Fourth of July talk and local backyards chatter
Local column notes casual chatter about an early Fourth of July feel and plans for fireworks. It mentions Dow Grones Jr fencing on the Rutherford hilltop, horse antics at Strouds Run Road, a slow closing door hinge, a 1921-patented front door hinge, and neighbors Poling and Kelley digging basements and piling dirt on lawns amid a spring flood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dow Grones, Jr
Dwight H. Rutherfords
Cable Hill
Strouds Run
Rutherford
Nancy
Mrs. Rutherford
Bill Carpenter
The
Court St. Carpenters
Elmwood Place
Wesley Kelley
Morris Ave
Kelley
Lawn Party for St Sylvester Church Benefit
A lawn party to benefit St Sylvester Church in Zaleski is set for Thursday July 4 on the church grounds. Lunch starts at noon and lasts through the evening with games and entertainment planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Sylvester
Zaleski
Ladies Club Meeting At Floodwood Friday
The Ladies Club of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank Perry in Floodwood on Friday, July 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Club
The
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints
Frank Perry
Floodwood
Marriage Meddlers In Athens Tale Of Secret Service Escort
Dicky Graham and Harry Underwood accompany Secret Service guards posing as Dicky's relatives to recover a stolen emerald from exiled Queen Olga. Unaware, their wives Madge and Lillian follow in masculine disguise, guiding a backroad rendezvous as branches scrape the car and tensions rise before the planned meeting with Jack Leslie's gang.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dicky Graham
Harry Underwood
Secret Service
Jack Leslie
Dicky
Mary Veritzen
Mary
Noel
Leslie
Olga
Transvania
Harry
Madge
Lillian
Rendezvous Plot in the Woods Ends With Silent Waiting
The narrator and Lillian trail through the underbrush to a rendezvous point with Leslie's men near an old cemetery. They hide in a thicket to observe events while questioning what their men will say about their actions. A car is heard, hinting at further developments. Continued tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian
Hitler Won't Starve Says P G Moler In Letter
The second half of P G Moler’s letter on Europe’s pre war conditions argues Hitler was a shrewd dictator who kept wages low and used forced labor. Moler cites German wheat and bread production, Denmark’s bacon exports, and vast European wheat fields to claim bread supply won’t fail, urging Britain to strike now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitler
P. G. Moler
Europe
Mr. Moler
Ontario
California
France
England
Berlin
Roosevelt
Japan
Austria
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Norway
Canada
South Africa
India
Holy Land
John Lewis
Germany
London
Vienna
Ice and steel temper Athens heat at local storage plant
Harold Whaley runs the Athens Ice and Storage Co where 16 000 large ice cakes are kept in a chilly room at 18 to 23 degrees. Blacksmith P E Shirley toils over a fiery forge with a 10 pound sledge, praising 55 years of heat hard won.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Whaley
P. E. Shirley
Whaley
Athens Ice and Storage Co
Shirley
Ice Room
Possiby
Mr. Shirley
Marriage Announcement for Helen Gandee and Charles Mohney Jr
Mr and Mrs Orland Gandee announce the marriage of their daughter Helen to Charles Mohney Jr son of Mr and Mrs Charles Mohney of Buchtel on Tuesday July 2 at Chauncey Church of Christ with Rev Gilbert Courtney officiating. The couple reside with the bridegroom’s parents in Buchtel. Mrs Mahoney is a Nelsonville graduate class of 1936 and her husband a Buchtel graduate class of 1935.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orland Gandee
Helen
Charles Mohney Jr
Charles Mohney
Buchtel
Chauncey Church of Christ
Gilbert Courtney
Cope Vickers Goat Welcomes Triplet Kids
Gladys the Vickers Toggenberg goat has triplets. The three dark brown and black kids, five days old, are lively and learning to drink milk from a pan. Cope Vickers, 13, proudly cares for the mother and plans to sell goat milk when the babies are grown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys
V. C. Vickers
Cope
Whisker Defect in Nail Making Described in Steel Terms
In steel industry terms a whisker is a thin fin of steel that clings to the nail point and is shaved off automatically by the nail-making machine. This small defect relates to quality control in nail production and metal forming processes.
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Clover Farm
National Brands Stores
Fairgrounds
Bill Poling
William D. Polings
Bill
Cline
Fcat Cti Ty
Plan Church
DE Xsier
Athens Messenger
Athens, Ohio
Jim
Katie
Kansas
Budapest
Hungary
Prague
Czech
Athens Ice & Storage
By Raymond Baer
Jewelry
BIG Chief Indian Herb Tonic
Quick's Cut Rate Drug Store
Cope Vickers
Silvus
Hill's
Oxfords
Brown & WI
Quick’'S
W. Union St
Athens
Post Office
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