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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1932
Page
6
One of the year’s largest crowds at the Athens County Fairgrounds gathered for the Pomona Grange events. contests included ball games foot races horseshoe pitching and a mass beauty contest won by Hiram Westfall and his sister Mrs William Betzing of Minnesota.
Copy describes Grandma Kuhn's Picklesweet ready for use sold in 250 packages with spices and ingredients. Instructions mix with sweetener and vinegar to make pickles or catsup with full directions on package. Also marketed are Grandma Kuhn's Sweetener and Preservative with prices and mail order details.
A Sunday noon picnic at the Gillette country home on Strouds Run drew 43 guests. Attendees included the Everett, Kishier, Griggs, Brown, Mathews, Kenney and Gillette families, plus relatives from Columbus, Junction City, Logan, Athens, and Pittsburgh. Attendees traveled from Washington to visit relatives, with several staying through Labor Day weekend. The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Christian Church postponed its meeting to next week.
Sioux City Iowa reports a farmers picket line clashes as 14 trucks tried to pass the blockade. Four people were hurt slightly when the convoy met with sticks stones and spiked logs in James Iowa provoking a fresh flare up before the market day.
Ohio over the double holiday saw at least 10 accidental deaths from drownings, airplane crashes, and auto collisions. Three Toledo residents Thelma Wheeler 16 Gwendola Sutter 22 and Julian Keim 5 drowned. Al Wilson a Cleveland National Air Races stunt fire injures died. Robert Whitaker 35 of Portsmouth drowned when his canoe upset in a pool at Piqua.
Sixty National Guardsmen arrived from Nashville after a mob of about 1500 stormed the county jail demanding three Negro suspects who allegedly shot and killed two deputies on Labor Day. The jail was cleared with the men hidden under the flooring and later moved to another jail amid threats of lynching.
Jimmy Doolittle roared to victory in the Thompson Trophy race at Cleveland on a 100 mile course with an average speed of 252.686 miles per hour. His time beat last year’s winner by 16.447 miles per hour, and he lapped all but one contestant.
Two Dayton youths perished when their plane spun into a tailspin at 300 feet and crashed at Wright Field on Labor Day. Victims were John J. Hamilton, 21, and William A. Heister, 20, both dying from skull fractures.
The 76 year old John Lemey was discovered hanging in a small outbuilding at his son's home west of Trimble around 7 am Monday. Grandson Dale Lemey, 9, found the body while calling him for breakfast. An inquest returned a verdict of death by own action, with ill health cited as a probable cause. He previously lived in Nelsonville with his sister and is survived by seven children in Ohio, Iowa, and Columbus. Funeral arrangements pending.
A Glouster Ice and Ice Cream Co. garage on High Street was entered early Sunday and two spare wheels with tires were stolen from two ice trucks. Two men were sighted nearby around 2 am. the theft likely occurred shortly after. One tire was unused, the other had about 2000 miles of service. Entry was gained by forcing the double doors.
Ed Tanner formerly of Derthick was arrested near Elliotts by Constable Henry Williams and jailed in Athens. A secret grand jury indictment followed the Dickerson home trouble, authorities stated.
G W Johnson New York Central Lines agent at Glouster and his son Charles returned Saturday night from a western trip visiting Yellowstone National Park and staying with relatives in several states. They were greeted in Columbus Saturday afternoon by Mrs Johnson and daughter Miss Margaret.
C E Haskins a Trimble florist and Mrs Haskins with children Ann and Edson returned Sunday from Columbus and Westerville They visited several Columbus florists and stayed with relatives at Westerville before returning home
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will gather Wednesday at 2 PM at the home of Mrs. C. K. Rockhold on Madison Street in Glouster for its meeting.
Rev. Miles E. Hoon of New Marshfield, formerly of Bishopville, began a fourteen day series of services at Beech Grove church starting Monday night. Each evening, the public is invited to attend.
Large crowds attended miners meetings in Glouster and Murray City on Monday. Speakers included Hocking District Scale Committee members Lee Hall David Watkins G W Savige Nelson Beatty Karl Gardiner and John Williams. A noon basket dinner and poetry readings complemented the sessions with a citizens meeting announced for Glouster later this week featuring E C Woodworth of Athens.
GLOUSTER Sept 6. Wanted on paternity and non-support charges filed by Mary Pollo of Bailey Run, Andy Pavlick was arrested Sunday by Constable Henry Williams on the ridge near Modoc. He pled guilty to the charge at arraignment before Justice William Ellis and was bound over to the grand jury under $600 bond. Unable to post security, he was jailed by Williams and Love.
The Past Grands Club of Marcellite Rebekah Lodge will gather on Thursday at 2 o clock at Mrs. Lena Snowden s Walnut Hill home for a business session and social time. A picnic dinner will be served in the evening.
Lima authorities hold Loren E. Truesdale in Allen County Jail as they seek two suspected accomplices in the May 30 1931 killings of Earl Truesdale and Yhelma Woods. The youths’ bodies were dumped in an abandoned quarry after the slayings.
Instruction diagrams accompany pattern 2286 for lingerie slips and frocks. The ad lists sizes 14–20 and 32–46 with yardage requirements for size 16 and suggests lace for finish. It promotes the Anne Adams catalog 15 cents, catalog plus pattern 25 cents, and mail orders to The Athens Messenger Pattern Dept, 243 W 17th St, New York City.
A historic guide to preserving plums including greengage damson and blue varieties for canning. Recipes cover rich plum conserve, raisin nut jars, orange lemon slices, and a three day pickle process with cinnamon and vinegar. Also notes plum chutney and a breakfast lunch dinner menu featuring greengage puddings and haddie.
Coast Guards rescued Lloyd Chilton and his wife from a disabled 32-foot Cabin cruiser Pago mac afloat a mile off Rocky River after four hours adrift. They towed the vessel to Cleveland amid high waves while another boat, a 25-foot speedboat, with four passengers, caught fire five miles out in Lake Erie and all were saved.
Rio Grande swelled by rains unseen in half a century floods the lower valley with a tawny crest expected tonight. Eight persons are confirmed dead in the three days since flooding began and property losses may top five million dollars.
Frank Ruskin won a bet by letting his beard grow for six weeks in Powhatan. The wager was a gallon of beer and the event took place on September 6.
Four military aviators died when two combat planes collided in midair during naval maneuvers at Kitan Strait off Okayama. Four other planes reportedly crashed in the aerial maneuvers.
Two Brooklyn and Columbus women describe relief from headaches nervousness and fatigue after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Pills for Constipation. Mrs Richards notes better sleep nerves and strength while Mrs Goopwig reports improved appetite energy and rest.
The Associated Coal Merchants of Columbus announce a fall and winter meeting series with former National Retail Coal Dealers' Association President Milton Robinson as the keynote speaker at tomorrow's dinner at the Chittenden Hotel. Goals include better marketing, cooperation among merchants shippers and transport firms, ending bootleg coal, and shielding the public from unclean, inefficient products.
Two men were held by police in Struthers on September 6 suspected of arson linked to an explosion that destroyed two houses, damaged six others, and caused minor injuries to four people.
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