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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1931
Page
3
State Bureau of Supervision of Public Offices inspector Booth is examining the Nelsonville city books from Jan 31, 1930 to Sept 1 this year. He will audit all departments including mayor, auditor, treasurer, solicitor, Board of Health and Public Service for several weeks.
At a regular meeting 25 Girl Scout members received Tenderfoot pins. New officers include Miss Helen Shaw as captain and Miss Margaret Shafer as lieutenant. Patrol leaders and members named across four patrols with Mrs. Herman A. Sayre and others serving on the committee.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Backus hosted relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tignor and family on Madison Street. The Tignors and Wilpons of Zanesville visited. Hayes Yeager and Clara Itchard with sons left for Washington DC, accompanied home by the Pritchards for several days. James Beard and family plan a several day stay in Craigsville and Pennsboro.
In NELSONVILLE on September 2 Carbondale Grays edged Buchtel Blues 1 to 0 on two Buchtel errors unearned run. Jake Carlin pitched well for Carbondale while Paul Taylor limited hits. Bruce led with two of the Blues' three hits. Defensive plays and baserunning miscues shaped the tight contest.
Off Carlin, off Taylor, one hit by pitcher Byron. Umpires Hoover and Smith oversee the sequence.
Nelsonville announces that stores will drop the Thursday afternoon closing policy this week. Beginning Thursday Sept 3, shops will stay open on Thursday afternoons until further notice.
Dr. Walker's Old Timers fell 9-4 to the Troote-McCluney-Crooksville team at Buchtel on Tuesday. Smathers left with a split hand after a bad fielding play while Tyson quit with a broken fingernail. A rain postponement delayed the Union Furnace showdown slated for this evening.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will meet Thursday evening at Mrs. Otto Shirley's home on Poplar Street. Assisting hostesses are Mrs. Frank Higgins and Mrs. John Williams. An officer election will follow and then the mite boxes will be opened.
The Missionary Society of the Christian Church will meet Thursday at 7 30 pm with Mrs Effie Lamborn on West Franklin Street. Assisting hostesses include Mrs P B Verity Mrs Frank North and Mrs Sophia Mann. Mrs Josie Baugh leads devotional and Mrs H J Long directs the program. All members are urged to attend.
The Esther Class of the Christian Sunday School met Tuesday evening at Mrs. P. B. Verity's West Franklin Street home. President Miss Beth Verity led the session and the group planned a picnic at Smith's Tourist Camp for Tuesday September. Refreshments were served during the social hour.
The Pythian Sisters hold a regular meeting at the K of P Hall Thursday at 7:90 o clock. All members are urged to attend.
The Christian Sunday School Business Girls' Class plans a steak fry at Smith's Tourist Camp Friday evening. They will meet at 3 50 at the home of their teacher Mrs Charles K Grammer 05 Fayette Street.
Miss Elsie Cave aged 23 died from four broken neck injuries suffered in an automobile accident on the Mt Vernon Johnstown Road on August 33. The death was reported in Columbus today.
In Columbia Pennsylvania a 32 year old man William Bowers was trapped by a 6 foot well collapse while finishing a pump installation. Eight hours of frantic digging failed by 15 minutes to free him. Relatives and crowd watched as responders worked to revive him. He died just before doctors reached him.
Federal prohibition staff in Cleveland lost a prominent member as Robert Thompson, arrested for intoxication on Aug. 23 and cleared by Judge Martin L. Sweeney the next day, was removed from the payroll, according to Prohibition Administrator William Woodruff in Cincinnati.
Columbus reports Ray Wiggins cab driver paid 90 dollars in fines after clipping the fender of motorist and later confronting Prosecutor Wayne Fogle who he had met previously. The case followed a drunken traffic charge against Wiggins.
Ohio State University professors who supervise state aid distribution to weak districts will be replaced soon. Jih W. Fitcher will join as assistant director of education and RB. O. Skinner will remain director, announced Wednesday.
A historic aviation moment brings the famed German pilot to Chicago after a six mile flight from Lake Ontario. The flyer became the only man to twice conquer the Atlantic route from Germany, achieving the distinction a year after his earlier record.
Kalamazoo Michigan resident Willam H Styder, a 9 year veteran of the Civil War, described his first autogyro ride as more fun than the Battle of Bull Run, saying it was wine fun and eliciting curiosity from onlookers.
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