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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1932
Page
3
Office clerks and yard workers of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Tiffin will follow a five day weekly schedule with four days off each month to aid unemployed men. Trainmen are exempt due to union agreements, while furloughed workers will be recalled under the new plan.
East State Street is closed to allow contractor road widening work. Traffic detours run via Morris Elmwood and May Avenue with one way traffic to city limits. Sewer and sanitation work along the street is finished. grading has begun and more trees will be cut. Concrete culverts are being installed along the east stretch.
Police confront the Reapers near the Lake Min Helonka resort district as officers respond to a developing threat and monitor the area for any further activity.
Five Valley Lodge No. 169 Knights of Pythias members received life membership certificates marking 40 years of continuous membership. Recipients were Calvin Robb Chillicothe S A Stack Columbus William Evans W S Bunion Nelsonville Sherman Linn Oregon Wis. Officers for the new term were installed, with Joe Whion C C Ben Brady V C James Herrold P Jared Barber M W John Monks M A William Harbarger I G Albert Barber O G Co W Monks past chancellor and lodge deputy acting as installing officer.
Mr and Mrs William Mills entertained with high tea on Tuesday for Dr and Mrs D King of Miami University Oxford. Their son Sidney Minault, who had been the guest of Miss Thelma Mills for two weeks, returned home with them.
White Hall man A. C. Robinson was fined ten dollars and costs by Magistrate C. H. Porter for lacking a dog license. The fine was suspended pending dog tag acquisition. He was arrested by Athens County humane officer Porter Dicken. Dent Carr of Athens pleaded guilty to an intoxication charge before Porter and paid ten dollars and costs. He was arrested by Constable Frank White.
Nelsonville Merchants defeated Longstreth 5 1 at Longstreth field. Garner pitched well for Nelsonville with nine strikeouts while Lovett allowed five, and Merchants advance to face Pat Duncan's team in Coalton next Sunday.
A group including Mr and Mrs John Saltz with Kathleen and Ruth Kelch and others enjoyed a Fourth of July picnic at Ye Old Mill near Mt Vernon Ohio. In Nelsonville Mrs Earl Gilliam of Columbus will attend Methodist Choir service at 10 30 a m next Sunday, singing Cast Thy Burden Upon the Lord, and will stay with Mrs James Beard on Fayette Street at week’s end.
Miss Frances Parry hosted a bridge club at her Adams Street home on Wednesday evening. Mrs. D A North and Miss Rosemary Acker won first and second high scores in the competition.
The chain party of the Willing Workers Class of the Christian Sunday School will be held this evening at the home of Mrs Harriet Gray on Walnut Street.
Mr. and Mrs. William Hick hosted Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Shields and daughter Mary Katherine. Also invited were Mrs. Fannie Shields, Mrs. Mary Shipley and daughter Eva Jane, Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. John Eppie with daughter Joan and son John Herrold, Gallipolis.
The group will meet Friday evening at George Beagle's Walnut Street residence instead of Luther Cheesman’s earlier announced location.
Mr and Mrs Lee Pritchard and daughter Barbara return to Columbus after visiting relatives over the Fourth. Mr and Mrs Mark Hick and daughter Elizabeth Hartley with Miss Louise Barklow and Mrs James Grant are visiting Columbus relatives. Mr and Mrs Ralph Eliott and son Ralph Jr visited Marion on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Mathew Hickman spent the week in Columbus. Mr and Mrs James Beard with guest Mrs B E Yerkey spent Monday in Columbus and Mrs Yerkey left for Pennsboro W Va. after a several days visit. Misses Jeanette and Alice Furniss attended the funeral of Sheldon Verity. Mrs C M Ford and son Malcolm Pendleton Va are visiting here. Tom Bush Sr Tom Bush Jr and Raymond Sommers left for fishing in Northern Canada. Walter Floto Steubenville is visiting his wife and daughter spending summer with Vern Vorhes family.
Lightning struck the Coleman farm barn near Sandusky blowing open the corn storage. Fire crackled as popcorn popped loudly inside the wooden structure. No injuries reported.
Two German aviators Captain Hans Bertram and mechanic Adolf Klausmann were found by natives on Cape Bernice after 36 days wandering in bush country. They had been missing since May 17 when their seaplane ditched between Kupang Island and Darwin while returning from Australia to Java.
Washington reports that Americans sent 39 million dollars abroad last year for missionary educational and charitable contributions while receiving no such donations from foreign lands, according to the Commerce Department.
A truck carrying West Chester fans to a Reading baseball game overturned near Reading last night killing one youth and injuring others.
In the House of Commons Stanley Baldwin acting prime minister announced Great Britain welcomes the Hoover disarmament plan but cannot accept it unconditionally. Britain agrees on linking military naval and air disarmament issues.
An attempted assault on a matron by Alla May a 16 year old Black girl from the Girls Industrial School Delaware was stopped today by officers at the Women's Reformatory in Marysville California.
Police in Toledo seek four Filipinos who robbed two University of Toledo students of 800 dollars yesterday.
Cincinnati July T Judge Chester Ro Shook reviews a case where Robert N. Gorman the prosecutor seeks an injunction against the state assuming control of surplus funds collected in Hamilton County under the new intangible tax law.
Athens County Probate Judge 8S. M. Johnson determines the inheritance tax at $423.88 on an estate valued at $10,100 with $8479.50 taxable. The ruling finalizes the tax due from the Manna Rose estate.
Hankell Bohn, 20, heir to a refrigerator mogul, was released after over six days in captivity. Three men abducted him a week ago and dumped him from a car near Minneapolis, with authorities stating he is back at home unharmed.
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