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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1933
Page
5
Gallia High's underdog team is expected to challenge Middleport in a Friday night game. The contest at Ironton’s lighted field tests Gallia’s progress under Coach Myers and Harold, with a focus on improving offense and defense.
Oct 10 reports show residents attending First Presbyterian services in Gallipolis and Meigs areas. Betty Roe arraigned before J Stormont on possession of intoxicants. Elza Tipton and others charged with drunkenness. trial date set. A. K. Merriman store renovation mentioned in city notes.
Funeral services were held for William Williams 6 a former resident who died in Athens Sunday. burial in Rife Cemetery. Fred Wedemeyer a Walnut Township native who died in Delaware was returned to Gallia County for burial. his wife was Eva White Leaper. Caroline M Howe 78 widow of Dr H H Howe died Monday after a stroke. she leaves Harry Howe Mabel Howe and Mrs L V Clark.
Gallia County Fall Festival officials announce premiums will be paid promptly with checks to be issued this week. Concessions receipts and festival contributions are expected to cover all obligations. President J C McNealey notes the 1933 festival was the most successful yet.
Gallia Academy High School faculty plan a steak roast for Thursday night. Mrs. Margaret McCormick returned Sunday from a week with Clyde McCormick in Pittsburgh. Mrs. Blaine Mechlin and Joe Clifford of Columbus visited Dr. and Mrs. W. Lewis Brown over Sunday. Mrs. Gernet Parker Erwin and family from Columbus visited Mrs. Mery Parker over the weekend.
River notes report the steamer City of Pittsburgh striking a rock ledge seven miles below Owensburg Kentucky. The hull split and three compartments flooded as the vessel drifted to the Kentucky shore in shallow water. It was en route from Louisville to New Orleans with two tank barges and owned by Carnegie Steel Company leased to Standard Oil of Louisiana.
Gallia County Township Trustees Association will hold its regular monthly meeting Saturday afternoon at the Gallia County Courthouse.
Homer Smith of Gallipolis was taken to Mansfield Reformatory today by Deputy Sheriff Honard V. Gates to begin an indeterminate sentence.
Miss Margaret Jones county health nurse attends the Health Seal Committee meeting for southern Ohio counties in Portsmouth today. Miss Garnette Laton of this county leads the seal drive for the county.
A long list of local residents hosted and visited over the weekend. N Sidders and family, Winnie Rothman and daughters from Chauncey, G W Collins and daughters Ardis Bettina, Lester Cordray hosts in Center Stake, George Scott, Edd Bailes and George Bailes, Tom Bailes, Alex Cochran and Grace, Athens residents Bessie Battrill and Thelma Bean visited relatives in the area. R Woodrum family visited friends in West Virginia. Harley Collins and Roy Paxton spent the weekend with relatives Ola Curtis of Zanesville.
A Rockefeller Jr sponsored study advocates a new stance on liquor control. It argues for defining intoxicating levels and applying strict rules to stronger drinks while permitting lighter beers and wines with less restraint. The report notes beers and wines up to 12 percent alcohol differ from distilled liquors and should be treated separately to curb abuse.
Billy Brachus of Pureka will be taken to Children's Hospital Columbus on Wednesday for a brace fitting for a crippled leg. He will be accompanied by Miss Margaret Jones, county health nurse. Second case of scarlet fever reported in T. L. Finch home at Bidwell, with quarantine already in place after the first case.
Molzer Hospital notes from Gallipolis on October 10 report L. H. Wickline of Gallia admitted for tonsil operation at Holzer Hospital. Mrs Victoria Glenn of Vinton admitted for observation. Miss Mary Tabit's condition improving after Saturday operation. Bobby White, 5, treated for head injury, listed as satisfactory.
A misc shower in Albany R D 1 will honor Mr and Mrs Chester Hawk at the home of the groom s father Ed Hawk on Wednesday night. Harold Brown of Athens visited Harold Peacock and family Sunday. Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Fred Bilnett were Mr and Mrs G
Joseph Bade seventeen lay in City Hospital with a hip shattered by a policeman's shotgun. His mother refused consent for an operation doctors deemed imperative saying the police had shot him while he tried to pull a gun on detectives at Warrensville Workhouse. Bade had a long record of arrests for neighborhood crimes and five escapes from custody.
Marietta historian notes the Marietta Mineral and Marietta and Cincinnati railways shaped regional growth. Thomas Riley recalls Dawes survey work, the 1887 Napier wreck, and the evolution of lines into Toledo and Ohio Central and later Marietta Columbus and Cleveland before WWI closures.
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