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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1933
Page
3
Auditor Ralph Elliott reports balances for Nelsonville departments showing year start balances, receipts and expenditures through Feb 1. Water works and electric light show increases in balance. auto registrations and school benefit event announced though text is partially garbled.
Nelsonville hosts a district Red Men meeting on Friday evening February 24 with degree work by the Athens and Nelsonville teams and a service of lunch. Harper Co Pendry superintendent of Athens City Schools spoke to the Nelsonville Rotary Club on Our Money's Worth based on Stuart Chase discussions. Pendry is a former Athens Rotary member and ex Ironton Club president.
Nelsonville February report from the Hi Y Club notes Earl Washburn leading a banquet for 37 members and two guests at the Presbyterian Church social rooms. After dining, initiation added 14 new members to the club roll.
Class 11 of the Methodist Sunday School taught by Mrs Charles Monks will meet Friday with Mrs Bessie Higgins at 689 Poplar Street. Mrs Viola Woolery assists as hostess. Members are urged to bring a letter or card for their capsule friend. Elizabeth Pidcock leads the program and Rebecca Nutter conducts devotions.
The Red Men’s Hall hosts a Washington Birthday event tonight with Red Men and Pocahontas members and their families as guests. Lunch will be served.
The Methodist Guild and guests met Monday night at Mrs. Ralph M Henrys home with assisting hostesses Mrs Wendell Kelly Mrs Donald Betts and Mrs Carlos Ogg. Mrs Carl Coakley presided Miss Helen Shaw led the Study Book lesson Lucille Long led the program and musical numbers were given by Miss Bessie Stephenson and Miss Audrey Beache.
Mr and Mrs Paul Edgar announce the birth of an eight pound daughter on Tuesday at their home in Athens. She has been named Helen Margaret. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs M B Pedigo and Mr and Mrs Adison Edgar.
The captain requests all officers and guards of the Daughters of America to attend team practice Friday evening. Mr and Mrs C E Washburn spent Tuesday in Columbus. Mrs M B Pedigo visits Athens with her daughter Mrs Paul Edgar. Mr and Mrs Joe Barrows spent the day in Columbus.
In preparation for Mother's Day May 5 to 7 at Ohio University, roles for the play Little Women are assigned. Directed by Dean of Women Irma E Voigt who also plays Mrs March, L C Staats will play Mr March. Clyde Gleim of Wheelersburg plays Professor Bhaer, Delia Dorsey from Athens is Aunt March, and Eleonor Elliott of Perrysburg portrays Hannah.
D A R questionnaires sent to Athens County schools reveal varying flag use in public classrooms. Early returns from Amesville, Athens West Side, Millfield, and Chauncey show differences in flag display, pledge frequency, and classroom flags with plans to survey all county schools.
Delphos Ohio Feb 22 Lestie C Peltier amateur astronomer son of Stanley and unnamed mother four miles east of town reports three sightings of Peltier's Comet No 4 in Cepheus near Polaris. Observatories at Yerkes and Harvard corroborate the discovery. Peltier, 30, began stargazing in 1918 with a two inch telescope and later earned Harvard and Princeton telescope assignments.
Colorful portraits and scenes of George Washington fill Athens classrooms as students mark the 201st anniversary of his birthday. Senior High hosts a joint Washington Lincoln assembly with music and readings. Junior High and Central School plan plays and programs for younger grades.
A rare 1822 English Reader titled The English Reader or pieces in prose and poetry edited by Lincoln Murray, Third Halllowell Edition, bound in calfskin and pocket sized. It includes extensive instruction on proper reading, voice, pronunciation, pauses, and tones with chapters on narrative, didactic, argumentative, descriptive, and poetic pieces.
Denver police questioned Marion Rogers aged 21 and Charles Baker 36 after they were hurried into the station early today. They were being questioned in connection with the Charles Boettcher II kidnapping case.
Toledo Republican Fred Fletcher and Portsmouth Democrat Conrad Roth were reappointed to the Ohio Conservation Council by Governor White. The action was announced in Columbus on February 22.
After a shaft broke the Senator Cordil was towed to Pittsburgh where it underwent extensive repairs including a new wheel. John G. Barton stated a larger boat is justified by growing packet trade. Delays were caused by heavy downstream traffic fog and floods as the ship heads to Marietta after leaving Pittsburgh Tuesday. The cargo includes 20 tons of oil well casing for Proctorville. The packet Liberty will voyage to Charleston this afternoon.
Harriet Cole 86 of Wellington was struck and killed last night when she stepped from a Huntington bus into the path of a truck. She was en route to visit her five children nearby.
A brief note describes a method now used worldwide by doctors to treat the common cold, highlighting its simple approach and widespread adoption.
Marietta Feb 22 The large packet Queen City of the Ohio River Transportation Company will re enter the Pittsburgh Cincinnati trade on Saturday Feb 25 and leave Pittsburgh on its first trip since last September. The packet was disabled near Huntington last fall.
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