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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1928
Page
8
A fall festival was held Friday evening in The Plains High School building. Sponsored by teachers and students, the program featured drills songs and a one act play by high school girls. After the entertainment refreshments were sold and proceeds reported good amid large attendance.
PLAN SOCIABLE UCHAUNCEY Nov 17 Pleasant View Temple No 185 Pythian Sisters will observe the monthly birthday sociable next Tuesday evening after the regular temple meeting. There will also be staff practice. All members of the degree staff are asked to attend. The Plains personals list visits and returns including Mrs Robert Ore guest of Mrs C A Nice in Lancaster and Harley Wallace returning to The Plains from Kirtland after summer work.
Thirty members of the Athens County Farmers Dairy Association and their wives attended a banquet at Hotel Berry on Friday night. The dinner was sponsored by the Ohio State University Department of Agriculture. A keynote address by L Blackman of the OSU Dairy Extension Department outlined Ohio’s dairy industry and its natural facilities. John W. Lax served as chairman, with T. H. Johnson introducing speakers. A short talk was given by A. H. Brooks of Cines Ice Cream. Music by the Amesville Troubadours preceded an open discussion led by Mrs. Blackman.
Three Athens League of Women Voters members Mrs H R McVay president Mrs Franz Woodworth delegate and Mrs J W Hudson district elector attended a bi annual Ohio League of Women Voters conference in Columbus at the Deshier-Wallick hotel. The meeting set the two year program and discussed a legislative agenda including child labor school attendance and a nonpartisan judiciary.
A hillside forest fire on hospital grounds west of Athens State Hospital burned through trees and underbrush after noon yesterday. The origin was undetermined, smoke filled the area, and some damage occurred on the hillside. The superintendent was notified and responding with help, but no further report was available.
William C Lock, a long time Chauncey resident and miner, died Friday at 3:30 p.m. at his Monroe Street home after a 14 week illness. Survived by wife and four children Anna Bell Sommers Wellston Henry Lock Beaumont McKinley Lock Van Lear Ky and Goldie Allshire Floodwood plus brothers Henry and James Lock of Chauncey. Native of Wellston his body will be taken there for burial after funeral services in Chauncey Monday morning.
Rotarians from Wellston, Athens, McArthur and Jackson attended a joint meet at the Rogan Hotel in Wellston. Wellston won the attendance prize with 100 percent participation. W. C. Culkins of the Cincinnati Chamber spoke to 136 members, and a One Act play titled Meet the Missus was presented by Ohio University players led by Harold Evans.
Sheltering Arms Hospital this week reports new admissions Cecil Lucas Route 7 for tonsil removal on November 12 Edith Grim Stewart for tonsil removal born to Prot and Mrs G S Lasher a daughter Dorothy Siddens November 15 mother and baby well Fraley Fox Route No another patient admitted November 14 for emergency operation condition improving Convalescents include B W Buck Merlin MacIntyre Austin Romine Mrs Clarence Wyckoff Miss Clara Bell Miss Mattie Manhorter and Mrs Charles Fisher and baby Athens Dismissals include J S Schuler Athens and Miss Ray Mitchell Acworth Ga.
Green Valley Rural School agriculture class plus teacher visited Athens State Hospital Dairy and Hope's Dairy. They noted barn layout ventilation lighting sanitation feeding and cow numbers. Goldie Crippen wrote the best report describing clean floors, individual stalls, named cows and milking in progress.
Messenger Pattern Department presents a brown cashmere dress with a narrow panel neckline and belt. Trim uses brown and white checked wool. suggested fabrics include linen crepe de chine and gingham. Patterns come in sizes 6 8 10 12 years, with yardage details and mailed pattern service.
A National Book Week and Fire Prevention Week assembly at Rufus Putnam School featured a fire safety playlet by sixth graders about home hazards and prevention. A math problem showed fires cost each person two dollars annually in Athens. Fourth grader Geraldine Chism explained Book Week, while scenes from Snow White and Mother Goose were staged by students Mary Margaret Graham, Eileen Sanders, Peyton Reed, Lois Fri, and Edna Carey.
Floyd Smith and Loyd Shultz pleaded guilty in Athens County Probate Court to contributing to the delinquency of a 1d year old girl. Both were sentenced to 60 days in the county jail. Shultz had a $100 fine for transporting liquor. The girl remains at the county detention home facing possible sentencing to the Delaware Girls Reformatory. Crushed by Steam Shovel. Cincinnati Nov 17 Frank Lowill died from injuries after being crushed against a wall by a steam shovel.
In Chauncey on November 17 Mrs. Lene Cunningham reports finding violets in her yard this week. Other residents also report picking both purple and white violets, an unusual occurrence for this time of year.
Watkins and Fowler spoke at The Plains meeting as Miss Claudia Roberts, instructor in Ohio University’s Women’s Physical Education Department, was selected as director of Athens Girl Scout troops. Roberts, a Utah native with Columbia and NYU training, will oversee local programs alongside university duties.
J. C. Gillian a laborer pleaded guilty in Mayor Moore's court this morning to intoxication. He was fined $10 and costs, arranged payment, and was released. The incident occurred last night on Stimpson Avenue, with Police Captain Charles Maple and Police Chief E. Finsterwald involved.
Seventeen new members joined Troop 3 of Boy Scouts in Athens at a Friday night meeting. Roy Dupler, Athens County Scout Commissioner, announced plans to form two new troops in Athens soon. Fifteen former Troop 2 members registered for the year. Efforts are under way to set up a boys clubroom in the first Methodist Episcopal Church as a meeting place for Boy Scouts and all church youth. Dupler invites interested boys to attend a clubroom meeting next Friday at 7:30 p.m. The new Troop 2 additions include William Brown Gil Brown Theodore Daggett Fero Betz Gilbert Shannon Paul Houf Emmett Johnson Junior Moore head Samuel Harshman Charles Herman William Leaders Thomas Clark Max Davis Kenneth Whartlman Carl Clark and Don Rowland. Roderick Eddy joined Troop 2 by transfer.
Athens residents endured candle and lamplight Friday night as an outage lasting about ninety minutes hit the town. Officials blamed a broken contact on a feeder from Floodwood plant causing low voltage on other lines. repair crews from Floodwood and safety restrictions delayed fixes before the problem was repaired.
Thirteen persons were killed and three seriously injured when stormy weather struck several houses near Koblenz during the night. Rescue services battled high winds as authorities investigated the cause and scope of the damage.
Charles Searles, 36, of Bailey Run, was killed when his gun discharged while he tried to drive a rabbit from a hollow tree. His brother George, 30 to 40 feet away, found him with the right side of his head shot away. Coroner L. J. Jones ruled the death accidental. Searles leaves a wife, four children, and three brothers.
In Cleveland on November 17, the executive committee of the Cleveland Bar Association forwarded five attorney nominees for the federal judgeship left vacant by Judge D C Westenhafen's death. The list was to be presented to UPK President Calvin Coolidge, Attorney General John G. Sargent, and Senators Theodore Burton and Simeon D. Fess. Also noted are social items about Mr and Mrs Donald O Neal and a golf word-change puzzle on the last page.
Dynamite damaged the slope engine house and air compressors at the Butler Colliery near Pittston. Fighting had been spree of miners, injuring Carl Loyack and Michael Thursby, with the Hillside Coal and Iron Company owning the colliery.
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