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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1931
Page
11
DUSKY Dec 11 The Grange adopted the report of its committee on education urging greater state role in funding Ohio schools and higher education. It backed a personal income tax with education taxes shared by the state, and adopted a taxation committee report opposing dole programs while seeking economy in public affairs.
About 60 Past Masters of District 17 of the Masonic Lodge joined Paramuthia Lodge at the Masonic Temple for a combined election supper and degree work. Officers for the Past Masters Association were elected and a turkey dinner followed with 150 guests in attendance.
The fragment describes a two color frock with smart draped yoke and contrasting bodice and elbow with wool and satin fabric. It outlines a sewing pattern note on color pairing and fabric textures for a ladies dress.
A group of 50 hunger marchers arrived in Martins Ferry Ohio after tear gas battles with police on Thursday and planned to continue to Columbus today. Police reported the marchers became unruly during the stop.
Cleveland December 11. Wensinger a weather service pilot planned a routine flight to three miles for temperature readings. He became lost in heavy clouds and landed after gliding over a field of gas wells near North Canton. Workmen fled as he circled. the plane passed through a natural gas fountain but remained ignited.
Ohio University professor F J Rees uncovers the origin of Cutler Hall design after six years of student inquiry. He links the tower and carved modillions to plates in Asher Benjamin’s American Builders Companion from 1806 and suggests eastern book plates influenced early Ohio architecture brought by Marietta settlers.
The fragment speculates that the buildings’ designs may not be the work of a single planner nor the result of two individuals sharing a copy of Benjamin’s architectural volume as they drew the plans.
In Gallipolis on December 11 growers protested the season’s start at the Gallipolis bone leaf tobacco warehouse. The clash halted trading with prices from one to three cents and an average around nine cents. The warehouse closed until Friday after physical confrontations.
The navy Dirigible Akron appeared over Washington just before dawn, drifted slowly over the city for more than an hour above the Potomac River area and Holing Field, and then moved away to the south.
Ohio industrial employment fell 4 percent in November from October, per Ohio State University Bureau of Business Research. Construction jobs dropped 11 percent that month, non manufacturing held steady, and manufacturing declined by about 4 percent on the usual seasonal pattern.
A strong windstorm struck one mile south of Texarkana demolishing homes and killing two residents. Authorities reported widespread damage to houses and surrounding structures as rescue crews searched for injured survivors.
The cabinet of Premier Rejeiro Wakatauri resigned today and delivered the letter to Emperor Hirohito at 4 30 pm.
Reverend and Mrs C M Coutts and others represent the First Methodist of Athens at the annual conference of church workers for the North Central Region at the University of Chicago December 2 3 and 30 The Weasley Foundation at the university will also attend with Mrs H E B Bens and Mrs Guy Saylor among features of the conference including attendance at Green Pastures and preparations for the play backstage work.
Four men were electrocuted at the Southern Citnoia in Chester today. One of the condemned murderers sang a song of his own composition as he died.
The Athens Moose Lodge schedules the 44th annual Charity Ball for December 2 at the hall. Proceeds go to Mooseheart for the lodge’s children’s round. Willis Orchestra at Wellerton has been engaged to perform.
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