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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1935
Page
12
The Federal Government will extend the guide wall along the West Virginia shore above the Eureka twin locks by 2,000 feet to ease river traffic and reduce steering hazards. The plan adds work for hundreds of men over several months and shifts the wall toward the old Dam 26 section.
Mrs Ethel Montgomery of Eureka, wife of James Montgomery and mother of four, died Sunday at Holzer Hospital after entering with a theft condition. Funeral arrangements to be made by a Mercyville undertaker. Bible class at Church of Christ to meet Wednesday at Mrs Charles Bradfield Sr home with Mrs Floyd Nye leading.
The Ohio River is at full pool from Pittsburgh to Cairo with strong barge activity. Pittsburgh steel shipments and coal products move toward Louisville Cincinnati Memphis and New Orleans as 16 barges towed by the Monongahela were delivered to the southern towboat and the Duquesne returned to Pittsburgh with loads and empties. The Carnegie Steel fleet dominates regional river traffic and a government steamer Tuendine suffered a wheel shaft failure near Dam 23. Marine divers from Pt. Pleasant moved to Cumberland River to recover the sunk towboat W. C. Kelly. Regulators report Inland of the American Barge Line delayed by boiler trouble, later repaired by the Acme shop. A Harvard Wellesley and Smith college aid refusal is confirmed by Aubrey Williams.
Work to start on a WPA funded field house at Gallia Academy High School rear of the building. It will connect to auditoriam stairway rooms and provide 12 showers per division. Separate showers for girls and boys and space for costuming and assembly programs revisions.
Under Miss Katherine McGraw sophomores begin a project on woolen dresses in shades for wearers. The class has netted $25 this year from a bake sale. Freshman girls number 40 and learn to make four kitchen or bridge aprons titled The Sunflower, the largest freshman home economics class on record. City police report no arrests over the weekend, streets were quiet and intoxicated persons are absent.
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