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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1934
Page
3
City council details amendments to waterworks adjacents and street projects. Ordinance authorizes bonds of 500 dollar units totaling 9 500 with June 30 1935 as Bond No 1. Court costs in injunction against highway use allocated. beer hours legislation deferred.
Nelsonville Glenford Dugan Post 229 American Legion outlined Memorial Day ceremonies at Greenlawn Cemetery with Judge O F Rowland as speaker at 10 30 a m. Civil War veteran Eber Jones attended as guest and recalled the 10 000 mile hiking record and lack of rail transport for troops in 1861. Lunch followed for 30 members.
Ambrose Perry with two children travels westward with two wagons four oxen and two horses. The family camps below Nelsonville on Robbins Road awaiting a wheel repair as they pursue a romantic lure of frontiers and simple camp life amid modern travel noise.
In Pittsburgh a four year old George Hilson retrieved his sleeping father’s service revolver and it fired injuring a neighbor’s child. the incident sparked a round of neighborly scoldings. In Oklahoma City fourteen year old Kenneth Zeigler earns praise from his principal for late night study at a fountain table amid a dark home. In Philadelphia John Szegen was found in Fairmount Park with clothes far away and claimed to have been swimming. a magistrate would release him if alienists approve.
Sixteen members of Nelsonville High School’s graduating class were honored at a church dinner. Rev. Strickler presented Bibles. speakers included Alon Figgins, Verna Hand, Calvin Lancaster, Sloan Patton, Rex Dilcher, and Bill Reed. Graduates listed include Lancaster Barrows Norman Rosser Reed Dilcher Courtney Bateman Patton Gandee Bussey Brooks Tignor Patton Hampton.
The Nelsonville Community Club calls residents to improve home appearances with paint and whitewash. They provide a USDA recipe: slake half bushel quicklime, strain, add hot water, then mix in salt, alum, more hot water, and molasses. Thin with water if needed.
A joint concert of the Nelsonville High School Band and the Glenford Dugan Drum Corps takes place on the Square at 7:30 this evening. The event officially opens the Poppy Sale in Nelsonville.
Nelsonville notes memorial services as Rev R J Strickler delivers the annual memorial address for the Woman's Relief Corps and the G A R on Sunday at 10 30 AM at the First Christian Church All patriotic organizations invited Monday WRC wreath making with Mrs C L Stout at 1 PM and regular meeting Monday night at the I O O F Hall
In Gallia County many eighth grade students advance to high school. Listed from Green Township Green Elizabeth Blazer Charles Car michael Teddy Carter Ruth Delille Kenneth Foster Ora Frye Ermel Gothard Powell Meadows Audrey McCall Ken Nibert Ethel O'Dell Woodrow Saunders Lawrence Sprigel Emma Gibson. Greenfield Township Emery Bartela Daniel Evans Dorothy Kerr Paul Dearth Clarence Hayward Evelyn Potter. Guyan Township Bryant Bel ville Charlie Bevan Estella Caldwell Helen Caldwell Kenneth Daniels Atlee Fulks Daisy Haley Grace Houck Howard Lanthorn Lulu Saunders Rachel Sheets Ruth Smith Darrell Wallace Parme Wallace Merrill Johnson Madge Beaver Kenneth Sheets.
An advancing tendency showed itself in wheat prices early today as spring wheat state reports proved sensationally bad and winter wheat states remained pessimistic.
Statistics from the Motor Vehicles Bureau in Columbus show in Gallia County for 1934 that 1,576 of 3,072 registered passenger cars are over five years old. This means more than half of the county’s cars were built before 1929.
Charles Eilker of Gallia County, a German native, carries unique naturalization papers earned when he served in the Spanish American War of 1899. The Soldiers' Certificate records, issued to foreign-born soldiers, predate 1906 when U.S. naturalization laws centralized. The document notes renunciation of allegiance to William the First of Germany, with Probate Judge J C Ingel administering the oath.
A Famous Meat Market truck driver from Huntington W Va was held up by a hitch hiker near Chesapeake and forced to drive toward Portsmouth after stealing 120 dollars. The thief fled into woods when the truck ran dry on Route 7 near the Lawrence County Airport, carrying two guns a .38 blue steel pistol and a .25 automatic.
A marriage license was issued to Owen Hall 38 a Letart river man and Fannie Friend 38 a Gallipolis housekeeper in Gallipolis.
Gallia Academy High School prepares for a 7:30 p m baccalaureate at Grace Methodist Church with sermon on Youth In a Crisis by Rev George Sagen pastor of the Baptist Church. Sunday services include sermons by Rev H H Wilbur and Rev W W Duff and a communion at 10:30 a m. Three men arrested at Silver Bridge carnival on intoxication charges. Willar Baker funeral set for 2 p m Saturday at Eno Church.
Gallia County Tobacco Production Control Association distributed checks totaling 490 dollars to 28 Gallia County farmers with signed contracts. Payments cover rental at 20 dollars per acre for land rented to the Secretary of Agriculture. individual checks ranged from four to sixty eight dollars.
Adolph Fromm of Columbus paid a total of 14.90 dollars in Municipal Judge A J Stormont's court on Thursday after being charged with intoxication.
Nelsonville reports that Woman's Community Club chairmen named to collect flowers and funds for the Public Square fountain will meet at treasurer Mrs. E. J. Arnold's home Saturday at 7 30. Flower planting occurs this afternoon under streets chief Ed Dewhurst with added chairmen on certain streets. Remaining gifts will go to Mayor Holland for decoration use.
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