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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1933
Page
3
The Nelsonville NRA committee announces a drive to enlist consumers in supporting the blanket code. Victor Oakley leads the effort with consumer cards placed in local businesses to signify cooperation with NRA terms.
Business men and NRA members are urged by the committee to help the consumer campaign by ensuring each customer gets a card and signs it. The sole obligation on the consumer is to cooperate, and officials believe all are prepared to do so.
Nelsonville reports a one day rally at Pilgrim Holiness Church on Monday September 4 with prayer at 9 30 am preaching at 10 30 am and visiting speakers Celia Bradshaw Helena Laneholtz from Chillicothe and S I Emery of Ann Arbor Michigan. A Bible Holiness Seminary quartet from Owosso Michigan will provide music. Attendees are urged to bring dinner baskets and stay for the day.
Personal notices list Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rosser visiting relatives in Detroit and Ti Rosser, Miss Margie Rosser returning from Columbus. James Hallett family and Mrs. Pollock at the State Fair in Columbus visiting C. G. Millikan. Mrs. Will Tedrow called to Pennsylvania for ill father. Akron visitors in Columbus. Leighton Aumiller and son Dick visiting Columbus. World’s Fair trip to Chicago for Harve Sayre family. McCreary family to Bedford Pennsylvania for Labor Day.
Miss Bertha Nixon hosted a dinner at the Ames Inn Amesville with guests Mrs L Poston and daughter Lulu Athens. Catherine and Esther Burns Columbus. Mr and Mrs Julius Fischer. Catherine and Esther Burns are daughters of the late Rev George W Burns longtime Nel sonville pastor. Lucile and Helen Verity hosted a bridge club birthday surprise for sister Esther with a 6 oclock dinner and two tables of bridge. Mrs Paul Allen and Mrs Sylvester Ross posted high scores.
Aug 30 report that Longstreth, Monday and Carbon Hill plan a reunion on Labor Day in the Longstreth Grove. Former residents are urged to return and bring a well filled picnic basket. supper will be provided for ball team. The afternoon program will include speakers and a ball game.
Thirteen local business and professional men attended a dinner meeting at the American Legion Building to plan forming a Kiwanis club in Nelsonville. Preston Thompson named temporary president with Bob Kinney as secretary and W. W. Warren as treasurer. Athens Kiwanis will sponsor.
The Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church will convene Thursday afternoon at Miss Lu Shafer’s residence at the regular hour. The meeting will not be postponed, contrary to earlier announcements.
Mrs Nellie White and Mrs Blanche Dawson received Charis diplomas at a Mari ett a meeting. Their manager Mrs L Rielly presented the awards after they attended Charis School in Pittsburgh during July.
Aug 30 report from Gonnet Connett notes Mr and Mrs Ole Dabritz and daughter of California visiting Mr and Mrs Oswald Dabritz near Carbondale. Also visiting are Mr and Mrs Crairmond Reighard and Mrs Delano Beers at the Dabritz home.
Hooper Ridge reports the Masler reunion planned for Sunday at the Athens County Fair grounds. C. H. Wooley announces adding four rooms and a bathroom to his home, bringing the total to eight rooms. Reverend Mossman will preach both morning and evening services next Sunday.
Aug 30, Nelsonville reports a 16 gallon keg consigned to S J Dew was stolen Monday night from the Hocking Valley Cereal Beverage Co plant and later found near the railroad yards.
A meeting of all truck mine operators from the Carbon Hill New Straitsville Carbondale Coonville Chauncey and Nelsonville districts is set for Thursday night August 31 at 7 30 in the Spray building Nelsonville according to C Wemsley secretary of the operators scale committee.
All members are asked to report to the club rooms at 7 30 Wednesday night to obtain tickets for the benefit dance Thursday.
Elmer Wethee of Boulder Colorado an electrical engineer and mine investor died in a Denver hospital from paralysis after a nervous collapse He was son of Oliver and unnamed Kanauga parents and husband of Gracie May McNeal Wethee He leaves his sister Mrs S A Stewart and brother Clark Wethee and a Denver wife
Mrs. L. R. Pierce of Canaan Road has been seriously ill for a week and shows little improvement.
Deborah Picnic members of the Christian Church hold a supper Thursday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs H R Jacoby in Jack town. Supper starts at 6 00 p m. Each family should bring their own table service for the meal.
Striking frocks with new seams and elbow puff sleeves844. The Anne Adams Pattern Book markets varied dresses from afternoon to sports styles and junior outfits. Pattern 1537 available in multiple sizes with illustrated sewing instructions. Catalog and pattern priced at fifteen and twenty five cents respectively.
Two hoboes slept on Miss Viola Fell’s front porch at 45 West Union Street replacing cushions from a porch swing and chairs. Health nurse Miss Fell chased them away this morning after they left the cushions in place with no thanks.
Taylor Ridge and surrounding towns record a flurry of Sunday visits as the Risleys return to Athens after two weeks with the Wengers. Heffkens, Leakes, and related families visit Harrietsville and nearby towns, with others moving or visiting in Millfield Glouster Bishopville and Lancaster.
Tuppers Plains residents and families travel from Illinois and Pennsylvania to visit relatives including Mrs. Sarah Parr and Eber Cole. Middle Ohio locals share birthdays cards and letters, attend sermons, and note property changes at George's Place. Visitors include Dr. Griffin, Parker family, and the Browns with extended kin from Belpre and Parkersburg.
Bishopville and surrounding areas report Sunday gatherings as the Standleys, Morgans, and Ahles visited family homes along the Muskingum River. Others include the Wellings from Taylor Ridge calling on Dwight and his wife, Jessie renting to Selby Gardner, Ernestine Gladden visiting Hambel family, and Thelma Standley with Merle visiting Ruth Losey in Oakdale. Additional guests included Mrs. Cora Householder with Charles Milhoan.
On Labor Day many former teachers and pupils of the Jasper Hill School will hold a reunion. A basket dinner will be served and the afternoon spent in reminiscences of school days. The Koehler home reunion Sunday was largely attended.
Gallia County unemployment rose as 570 men applied for jobs on State Route 7 at the re employment office in Gallipolis. Over 100 skilled workers seek work, many without employment for years. About 300 are farmers or farm hands citing insufficient family income. few out-of-county men attempted to sign in. Interviews aim to conclude by next Tuesday with committee action soon after.
Gallipolis reports admissions to Holzer Hospital on Tuesday include William Chambers of Eureka for treatment Mrs Carl Cramer of Oak Hill for treatment and Mrs Ralph Sands of Gallipolis discharged Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Minnie Arthur traveled to Cleveland and Columbus this week to buy stock for a new store set to open September 1 on upper Second Avenue in Gallipolis. She was formerly connected with E. N. Deardorff and Company dry goods in town.
The Boggs family held its third annual reunion at Vanderhoof with members from Coolville Akron Parkersburg Little Hocking and Lottridge. A two week revival at Orange Church ended with a home coming and over 100 at the community dinner.
Cheshire Ernest Kennedy returned Friday after a two week stay in Chillicothe. Mrs. Fred Polling of St. Petersburg Fla. called on friends here Thursday. Mrs. 5. W. Renner of Columbia spent last week with sister Mrs. H. O. Clark. Mrs. Cora Thompson visiting relatives in Columbus. E. O. Yeanger and daughters weekend at Urbana and Springfield. Ralph Davison of South Webster visiting his parents. Missionary meeting at Mrs. Ed Swisher's first Thursday in September with picnic dinner. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Mossman of Middleport guests of Mossman parents. Yeanger attended veterans meeting of the C. and O. Railroad in Cincinnati. Mrs. Ida Winegar returned after visiting brother John Roush at Plain City.
In Gallipolis Frank Gemeinhardt of Garfield Avenue reports a remarkable sunflower pair rising 16 feet and 14% feet tall with hundreds of blooms after growing from chicken scratch feed. Last year a towering 13 foot specimen carried 272 flowers.
Gallia County would lose slightly more than $100 000 in real estate tax revenue if the state Senate bill lowers the maximum tax from 15 to 10 mills. Auditor E L White says current real estate yield is about $360 000 with most townships between 12 and 14 mills. Officials warn a 2 to 4 mill cut would force funding shifts to cover the shortfall.
Mrs. Anna Mae Womeldorf returns from a three week trip visiting the Coolidge summer home at Custer South Dakota Glacier National Park and the World's Fair in Chicago en route to Columbus to visit relatives. James Neal Alfred Arnold Eugene Piymale and Robert Martin depart for a week at the Chicago World's Fair. Miss Hazel Richard Holzer Hospital floor supervisor returns from vacation with Huntington friends. Miss Mary Keller and Miss Martha Keller resume in Columbus after two weeks with their brother and wife Mr and Mrs Ted Keller. Miss Margaret Ecker Mrs Vernon Hine and Mrs C L Ecker travel to Akron for three weeks with Mrs Ecker visiting her daughter Mrs Hine. Bernice Mills honoured at a Tuesday kitchen shower organized by Mrs Al Polson.
Eight signers recorded in Gallipolis over the past days join the recovery plan. Names include Roberta Food Shop, Meyer Maggied, Spring Hill Dairy, Ward's Electric Shop, C. A. Jenkins, A. V. Halley, G. W. Moodinpaugh, and Reese Oil Company.
The second annual American Legion Bean Dinner sponsored by Lafayette post 27 will be held Saturday afternoon in City Park. W. E. Gillespie announces old time music by local performers, speeches by legion officials, and informal entertainment with Gus Lear as chef at O. H. E. coordinating the meal and activities.
Gallia County reports indicate the local division of the Highway Department is surveying a proposed Chickamauga Park bridge and evaluating costs and adequacy of bridge types. Pile driving along the Addison cut off State Route 7 aims to prevent landslides on the slope where the new roadway bed is finished.
Representatives A. L. Johnson S. E. Gilbert H. E. Houck W. T. Wells H. Brucker and Ora Wall of Gallipolis left for the state rally in Tiffin this week and will return home Thursday.
Gallipolis Ohio August 30 Russell Jeffers who had been jailed since Sunday on breaking and entering charges was released Tuesday afternoon on a $500 bond provided by J H Deckerd of Huntington Township.
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