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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
4
An OCR damaged text references a legal matter in Athens with mentions of a clerk, posters, and a court filing. It notes a recent class matter under a server act and two items related to a morning session or docket.
A proposal to issue bonds in August to fund Athens public school upgrades aims to ease costs for voters. The plan targets overdue modernization, including classrooms and athletic facilities, with federal assistance and long-term payment to avoid financial strain. The piece argues Athens’ growth and university presence require updated facilities and community centers to support future education and youth needs.
A New York woman who turned in a loaded revolver to police was arrested and fingerprinted, then released with an apology from authorities. The episode sparked debate on gun ownership and hysteria, with officials admitting the incident was indefensible.
The piece argues unemployment harms all, but especially risks eroding skilled workers. A government postcard survey shows 2 177 150 unskilled 1 155 200 semi skilled and 172 575 skilled unemployed. Maintaining skilled workers requires ongoing employment and investment in vocational training remains out of reach for the unemployed.
In an eastern community only municipal clocks stay on daylight saving time, while other clocks remain unchanged. The statement implies government control can preserve a single practical time standard amid broader timekeeping choices.
A newborn in Italy has fourteen fingers and fourteen toes, a noted curiosity. A comment on fashion trends promises doll hats as the stylish new headgear to accompany the new skirts. A Harvard lunch at a zoo snake house is mentioned alongside Yale papers. A professional daredevil recently fell from a box and broke a shoulder, suggesting inexperience with such depths.
The report notes Britain nationalizes coal deposits and expands social welfare under Conservative governance. It quotes Ernest Brown on a new factory act, extended unemployment coverage, and wage boards for truckers, contrasting with American Republican approaches and urging Dr. Glenn Frank to study British policy.
A long Washington dispatch notes Lee O Daniel of Fort Worth leading a 14 candidate field for Texas governor with July 23 primary momentum. It cites Willam McCraw Ernest Thompson Karl Crowley and Maury Maverick as key players while contrasting New Deal and anti New Deal factions and patronage tensions. It closes with a snide remark about Nazi leaders Streit her and Seyss Inquart over Charlemagne's crown ending up in Goering's closet.
A resident of Massachusetts died at age 107 with doctors attributing the cause to his exceptionally long life. The obituary notes his longevity and long battle against time.
Tran earns trust by aiding an Italian patient and finds a sudden power in healing. Dr. Sargent and Miss Armstrong debate the probationer’s temperament and potential, weighing her focus and emotional intensity against Miss Miller’s surgical skill.
Dr. Morris Fishbein discusses how age affects diet and digestion. He cautions against forcing large meals on the elderly and emphasizes easily digested foods, regular rest for digestive tissues, and monitoring food sensitivities with milk as a staple when tolerated.
Mr Guy Fierce returned from a trout fishing trip in Wildell West Virginia and visited Elkins with Curtis Wilson. J H McClure of Athens National Bank takes weeks off for White Sulphur Springs. E J Shannon and son Gilbert travel to Cincinnati to see the Reds play the Giants. News notes from Parkersburg Ironton and Columbus include social visits and a transport of German action near Paris with American troops under fire. The Rail Riders and Man's Woman play at the Opera House. Alonzo Palmer returns from Parkersburg vacation.
Glouster R. D. 4 July 11th 1938 letter writer John Ponn defends John L. Lewis on some points while condemning Sorrell and Correll. He questions wage policies in the Fairmont District and imagines guards at mine entrances to enforce wage cuts.
Verse in this Messenger readers column invites names and addresses. The poem by Ira G Bolcalm from Kearney Nebraska recalls Ohio hills and childhood joys, adapted to My Mother's Bible tune, with nostalgic imagery of beech and maple shade and distant starry skies.
Local notes from New Plymouth column recount visits and guests. Lelia Dowd of Columbus stays with S M Hein. Dowd's son Robert visited Wellston. Various arrivals and calls follow among Heinlein Haas Porterfield families and regional churches. Garth Harris stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison as C M T C cadet.
Albany social notes list residents visiting relatives and traveling between Albany and nearby towns. Local gatherings include Mr and Mrs Clinton Oxley entertaining relatives, and community events such as the Bara Phi Class social and council changes with Frank Trainor succeeding as mayor.
Local notes report J L Cavanaugh moved to Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens for illness. Death news arrives of Mrs Harley Davis of Barnesville in a Wheeling hospital. Several residents visited relatives, including Miss Ruth Cram in Columbus vacationing at home, and a fire destroyed the Front Street home of the Pennell family started by a match or cigarette.
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