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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1941
Page
7
Gallia County plans a two acre roadside park on Sugar Creek Hill along Route 7 near Crown City. The state highway department, using NYA labor, will grade and construct with rock walls grills wells tables and native trees such as oaks and maples.
A Gallipolis draft board reportedly moved married men whose wives work into Class One. This action adds more than 100 men to the group subject to first call for Army training. The plan includes plantings of dogwood, service berry, red haw and persimmon along with shrubs to brighten a park, costing about 2500 dollars. The new park will offer an unobstructed Ohio River view along a busy highway, with state sponsors backing the project.
Acceptances from 60 choirs invited to perform at a Spring Music Festival in Gallipolis on May 4 indicate about 600 voices. Rehearsals will be held in Portsmouth and Jackson with a combined session in Gallipolis the day of the show. Choir directors span Portsmouth Jackson and Gallia counties. registration closes March 3.
Rio Grande College schedules a Tuesday 11 a m assembly featuring a mock melodrama How Law came to Indian Creek. Sponsoring fraternity Sigma Lambda Tau outlines the scenario by Don Edington Arthur Oldham and Ernest Seymour with production by Ervin Shelton Lee Campbell James Piper Ray Davis and Don Slagle. Cast includes Maurice Lowks Harold Seymour Archie Hoffman John C Basilette Carl McHenry Jack Duncan Howard Valgamore Ed Hall Ray Crabtree Don Edington James Rutherford Owen Cottrill and Stanley Kitts.
Gallipolis programs by the county extension service and AAA feature two motion pictures. One titled Green Pastures explores fertilization and the other shows mattress making, funded by both groups. Also, Addison Township W C T U members plan a Sunday program at Addison Baptist Church starting 2 pm with addresses by Rev. E C Venz and Rev. George Sagen.
The Gallipolis chamber of commerce starts a rental agency near its headquarters to list available houses apartments and rooms in response to rising demand tied to Marietta Manufacturing Co expanding to fulfill national defense orders. Unfurnished and furnished units will be indexed and free listings offered to property owners. Operations start date not specified for orders above eight million dollars. earlier orders totaling over two million dollars are in progress.
Marriage announced for Paul Morehouse and Miss Amy Dye read by Rev. George P. Snyder in Akron on Feb 22. Morehouse, son of E. N. P. Morehouse of Gallipolis, is a Ohio Northern University graduate now with Goodyear in Akron. Dye, daughter of T. F. and Mrs. Dye of Reedsville, nursing graduate, now with Akron City Hospital. Miss Donnally entertains Riverside Study Club at Island View Inn with Rev. Orr and Miss Simmerman in attendance as talks on Canada and Ontario. Ruth Warner honored at dinner by Miss Elizabeth Carnes. Warner will be maid of honor for Eugene Plymale. Local BPW Club dinner and Girl Scout flag presentation planned at Grace Church. Gallipolis personals note farewell parties for Mrs. Clarence Allen of Ironton. visits from Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Stone of Waverly. John Chaffee visiting grandmother. Mabel Noel returns from Middletown. Lieut. George Goodhue Kail, Mrs. Kail and daughter Mary host dinner. Kail to be stationed at Fort Huachuca after marriage to Margaret Davis in Dallas.
Gallipolis relatives attended funeral services in Pt. Pleasant for Madison Terry, 69, found dead in his home Tuesday. Oscar Morgan of Morgan Township was fined $25 and costs after answering an indictment for giving liquor to a minor.
Judge W R White learns that Portsmouth authorities may grant Gallipolis the original land grant. John F Johnny informs the Scioto County Bar Association secretary the matter will be discussed by the public library trustees on March 6. The old document was found in Portsmouth courthouse and placed in the Portsmouth public library's custody.
The former Deardorff Building on the park square occupied by G. C. Murphy Co. sold to Commonwealth Trust Co. of Pittsburgh from Mack Realty Co. for about $65,000 marking the largest Gallipolis realty deal in years.
Gallia county recreation director Harold Mackenzie announces a three day May Day plan in Gallipolis with a parade led by scouts and clubs. He invites schools churches fraternal groups and other organizations to participate and contribute to the program through units.
On Thursday afternoon May 1 at the river front city park esplanade, the school band will perform while panto mimes sketches drills and dances entertain. Children may impersonate fairy tale characters as the schools select a queen and attendants with additional spring revels planned by promoters.
Gallia County relatives of Woodrow A. Ashworth age 24 attend his funeral in Gallipolis after he died Tuesday at a Dayton hospital from injuries in an automobile accident. He worked as a mechanic at Patterson Field and is survived by his wife, his parents Mr and Mrs G W Ashworth of Patriot, and eleven brothers and sisters including Lotus Ashworth of Athens.
Ash Wednesday services were held yesterday in almost all Gallipolis churches. Mid week observances continue until Holy Week when a union program is planned by the Gallipolis Ministerial Association. Noon services and a three hour noon Friday service are eyed, with county ministers invited to take part.
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