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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1933
Page
8
Logan May 30 Preparations for Camp Hocking water are complete as drillers hit a vein at 200 feet Sunday evening. A hill surface well will handle sanitation. Lieut Hoffman supervised payroll with 25 dollar dependent allotments. Cap Weaver to run generator for camp power.
The May 30 service drew a capacity audience in the Logan High Auditorium as 99 graduates, faculty, and the orchestra gathered for Rev. E. B. Townsend’s baccalaureate sermon. Earlier, an intruder broke a window to enter the high school office, rifling the Attendance Officer’s desk but causing no further damage.
Harry Taylor of this city left Monday for Butler Pennsylvania to attend the funeral services for his father Phillip Taylor who died there Sunday.
Woodrow Reynolds of Ward Township missed the bus for the Hocking County contingent of the reforesting army. He started walking to Logan and Deputy Sheriff Joe Barbearn brought him to town so he would not miss his trip to camp.
Fred Courtney of Ward Township did not report to camp as planned and was arrested by Sheriff Bd Eliinger and Deputy Joe Farbearn in Logan. He had previously taken French leave from the Hocking County Jail months earlier and had not appeared since. Court officials detained him Sunday after learning of his selection.
Marriage records show Harold Lester Ruff 23 and Faye Ellen Worthman 20 received a license in Enterprise. Also listed is Oren Cheeseman 23 and Louella Van Fossen 18 of Haydenville receiving a license.
Logan May 30 a joint committee of G A R Legionnaires and Sons of Veterans led by C Wood Bowen gathered Monday to place flags on graves in two local cemeteries. Markers are to be placed Tuesday in other cemeteries.
Glouster officials list the men to report to Street Commissioner Clarence Gatchel at the City Building for R F C work on Wednesday at 7 am. Names include John Titus Arch Viney Floyd Viney George Vermaaten Asa Vincent Ed Turner Leonard Viney Jerry Tanner Vailie Trace Harry Stump Floyd Smith George VanHorn Elmer Tippie Elden Six Chester Sanborn Harry Six Tom Smith Virgel Strohmeyer J D Smith and William Shaw Jr. Edison School student from Elyria will spend summer vacation with her parents.
C E Handley, who had cataract surgery in a Columbus hospital two weeks ago, is expected to return home this week. Mrs Handley said he left the hospital Sunday for an automobile ride, his first time out since the operation.
In a fall while walking down a hill Sunday afternoon Mrs Charles McColley fractured her right leg between the ankle and knee. The McColley home is on the Oakdale Pike in this city.
Miss Sabra Armstrong assistant principal of the school is listed in a brief notice dated May 30 regarding upcoming summer program staffing and duties.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Vess of Rural Route 4 entertained Saturday night in Glouster for their son in law and daughter Mr. and Mrs. Fred Potts of Marengo. Homemade cake and ice cream served. Guests included the Coffman family, Van Horns, Vess relatives, Mace family, Rankin family, Shepard, Potts family, Wanda Jane Potts, and others.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mudrie of Murray City and John Gazell Sr. and Palmer Gazell and Mrs. Fazabeth Brown, all of this city, returned from Xenia where they visited Norman and Foater Brown at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors orphan home. In Xenia they also visited Mr. and Mrs. T. Edington and son John, former Murray City residents.
GLOUSTER May S. F Stephenson relocates his merchandise from the Williams Building on South High Street to his Modoc store. The Stephensons also move their household goods from Glouster to Modoc.
Fifty five youths from Hocking County assembled at the Courthouse and left Logan at 7 30 Monday morning for Chillicothe en route to Camp Knox. They will begin duties in the reforesting army with relatives bidding them farewell. Chester Miller relief director Barton A Hall and Deputy Sheriff Joe Farbearn accompanied the group to Chillicothe in school buses.
The Hocking and Vinton County Mental Hygiene Society meets next Monday at 7 30 p m at the Courthouse Logan. Dr J K Patrick of Ohio University leads the discussion with Miss Evelyn Hickman and Miss Lucy Barker arranging the program. Community members interested in mental hygiene are urged to attend.
Mrs. Lowell Dawley hosted guests for dinner Sunday including Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bates and Wesley Bates. Mrs. Putnam, Mrs. May Whip, and Mr. and Mrs. Laurie with two children visited from Akron and Columbus to dine with Mrs. George McVey.
Rev W N Shank used Honorable Scars as the Memorial Day sermon subject at the Methodist Episcopal Church. American Legion G A E and other patriotic groups attended with special music by the choir and a quartet of Fred Burchfield C V Shepard B C Bright and Dr M H Cherrington.
Murray City hosts the annual school of instruction for Rebekah Lodges District No. 52 on Tuesday August with sessions both afternoon and evening. Ohio leaders Mrs. Edna Canter and Mrs. Anna Henderson will conduct the program. Local lodges named include Nelsonville Murray City Stewart Athens Carbon Hill and more.
R. F. Cuyler general manager of the Ray-Glo Corporation was elected president of the Athens Rotary at a Hotel Berry meeting on Monday. He succeeds Howard C. Bobo on July 1. Also chosen for the next year were Fred M. McKay as president, John Jagers as treasurer, C. H. Harris as secretary, H. C. Pendry as assistant secretary, and Franz Woodworth and W. B. Lawrence as directors.
An advertisement invites readers denied a baby to write to Mrs. Mildred Owens in Kansas City Missouri for a home method she says helped her after fifteen years of denial. The notice promises others have found happiness through this approach and urges readers to write for details and hope.
Society pages report the marriage of Miss Louise Kempton daughter of Mr and Mrs J F Kempton at the Rev Wood home in St Marys W Va to Mr Charles Wilson of Athens son of Mr and Mrs R Co Wilson of Altoona Pa. The ceremony featured her brother Fred Kempton Jr as presenter and George Blahe of Athens as best man. The bride wore a pastel pink crepe dress with white hat and coat. The couple reside at 128 North Congress Street and will move to Cleveland after June 18 when Wilsons band opens an engagement.
Plans were made at a League of Women Voters board meeting for the annual picnic at Dr and Mrs W L Gard North Hill at 5 pm Thursday June 1. Officers will be elected and a play will be presented after dinner. Memorial Day visits and various local notices fill the rest of the column.
The Plains High School will graduate 33 seniors at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Grade School Auditorium. Kenneth Ray, county superintendent, will give the class address and M O Bryan, board president, will present diplomas. Special music is planned. A nearby note mentions a patient entering St Francis Hospital for surgery.
Chauncey May 30. Among those from Chauncey who left Sunday for Camp Knox having been accepted for the reforestation army were Robert Blackford Clarence Staley Albert Spellman Glendon Palmer William Glass Jr Samuel Warnick Joe Nicholson Lee Phillips Carlos Wolfe Ernest Smith William Frazee and Herman Barnes.
Mrs. Thom as Oliver of Chauncey sustained a serious right shoulder injury Sunday afternoon after being struck by a ball at the Chauncey versus Carbon Hill game held at the local grounds.
Relief orders will be issued in Chauncey on Wednesday morning from 8 30 to 12 o clock. Orders will be written at Millfield on Thursday. The change was made this week because of Memorial Day.
Chauncey on May 30 reports Mrs Myrtle Jackson wife of O B Jackson will depart Chauncey for Columbus.
Miss Marianna Bing supervisor of music in the Amesville schools will leave June 12 for the Seagle Music Colony in the Adirondack Mountains to study voice for the third year. Mrs. J B Sherrard Nelle Roach Hannan and Florence Lash Williams motor to Nelsonville Monday and back that evening. Mr and Mrs John Collins of 70 North High Street spend Memorial Day in New Straitsville with relatives. Mrs Hal W Murphy of East State Street visits Logan Memorial Day with her mother Mrs Lacy Westenhaver and relatives.
Chauncey May 30. Members of the Chauncey Ladies Auxiliary of the United Mine Workers enjoyed a party and potluck supper Saturday night at the home of Mrs. Bessie Perry. Present were: Mrs. Pearl Schoonover, Mrs. Fannie Palmer, Mrs. Ma Tinda Cruickshank, Mrs. Jennie Courtney, Mrs. Edna Courtney, Mrs. Rhoda Olliver, Mrs. Nell McConaha, Mrs. Emma Staley, Mrs. Beatrice Worden, Mrs. Pearl Lowry, Mrs. Cassie Ing, Mrs. Grace Smith, Elsie Worden and Abbie Schoonover.
Mr and Mrs George Williamson and children Jo Ann and Buddy arrived in Chauncey from Big Run Pa on Monday to visit Mrs Williamson s parents Mr and Mrs Charlies Brad field Sr and other relatives
Chauncey families travel to Jackson to visit aunt Mrs. George Ewing and join Memorial Day gatherings in Wellston. Several Chauncey residents host or join relatives from The Plains Amesville Middleport and Laurelvilles, with days spent in Chauncey and nearby towns.
The League of Nations council approved appointing three jurists to report on a complaint by Franz Bernheim about discrimination against Jews in Upper Silesia. The move came despite objections and signals a probe into treatment of Jews in the region.
Mr and Mrs Fred Finsterwald and their son Fred Jr of Dayton are spending time with former's grandparents Mr and Mrs H M Crippen on West Union Street.
Readers note the patriotic display as laundry and flags are featured for the holiday. The piece salutes housewives and women for keeping Old Glory clean and visible, while joking about dusting the eagle’s feathers for holidays.
More than 75 couples, guests, and alumnae attended Chi Omega Sorority's Spring Formal Monday night at the Hotel Berry. Lou Lynn's orchestra provided the music while pastel gowns shimmered under colored lights. chap erons were Dr and Mrs J R Patrick Mr and Mrs Irvin Quick and Mrs Margaret Davis with special guests Mr and Mrs Louis I Brown.
Mrs Ruth Parker 77 North High Street suffered a badly fractured hip when she slipped on a freshly waxed floor in an upstairs room Monday. Neighbors heard her scream and aided her before she was taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital.
Ohio agricultural guidance outlines May applications for spray programs to combat moths curculio and other fruit pests. Recommendations include lime sulfur plus arsenate on certain crops, caution against toxic mixtures on peaches and cherries, with notes on timing, dilution, and past pest history in Athens County.
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