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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1931
Page
3
E. J. a, newly elected superintendent, plans to move to Helsonville with his family. The Nelsonville board approves the fall opening on the Monday after Labor Day, Sept 14, with books available and no changes in most teaching staff.
In Nelsonville on Saturday at 7 30 p m the Nelsonville High School Band presents a program featuring a trumpet solo One Fleeting Hour to be played by Joe Galvin The set list includes Mt Royal Spirit of the Age Overture One Fleeting Hour Where in Old Wyoming Concert Waltz and more Intermission followed by Scouts of America and Star Spangled Banner Also notes travel and visits of local residents after the concert
At Nelsonville on August 21 Morristown Bible School will hold commencement exercises. The term opened August 3 with 33 pupils and rose to 54. The Kindergarten and Boys Class were led by Miss Hunter, and the Girls Sewing Club by Miss Reynolds. The term included picnics such as a wiener roast and a hike with Millfield Bible School.
A garden class enjoyed a picnic at the close of the school term. Students gathered outdoors for a final activity, sharing snacks and memories as the school year ended.
NELSONVILLE Aug 21 Bessie Mae Hook ten month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Hook died Thursday at their Beaumont home Funeral services will be at Zion Church Saturday morning at 10 o'clock with burial in the nearby cemetery Florence Smith 28 died Thursday at her Coonville home Funeral services will be at Absury Church Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock Burial will follow She was the wife of Joan Smith and daughter of Mr and Mrs George McAfee
The Home Craft Club gathered Thursday evening at Mrs. Laura Woods’s Adams Street home. President Mrs. Viola Keplar led the session with refreshments served to members and guests including Mrs. Jessie Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, and Pauline Woods.
The Lent family reunion was held Sunday at the Grotto Grounds near Haydenville with 106 attendees. A noon picnic followed by Rev. G C Nutter's talk and song services closed the day, planning the 1932 second Sunday gathering.
Harrisburg report shows 109 miners killed in seven months of 1931 in bituminous mines, down from 182 in the same period of 1930. In the anthracite region 230 deaths occurred this year versus 251 in the same seven months of 1930.
Tokio reports readers note Lindberghs pair are watched as Mrs Lindbergh shows homesick moments during world flight. She pauses by a mother and child picture, gazes at it and then across the sea, possibly recalling her infant son safe with her parents Dwight and Anna Morrow.
Investigators search the liner Belgeni for Hisaki Fujimura missing after a dispute with Mary Reisner a former actress and companion during a show boat cruise. Sketch artist Jan Ribas heard shouting and saw Fujimura’s cabin empty the morning the ship docked.
United Press reports Wick ersham Commission findings show crime costs exceed 1.2 billion dollars yearly with 52 million for justice administration, 248 million by 300 cities, and 66 percent of federal spending spent on prohibition enforcement. The panel calls for investigations into racketeering and wasteful local criminal justice systems.
The commission critiques expense burdens on taxpayers tied to criminal justice, noting social considerations lie outside this report. It argues extortion threats corrupt both legitimate and illegitimate business and that crime pervades much of national economic life.
Clifford Cross, an Athens youth and admiral's orderly aboard the Battleship Chicago, writes his father of a four day Panama City stop. He and another Marine were assaulted by an elderly woman who mistook them, Cross was arrested but released after a Marine officer fluent in Spanish aided him.
Columbus Aug 21 Warden Preston 5 said reports that duplicate auto license plates were smuggled from the Ohio Penitentiary shop are unfounded A thorough check found only materials to make genuine tags had been taken from the stock room The rumor began after an ex convict was arrested with a set of false plates Police said the plates were home made not penitentiary manufactured
Charles F. Fischer president of the Citizen Publishing Co. died suddenly at Community Hospital Perrysburg after an auto collision on Aug 10 near the city. He had been hospitalized since Aug 10 and in poor health but able to sit up prior to his death.
Thomas McDonald of the U S Bureau of Public Roads urged the Ohio Senate Highwaying Committee to adopt continuity in administration for a 5 to 10 year program. He proposed stable leadership, long term construction planning, strict accounting, and strong laboratory and inspection control with a highway patrol to enforce traffic laws. He warned rapid changes hinder project success and urged an integrated, economical approach.
In Cleveland on August 71 a rural radio announcer introduces a comical police advisory. Patrolman Frank Hunt recites instructions to Beachwood cruisers directing them to an apple orchard at Kineman and Green Roads where three cows have broken a fence and are eating farmers corn.
Marietta Aug 1 authorities identify Beabe age 27 as a person connected to an incident under investigation.
A call for a general tax increase seeks voter support to fund a proposed levy. The measure aims to raise revenue for municipal services with potential impact on local budgets and households.
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