Athens County seeks state relief to cover direct aid
Athens County officials travel to Columbus with a resolution asking State Welfare Director Sherwood for financial assistance to continue direct relief after a failed two mill levy. They cite exhausted funds and overdrafts, and warn that without state aid the county must abandon relief for the unemployed.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohio
Athens County
Athens County Board of Commissioners
Dale Ziggafoos
Columbus
Charles L. Sherwood
Sherwood
Board of
Athens County Commissioners
Local Drugstore Promotes Adlerika Relief
A Oklahoma druggist touts Adlerika for quick bowel action with three laxatives and five carminatives. The Athens Pharmacy advertises daily relief within the county. A county resolution moved by Commissioner Milton Nuzum was approved by Nuzum Stratton and Householder.
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Oklahoma
Milton Nuzum
Nuzum
Charles Stratton
H. G. Householder
McNeill Speaks at Rotary on Armistice Significance
Col. Thomas F. McNeill of Ohio University ROTC delivered an Armistice Day address to the Athens Rotary Club. He recalled witnessing the Armistice celebration in Lorraine twenty-two years earlier and praised the American ideals of independence and Memorial Day.
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Athens
America
Windsor Dies At Home In Canaan After Brief Illness
C. F. Windsor aged 72 died at 12 30 a m today at his home on South Canaan Road near Guysville after a brief illness. Survived by wife Martha Norris Windsor four daughters Faye Saulters Gore Frances Roper and Weldon Rope Columbus and Bernard Linton Stewart two sons Leslie at home and Reece Gore One son was killed in World War and two died in infancy Funeral services set for Thursday at two at the residence Friends may call Wednesday afternoon and evening.
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Guysville
C. F. Windsor
S. Canaan Rd
Here
Martha Norris Windsor
Faye Saulters
Gore
Frances Roper
Weldon Rope
Columbus
Bernard Linton
Stewart
Leslie
Reece
Peter Sams Dies at Long Run on Monday
Peter Y. Sams 84 of Athens Route 4 Long Run died at home Monday morning after a brief illness. Survived by wife four sons Harry Alberta Canada Kenneth Walnut Ia Carl os Clyde Athens Route 4 and two daughters Ethel Sanborn Athens Route 4 Betty Sams at home. Two daughters May and Faye and a son Leonard preceded him in death. Funeral at Clarks Chapel Church Thursday 2 pm with burial in Clark Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call at Mrs Sanborns home anytime.
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Peter Y. Sams
Athens
Mr. Sams
Harry
Alberta
Canada
Kenneth
Walnut
Carlos
Clyde
Ethel Sanborn
Betty Sams
May
Faye
Leonard
England Birth Rate Expected to Rise by Twenty Five Thousand
It is expected that England's birth-rate will show an increase of 25 000 over last year's totals this year.
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England
100 Athens Boy Scouts Ready for Emergencies
The Boy Scouts nationwide mobilize 1.3 million youths to aid in floods fires and disasters. In Athens 100 scouts join 40 units led by Roy Dupper and local commissioners to form emergency service patrols and district corps ready to respond within about 30 minutes.
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Boy Scouts of America
United States
Boy Scouts
Red Cross
Hock- Hocking District
Athens
Roy Dupler
Hock-Hocking
Harold Davis
Carl House
R. L. Patterson
Harry Mettler
Arch Knowlton
Nelsonville
Going Places Comedy Presented By Athens High School Cast
Sophomores and juniors of Athens Senior High stage a three act comedy Going Places by Glenn Hughes Friday at 8 p m in the school auditorium directed by Mr A A Nellis. The ensemble includes Harry Peckham Barbara McKinstry Ruth Gentry Ann Bolin Jimmy Worley with a plot about Chuck football star struggling through a preterm history exam amid schemes by friends and relatives.
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Glenn Hughes
Athens
A. A. Nellis
New England
MO A At
Unick Malloy
Harry Peckham
Chuck
Barbara McKinstry
Ruth Gentry
Ann Bolin
Jimmy Worley
Coover Staats
Julian McQuiston
Katy
Martha Cottingham
Carolyn Hopkins
Robert Sprague
Ruth Ann Grover
Martha Lou Dowler
Lucetta Willard Dies at Son's Home in Pomeroy
Lucetta Willard 81 dies Monday at her son Homer's home in Hemlock Grove. Funeral service set for 2 PM Wednesday at Texas Church with eight children as survivors including Effie Stout Maggie Chaney Bert Eichenter Nora Runyon Homer and Arthur. Burial in Texas Cemetery.
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Pomeroy
Lucetta Willard
Homer
Hemlock Grove
Texas
Effie Stout
Coolville
Maggie Chaney
Pratts Fork
Wilbert
Louis
East Liverpool
Ida Eichenter
Minersville
Nora Runyon
Torch
Arthur
Texas Cemetery
Social Notes of Coolville Chronicle of Local Events
Coolville Ladies Aid meets at Mrs Ira Kincade home on Thursday evening. Torchlight Class gathers at Mr and Mrs Russell Bailey home. Rev James B Diggins from Corning to continue evangelistic services at Coolville Church of God until Nov 20. Methodist prayer service led by Mrs J K Macleod Wednesday at 7 30. Rev J F H Parkins leaves for Columbus after visit with Dr and Mrs G R Gunder. Local residents guests and visits noted from Reno Paden City Newbury and Athens. Ivory Frazier 67 dies in New Mexico funeral at White Funeral Home. Revival services begin at Decatur Methodist Church. Russell Wine infant ill with pneumonia recovering.
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Coolville
Columbus
G. R. Gunder
E. M. Daugherty
Ira Barrows
Torch
A. B. Saunders
Jacob Weber
Reno
E. le May
Ella Hood
Fredrich Glantz
Fritzi
Ivory Frazier
New Mexico
White Funeral Home
Frazier
E. B. Dean
Decatur Methodist Church
Russell Wine
James Iine
Townsend Drills Two Gas Wells in Local Townships
A. D. Townsend of Athens drilled a 400000 cubic foot gas well on Fred Carsey’s farm in Lodi Township, hitting gas in the Berea sand at 1580 feet. He moves equipment to Arthur Konkoskia’s Sand Ridge farm. Townsend also drilled a 250000 cubic foot per day gas well on W. B. Hartnell’s farm in Carthage Township, hitting gas in the Maxon sand at 1154 feet and plans a new location there.
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A. D. Townsend
Athens
Fred Carsey
Lodi
Berea
Mr. Townsend
Arthur Konkoskia
Sand Ridge
W. B. Hartnell
Carthage
Former Ohio U Student Enters Naval Reserve
Francis Baldy, former Corning resident and Ohio University student, joined the U S Navy reserve officers training corps. He sailed Oct 29 aboard the U S S New York for a training cruise to South America and will attend naval ground school for his commission. He previously studied commerce at Ohio University and Notre Dame, and is a Sigma Pi fraternity member.
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Corning
Reserve Officers Training Corps
United States Navy
U. S. S. New York
South America
Navy
Ohio University
Baldy
Paul A. Baldy
College of Commerce
Sigma Pi Fraternity
St. Bernards High School
Notre Dame
Commerce
Meeting on Social Security questions in Athens
Residents of Athens and vicinity are urged to meet a Nelsonville Social Security Board representative at the Employment Security Center Court St. Athens on Thursday Nov 14 from 1 to 2 p.m. The service is available to both employers and employees seeking how old age and survivor provisions affect them.
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Athens
Nelsonville
Social Security Board
Court St
Mate in Penitentiary divorce suit filed by Lena Johnson
Lena M. Johnson filed for divorce in Common Pleas Court. She says she married Joseph C. Johnson on Sept 2 1940 at Clear Springs Maryland. He was later sent to Ohio Penitentiary on Nov 20 1937, and has since returned to the prison. she seeks a divorce and restoration of her maiden name Lena May Stissel.
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Lena M. Johnson
Common Pleas Court
Joseph C. Johnson
Clear Springs
Athens
Ohio Penitentiary
Presbyterian Church To Receive Members
New members will be admitted at a Wednesday 7 30 p m service in the chapel. Adults will be baptized at the manse at 5 30 p m. At six o'clock members will dine in the church dining room. Reservations for the dinner should be made with Mrs C E Cooper.
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Presbyterian Church
C. E. Cooper
Frank Murphey To Be Honored at Columbus
Frank R. Murphey of Athens is among six Ohio Farmers Insurance agents to be honored at a November 13 dinner at the Deshler Wallick Hotel in Columbus for more than 25 years with the company. About 50 guests from other agency offices are expected.
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Frank R. Murphey
Athens
Ohio Farmers Insurance Co
Deshler-Wallick Hotel
Columbus
Murphey
Theodore Parker Quote On Democracy In 1850 Speech
In a Boston Anti-Slavery Convention speech of 1850 Theodore Parker, a minister and abolitionist, first articulated that democracy is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.
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Boston
Theodore Parker
Land Sale To U S Forest Service In Wayne District
Dudley Gilmore of Athens reports a check for 11 628 67 sent to the National Fireproofing Co Haydenville for 2 422 64 acres bought by the federal government for the Wayne National Forest The sale is part of options totaling about 16 000 acres in the Athens District Abstractors and survey crews are active with land owned by New York Coal Co and Sunday Creek Coal Co among others being prepared for sale The Forest Service now owns about 40 000 acres in 11 counties and plans to increase revenue for counties from timber grazing house rental and coal permits.
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Dudley Gilmore
Athens
U. S. Forest Service
National Fireproofing Co
Haydenville
Wayne National Forest
Washington
Wisuticl
Forest Service
Woodsfield
Marietta
New York Coal Co
Sunday Creek Coal Co
Nelsonville
A. C. Stratton
National Forest Reservation Commission
Secretary of War
Kiesling Dies at Veterans Hospital in Chillicothe
Waldo Kiesling 42 of Letart Falls died Monday in the Veterans' Bureau Hospital Chillicothe. Funeral services will be held at the Letart Church Thursday at two in the afternoon.
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Pomeroy
Waldo Kiesling
Letart Falls
Veterans’ Bureau
Chillicothe
Letart Church
Neutzling Bicycles Found in Guysville
Two bicycles stolen from the W. S. Neutzling home on October 6 were recovered in Guysville yesterday by Police Chief E. S. Finsterwald. Two boys held over the case will be arraigned in Juvenile Court, Finsterwald said.
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W. S. Neutzling
E. State St
Guysville
E. S. Finsterwald
Finsterwald
Alexander Board To Meet This Thursday
The Alexander Township Board of Trustees will meet Thursday November 14 at 9 am in the Alexander Townhouse, announced clerk Otho Castle.
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Alexander Township Board of Trustees
Ihestead
Otho Castle
Alexander Townhouse
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