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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1931
Page
9
Mrs C C Bird welfare worker from Athens spoke at Chauncey high school Nov 13 about forming a community chest relief drive. Chauncey and Dover Township will appoint solicitors and announce workers soon.
CHAUNCEY Nov 13 Mrs Edward Wade Millfield is reported improved after a surgical operation at Grant Hospital Columbus last Saturday. She was accompanied by her father L E Woods and Mrs Elizabeth Robinette. Busy Bee Needle Club meets tonight at Mrs Edward Blackford home Mound Street with last week’s winners Nelle Jourdin and Mae Tennehill taking contest prizes.
Local brief from Chauncey and Millfield areas urging readers to phone in news tips to Chauncey 126. Callers invited to share community items and events from The Plains and surrounding towns.
Chauncey November assembly featured songs and recitations about Armistice Day. Students performed there were various choirs and groups including "Heroes of Yesterday" and "In Flanders Field" with the school and grades performing. The program concluded with "America the Beautiful" and "There Are Many Flags in Many Lands." The event took place at the West Side School building in Millfield.
Mrs Fred Russell and Mrs Harold Blower hosted a gathering with visitors Mrs Dow Cannon, Mrs Fred Leake, and Mrs Lottie Cannon calling in. The event reflected a cordial social occasion.
Chauncey Mine No. 25 operated Thursday and is idle today. Twelve mines worked Thursday in this district and ten are operating today. They include No. 267 L. D. Poston No. 119 Black Diamond No. 28 Ohio No. 1 No. 24 No. 0 No. 30 and Hocking.
David Bryan aged 101 remains ill at the County Home. He has been bedfast for several days and is growing weaker daily, Chauncey officials report.
In Santa Monica, California, authorities arrested President Hoover's brother in law on illegal liquor possession, a sensational story that drew record sales as newspapers raced to meet demand. The town where the president lives watched headlines explode, while newsies sold papers rapidly overnight.
Deane B. Judd of the Bureau of Standards reviews a seven page piece titled Interpolation of the O. B. A. Excitation Data by the Fifth- Difference Osculatory Formula. The article discusses color excitation and escalation with graphs and charts, noting the method’s ease of use compared to graphical methods.
The bonded indebtedness of Trimble Township excluding the school debt was wiped out when a $1,066.79 check paid the last funding note. Ten notes were issued July 3, 1926 for $10,000 total with others paid as due. The payoff should slightly lower township taxes unless school funds need rise.
A German specialist’s prescription, bought by a syndicate head, treats neuralgia neuritis and other pains. An 80 year old mother shows no pain after use. Nurito claims rapid relief for many who feared relief, with a money back promise if the first doses fail.
Article notes non secretarian, non politicalGirl Scout organization with ties to 39 countries and 2000 US communities. It highlights leadership development for women, community service projects, and a program focusing on Scout laws in Athens County with five troops totaling 100 members from Athens The Plains and Mechanicsburg under Director Mrs Thor Olson.
San Toy, once Perry County's booming mining community, dissolved as an incorporated village after 17 of 19 voters approved. led by John S. Jones of the Sun Day Creek Coal Co who invested over a half million dollars to create a model mining town with electricity water works hospital and a theater.
The report notes San Toy’s once best equipped status, now a virtually deserted camp with buildings sold to a wrecking company. It forecasts mining shifting to Rendville as the industry won’t be revived at San Toy.
E A Lindenlaub, employed at Mine 267 Hunterdon since March, leaves Glouster for New York City and Bremen on November 19 to assume an assistant mining engineer role in Russia. He will work under a professor he studied with at Freiberg University. Lindenlaub came to the U S March 24 1930 and has lived in Glouster about a year.
Dan Gallon and Bob Hathway, wanted over a local post office robbery, were seized in Wheeling West Virginia with two women companions. Police recovered two pistols and a sawed off shotgun and four hundred dollars in cash from one suspect. They are also tied to robberies at Galion and multiple Columbia area gas stations.
Agnes Melligan entertained her bridge club at Broad Street Wednes night four tables played High score went to Bernice Wallace second to Enis Bartels Refreshments followed. Attending were Burneas Candee Mildred Howard Pauline Myers Lovella Vaughn Olive McKee Bernice Wallace Fontelle Harper Mildred Nida Dorothy Vernon Norma Powers Dorothy DeLong Dorothy Farres Enia Bartela Phyliia Roberts Guests included Ethel Batley Helen Crawford A nice advance sale of tickets reported for tonight's concert.
Eugene Stick, son of the band director and a member of Sousa's band, will perform a saxophone solo at the high school auditorium. He is visiting with his parents, Mr and Mrs Slick, as part of the program by Stick's Band.
Mr and Mrs Hobart Stanley hosted a party here for a crowd recently. Mr and Mrs Fred Nelson moved his saverail from across the road to the Calvin Bean farm. Mr and Mrs Charles Loeffler of Guysville visited Henry Loeffler and family Tuesday. Ernest Loeffler and children attended Armistice Day in Nelsonville. Henry Loeffler and daughter Bernice were guests of Jens Bennett at Strouds Run Saturday and Sunday.
Mr and Mrs George Morrin and W A Hogett of Glouster and Mrs Eva Iivers of Burr Oak visited Mr and Mrs Forest Dennis. Mrs Vera stayed longer. Mr and Mrs Talbert Marshall Mrs Dela Sopher and Miss Grace Ivers of Hemlock called on Mr and Mrs Clyde Marshall. Mrs Bray wife of Rev Bray called on Mrs Blanche Dennis. Thursday Mrs Harry Davis of Hemlock visits Columbus. Davis builds a porch. The Bible Study Class meets at Millertown Thursday.
W. F. Kampf of Coolville was elected a member of the Board of Directors at the annual meeting of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation in Columbus. Kampf is president of the Athens County Farm Bureau and represents the district including Athens, Gallia, Vinton and Meigs Counties. He succeeds Arthur Johnson of Gallia County on the board.
Fifty inmates at Changchun prison escaped cells and assaulted the Japanese consulate. Japanese police and Chinese guards repelled the attack in Manchuria.
Judge Walter P. Steffen will resign as Carnegie Tech football coach at season's end after 14 years. He announced the decision at a University of Chicago alumni dinner and cited the hard nature of coaching and decades of service as his reason. He recalled his days as a Maroon quarterback under Walter Eckersall and noted plans to retire after Thanksgiving.
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