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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1939
Page
3
Athens County commissioners plan a 57 percent cut to general fund appropriations for the last nine months of 1938 to fit a projected 142,461 dollar balance. Mandatory salaries and bills total 108,504, leaving 33,957 for operations with many line items reduced to meet the target.
West Side School first grade showcases a safe orange crate zoo with straw bedding. Children act as keepers and explain animals to visitors featuring dogs cats and rabbits from Barbara Gooding Ruth Anne McBride and Delma Bahr. Clay bears and lions are also displayed. A parade in the sandbox delights the fifth grade. The class then dicts a zoo tale to Miss Mabelle Darst.
The 1910 trans Atlantic effort involved Walter Wellman and a crew piloting a non rigid airship. They aimed to cross the ocean from the United States to Europe, marking an early milestone in aerial exploration.
Ralph Schenck of 235 West Union Street pleaded not guilty before Magistrate T. R. Bennett to an embezzlement charge. He as an agent for Marietta Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co. is accused of stealing 141.90 between February 6 and March 4, and was sent to jail after failing to post 500 bond. deputies B. C. Day and Charles Evans arrested him last night.
Athens Troop 54 admitted four recruits Harold Robson Charles Carpenter Arthur Yoho and Berkley Frost to the rank of tenderfoot at a Central Avenue M E Church meeting. Six more boys are preparing for tests. The self financing troop aims for 24 scouts and plans an Explorer Patrol once older members join. They are selling salt to fund uniforms and Easter dress.
Athens City Council voted to confine dogs and poultry to owners property from March 15 to October 1 an advance from the previous April 1 to October 1 period. The city will deploy a patrol truck and a street employee as dog warden after March 15.
The Board of Public Assistance held its monthly meeting at 1 30 p m today in the office of Probate Judge Francis White. Attending were Mrs O C Bird chair man Mrs F H Krecker secretary County Commissioner Walter Maccombs Mr Oral Daugherty Mrs Helen Fretz consultant of Athens County Child Welfare Services Judge White and Mr M G Kreider an official of the state child welfare administration.
Divorce proceedings charging gross neglect were filed Monday in Common Pleas Court by Joseph Lehman of Nelsonville against Vesta Lehman. The petition states she left their home in February 1936 without just cause and with no intention of returning. They married in 1926 and have a 12 year old daughter.
Funeral for Noah Brown will be held at Bates Church on Wednesday March 8 at 3 p m. The service was moved from Richland Ave Church as previously announced.
Frank Weisenbach sues for partition of the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Weisenbach deceased. The defendants are relatives including Christina Charles Jacob Anthony Frances Weisenbach Anna Isadore Montel Mathew Anthony Lola Paul Gladys Kinnen Nellie Bernard Celia Gordon Collins Arnold Bernard. The petitioner claims one of the heirs to an undivided twelfth share of land and real property in Carthage Township.
Lloyd Martin, critically injured in Saturday night auto wreck at South Bridge, remains in serious condition at Sheltering Arms Hospital as authorities report no improvement.
State Patrolman R. M. Shaney is taking an eight day training course at the State Highway Patrol Refresher School in Columbus.
Patrick Henry Williams of Cambridge will lecture on the town send recovery plan at 9 W State Street on Thursday March 9 at 7 30 a m.
The Chicago based Company K 132d Infantry rifle team coached by First Lieut. F R Brickles won the national trophy for perfect marksmanship. Brickles, formerly of Athens, is connected with the U S Treasury Department in the Income Tax Division and is son of Ross Brickles of Guysville. Mayor C C Cornell fined Ralph Brown of Strouds Run $5 and costs for intoxication after his arrest by Police Capt. Charles Maple and Officer Leslie Bradfield near Court and Union.
University Elementary School first graders run a full dress shop with Miss Mabel Olson guiding. Clark Snider serves as business manager as students design, pattern, cut, and sew outfits from bridal to street wear, while boys build manikins and hat racks and learn money handling and clerking.
The first of the second series of Boy Scout leader training met at Athens High School with 10 scout masters and assistants. Gerald Ashwill led demonstrations on opening ceremonies and the use of formality for order, with discussions on psychology, manners, and citizenship as outcomes.
East Side School pupils print two student papers a daily News and a weekly with news, cartoons, and rules. The Daily News shows a sports score and a weather jest. the girls publish a two page weekly with school events and cartoons.
At Athens High School every Friday noon students eat in the building and enjoy an informal gym dance. No decorations or orchestra. Phil Swanson plays records while couples fill the floor. Multiple pairs, including Sam Coffey and Warren Cooper, vie for floor time under chaperones Mr. O. L. Wood and Miss Mary Connett.
Cold weather halted the Hocking River rise, cresting at 13.68 feet yesterday morning and dropping quickly. The river stood at eight feet this morning as temperatures edged toward 40 after a 29 low last night and a 45 high yesterday. Forecasts call for clear skies and warmer conditions through Wednesday. Bill Lewis and Virginia Rardin.
Funeral services for A D Jewell, a well known Harrisonville resident, who died Sunday after a long illness, will be held Wednesday afternoon at two o clock with interment in Wells Cemetery Harrisonville.
James Edward Koon sentenced to life with hard labor in the Ohio Penitentiary for the murder of Levi Laudermilk and was transported to the state prison today by Sheriff Charlies Bayless.
An advertisement touts Kellogg's All Bran as the preferred preventive remedy for constipation caused by low dietary bulk. It urges daily consumption with ample water to stay regular, noting production in Battle Creek and retail availability from grocers.
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