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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1933
Page
15
Kiwanis Club members watched a local artist create an oils painting. The feature event took place as part of a community outreach and showcased the artist’s bridge tourney committee naming inline with club activities.
Meigs County township trustees met at City Hall to discuss relief funds and a bill to eliminate township trustees. The state association plans to wage the fight, with Meigs trustees among its members. Salaries total $12,000 a year across 12 townships, plus road work duties.
Local chatter in Chicago hints at shifts in mob influence and athletic sponsorship as a figure tied to Capone era power departs. Report notes ties to downtown offices in the Loop and potential successors named James Sissor and Humphries, with Atlanta linked to recent moves.
The Cobbler and the Elves a musical by B. Bismith was presented Monday night in the Middleport High School gymnasium. Children in the cast included Kenneth McElhinny Pauley Anne Kincaid Lonnie Hughes John Snider Bobby Bailey Virginia White Jacqueline Manay Jeanette Grueser Norma Wayland Kunice Ebernbach Janet Dillard Mary A. Smith Martha Marcum Marjorie Ingles Lillian Martin Florence Singer Flaine Wiley Lulu Hughes Stella Jackson Myrtie Long Marion Davis Mildred Lyons Clara Still Marjorie Wolfe. The program also featured selections by the high school orchestra and a short talk by Supt. W. F. Melvin.
Dr. T. Boyd Gay, pastor of the Middleport Presbyterian Church, opened a series of meetings at the Syracuse Presbyterian Church Monday night. He will remain in Middleport but travel to Syracuse each night at 6 o'clock, a routine he has followed for weeks when preaching in Syracuse on Friday nights. Enthusiastic audiences have attended previous meetings.
Emma Stansbury widow of Harvey Stansbury died at her Rutland home Sunday morning at age 87. A lifelong resident of Rutland she was buried today at Miles Cemetery with services noted.
A Texas reader reports ten years of itching eczema and hundreds of dollars spent before trying Zemo. The ad claims Zemo soothes in five seconds due to rare ingredients, also helping rash pimples ringworm and irritations. It sells in drugstores for 35e 60c or 1.00.
Mrs Dave Russell aged 73 died at her Bradbury home Monday after weeks of illness pneumonia cited as cause. Survivors include her husband two sons Brad of Letart and Budd near Bradbury one brother Jake Musser of Sutland and other relatives. Funeral at Bradbury Church Wednesday at 2 pm Rev A W Williams to conduct. Interment in Middleport Hill Cemetery.
At the Southeast Ohio Guernsey Breeders Association annual winter meeting near Racine the group elected Harold Carnahan president, William Greenwood vice president, and Edson Roush secretary treasurer for the coming year. Talks were given by F. S. Halley and Floyd S. Barlow. The association promotes pure bred Guernseys in the region and may hold a summer field day at Cecil Robinson’s Athens home.
Mrs Ora Nelson of Columbia Township filed for divorce in common pleas court charging her husband Mace Nelson left their home on December 3 to live with Violet Perie Turner. The petition cites their 1919 marriage, two children, and asks for a temporary restraining order, a divorce with alimony, and division of farm property held jointly.
Middleport reports Rev C H Eichinger, former Heath M E Church pastor for five years, has been appointed a director of the State Board of Health. He now serves a Methodist charge in Circleville.
Charity Council No. 245 Daughters of America initiated four candidates during a regular meeting in Middleport. The new initiates were Mrs. Darast and her daughter Miss Helen of Cheshire, Mrs. Howard Williams, and Mrs. Harrington. Light refreshments were served afterward.
Court records show multiple judgments and promissory notes filed in Meigs County. Entities named include C. M. Young H. KE Woode J R Swindler Elmer Newland H M Monroe Lavina C Barrett and W F Osborn. Amounts range from 102.67 to 805.58 with interest rates noted at seven percent.
John Smith of Chester appears in a death notice with Effie Calvert and family (Droon, Mich.). The deceased, a 1928 Middleport High School graduate, left six brothers and a sister, and had lived in Horton Smith and other towns. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at Centenary M. E. Church with burial nearby.
Community relief effort faces a remaining balance of 23000 dollars while officials note local merchants as partners in distributing aid. The article emphasizes leveraging area businesses to streamline assistance delivery.
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