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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1936
Page
5
May 12 primary selects one Republican and one Democratic committeeman per 73 precincts. Athens County lists 99 Democratic and 77 Republican nominees, with candidates spanning Athens, The Plains, Nelsonville, Chauncey, Glouster, Amesville and more.
John Lawrence 78 of Guysville died Sunday night at 10 45 following a year long illness. He leaves wife Mary Minameyer Lawrence a daughter Mrs Garnet Bretz and five grandchildren. Funeral arrangements not completed today and family requests no flowers.
Shirley Lois Bennett five weeks old daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Bennett of Peach Ridge died Sunday afternoon at 2 30 of a stomach ailment Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 10 am at the home of the infant's grandparents Mr and Mrs Silas Davis Peach Ridge in charge of Rev Ernest Nicholas pastor of the Athens Church of God Burial will be in Bennett Cemetery Ames Township
Fishing licenses cost 1.10 and hunting licenses 1.25. Ten cents of each fishing fee and 25 cents of each hunting fee will fund restocking of fishing waters and hunting grounds, says city fire marshal Harry Dalton.
News arrives of the death of Mrs. Val Davis at St. Vincent Hospital in New York Sunday night. She had been living there with her daughter Mrs. Ruth Brown since last summer and was a member of the Athens First M. E. Church. The body will be brought to Athens Tuesday or Wednesday. Funeral services are set for Thursday.
Irving Fehlberg assistant manager of a south side theater was shot to death in his office late Saturday. Police say the killer was ejected from the auditorium for annoying a girl and fired one bullet hitting Fehlberg below the heart before fleeing the scene.
A tri motor National Airline plane burst into flames at takeoff in Valle, Chile, killing five aboard. Victims include Lieut. Rolando Sepeda and his newlywed wife, Atalivar Cortez, Senora Elena Cortez De Aguilera, and pilot Lieut. Mario Meneses.
Rev John Cochrane will address The Plains Church of the Nazarene on Tuesday night March 17 at 7 o clock. He plans to sail with missionaries in September for Argentina.
At the Church of the Nazarene on W State and Walker Streets a 7:30 service features guest speakers Rev. John and Mrs. Cochrane of Mansfield preparing to sail for South America under the Nazarene missionary board. Both are Georgia natives and Asbury College graduates with special music planned.
Court orders appraisal and sale of the Fenzel and related properties to satisfy liens held by Wesley Lawrence and Oliver Kinsey. Judgments total 32 731.95 plus 14 826.63 and 4 839.12. Kinsey 263.77. Foreclosure against Stilwell. several debts compromised. Probate reports Tippie will and Mardis estate values with shares allotted to John Paul Mardis Myrtle Mardis Hoisington and Harold C. Mardis.
Good Shepherd Episcopal Church on State Street hosts the fourth in a series of short Lenten vesper services with the theme Pray. James McCullom serves as organist and composer of the responses. A students club meeting follows in the rectory.
Thomas T. Elder, a University of Ohio electrical engineering graduate, is listed among 43 General Electric employees honored with the Charles A. Coffin Foundation Award for 1935. The prize includes a cash honorarium. awards have been given annually since 1922. Elder works as an engineer in the Vacuum Engineering Department in Schenectady, New York.
Dr. Edwin W. Kammerer of Princeton University will deliver a lecture series at Memorial Auditorium. The topics include What Is the Gold Standard, The Gold Standard and the World Economy, Deliberate Inflation, Our National Government Budget and the Currency, and Effects of Inflation. Admission is free. public invited.
Three forest fires were reported by the U S Forestry Office all caused by smokers. Two fires were near The Plains and one near Nelsonville en route to Carbon Hill. Ranger R J Schaar said the fires were preventable if caution had been taken and rain saved the Nelsonville fire from becoming serious.
Zanesville resident Jack Rose was arrested for illegal parking on Route 13 near Burr Oak and charged with resisting officers who tried to stop his escape from State Highway Patrolmen J. H. Gorham and M. L. Davis early Sunday. Mayor Len B. McCune fined Rose ten dollars and costs on each charge.
Mrs. Ralph Brown of Athens underwent a minor operation this morning at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Mrs. Eva White of Harrisonville had a major operation on Sunday. Mrs. Orville Rowan of Athens remains hospitalized for treatment.
Irma F. Voigt of Ohio University heads a two day speaking tour through Alliance St Clairsville Wheeling and Triadelphia. She opens with New Frontiers for College Women at Mt Union College Alliance and follows with Qualities of Leadership at St Clairsville Convocation and a Girl Reserves address. In Wheeling she attends AAUW annual meeting and speaks on Continuing One's End After College before Triadelphia High School convocation.
President Herman G. James named three campus committees and a board of directors to supervise the Ohio University Bureau of Appointments. A five faculty and six student committee will study organ funding for Memorial Auditorium in memory of E B Bryan. Dean Voigt chairs with the listed faculty and student members.
Mrs FE J Arrick of McConnelsville wins a Electrolux refrigerator by correctly guessing gas usage in 35 days. The contest drew 5400 entrants in the Athens District who predicted cubic feet used from Jan 26 to Feb 29. Her guess was 1 087 cubic feet and actual consumption was 1 087 1 cubic feet.
A portrait feature highlights Mrs G B Shaw, wife of George Bernard Shaw, noting her rare public presence since their 1898 marriage. She has long supported him as he dominates headlines with his work and personality.
Donald Lyons, Chauncey, was arrested Saturday night and placed in the Athens County Jail for alleged failure to pay an old fine assessed by Magistrate J. C. Johnson in Athens on a charge of reckless driving. The arrest was made by Constable J. W. Bailey.
Chief Justice Carl Victor Weygandt addressed more than 100 Delta Tau Delta members at the 77th initiation banquet. He urged public and private life guided by integrity, courage, honesty, and temperance, praising lasting ideals and the role of strong individuals. The report lists initiates and other speakers, plus the resignation of State Highway Patrolman J Ja Richardson from the Athens Sub-Station.
This reminiscence recalls a run-down period when nothing organic ailed the narrator yet fatigue persisted. After trying S S S Tonic, confidence returns, color comes back, energy returns, and red blood cells seem to regain strength. The speaker notes renewed vigor and self again.
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