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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1930
Page
6
Preparations are complete for the Athens Country Club New Year dance with J Alouge Valier heading the Social Committee. The Varsity Six orchestra from Columbus is set to play, the event starting at 9 o'clock in formal attire and promising strong attendance.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Shaver announce the marriage of their daughter Lucille Shaver to Mr. Clyde Sapp. The ceremony was Saturday December 27 at the Methodist parsonage performed by Rev. C. M. Coulter. The couple reside on Woodland Avenue. Dr. and Mrs. D. W. McKinley of Cincinnati visited the McKinley family on East State Street. Miss Elizabeth Wood travels to Columbus to visit relatives until school opens.
Isaac Ash and Dr. H J Jeddeloh return from Cleveland after attending the annual American Sociological Society meeting and Alpha Kappa Delta. Several families travel to Gallipolis Columbus and Athens for holidays. Eagles Auxiliary set to meet. Various residents visit relatives in Columbus, Millersburg, Mansfield, Hilliardsville, Brillitant, and Marietta. Some depart for Florida for the winter.
Leah Connett hosted a bridge party honoring Ellen Biddle who is home for holidays from Columbus School For Girls. Attendees included Betty Bolin Tom Biddle Leah Kircher Robert Wagner John Phillips Webster Dalton Carol Ruston Katherine Connett Tony Bright Denman Goss Claudia Hansel Cleoa Howell Constance and Richard Dent announced future move to Cleveland with Mr. Dent as assistant manager of the Proc tor and Gamble Company.
Mrs L M Hell 74 Morris Avenue will host the Friday Bridge Club at her home Friday evening at 7 20. Miss Juanita Cunningham of Gloucester visits her grandparents Mr and Mrs C F E Palmer 18 Clark Street. Edna Parker has returned to Washington DC after a few days with Athens relatives. she works for the government there. Edna Swan daughter of Mrs J C Swan West State Street has returned to Cleveland where she teaches.
Dr. Rauch of the Bureau of Classification of Prisoners urged a separate school in each Ohio county for mentally deficient pupils. Speaking to the Ohio Education Association sociology section, he criticized public schools for neglecting the deficient child and argued that incomplete education leaves many criminals.
Revival services at the Methodist Protestant Church Richland Avenue begin Sunday night with Rev A E McCaul Loch in charge. The pastor Rev J T Cartwright says the services will last probably more than two weeks. A New Year watch service is set for tonight with prayer services Thursday Friday and Saturday nights.
Miss Rosemary Johnson, former University of Illinois co ed, files a breach of promise suit seeking 25000 dollars for heart harm against William J Lodge UWI a recent graduate. She alleges they planned to marry last June but he changed his mind and broke the engagement.
In Zanesville on December 31 Donald Fuller 38 son of Ralph and Mrs Fuller died when a window sash fell on his neck as he tried to enter his own home. His parents were away at the time. He raised the window to gain entry and the sash dropped.
More than 300 people attended the Salvation Army Christmas party on Tuesday night. Gifts including toys from The Athens Messenger Toy Shop were distributed to 200 children along with fruit and sweets. The program featured songs and recitations by Sunbeams, Girl Guards, and Sunday School members.
The Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers Union approves a five day week affecting 440 Columbus members when it takes effect Friday. The shift aims to provide more workers with jobs.
New York reports the Department of Agriculture lifting restrictions on refined corn sugar. Corn Products Refining Co. plans to double output with several million dollars in expansions, enlarging Kansas City plant and adding Pekin facility. Expected corn use rises by 15 to 20 million bushels next year. Present daily output about 400000 pounds. Labeling rules loosen as pure refined corn sugar no longer requires declaration. Price around 50 cents per hundred pounds cheaper than cane or beet sugar.
Joe questions why discussions on paying college football players persist and jokes about using a coin to decide payoffs before games. The remark hints at ongoing debate and a lighthearted take on athlete compensation.
Ohio farmers seeded 1 912 000 acres of wheat this fall, up 53 000 from 1928 and 19 000 more than last year, per C W Eberhard of the Ohio Farm Bureau grain department. Wheat condition at 87 percent normal, with production at 29 million bushels amid winter-kill losses. Corn harvest nearly finished. prices have fallen, reducing movement as feeds substitute oats and other grains.
Washington reports rail executives foresee consolidation within a year of the four system trunk line merger, tying to Hoover's support. Opposition in Congress and from labor chiefs threatens the plan to merge about 50 Eastern lines into four systems led by New York Central, B and O, Pennsy, and C and O. The leaders plan to draft a final proposal in New York and present it to the Interstate Commerce Commission as an alternative to the five-system plan. The Georgia Tech coaching staff was shaken up amid a poor season.
In Cincinnati a tenant Edgar Daughrity 36 shot and killed landlord Frank Fuller 88 during a rent quarrel. Daughrity surrendered to police and a murder charge was expected. Fuller armed with a pipe tried to force entry before Daughrity fired the revolver.
Mrs Elmer Oberrecht spotted a girl wearing a coat stolen from her home on December 14. She followed the girl to a house and called police who found silverware clothing and jewelry pilfered from the Oberrecht and two other Hamilton homes.
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