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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1933
Page
3
Nelsonville High and the Glenford Drum Corps formed a joint unit that drew a near capacity crowd for a patriotic concert at the Nelsonville High School. The event featured a sophomore solo and a color guard salute, with praise for duty and community service.
Nelsonville reports a varied program by the Young People's Society of the Presbyterian Church on Sunday night. Gerald Thomas opened with scripture. Elwood McCreary played piano. Joe Galvin and Elwood McCreary sang a duet. a Barbra Steenrod Elizabeth Backus Clara Galvin Wilma Scott quartet performed. Mary Jo Haffner sang. Mary Frances Groves led memory drill. Wilma Scott and Mary Margaret Betts sang a duet. Clara Galvin played piano. Martha Sheppard and Helen Weltzheimer sang a vocal duet. piano solos by Mary Frances Groves Lois DeVol Charles Evans. boys quartet closed with Now the Day Is Over.
Mrs Bertha Sayers aged 42 died Saturday evening at her Poplar Street home after a two week illness. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 3 p m at Pilgrim Holiness Church with Rev Shearer. burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery. She leaves husband James Sayers two daughters a son and her parents Mr and Mrs George Maffin plus siblings.
Mrs. Tena Snackenburg returned to her home at Newark Sunday after a weeklong visit with her son Roy and his family. Mrs. Clayton Murphy from Columbus spent the end of the week here with Mr. and Mrs. John Murphy.
Emmett Van Fossen of Murray City accidentally shot the end of his right index finger while handling a revolver at home Saturday. The wound was treated at Dr. W. H. Hyde’s office in Nelsonville.
Mrs. Louis Sauer of Trimble died at Sheltering Arms Hospital sixty five hours after she fired four eighty eight calibre bullets near her heart. She had been ill for weeks before attempting suicide on Friday after fearing someone plotted to harm her. Her husband said she carried the revolver for protection and he had recently been jailed for beer possession before paying the fine.
Sixth graders at Central School presented a play in the Junior High building music room titled How Boots Be Fooled the King. Miss Betty Jones directed and supervised scenery design with a large cast led by Warren Cooper as King Wiseacres and Helen Stratton as queen.
Ohio Bishop Karl J. Alter calls pastors in the Toledo Diocese to support and pray for President Roosevelt, praising the inaugural address and Christian principles.
St Stephen's Episcopal Church on the Northwest Side is famed as the Little Church at the End of the Road. Worshippers include writers artists and musicians who helped turn the interior into a memorial gallery with manuscripts and notable works. A memory tradition grows as memorials accumulate on the walls and a Miracle Tree crosses the nave. The church operates a soup kitchen serving about forty families daily.
Detroit Clearing House Association halted plans to issue 26 million dollars in scrip after a counterfeit plot was discovered. The group obtained consent to release a second five percent cash deposit in local banks while investigators pursue the source.
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed an old barn on the Athens State Hospital grounds Sunday afternoon. The barn, unused for years, had housed some heifers this winter. no animals were inside at the time. Estimated loss is $50. the barn stood across from the main dairy barn on hospital property.
Cleveland banks resumed normal operations and began clearing segregated trust accounts started last week under state restrictions. Depositors were asked to transfer these deposits to regular accounts or re-deposit or check out funds if no other accounts existed. The new regulations omit any provision for continuing segregated accounts.
A scientific note states that more than sixty trillion ultra viruses, nature’s smallest living things and deadly adversaries to humanity, can be packed into a single square inch of material.
Japanese troops halt southward advance after completing the Jehol Province siege. They consolidate positions with air and artillery support, facing Chinese resistance mainly on rocky heights west of Chmneankoku, where Japanese forces outnumber the defenders five to one.
In Moscow four British Metropolitan Vickers officials were seized by the secret police. Homes and offices were searched, documents removed, four Russian workers were arrested, and other offices in Leningrad were raided with papers taken. The British ambassador requested an explanation from the Soviet Foreign Office.
A master draftsman named William Morris created the Morris chair, a pioneering piece in furniture design that combines form and function in a comfortable seating style.
Three Cleveland banks the Cleveland Trust Company Central United National Bank and National City Bank resumed full activity today under a Federal license. The banks are effectively government resources with new currency and liberal borrowing rules. Free checking is offered and withdrawals are unrestricted to avoid hoarding. This marks Ohio’s first full reopenings outside the prior Federal Reserve cities.
A special communication of Philadorian Lodge No. 157 F and A M will be held at the Masonic Temple here Tuesday afternoon at 1 o clock to attend the funeral of Samuel Lehman.
Instructions describe preserving peeled apples by immersing them in salt water until ready to use.
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