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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1941
Page
10
Francis Lavelle of Athens Lodge announced 41 candidates will be received at the March meeting. Gallipolis Lodge installed a red Wilton rug for ceremonial use, employed for the first time last night.
Gallia officials report Scoutmasters Edwin McCormick and Capt. J Paul Wetherholt will resign their posts. McCormick leaves to farm while Wetherholt enters army service. Each has served local Boy Scout troops for more than a decade.
Gallia County merchants urge the city commission to reject parking meters. The open letter questions costs, bidding, referendum need, police power justification, and owner objections, noting possible upcoming meetings in March.
Gallipoilas Parker Peters in the county engineer's office plans to run levels and set stakes on the State St extension before March 1. A steam shovel and pile driver recently purchased by the county commissioners are expected to arrive soon for the project. Clearing on the site is minimal.
Gallia county Infantile Paralysis Foundation reports have not yet received full fundraising tallies but expects about 150 dollars. About half remains with the local county unit and the other half is sent to the national organization.
Automobile Club headquarters and local organizations were notified that the year long detour on Route 35 at Richmondale has been abolished after road improvements ended.
Gallipolis. Mrs Edna King files a divorce action against Hezekiah King alleging gross neglect and wilful absence. Hezekiah is said to be employed in Huntington.
Relatives notified of the death of Mrs. Josie Bailey in Clinton Iowa. Born in Green Township she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Rader. Survived by a son and two daughters.
In Gallia County Mrs George Glenn of Vinton won a judgment against William Porter for 160 dollars 65 cents in an action filed by Mrs Glenn.
The McKinley Day banquet committee set plans Monday night for the event at the Masonic Social Rooms Wednesday evening. Logan High School instructor James Horwell will lead the orchestra, R. R. Bangham former state finance director, will give the principal address, and Attorney General Thomas J. Herbert will also speak. Fred Carpenter in charge of ticket sales reports widespread county interest and expected large attendance.
Mrs Asbury Riggs of W Second Street is listed in fair condition at Cherrington Hospital after being struck Sunday night by an automobile driven by Frank Courter of this city. She suffers a fractured right leg and right wrist along with shock.
Five selective volunteers depart for Fort Hayes after a brief courthouse address by Rev B R Reed. Two colored men to depart Feb 20 and four white men on Feb 27. Ellen A Chapman and Kenneth Ellsworth McLeod volunteered yesterday. March and April expect heavy calls. volunteer list may exhaust by end April. Doctors Schwartz Fos ter and Barton assist examination of entrants.
Gallipolis high school French class of about 40 members postpones its dinner to March due to the middle of next month presentation of Pirates of Penzance. Students will prepare a ten course menu including onion soup omelet salads and edible snails for class members and a restricted guest list in the high school refectory.
Gallia County notices show strong interest in a mattress making project led by County Agent E. G. Royer. Meetings are held this month to discuss the plan, with applications for government cotton and ticking covers taken at the sessions and a requisition for supplies to be sent April 1.
Major Samuel L. Bossard of the state hospital medical staff has received a War Department order to hold in readiness and report for active duty immediately upon notification.
A large crowd gathered at Gravel Hill Cemetery in Cheshire for graveside services for Ray McElhinny of Middleton.
Gallia County ranks sixth in import and financial importance of sheep raising. Thousands of new lambs will join flocks in the remainder of this month and in March. Hill farms are well suited for sheep, but many sheep killing dogs deter ventures.
Gallipolis social notes recap weekend visits and gatherings. Mr and Mrs J G Schreck and Mr and Mrs Hollis Queen stayed with Mr and Mrs Donald Robins on weekend in Chillicothe with a Sunday birthday dinner for Mr Schreck. Family and friends from Coshocton Athens Huntington Columbus Ravenswood West Jefferson and other towns joined in.
A total of 44 NYA enrollees reported for duty Monday to improve the Swan Creek road in Ohio Township. expected to rise to 60 Wednesday morning. County commissioners purchased axes shovels scythes hand barrows forks mattocks and knapping hammers. more tools supplied by NYA. Owen Boster supervises. Two weeks of work followed by another crew on a northern county road.
Alpha E. Gillilan 63 a retired city policeman died at Mt. Carmel Hospital from injuries suffered last fall. Funeral services set for 2 p m Wednesday at Shaw-Davis Funeral Home with interment in Union Cemetery. He served 26 years on Columbus police, 23 in the Main Street district. He was a former street car motorman and brother to George Leslie Gillilan. His wife Margaret and daughter Mrs. Carl Clifton survive along with a grandson, two brothers Jesse of Dayton Otho of Greenwich Ohio, and four sisters in Washington D C Columbus New London and Chicago.
Warren Thomas 63 of Cheshire and Savannah F Halley 61 of Bladen receive a marriage license. Coy Fultz 28 and Rosalie Core 22 residents of Kitchen West Virginia obtain a license.
Gallipolis mourns C Fremont Morgan 79 native of Gallia County died at his Columbus home from pneumonia after influenza. He leaves wife Anna Evans and children Francis James Fremont Grace Pauline Elizabeth, with siblings Catherine Davis A W Reynolds Joseph Donnally Gomer Morgan R T Morgan and Everett Morgan. Morgan served 15 years as an officer at the Boys Industrial School in Lancaster before retiring four years ago.
Gallipolis reports four young men aged 18 to 23 residents of Walnut Township in custody after the Bowman's general store robbery at Flag Spring Sunday night. Suspects are Clarence Drummond Jr John Phillips Raymond Straight and Albert Bostic. Entrance gained through a window with confessions reported. Stolen items include clothing food candy and tobacco, some recovered and identified.
Since January 27 after the scarlet fever quarantine was lifted there has been no contagious disease in Gallipolis or Gallia County. Health conditions are reported unusually good for this time of year.
Robert Sheets Guy White Ed Harrison and Owen Roseberry plan a two week trip to Florida with a stop near Miami beginning Wednesday.
Bert Pollock of Haydenville is ill with rheumatism and unable to report to work for several weeks.
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