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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1932
Page
10
Mrs. Ben Fisher of East Hunter Street was held up by two well dressed men as she walked home near the Becker property on Hunter Street. They demanded $20, fled to a waiting car, and disappeared before she could notify police at City Hall.
Scouts of Troop 153 enjoyed a night hike in Logan on Thursday. Claude Sheets and Robert S laid trail signs with papers hidden under each. the patrol finding the most papers won, led by Bob White. A dog struck by a car was found and treated, then taken to Logan for care.
State Forestry Department will furnish memorial trees to 4-H Club members in the county to honor J. C. Ramsower bicentennial. One million trees reserved for memorial plantings statewide. Chambers will convene club leaders to plan the spring program.
Barton A. Holl president of the local Chamber of Commerce was announced Saturday as appointee to the Highway Committee of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. The selection honors his work for better road construction in the Hocking Valley and state parks area and his role in the Route 31 Improvement Association.
T. G. Rockstrom of Detroit reports twenty five years of piles improved after using four boxes of Peters' Ointment. He says it is the greatest Ointment he has heard of. A large box sells for 35 cents at any drug store.
Classified and circulation notices show internal references to Gali BD Milne and a local phone contact 272 for circulation related ads in The Messenger.
Logan Ohio reports the death of Donald Blum six year old son of Mr and Mrs Russell Blum after eight major operations for intestinal trouble. He died at Columbus hospital at 1 45 Saturday afternoon with his parents and grandparents present. Funeral services planned at St Matthew Lutheran Church with Rev Amos L Heyde officiating. Burial in St John Cemetery near Enterprise.
County officials investigate the finding of a boy baby near Haydenville blamed on a stillborn birth. Coroner J. P. Miller ordered the body removed to a local morgue for examination. Mrs. Gertrude Robinett is being questioned. she had stayed with the Lehman family and reportedly said the child was born dead. The body is being held pending investigation.
Roy Howdyshell 22 a Perry County farmer wed Edna Graffis 25 in Marion Township with Rev Hart officiating. Howard Anderson 23 a Gibisonville farmer wed Audris Robinson 16 at home with Magistrate W A Robinson officiating.
Logan notes rehearsals for the American Legion Minstrel to raise funds for needy local veterans. Melrose Harbaugh directs with Jim Hutchinson Tony Cook and Miss Jamnita Wolfe among performers. Logan String Band and Quartet also listed. Special child Glendon Bari Shriner participates. Elizabeth Wolfgon directs orchestra. 100 percent charity production aims to boost the post fund.
Logan reports Dr. Allan A. Cole of this city started duties as Hocking County physician after appointment by the commission. He succeeds Dr. R. K. Smith, who held the post for the past year. The county physician will also attend to medical care for prisoners at the county jail.
Edwin Nipher of Anderson Indiana and Edward Beougher of Rockbridge were in a Friday after noon collision in Rockbridge. Beougher was taken to a physician for injuries. Sheriff Sol Ellinger and Deputy Stanley Sparnow investigated the wreck.
Miss Minnie Moore and Miss Ruth Brooke entertained at the Moore home Friday evening with a six o'clock dinner attended by twenty Logan elementary teachers. A business meeting followed with Miss Esther O'Neil praising retired teachers Miss Emma Downey and Miss Estella Strentz, who received bouquets. The closing program review covered the book A White Bird Flying by Miss Wilma Martin.
Mrs Tom Eberst and Mrs Barton Hall entertained the Idano Club at the Eberst residence Friday evening. The gathering began with a six o’clock dinner and a social hour afterward.
Rev. James R. Fields spoke on family life and leisure before the Logan Parent-Teacher Association. Fred B. Burchfield and Howard E. Kirk led discussions on extracurricular activities with music by Senior High pupils. James F. Rutgers presided.
Friday evening marked the 61st birthday of George Juergensmeier observed by the Straight Eight Pedro Club at his East Second Street home. After a card session, Mrs. Juergensmeier served lunch.
The Messenger states routine hedge club and organization meeting notices now appear at the head of the Announcement column on the Classified Page. The instruction emphasizes the new placement for meeting announcements.
Crawford County officials led by Fred Vollmer and P. J. Foltz declare war on motorists who pass school buses while children are boarding or exiting. Blank forms are distributed to drivers to record violators, who must provide the vehicle number for the sheriff.
SENIA O Jan 4 101 year old Grandma Sarah Davis wants a bright new dress to feel young for her birthday. She could not go downtown to shop. She abhors black dresses and the radio music of today.
Heavy week end rains raised Sunday Creek Saturday forcing a pause in construction of the High Street Bridge in Glouster. Excavation for the north abutment advanced well but across the McCarty Building front it required relocating Glen McDonald’s barber shop. North side businesses face inconvenience from the project.
Glouster High School varsity won its fifth straight by beating Chauncey 21 to 12 at Chauncey Gym. McCreanor and Wolf led Glouster. Shaffer top scorer for Chauncey. Glouster girls edged Chauncey 19 to 18 in a rough contest. Next, Glouster travels to Crooksville and hosts Corning for both boys and girls.
Steubenville officials swap corn sugar seized in a police raid on a distillery for 1,500 pounds of bread from a local bakery to feed the hungry. Mayor James C. McMastere announced the agreement with the bakery to supply the loaves in exchange for the sugar.
A group of Athens County coal miners have traveled to Indianapolis to serve as delegates to the International convention of the United Mine Workers of America. The conference, announced as starting in session all week, may extend beyond the week.
An advertisement promotes a two meal day plan to treat stomach trouble by skipping one meal and drinking water with glycerin and buckthorn bark mixture each morning. It claims Adlerika purges unseen poisons and promises nervousness sleep issues and gas relief with no harmful drugs. The piece cites German and IV Gibson’s Pharmacy and local drug stores in Nelsonville and Taylors’ Drug Store.
Betty Jean Reynolds, 14 months old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reynolds, died Saturday morning at 10 30 at the family home in McLeish. Funeral services were held at the McLeish Church at 2 this afternoon, with burial in Beech Grove Cemetery.
Routine notices from the classified page cover lodge matters and classification category nine. The brief items list standard updates, affiliations, and upcoming meetings without sensational detail.
Glouster Ohio expects state aid for teacher payroll within a week or so, per Supt. C. S. Dilton. A prior small sum allowed only 12.50 dollars per teacher, Dilton noted.
GLOUSTER January 25. Several local youths spent Saturday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs C F Wallace in honor of Miss Bernice Wallace who is recovering well from a recent major operation at a Columbus hospital. Attendees included Miss Fontelle Harper Miss Olive McKee Miss Louella Vaughn Mr and Mrs Gail Faires Edward Noon Ralph Gatchell Seibert Stiff and Jim Stedman.
Glouster Epworth League members plan to attend a Corning Epworth League meeting at the Corning M E Church on Wednesday night. Corning guests visited Glouster for a Christmas party in December.
Clarence Grant and Hod Gill were in Murray City Monday. Bill Lantz of Berlin Cross Road visited Charles Lantz Friday. Cecyl and Marjorie Grant were in Murray City Tuesday. Freddie Waldeck of Hollister visited Mr and Mrs Hod Gill Sunday. Hazel Wade and Hazel Darby were in Murray Thursday. Mrs Alex Darby is ill. Ruth Max and Edith Fulton convalescing after illness. Sue OConner was in Murray City Thursday. Naomia Edyth and Max Fulton visited Greens Run guests Mr and Mrs Dick Wyatt and Inez Kassie Saturday and Sunday. Mr and Mrs John OConner and
Mrs Jockine and Mr and Mrs Mike Dezzo hosted visitors in Kimberly. George Fearns spent Wednesday in Murray. Cecyl Leo Grant and Pierpoint cousins visited relatives in Berlin Cross Roads on Sunday. Albert Brooks returned from Crockaville. Numerous locals attended church Thursday night. More residents visited relatives in Orbiston and nearby areas Sunday.
Harold McCracken of Columbus announced an Arctic expedition preparing to sail from New York next June. He plans a three airplane-equipped schooner base in ice, aiming to reach the polar regions by late summer, stay through winter, and return in fall 1933 with Captain Bob Bartlett as skipper.
The bulletin lists three road detours in Athens County from Jan 2% to Feb 5. Route 31 50 near McArthur Athens Road is under bridge construction with traffic maintained. Route 23 Amesville Trimble Road is being graded the entire length. Route 13 between Trimble and Glouster on the Athens New Lexington Road is detoured with traffic kept moving.
75 motor vehicle licenses were sold last week by David Johnson, deputy registrar of motor vehicles in Athens. Remittance of 692.80 was made to the commissioner of motor vehicles on the basis of the sale. Tags included 97 passenger, seven truck and one trailer.
Cattle breeders from Athens County will meet at the Grange Hall at the Fairgrounds at 1 30 p m on Wednesday for a discussion led by L P McCann OSU specialist. Topics include beef breeding feasibility in Ohio costs versus western ranges calf development winter housing feeding calving time value of bulls.
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