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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1939
Page
11
Washington figures show Gallia County road improvement projects under construction and planned costing about 612000. All are handled by the State Highway Department. Improvements are aimed at State Highway No. 7 and lie south of Gallipolis.
Herbert Smith pleaded guilty to conducting a gambling room at his roadside inn near Kanauga and was fined 75 dollars plus costs in the Gallia County Court of Common Pleas. Virgil Sigler, jailed for earlier offenses, had robbed eight card players and shot one in the leg at Smiths inn.
A clinic for tuberc ulosis suspects will be held June 14 in the office of County Nurse Naomi Evans in Gallia County.
A Gallipolis committee of the high school alumni association announces a dance for members at the Eagles Club tonight starting at 8 30. A brief business session precedes the dance. Dinner plans at the Methodist Church at 6 30 were dropped due to lack of interest.
Mrs. James Walker daughter of Dr. W. E. Howell filed suit in Court of Common Pleas seeking partition of two real properties: the Howell residence on Second Avenue near Cedar Street and a 45 acre Rio Grande area farm. Defendants are her brothers John and Harry Howell and their step-mother Mrs. Rose Dameron Howell.
John Spearson, recently moved from Parkersburg to Gallipolis, will start a candy factory soon in conjunction with a restaurant business bought from John Johnson. Spearson has 18 years of experience in confectionery.
Detroit Divine speaks to 108 graduates at Gallia Academy High School 128th commencement in Gallipolis Ohio. Rev Merton S. Rice delivers the address as diplomas are presented by Clarence Wagner and Principal Carl Byers. Notables receive honorary keys for scholarship music and athletics.
Water has been turned into the Gallipolis swimming pool on the high school campus to warm and test the facility. Superintendent E. E. Higgins warns parents not to let children enter before opening night on June 6. Mrs Frank Higgins has secured a Home Owners' Loan Corporation option on the Island Side home occupied by Mr and Mrs Joe Epling, with occupancy expected soon. Candy making sewing and sugar decorating activities of Rio Grande College girls are moved to the new Science Hall at the Starbuck home.
Social notes from Gallipolis recount Laura Neal wedding to Otis Cullip of Cincinnati with Rev. Thomas Taylor officiating. Details include attire, rose bouquet, and the couple’s move to Cincinnati. Also reported are a birthday surprise party, birth announcement for Robert Henry Martin Jr., and various visits, travels, and dances among local residents and friends.
Gallipolis Ohio Mrs Grace Burnett Sowards was granted a divorce from Alva Sowards currently serving life in the state penitentiary for banditry. She was allowed to resume her maiden name Grace Burnett.
Emil L. Conn 21 of Columbus and Nora Louise Evans 20 of Gallipolis filed for marriage licenses in June. In May the probate office issued 22 licenses, a drop from prior years per Probate Judge James S. Clark.
Showers break long spring drought as small streams flow again. State highway patrol officers will conduct drivers' license examinations Saturday morning from 9 to 12 in front of the sheriff's residence in Gallipolis.
Local residents report birthdays visits and illnesses across Albany Rural area. Gatherings include Carroll and Berton Elliott celebrations with families from Wales Mill and Columbus. Memorial Day observances and church revivals noted along with health updates for Beckey Hawk and Mary Robinett.
Funeral services for Harry B. Summers 71 native of Gallipolis will be in Columbus Saturday morning. He died at home Wednesday and is survived by his wife Mary Clendenin of this city and six daughters and a son.
Evangelist Robert A. Howell, son of the late Capt. Charles Clendenin and brother of J Will Clendenin of Gallipolis, will speak at a county wide W C T U meeting. The event takes place in his gospel tabernacle tent on Second and Spruce Streets, Thursday night, June 18.
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