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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1935
Page
5
In Greats County on Wednesday officials reviewed the mass spoilage of 3 121 cans of cherries and other goods from housewives pro grams. Some cans had spoiled and no relief was issued to starving families. President Wal Johnson and Jerry led discussions on distributing remaining items and addressing clothing and food needs tied to the Qur House relief effort.
Guilty pleas listed for Paul Nier in Municipal Court on two counts assault and driving with one license plate. Fines set at 1 dollar and 5 dollars plus costs. The text also describes a county relief board seeking seizure and distribution of spoiled food, with cooperation from the prosecuting attorney, amid WPA project news.
Gallia County utilities pay about one third of the county taxes, Auditors valuation shows utilities at 3 136 650 while total property value is 15 million. Key utilities include Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad 1 582 440 Ohio Power 656 830 Southern Ohio Electric 304 110 Kanawha and Michigan Railroad 270 970 Ohio Fuel Gas 237 160 Ohio Bell Telephone 71 570 Ohio Telegraph 34 600 Western Union Telegraph 11 710 Railway Express Agency 260
Patrolmen Chester Leaper and W B Cooper and Constable J H Shato were called to the Waldo Tipton home on Second Avenue Tuesday night. Tipton greeted them at the kitchen door and pointed a shotgun at Cooper. Tipton was jailed and to be arraigned today, likely on a pointing firearms charge, said Judge A J Stormont.
Forest Clark and Mrs. Eugene Spears were involved in a minor two vehicle crash at the Second and Sycamore Streets corner on a Wednesday forenoon. No injuries were reported.
Mrs Marga Stephenson widow of Hiram Stephenson aged in Holzer Hospital after a broken hip from six weeks earlier. She was mother of Fred Stephenson vice president of the American Radiator Company New York City and a member of a prominent Jackson County family.
Frank L. Beggs aged 65 an officer of the Grand Lodge Royal Arch Masons fell dead Wednesday in front of his Newark office. He served as Past Grand High Priest and was a prominent fraternal leader.
Joan Crawford and Franchot Tone spend their Broadway honeymoon amid radio rehearsals backstage at the Waldorf Astoria. They dine with friends, see theater, and pay their own way, budgeting for suites, car hire, and tickets as they juggle privacy and fan time.
The first annual CCC field day between camps will be at Camp Vinton McArthur on Saturday Oct 26 all day. Events include sawing chopping and splitting tele phone pole work gravel loading traversing by en rolles and wood sample ID. Athletic events include jumps dashes distance runs and tug of war. There is pumpkin and squash judging for outsiders with cash prizes. A free evening dance for errolles with foresters and wives as chaperones. Public invited no admission.
Kanauga social items list visits and moves among residents. Mrs F F Thornton and Miss Ella Wagner visit friends at Buffalo. Homer Comstock, engineer on the steamer Hallie, visits his mother. Witheons of Sherman Ill. guests of Verne Berridge. Arthurs move to Fayetteville W Va. Leonard Hines of Huntington visits. Woman's Home Missionary meeting at Wagner home plans canned fruit jellies and quilts for needy homes. Other visits include Thorne family, Mildred Tope, Marsh and daughter, A W Pullins, Garrett, Cherrington, James Roberts, Crackler relocation, Jones family, Stewart family, and Weethee return from Pittsburgh and up river trips.
Sales tax revenues fell last week to 943 4100 million, dropping below the prior mark. The report notes a sharp decline in consumer spending in the Columbus area and revenue concerns for city budgets.
WPA work in Gallia County will start Friday with eight projects in six townships including road grading and resurfacing on Clark Chapel Walnut Flag Springs Peniel Sandfork and Williams Creek and Davis roads. Twenty two men will restart Pine Street sewer work while four seven and more crews begin repairs at the Children’s Home County Home and Lincoln School. About 100 relief workers are expected to be at work soon with county road crews supplied by 36 axes 36 shovels and 3 1 2 scythes.
After months of inactivity the Gallipolis courthouse clock is repaired. caretaker J. M. Norman hopes it will strike hours within days. The Locust Street face shows correct time though all faces are not yet synchronized.
Sixty members of the Gallia County Automobile Club meet at Grace Methodist Church at 6 30 tonight for a dinner and election of new officers led by president John McNealey. Ladies Aid members headed by Miss Lilian Safford serve the meal.
Cheshire residents attend Eastern Star grand chapter in Cincinnati. Local figures host and visit relatives in Kananga, Akron, Sandusky, and Parkersburg as church and family events are noted. A birth is reported for Mr. and Mrs. Bennett Little and another for Charles Scott Iria Peters at home.
Miss Mary Blake was taken to Holzer Hospital for observation after a fall at her home Tuesday afternoon. She fractured a wrist and perhaps a hip, prompting the hospital visit on Wednesday.
Dr. P. No Amnand of the Agriculture Department reports the corn borer is significantly more widespread this year than last across 51 counties in Northwestern Ohio Southeastern Michigan and Northeastern Indiana.
Advertisement touts Krischen Salts to reduce fat and acid, improve liver gall bladder bowels kidneys and energy. It claims no need for cathartics or laxatives and promotes daily use with half teaspoon before breakfast, available at Athena Pharmacy Nelsonville Ball Pharmacy and other drug stores.
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