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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1930
Page
3
Society items from correspondent C H Bartlett mention telephone contact for news tips and local happenings with a call for submissions and appreciation of readers' service.
Raymond I. Barron a 40 year old Nelsonville bakery owner died suddenly in Dayton during a business trip. He leaves his wife Florence and two daughters Katherine and Margaret. Funeral plans have not been completed.
Two car loads of portable structural steel drilling gear arrived from Conneaut for local operator Jack Welters. The Nelsonville Gas Co. plans to use the outfit on a Monterey site owned by the Nelsonville Foundry and Machine Co. A 70 foot mast will be erected and drilling to begin by early next week.
Mr and Mrs Clarence Sowers visited in Wesson with Mr and Mrs A A Gibson and returned home with them on Wednesday for a trip to St Louis. Misses Beth and Lucille Verity and Mrs Tittle Fal were visitors in Columbus on Tuesday. Dr and Mrs A L Pritchard visited in Columbus on Tuesday. Mrs Martin Ohliniver leaves today to spend a week with her daughter Mrs Flord Rosser in Detroit Michigan. Charles Hitchings spent Wednesday with Mrs Hitchings recovering in Grant Hospital Columbus from a recent surgical operation. Mrs William Mills visited her son and daughter Thelma and Rolland Mills at Ohio State University in Columbus on Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Thurman Poole and Mrs Maris Mosell were in Lancaster on Saturday.
In Nelsonville the Democratic ticket won wide local majorities led by Wayne Wingett for sheriff and L. J. Eberle for state senator. George White carried governor race locally, while Bulkley won U S senator. Voters opposed 100000 jail bonds and an eight tenths mill street lighting levy.
The Esther Class met Tuesday evening at Mrs. Frank Johnson's home on Jackson Street for a hard time party. Miss Beth Verity led a business session planning the annual Christmas party and officer elections. Mrs. Ralph Howe and Mrs. Johnson gave talks. devotional was by Mrs. Frank Betts with prayer by Mrs. P. B. Verity. Refreshments for 85 attendees followed. Nominating committee members named: Mrs. Jennie Oakley, Mrs. E. M. Wright, and Mrs. Ervin Pritchard.
Nelsonville officials confirm an extension course in business training with the Fairfield School of Business Lancaster. A local organizing meeting is set for Friday at 7 pm at the high school to explain course details to interested students. Beginning Wednesday November 12 classes will run each week under Hazel J. Graham supervision in shorthand bookkeeping typewriting and allied commercial subjects.
Edward Courtney 74 died Tuesday in Mercy Hospital Columbus after medical treatment. He leaves a wife Laura and children Emma Dailey Charles John Will Courtney Edward Courtney Jr Chauncey and Iva ONeil plus ten grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 pm at his residence Fourth and Poplar Streets with burial at Greenlawn.
Mrs Ray hosted the Loyal Woman's Class of the Christian Sunday School on West Washington Street Tuesday evening. Hyla Herrera led worship, with business led by president Mrs Sam Starkey. The class plans a December dinner at Mrs Starkey's home and 34 attendees enjoyed a program and refreshments.
Mrs. W. M. Poling hosted the Murray City Post No. 420 auxiliary at 164 West Washington Street. Guest speaker Mrs. R. H. Jackson reported on the American Legion convention in France. Twenty-three auxiliary members attended. Poling served a two course luncheon with fall flower centerpieces.
Local Rotarians heard William Mills describe his England visit and Continent cathedrals and abbeys highlighting famous European sites during a talk on International Relations last night.
The Hyperion Club met Saturday afternoon with Mrs. C. J. Bartels hosting on Fort Street. Mrs. Julius Fischer Mrs. Joe Davis and Mrs. L. J. Eberle spoke on International Relations. Mrs. J. M. Hyde reviewed Cimarron. Mrs. W. H. Badger spoke on Better Speech. Reports on the Southeast district Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs convention in Athens were presented by attending members.
The Orbiston page lists mourners at Russell Manns funeral in Murray City including Ida Yates and her father Wink Yates, Hazel Peacock Alberta Carsner and siblings Edith and Hazel, Kenneth and Clarence Hoffman, Charles and William Hoffman and their spouses. Other notes show Tomorrows visits by Mrs. Clarence Peacock, Roy Camp and family, and various relatives visiting in Orbiston and Buchtel.
Dr. Austin Doan of Columbus lectured on newer aids in diagnosing and prognosis of tuberculosis at the Athens County Medical Society meeting held at the Presbyterian Church in Nelsonville. The talk followed Dr. Dean's Rockefeller Institute background. next meeting on December 1 in Athens features Dr. Harry LeFever on head injury treatment.
The Izaak Walton League will discuss a membership drive at a meeting tonight, chaired by vice president Wilson Smith. Members will report on drive progress, set to end November 15, and plans for plotting the League farm near Carbondale will be debated, with farm photos on display in an Athens drugstore window.
Charleston dispatch early election returns show Matthew M. Neely, Fairmont Democrat, far ahead of James Fiwood Jones Switshback coal operator as two thirds of the state counted. Neely leads by more than 100000 votes with results still coming in.
Mrs Natson McClain aged 60 collapsed and died of heart trouble after voting late yesterday at her home in Newark New Jersey and while explaining to a neighbor for whom she had voted.
Mr and Mrs William Jacobs of Nelsonville Route 8 hosted 62 friends for a Halloween masquerade party Saturday evening. Games and contests were enjoyed and refreshments were served.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church invites attendance at a missionary tea Friday afternoon from 8 to o'clock at the pastor's home, Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Sayre. A music program will be presented and good attendance is urged.
A euchre party is planned for Thursday evening at the Red Men Hall. The event is sponsored by the Improved Order of Red Men and the Degree of Pocahontas.
York Grange No. 2436 will hold a regular meeting Friday at 6 30 pm at the Oak Grove school house. The session will include the annual election of officers. Members are urged to attend.
A nighttime tale recounts how King Fat-Wat seeks to capture a swallower in the dining room. The tin-soldier narrates the plan using thick molasses to lure a creature that swallows everything, while shadows ask pointed questions and hint at later adventures. Copyright 1990 Newspaper Feature Service.
CHICAGO Nov 4 The Democrat James Hamilton Lewis won the United States Senate seat from Illinois amid a landslide of votes that defeated Mrs Ruth Hannah McCormick the first woman nominated for the Senate by a major party. Voters also approved a wet and drug referendum opposing prohibition laws.
In Sugar Creek New York the town firefighting truck that had sat idle for over a year ran out of gasoline soon after leaving the fire house with its siren on. The incident highlights the department’s equipment failure and maintenance issues.
Early returns show Republican LeFever leading Democrat Eberle for state senator by about 2500 votes. County tallies give LeFever victories in Washington Athens and Morgan counties with mixed results in others and incomplete reports from Monroe and Fairfield counties.
In Portsmouth on November 5 voters defeated a proposal to build a city owned electric light plant by a 16 to 1 margin. The measure faced opposition from the local electric power company and was rejected by the residents.
New booklet explains a postwar method claimed to stop seizures by removing harmful habits and restoring health. It says thousands of epileptics who used the approach report better lives and urges interested readers to request the free educational pamphlet.
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