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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1935
Page
5
Article notes Secretary of State George S. Myers and E. L. Bowsher accepting invitations to Dr. James Herman G. y inauguration on November 15. It lists 145 faculty and other figures from colleges and universities planning to attend.
Ohio University outlines Homecoming events for November 8 and 9. Alumni Secretary Clark E. Williams says hundreds are expected in Athens. Activities include the Ohio University versus Muskingum football game, a Friday fraternity sing, a Lindley Hall serenade, a float parade, and house decorations. Herschel Stayton's Band will perform.
Mayor McCune reported a 125 page light report with four more copies this week and further copies on request. Council members Falloon Russell and Mrs. Van Dyke were appointed for a special study while fines totaling 61.65 were collected in October and 14 cases docketed in court. Traffic light petitions for Court and President Streets and an electric light at Riverside Drive and Factory Street were referred to committees. Also Salvation Army services and revival meetings were announced with Adjt Hinshaw preaching tonight.
Dr Clarence Ward of Oberlin College will lecture on Amiens Cathedral and Bible at Fine Arts Auditorium at 7:30. He will illustrate with lantern slides of his photographs. Ward, Princeton graduate, has an exhibit of 100 French Gothic cathedral studies in the Edwin Watts Chubb Library gallery.
The 1935 turkey supply nationwide is down about 13 percent from 1934, with the decline strongest in the South Central States due to Texas’ short crop. Market weights are heavier this year, as drought forced earlier sales in 1934. Hartman advises Southeastern Ohio raisers to watch market trends as Ohio State University extends Turkey Market News Release through year end.
Henry D. Hamilton, 71, died at his Sugar Creek home at 6 a.m. Tuesday after a yearlong illness. He is survived by his wife, one son Steven, and two stepchildren Mrs. Guy Gilkey of Athens and Oliver Mehl of Seymour, Ind. Funeral service by Rev. E. Nicholas at Sugar Creek Church at 2 p.m. Thursday with burial in Augustine Cemetery.
C. H. Benson, medical instructor at Ohio State University, spoke on Tuberculosis at the Athens County Medical Association meeting in the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Twenty two doctors attended. The next meeting will be held in Nelsonville on Monday December 2.
Two CCC units, Camp Athens and Camp Morgan, finished a month long seed collection in the Hocking Valley Purchase Unit. They gathered 242 bushels of seven tree kinds destined for the Cillicothe Forest Service nursery, with walnut tulip poplar hickory dogwood Virginia pine short leaf pine and Osage orange.
Eighth grade girls topped earnings at the Athens High Fall Festival held October 18. Their spider web treasure hunt booth led profits, with seventh grade pennant and pencil shop second and Ye Olde Flower Shoppe ninth graders third for gumdrop corsages.
Two Athens boys and two Athens girls will compete Sunday morning at the First Methodist Church for the bronze medal in the first elimination of the State Prince of Peace Declamation Contest. The eleventh year event is under the Ohio Council of Churches and the winner advances to county and state stages with scholarships and a $200 prize.
Pay checks for about 70 members of Company L 166th Infantry National Guard were distributed at Athens Armory Monday night for July August and September drills. Over $1000 paid after weeks of dispute over figures between local and Columbus offices. Sergeant Brighthill Chillicothe and Major Seaman Columbus inspected. Drills covered formation personal appearance combat principles bayonet training and scouting.
Mrs. Laura Reynolds filed for divorce from Egbert S. Reynolds in Athens County Common Pleas Court citing extreme cruelty. She seeks permanent alimony and custody of three children ages 17 15 and 13. The couple married October 17 1916.
The Orphir located wreckage off the Head of Kinsale on the Irish coast has been identified as the Lusitania torpedoed by a German submarine during World War I, according to the Press Association in London.
Twelve cases of contagious diseases, excluding tuberculosis and venereal diseases, were reported to the Athens County Health Department for August through October 1935. The prior three months in 1934 recorded 49 cases. Only two diphtheria cases remain under quarantine.
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