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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1935
Page
5
Routine sessions markican Education Week with public school observation across grades in district. Programs run evenings from October through November in junior and senior high, featuring arithmetic and geography lessons, parent tables, and demonstrations for visitors.
Pythias lodge held an initiation ceremony Monday night in the Hall with 14 candidates. The event was led by a Work committee and a delegation from P. Lodge. New members named include Carl Fris Frank Chute and Frank Ketsinger with refreshments afterward.
American Education Week observed in Athens County with daily assemblies and meetings stressing the foundation program and the school’s role in modern life. The Ohio Education Association sponsors the program with themes ranging from education and the good life to school and recreation.
Dr. Wilbur H. Fowler pastor of the First Methodist Church will give the fifth lecture in his series on How We Got Our Bible tonight at 7 30. The topic is Development of Old Testament Canon and the Silent Centuries Between the Old and New Testaments. The Bible Class meets in the Sunday School auditorium of the church.
Athens Troop No. 1 will hold a Halloween party at the regular meeting Thursday at 7 30 p m in the Scout Rooms of the First M E Church. Scoutmaster Arch Knowlton announced that all members are requested to mask.
Ernest M. Wright files in Athens County Common Pleas alleging wife Forrest B Wright neglected marital duties drove him from their home and abused him harming his health. He accuses her of associated with other men. Married in 1914, they have three children aged 20 17 and 15.
Edward Welsh age 61 a well known manager of country clubs and resorts killed himself Tuesday by cutting a leg artery with a razor blade. The article also notes the first United States Methodist Church was established near Westminster Maryland.
Helen Poston Williams files for divorce from Harry Foster Williams in Athens County Common Pleas Court. She alleges the husband spanked their week old son and has failed to support since 1932. She has lived with her parents near Guysville and seeks custody of the child.
WPA projects in the eight Athens District counties employed 4,498 people yesterday, up 123 from Monday. Ray Noble cited daily moves toward the 5,134 Monday goal, with 216 new workers assigned and tool supply the remaining hurdle. County totals: Gallia 175, Hocking 497, Jackson 52, Lawrence 304, Meigs 431, Vinton 405, Washington 1,291, and Athens 803 with 58 new arrivals.
Twelve CCC enrollees come from Lima and 14 from Marietta to Camp Athens yesterday. All but four are new recruits. Five new members are drawn from Athens County. Major William M. Vance visits as field artillery reserve officer and sector commander with headquarters at Marietta. Capt. Stanford S. Speaks resigns as Camp Athens commander and heads to Columbus to resume law practice. Mrs. O B Stewart wife of the new commander moves to Athens from Portsmouth.
Mrs. Lucille Shay of Athens and Mrs. Alice Smith of Sugar Creek each underwent minor surgical operations at Sheltering Arms Hospital on Wednesday.
Princeton biologist Dr. Edwin Grant Conklin told about 200 listeners at Ohio University that society must plan and control population and wealth for the future. He urged intelligent births and three to four children per woman, arguing incubator-rearing is a pipe dream and monogamy supports stable society.
Herbert G. Craig Jr. of West Liberty Logan County pled guilty to passing a worthless check before Magistrate T. R. Bennett and was bound over to the Athens County Grand Jury in $200 bond. Logan County authorities say he took his father's car without permission. D. E. Robinson of Robinson Brothers filed the $7.50 check claim on a Bank of Athens account with no funds.
The Rufus Putnam Training School forms the Boys' Athletic Association to promote fair play and after-school sports. Meetings every Friday review behavior, with members judging conduct and awarding discipline. Four new members, Cletus Hart, Herman James, Billy Lee, and Bobby Mills, were admitted at the last meeting.
A call to contribute to the Will Rogers Fund appears in a coupon request urging donations for charitable educational and humanitarian work through the Will Rogers Fund Athens Mesenter.
The Barnetts Rudolph and Mrs Barnett petition Athens County Common Pleas Court to keep their granddaughter, Vanna June Allen, six, living with them. They have cared for her daily since birth and say Olaf E Allen the father pays support only via Juvenile Court order. Stella B Allen is the mother.
Mrs. Mary E. Whipple former Athens resident died Wednesday at 6 a m at the home of her daughter Mrs P B Lawrence 24 East Washington Street She made her home with her other daughter Mrs J D Bain Western Springs Ill had come to Athens to visit Mrs Lawrence and her son George E Whipple Maiden name Mary Verney wife of the late Jerry Whipple who died in 1884 She leaves three children seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren Rev Dr A Y Wilcox will conduct funeral services Thursday at 3 p m at Mrs Lawrence home Burial will be in West State Street Cemetery beside her husband
The U S Civil Service Commission lists open competitive exams for junior geneticist nematologist and pathologist with tobacco duties at 2000 dollars a year. Home extension agents and social economists also listed with various grades and salaries. Applicants for therapy aide positions require months of practical experience in trades or industries. Full details from J L C Kelley secretary at the Post Office in Athens.
The condition of W. H. Logan, taken to Sheltering Arms Hospital two weeks ago with pneumonia, is steadily improving, according to a report issued today.
Athens High School students report the junior girls booth Pen Go Inn led festival profits from the October 18 event in the school gym. The Sopho Circus sold soft drinks for second, while Little Brown Jug junior boys offered cider and doughnuts for third. Exact receipts were not announced.
Marquis the Magician performs at the Athens High School auditorium for the band uniforms fund. The show features live rabbit tricks, floating girl illusion, ghosts and spooks, jeweled scenery, and electrical effects. Marquis and his staff presented previews at local assemblies this morning.
Aldo McKinley asks the Athens County Common Pleas Court for a temporary restraining order to stop G. W. White and Carthage Township trustees from taking possession of an allegedly abandoned road. He seeks a injunction pending further hearings and a permanent measure after a suit over an oral 1922 agreement to abandon the south branch of Lottridge Road in exchange for consent to straighten the federal highway. The defendants began grading and shaping the unused road and threatening paving it, the petition says.
East Side school prepares The Echo the school newspaper to publish three times yearly. Editors Martha Dowler and David Cooper oversee material and cover design. Reporters span grades one through six including Mary Croy Ruth Anne Grover Barbara Danford Homer Johnson Kenneth French Bob Sprague Bob Sands.
McAuley says five school buildings in Athens County will begin before January 1 funded partly by PWA grants. New Marshfield starts soon but equipment delay slowed progress while Mechanicsburg Buchtel Shade and York Township await draft plans from architect W. J. Mills Nelsonville.
Five singers from the American Church Institute for Negroes under J E Blanton of Voorhees Normal and Industrial School Denmark DC will present a program of Negro spirituals at Good Shepherd Episcopal Church tonight at 8. Sponsored by Episcopal Students Club the quintet has toured parts of Ohio and major cities and will speak about the school and its work. a free will offering will be taken.
Lieut Col H C Doellinger from Columbus led a visit of inspection at the weekly drill of Company L 166th Infantry Ohio National Guard at the Athens Armory Monday night. Sgt Brighthill of Chillicothe will visit on Nov 4. NCOs begin army extension courses supervised by Major Seaman with Clarence McKinstry starting the first study.
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