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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1935
Page
5
A list shows sixty five applicants for Conservation Corps membership with several sent to camps including McArthur and Athens. Veterans and new enlistees from Athens County are detailed, alongside a legal notice for sale of Athens Electric Railway property and a mortgage auction in Ohio with dates and filing details.
A sparse item lists individuals tied to locations in and around Athens and Glouster. Names include Earl Thompson of Jacksonville, Glenna Price of Glouster, Charles Wakely of Athens, Herbert Farms, Athenee, George Clemens of Glouster, and Alex Spurgess of Glouster.
Two carloads of Athens County officers responded to disturbances at Kilvert and Utley. Merle Roberts Fred Tabler and Arlie Goens faced charges with Goens resisting officers. The Mayles brothers Rennie Cycle and Gunford were fined five dollars and placed on probation after arraignment.
Public sale on Wednesday July 10 1935 at 1 p m at the late residence in Athens Ohio of Lorain Coe deceased. Personal property includes seven rooms of household and kitchen furniture bedding upholstery willowware carpenters tools Buick automobile and various other items. Cash in hand day of sale. Charles H Slaughter administrator Emmett Keenan attorney.
Athens County playgrounds logged 4,382 participants last week in a summer of community nights and inter playground events. Chauncey led with 1,340 attendees while adult programs urged more seniors to join in games, crafts, picnics, and music events across multiple communities including Chauncey Greens Run Lucerne and New Marshfield.
Charleston Stray? No. The notice lists Myrtle Griffin as Administrator of the Herbert Griffin estate and defendants F Wigal. The sale is at the Athens County Courthouse on July 29 1935 at 1 30 PM. The three described tracts total about 8 acres in Troy township Coolville village with appraised value 400 dollars. Sheriff Charles Stratton and attorney L G Worstell are involved. Deputy Dorothy Parmiter handles the notice.
Leonard L. Stephenson of York Township was granted a divorce from Mary J. Stephenson by Judge C. F. Rowland in Athens County Common Pleas Court on grounds of willful absence for three years. The couple married in 1902.
Three hundred sixty students earned 34819 dollars and 17 cents for 15000 hours of FERA work at Ohio University in the past school year. Programs spanned 235 university and community projects with supervision from 114 faculty members and seven townspersons. Off campus Athens efforts included church activity programs and relief center tasks. Students were high school graduates or former students needing aid and worked up to 40 hours monthly at up to 40 cents per hour.
Thurston Stone of Millfield was arraigned before Magistrate Pearl Miller for intoxication and fined $5 plus costs after pleading guilty. Harold Rhodes of Athens Pomeroy Road and Don Williams of Deanville were each fined $5 and costs on intoxication charges.
In June 101 new cars were sold and six new trucks moved in Athens County. Used car transactions reached 484, per Miss Ruth Burdette, clerk of courts. May figures show 07 new passenger cars sold.
The Heirs Research and Recovery Bureau of Los Angeles seeks information from older Athens County residents about Mabel Warren Moulton born in 1861. They aim to establish her parentage amid two Warren lines as heirs pursue the estate.
Ath ens County resident Charles F. Oxley 76 died Sunday morning at 7 at the home of his daughter Mrs Ethel Gimley in Corning. Funeral services set for New Marshfield Tuesday at 3 pm. He leaves wife deceased 1933 two daughters Mrs R R Barker Union and Nellie Wooster four sons Delbert Water town Wis Clinton Albany Ralph Emmett Columbus a brother Joseph Findlay and two sisters Mrs Betts and Mrs M C Ghed both of California.
The Progressive Sunday School Class of Richland Avenue Methodist Protestant Church invites the public to an ice cream social on the church lawn Tuesday July 2 in the afternoon and evening. Homemade ice cream and cake will be served.
Auxiliary of the K. T. Cronasen Post of the American Legion will hold a 7:30 PM meeting at the Legion Home on South Court Street for a brief business session.
Two Athens youths recruit the Volunteer River Rescue Squad of 12 men to form a city rescue unit. Plans outline a boat with motor grappling hooks rope and dynamite divers and grapplers plus trained first aiders. Sheriff Stratton endorses the idea and local youths George Turley and Ruth Darling are named.
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