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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1931
Page
12
Clinton Webb, staff correspondent, urges readers to call Your News Your Society and Locals at 6024 with tips and updates. The item invites community input and highlights a service appreciation.
On January 7 the St Clair County Commissioners elected Frank Clair as president and Charleswn as vice president. D Heft will remain clerk through March. A uniform county road wage scale was set: laborers 40 cents, truck drivers and graders 80 cents, teams 62.5 cents per hour. Dr Robert K was appointed physician at the Jail and County home.
Two divorces were filed in Common Pleas on Monday. Jordie Klinger seeks separation from Elmer Klinger on cruelty, with custody of six children and a temporary restraining order to shield property. Dorothy Hite sues Delbert Hite for maintenance and custody of their one child, citing neglect and requesting alimony.
Work began Tuesday morning on the water line extension to the Bell Schell addition with 17 men employed. The project covers about 2,000 feet of line including excavation and laying, serving a rapidly building area. Director Fred C. Shively said labor will rotate to provide more employment.
Announcement from Mr and Mrs Javius Clark of Carbon Hill Mill states their daughter Evelyn married Raymond Allison son of Dr and Mrs Thomas J Allison of Rio Grande. The marriage occurred December 22 with Rev James R Fields officiating. Mrs Allison teaches at Carbon Hill High School. Mr Allison is a Rio Grande graduate and a junior in the Indiana University College of Dentistry. He belongs to Psi Phi Dental Fraternity. The couple spent holidays with Mr Allison's parents in Rio Grande.
Funeral services for J H W Farbeann father of Deputy Mert Farbeann will be held Friday at 1 00 p m at the C L Chute Funeral Home New Lawington. Farbeann died in Banceville Monday morning. Deputy Farbeann went to Zanes Wie Monday and the body moved to New Lexington for arrangements. A sister Mrs Ollie Kelley of Mateeville Ark is expected for the funeral. Friends from this city plan to attend.
The January Term Grand Jury in Logan will finish by Wednesday after two days of sessions. Pres ster C. Wood stated that about two thirds of the cases had been heard by late afternoon.
Mrs Fred Ambrose entertained members of the FE Bridge Club at her Hill Street home on a holiday afternoon. Guests included Mrs Fred Smith and Mrs Aaron Wolfe Jr, who acted as substitutes in the session.
SWOGAN Jan 7 report from Eugene Funk of near this city describes a winter discovery of a bird’s nest containing two Snow Bird eggs. The mother bird was on the nest when it was found Saturday.
Judge A M Ellinger issued the first marriage license of the year in Logan on January 7. Recipients were Robert H Stephenson 43 a miner of New Plymouth and Hattie Audrey Burritt 30 of New Plymouth, both listed as the union was performed by Magistrate J P Miller.
Logan January meeting of the city Board of Education at George Fox's home followed the resignation of president Wood Bowen. Harry H. Wright was elected president with W. S. Yaw as vice president. No successor was named for Mr. Rowen.
Logan January 7 Edward Anderson of Gibisonville was arrested by Constable George Spang and arraigned before Magistrate J. P. Miller. On entering a plea of guilty he was fined one dollar and costs. Anderson is said to have assaulted Charles Robinson.
Relatives learned of H. M. Walmsley's death in Cincinnati after an appendicitis operation. Mrs. Walmsley is former Josephine Henderson of Logan and a relative of the McManigal family. He was hospitalized the day before New Year's.
Members of the Hocking County Fox Hunters Association discussed pursuing action against those damaging signs on leased farms. The group has 900 leased acres and 4 000 acres including state preserves, with hunts restricted to written permissions. They plan to build a hunting shanty on the Jacob Mohler tract for shelter during hunts. Leonard Bell spoke on The Red Ranger, with music by Foster Robo Virgil Wright and Floyd Toomis.
Mr and Mrs Boyd Evans hosted at Midland Place on Sunday honoring their son Ralph Harden Evans birthday observance and the anniversary of Mrs Ellen Evans. Attending were Mr and Mrs Tom Hockman Laurelville Clayton Hockman Delaware Ottis Hockman Columbus and others including Miss Jeannette Hockman Circleville Mr and Mrs Frank Krinn Miss Mabel Krinn Miss Frances Krinn Gobisonville Miss Mabel Evans Lancaster.
Mrs. John F. White hosted the Get Together Club at her East Hunter Street residence Monday evening. Miss Kate McBride and Mrs. Tide Huston served as substitute players. Belle Hyson will host the gathering in two weeks.
Detroit reports the birth of a daughter on January 3 to Mr and Mrs William Evans the infant's mother formerly Miss Mary Kate Bishop of Logan daughter of Mrs Della Bishop Mr Evans parents live in Wales
Mrs. W. C. Adair hosted a D. C. Club bridge gathering at her North Walnut Street residence Monday evening. Substitute players included Mrs. Theodore Lytle Mrs. Ella Miller and Mrs. Charles Lutz.
Chauncey Jan 7 funeral services for Mrs Jessie Tippie Woods 50 wife of L E Woods Millfield were held at 2 pm from Millfield Church of Christ conducted by Rev G B Courtney. Pythian Sisters Pocahontas Lodge and Mooseheart Legion oversaw services. interment Maplewood Cemetery. Survived by husband daughter Mrs Edward Wade grandson Richard Wade and her Tippie family.
A Christmas Day dinner for Mrs. Sarah A. Male at her daughter Miss Stella Tipple home East Liverpool included three courses. Guests included Mr and Mrs Carl Aiken and daughter Beth Chester w Va Martin Brozka Edward Sams and daughter Josephine Mr and Mrs Charles Halliday Cove w Va Mrs Thelma Sams McCormick and son Gordon Athens and the honoree who suffered a severe heart attack that evening leaving her critical.
Seventeen mines were marked for work today in Chauncey, showing five more operating than Tuesday. The list includes Luhrig Hocking Kimberly No. 9% No. 255 No. 267 No. 10 No. 69 No. 24 No. 28 No. 86 No. 119 Ohio No. 1 L. D. Poston Poston No. 6 Black Diamond and Chauncey No. 26.
Members of the Ladies Aid Society of the Millfield Church of Christ will celebrate the twenty year anniversary with an all day meeting at the church on Thursday. An oyster dinner will be served at noon. All women of the church and society are urged to attend.
Purely vegetable substance marketed as a substitute for calomel. Olive color tablets claim to cleanse the liver and bowels, improve skin and energy, with no dangerous after effects. Sold in packs 1c 50c 4c by the manufacturer.
Morristown Holiness Church schedules a prayer meeting at the home of Mr and Mrs George Shaner in East Millfield tonight. A cottage prayer service is planned at the home of Mr and Mrs John Bulloch in Bailey Run on Friday evening. Sunday School starts at 9 30 a m with preaching at 10 39 a m and 7 p m Rev Ervin Manning presides. A praise and prayer service is set for 2 p m Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs Tearley Wicks in East Millfield.
Tiebert Graves, confined in White Cross Hospital Columbus after surgery, returns to The Plains with his brother in law W A Matheny and sister Miss Abbie Graves. Floyd Tinscott and son Charlies visit Columbus home of Orley Porter with Billy Lowery. Evelyn Moore and Evelyn Walker return to Akron after holiday visit to Mrs Lucy Suffreon and Mrs Floyd Linscott in The Plains.
The Church of Christ Sunday School elected officers led by Superintendent Port Petit and Assistant Superintendent Gilbert Kheirns. The Ladies' Aid met at Mrs. Emmett Olbers home, celebrating its twentieth anniversary next Thursday with an all day meeting and oyster dinner. Funeral services were held for Thomas Petit at the M F E Church after his death at Athens State Hospital.
Mr and Mrs R D Nichols depart for Ripley Tennessee where they will reside. Mr Nichols works with a yeast company headquartered in Ripley. Mrs Nichols is daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer Morris Athens and granddaughter of Mrs Henry F Staffinger Chauncey.
The Busy Bee Needle Club held its semi monthly meeting at Mrs Clell Cunningham's home on Mound Street. Attendees included Mrs Myrtle Master, Mrs Gabriel Pencelli, Mrs Alva Karns, Mrs Edward Blackford, and Mrs Cunningham. The next gathering is set for Friday January 16 at Mrs Alva Karns home.
Chauncey residents and relatives旅ited London Derry Chillicothe and Lancaster while others traveled to Ches ter and East Liverpool. Notables include Mr. and Mrs. Pencelli Drexel Ice Ruth and Loree Ice Mrs. Koenig Jr Sr and family Mrs. Patterson and children and Mrs. Adams ill in Jacobs Avenue Mrs. Tippie cares for Sarah Male a Civil War veteran widow in East Liverpool.
Plans are under way for a large congress of French war veterans in an American city in 1932. The proposal arose after former President Calvin Coolidge was presented with a medal by French veterans acting in the name of the Foreign Office.
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