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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1938
Page
5
Athens County faces a retrenchment plan as lack of funds threatens every courthouse office. Clerk Ruth Burdette fights deputy dismissals while considering using office revenues to pay salaries.
Eight Ohio University students who worked at Cedar Point last summer will travel to Columbus Friday for a reunion of Point employees. The group will join a dinner dance at the T A T Villa, watch the Ohio State Michigan football game, and tour fraternity and sorority open houses Saturday. Participants include Rosemary McHale Friel Smith A Simpson Crawford Robert Hawes Frank Terrant Kenneth Robbins Maurice Wickersham and Fred Lloyd.
Major T. E. Haley conducts annual inventory for Battery C of the 134th Field Artillery National Guard with help from Sgt. Long and Delbert Carmichael. Crews drill, inspect guns, and study fire control devices while linesmen and telephones receive instruction. Captain Albert F. Carmichael invites independent basketball teams to a November 21 meeting at the Armory to discuss city tournament participation.
First graders from University Elementary School visited the 10:56 New York Central train at the depot to learn how air brakes work track wheels train weight coal and water use and track switches. Under Mrs Maude Stauffer supervision the class explored the train and later discussed what they learned forming safety rules for railroad conduct.
The Athens Senior High School group continued its discussion on Stepping Stones to Charm with a focus on personality. Frances Alexander led the session while Anna Margaret Morrison presided.
The sound motion picture The Building of Boulder Dam is shown this week in Athens County as part of NYA visual education. Seventy five people viewed it at The Plains School auditorium. The film details the dam’s foundation 165 feet below the river bed and how 154 ton pipe sections were installed, including the 22 ton concrete buckets. Showings move to Buchtel, Coolville, and Jacksonville schools at 7 p.m. each night with no admission charge.
The Court of Appeals affirmed the Probate Court ruling in the T. J. Gilpin estate case. It held Cora Gilpin is the surviving spouse despite her prior marriages and the long absence of her first husband, noting the seven year presumption of death supports a second marriage.
East Side School schedules a Thanksgiving assembly with a play poems and songs next Wednesday. The Eastside Echo the school paper debuts today as a combined Halloween and Thanksgiving issue. Films Peter Stuyvesant and Baby Beavers shown this week. Sixth grade needs 10 more stars for perfect attendance and will earn a half holiday once achieved. Third grade finishes unit on production of clothing including cotton linen silk and leather.
Seventy undernourished students in Athens and Mechanicsburg receive two half pint bottles of milk daily through the Community Chest Child Health and Protection Committee. The group finances services for nutrition, dental care, tonsil operations, glasses, and medicines, aided about 200 children last year with funds largely from the Chest. letters from school principals praise the program and its impact on health and growth.
West Side Elementary School third and fourth graders prepare for a PTA Carnival and set up booths while Bill Rose and Clarence Watson cut poles for the fishpond. They work on secret gifts for their parents as fifth graders study coal mining with large wall pictures.
Older youths from seven counties will meet at Ellis Hall Ohio University Monday evening November 21 at 7 30 to hear Dr E A Taylor professor of Sociology speak on Personal Factors in Getting a Job These young men will represent Hocking Morgan Washington Meigs Gallia Jackson and Athens Counties A discussion in groups will follow and a half hour forum with the speaker will conclude the program.
In Common Pleas Court the case of Ira Wolfe versus Virgil Baughman of Athens was settled. Baughman faced charges of diverting surface water onto Wolfe’s land through a wall causing deflection. The court ordered restoration to the original condition by filling gullies and ruled that each party pays own costs.
Moosonee Ont Lester C Essig 14 displays an 1800 pound bear killed on Twin Island in James Bay. He shot the animal from 30 and 60 feet. The report notes the archery championship claim by the Chicago youth.
A meeting of 19 Boy Scout district chairmen met at Nelsonville High School to plan the district dinner in Athens in early December. E. J. Arnold led the meeting. Ed Cole updated on camping and the Peach Ridge Road scout camp cistern project. Roy Dupler proposed serving the dinner in the covered dish style. The officers nominating panel will meet Tuesday at 7:45 p.m. at C A Bingman’s Glouster home. Ed Cole chairs with Don Sheffield and C A Bingman as members.
At the annual meeting of Athens Chapter No. 39 Royal Arch Masons the officers elected include Harold S. Davis high priest Frank Bellows king William Connett scribe O G Houck secretary J D Cooper treasurer George S Holdren captain of host William B Drake principal sovereign Willis Johnson royal arch captain Dwight C Bowles M 3rd V Ernest Glazier M 2nd C Harry Hope M 1st V William Clark guard Charles Cameron immediate past high priest installed the new officers Thomas Gibson acting grand marshal assists Next meeting set for December 5 at 7 30 p m in Masonic Temple.
Athens Township trustees will distribute commodities to relief clients Saturday morning between nine and noon. Available foods include sweet potatoes beans prunes and raisins.
Schine's Athena and Schine's Ohio Theaters run trailers reminding attendees of the Community Chest drive. Lincoln Outdoor Advertising donates five billboards while local merchants display window cards to urge generosity from the public.
A. D. Townsend drilled a gas well on Aaron Brown’s farm in Dutch Ridge Lodi Township. The well gauged 430000 cubic feet with 700 pounds rock pressure, struck in the second Berea sand at 1748 feet, total depth 1785 feet. Townsend plans another nearby well this fall.
Miss Frieda L. Poston of Canaanville School was reported doing very nicely at Shelteri ng Arms Hospital after a Sunday automobile crash. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert G Poston of Athens Route 3 and suffered a back injury.
An advertisement touts Creomulsion for coughs chest colds and bronchial irritation promising relief and urging readers to ask for Creomulsion with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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