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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1932
Page
9
About 100 needy children in Glouster receive breakfast and lunch daily, with clothing aid provided by a PTA committee chair and rotating workers. The issue notes local events, a baby birth, theater entertainment, a boxing bout, musical performances, and church activities, all in a March news roundup from Glouster.
Virgil and Albert Cowan brothers from Trimble Athens County were jailed after burglarizing Falls Store Bishopville. They had parole violations from Mansfield and Lancaster reformatories and face return to those institutions to serve 2 to 15 years. Falls family alerted by alarm. store secured by marshal Williams deputy. Cowans arrested and remanded for transfer.
C M Sands aged 62 died at his Trimble home Wednesday night after a lingering illness. He leaves wife two sons Earl of Des Moines and Lawrence at home, and three daughters Mrs T L Swan of Athens Miss Olive of Columbus and Mrs J C Bradfield of Cincinnati. Funeral at home Saturday at 2 pm with burial in Sands Cemetery Trimble.
Trasin Brothers assets in Glouster were sold at public auction for 460 dollars, including fixtures. A Maple Street cottage owned by the firm brought 425 dollars. W. H. Duncan purchased the stock and the sale requires removal from High Street within the week.
The Loyal Women's Class will gather in the social room of the Church of Christ Friday at 7 o'clock. All members should attend and bring an old fashioned trimmed hat. A program will be presented and refreshments served.
The Gloucester High School senior class has secured 120 dollars to cover yearbook costs. Local business men contributed 96 dollars and Athens businesses 24 dollars. Additional funds are needed to finish financing the annual.
A regular meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary is scheduled at the American Legion Hall in Logan on Thursday night at 7 o clock.
Homer Grange will hold a Saturday afternoon meeting in Mountville with music by a string quartet and an open lecture hour. The program, directed by Miss Leona Wade, is expected to attract good attendance from grange officers and the community.
Members of the Frank McCann Post American Legion meet at the legion building Friday at 12 30 PM to prepare for funeral services for George Auer Trimble at 2 PM. Services will be at Trimble Church of Christ with burial in Maplewood Cemetery.
Sam Withem and family relocated from the Bertha Hilt property on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Dalmah Hilt and their son will occupy the vacated house later this week. Hilt family had been living in the Charles Williams property. Visitors to the Cox family included their children and two Mrs. Smidth, Mrs. Nora Morris, Columbus. Addie Williams visited Athens recently. Clarence Allen’s daughter from Athens, Mrs. William, was also noted.
The article notes four Birthday children on St Patrick Day. Jimmie Cox and Dixie Lou Williams attend Rufus Putnam Training School, Marjorie Junod and Mabel Bean are in Putnam School grades. It highlights a Rufus Putnam Day tied to the occasion.
Mrs Hattie Kays Winters 72 died Wednesday at 3 pm at her daughter’s home in Rockland Ohio after a six month illness. She was born near Pomeroy Meigs County daughter of John and Maria Kays and lived in Meigs Athens Belpre Coolville before settling in Belpre. Survived by husband D J Winters son three daughters six grandchildren and a great grandchild. Funeral Friday at 2 pm First Methodist Episcopal Church Coolville with Rev H H McCormick officiating burial in Coolville Cemetery.
Members of the Athens Rotary Club will travel to Malta for an Inter-City meeting at 6 p m at the M H Church. Attendees from Logan Lancaster Marietta Zanesville and Malta McConnelsville will join. District Governor Frank B Paley of Middletown will speak. Preceding the talk each club stages a short program with skits duets and a double quartet. Dinner follows at 6. A volleyball game between the Malta McConnelsville teams is scheduled for the afternoon before the meeting.
MEMPHIS March 17 Insanity and chronic burns threaten the man who stole 250 dollars worth of radium from Dr S M Gable during a lecture. Gable warned radium cannot be sold as medical material and may destroy brain tissue or cause incurable burns. He reported 15 vials were present and a thirteenth vanished during the demonstration.
A scientist warned that radium vials passed to over 100000 people at public showings could destroy brain tissue if kept in sleeping quarters, noting the need for careful handling and disposal.
Two barns 40 head of sheep stored grain hay harness equipment and a wagon burned at the Hibbard farm two miles west of Mineral. High winds and limited firefighting facilities hindered efforts. Cause believed to be faulty wiring.
Several calves kept in a basement of a barn were saved from a fire. Insurance covered the loss, according to reports.
Prussian police raided Fascist headquarters and branches on March 17 on information that Nazis aimed to mobilize storm battalions for civil war in Berlin.
An advertisement from Minneapolis lists a home remedy service at 14 96 No Fourth Street for liver and gall bladder issues. It promises a recognized specialist's prescription, literature, and 28 years of gratifying results with a money back guarantee. Clip this out now.
Athens County Board of Elections will meet Saturday at 1 pm at the Courthouse to examine legality of two central committee petitions for Southern Precinct. Amos White and Leonard Ogg claim signatures of Frank James. five resident party members required. Also works on delegates and alternates to Republican and Democratic state conventions with several names certified. Wednesday was the last day for filings.
David Johnson, clerk of the board, says section boards will meet within a day or two to accept petitions and certificates of other district candidates.
Georges Marie Haardt, 40, leader of the Huaardt Citroen National Geographic expedition, died of pneumonia in Hong Kong. The French automobile maker headed a two year 15 000 mile trek across Asia from Paris toward Marco Polo's route, with National Geographic Society backing the mission. The party crossed the Gobi Desert and reached Peiping last month.
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