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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1935
Page
5
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A Motley list of charges and affidavits will be presented as the Athens County Grand Jury convenes at the courthouse on Wednesday. Prosecution is expected to focus on driving offenses and alleged crimes in the area, including cases linked to local distributors and residents. Names include Fleming and Basom among others, with cases arising from motor vehicle issues and related offenses.
Members of the Athens Kiwanis Club and guests attended the annual dinner at the Athens Ice and Storage Company plant on Factory Street. A. E. Whaley and Frank C. Kayser led the event with prayers, songs, and a hearty repast evidenced by several members who gained inches from the meal.
Mayor Len B. McCune cited city records showing 310 fines for intoxication after repeal in 1934 through mid 1935, versus 295 fines in 1922 to 1932 under prohibition. He said the figures speak for themselves and declined further comment.
The Hotel Berry unveils its new coffee shop after refurbishing the former cafe. Early American design creates a dignified atmosphere with dark wood lighting. The room seats over 100 guests at tables booths or the long counter, and includes a tap room and bar for patrons.
Southeast Ohio sportsmen gather in Athens at City Hall 8 p m to discuss better breaks. Izaak Walton League and Athens County Coonhunters will lead the meeting with officers of the new Southeastern Ohio Fish and Game Association present to discuss open and closed seasons. Attendance invited for Athens district sportsmen.
Editor notes explain the Works Progress Administration as announced by President Roosevelt. Athens serves as eight-county district headquarters with August start plans. The program aims to put work to destitute workers while phasing out relief, with broad guidelines for useful permanent projects and self liquidating efforts across highways, rural relief, electrification, housing, education, and public works.
Dangers and a Gallia County resident engineer are urged as a resident supervisor to direct traffic during flood crises. Water and power crews worked three hours to untangle lines and move cars through floodwaters. Bridges washed out on multiple roads in Gallia and Vinton Counties prompt calls to restore superintendency to aid emergency response.
Game Warden Charles Phillips and George Roberts installed lopped tree dens in Morton's Woods and high in park trees to shelter 12 grey squirrels. City Manager Adolph Henke approved the project and park attendant George Hill will oversee feeding while visitors may offer nuts.
Six people arrested over the weekend by Gallipolis city police were fined in Judge A J Stormont's court. Nancy Armstrong of Fifth Avenue forfeited a 15 dollar bond for drunk and disorderly conduct. Gladys Road of Columbus remained jailed on the same charge with fine and costs totaling 14 90. Floyd Armstrong faces a 1 o'clock Tuesday hearing for disorderly conduct. Verne Miller Morgan Township Irwin Woodrum Bidwell and Sam McDonald Gallipolis were fined 10 dollars and costs each for intoxication and released on payment.
James M. Gibson 78 longtime Huntington foundry worker died at his home in Huntington West Virginia Burial planned today at Pine Street Cemetery after funeral services at his home He moved to Huntington years ago and worked with the Huntington Stove Foundry Mrs Gibson died there 15 years ago Survived by three daughters Mrs Mabel Gaines Mrs Emma Gaines and Garnet Gibson of Huntington and two sons Lou Gibson of Bellaire Earl Gibson of Kalamazoo Michigan.
Mrs Anns Brad bury, 81, suffered a fracture of the left hip in a stair fall at home on the O H ervoris but is recovering at Holzer Hospital. Waiter Bunce of Middleport had head injuries from a tire rim and is improving. Wade Pinell of Vinton sustained serious burns when a cattle truck apron show imp provement at the hospital.
Funeral services were held Monday at the Cheshire Baptist Church for Mrs. Rachel Thomas 76 who died at her home after a stroke. Burial followed in Gravel Hill cemetery. She belonged to the Little Eagle Church for over 40 years and with her late husband David operated the Thomas House a small Cheshire hotel. A son Floyd survives. Ward Yeanger was a niece of the Thomases and was raised by them. Eight grandchildren survive.
The text outlines the President’s plan requiring at least 25 percent of loan or grant funds to be used for work under each project. It lists allocations such as 900 million and 350 million for sanitation erosion prevention flood control and related efforts. It notes the act did not finalize exact allocations for each purpose but capped classes by set amounts.
Co. D. Martin, 40, a carpenter and chick hatchery owner from near Langsville, had his left leg amputated after a building collapse. He was removing parts of the Wright school house when a section tore loose and crushed him at Sheltering Arms Hospital four hours later.
4-H Club boys from Athens Gallia and Hocking Counties will travel to Columbus next Monday to judge live stock at Ohio State University Stadium. One group will judge beef cattle and hogs under J Coffey, animal husbandry professor, while the other will judge dairy cattle under Ivan McKellip of the OSU Department of Animal Husbandry.
The Crow family holds its sixth annual reunion at Crow's Grove on Fork Ridge in Marshall County near Moundville West Virginia. A full day of activities and entertainment is organized by committees led by president B. Frye. All Crow family members and friends are invited with Cumberland Ohio secretary Miss Luctie Crow confirming details.
Students in parasitology at Ohio University will inspect monkeys kangaroos camels and elephants at the Cole Brothers Circus in Athens for wildlife parasites. They will examine specimens for disease carrying potential and parasite habits using a microscope, noting species such as the European red bug Persian tick and a tick transmitter of relapsing fever.
Adjt. and Mrs. W. W. Hinshaw of the Salvation Army will conduct services at Burlington Church Wednesday night at 4 15 o'clock Adjt Hinshaw will preach and Mrs Hinshaw will provide special music A Songster Brigade will accompany them Gallipolis Carl Newsom former Midway dance hall proprietor on Route 7 between Pomeroy and here called to say a report of a marriage license in Catlettsburg Ky with Miss Ernestine Sheets of Gallipolia was an error
Athens Rotary Club honored Attorney John J. Woolley with roses for aiding in suppressing the Ohio Examiner. The club praised his material assistance to Prosecuting Attorney Harold Rose in the arrest and conviction of Grover Fleming, publisher of the Examiner.
Seventeen university departments will offer seventy four courses in the third annual post summer session from August 5 to 23. More than 400 students have signed up. Registration days are August 2 and 3. August 5 is the first day of classes. Twenty seven instructors teach in both Arts and Sciences and Education. Subjects include agriculture art biology chemistry commerce economics education English geography history and more under the conference plan of study with three credit hours per student. Women’s dormitories closed. Athena residents host students.
Charles Moore files in Athens County Common Pleas Court against A. G. Cotton seeking 1500 in damages for injuries from a July 2 collision at Route 31 and Kimberly Road. Moore claims a fractured hip and wrecked car valued at 300 with 1000 personal and 300 property damages.
Alaskan sourdough families cultivate carrots pears and other vegetables on sod roofs of their cabins using improvised plots and roof-top farming methods amid rural winter conditions and sparse soil.
Gallipolis notes a will of Alla Minturn Kiger leaving 500 dollars in trust to fund grave care for W Minturn and Mary N Crooka 65 Orin L Kiger. Two brothers receive the remainder in trust. Bess Elliott gains a diamond ring. executors named H H Henking and H W Cherrington. Also four local Boy Scouts head to Camp Anthony Wayne Huntington W Va for merit badges.
Marshall F. Adams age 21 from Antiquity Ohio ccc camp enrollee and Florence M. Norris age 21 daughter of Samuel Norris Che shire native of Letart Fails received a marriage license in Gallipolis Ohio.
Two weeks remain before the August primary in Athens Nelsonville and Glouster as bond issues outshine personal campaigning. Athens faces a 7000 dollar North Lancaster Street bond and a 75 000 dollar city hall issue with maturities of nine to twenty years, while seven voters have applied for advent ballots. The Lawhead Press won the ballot printing bid.
Lean Pattin age 11 of near Lake Chute drowned in the Muskingum River Sunday when swept downstream while learning to swim. Firemen attempted resuscitation with a pulmeter but failed. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Henry Pattin of near Big Bottom Park.
The estate of the late Cleora FE Manafield is declared not subject to inheritance tax by Judge M. Johnson. In common pleas court the suit of Scott T Bowen against Oral Daugherty and the Sunday Creek Coal Company has been settled out of court.
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