Zion Forty Year Club second gathering at Chickamauga Park on Sunday September 5. The club formed last year with 49 men who shared life in the community 40 years ago and no member has died in the year since the first reunion. Meetings are stag affairs with members bringing and sharing food.
John Leonard Jackson aged 26 from Delaware Ohio died at Holver Hospital after a brain abscess operation on Thursday. Purial was made here. The item also notes Price Edward Island's fur farms with 771 fox and mink farms.
The National Reemployment office moves from Logan Furniture Co to Dr. C R Niday’s building at 852 Second Ave near Olive, Ferry Dillon in charge. The county relief and NYA offices shift to 914 Second Ave under Othneil Jones. Logan factory buildings, bought by Dr C E Holzer, are under major repairs for a large manufacturing firm.
Jones aged 68, a well known Patriot contractor, and Maude Gwinn Pitchford aged 61 sister of City Manager John Gwinn, were wed at the Jones home Thursday by Rev. C. W. Frye. The text recalls the 1835 assassination attempt on President Andrew Jackson.
Mrs. Mary Jane Kratz, eight months married, was granted a divorce from George Kratz for neglect by Judge W R White in Gallipolis. She is restored to her maiden name Mary Jane Scott and Kratz resides in Texas.
An all day gathering is planned at the Gallipolis Mission on Mill Street Sunday August 22. Miss Osie England will lead the event and Rev. Joseph Keefer is set to preach in the evening.
Gallia County highway crew member Joe Clark age 20 suffered a badly injured left eye when a tree limb struck him in the face on Poplar Ridge Cheshire Township as a right of way was cleared. Doctors at Holzer Hospital believe he will not lose sight of the eye.
E. E. Hatfield Gallia County sheriff travels to Springfield for the annual Ohio Sheriffs Association convention with other law enforcement leaders.
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