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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1930
Page
3
Thanksgiving Day will be a day of rest in Glouster with most businesses closed. The Post Office operates 4:30 am to 11:30 am. carriers have the day off and no mail is delivered or collected. Morning services at M. K. Church run 6:30 to 9:30 am with Rev. Paul Kemper delivering the sermon “Think and Thank.”
In Glouster on November 26, H. F. Kittle reported $210 raised in the Red Cross membership drive. Funds will be held locally through Friday morning as more gifts are sought. The effort organized precinct workers across four districts to recruit volunteers and tally contributions.
Important business will be considered at a regular meeting of Chickamauga Council, Degree of Pocahontas, to be held Friday night. All members are urged to attend.
Glouster November 26 Greens Run Independent basketball team defeated Nelsonville Y 49 to 32 for their fourth straight victory. Kutta led Greens Run with nine field goals Hill added seven while Hartley top-scored for Nelsonville with four field goals and one foul. Friday at 7:80 Greens Run plays at Corning. teams seeking games contact Carl Parker 18 High Street Glouster.
Miss Verne Tucker a Glouster High School junior will broadcast on Station WAIT at Zanesville Thanksgiving evening from 7 to 7 30 PM. She will play piano sing and take request numbers if received in time.
A radio phonograph set purchased from Fall Festival proceeds will be used in homes rooms at Athens Junior High School. Principal O J L Wood says the School of the Air will benefit each room and students will hear Walter Damrosch programs every Friday morning as part of the plan.
An official report says a major quake struck Southern Japan with hundreds of buildings destroyed. In Shizuoka Prefecture 187 people were killed and towns such as Nirayama Nagaoka Atami and Mishima suffered major losses.
Athens County health commissioner Dr. J. M. Higgins announced a three week diphtheria immunization campaign starting next Tuesday. The program, funded by the Board of Health, will test with the Schick method in schools, issue signed permit cards, and immunize children with three toxin injections if needed.
In a 1930 public forum letter F Brown from Kimberly Ohio urges readers to give thanks despite drought unemployment and winter hardship. He asks people to pause on November 7 to express gratitude and to help others feel valued as a sign of brotherhood.
A letter from Ernest Thompson Seton, famed British naturalist and artist, declaring his intention to become an American citizen was filed at the Federal Naturalization Office in Denver on November 26.
Miss Blaisdell seeks 66 000 dollars in damages for a posed photo worn scantily in a lawyer's office, claiming indignity. She also asks 50 000 dollars for alleged breach of contract tied to a trans continental marathon dance with partner Preddie Defelice.
Marietta reports bustling river trade with the Betsy Ann under Captain Frederick Way due down late Tuesday carrying about 73 tons of steel reinforcing rods from Jones and Laughlin to Point Pleasant for a state highway bridge. The Liberty, Captain Walter Booth, faces schedule downstream with over 80 tons of rods destined for Ft Pleasant. Local shipping remains brisk as wharf activity and poultry consignments, including Ohio Valley turkeys, boost maritime business ahead of Thanksgiving.
Athens schools closed at 1 80 Wednesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving holidays and will reopen at 8 80 Monday morning December 1, with classes resuming then.
Miss Mary Connett sponsored a faculty tea for Athens Junior and Senior High School teachers at 3 30 Tuesday afternoon in Room 206 of the Senior High School.
New York Nov 26 The Cities Service Insull interests Standard Oil Texas Corporation Skelly Oil Philips Petroleum and Columbia Carbon form Continental Construction Company to build a 1000 mile gas pipeline from the Texas Panhandle to Chicago. The line will pump natural gas to Chicago for Great Lakes area distribution and create about 16000 Midwest jobs. The project cost is estimated at 10 million dollars and engineers compare it to a transcontinental railroad.
A massive pipeline project by seven companies will move natural gas from Texas near Amarillo through Oklahoma Kansas Nebraska Iowa and to Muscatine Iowa and into Illinois. The system, costing about 4 billion dollars, includes a 42 inch main line and 160000 tons of supporting pipe to supply gas to Chicago at about nine cents per unit.
Hulbert Oklahoma farmer claims to have killed 172 rats in a single night using K R O a squill based product advertised as government approved for rat and mice control. The advertorial note says the product is safe for dogs cats poultry and baby chicks and is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee.
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