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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1938
Page
7
Gallia County WPA rolls shrink as L. C. Gibson orders immediate separation of drones from payrolls. Over 50 workers discharged. enrolles set to drop by ten daily. Foremen act as weeding officers. protests ignored. County plans accelerated road work while awaiting funds and relief applications rise.
Following her death in an Athens hospital earlier in the week, funeral services were held for Mrs Grace Hill Grove at the family homestead here Wednesday by Rev W S Westerman. Pallbearers were Judge J S Clark, Alfred W Davis, George F Bovie, Harry Maddy, C S Ingels, Jack Wolfe.
Children will welcome Santa with a parade through the business district Saturday at 2 p.m. The high school band leads. prizes totaling 30 dollars await best costumes and original vehicles. Legionnaires police traffic. parade forms at city park river side, travels First Locust Second Court, ending at Court Street. Santa will give prizes and candies from the band stand.
Thirty five persons join the instructional course in First Aid at Washington School in Gallia County. Dr. William Lacy of the Red Cross leads lectures and demonstrations on anatomy injuries dressings and respiration. Upon completion a 30 hour course issues certificates authorizing teaching First Aid to teachers drivers and WPA groups.
Gallipolis reports healthy seal sales as 200 mail contacts circulate in Gallia County. A 90 member committee pushes community sales while local post office employes judge the sales heavy from seals on letters and packages.
Investigation by County Auditor E. D. Keeler shows every former active G A R Post in Gallia County has ceased through death. Cadet Post 126 Gallipolis Corwin Post 259 Vinton D L Morton Post 363 Eureka Joseph Walter Post 397 Saundersville Lyons Post 447 Kyger Hancock Post 571 Thurman Sisson Post 626 Bidwell Shenefield Post 734 Ewington. Discontinued records often sent to Miss Lida S. Lucas in Columbus for safekeeping. TO MANAGE ESTATE Harry M. Miller named administrator of the estate of the late Thomas J. Reynolds with bond set at 1000 dollars.
Mrs. Tillie Denny Donnally of Gallipolis files suit for divorce from Lester Donnally alleging wilful absence and asks restoration to her maiden name.
Gallia County turkey raisers kept flocks for Christmas markets. Edith M hutsinpiller, chief accountant for Gallia Producer, notes demand shifts from Thanksgiving to Christmas, with higher prices for growers thanks to stronger holiday demand.
Adelia Miles 85 of Gallipolis died in a Columbus home for the aged fire along with two other elderly residents who suffocated. She was the eldest of six children of C J Miles, a native of Gallipolis. Her brother Charles Miles, once operator of Indianola Park, Columbus, survives. Miles was first cousin to Millard M Miles of Gallipolis, chief accountant at the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics.
Walter L. Wolff of the Federal Rural Electrification Association and John Lusher of Buckeye Electric Cooperative outline plans to bring electric service to southern Gallia and northern Lawrence Counties. About 375 residents have signed as prospective users, with $175,000 allocated and more possible. A central Ohio plant or Eureka Dam site may supply power if competitive bids fail. Loan demand to construct is high. applications must reach REA in Washington before February 1.
A meeting of recently discharged county WPA workers is called for Friday and Saturday at the city park by Earl Vance of 18 Mill Creek. Public protest plans are being considered.
John Sprague, a Kerr Station schoolboy, has returned to Holzer Hospital for treatment of a left hand wound sustained earlier in the hunting season when a shotgun blast damaged two fingers. Also noted is a 1926 London Zoo exhibit of an albino elephant from Burma.
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