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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1932
Page
6
Mrs Earl Beckley and Mrs Fred H Beckley hosted the bridge club with no guests. Dinner at The Colonial preceded the game at 257 East State Street home of Mrs Beckley. Katherine Figg earned the high score trophy while Wheeler Dew took second honors.
Delphian Literary Society reviewed Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol and Father and Sons by Ivan Turgenef at Mrs. Fred Wheaton’s home on Maplewood Drive. Programme leader Mrs. Hough Mason presented Gogol’s life details, with Mrs. Webb Walker discussing Turgenef. Guest Mrs. Andrews of St Louis attended.
The First Christian Church class met Tuesday at 30 Columbia Avenue with devotions by Mrs. Dwight Robinson and Virginia Lamborn directing entertainment. Mrs. Cora Tucker won the prize contest. other notes include birth announcements, visits, and upcoming club gathering details.
Fifteen members of the Maecenas Literary Club gathered Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Wade Bean’s home at 230 West State Street. The program included Irish jokes, a review of Hamilton and Burr by Mrs. J. R. Harvey, and a talk on Ohio in the War of 1812 by Mrs. John Cross. The meeting closed with the club creed. News of deaths and illnesses in connected families followed, including the passing of Lena Newcome Towner and the illness of Luzerine Griswold.
The first steel beam, 13 tons, was swung into place Tuesday afternoon spanning from the north abutment to the first pier. A 16-ton girder will be set today. Four beams per span with outer beams lighter. First concrete to be poured today or Thursday. base slab four feet thick held by 158 piles, over 200 cubic yards of concrete in the abutment base.
Athens Presbyterian Church hosts a Wednesday Holy Week service from 7 to 8 pm featuring music scripture and poetry. Dorothy Jefferson presides Clara Cooper reads texts for the week Katherine Boyd delivers an original poem Christ Lives and Mildred Dennison sings There Is a Green Hill Far Away. The Westminster student quartet Ruth Stachel Christine Porter Morgan Jones and Albert Church perform Entrance to Jerusalem and Into the Woods with Augusta Hornbrook on the organ.
Shade Mr and Mrs Fred Smith and son of Burlingham visited Mr and Mrs 5S J Smith Sunday. The old men basketball finale featured an oyster supper at the gym with Addison Creamer’s soup and homemade desserts. High school teams served while Rev Earl Cowen and others provided music. The Senior Class rehearses Cab bages or Dollars with double casts for an April performance. Senior members listed. Visitors included William and Willetta Smith of Athens. Easter events planned with church services and baptisms announced.
Richland Avenue lodge plans a Thursday celebration for the Athens Mohawk Tribe No 174 with a blackface play Recess and Other Studies. The event features Mayor Robert S Wood and officers from Pomeroy Circleville and Upper Sandusky, begins 7 45 p m, open to Red Men and Pocahontas members. A Red Men only meeting is set for 7:00 p m.
President Elmer B. Bryan called for more than 1,000 students to promote the university to friends and prospective students during a mass meeting at Aumn Memorial Auditorium. He stressed past and future gains, urged truthful advocacy, and warned about state budget strains affecting faculty and projects like a biology building.
Glouster March 23. Kiwanis Club meeting devoted to State Route 13 work through Glouster with Highway Department officials. Booster meeting earlier promised spring start and Route 31 work in York Township, but plans now reportedly delayed for Route 13. Members form committees to press for action, noting local employment need and hardship from delay. Attendee prize awarded to Ben.
GLOUSTER March 23. Mrs. F J Batterson wife of the pastor will bring a special message on Christ in the Home at tonight's M E Church meeting. Last night a series of pictures illustrated the early Passion Week events and another series showing the latter part will be shown Thursday night.
Glouster reports Mrs Marie Tuttle, formerly of this city, has secured a divorce from 8 B Tuttle in Detroit Michigan. She is a daughter of John Slisher.
Everett Leadbetter a Marion Center Pa high school faculty member arrived to spend the weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs W W Leadbetter. His wife joined him from PA and went to Clarksburg W Va to visit her parents. Schools at Marion Center were closed for a week due to flu with nearly all teachers sick. Miss Maxine Vaughn returned from Marietta where she was guest of Miss Eleanor Price.
Mrs Hes ter Druggan an elderly resident of Glouster sustained two fractured ribs after a fall on the bathroom floor at her Main Street home. Authorities report no other injuries and the incident is under local care.
Athens County farmers may file applications for crop production loans at extension offices and banks starting tomorrow. Loans up to 400 dollars require emergency need and 5 percent interest with a first lien on 1932 crops. Final loan judgments rest with national and county committees.
The Sharpsburg protracted meeting is held at Mt. Hermon Church instead of Sharpsburg Church under Rev. Bennington. Attendees include Rev. Arza Ball of Wrightstown, Mr. and Mrs. Ward of Sand Rock, and many area residents. Various visits and social rounds are noted, with a taxpayers league meeting at Athens on Saturday.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Chauncey M. E. Church for Samuel Coulson 78 of Chauncey who died Sunday in High Street. The Rev Herman Sayre led the service with a quartet and flower bearers present. burial followed in West Union Street Cemetery Athens. Survived by widow Edith Coulson son Howard Coulson and brother Daniel Coulson.
CHAUNCEY March 23 A sunrise prayer service will be held Sunday at 6 AM at the Chauncey Church of Christ with Mrs Ralph Brown leading. Bible School convenes at 9 30 AM and aims for good attendance. Miss Lauretta Fielder Easter reading and duets by Mrs Charles Ogg and Miss Mary Ogg plus a solo by Charlies Sweeney Jr. Preaching and communion follow under Rev Miles Hoon. Choir directed by Mrs Christine Brown plans Master music for the morning service. No evening preaching. minister attends New Marshfield Church of Christ. Choir rehearsal Thursday night per Mrs Brown.
Mr and Mrs Henry F Staffinger Chauncey have been reported improved. Miss Lucille Mason was the guest of friends in Columbus Sunday.
In Millfield Southeastern Ohio hundreds of men line the picket, fed by hot soup and coffee from a garage commissary moved from the Company House. Women of East Millfield cook and serve the meals on Wednesdays and Saturdays while volunteers on the commissary committee include F. E. Boudinot Walter Hartley Homer Tracy and P. L. Collins. Local residents visit relatives and neighbors as illness and quarantine affect the community with several families noted for health updates.
The House voted 149 to impose a super tax on inheritances up to 45 percent, supplementing the estate tax of up to 20 percent. Delegates had hoped a sales tax exemption for food clothing and medicine would soothe opponents but lost momentum to a strong anti tax lobby.
Hopewell New Jersey March 23 the Lindbergh kidnapping mystery enters its fourth week with no near solution since the infant was stolen from his nursery.
In Chauncey Floyd Dinsmoor a grocery and meat market operator fired on three intruders after midnight Tuesday. Dinsmoor and Roger Boling had been guarding the store and reported one man entered through a window while two waited outside. The intruders fled and local officers investigate.
In Chauncey on Converse Street near the Cunningham grocery Joe Cunningham drove a machine when a steering apparatus broke causing loss of control. Mrs. Charles McColley and 15 year old Dorothy Gillespie were walking on the sidewalk when struck and thrown to the roadway. Both suffered heavy bruising and leg scrapes and were taken to a local physician.
Mr and Mrs Enos Lockado of Chauncey entertained Sunday at their Mill Street home guests Mr and Mrs Dana Howett and daughters Mildred and Donna Howett and Miss Doris Whaley from Middleport.
Chauncey March 23 The sewing class at Chauncey High School will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs T M Wolfe in charge. Any woman interested is invited.
Howard Bingman son of Mr and Mrs Everett Bingman recovers from mumps. Mr and Mrs William Phillips of Columbus visit Chauncey this week and see William Stalder family in The Plains.
Chauncey reports George Harvey Nye, 79, enjoyed several hours on the ice using his wooden skates. Nye has worn the same pair for 65 years, a long standing skating habit noted during the recent season.
James E. Love and Mrs. L. L. Sweazy visited Hollister to inspect relief efforts at the schools. They praised the community for generous help to needy children and the cleanliness of kitchens and dining areas. Bread is baked by Mrs. Cooner and Mrs. Andrews, with 46 loaves last week.
Mrs. Mark Sutton of Chauncey is seriously ill with high blood pressure and heart trouble at her Mill Street home. James Smith from Lancaster is spending the week in Chauncey with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Sweazy and Howard Ortman of Columbus and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Love of Millfield were guests of Mr. and Mrs. James Salvers in Hollister on Monday.
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