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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1934
Page
5
Academy teams face Bidwell tonight in a basketball doubleheader at the Washington School gym. The girls game starts at 7 pm with the Gallia boys following as coach Harold Brown leads the local team against Bidwell.
Gallia County tobacco auction opened with 18 568 pounds as prices nearly double last year s opener. Average price rose to 20 73 per hundred from 11 cents, with twists wrapper hitting 33 cents and common tip at 6 cents. Growers celebrated the best prices in years as AAA policy begins.
Prosecuting Attorney Fred Cherrington filed indictments against Jesse Woodward and Enya Shaffer approved by Judge W R White of the Common Pleas Court. Woodward faces a statutory charge and is serving time in the Ohio Penitentiary while Shaffer is charged with burning a barn. Both suspects are from Guyan Township.
The Dravo Construction Company, now building the Eureka locks nine miles below Gallipolis, was among the low bidders for the new dam across the Ohio River at Huntington W Va. The contract awaits government approval.
Ethel Hoover sues for divorce from Minor Hoover citing neglect and cruelty. seeks custody of four children. Austie Ferguson seeks alimony and temporary injunction against Glenn Ferguson, alleging marriage since 1917 and four children, with husband as concrete foreman earning zero, calls for child support and restraint. Judge W R White notes child support payments tied to earnings. Arthur Kitchen ordered ten dollars monthly while earning fifty or more. W R O'Brien sues for twelve five two dollars on note by Dc W Lanier with chattel mortgage on auto repair equipment. seeks payment or foreclosure.
Gallia County selects 35 members for an advisory committee to study the Federal Housing Administration plan. The group includes bank presidents, building and loan secretaries, and other civic representatives such as H. K. Butler, Ralph Davis, H. A. Wood, E. L. Cottrell, Judge W. R. White, and Mrs. Lola C. Neal among others.
In Gallipolis Grace Methodist Episcopal Church the Rev HM Wilbur preaches Martin Luther and The Bible in the morning and The Reconciliation in the evening with junior topics Kindness to Dumb Animals and Forgetting Ourselves. The Rev George Sagen assists in Carpenter Ohio and returns for two services.
Earl C. Mohr will assume the Mason County West Virginia commissioner post for the unexpired term ending January 1. The younger Mohr, a former stogie manufacturer in Gallipolis, left the county about 15 years ago to pursue other work.
A blaze broke out Thursday afternoon behind the F. F E Kerr frame store on Third Avenue in Gallipolis. Firemen answered the alarm at 2 40 PM and, within ten minutes, extinguished the fire, preventing spread to adjacent buildings.
Day ton's Chauncey William Myers traveled from Columbus on business and spent the day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Myers, on Mill Street.
The article lists Brumfield Adolf Henke G W Han ey Joe Moch John McNealey Harry Wheeler Alva Myers Mrs Helen Booth William McKnight Aaron Camp William Richards M T Ep ling C D Slagle and Gilbert Bush among those named in a community notice.
Stanley A. Layne buys the Third Avenue home from Mrs. Mame Thompson Volk. Garret A. Layne, his brother, is tied to local business. The family will move from Chesapeake Ohio to Gallipolis by year’s start.
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