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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
7
Gallia County Commissioners will meet Friday at 10 a.m. in the courthouse to consider continuing WPA projects in the county. If pursued a bond issue may be needed, requiring a special election since the county has no bonded debt. About 1,000 WPA workers could be affected by any continuation or suspension.
A silk American flag and a Gallia Council school flag will be presented at the municipal swimming pool dedication on June 6. Mrs. George Lear will present the school flag for Gallia Council Daughters of America, and Elias Wetherholt will present the American flag for the Junior Order United American Mechanics. E. E. Higgins, superintendent of schools, will accept.
Gallipolis school district begins enumeration of students led by attendance officer Miss Dorothy Burnett. Last year’s enrollment reached 1 621 children. officials expect a rise with the new tally.
The air mail carrier is making daily practice runs between Pittsburgh and Huntington and east through West Virginia for a week. The plane passes over daily at 12 18 p m at about 8000 feet altitude.
Gallipolis Garden Club will host a Spring Flower Show at the Public Library this weekend. Workers will rearrange furniture to best display hundreds of blooms for the Saturday and Sunday event.
County Auditor E. D. Keeler says local posts of the American Legion Disabled Veterans and Spanish American Camps in the county will each receive 50 dollars for Memorial Day services.
Clifford Wheeler of Rio Grande and Harold Lemley of Pomeroy were fined 22.65 dollars each and given suspended sentences to the Mansfield state reformatory for attempting to pass forged checks. The Gallipolis Board of Education will meet Friday night for the superintendent’s report and to hire for next year. A Macedonia Church picnic was postponed to June 11. Rio Grande Future Farmers present minstrel tonight at the high school. Funeral services for John A. Casey were held at his son Clarence’s home with interment at Pine Street Cemetery.
Gallipolis social notes document numerous parties and dinners across Cheshire, Northup, Swan Creek, and nearby towns. Guests include Marjorie Scott, Mary Jane Rothgeb, and families such as the Haskins, Lears, and Beans. Events span birthdays, Beta Sigma Phi tea, and visits by relatives from Gallipolis, Ironton, and Columbus.
Final assembly at Washington School featured awards for top eighth grade scores with certificates for Meritorious Service to safety by the street patrols. Recipients included Paul Cooper Ellen Maddy Gloriana Foster and Tommy Robinson among many others. County Agent Royer will broadcast Friday at 11 45 a m on WSAZ Huntington about The 4 H Club Program.
Gallia County Agriculture Extension Service and Rio Grande College plant 20 hybrids plus two local varieties in a Standard 20 yield test. Five replications per hybrid, 110 plots, hand double planting, planned harvest measures moisture and shelled yield. A field day at the college farm will invite observers this fall.
Gallia County hosts numerous girls 4 H clubs as Virginia Judy Sower announces ongoing organization. Early groups include Harrisburg led by Mrs King Thorne Ryger led by Ida Mae Harding and Mrs Perry Bradbury Northup led by Frances Buckle and Effie White Vin ton led by Ernest Piper. Sower expects soon to publish a complete member and advisor list.
J Sherman Cottrill age 57 died Wednesday at his home in Ewington. Funeral Friday at 2 p m in Ewington Church of Christ. Burial will be in Vinton Memorial Park. Survived by wife Bessie Sayre and daughter Isabel, plus seven surviving brothers and sisters.
Gallipolis committees named to represent the city at the airport Sunday in planning a short program incident to establishment of daily air mail service are composed of S. B. Huntington A. K. Merriman Harry R. Hurn Charles T. Robinson C. E. Holzer Marion Wedge James Vornholt. A community basket dinner will be held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Gordon near Kyger in honor of their birthdays. He will be 79 and Mrs. Gordon 74.
Mrs. Kate Jones of Centerpoint chairs a combined Memorial Day and home-coming program at Emory Church Sunday afternoon. The service includes American devotions, readings by Mary Morgan and Mildred Parkins, songs by Williams Quartet and various vocalists, instrumental numbers, a memorial address by Rev. Paul M. Graf, and a graveside decoration ceremony.
Poppy Days will be observed in Gallipolis Friday and Saturday with 1,800 poppies made at Sandusky Veterans Hospital. The sale is conducted by the Woman's Auxiliary to the American Legion Committee and a group of young girls will handle the selling duties.
Gallia County records note the first burial was Pierre Serot in City Park Gallipolis on September 30 1796. WPA Graves Registration project found 1979 veteran graves across 208 cemeteries with World War I and Civil War soldiers among them. The project tallies Gallia men in 1860 65 at about 2728 with 1571 graves located locally.
Gallipolis three board of education members C. E B Brumfield F. E Kerr and C. E Wagner will expire this year and are expected to seek reelection on the November 7 ballot. Report also says twice as many other candidates will run. There is no August primary in Gallipolis or Gallia County so candidates for school board and other township offices will file petitions 60 days before the election date.
A delegation of local Knights of Pythias, possibly 100 strong, will travel to Jackson tonight for a district meeting. Naomi Lodge members in this city will confer degree work on two candidates at the gathering.
Gallipolis recreation report by area supervisor Vero M Pesano counts 3797 participants and 2 325 in organized games in March and April. It notes expanded services for summer with tennis paddie tennis badminton and other courts now available and playground attendance expected to rise after the local school closes.
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