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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1935
Page
7
A note describes Governor Davey backing a relief office plan tied to employment efforts. The report outlines state action and aims to boost job options through agency support and streamlined services.
Fragmentary report describes a government office closure and plans for funds and relief. Mentions commissioners, a plan to present quarters on a street, and a March deadline. Details are unreadable due to damaged text.
Principal E. B. Higgins compiles the school's history showing Gallia Academy tracing to 1811 with unions and later organization in 1900. Enrollment grew from 150 in 1928 to 471 this year with 29 colored, 189 tuition, and 302 town residents. 36 percent live outside the township.
Morris Harvey survived a tough night against Rio Grande with a 31 point edge for River State College at Montgomery West Virginia. Ed ak Hill and Ruth led scoring, while Russell McCur James Collier and Santon contributed across the effort in a close regional contest.
An OCR fragment notes years of ITN and constipation issues. It mentions iron deficiency and digestion problems. It suggests a product AU-BRAN and milk as relief sources. The text references doctors, fruits, and daily doses but is unclear and incomplete.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Walker and his mother and Ralph visited relatives at Dundas Friday. Mrs. Sam Giles returned from Reed West Virginia. Mrs. Ethel White of Charleston West Virginia visits her mother Mrs. Grant Hanes. Sherman Hanes sold property to Verne Berridge of Bulaville. Mrs. Troy Russell recovering from appendicitis in McMillan Hospital Charleston. John Eckard of Columbus visited family here. Vernal Rose moved to Mrs. O. Weethee property. PauI White family occupy Virgil Rodgers house. Woman's Home Missionary Society met at the church Thursday night. Alfred Walters and family moved to Zaneville. Mr. and Mrs. John Deem and children of Wellston spent Sunday here. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Walker of Pomeroy visited relatives here.
Rio Grande residents Mr and Mrs Orville Davie and daughter Patty of Union Furnace hosted relatives. Mrs L F Allen underwent surgery at Holzer Hospital Thursday and is improving at home. Minnie E Simon 69, former wife of Louis Simon, died in Orange California. formerly Minnie Gilbert and lived with her mother on Locust Street.
In Gallipolis two Class B tournament openers featured late drama Cadmus edged Mercerville 34 to 30 and Centerville defeated Bidwell 30 to 26. Gallipolis hosts Jackson tonight with more games planned Saturday including Cadmus versus Rio Grande and Centerville versus Vinton as winners vie for the county title. John Red Halliday, attorney and former Ohio Wesleyan athlete, refereed the games.
GALLIPOLIS Common Pleas Court hears a case over whether a Gallipolis house and lot must be sold to satisfy bequests in Sallie V. Clark's will. Executors R. M. Switzer and W. V. Ingels sue Bert Ingels and 20 others, with bequests not otherwise covered by the decedent's property.
Judge A. J. Stormont reports February 1935 collections by the Gallipolis Municipal Court at 316.20 dollars, up from 300.12 in February 1934. January 1935 receipts reached 314 dollars, exceeding January 1934 by over 100 dollars and above 206.70.
CCC Camp Gallia enrollees are building log dams as winter weather hinders rock work. They stress selecting timber stands and favor common, dense trees like black walnut and white oak over poorer species. Durability for fences favors orange, black locust, red cedar, catalpa. This week’s work is on farms of O. E. Price and Bert Loucks in Harrison and of D. Swisher in Addison Township.
Baptists in Gallipolis plan baptismal services and a reception of members at the First Baptist Church with morning and evening sermons by Rev. George Sagen on The Holy Spirit and The Early Church and Choose Ye. A state Baptist program features declamations by Mildred Mills and Evelyn Smith, and a mid year district meeting is set for March 14 with a banquet led by Mrs. E. E. Eubanks and Helen Wicks. Regular services continue at local churches. New York leads U.S. motor vehicle registrations followed by Los Angeles Chicago and Detroit.
Margaret Katherine Burkett age 14 of Pomeroy died at Holzer Hospital after illness that began Wednesday. Jacob Werling 57 of Chester died after hospitalization and surgery for a bowel obstruction. Aaron Kelton, a Gallipolis dam worker, had a foreign body removed from his eye.
Mrs Alice Hayes Smith 74 wife of Isaac Smith of Kyger Ky died Thursday from arterial hardening. Survived by two daughters Mrs Charles Tipton Kyser and Mrs Ernest Gordon Columbus. Funeral at 2 Sunday Poplar Ridge Church of which she was a member. Burial there.
Harry Gwinn conveyed his six room residence at 43 Cedar Street Gallipolis to Dole Durkee in a recent property transfer. The deal completes a private sale with no public bidding noted.
Residents on Grape Street plan to move into a new property in June. The house is currently owned by Charles J. Gmmert and family.
A plan to form a 48 member local chapter of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War is set for Friday evening March 1. Disabled veterans are asked to meet at the courthouse at 7:30 PM to consider a charter.
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