Secretary leads Gall GD Grover to city hospital
A secretary associated with Gall D. Grover was taken to City Hospital after a troubling incident. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the injury and hospitalization.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1940
Page
6
A secretary associated with Gall D. Grover was taken to City Hospital after a troubling incident. Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the injury and hospitalization.
The Ohio University Summer School Band performs its second concert of the season tonight at 7 on the west side of Memorial Auditorium. Five guest directors will lead numbers, with Harold Aspenwall directing In a Monastery Garden. If rain, conductors and pieces will be announced, and the concert ends by eight to allow attendance at the Benjamin Franklin magic show.
Round About the Town reports local health officials advise light meals during hot weather. Doctors urge salt balanced intake, frequent baths, light clothing, and sufficient sleep to prevent heat fatigue or exhaustion. Readers share tips including cooling movies as a respite from the heat.
A series of farewell events this week honor Dr and Mrs Hale C Pickett as they depart Saturday for West Chester Pennsylvania. Dr Pickett leaves after twelve years as supervising critic teacher of mathematics at Athens High School to head the mathematics department at West Chester State Teachers College. Their Athens home on Grosvenor Street was bought by Principal L Wood of the Athens High School faculty.
Mrs McKee and Miss Stickney return from a freighter cruise on Lake Erie and Lake Superior to Duluth Minnesota. A Linton family reunion near Stewart featured games music and a basket dinner with many relatives present. The Athens County group plans a boat excursion on the steamer Gordon Greene with contact by August 7.
Dicky and Lily scheme to uncover a hidden station wagon chase involving Jimm and the Hation wagon. They trail tire marks to a rendezvous, where Leo and Harry Underwood converge with Hank and Bill Sweet to aid in bringing Jack Leslie and his chauffeur to justice. The group exposes the ruse and prepares to return everyone home.
A fragment from a serialized tale shows characters planning a swift return home after a tense exchange. Dicky, Thore, Leslie, and others discuss pursuit, danger, and the need to reach the farm quickly while staying ahead of a potential trap.
Athens Airways passengers led by Virgil Baughman describe a day trip to Chicago aboard a Waco craft. They soared 3000 feet up, over Indiana steel towns to Municipal Airport, returning by evening. The group, including Mrs. Baughman and two friends, recounted patchwork Ohio fields below and a rapid, scenic flight.
The calendar lists multiple church and community group events including St Pauls Catholic Church Lawn Fete on July 4 with sodality helpers serving cake and ice cream, Deborah Class picnic at Harry Jacoby farm, Central Ave Methodist pie supper, Gayles Lodge auxiliary stork shower, Eastern Star picnic at Athens County Fairgrounds, July Business and Professional Women picnic at Lake Hope with reservations, Youth Fellowship Patina event at Pinney night fly, Bolin Reunion July 28 at Pearls Chapel with basket dinner, Albany Methodist Ladies Aid July meeting and annual gifts planning.
Jacksonville community notes report a postponed women's Day School class meeting from July to August, plus local relatives visiting and traveling to Harrisburg Athens Parkersburg Traverse City Nelsonville and Ames for family events. Social items include visits by Mandrells Woodger Tinker Hoisington and Miller and a Harvey family reunion set for Sunday at J J Vorr's Lancaster Road residence.
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