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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1932
Page
12
Final preparations for the Hocking Recreation Ball League include a May 2 meeting at Carpenter Hardware to set the opening date May 10, choose umpires, and adopt the schedule for Logan High School events and exhibitions.
Dr Royall S Copeland outlines home versus hospital treatment for tuberculosis in children. He emphasizes early diagnosis, doctor exams or X rays, open air living, and parental education, noting severe cases need sanatorium care for quicker, safer recovery.
Pupils from Logan public schools will perform at the May Festival in L H S Auditorium on the afternoon and evening of May 6. Afternoon features grade pupils with the operetta Behind the Clouds Boys and work by grades one through four. Evening includes Way Down South in Dixie by the Girls Glee Club and programs by Junior and Senior pupils, Senior High Glee Club, and Senior Orchestra.
Logan May 2 Pat Allen Nelsonville was fined one dollar and costs after pleading guilty to possessing intoxicants. Deputy Joe Farbearn had arrested him earlier in the week.
The Athens Messenger announces a Believe It Or Not contest with daily prizes and grand prizes for winners. Readers can enter by sending a submission to Ripley’s group, with details on travel and travel-related rewards. The promotion highlights the Believe It or Not feature and notes travel and consumer prizes.
Clinton Webb Stape correspondent notes telephone and contact lines for classified ads and circulation services in The Messenger. Milne asks readers to call 372 for advertisements and circulation-related queries.
Logan May 2 verdict for 840 dollars awarded to Roush Bros contractors in suit against Brewer and Brewer for work on Route Seven. Frank E. Roush returned from Columbus after a week away as trial was completed. Roush Brothers continue grading on Route 31 south of Logan.
Miss Ruth Pleukharp age 37 daughter of Mrs Margaret Pleukharp East Hunter Street Logan died at home Sunday morning after a bout with goiter and heart attack She had been able to work until last week Funeral services will be held at First Presbyterian Church Tuesday at 3 PM with Rev R L Geddes and Rev James R Fields assisting burial in Oak Grove Cemetery
Logan May 2 Hiram Lama restaurant owner was fined 300 and costs by Mayor Elias Bright after appearing to face a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He allegedly struck two pedestrians on Main Street early that morning and had his driving rights suspended for six months.
Marriage licenses listed for Chilcote and Lau reline with officiants Reverend Thompson and Crames Christian. Logans residents and visitors from Nelsonville Columbus and New Straitsville noted with family ties and travel details.
The Alliance Francaise of Ohio University staged two one act comedies in Memorial Auditorium on Thursday April 28. A musical interlude between plays featured selections from Massenet Saint-Saens and Charpentier performed by Alice Beasley Mon coeur s ouvre a la voix and L heure exquise. New officers for 1932 1933 were elected with Frank I Cohen as president Catherine F Sweeney as vice president LeRoy Cerby as treasurer and Eleanor Elliott as social chairman.
ZANESVILLE May 2 Ray Wartente of Zanesville a self described Sortiegunner with clients in Cambridge Manetta Athens and Zanesville was arrested by police in a parked car with his wife. Officers found five quarts of liquor two gallon jars of red liquor and other items branded Old Texas in the vehicle. Wartente fled the car but was later arrested.
May 2 Logan reports the closed bass season is active along the Hocking River in Hocking County. Deputy game protector Edward Eberst notes enforcement efforts to prevent catching bass during the period. Knights of Pythias plans Bend to Nel sonville May 17 for their five court meeting with an open invitation policy.
East Side School reports an honor roll expansion as improved attendance boosts grades. First to third graders include Joan Armstrong, Helen Bailey, Mary Jane Beckley, Caryv Baire, Barbara Danford, Martha Dowier, Mary Virginim Singman, George Peckham, Patsy Sherrani and others.
E W Scheer born 1875 in Zaleski Ohio rose from office boy to general manager of the eastern lines of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. The Zaleski upbringing shaped a career that helped build the B&O system and many locals who later achieved prominence in transportation.
Fourth Grade John Hess Ellen Davis Martha Genter Jessie Marie Rowles Marcella Wiley Rosalie Shafer Howard Hanes. Fifth Grade Marjorie Bolinger Reb Covert Florence Elkins Jean Forsythe Grace Ellen Foster Betty Jane Fulton Mary Allen Gibson Juanita McGrath Anna Margaret Morrison Eleanor Ann Peckham James Person Marjorie Thompkins. Sixth Grade Clifford Cornell Robert Hanes George Tucker Harry Hess June Baird Virginia Beasley Suzanne Danford Virginia Porter Helen Quest Ula Shafer Mary Kathryn Sherrard Mildred Yeager.
Three Athens youths Granville Stevens Oran McGee and Vernon Wilkes were forced by a man posing as a West Virginia state trooper to drive from Parkersburg to Spencer. In Spencer the car was stolen and later found abandoned near Spencer. The thief, about 5 feet tall, fled after sending the boys to eat and buy gas. State police are seeking the suspect.
More than a0 students from high schools in 17 counties of Southeastern Ohio will visit Ohio University for the annual District State Scholarship Tests on Saturday May 7. Scholarship teams from county units exempted villages and city districts will compete. Prof Frank B Dilley university registrar will oversee the examinations and present awards to district winners in the State Scholarship Examination taken by high school seniors March 18. State-wide winners will be announced at that time.
Students will be examined in the morning with awards at 11 oclock. Afternoon campus tours led by Phoenix and Blue Key begin at 2 30 with a 1 30 reception for visiting parents teachers principals and superintendents in Alumni Memorial Auditorium foyer. Dr E B Bryan president of Ohio University will give an address followed by a skit East of Thirty Third Street by Pi Beta Phi and a concert by the Ohio University Band. Examinations are supervised by university professors with county and individual competitions. No student may take more than one subject.
The Ohio University district counties include Athens Belmont Guernsey Hocking Jackson Meigs Monroe Morgan Perry Pike Ross Scioto and Washington. Die.
An advertisement touts Dr. Leonhardt’s ROID Tablets as a quick cure for piles by removing congestion and restoring circulation. It promises relief of long standing symptoms and a money back guarantee if one bottle fails to end agony.
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