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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1930
Page
6
In GLOUSTER on Tuesday, Greens Run consolidated schools stage the operetta Over the Garden Wall for over 100 cast members, including a 50 child flower garden. Prof. O C Apt will conduct a 50 piece orchestra, with Mrs Harold Hawk directing. Proceeds fund a rhythm band for small grades.
A box supper at Concord Church in Glouster on Saturday night seeks funds to complete plastering work on the church building. The event hosts residents and supporters hoping to raise money for the restoration project.
Mrs Sam Frasure hosted a birthday party for her daughter Mary Elenore on Saturday afternoon February 15. Mike Lamity Jr escaped injury after driving through a red light at the Main Street crossing when his car was struck by a coal truck. The slow coal truck pushed the car along the track and against the freight house porch. The Home Missionary Society of the United Brethren Church met in church parlors on Tuesday. Wade Young’s Sunday School Class plans a February 26 play to benefit the Pythian Sister Lodge titled Anybody’s Family On A Sunday Morning, delayed by conflicting duties.
Hearings before the House Judiciary Committee on amending or repealing the 18th Amendment resume with national opponents of the drag laws prepared to outline why prohibition fails. The sessions reopen after a short adjournment as anti prohibition leaders parade through the witness chair.
Columbus Feb 20. Counties may purchase road equipment using motor license and gasoline tax funds per an opinion from Attorney General Bettman to Erie County Prosecutor C. E. Moyer. The machinery must be used only for county road maintenance repair construction and improvement.
Evangelistic services start Sunday February 23 at the Church of God on Hocking Street Athens with Rev. E. E. Caldwell of Dayton as evangelist. The revival runs nightly at 7 30 pm through March 16 following a series of community prayer meetings and special sermons in city churches.
Columbus February 20 A stroke of apoplexy fatally struck John Frey Wilson sixty at a wedding in Beard Street Presbyterian Church. Wilson former Columbus Bar Association president and general solicitor for the Hocking Valley Railroad was a Sidney native and Cincinnati University alumnus.
Three individuals H. Henning of Athens Luella Ross of New Boston and Alyce Levine of Cleveland were found guilty of violating the city traffic ordinance by walking against red lights in city court Tuesday night each fined one dollar by Mayor Wood Roberts.
John Bauman was rushed to a hospital today after an appendicitis attack. He was transported from Kelley's Island, ten miles out in Lake Erie, by airplane to the operation, with the eventual Sandusky hospital being the destination.
Eldon Jonas of Glouster, after nearly seven years in the United States Marine service, will finish his enlistment this spring and visit home in April with his wife Virginia Binkley. He has served in Honolulu, Panama, Haiti, Porto Rico, and Nicaragua, and recently moved to South Charleston W Va at his own request.
Opal McGrath, born with clubfeet, learned to walk and run after Athens Kiwanis funded treatment at Children's Hospital Columbus. Treated from Jan to Aug 1929 with two operations and daily nursing, she regained normal feet and now enjoys school at Carseytown with her brother Ernest helping her across the way.
Near Bluffton a Nickel Plate freight locomotive exploded as it sped westward. The blast hurled three crewmen from the cab. the train coasted half a mile before stopping. All three men were expected to recover the next day.
Gov. Myers Y. Cooper faced an Orrville delegation seeking state help to solve the Melvin Horst disappearance. Father Raymond Horst and five residents urged action during a conference in Columbus.
Five juveniles were detained by juvenile officials in Marietta after confessing to robbing collection baskets and overcoats owned by members of the First Baptist Church. Three of the youths are sons of a local Baptist minister.
Camille Chautemps, head of the Radical Socialist Parliamentary Group, sought to assemble a new French cabinet today at the urging of President Gaston Doumergue amid government reshuffles and political maneuvering.
Newark February 20 A. Turnipseed former Scioto Valley Silver Fox Ranch president faced trial for obtaining money under false pretenses in fox sale to A. M. Allison. Jury could not agree on a verdict in the Newark case.
Four men halted a couple walking on a New York street and shot May Smith, a dance hall hostess, and Carmine Barelli, a gambler, in a gang feud. In their apartment investigators found shotguns ammunition and burglars tools.
Pleasant relief from constipation advertised by Dr Edwards Olive Tablets. The copy claims they restore energy and youth by cleansing the system and preventing poisons from seeping into the body. The vegetable tablets are sold in 10c 30c and 60c packages by all druggists.
Glouster Feb 20 Mrs Richard Harris formerly of Glouster now living with her daughter Mrs J C Andrews at Dayton suffered a stroke February 8. Her right side is paralyzed with slight improvement reported this week by her daughter.
Mr and Mrs C A Post and their children have returned to Glouster from Marietta where Mr Post worked for Western and Southern Life Insurance Co They occupy their Republic Avenue home and Mr Post resigned his Marietta position last week.
Paul W. Goss life saving field representative of the American National Red Cross will arrive in Athens next Monday for five days of demonstrations in artificial respiration. Those seeking renewal or new life saving certificates should contact Miss Harriet Rogers at Ohio University Women’s Gymnasium or Mrs. Dwight Rutherford Athens Red Cross secretary. Goss will also demonstrate at the city hall and city schools. He has extensive life saving and water safety experience, started at Dayton Y M C A, later coached and directed there, and served as Dayton Public Schools physical director in 1925.
Three birds matching the European Starling description were observed in front of Joseph Hutchins home in The Plains. The birds fed on grass for about 15 minutes before flying away, raising fears among ornithologists they may become a nuisance like the English sparrow.
The Improved Order of Red Men Lodge of Athens hosts an indoor carnival at the Armory on Saturday February 22. Proceeds will fund lodge buildings on West Washington Street taken over two years ago. An orchestra will play for dancing and further amusements are planned with more features to be announced.
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