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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1939
Page
5
Mrs Huffman of 91 Lancaster Street learns her nephew Bernard Mayville and his wife from Flint Michigan were struck dead by lightning while returning from the beach. Their 20 months old child, held by the father, escaped injury. The Huffmans were visiting Michigan when the accident occurred.
Georgia Kilpatrick reported 313.30 dollars collected in June by the County Recorder's office, including 100 deeds 36 mortgages 15 oil and gas leases 11 right of ways 267 chattel mortgages 39 mortgage releases and 3 miscellaneous items. A Ridgepark plat for the Frank W. Cone addition to Athens was filed, located on Strouds Run.
The Wayne National Forest Association celebrates Lawrence Washington backed victory as the 20 per cent rule is set aside by the U S Forestry Commission. Congressmen Jenkins Donahey Taft and Secrest backed the effort alongside Dr C E Holzer. This year 3 million dollars are available for land purchase, up from the usual two million. The Hocking Valley Purchase Unit remains the largest with about 18 000 acres of the roughly 50 000 acres owned in the Wayne National Forest.
Joseph Thackeray of Ohio University School of Music will direct the Community Sing at the high school athletic field this evening following two Softball League games.
Thomas Rice aged 63 died at his Waterloo Township home at 6 a m Thursday following an 11 year stay in the area from West Virginia. He is survived by his wife and ten children, with a brother Frank Rice and sister Mrs Letha Cogar in West Virginia. Funeral arrangements are set with Dowler Ferguson Funeral home and the party will travel Saturday morning to West Virginia for burial.
A turtle found by William Willard of a Hebbardsville farm bears the initials O.H. and B.S. with a heart pierced by an arrow and the date 1914 on its back. The discovery may recall a lovers meeting from 25 years ago.
A four man program sponsored by the Ohio Coal Foundation will be held at 7 30 tonight in the Athens County Courthouse to present the real state of the mining industry and the foundation plan for improvements led by W J Walker of Burn Ohio Coal Dr Walter Brehm of Logan and mayors Charles Wallace of Glasgow and Cliff Cornell of Athens will speak with Dr B B Buckley leading the event A similar session with Dr Brehm is planned for Nelsonville Monday night
Jesse Stuart, Kentucky writer and former Portsmouth High School teacher, will address Ohio University at Memorial Auditorium Monday morning at 9. The speaker, known for Sonnets of a Man With a Bull Tongue Plow and Kentucky folk stories, has Guggenheim honors and plans a national lecture tour in fall. Esquire has published his work and a second poetry collection is planned.
WPA workers on the Luhing Road project are instructed to assemble at the first tool box on Monday July 10 at noon. The notice calls for attendance by all crew members and notes the meeting will cover work assignments and safety guidelines.
Local examiners are assigned to assist in filing six month sales tax returns for Jan 1 to Jun 30 1939. Wayne Wingett announces offices in Athens Glouster McArthur Logan Pomeroy Gallipolis and Washington County with schedules July dates and penalties for late filings.
Athens County leaders and labor groups accuse state surplus commodity distributors of favoring Cleveland Columbus and other cities. A committee was formed to press for equitable distribution with a conference set for July 10. Thirty seven Athens youths passed physicals for Camp Nelson CCC enrollment with selections named from several towns.
In a major WPA funded effort, Athens and Meigs Counties initiate adult education campaigns to reduce illiteracy. Programs involve county committees led by Audrey Meighen and Gene Wyatt with classes planned across multiple sites and schedules, aiming to improve reading writing and basic math skills for thousands of residents.
The Green and White student newspaper will be renamed the Ohio University Post this fall. It will publish tri weekly on Monday Wednesday and Friday. The Campus Affairs Committee chose the name from student and faculty suggestions, noting no other college paper uses Post.
In Butte Montana Jack Corporon a local barber reports his car struck a small owl that flew into the radiator cap exactly at the Mercury figure. He swears the animal was impaled on the cap with the bird persisting as a curious roadside tale.
A typical braking system at 70 mph must absorb about 500 horsepower worth of work as heat to stop the vehicle. This illustrates the high energy dissipation involved in braking.
Athens sweltered as temperatures rose to 93 late morning, the second highest reading this year. A 94 degree record was reached on May 16 and 17, with indications that the 93 degree level would be surpassed before nightfall. yesterday's high was 92.4 degrees.
Beginning Monday the Chesterpeake and Ohio train No. 30 from Columbus will arrive in Athens at 12 20 p m instead of 11 20 a m daily except Sunday. The announcement came today.
Paris reports Poland began moving reserve stocks of food oil and munitions to its security triangle in eastern Poland as a precautionary measure amid rising tensions.
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