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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1936
Page
5
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Graduation exercises for three Athens County High Schools announced by Elea nor A Minister. At Troy High School Frank E Wilson state supervisor of publications will deliver the commencement address. The Troy class includes Russell Archer Herman Bernard Francis Gaskins Bernard Chapman Glenn Gaston Paul McDonald Victor Russell Glenn Sharp Clyde Stout Franklin Thompson Glenn ever Leon White Emma Bailey ce Blake Inez Brafford Mabel Calloway Gertrude Deeter Beulah Groves Erma Jackson Mary Johnson Helen LeMasters Myrtle Kin ede Ruth Malone Naomi O Neil Dorothy Pierce Mildred Swearingen Alene Scott.
An important rehearsal of the combined Mothersingers will be held in the club room of the Central Grade School Building on Thursday at 2 p.m. The event was announced for members and supporters.
Athens Junior and Senior High School staged scenes from The Ghost Train at an assembly this morning. The senior play centers on the Clear Vale Junction station near Rockland Me with a 10 30 to midnight setting. A A Nellis directs promising a shiver inducing mystery. reserved seats available by calling the high school.
City residents cooperate as nine open spots appear on Main Street. The one hour limit in the business district is in effect with Saturday night rules until nine. Traffic officers Church and Finsterwald enforce, tagging about 20 cars by early afternoon, many from out of town.
Seventy-five children at Rome Township School received final diphtheria immunizations Tuesday. County health commissioner Dr. J. M. Higgins and county nurse Miss Ann Morgan led the clinic with 73 Glouster children treated that morning. Treatments for 90 more are planned at The Plains Thursday.
A meeting will be held at Athens City Hall on Thursday May 21 for organizing the Sons of Veterans of the Civil War. Eligible members include sons and grandsons and they are urged to attend.
The May session of the Athens County Common Pleas Court opened with Mary Kelley vs Roy Skinner over unpaid wages. Other cases include State of Ohio vs Clarence Robinson for failing to stop after a crash and Moore vs Cotton over a June Route 31 wreck seeking $1,300. Also Beasley vs Jacobs for $134.65 and upcoming hearings on intoxication, break in, and DUI charges. Jury summons issued to numerous residents. probate court actions include estate tax questions, real estate sales, and wills pending admission to probate.
A record fee of 85 was collected for Athens County by Mrs. Georgia Kilpatrick, county recorder, when a refunding and improvement mortgage of 178 printed pages was filed. The mortgage is the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co to Guaranty Trust Co of New York, securing principal and interest on bonds.
Mrs. Margaret Allman state welfare director will speak at the nurses graduation exercises at Athens State Hospital tonight in the hospital amusement building. Oakley Spaght will present diplomas. Five girls graduate from the two year course: Sadie May Lambert Langsville Mary Margaret Reed Athens Gladys Pearl McAfee Ath ens Ruthanna Merrick Stewart and Mary Virginia Winning Glouster. Rev Reed J Downs will give invocation and benediction. A string quartet from Ohio University will play and Gretchen Plum will sing.
Scout officials of the Hock-Hocking District including Athens County meet Thursday night at the Athens Chamber of Commerce rooms to plan a district board of review and meeting. All scouters or interested persons may attend. votes on administration limited to district committee members and troop committee chairmen. Arrangements will be made for the first annual Scout Rally at Athens High School Gymnasium on Thursday May 28 and the fourth annual Boy Scout Circus at Parkersburg June 11.
Support for a state amendment offering a $50 monthly pension to nonemployed Ohio residents and repealing the sales tax was being gathered in Court Street today by Mr and Mrs M H Baird for Herbert S Bigelow sponsor. Bigelow, Cincinnati councilman and May 12 Democratic congressional nominee, aims to secure 250000 signatures in 44 counties to place the amendment on next fall’s ballot.
Rufus A. Fell aged 87 died Monday night after a 10 day pneumonia illness. Civil War veteran and GAR member, he lived with daughter Miss Viola Fell in Athens last winter. Survived by daughter, one brother Samuel Fell of Wheeling. Funeral Thursday at 2 at Dean Undertaking Home Zanesville with Rev. Hartman officiating. Burial in Longview Cemetery Zanesville.
Per Albin Hansson head of Sweden's Social Democratic government enjoys bowling as his recreation. The 50 year old premier is pictured at the Stockholm Newsmen's Bowling Club ready for a strike after celebrating his birthday.
Ohio University seniors will gather in Memorial Auditorium for the annual Senior Day convocation at 10 a.m. President Herman G. James will open the program, Senior Class president Bert Cameron will speak, and Miss Jane Gill will perform. The procession begins at 10, led by Robert Boulware and Warren Hacker.
Funeral services were held in Washington D C yesterday for Dr. Clifford H Stearns former Ohio University student and Delta Tau Delta member Burial was in Arlington Cemetery He was a grandson of Colonel Bundy of Wells ton and nephew of Mrs J B Foraker He enlisted in the Athens militia during the Spanish American War and later studied osteopathy in Missouri He practiced in Washington leaving a widow and two daughters His father held a life appointment in the U S Treasury Department granted by President Grant for Civil War gallantry
James Walker a colored resident of Athens was fined five dollars plus costs by Mayor Len B. McCune after pleading guilty to intoxication. Few people have completely blue eyes, a claim cited by Dr. G P Frets of Holland noting most blue eyes have a touch of yellow.
Mrs Cornelia Woodruff Jones mother of Mrs F W Bush and Mrs Mathie W Sprague died at the family home in Athens after a month illness. A noted music teacher and singer born in Wood Brove Ohio she taught piano from age 13 and led choirs in Columbus. She moved to Athens in 1915 joining local clubs and composing sacred songs including Ohio We Love Thee. Services at The Beeches Friday 10:30 and burial at Mc Connelsville. Holy Communion observed Thursday at 10.
A 17 year old Florence Thompson of Redtown escaped from the Athens County Home for Girls by leaping from a second floor window at 34 West Carpenter Street. She fled after a theft charge and was later arrested the previous day by Deputy Sheriff Karl Gardner following an affidavit before Magistrate T R Bennett accusing her of stealing two rings valued at 35 dollars from Cro Beatty.
Mrs Daisy Kirkendall Stead aged 48 widow of Carl B Stead died at her Cleveland home at midnight Sunday Survivors include six children Geraldine Kenneth Benjamin Caroline Carl B Stead and a stepson Fred Stead all of Cleveland Also sister Mrs C L Beal of Uhrichsville and brother Henry Haughay The Plains Friends may call at Mrs C E Slater’s home Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery
Members of the Athens County Senior 4 H Club will hold their regular meeting at the Athens Grange Hall tonight at 7 o'clock. Dr. F B A Taylor Ohio University professor of sociology will speak and a program of entertainment has been arranged.
Miss Marie Boutt will judge the thirteenth annual Ohio University Torch Sing at 9 pm on Lindley Hall porch. Five fraternities Beta Theta Pi Delta Tau Delta Sigma Pi Phi Kappa Tau Phi Delta Theta vie for the Blaine Goldsberry Trophy as judges note the first woman to preside. If rain, event moves to Memorial Auditorium. Oranges first grown in California in 1873.
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