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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1936
Page
5
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Athens CCC camp expands herbarium gathering plant specimens for grazing and fish and game studies under US Forestry Service. R J Scharr notes similar projects in Wayne area camps. Route 152 road work and forest service survey reach milestones in several counties. A tiny London camera with a watchmaker’s jewel lens is noted.
City council members stayed silent as residents protested a 10 PM closing rule for 3.2 beer and intoxicants. The failed ordinance would have set 10 PM to 5 AM sales ban while fines ranged 25 to 200 dollars. Protests centered on a W Union Street beer parlor near homes, with residents demanding enforcement and possible state liquor license action. Council votes shifted to investigations of city finances for bond issues and a City Building remodeling project, with solicitor Gray and Auditor Tompkins to study legality.
More than a score of visiting professors from Ohio University joined Athens Rotary Club on Monday to hear Col. Gustav Hirsch discuss electricity used in the telephone and power industry. The guests included faculty from Oregon, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Cedar Falls, Des Moines, and Washington among others.
Great Superior Shows tours Athens at Richland Avenue sponsored by the Athens chapter of Disabled American Veterans. The six-show carnival features rides 35 concessions and a bingo game with no gambling. The lineup includes a minstrel show by 14 performers and nightly boxing and wrestling matches. A share of receipts benefits the DAW chapter.
Homer C. Doc Clark a former Athens resident was praised for 25 years with the Columbus Railway Light and Power Service Company. He moved to Columbus in 1929 after starting with Southern Ohio Electric in Athens and served as treasurer.
Alonzo Hoisington Luhrig pleaded guilty to assault and battery before Magistrate T R Bennett and fined five dollars plus costs. Andy Branosky and Cliff Martin also paid five dollar fines after pleading guilty to intoxication and were arrested by Deputy Karl Gardner. Antonio Stradivari the famed master violin maker of Cremona Italy is noted as born 1644 and died 1737.
Prof Aaroy Sibley presents a lecture illustrated with telescope images from famous observatories. He guides students and Athens townspeople on a moon tour and planet phases, showing solar eclipse progress and photos from methods first of their kind.
A committee from Athens Dover York and Trimble Townships met at the county extension agent office on Monday to complete and summarize the work sheets for the National Soil Conservation report.
Adjutant and Mrs Walter Hinshaw head of the Salvation Army in Athens plan a three month leave from the corps and conduct Bible lectures this week. Tonight he speaks at the Nazarene Tabernacle on Gods Witness or a Sure Foundation and other talks follow at Central Ave M E Church Wesleyan Methodist Richland Ave M P Church and Army Hall with Mrs Hinshaw speaking Saturday on The Great Pyramid in Egypt or Gods Message in Stone.
Mayor Len B McCune says $1 traffic fines are dwindling to about one per day. Since Wednesday F A Lavelle Wayne Wingett Lulu Wilkes and C C Robinson were fined $1 for overtime parking while Fred Shafer and Loren Williams paid $1 for parking where restricted by ordinance. Brewing history notes malt and barley dating to 7000 B C and hops used in seventh and eighth centuries B C.
Postpaid, satisfaction guaranteed order 60 hardy perennials for $60 listing Canterbury Bells Fox glove Coreopsis Pink Sweet Williams Shasta Wayside Daisies Oriental and Iceland Poppies Delphinium Marguerites and Baby's Breath offer. Strong sturdy plants shipped direct from grower to Osage Iowa address KR 8 Box 2.
Members of the Athens Kiwanis Club watched as Troop 59 of the Boy Scouts of America received its charter from Roy Dupler, with the Kiwanis Scout committee and a box lunch ceremony at the Peach Ridge cabin. The event was part of All Kiwanis Night as 90,000 Kiwanians nationwide heard a greeting from International President Harper Gatton via Irvin D. Quick.
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