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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1935
Page
5
County miners begin October with higher wages under a new contract driving hours to 35 for most and 68 cents daily extra for early shifts. Production at several mines rises toward 100000 tons in October while others reopen, including Sun Coal at Murray City, and unionized operate near full capacity as BIARTS schedules December 1st start.
Kesler and Clark led a speaker event with more than 10 students on Thursday. The Westminster Fellow showcased plans for the coming year as part of the organization affiliated with the church. A hospital transfer note mentions a major surgical operation.
The Nutting Hike at East Hill drew 32 children from Athens with Rufus Putnam Training School support. Junior Efaw Putnam captained the winning team while Clarence Poston Central led the other. Student teachers Joe Rayser and Edward Mechella guided the search for nuts. cookies and roasted winners followed the open fire return by 11 30 a m.
The Rev. Arthur T. Clark preached at the Presbyterian Church on The Attitude of a Servant. He urged that true greatness arises when one suppresses the urge to gain power and instead serves others, with every act of helpfulness seen as service to God. He used a model airplane in a children's sermon on planning one's living.
The Rev. Wilbur H. Fowler in a church sermon urged self-control of instincts as key to personal religion. He argued humans share primitive inner forces and that moral problems arise from conflicts between drives like pugnacity and sex unless sublimated into useful channels.
Athens High School Girls Athletic Association hikers gathered Saturday morning at East Hill caves for a hike. Lunch was prepared over four large fires. Posters advertising the hike were created by Suzanne Danford, hiking manager, with rules by Ethel McEwen and Danford. The fourth hike is set for Wednesday at 4 30 P M meeting at Athens High School.
Comptroller General John R. McCarl, who ends a 15-year term next June, may be key to releasing the New Deal job relief funds. Nebraskans are boosting him as a possible Republican presidential candidate for 1936.
An ancestral tale from 1804 links Merre Dorion of the Lewis and Clark era to a modern family of full-blood Sioux Indians. Pierre the second’s lineage includes a marriage to an Indian princess and descendants now university graduates returning from Washington on government business to educate their children among whites. Bobbie notes that Ohio is an Indian word meaning the way we came.
L. A. Kauffman secretary of the Ohio Wool-Growers Association will speak in Athens County on Friday October 25. He will demonstrate treatments for internal parasites with sessions at Albany in the morning and Guysville in the afternoon. A post-mortem on an infected lamb will illustrate how parasites attack sheep.
George Love of Glouster was bound over to the Athens County Grand Jury under $300 bond after pleading not guilty to driving while under the influence of alcohol before Magistrate William Ellis at Glouster. Love was arrested by State Highway Patrolman F. E. Bollin on Route 31 near Glouster Saturday night.
Mrs. Roland Hoffman and her infant son from Glouster returned home Sunday from Sheltering Arms Hospital.
Camp Athens youths gather a diverse entomology display in Pop Zimmerman’s infirmary office. The collection includes spiders, beetles, moths, butterflies, centipedes, lizards, snakes, tails, and cocoons. Pop aims to classify specimens with a field group expanding next spring for larger expeditions.
National Safety Week assemblies at Put nam Training School opened with a first grade safety pantomime on obeying Athens stop and go lights. Dr E A Hansen cited 1934 motor vehicle deaths 36000 and urged caution by children crossing streets. Fifth grade safety messages covered fire dangers with a sixth grade skit showing a gas ignition and fire drill demonstrations.
The Athens Junior High School debuts its monthly student publication Preamble with October style orange cover art. Editor Bob Drake and business manager James Person lead the staff including Bob Hess Donna Gaitten Betty Fulton Anna Morrison Alice Maccombs Jack Beasley Jane Wamsley Bob Wilson and Warren Cooper.
The Sons of the American Legion meet at 7 p m at the Legion home with nominations for officers for the coming year. John W Dowler sponsors the event and a lunch will follow the meeting. The junior drum and bugle corps will begin practice soon with Raymond Connett and Prof J E Thackrey as instructors.
Putnam grade school football team hosts Mechanicsburg in the first league game of the season. Girls field ball also on the slate. Next league contest features Central School versus East Side at East Side with both boys and girls playing.
George Palmer of Newark was hurt in a Route 31 accident near Hayden ville Saturday morning and is partly conscious at Cherrington Hospital after several hours unconscious. He suffers brain concussion and a deep scalp laceration.
Detroit news reports a potential $1,000,000 gate for a Louis versus Schmeling heavyweight bout delaying a Louis Braddock title fight. Garden matchmaker John Roxborough says Louis must first meet Schmeling, likely next June, before considering Braddock. Jacob’s club had promoted the Louis Baer bout for boxing’s richest gate since Dempsey.
Almost 2,500 students are registered at Ohio University according to registrar Frank B. Dilley. The total including evening and Saturday classes reaches 2,947, up from 2,335 last year. Night and Saturday enrollments total 119 on campus, excluding extension registration.
Athens County WPA workers will work four days a week at seven and a half hours starting next Monday, replacing the previous five day six hour schedule. The change, approved by the Washington office, aims to provide spare time for odd jobs, supplement security wages, and improve cooperation with county eight hour machinery. About 100 workers per day will be employed on county road repair projects this week.
After two bright Indian Summer days rain is forecast tonight with a drop in temperature tomorrow. Yesterday’s high reached aT degrees and the low last night was 44 degrees, according to weather observer Mrs C N France. Noon temperature reported as degrees.
Fire at the home of M. M. Clowes 26 First Street destroyed about 25 dollars worth of clothing in a closet box late Saturday. Fire Chief E B R Laughlin said the room was dark and a searcher using a match started the blaze.
Elmer Coon, 61, died Sunday morning at 3 o'clock at his Lower Plains residence after a long illness. He is survived by his wife and a son Arthur of Athens. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 1:30 PM at The Plains M E Church. Friends may visit the home anytime.
Members of the Athens Girl Scout Council meet at Mrs. C. L. Jones home this afternoon. Troop 2 gathers Tuesdays at East Side School at 4 p m. Troops 1 and 5 meet Thursdays at Athens High School. Troop 3 meets Fridays at the high school. Brownies meet Wednesdays at East Side School. A general troop meeting was held Saturday at Camp Rotan under Mrs. Thor Olson’s direction.
Logan welcomed Adelaide French of Columbus en route to Athens. Benny Henry of McArthur, forestry worker, visited Logan. Frank Brown of Murray City attended the football game. Springfield visitors included Mr and Mrs Lawrence Mohler and Miss Madeline Mohler, and Mr and Mrs Phil Chakeres. Also in town were Miss Blanche Moorehead and niece, and Mr and Mrs Samuel Rothman with Dr Harry Rothman. Byron Moorehead and son Dick returned to Erie after a visit with local friends. John Foster and daughter from Shawnee joined Logan friends Sunday.
Forget about false teeth rocking slipping or wobbling with Fasteeth powder. It holds them firm and comfortable without a gooey taste. Eat laugh and talk with ease. Get Pasteeth from your druggist in three sizes.
Athens mayor Len B. McCune warns of a dog poisoner still at large after strychnine is found in biscuits and candy. Police are identifying the culprit as pets die and children risk picking up contaminated food in streets and yards. Emmett A. Guthrie’s dog was killed, with more pets sickened recently.
Frank Bell of the Mother Church in Boston lectured to 500 at Athens High School Auditorium Sunday afternoon explaining Christian Science beliefs and practices. The Athens Christian Science Society sponsored the event to acquaint outsiders with Mary Baker Eddy's teachings and dispel misunderstandings.
Total Sunday attendance at the First Christian Church in Athens reached 1,032 with 470 in Bible School and 562 in the worship service. October is Church Loyalty Month. each attendee will be registered weekly. Next Sunday features Family Sunday as a family count is planned. The sermon by Rev. Reed J. Downs centered on faith hope and life.
Revival services at the Church of the Nazarene Tabernacle continue all week with the Powell Snedden Trio providing special music. Rev. J. G. Towriss will preach tonight on The Six Great Confessions.
8. C. Hartman Athens County extension agent will travel to Columbus Tuesday for the annual county agents conference at Ohio State University. Meetings run Wednesday through Friday with lectures on rural education social and agricultural problems and related topics.
Dr M F Edwards for 20 years treated many women with constipation using a vegetable based substitute called Dr Edwards Olive Tablets. The olive colored tablets are said to stimulate normal bowel action and remove waste and poisons, improving pale skin dull eyes and headaches. Thousands use them to stay fit.
J A McCauley announces all county PWA applications will be approved in time for the November vote. Marshfield high school construction begins this week with a 30 percent PWA grant of 17 000 and 70 percent local bond financing, total cost 60 500.
Major Fred Malpass of the Southwestern Ohio District presided over Salvation Army weekend services enhanced by music. Events included an Army Hall program on West Union Street Saturday night, Sunday School at First Methodist Church, a Sunday address at Central Avenue Methodist, and a Cincinnati Ensemble performance for youths at 6:30 p.m. at Central Avenue Methodist.
Mary A Montgomery 88 died early Sunday at the home of William Cusac in Albany after a years long illness. She had lived with the Cusac family five years, was a Nashport native, and leaves sister Mia Addia V Taylor and several Nashport nephews. Funeral will be Tuesday 2 p.m. at Nashport M E Church with burial in Nashport Cemetery. Friends may call Monday evening at the Cusac home.
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