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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1937
Page
8
Christina Johnson sues for divorce from Roy Johnson of Gallipolis, married in 1919, seeking custody of two children Arthur seven and Glenna three weeks old. No further details available.
Gallipolis funeral services are planned for Friday at Mudsock Church for George Finch a longtime resident who died suddenly at his son Elmer's home. Mrs Finch had died years ago and the father and son shared the home.
Mrs. Dorothy Lewis of the Red Cross outlined the scope of rehabilitation after the Ohio Valley flood. She noted 900,000 flood victims registered in the region, 10,000 in Portsmouth, and 950 in Gallia County, with $21,000,000 available and more funds likely if needed.
Gallia County jurors drawn to serve on the petit jury report next Tuesday for one of the largest dockets in years. Names include Robert Camp H P Pierson Gomer Phillips Emmett Reed Lucille Thompson Florence Lehew Myrtle Neal Fannie Searls Katherine Shafer Emma Shafer Cecil Daugherty Earl Mink Annabelle Atkinson Flossie Miller and others. Women are in the majority.
Rio Grande College will sponsor two terms of summer school announced by president W A Lewis. The first session runs June 21 to July 24 and the second July 25 to August 28. The spring quarter starts March 20 and ends May 4 with the second term from the last gate to June 10.
Gallia County native Mrs. Samuel T. Drummond, long resident of Huntington, has died. Relatives were notified, and funeral arrangements were to be held in Huntington Thursday.
Seventy WPA workers will begin three projects Monday in Gallipolis. Crews will remove hill slips behind the Ohio Hospital for Epileptics to create a recreation field and landscape grounds with new water and sewer lines. A second crew will rebuild First Ave between Olive and Sycamore Sts, lowering the grade and laying a new street surface. Lincoln School flood repairs include basement work a new heating plant and upgraded facilities under Clyde A. Dale supervision.
Flowers such as forsythia pussy willows lilac and maples bent under heavy snow but are not seriously harmed. Blooming faster signs of spring appear despite the storm.
Gallipolis report notes pneumonia killed 83 year old Mrs. Mary E. Mayes at her Henderson home near Gallipolis. She was mother to Mrs. Carl Wall and Mrs. Ida Arrington, both of Gallipolis, who attended the funeral Thursday.
Special Deputy Sheriff Delbert Dillon with Deputies Harold Wood and Dale Russell escorted Theodore Washington and Hal Borden two young Black men to the Ohio Penitentiary on robbery charges.
Community notes from Kanauga record deaths, visits, and illnesses. Annie Wallace of Buffalo W Va died at her daughter’s home with funeral services at the M E Church in Buffalo. Families from Middleport Wellston Parkersburg visit relatives here.
Members of the Jo cal chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star gather for a special meeting in Wellston led by Worthy Matron Mable Pierson. Attendees include C. M. Yeanger Charles Weaver Olta Shoemaker Anna Stevers Gussie Stone Pearl Gillingham Mabel Betz Erva Edwards Sadie Jones Viola Carpenter Stella Arthur Margena Niday Zenia Shaw Garnet Smith Lola Mae Rupe Vivian McHenry Henry Evans Myrtle Mullineaux Flora Williams Mabel McClung.
A new heat absorbing glass called cool glass has been discovered in Northern Bohemia. It absorbs the sun’s heat while permitting light to pass through, addressing a long standing problem of capturing energy from the visible spectrum.
The Rev. Douglas Davis says midnight is late enough for a suitor to depart when visiting a girl in Toronto. Damsels insist any hour works, with 12 o clock deemed too early unless boredom exists, sparking local talk.
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