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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1933
Page
5
Local merchants adjust hours as new mine pay days set. Affected stores will stay open until 9:30 PM on designated pay dates. November schedules show pay 15th and 8th. Strong entities include Idsonville, Nelsonville, and local merchants.
Nov 9 report from Lon at Factory Road describes an enormous turnip weighing eight pounds, three ounces and measuring 27 inches in diameter. The specimen, said to be nearly eight to ten bushels in yield, was displayed in town as a handsome vegetable show, with part of the harvest destined for the Cleveland market.
The village board chose Iring for a two year term with Oakley serving as mayor for the year. Re-elected council members include George House and Irvin Wagner with new members George Krotche and Jake K I. A. to meet the Parent-Teacher Association Friday at East School. Expect good attendance.
In Nelsonville on East Chestnut Street revival services at the Pilgrim Holiness Church attract many. Evangelist Dian preaches with power. nine people came to the altar last night. Tonight's topic is The Great White Throne Judgment. services start at 7 o'clock with special singing.
Nelsonville reports all set for the West School annual Fall Festival sponsored by the West PTA. The event, scheduled for Friday November 10, invites mothers and friends to donate candy baked goods or prizes for the bingo table as students sold tickets all week, expecting a large turnout.
Mrs. Cecil Shafer hosted the Wednesday Bridge Club yesterday afternoon with Mrs. William Morgan as guest. Players used three tables and high scores were won by Mrs. Walter Mechem, Mrs. Harry Kelly, and Mrs. L. P. Rice.
Mrs Edith Stiers Mrs Gerrald Nelson Mrs Frank Lowry and other members attended the Eighth District meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary held in New Straiteville today.
Frank Landis James Smith and Overton Wallace pleaded guilty to intoxication in Mayor J W Hickman s court. They were fined ten dollars and costs each Landis and Smith were released after payment Wallace was jailed until settlement. A morning house fire on Myers Street caused slight damage to a cement hearth frame while the fire department responded.
Washington dispatch reports repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment will create liquor control headaches. Saloon access, tax revenue, and crime prevention loom as key issues as Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify the Twenty-First Amendment. Congress faces complex tax and enforcement choices ahead of formal ratification.
The Hi Tri Club of the Christian Church met at Miss Carma Haffner’s Washington Street home on Wednesday night. Mary Frances North led the topic Love and Friendship. Miss Almarine Johnson, president, presided as 18 members attended and plans were made for a tea for the mothers. Refreshments followed.
The Athens area feels the chill as clouds hint at a longer stay. Temperatures cooled from a high of 42 degrees to 29 overnight, with this morning around 41 as winter moves in.
Charles L. Lewis of Baltimore, long presumed dead after entering Philadelphia Hospital for Mental Diseases on October 7, 1926, was discovered alive when staff finally learned his identity from possessions kept in the office. His lawyers seek to reverse the decree and restore his status.
In St Louis on November 9, Chief Chenchki the Dizzy Hat-Eating Oklahoma wrestler was pummeled by guards and fans after grabbing a spectator's hat. He chewed the hat, stripped its band, and tried to strangle Orville Brown of Kansas with the band during a ring melee.
State Route 7 in Gallia County to open soon after nine week project cutting a railroad crossing and dangerous curves. About 150 workers daily aided 300 families. Route 37 paving to continue in Washington County with 200 or more men. Route 31 in Athens County to begin brick paving near Nelsonville. Pom eroy Gallipolis road and a new bridge over Sunday Creek in Meigs and Athens counties planned.
Elmer Dailey and Isaac Carsey of Groveport are jailed in Washington County on charges of stealing about 30 bushels of Rome Beauty apples from Martin Welch in western Washington County on Oct 31, 1933. They allegedly drove into the Welch orchard and removed the picked fruit before market packing, then transported and disposed of it in Groveport. Authorities say the Athens County sheriff assisted in the arrest, made Tuesday on a warrant from Franklin County.
In Los Angeles Minnie Hensley reports her parrot Bozo and its cage were stolen. Bozo later alerted the intruder by rasping his name and home address, causing the stranger to turn beet red.
William Dick known as The Last of the Mohicans died at a Milwaukee hospital for the poor. He was 76 and born on the shores of Lake Winnebago. He was the last Mohican who spoke the language, which was never written and survived only by oral tradition.
New York November 9 The Honest Ballot Association reported a case of vote robbery in the complaint of J Thomas McNerny who ran a hog campaign for alderman and received no votes He believed he had his own vote and six family votes but the official count was zero
Irma L. Bennett of Wakefield Pike County lost a bid to recover $748 from an insurance policy on her late husband Orville E Bennett after the Ohio Supreme Court declined to review Pike County Appeals Court records. The insurer had refused payment, contending the policy was reinstated while Bennett was not in sound health.
The body of James Gray, 60, of Lancaster was found on the bank of Raccoon Creek here last night in a death that police are examining as a potential accident or foul play.
A formal Armistice Day observance will be held tomorrow at 10 40 a m in the Athens High School Auditorium. Rev Reed J Downs will offer prayer and Superintendent Harper C Pendry will speak on Armistice Day Fifteen Years After. The M S program includes band numbers a poem reading and vocal selections.
Professor C C Robinson head of Ohio University School of Music sees his arrangement of Brahms Minneleid accepted for publication by the Ditson Company Boston with about 1900 copies in first edition. He has published more than a hundred choral works in his career. Hollywood to honor Marie Dressler on her sixty second birthday with mass turnouts in Hollywood Tonight.
Mrs. Frank C. Betts died at her family home 15 Morris Avenue after a brief illness. She was 56 and survived by her husband and three children Donald C Betts Mrs Car Heck and Miss Erma Betts all of Athens. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Central School announces its first six weeks honor roll with Grade one students including June Schuler, Mary Dougherty, Mary Nash, Deanue McPherson, Robert Smith, Alfred Clark, Joan Algeo, John Hyre, Robert Waters, Leeman Glover, Duane Bell, Richard Shirley, and Virginia Lee Gatson. Grade two honors list continues with Raymond Dunfee, Bobby Jones, Ver-
The text lists students by grade levels with names including McKibben Garry Stephenson Jean Mickle Rose Lee Swyers Jean Tryon Mary Lane Valentine from Grade three. Grade four includes Leeman Clark Johanna Daugherty Luther Dunfee Rachel Hoffman Annamae Keever Frances Kemper Jo Ann Murphy Mary Parestides Luella Powell Wanda Quest Marjorie Ang Rardin Virginia Rogers. Grade five features Mary Jo Stephenson Morris Wiley. Grade six lists Patty Daugherty Mary Eleanor Figgins Oryn Johnson Margaret Matters.
Athenian Temple No 173 Pythian Sisters will meet Friday at 7 p m There will be no initiation but the degree staff will practice Members of the degree staff are urged to be present.
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