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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1928
Page
15
Local Nelsonville merchants advertise a wide range of groceries hardware and home goods. Featured offers include bread coal and canned goods from area grocers, used appliances, gas heaters, plumbing services, jewelry, gloves and hosiery, Christmas toys, bedding and rugs, and vehicle sales with installment terms. The items reflect a busy midcentury small town marketplace with multiple shops and phones listed.
A flood of holiday merchandise pours from Columbus and nearby cities with colored glassware at 25c to 105c per piece. Salt and pepper shakers two for 25c, earthenware fenpot a rare gift at $1, Electric irons and percolators priced for Christmas, plus toys, sleds, candy jars, and luggage. High variety from vendors such as Ohlinger and Wolfe, Carpenter Hardware, and Vance the Jeweler. Regional market quotes for produce and livestock round out the report.
Local classifieds list a flood of holiday offers from Southern Ohio Electric and multiple Logan businesses. Furniture and lamps, radios, and Maytag appliances are pitched with installment terms and low weekly payments. Also noted is the probate appointment of MaMa Ma Mannini of Nelsonville? Athens County.
International officers have no opposition in the vote for international district and sub-district officers. James Duncan Glouster dies at 72 in Columbus. his widow and two daughters survive. The council discusses violations of restricted area signs and stop signs as a mayor pledges action. Funeral services set for Monday at 1 p.m. in Jacksonville area.
The Board of Public Affairs reports November receipts of 1535.28 and expenditures of 1422.70, with water light and maintenance funds solid. A funeral service for former leader Vern Mills is planned in Jacksonville, while new fire badges and a city telephone link enhance the department.
Receipts from Christmas Seal sales rise as Athens County committees report exhausted stamps at the Athens headquarters. Stamps will be restocked early next week with county wide distribution except Glouster and Nelsonville. Funds support tuberculosis treatment and prevention. local relief uses Red Cross and cooperatives, with detailed yearly allocations for milk, clothing, and sanatorium care.
NBC Midwest and NBC networks present a slate of programs from the Chicago Symphony to Tosca singers and Tosca violinists. Highlights include Atwater Kent hour with Hulda Lashanska and Toscha Seidel, Collier's radio hour, and Philharmonic Symphony from the Metropolitan Opera House. A Cavalleria Rusticana broadcast, Vitaphone Hour, and Babe Ruth sports talk also appear among the listings.
The Brotherhood of the Athens Presbyterian Church opens its meeting series Thursday evening with Rev. Dr Frank TH Throop of Columbus presenting a talk on Modern Movements in the Old World. Throop spent ten years in the Orient, lending expertise to the topic as noted by Pastor A Y Willcox.
A Lorain Ohio brief reports a geography class of eight members traveling to Marietta for a four-session series. The itinerary includes a dinner at 6 pm by Mrs. Arthur Boytes, speeches by Dr. Throop and other academics, and visits to Blennerhasset Island and Amesville museums along the river road to explore early Ohio settlement sites.
A freshman at Ohio University Helen May Gerstenslager 19 died in hospital Friday night after intestinal collapse following illness from Thanksgiving travel Her autopsy confirmed the collapse Doctors treated her since Wednesday and prayers and family support followed in Wooster Ohio She was a member of Alpha Gamma Delta and lived in Lindley Hall
Athena witnessed a two hour multilingual League of Nations presentation at Ewing Auditorium Ohio University. More than 70 students directed by Miss Mary Noss and Willfred Mauck acted as officials and delegates, delivering speeches in French German Spanish and Japanese about Germany joining the League. Delegates voted aloud as in formal proceeding with translations provided for audience understanding.
Interpreters listed as Yvonne Robie Maurice Patty Violet Polanski Tanara Paull Henry Wilson Ralph Brown George Luce Lee Sellars Douglas Grafflin Robert Young and Ralph Graves. The assembly secretary identified as Donald Grafflin.
In Jackson County Floyd Young, 36, was shot and fatally wounded while hunting near here yesterday. E. M. Wilson, 81, was shot and penetrated a lung after attempting to climb a fence, injured by a hit and run incident at the start of the hunting season.
Officials warned of rising hostilities between Bolivian and Paraguayan border troops with unknown casualties. The dispute concerns a large triangular region about 600 by 800 miles, rooted in birth of the two nations and a string of failed treaties and understandings.
Dec 8 in Portsmouth reports two new tularemia cases linked to rabbit fever. Victims include Mrs Walter Bee a prominent resident and Kid Ware a local butcher. Mrs C L Edwards remains seriously ill after a week of fever.
Auditor J Clyde Edmundson reports November treasury totals with receipts of 646.73 and disbursements of 53 399.79. October balance was 114 029.60. December end balance lists funds across County, improved roads, dog and kennel, bond and interest, district health, salaries, and unclaimed funds with multiple line items and trust balances.
State Highway Department tests piers for the South Bridge as plans for a new Grosvenor Memorial Bridge advance. The concrete and steel construction aims for a safer wider entry from the city side, with completion hoped near Ohio University Stadium dedication next fall. The project, part of 1929 state road program, will serve Ohio University, Athens State Hospital, and Federal Route No. 60. Increased traffic is expected on Route No. 60 and 61.
In Bedlin on December 8, Jaime Del Rio, divorced husband of film star Dolores Del Rio, died after surgery complications. He reportedly asked, near death, to be buried with his wedding ring on beside his former wife.
Mary Williams aged 70 and her son Lawson were found asphyxiated at their home in Newell West Virginia, across the river from East Liverpool. Lawson worked in a pottery factory.
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