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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1935
Page
5
Athens County reports 5193 attendees last week as the Community Betterment Exchange aims to unify playground committees at each site. Plans include cooperative projects, equipment purchases, and multi-month programs led by playground leaders to improve recreation and solve local problems.
About 95 girls attended a weeklong camp led by Miss Char Tourrette with crafts and study sessions. Miss Margaret Chillicothe will inspect the grounds as Brownie Day is planned at Nelsonville and nearby areas with a Friday picnic and bus transport.
A Friday note reports a court case where an individual named Athena faced fines after a driving rights charge. The incident occurred Saturday night with alcohol involvement, and the proceeding was scheduled for Sunday under state authority.
Harley Leist Lutz, president of the National Tax Association and a Princeton professor, will discuss "Future of Educational Financing" at Ohio University in Alumni Memorial Auditorium at 8:40 Wednesday morning. The talk is part of a summer term lecture series on government and economics. Lutz has advised tax commissions and authored works on taxation and public finance.
A. D. Townsend Oil & Gas Co drilled a third gas well on Joseph Bainey’s Angell Ridge farm in Lodi Township. The well yielded about 0.5 million cubic feet daily, reaching 1530 feet 15 inches in the Berea sand. Drilling equipment will move tomorrow to the Adeline Bobo farm next to Bainey’s.
Lettie Radcliffe aged 84 died Sunday morning at her brother H. E. Ansel’s home in Zaleski. Funeral services planned for Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Weaver Chapel with Rev. J. E. Gibson officiating.
R. C. Davis, a patrolman based in Athens, departed this morning for Columbus to attend a two week training course before taking up duties at a new post in Ohio.
Ready To Go petitions to annex Richland Avenue start rounds among 53 freeholders between South Bridge and Athens State Hospital gates. Cy engineers finish district maps to accompany each petition copy. Mayor Len B. McCune handed petitions to Richland Avenue residents Saturday. A majority of land owners must sign before Athens County Commissioners and City Council consider approval.
Athens County officials investigate the disappearance of 17 year old Alice Bowen of Buchtel last seen Friday night near her home. Her mother fears she was taken to a large city by a stranger she was seen talking to. The search by family members and deputies yields no clues. Bowen formerly attended Buchtel High School and had not expressed home life discontent.
Ray Noble, first relief director in Athens County, is expected to arrive today to take charge of the new Works Progress Administration district office serving eight counties. He may use relief administration offices temporarily and later establish separate offices. Athens County’s July appropriation for work relief, direct cash relief, and supplementary aid totals 73 000 dollars, with 16 528 people on relief. About 1 373 work program workers, 458 cash relief recipients, and over 1 800 mainly miners on supplementary relief. Today the relief office will issue nearly 2 300 food and clothing orders and checks for mid month payments. In June 9 500 orders were issued. July will exceed 11 000.
Probate Judge S. M. Johnson assessed an inheritance tax of 99.28 on the Dessie Brooks estate in Athens County. Beneficiaries include niece Gladys Crumsey 794.60, grand-niece Bettie McVey 795.59, nephews James Russ and Harley Russ 790.60 each. Tax directs funds to Alexander Township and the state.
Tonight the moon will pass through Earth's shadow in a major eclipse visible across most of the western hemisphere and parts of Africa Europe and the Atlantic. It enters the penumbra at 10 12 p m and moves through the umbra before clearing by 1 60 a m.
The second 4-H Music Club in the state was formed when youth from Rome and Canaan Townships met at the Canaanville Grange Hall led by Raymond C. Connett. Officers include Robert Hugus president Ray Burrows vice president Eleanor Kin Cade secretary treasurer Francis Norris news reporter. Members listed include Rachel Crawford Donna Manseld Donald Dean Manstie Harold Hugus Roger Williams Russell Hugus Richard Smith Ralph Hoskinson and Robert Smith. The next meeting is set for July 6 at the Canaanville Grange Hall.
Parkway Cabs Inc reports 78 drivers have renewed a strike started last Sunday after a brief halt on Wednesday. A settlement reportedly reached earlier remains unconfirmed as tensions rise among taxi crews in Cincinnati.
Thirty scouts from Troops 1 3 start a weeklong encampment at Camp Boy Dupler on Peach Ridge under Richard Atkins with J W Long Arch Knowlton supervising and Roy Dupler helping. Patrols listed include Green Oak Clear Water Black Snake Silver Eagle White Ash Rippling Brook and more. Visitors’ night set for Thursday.
Thornton Albert, a roaming colored evangelist, was to be released from the Athens County Jail today after three days recovering from injuries suffered at New Marshfield when he fell from a freight train. He had been holding round table religious discussions with prisoners, and sought release to fulfill several Ohio preaching engagements.
Hooper Ridge Church announces a homecoming on Sunday July 21 with Sunday School at 10 a m. and a sermon by Reverend Crawford of Byesville. A basket dinner will be served at noon and a program follows in the afternoon.
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