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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1937
Page
5
James Heiskell, 32, of Lathrop, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the Christmas Eve shooting of neighbor John Mayle, 48, in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Heiskell pleaded guilty to second degree murder under a deal, avoiding first degree charges.
The Central Division of the Ohio Society of Health Commissioners and Sanitarians met at the Southern Hotel in Columbus yesterday. Dr J M Higgins Athens County health commissioner attended. A round table discussion covered the state program to control syphilis with rules clarified for physicians statewide.
Fred C. Shafer new relief administrator and county commissioners said Athens County misreported figures in late 1936. Columbus officials said funds could go only to counties with larger relief treasuries. The 1936 unencumbered bonds item inflated assets. actual county treasury was 1541 dollars. State aid of 8606.48 is expected in regular distribution.
County commissioners pass a temporary appropriation to cover Athens County expenses until April 1 totaling 55 920 85 dollars. General fund 33 545 85 dollars dog and kennel 1 375 dollars and roads and bridges 21 000 dollars. The annual measure will be reviewed later and the temporary funds will be deducted from full year totals.
Dean Irma E Voigt of Ohio University addressed an Athens High School assembly this morning at 10. The program opened with numbers performed by the high school orchestra and Warren Mc Clure presided.
H O McDaniel and son D W McDaniel acquire Charles White and Son Clover Farm Store at Lancaster and Second Streets Athens and take management. The family already runs a Clover Farm in Millfield and another in Duncan Falls. The son, a former Ohio University student, will oversee the Athens location and reside with his wife and daughter in the store apartment.
Ohio University alumni secretary Clark E. Williams attended funeral services in Columbus for Dr. William Henry Scott who died Tuesday at 96. Scott was a former president at Ohio University and Ohio State University and the universitys oldest living graduate and honorary Alumni Association president.
Flood waters keep 2,000 Athens County miners idle at Chauncey with peak expected tonight. Route 50 west of Athens was closed briefly but reported passable this afternoon.
The International Relations Committee of the American Student Union at Ohio University will host two speakers on peace at an open meeting in Ewing Auditorium on Monday January 18 at 8 pm. Charles Coulson English youth peace advocate and Trinity College fellow outlines Europe today and Rabbi Harry Kaplan discusses neutrality and wartime policy.
Dr. W. H. Gamertsfelder dean of the Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences will address the Jackson Alumni Chapter in the Black Diamond Room at the Camden Hotel Monday at 6. Jackson students, former students, and alumni are invited to attend the dinner.
Evangelistic services run tonight at 7 30 at the Free Methodist Church corner Stimson and Campbell Avenues with the topic The Meaning of Conversion. Saturday night talks follow the same hour Redeeming the Time. Sunday features a 10 30 a m sermon and 9 30 a m Sunday School with a 7 30 p m praise and testimony program Behold the Man. The series closes Sunday night.
District Superintendent Pridgen will speak Sunday at 2 30 p m at Hast Canaan Pil grim Holiness Church.
Colonel Hiety of the Hungarian Gendarmerie, on furlough in Sarvar, accidentally killed his bride of two months when a pistol in his pocket discharged during a kiss and embrace. The tragedy occurred as he returned home. Eddy's "national seminar to Europe in 1984" appears unrelated to the incident.
More than two thousand miners are idled as flood waters from two days of heavy rain submerge roads across Athens County. The Hocking River rises to 17 feet, flooding homes and basements along Stella Avenue and washing out Route 50 North and Route 56, with several mines including Kimberly Hocking and Lick Run shut or reduced.
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