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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1936
Page
8
Julia Craig, twenty, works for Woodford and Brooks and debates her future. Her roommate Amy Sanders questions ambition and love as Julia weighs money and status against artistic and personal fulfillment amid social pressures and workplace dynamics. The chat touches on marriage prospects with Peter Kemp and the allure of independence over secure but tedious clerical work.
Julia Craig resolves to quit her office job at Woodford and Brooks and pursue singing modern torch songs with her face and figure. She confides in Amy Sanders about the double standards faced by working women and seeks a note of introduction to Henri Lamb, bandleader at the Green Club, from Peter Kemp.
In Gallipolis, Jim Campbell, a resident for 70 years, was honored as a guest at a midday birthday banquet by his associates at the Southern Ohio Electric Company. He recounts slave days on Marie Alexander's farm in Monroe County and a journey from Charleston on the General Crooks and the General Meigs in 1865.
Floyd Westfall arrested Saturday night on intoxication charges and later found to have escaped from the Ohio State Reformatory. A state officer returned him to the institution Wednesday. Westfall, sent up in 1934 from Meigs County on a burglary charge, had served seven months of his indeterminate sentence.
Gallia County engineers organize the Gallia County Engineers Club with C. C. Getties as chairman and Forrest H. Fife as secretary. A committee will study organizing methods used by state and national engineering societies and report at the next meeting at 7 o'clock February 5.
George Burl Vance, 29, was arrested in Huntington West Virginia for the murder of 37 year old Mrs. Virginia Adams. Vance told officers he had a wife and two children in Gallipolis but local police said they did not know him or the family.
Mary Holley pled not guilty to intoxication in municipal court on Wednesday and was remanded to jail for further investigation. Judge A J Stormont fined James McQuaid and Homer Cheesebrough of Mill C $10 and costs, totaling £1400 perh on intoxication charge.
Spurlock, father of Earl, 3, and Thelma Louise, 4 months, was brought from Creola Vinton County to Gallipolis for arraignment on a charge of abandoning his minor children. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded to jail in default of a $300 bond.
Edwin A. Jones of Jackson meets Republican leaders in Gallipolis amid his bid to unseat incumbent Thomas A. Jenkins for Congress in Ohio's Tenth District. Jones, dubbed Ohio's only Admiral, holds civic roles including Rotary past president and Ohio Fox Hunters executive member. English prisons reportedly hold 12,000 men and 600 women.
Mr and Mrs Harley Carr hosted and visited friends throughout the week with guests including Mr and Mrs John Nickelson. Churchgoers Hood Nickelson and family attended services while local families Carpenter and Caster visited Dysville connections. Dana Eppie of Bunker Hill visited M O Eppie and Orville Cline from Vinton husked corn on the Dana Epple farm.
Fred Stone son of Mr and Mrs L L Stone has secured a position in the office of the Boviwick Braun Company hardware jobbers at Toledo He is a graduate of Ohio University Athens last June and has since worked as night clerk at the Hotel Lafayette
A marriage license was issued to Melvin Lee a 21 year old Pomeroy farmer son of Felix Lee and Marie Lambert a 21 year old daughter of Charles Lambert Ches hire. Experiments with the Jerusalem artichoke yielded sweeter Sugar than sugar beet or sugar cane.
Mr and Mrs Hyde Athens hosted guests of Nelle and Joseph last Saturday. Family ties feature Mrs Ma. ley of Columbus and Mrs A E with Betty visiting in Athens. Stantoe Columbus and Mrs Mir attended services, while Miss Cleire James visited relatives in Asheville. Helen McKibben performed violin at a Sunday home gathering.
A fragmentary OCR reads "n ie The orang's prince" suggesting a misplaced or garbled note about an orangutan prince tale. No clear names, places, or dates are recoverable, leaving only a hint of a fiction or cultural reference.
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