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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1932
Page
6
The Gallipoli Flower Show and Pet Parade unfold at Gallia with judging for best decorated merchandise and pet displays. Local committees announce winners, with prizes and ribbons, as preparations finalize for Saturday afternoon events and the street fair components.
The Gallipolis community marks two fiftieth wedding anniversaries at the Robinsons home on Monday. The event featured a Drum Corps performance, floral decorations, and tributes including a Master Mason’s degree for a guest, with friends and family attending a reception.
Funeral services for Mr. Miller, a longtime county road director, former teacher, farmer, and county official, were held after his death early Saturday. Pallbearers included members of the local school board.
In Gallipolis a barber shop marks a long service era with James Hil still at his chair after years of work at the same shop on Seventh Avenue. The shop began with Teer BD and Wilem Keobinson before the passing of Tom Hil, aging 63, with heirs continuing the family trade.
Southeast Ohio students join Ohio University ensembles as band and choir prepare public appearances. The band opens with a football game under Prof. Curtis Janssen, then reconstitutes as a concert band after the season. The Ohio University Choir debuts at student convocation and unveils the new hymn. Members from Athens and nearby towns participate across violin, cello, viola, and brass sections amid the university orchestra and glee clubs.
In Gallipolis the sandstone shaft in City Park gained four bronze tablets marking high water levels on the Ohio River over 140 years. The plates note three river peaks, including dates from 1907 and 1913, with a fourth inscribed in 1832. A steamboat gauge strip and a riverfront lamp landmark were also added.
Washington delegates will join a bi centennial Ohio River pageant regatta in Gallipolis. Boy Scouts assist as Washington’s trip along the river features canoes and flatboats with a $150 prize pool and a Tim Lewis trophy race.
In Federal Court on Oct 3 Sam Caplan of Detroit filed for an equity receivership of the New York Chicago and St. Louis Railroad nicknamed Nickel Plate after notes totaling 3000 dollars went into default on Oct 1.
Montreal reports state the St. Louis Cardinals NL franchise will transfer to Montreal before the 1933 season. The move is described as well founded by sources in Montreal.
Gallipolis Oct 4 Exper Hughes a wharf worker was injured when a car struck a pile of cargo on Route 7 north of Ashland. He sustained fractures and was transported to Holser Hospital in Gallipolis for treatment. Mrs Lee Brown and Mrs Ireme Sutton received injuries in the same incident.
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