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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1935
Page
5
A petition was filed today in the Ohio Common Pleas seeking foreclosure of a mortgage for 1124.15. The case names Alfred Russell as possessor and Mary E. Coolville as party to the action. The matter proceeds before Judge Lincheon.
Every youth at Camp Athens will get a five day Christmas leave. Half of them will go home Dec 21 and return Dec 26. The others will leave Dec 26 and return Jan 2. A big turkey dinner with all the trimmings will be served Christmas Day to the youths who remain in camp.
Isaac Palmer of The Plains underwent a major surgical operation at Sheltering Arms Hospital on Tuesday. Bernadine Farrell of Athens had a minor operation. Joe Morgan of Millfield was dismissed. A bronze plate in Osborne County Kansas marks the surveyors’ key station for the Canada Mexico and United States network.
Wall Street traders saw prices edge higher as steel and iron industries face cautious demand. In Kansas, wheat and corn quotes were mixed while potatoes and eggs moved within narrow ranges and poultry prices held steady amid modest activity.
The market lists eggs with small gains for extras and steady cheese values including New York full cream variants. Poultry prices remain mixed with different weights and classes, while hog dressed meat is quoted at 28 with other poultry categories showing fluctuating figures.
Current receipts show nearby eggs with weak prices and commissions. Whites large and medium sizes listed with corresponding codes 31052 and 33035. Butter totals include 2214 tubs and 678 cases of eggs reflected in the records.
Chicago and Cleveland market notes show unsettled prices with firm, creamery and top quality egg and butter standards. Carrot and egg grades vary, with pullet eggs listed and receipts current, while additional figures reflect firsts seconds and standard quality levels.
Hogs and cattle show mixed demand with prices mostly steady to lower. Hogs trade around 9.35 to 10.00 per hundredweight for various weights, with sow value steady. Cattle and calves see declines in slaughter steers and fat cows, vealers down, sheep lines firmer at top around 11.55 while mid ranges fall. Pigsburg market reports similar trends with direct sales and slight price drops across weights.
George Ossman aged about 50 was taken into custody by Sheriff Charles Stratton and Special Deputy Rolland Ruth Tuesday night. He remained in Athens County Jail today and is expected to be arraigned for intoxication, Stratton said.
Athens County totals sales tax and automobile license revenues at 343124.45 this year with 258318.80 from sales tax and 84805.65 from tag sales for roads. Per capita figures show 3.78 county, 11.75 Athens city, 6.27 Nelsonville, 4.04 villages, 0.71 rural. Allocation details include schools, old age pensions, local government, and road funds with distributions to towns Athena City, Chauncey, Coolville, Glouster, Jacksonville, Nelsonville. Also notes sale time changes for 1986 auto tags and regional allocations from neighboring counties.
The Ohio University YWCA under Dean Irma E. Voigt brings Christmas cheer to mining towns with scrapbooks for hospital and Algiers school, shoes and garments for five families, and candy for local children. Volunteers from the university, town groups, and church societies fund and organize gift projects and Santa activities at Athens County Children's Home.
The CCC Camp Athens minstrel show features a youth cast with a six piece orchestra and six end men. A vocal quartet chalk talk dances and a trumpet solo are planned with Negro spirituals and popular songs. Directed by Robert Whitaker and Faith Cordrey, the event runs about ninety minutes and is open to the public free of charge.
Raymond Windle age 31 of Nelsonville pleaded not guilty before Judge C F Rowland in Athens County Common Pleas Court Tuesday to a rape charge. He was released on $1000 bond after indictment by the Athens County Grand Jury. Windle had been held in Hocking County Jail on another charge and was turned over to Athens County authorities by Nelsonville Police Chief George Bateman.
Ruth Burdette reports 371 bills of sale filed as of mid December showing 53 new cars sold in Athens County in the first 17 days of the month.
Camp Athens youths place an 18 foot cedar on the ridge above the city. More than 100 colored electric lights decorate the top of the tree and it is lighted all night for visibility from many areas. The recreation hall is also decorated for the holidays.
The docket covers Hudwell Buckley suit against Floyd Fought over a 1500 trust payment, a potential foreclosure if an 8035.05 judgment to Mutual Home and Savings Co. goes unpaid, and various probate items. Also notes delinquent taxes, guardianships, an estate exempt from inheritance tax, and a hydra fact for contrast.
The first quarterly conference of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens will be held tonight at seven thirty with Dr R O McClure presiding. J E Thackrey will lead the congregation and choir in Christmas carols at the opening. the meeting is open to all church members and friends.
Scoutmasters patrol leaders and other solicitors gather at the American Legion Hall in Glouster at 7 30 PM to review the Boy Scout fund campaign. The meeting marks the close of the Glouster section of the Hock Hocking District drive. uncontacted donors may contribute via Phil Robinson.
The Athens County National Reemployment Service office in the Armory Building will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. Announcement was made today by Thomas Hixenbaugh in Athens.
The Bryan Memorial Fund opens with a 600 dollar gift from the Pan-Hellenic Council representing eight sororities at Ohio University. The fund aims to install an organ in Alumni Memorial Auditorium and may divert the Chimes Fund from 1917 into this memorial.
The annual meeting of 17 Athens County boards of education will be held Thursday at 1 PM in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. County Superintendent Kenneth C. Ray will lead the talks on current educational trends and school problems.
A Norge gas range is advertised as a revolutionary cooking aid with a rigid angle iron frame supporting all weight to protect porcelain. It features extra heavy oven insulation to prevent heat loss at corners and walls, inviting comparisons with current equipment and other ranges for better cooking results.
Professor J Homer Caskey of Ohio University will present a paper at the fifty second annual Modern Language Association meeting in Cincinnati on January 1 titled The Commonplace Book of Arthur Murphy. It analyzes an unpublished commonplace book kept by the dramatist essayist and critic and traces sources for Murphys notes on The Constituent Parts of the Drama.
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