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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1938
Page
2
Nelsonville city council approved a resolution asking authorities to investigate WPA workers conditions. Henry Windle spoke for WPA employees, saying signatures would be collected and forwarded to the county office. The council also adopted a tax budget for 1939.
Nelsonville The annual Sunday School and Church picnic of the Church of Christ will be Thursday afternoon and evening at Rising Park in Lancaster. Assemble at the church around 12 30. Bus and cars leave about 12 45 or 1. A small fee covers transportation. Committee members are Alice Mechem John Johnson and Paul Whyte. Recreation includes group contests softball and tennis.
Nelsonville community notes cover bridge club action at Mrs. Ralph White’s with high scores for Mrs. Arthur Newton and Mrs. Robert Jewett, and refreshment breaks. G T Club hosts report 18 members with prizes to Leah Fick Leona Warren and Libby Phillips and a July 28 picnic planned at Elizabeth Ray’s Fourth Street. Various residents are listed as-weekend guests, travelers, and chaperoned trips to Buckeye Lake and Buckeye Lake area. Budget notice for Bern Township fiscal year ending 1949 announces tentative form on file and a public hearing at 1 p.m. Saturday July 19 at township offices.
Nelsonville Troop 65 met in Episcopal Church rooms Tuesday evening to discuss a camp. Ike Smith delivered a brief talk on the Marietta camp, joined by Jim Knight, Ike Smart, Ed Bradfield, Great Hoch, and Assistant Scoutmaster Leonard Powell over the past week. Next meeting set for 6:30 Tuesday evening.
Nelsonville division announces the second annual Knight Templar picnic for Division No 4 to be held August 4 at Ash Cave Hocking County Route 56 starting at 2 PM. Families invited and asked to bring a picnic basket. coffee provided by the committee.
Dr. Sharp and family, including William Sharp and Alice Dome, visit Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sharp. Dr. Sharp has been transferred from Camp Perry Point, Md to the Veterans Hospital at Chillicothe and will assume charge Wednesday.
The Retail Merchants Association calls a city meeting of all retail merchants Friday at 7 30 at the Legion to discuss the clerks contract.
Weekly benefit event set for Thursday in Red Men's Hall at 8 o'clock to raise funds for the W B A. Local organizers announce the public gathering with plans for entertainment and refreshments.
Mr and Mrs Millard Grimm mourn their son in law Frank Chapman drowned near the Huntington locks while fishing. Funeral services were held at the local church. Several families from Rutland Columbus New Lexington Parkersburg Aurora IN and Gallipolis hospital visits are noted along with local social visits and a Piper family reunion near Vinton.
The document presents a financial statement for The Athens County Savings and Loan Company of Athens Ohio as of June 30 1938 including assets liabilities and ownership details. It includes figures for cash deposits loans real estate securities and reserves with signatures of secretary F E Goldsberry and auditing committee members H G Householder Joan J Woolley and P E Hixson.
Athens County Veterans Relief Association will hold an open meeting at the Red Men’s Hall in Nelsonville on Friday July 22 at 7 30 p m. War veterans dependents and widows are invited. The meeting will explain the increased appropriation for county commissioners for the coming year to aid needy veterans and dependents.
Nearly fifty children joined the Nelsonville Bible School picnic on Kent Ner Hill last evening. A program of games a campfire and a sing accompanied the outing. Miss Blanche Riley and her corps of workers organized the event.
Nelsonville reports a midweek prayer service at the church auditorium led by Rev. Goodman this evening.
Mr and Mrs H W Casselman of Alliance Ohio visited Rev Goodman Tuesday afternoon while on their honeymoon trip to the South Mrs Casselman is former secretary of the First Christian Church in Alliance for 11 years
Harry Kelly and Mrs. Mary E. Bartlett attended the funeral of Sherman Eagle in Gallipolis. The service was held at the Episcopal Church at 11 a.m. The day’s arrangements followed local church rites.
Social notes recount church services, visits from residents and relatives, 4 H Club activities, illness and family updates in Tuppers Plains Ohio. Legal notice announces divorce petition hearings in Athens County and sheriff sale of Buck Co. goods with details on parties and dates.
Athens paper reports Logan city council adopted a plan to place a one mill levy over three years to fund Oak Grove cemetery wall repairs and upkeep. Also covered are a closing ordinance for groceries and meat markets, street lighting bids, West Street improvements, pension adjustments, and health setup plans with education board cooperation.
S W Arnold, superintendent of the County Home farm, threshed 858 bushels this week, yielding 29.5 bushels per acre. A 3.5 acre tract averaged 42.5 bushels per acre. Parents announce the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs John H Clark of Columbus Radium Hospital. Clarke is a member of the junior high school faculty.
L. P. Mooney and Edward Davis returned to Logan homes after a week at Dyers Bay on a fishing trip. Four other Logan men will remain another week. Jimmy Green, four, suffered an injury at home when hit above the eye by a golf club while playing with his sister.
Logan residents attended the Meade service for Thaddeus Hall who died late last week. Wayne Hall of Laurelville, a sales tax division inspector, is among his family. An additional notice cites Athens Bottling Works filing container registrations with the Ohio Secretary of State for Athens Pepsi Cola Bottling and related bottles.
Pearl Keck of Carbon Hill uncovered the first marriage license issued in Hocking County for Thomas O Neil and Nancy Lee married by justice Dutton Lane on May 9 1818. The next license issued December 31 1818 to Barney Stimson and Rhoda Starkey by Justice Samuel Featheroll. Since that year more than 21 000 permits have been issued.
Logan notices filed show the Bituminous Coal Producers Board of District 4 appealing to the Ohio Supreme Court from a Hocking County decision upholding a demurrer in a suit by Starr-Jackson Coal Co. The case centers on 1935 code assessments later ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court and whether those assessments may be collected.
Middletown judge Clinton D. Boyd, seeking nominating as chief justice of the state supreme court, spoke to the Logan Kiwanis Club on Celebrated Lawsuits in America. He blamed human error for most defects and called the Burr treason trial the greatest in American history, noting witchcraft trials in Massachusetts.
Wayne Roach was fined 3 and costs by Mayor Dallas Kinser after pleading guilty to operating a car without a muffler. Roy Marshall's finger infection from being spiked in baseball has improved and he may pitch in Friday's tournament.
Logan Dr C A Gaffin a Medical Corps lieutenant will depart Tuesday to Fort Benjamin Harrison for a two week training camp.
Funeral services for Millard Lambert conducted from the residence of his son Dana in Middleport, followed by interment at Gravel Hill Cemetery. Also includes a public notice of election in Glouster for sewer system bonds and a sheriff sale of Athens County real estate listing lots 2445 to 2447 with a 2530 value, sale set for August 22, 1938.
Logan-Robert Stoughton, 19, of Rickbridge, was treated at Cherrington Hospital after rushing into a smoke filled home on Carl Daubenmier’s property to rescue possible occupants. He dragged himself out a window and regained consciousness briefly. All Daubenmier family members were away.
Joan Henderson visiting from Columbus grew ill Monday night and is under physician care. Mrs Rudolph Lortz returned home after visiting her Columbus parents who are ill. Judson Shriner and daughter Jane Ann joined Glen Roy and Glendon James of Springfield on a Toledo trip to visit relatives. District Commander E L Eveland of Crooksville met with Harold W Larimer of the Logan American Legion Post on Tuesday evening.
George Hicks of near this city found six five leaf and four four leaf clovers on Sunday. Laurence Woodard Beougher, 23, laborer of Rockbridge, and Gladys Mae Conrad, 19, of Logan, were issued a marriage license on Tuesday by local officials.
New Plymouth items note visits and gatherings. Miss Helen Harris and Kenley Harris with John Archer visited Fort Benjamin Harrison. Various locals hosted or attended calls, dinners, picnics at Old Man's Cave, church events, and family gatherings across Haydenville Logan Columbus McArthur Chillicothe and nearby towns.
Logan notices remind vendors to file sales tax receipts this month to avoid a penalty of one dollar per day for each day delinquent after August 1. Examiner Fred Ambrose will be at the county auditor's office daily for the rest of July, except Mondays and Saturday afternoons, to assist with reporting.
Three District 8 American Legion Junior League teams will play a two day tournament at oe Field with a free trip to the state Columbus tournament August 1 to 4 as the prize. Crooksville meets Oak Hill at 3 PM Thursday. the winner faces Logan at 3 PM Friday to decide the district champion.
Logan Eugene Buehler James Hallett Jr Dorothy Mundy and Betty Nelson all of Nelsonville underwent tonsil removal operations at Cherrington Hospital Tuesday.
Coolville residents Walter Miller Dale Miller and Dale Cole visited Lancaster Camp Grounds Sunday. Certificates were awarded at Epworth League Institute. The 4 H Toppers Club plans a rummage sale July 23 and holds a July 22 meeting.
The WPA project for Logan streets and alleys, approved by Service Director R. R Loomis, allocates 114000 for July 1 1938 to July 1 1939. Improvements include the alley by the shoe factory and Hunter Street alley between High and Spring Streets plus West Street Iron Street and Freisner Avenue as initial blocks. Work starts after council passes necessary legislation.
Mrs Homer Boyles of Union Furnace was operated on at Cherrington Hospital Tuesday for a carbuncle that spread to the neck shoulder area. Her condition is reported as serious.
Mr and Mrs Paul Stillwell and family moved to Columbus this Saturday to establish their home. He previously worked as a civil engineer at Camp Hocking and has took a job with the Olentangy Addition development company. He had lived in Logan the past four years.
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