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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1933
Page
3
In Nelsonville Ohio on December 28 engineers and workers moved to extinguish a mine fire at an abandoned shaft near Church Street. Chief of Mine James Berry of Columbus reported plans to drown the blaze with water after assessing whether burning has reached a low point. A force of men was at work this morning on the project.
Scoutmaster D Mender schedules Friday meeting at the K of P Building for all leaders and committeemen. Dues for 1934 will be collected. C Leroy Thomlinson and Har digley named as assistants to oversee badge work and activities. A birthday party for a local girl featured decorations and games with many area youths listed among attendees.
ER. J. Arnold attends the Ohio Association sessions in Columbus this week as the meeting gathers city officials and members.
Christmas Day brought news of a marriage for Ruth Dunlap and Ernest Foraker, both of Corning, who wed in Covington Kentucky on July 28 1981. Miss Margaret Scott joined them. both graduates of Corning High School. Foraker completed a Columbus business course in June. Ruth Dunlap is daughter of Clyde and granddaughter of Will Evans of Nelsonville. Foraker is son of Delmer Foraker and works as a bookkeeper at the New Lexington CWA office.
Roy Washburn of Wooster returned after a three day visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Co. E. Washburn. Nellie Reuter of Lancaster spent Christmas with her sister Mrs. M. H. Ohlinger. Floyd Rosser and wife came back to Detroit after Christmas with their families. J W Stanley hosted Cathleen and Maxine Powers and James May. L E Buell family from Wooster were guests of Mrs. Buell's mother. Rev. R F Strickler returned from Marion where he was joined by his wife and sons.
Mrs. J. W. Stanley and her son Walter were guests of their daughter over Christmas and later returned home after visiting the former's parents Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Cox in Byesville.
In Nelsonville on December 28 the T C L Club held its December meeting at Mrs Mae Ennis home. Guests enjoyed contests games and a gift exchange along with a four course dinner. The next gathering is set for January 17 with Mrs Blanche Brooks hosting on Clinton Street.
Miss Wilma Scott hosted a Christmas gathering for her Christian Church Sunday School class. Activities included games and contests for the children, lunch was served, and each child took home a small Christmas gift.
Dempsey Martin of Pomeroy appeared in Mayor J. W. Hickman court on a petit larceny charge filed by James Mann. He pleaded not guilty and was bound over for grand jury with a $100 bond.
Gallia County farmers progress on forming district committees to implement the 1934 35 AAA tobacco acreage reduction contracts. Meetings planned in each district next week with contract sign ups to follow. Eligible growers from 1931 1933 may choose 33 1 3 or 50 percent base reduction and collect three payments including a $20 per acre rental before March 1 19M.
Gallia County officials report that nine justices of the peace have received four year commissions from Governor White and Secretary Myers. The names listed include John Jones Perry Township E E Niday Guyan Township Leo Carter Gallipolis Township H E Grover Addison Township R C Dabney Springfield Township J G Rogers Harrison Township W F Chambers Clay Township E C Bostic Ohio Township Amos Rife Cheshire Township.
Gallipolis officials elected in November prepare to organize. The Gallipolis District Board of Education will hold its first meeting Monday night along with other district boards. Uri Lloyd is the lone new member on the local board, succeeding others.
Gallipolis reports about 900 sets of automobile license tags sold up to Wednesday night. Deputy registrar Mrs. Goldie V. Niday said comparisons with last year are difficult due to new registry offices at Vinton and Crown City. Archie Glassburn of Bidwell reserved DT77-777, the most distinctive local tag.
Herbert Riggs 19 of Middleport and Evelyn Walburn 17 of Pomeroy married in a public ceremony during the Tri State Walkathon at Midway Gardens near Cheshire. They received nuptial gifts from Gallipolis and Middleport businesses as part of the event. The Walkathon continued with three couples and two solo dancers aiming to exceed 1,000 hours by New Year’s Day.
Snow removal efforts in Gallia County included a state highway maintenance plow clearing Gallipolis city streets and State Highway 7. Earl M. Brown, superintendent, said workers were also used yesterday and Tuesday to land icy spots on the county’s state highway system.
Gallipolis officials County Superintendent H. B. Bradbury and Gal lipolis City Schools Superintendent Wayne Lutz planned to attend the Ohio Educational Association meeting in Columbus on Thursday.
Gallipolis records a zero degree official low yesterday morning the winter low for the area Gilbert Bush weather observer said. Unofficial readings outside the city reached 4 degrees below. Many CWA workers quit work for the day due to the cold snap.
Joe Carney Jr of Dayton returned to the Ohio Penitentiary after a decade on the run following a wall escape. He was first admitted in 1912 and now faces four years for shooting with intent to kill. After escaping he spent six years in West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville.
Theodore G. Joslin, White House secretary to the late Hoover, announced he will publish a book revealing the 12 bear raiding “culprits” named in the Senate Stock Market Investigation. The work promises inside detail on the president’s discovery of the low mood bear raids.
In Cincinnati Ohio a father Raymond Miller Sr 31 forced his five year old son Raymond Miller Jr to traverse ice covered streets barefoot in near zero weather to elicit sympathy and alms. Police found the boy's shoes and stockings and $6.21 in the father's pockets.
Shanghai dispatch says China’s 19th Route Army, once famed as a major force, now rebels and moves against the Nationalist Government. Observers fear a climactic clash in Fukien and Chekiang as government forces mobilize on land sea and air.
Federal Judge Samuel H. West denied an injunction against construction of a municipal power plant in Oberlin. Citizens hailed the ruling as a precedent for municipalities in utilities controversies as Ohio towns challenge privately owned utilities over rate reductions.
Madison report says Dr. George A. Kopp of the University of Wisconsin Department of Speech links stuttering to inorganic deficiencies in patients’ blood. He notes metabolism could offer a cure, though not yet perfected, as blood differences are studied and tested to resemble normal patterns.
American exports remained strong in November with a total value of 184 million dollars, about five percent below October but over 45 million above November last year. Imports rose to 128 million dollars, up 23 percent from October and 33 percent from November 1932.
Springfield actions report the Illinois State Tax Levy Board voting to eliminate the state property tax. The measure saves property owners about 35 million dollars and replaces the tax with a 2 percent gross sales levy on retail merchants, expected to yield roughly 3 million dollars monthly until July 1 1935 when the sales tax law ends.
A farmer and his wife were struck and killed by a Lake Shore electric car as they walked along the track near Fremont on Wednesday night.
Washington December 28 A Wall Street effort to unify the American banking system may push Congress to consider dual federal state bank issues. Morgan and Rockefeller interests back bank reform. proposals range from gradual to immediate unification and extending national banks’ branch rights in states that permit it.
J. M. Nichols of the First National Bank of Englewood nicknamed "100 Per Cent Nichols" rejects a government plan to guarantee bank deposits. He calls it a crime for a bank like his to fund a program for protecting incompetent bankers and warns of higher charges to customers if forced to join.
Washington December 28 40 P a total of 13 699 of the country 14 500 operating banks have applied for membership in the government's bank deposit insurance pool which becomes effective next Tuesday Wal ter J Cummings chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation said today Under the plan approximately 7 percent of all bank deposits will be insured in full up to 2500 dollars
State Senator L. L Marshal denies accusations of driving while intoxicated and speeding when his car struck and injured Mrs. Leah L. Monreal in Cleveland. Monreal filed a $10,000 damage suit in common pleas court claiming permanent injuries from the May 5 collision.
Bertha Smith former Princess Cantacuzene of Russia and great granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant filed for divorce from Bruce Smith son of Thomas F. Smith president of Louisville Paper Company.
Ohio judge rules mail order divorces from Mexican courts invalid in the state. Judge Frederick P. Walther notes the practice is not legal here, with attorneys largely agreeing, except for Phillip Bartell who has secured 18 such divorces for clients who stayed in Ohio. A Mexican offer via Judge M S Flores claimed 15 days needed for contested divorces, while the Mexican Supreme Court recently ruled such divorces cannot be valid if used to dodge U S law.
Brown City Michigan December report shows Mayor Hart J. Palmer drawing a $25 annual salary after an economy program. He notes his bank funds are frozen, his county Republican committee post unpaid, and amateur sports earnings dried up while he continues CWA sewer work.
In San Pedro California L G McBurney leaves 1000 to Joseph Stalin and 1000 to President Roosevelt while his four children receive one dollar each unless heirs protest. Police found the will during a search for Communist propaganda. The death was from a heart attack.
Thirty members of Athens city government and the incoming administration attended the annual officers and employees dinner at Hotel Berry. Robert S. Wood, retiring mayor, praised past service while L. B. McCune, incoming mayor, urged cooperation for a better two years.
Marcia Karr, who had surgery seven weeks ago to remove a spinal abscess at a Columbus hospital, returned home Thursday in satisfactory condition. Local families shared holiday visits and greetings across Syracuse, Pomeroy, and nearby towns as relatives gathered for Christmas.
A U S border patrolman and a smuggler were killed during renewed efforts against rum runners along the Texas border at El Paso. Four suspected smugglers were captured, two others wounded, with twenty gallons of contraband whiskey seized.
COOLVILLE December 28 Troy Grange will meet Saturday afternoon for a holiday program. Each member is asked to bring a contribution toward the mystery feast a dish or package with contents concealed until lunch. Congregational and Methodist Sunday Schools held a Christmas program at the church. Three carloads sang carols door to door for shut ins. Various local residents visited relatives over Christmas and returned home.
The Bronx Zoo vampire bat from Central America died after fourteen weeks in the zoo. The bat gave birth to a baby on December 2, now living, while the cause of the mother's death remains unknown. Curator Raymond L. Ditmars had brought the specimen to New York.
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