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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1937
Page
2
Nelsonville City Council repealed a 60 000 mortgage revenue bond referendum for the electric light plant and adopted a new ordinance proposing 90 000 bonds. The new measure includes an emergency clause for immediate effect and exempts the plan from referendum, replacing the prior plan that anticipated a 45 000 federal PWA grant.
Nelsonville announces a daily bus route for the Vacation Bible School. The bus will stop at East Clayton School at 8 30 each morning and East School Building Nelsonville at 8 45. Return times are 11 30 and 11 45. No afternoon session. Transportation is free via church arrangement. Mrs Charles Levering will drive.
City advances a $90,000 electric plant expansion funded by mortgage revenue bonds with no federal aid. About $10,000 will go to a boiler house, the rest for modern generator units, boilers, and equipment. Plans by Architect B M Coakley await finalized specs before bond sale and bids.
Mrs Jack Hannahs and Mrs Thomas Spencer return after a week with Hurle Hannahs family at Pomeroy. W F Powell attended Great Lakes Exposition in Cleveland with Ern est Glazier of Athens during Sphio Days. Birds Casey of Columbus visits Mr and Mrs Thomas Spencer. Beverly Bonner visits her father George P Bonner in Chillicothe. Hartley family and Hartley relatives spend day with Violet Woodard’s family at White Cross Hospital Columbus. Kenneth Wrightzell visits aunt Mrs John Kellar in Lancaster. Hurle Hannahs stays week with relatives here. Mrs Charles McCarty returns to Washington DC after weeks here. Mrs Robert Parker guest of grandmother Violet Woodard in Columbus. Harold Spencer from Akron visits with his parents on Chestnut Street. Cathleen Norris and Lorena Herchenba den visit from Anderson Indiana and Hattiesburg Mississippi. John Norris and daughter Mary greet them in Columbus.
Nelsonville Aerie No. 391 Fraternal Order of Eagles marks its 34th anniversary at the local club rooms on Saturday night July 3. Charter members are invited and out-of-town addresses should be shared with the secretary. In Nelsonville Mr and Mrs Richard Smith announce the birth of a son Jerry Richard on Saturday June 19 with grandparents Mr and Mrs Joe Dewhurst and Mrs Mable Smith and great grandparents Mr and Mrs H B Mc Laughlin.
Nelsonville notes a regular meeting of Local Union No. 5127 UMWA on Saturday June 26 to conduct officer elections and summon all members to attend.
County officials arrested out of town demonstrators found with concealed weapons. Bethlehem Steel Co. Cambria plant at Johnstown Pa. remained closed under a military law order by Gov. George H. Earle. About 15 000 workers were idle and a $100 000 daily payroll halted. CIO leaders sought to organize 850 000 government workers while AFL CIO tensions rose.
Nelsonville reports the annual Children's Day exercises at Monday VU Church led by Mrs Nelle Spray and Mrs Mary Dixon with organist Mrs Faye Lovett. A large audience saw a program of readings dialogues songs and choruses featuring many local children and the Junior Girls Chorus.
Vera Fultz hosted a Saturday birthday party for her sons Billy and Harry in Nelsonville with twenty four guests, games, contests, and refreshments. Betty Figgins underwent an appendectomy at Mercy Hospital Columbus and is reported in good condition. A potluck dinner is planned for the Pythian Sisters meeting on Thursday and attendance is requested before the September break.
Memorial services are set for 7 30 tonight in connection with the regular meeting of Eudora Chapter at the Masonic Temple in Nelsonville.
Deputy mine inspector Isaac Vaughn travels to Columbus this week to join the Mine Inspectors Institute of America sessions at the Deshler Hotel for professional briefings and discussions.
Nelsonville reports a Junior Order benefit event planned for Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock in a local lodge venue. Proceeds support community or lodge activities.
Mrs. Bert Hartley is recuperating at White Cross Hospital in Columbus following a recent operation.
U S Route 31 will be about 900 miles from Benton Harbor Michigan to Richmond Virginia passing through South Bend Fort Wayne St Marys Bellefontaine Columbus Lancaster Logan Nelsonville Athens Pomeroy Ripley Chester Weston Elkins Harrisonburg and through Southeastern Ohio The Pomeroy Civic Club and Athens and Logan Chambers of Commerce have lobbied since 1929 for federal designation and state highway departments have approved the route promising continued improvements for through travel.
Ohio adjutant general orders troops from the 145th Infantry with Akron and Cleveland elements, the 147th Infantry from Cincinnati to Hillsboro and Xenia, the 166th Infantry from Columbus, batteries of the 134th and 136th Field Artillery from multiple cities, and the 37th Division Signal Corps to reserve duty in Mahoning and Trumbull counties.
Columbus U P reports State Auditor Joseph T Ferguson issued an order barring all state employees from engaging in lobbying activities before the General Assembly. The measure aims to curb influence and ensure ethical governance throughout the legislative session.
Bucyrus report details the death of Leander Starner aged 66 a well known fiddle player and farmer who died by his own hand near here yesterday citing ill health as the cause authorities say the death occurred in the locality and is being investigated as a suicide report
Tracers over the Pennsylvania Railroad division lines near Bucyrus reported normal service today after wreckage from a 19 car freight train derailment was cleared from the right of way.
Nelsonville WBA members host a Penny Party at the hall tonight at 7 30 PM. Attendees are asked to bring their favorite covered dish.
A. G. Cotton suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Sunday afternoon. He was removed to his home where he was resting comfortably this morning.
The Ohio Senate press ahead with an insurgent budget bill totaling 158.5 million for 1937 38 while proposing three investigations into the liquor highway and civil service departments. A Metcalf resolution accuses state employes of drafting circulars attacking the Senate and cites use of state trucks during work hours. Separately Adolph Spreckels Jr wife returns to San Francisco after Hawaiian vacation amid reunion uncertainty.
A tentative jury of 12 was seated as the second day of the trial of four Lawrence County persons on vote fraud charges opened here today. Judge Phil H. Wieland noted the process may take the day due to peremptory challenges and that testimony would begin Wednesday.
In Youngstown 11 Postal Telegraph messenger boys paused work for ten minutes then returned after agreeing to arbitration over a seven percent pay raise. The brief stoppage is noted as one of the shortest strikes on record.
The Rev. Vernon P. Martin of Georgetown Ohio was elected moderator of the Presbyterian Synod of Ohio, succeeding Dr S M F Nesbit of Wooster. The Synod held a four day session in Wooster.
Flooding across Perry County Ohio damages homes and livestock. Albert Klingel swam a mile to safety after his horse was swept away. An elderly Thornville woman was rescued by boat. Fifty sheep perished at Jonathan Creek. A streetcar line between Marietta and Parkersburg washed out. John Lemley and his wife, a Parkersburg area gas station operators, drowned as a creek overflowed. Red Cross aid dispatched.
President Roosevelt issued an executive order declaring June 21 1937 as the effective date of the bituminous coal code drafted by the National Bituminous Coal Commission under the new Guffey Coal Act.
Athens Drug Store promotes a free sample of ALLMIN Essence of Garlic Parsley Tablets for hypertension. The ad cites Dr. Frederick Damrau of New York City and claims a two week course costs 50c with a tasteless, odorless process.
The Degree of Pocahontas will hold its regular weekly benefit party Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the IOOF Hall in Nelsonville.
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