Athens County board names 438 election officials for year
The Athens County Election Board, with two Republicans and two Democrats present, appointed 438 precinct election officials for the coming year after a delayed meeting. Republican members Earl Johnson and David Johnson led the session with Democrat Frank Poston and clerk C L Jordan also in attendance. The other Democrat member, D A Bardin, was absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Earl Johnson
Trimble
David Johnson
Athens
Frank Poston
Central Committee
Republican Board
Democratic Board
George S Myers
Central
Pierce Candidate Attorney Files for Probate Judge in Athens County
Pierce files petition with the Athens County Election Board to run for probate judge on the judicial ticket. The board discussions cover party nominations, timing of precinct appointments, and limits on spending for extra election-night staff. Republican and Democratic members clash over appointments and expenses, with decisions guiding future staffing and ballot-box preparation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. R. Pierce
Athens County Election Board
Pierce
S. M. Johnson
Jane Friess Dies at Home in Jerseyville
Funeral services are set for Dorothy Jane Friess age 15 daughter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Friess of Jacksonville who died Wednesday at home after a month long illness in Jerseyville Burial will follow at Jerseyville with survivors including her parents two sisters Virginia Lee and Joan and one brother Jack Grandparents listed as H S Burson of Athens and Mr and Mrs Ed Friess of Toledo
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Jane Friess
Clarence Friess
Jacksonville
Jerseyville
Virginia Lee
Joan
Jack
H. S&s. Burson
Athens
Ed Friesa
Toledo
Athens County Poll Officials Named for Nov 3 Election
Precinct election officials for Athens County for the November 3 vote are listed by precincts and townships. Names include Marie McCoy, James Householder, Edith Ward in Athens 1-1 and many others across Athens, Nelsonville, The Plains, Amesville, Chauncey, Circle Hill, Glouster, Lee, Lodi, Guysville, and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Marie McCoy
James Householder
Edith R. Ward
A. F. Stickney
Eva Gullum
Hattie Walker
Clara M. Tribe
Lillian Porter
Frank C. Dean
Alonzo Pickering
Bessie Cooley
Fred Stauffer
Charles S. Martin
Fannie R. Shafer
Irene B. Worley
W. H. Partlow
Bessie M. Finsterwald
Jeanette James
J. E. Bailey
Mary Chism
Doris Parker
E. F. Stockline
Mary O'Bleness
Lida W. Fenzel
Foster B. Cornwell
Naomi Finsterwald
Walter C Cornwell
James Lewis
Lucy W. Murphy
Heber H. Henry
C. D. Hopkins
E. L. Chapman
Nora Henry
W. G. Bunion
Emma F. Drake
Hazel G. Schilling
Homer J. Wolfe
R. P. Imes
Etta Laverty
Ada P. Woodworth
Grace F. McKay
Stella M. Studer
Nelsonville
the Plains No. 1
Millfield East
Madeline Boudinot
Eber Gillespie
Maxine Boudinot
Millfield West
Bertha V. Sanders
Walter C. Border
Esta M. Heffkin
Sugar Creek
Floyd Edwards
Phillip S. James
George E. Closter
Athens cadet witnesses Spanish rebellion from Wyoming
Roderick Eddy, a U S Naval Academy midshipman from Athens, watched skirmishes in Spain from the battleship Wyoming while on a royal cruise aboard the Oklahoma. The contingent toured England, Sweden, and France with leaves for inland trips before Eddy returns to Annapolis for his second year.
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Roderick Eddy
Athens
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Spain
Wyoming
Bilbao
Eddy
Oklahoma
England
Sweden
France
Paris
Cherbourg
Coast Guard
Norfolk Va
Zimmermans Hold Family Reunion At Athens County Fair Grounds
The Zimmermans held their annual reunion at the Athens County Fair Grounds with numerous relatives listed from West Virginia to Columbus. Attendees included W H Ayers, Dallas Kight and daughter Helen, Glendon Kight, John Knight and son William, the Smith and Burns families, Sprague Zimmerman, Theo Johnson and daughter, James Mace, Mary Lewis, Jennie Watkins, L R Watkins and children, among others from several towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zimmerman
Athens County Fair Grounds
W. H. Ayers
Dallas R. Kight
Helen
Glendon Kight
White Pine
W. Va
John Knight
William
Nola
Cecil Brown
Phyllis Anne
Grantville
H. P. Michener
Emma Shook
Chesterhill
Mary Lewis
Sylvester Huston
Carpenter
Sam 8S. Simers
Leslie Simers
Clyde
Kenneth Belpre
A. L. Cole
Athens
L. C. Boles
James Vess
Jennie Watkins
Watkins
Joan
James
Columbus
Fred Zimmerman
Fost
Guy E. Tedrow
Mary Ann
Doris Jane
McArthur
Ray L. Smith
Lancaster
R. E. Byron
Stewart
John Vess
Clarence
Raymond
J. A. Roberts
G. S&s. Roberts
J. M. Watkins
Mary Jo Bryson
T. L Updike
Edythe
Edna
J. E. Triplett
Ruth
Floyd
Mildred
Hazel
Soldier Sons Form Chapter In 3 Counties
Rufus Putnam Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution organized by Athens men at Hotel Berry. Descendants from Athens Meigs and Vinton Counties eligible. Dr A E Wagner elected president with L C Nye vice president W R Cable secretary registrar and A D Townsend treasurer. Charter pending details to follow. large membership expected from three counties. The rolls show many veterans from the area with surnames such as Anderson Arnold Beebe Bingham Brown Buck Callahan Collins Dailey Dowd Dunlap Fall Fuller Hammond Howe Lowther Lyons Mansfield Mingus Mosier Munn Norris Pratt Rice Risley Rowell Shepherd Swett Townsend Watkins Whiley Carpenter Castie Cooper Davis Danielson Entsminger Graham Harper Hecox Higley Hisel Hubbell Kent Knowlton Love McBride Osborn Roush Smith Whaley and Simpson.
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Rufus Putnam
Athens
Hotel Berry
Meigs
Vinton
A. E. Wagner
L. C. Nye
W. R. Cable
A. D. Townsend
National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Anderson
Arnold
Beebe
Bingham
Brown
Buck
Callahan
Collins
Dailey
Dowd
Dunlap
Fall
Fuller
Hammond
Howe
Lowther
Lyons
Mansfield
Mingus
Mosier
Munn
Norris
Pratt
Rice
Risley
Rowell
Shepherd
Swett
Townsend
Watkins
Townsend Supporters To Meet Here Sunday
An all day Townsend Recovery Organization meeting will be held at the Athens County Fair grounds on Sunday. Speakers include C R Baker from Cleveland and W B Slater from Zanesville. H A Wooley, the chairman, invites all interested individuals and other groups to attend.
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Townsend Recovery Organization
Athens County Fairgrounds
C. R. Baker
Cleveland
National Representatives
W. B. Slater
Zanesville
H. A. Wooley
Funeral for George W. Mace Friday at Methodist Protestant
George W. Mace funeral services are set for Friday at two oclock in the Methodist Protestant Church with Rev. Ray W. Huff officiating. A brief I O F lodge service will be held at the home tonight at seven thirty. The Red Men will conduct the grave service.
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New Marshfield
George W. Mace
Methodist Protestant Church
Ray W. Huff
I. C. O. F. Lodge
Dr Paul Speaker at Union Camp Meeting
Dr Paul Speaker preached at the Nazarene Tabernacle union camp meeting last night before a large crowd. Services run each evening at 7 30 until Sunday night with Dr Paul preaching and Rev John Guy leading the singing, plus a Sunday afternoon service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Paul
Nazarene Tabernacle
Dr. Paul
John Guy
Ford Reaches Millionth V-8 For 1936 Season
Dearborn Mich Ford announces the 1 000 000th V 8 of 1936 produced at the Rouge plant and completed by Aug 20 bringing total 1936 V 8 output to 1 000 131 units. Daily rate is about 4 500 cars after a vacation shutdown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dearborn
Mich
Ford
Rouge
Ady
Record of 1936 Athens County Car Sales Totals
Through August 1936 Athens County reports 7 915 vehicles changed ownership in eight months. Ruth Burdette, clerk of courts, shows 1 235 autos bought this year with 25 cent filing fee per bill of sale, adding 1 978 75 to county revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Ruth Burdette
Death of ten month old Dorothy Erwin at Sheltering Arms Hospital
Dorothy Erwin ten months old daughter of Mr and Mrs French Erwin of Athens Route 1 died at Sheltering Arms Hospital at noon from an undetermined illness. She had been brought to the hospital on Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Erwin
French Erwin
Athens
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Mrs Whitfield Bean Died at Home Near Guysville
Mrs Whitfield Bean died late Wednesday afternoon at her home near Guysville. Funeral arrangements and burial service details will be announced later by the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitfield Bean
Guysville
Former Athens Resident Dies at Buckeye Lake
Silas Dew age 83 formerly a well known Athens resident died Wednesday at Buckeye Lake. He was a Nelsonville native who ran a saloon on Court Street in Athens and lived later in Columbus and Buckeye Lake. He leaves two children Dr Pearl Dew of Norwood Ohio and Mrs Nancy Munn of California. He owned several Athens properties managed by W E Peters. The body will be taken to Nelsonville Friday morning with funeral services at 11 oclock on the Dew farm near Buchtel. Burial will follow in the local cemetery.
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Silas Dew
Athens
Buckeye Lake
Nelsonville
Court St
Columbus
Dew
Pearl Dew
Norwood, O
Nancy Munn
California
W. E. Peters
Dew Farm
Buchtel
Brandenbery Baby Dies of Pneumonia near Carbondale
New Marshfield reports six week old John Henry Brandenberg died of pneumonia at his parents home Harley and Mrs Brandenberg near Carbondale. Survived by one sibling Francis age two. Burial set for Friday at Mt Liberty Cemetery near Coolville.
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New Marshfield
John Henry Brandenberg
Harley Brandenberg
Carbondale
Francis
Mt. Liberty
Coolville
Mansfield couple to be honored at Canaan Grange shower
Members of Canaan Grange will host a shower Saturday night at the Grange Hall for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mansfield who recently wed. Mansfield serves as the Grange master and will be honored by the local members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canaan Grange
Grange
Paul Mansfield
Mr Mansfield
The
L. G. Worstell Dies Suddenly
Judge L G Worstell died unexpectedly after a long career on the Athens County bench elected in 1918 and again in 1924. He presided in Cleveland and Youngstown among other cities. His son Lawrence Worstell of Cleveland, a practicing lawyer, reported the death. Funeral arrangements were not yet set, with services likely Saturday afternoon.
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Worstell
Athens
Supreme Court
Cleveland
Youngstown
Lawrence Worstell
Happy Relief From Painful Backache
An ad explains tired kidneys cause backaches and other symptoms and promotes Dean's Pills as a solution. It claims kidneys remove waste from blood and urges readers to ask a druggist for Dean's Pills, used for over 40 years.
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Dean
Milions
Duan
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Martha [. McCulsky
Torch
Fern Dye
Jesse J. Smith
Sarah A. Barrows
Guy E. Lowry
Grace E. Treadway
Leonard Prater
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Winnie B. Carter
Fanny M. Burt
Joseph Barron
West Luhrig
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Kimberly, Co
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Thurman Covert
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W. E. Cooley
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John Coope Lewis Grandee
L. P. Rice
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Elinor Kelley
Lenore Porter
Harriett P. Burgess
Hazel Mellinger
I. Warrington
Ephriam Ward Allen
Myrtle Linscott
Frank V. Brown
Robert Bagley
Vivian Dowler
Harry Sowers
Chester M. Reeves
Granville Green
Athens Township
John H Gillett
Ella H. Crawford
Alton R. Hope
John Ewing
Chloe E. Baker
George D. Morrison
Baker
Harry R. Jacoby
Edith J. Jacoby
Goldie L. Roach
East Luhrig
Elvie E. Wilson
Cora R. Swyers
Sylvia B. Hartley
Lee Township
Frank Bobo
Marion Harner
Eldon F. Dailey
Albany
Evert Jones
lLowel
Bingman
Frank Binderbasin
John L
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Juanita Young
Nancy Webb
Esther B. Gross
Bertha H. Daggett
Caroline Kelley
Ethel Kern
Wanda L. Wolfe
Vivian Kern
Kathryn Wove
Bessie F. McBride
Delphia M. Shannon
Homer J. Cooksey
Ruth Cone Dorman
Frank H. Cross
Glouster
John H. Warling
Harry Vincent
Agnes Clark
David J. Kennedy
Edward Bell
Norma Bernice Powers
Thomas McAllister
Elizabeth Anna Clark
Joe Marshall
Laura Handley
Harvey G. Norris
Weltha Williams
Jared Barber
Elsie Barber
Leona May Wills
Hazel Verity
Don Bowers
Mildred Spray
L. A. Davis
Charles B. Howell
James Pritchard
Bertha Poston
Mary M. Lines
Mabel Jones
Nelle Windon
Louise Shafer
Garnet Mae Powell
Ruth Call
James L. Harrold
Frances Mulligan
Joan J. Stocklein
C. E. Washburn
Nelle Dowler
Hazel Coon
Tillie Hall
Emma Conner
Charles J. Arbell
Donald M. Anders
Laura Spencer
Amesville
Ames Township
C. O. Kuhns
H. H. Howard
Naomi Phillips
Frank C. Morris
Forrest E. Morris
Katherine Hartley
David Powers
Robert McCollister
Rebecca Harrison
George West
Everett Cade
Lawrence Olson
Alexander East
Roland A. McPherson
C. M. Williams
H. M. MacKinley
Alexander West
Gordon Verity
Otho Castile
Francis Allen
Bern North
Everett Paul
Ruth Smith
Pauline Watkins
Wilma Kramyik
Chauncey No
Robert Bollinger
Robert Hixon
Ruth M. Selver
Circle Hill
Luella Preston
Frank Cline
Donna Thomas
R. H. Wemmer
Guy White
Joe Jackson
Millfield
George Wend
L. L. Howard
Leonard Eimpson
Lee and
Lodi Sugar Creek
John Wilson
Dewey P. Hunter
John McLean
Ray Bailes
D. K. McVay
John FE. Greene
Aloany
Clarence O. Sweeney
Francis E. Radcliff
C. P. Pearman
Lodi East
Hubert C. Buck
John Weisersback
O. C. Daniel
Lodi West
Charles H. Evans
Gladys Mulligan
Russell E. Wilson
George Chidder
Charles Kincade
Emil Myers
W. Leeper
H. W. Basley
P. T. Winner
Joseph W. Wemmer
Guy A. Vernon
Anna M. Chappelear
Athens North
Cora Whitmore
John M. Lahugh
Addie C. Young
Athens South
Hugo J. Sheridan
Gertrude M. Cabeen
Lois S. Wolfe
Shaw
Rence M. Walden
Clarice Mediey
Robert Bardulph
L. E. Shanks
R. E. Goodwin
Thomas Miller
Joseph Eslocker Carpendale
Eli Mace
Leonard Zimmerman
Leonard Pidcock
Ed E. Hawk
J. P. Sayner
G. L. Stout
K. S. Dinsmore
Elroy Williams
Dena Russell
Kenneth Mce-Bride
Joe McBride
Charles E. Beckle
Thomas Shesky
Roy Wright
Donald D. Tolliver
Yoanville
Calvin Lanning
Earl Schackert
Garrett Warren
East Clayton
Marion Simonton
Lester Skiver
William H. Stufflebean
Kimberly
Irwin Nanna
Gordon Tolliver
Audrey Hartman
Michael Calbert
William A. Whitmore
C. J. Whitmore
Fisksale
Kerr's
Wooley
George Mace
Union Camp
TNT Ror
Covert Baking Co
Middleport, Ohio
Lewin
Mes
Bean
Brandenbery
L. G. Worstell
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