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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1938
Page
7
Gallia County Surveyor E N Leonard plans a tentative $300,000 WPA highway program to begin around July 1. A lengthy list of secondary roads is being reviewed to maximize efficiency in moving equipment as the current road project with nearly 1,100 workers nears completion. An urgent effort aims to start the new program quickly to limit unemployment gaps.
In Gallia County Thurman plans a Fourth of July celebration and annual homecoming as the sole announced event. Women from Presbyterian and Methodist churches will serve a noon dinner at the centralized school. Elias Jones is general chairman with Rev. L. Stafford as secretary-treasurer. The program will feature speaking and singing. the town is largely of Welsh descent with many residents fluent in Welsh.
More than 75 attendees, mainly Pt. Pleasant residents and Mari etta Boat Building Co. officials, will dine at the Lafayette Hotel after the Mississippi River tow boat Kansas City was launched from the Ohio River ways at 2:30 PM. Honor guest is Mrs. Harry Woodring, wife of the Secretary of War, who christened the craft as moorings were released. A large crowd watched the launch from both sides of the river.
Ed ward Mullineaux and relatives plan to attend the funeral of Orin Butler in Charleston Saturday. His sister Mrs. M O Ward, who lives with the Mullineaux family, was at his bedside when he died Thursday.
Lawrence McQuaid of Gallipolis claims the first ripe tomato of the season. He gathered it Thursday and displayed it citywide as proof of the honor.
Mrs Helen Phillips, cashier at the Ohio Fuel Gas Co. local office, has resigned and returned to her home in Hamden. She will be succeeded by Miss Florence Helber of Lo
Mrs Hazel Luman was surprised at her Lower Plains home with a birthday dinner hosted by Mothers' Bible Class of Zion Church. The group at the chicken supper delivered ice cream cake and a Bible gift through class teacher Mrs Frances Gabriel.
The Women's Society of M. E. Church will host a soup sale Saturday morning at the old Minister Store Building. Home baked goods such as cakes pies breads and rolls will also be for sale. Buyers are asked to bring their own containers.
Linda Lee Bumgardner infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Bumgardner died shortly after birth and was buried Wednesday in Hocking cemetery. Mrs Bumgardner remains in Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens and is reported improved. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Henry Matson and Mrs Audra Bumgardner The Plains.
Mr and Mrs Ray Rorick hosted last Sunday at Lower Plains with guests Mr and Mrs Boyd Potter and children Billy and Martha Sue Hebbardsville Mrs M J Baughman and Pearl Hawk New Marshfield. Mrs Potter, a Rorick niece, had lived with them. she underwent gallstone surgery and is now much improved after a serious condition.
Talks on Camp CHAUNCEY Bible School at 9 30 will precede communion and morning worship at Millfield Church of Christ. Judge Louis Tyroler of Athens will speak Sunday at New Marshfield Church of Christ at 9 30 M P Church at 10 15 and Holiness at 10 30 on the camp for underprivileged children and on Better Homes for Children.
Chauncey McGranor family and others visit relatives in Hocking Lower Plains Athens families host visits through the Plains. Betty Sands visits Jacquelyn Baughman. Mrs Mabel Frye and Martha Jane Frye of Columbus visit sister Mrs Erwin Stauffer. Id a Graham of Barberton guests of Mrs Ray Rorick. Verna Patton Carr visiting sister Mrs Franklin Stalder Jr. Bennie Harrison improving at home in The Plains. Ruth Hushower visiting Athens parents. John Kranyik Louise Bumgardner Dayton visit mother over weekend.
Gallipolis social notes record marriages of Richard Aeh and Miss Julia Bryan in Gallia County and Marion Lows and Eleanor Snyder in Rodney and Columbus respectively. The column lists numerous visits, gatherings, club events, and travels of locals and guests from Portsmouth, Pittsburgh, Akron, Athens, Columbus, and beyond, highlighting social life and summer plans.
Preparations are under way for an extended Children’s Day program at Kanauga Church Sunday evening. In Utah state church membership Mormons form about 75 percent.
Gallipolis church notices say the Methodist congregation will join the Presbyterian Church on June 19 while Rev W Scott Westerman and family are away on a three week Wisconsin vacation. Children’s Day on June 26. Union service with Baptists on July 3. Sunday School continues. major activities paused.
Gallia County wheat farmers have not yet been officially approached on the government crop insurance plan, says county farm agent R R Starbuck. From casual reference the proposition is believed to be acceptable to many growers.
Gallipolis Unit members will meet Saturday at 2 p m. An initiation will be held and a program will be enjoyed.
Gallia County rural schools prepare for a strict new law governing school bus condition, equipment, and age. Bradbury says nine factors determine transportation costs, with state funding covering the program. Older than eight years buses are removed. wooden bodies may stay until age limits, steel buses required for new additions. Agencies set routes with updated safety standards including batteries, tires, emergency gear, inspections, and driver qualification. The Mexican army has fewer than 40,000 privates and 367 generals.
A federal construction boat and crew are raising the outside ice pier by six feet and the middle pier by three feet at Gallipolis harbor. The work, prompted by a higher permanent pool stage from the Eureka Dam, aims to shield boats from debris and ice during floods and ice periods. Existing piers, steel and concrete, have stood for over fifty years.
George R. Brooks of Rio Grande son of Mrs G W Brooks earned a bachelor of arts degree at Otterbein College Westerville He is an alumnus of Rio Grande College presented as a local achievement.
Woodrow Haner of Crown City is charged with assaulting his wife and is held to the grand jury under bond he provided.
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