State Chairman Speaks on Problems and Solution Effort
Forty three Athens County business and professional men, guests of as many farmers, heard a detailed talk on U.S. agriculture problems and the long range government program. Kruse outlined soil conservation and planned crop production to curb erosion and restore soil fertility, while Barker warned of widespread erosion and urged better land use and strip cropping.
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Athens County
Athens
Bienes BD Wesese GC Maen Stata
Emet Fe Must
Sv YD
Agricultural Conservation Committee
Ralph Barker
Union
Frank Pugh
Kruse
Italy
Hitler
Germany
France
England
Supreme Court
Barker
Ohio
H. M.leiknaker
Lancaster
Athens People Lose Fight on Property Levy
Ohio Supreme Court refused to review an appeal by 60 Athens taxpayers in an injunction suit to nullify special tax assessments for a 1932 street improvement. The suit, filed March 26, 1938, was denied by Athens County courts which held the owners waived their rights by accepting benefits for five years.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Supreme Court
Athens
City of
Athens County Common Pleas
Army To Fill 29 Vacancies for Second Lieutenants
Information from the War Department notes a preliminary exam by July 15 to select 29 regular army second lieutenants for vacancies in Infantry Cavalry Field Artillery Coast Artillery and Signal Corps. Eligible candidates include warrant officers enlisted men National Guard officers and ROTC graduates among others aged 21 to 30 unmarried and passable in mental and physical tests. Further details from Colonel T F McNeill Ohio University ROTC Headquarters.
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War Department
Regular Army
Military Academy
Thomason
Infantry
Cavalry
Field Artillery
Coast Artillery
Signal Corps
National Guard
Secretary of War
Rom
T. F. McNeill
ROTC
Ohio University
Roy Porter Dies at 35 in Sugar Creek
Roy Porter age 35 son of Frank and the late Ella Porter of Sugar Creek died this morning. He leaves his wife and a son in Columbus. Funeral arrangements had not been completed today.
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Roy Porter
Frank Porter
Ella Porter
Sugar Creek
Columbus
Campbell to be installed as pastor in Hebbardsville
The Athens Presbytery will ordain and install Rev. Louis Campbell as pastor of Alexander Presbyterian Church at Hebbardsville and Harrisonville Church in a ceremony at Alexander Church on Thursday evening June 15 at 8. Rev. Byron B. Evans will preach the ordination sermon, Rev. Fred Luchs will deliver the charge to the pastor, and Rev. Harry E. Bickster will address the people. An examination of the candidate is set for 4 p.m., and the public is invited. Campbell, a 1936 College of Wooster graduate, trained at Princeton Seminary and Oak Hill High School and Rio Grande College.
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Athens Presbytery
Louis Campbell
Alexander Presbyterian
Hebbardsville
Harrisonville Presbyterian Church
Alexander
Byron B. Evans
Campbell
Oak Hill
Fred Luchs
Athens Church
Harry E. Bickster
Templed Hills
Lewis Weber Gishler
Gallipolis Presbyterian Church
Oak Hill High School
Rio Grande College
College of Wooster
Princeton Seminary
Stores Close at Noon in Summer Hours Plan
Athens Retail Merchants Association and cooperating stores will close at noon tomorrow and every Thursday through the summer until Labor Day.
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Athens Retail Merchants Association
Village weather watcher keeps exact rainfall records
Nellie M. France, one of Ohio's 88 county observers, records past weather data at Mill View Place Athens and mails daily reports to Columbus and Huntington. She cannot forecast conditions, using only a bucket rain gauge, thermometers, and a river gauge calibrated for her site. She notes river stages, precipitation, and temperatures, with flood extremes cited from 1937 and 1913.
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Athens County
Mill View Place
Athens
East Bridge
France
Mrs. France
Columbus
United States Engineer's
Huntington
W. Va
United States Weather Bureau
Washington
United
Hocking
Ohio
Frances Gregory
Norwalk
Huron County
Alice McHaffey
Cambridge
Guernsey County
Mary A. Muller
Chillicothe
Ross County
Ethel H. Hayes
Wilmington
Clinton County
4-H Activity Supplements School Work
4-H clubs are a practical supplement to formal schooling says County Superintendent F. J. Taylor to 75 advisors and officers at a conference in the First Methodist Church. He notes girls use knowledge to save money, while boys may turn it into earnings. The session covered groups for advisors secretaries presidents reporters and recreation leaders, with a potluck supper and a talk on The American Flag. The afternoon included a film a group swim and summer activity planning.
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F. J. Taylor
First Methodist Church
Taylor
E. A. Hansen
Ohio University
Plan Music Study at Athens High School
Registration for summer music classes at Athens Junior and Senior High Schools will be held July 5 at the high school announced by Floyd Prince, the music supervisor. Classes include current instrument players and beginners entering sixth or seventh grades. Courses begin July 6 and meet each Wednesday until fall. No charge for instruction.
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Athens
Floyd Prince
Fire Extinguished After Auto Wiring Fault
A fire caused by defective wiring in the automobile of Harry Frye of Hebbardsville near the Harry Burns Grocery at State and Lancaster Streets was put out by firefighters at 11 p.m. Tuesday under Fire Chief E R Laughlin. Damages were about $5. Chauncey 4 H Club meets Thursday at 2 p m at the high school, announced by Geraldine Parry. A mayfly can stay underwater longer by storing air in its wings before laying eggs.
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Harry Frye
Hebbardsville
Harry Burns
State and
Lancaster Sts
E. R. Laughlin
Chauncey
Geraldine Parry
Examiner Aids Nine Asking Citizenship in Athens County
P B McHugh a district naturalization examiner for the United States Department of Labor spent Tuesday in the office of County Clerk Ruth E Burdette examining applicants and supervising nine foreign born Athens County residents as they fill naturalization papers. Of the nine only two took out first papers while seven who had filed declarations two years earlier now move to second papers and will face final examinations within 90 days. Local residents named include Michele Angelo Andinori Glouster filing declarations and Sophia Vegso Glouster RD 4 and others from Hungary Slovakia Scotland Poland Finland and a British married woman Elizabeth Cupit.
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P. B. McHugh
United States
Department of Labor
Ruth E. Burdette
Athens County
Angelo Andinori
Glouster
Soephia Vegso
Andy Lasko
Jacksonville
Marion Bloomfield
Stanley Zachary
Athens
Ella Lindholm
Julia Liskey
Elizabeth Cupit
Buchtel
John Henry Cupit
Norwalk Woman Hurt In Route 33 Crash
Mrs. Margaret FE Orr 28 of Norwalk suffered a broken nose a broken ankle and a severe forehead cut when an accident Tuesday on Route 33 near Chauncey caused her husband Charles E Orr to skid skid off the curve strike a culvert and end in a ditch. State patrolmen reported heavy front end and right side damage. Mrs. Orr was taken to an Athens physician by a passing motorist while the couple traveled to visit her mother at Athens State Hospital.
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Margaret FE. Orr
Norwalk
Chauncey
Charles E. Orr
Beaumont
Girls at Athens High Win Trip to Columbus
Virgene Fox and Betty Hooper named senior outstanding project workers in Athens Senior High School home economics. Awarded a trip to Columbus by department head Ruth Giesen for redecorating, budgeting, and homemaking projects. A sophomore junior is set to receive the same award for summer work.
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Virgene Fox
Betty Hooper
Athens
Columbus
Ruth Giesen
Collision damages two cars at Athens intersection
Damage estimated at 50 dollars occurred at 2 15 p m yesterday when a car driven by Bernard Porter of Athens and another driven by Mr Knutt of Guysville collided at College and State Streets. Knutt reportedly turned left into College Street and struck Porter's auto, city police stated.
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Bernard Porter
Athens
Knutt
R. D
Guysville
College and State Sts
College St
Porter
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