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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1935
Page
7
County Red Cross outlines hygiene training and junior organization drive. Chairman says membership to 1000 plus. national roll call targets at least 4000, with districts and townships mobilizing volunteers for the program and local fundraising.
Blank surveys are sent to all Gallipolis schools and many outside for home hazard checks. CCC camp members plan a 2 PM first aid demo in Moore Brothers window on State Street. A Presbyterian Church meeting will follow with home hygiene demos and short plays by Mrs. Bean and Mrs. Miller. The Red Cross states it will not act as a relief bureau except in disasters.
The Farmers Institute program for Harrisburg includes speakers Tom Fred Campbell and Mrs. Paul B. Maxwell on November 12 and 13. Invocations, music by the Rio Grande quartet, and talks on topics such as The Inner Temple of Music and A Community or Just a Place accompany readings, monologues, and later sessions with additional presenters and performances by various local groups.
A very light turnout was reported in Gallipolis with likely less than half the voters at the polls. County precincts showed little interest except in Morgen, Cheshire and Perry Townships over school board disputes. Twelve inmates in Gallipolis could not vote.
Oak Grove notes report church services ending in Nelsonville Friday evening. William Hartman and son Leonard visited relatives in Marion. Ely family and Verna France with daughters toured Athens for business. Arthur Cagg and John Davis weekend in Columbus. Edna Mae Wolfe visited her Nelsonville parents. Helen France from Carbondale stayed with Aunt Mrs. Herbert Ely.
The Duquesne owned by Carnegie Steel passes down the Ohio River with a 16 barge cargo of Pittsburgh steel products bound for Memphis and New Orleans. The Kenna tow from Huntington carries scrap steel and empty barges toward Steubenville. A Greene Line freighter to be rebuilt deeper at Dravo yards near Pittsburgh. The Kiwanis, once a Cairo ferry, built in 1923, now part of a riverfleet. The late Capt Rush Burnside buried at Point Pleasant at 57. his steamers included Clyde which burned and sank near Kanauga after a Jan 29 1930 blaze.
Rock Springs Friday evening Nov 8 Grange will hold regular session and election of officers. Refreshments served by the committee. Numerous local residents attended events and visits in the community with members traveling to Racine Pomery Columbus and Enterprise.
Gallia County WPA begins employing 500 men in three days under federal approval. 60 additional workers could be used as relief crews relocate closer to home, with 3000 jars of canned fruit and vegetables stored at Our House awaiting distribution.
The Rev. C. H. McGowan takes over as pastor of the John Gee Chapel A. M. E. Church in Gallipolis moving from Uhrichsville and meeting parishioners at a chicken supper. The church, 116 years old, is noted as one of the oldest colored churches north of the Mason-Dixon line.
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