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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1933
Page
3
In Athens on Sept 19, the ministry assigns Rev Sayre to Circleville. H A Rothrock will move to the Circleville church and his family will relocate. Other notices include an unemployment office opening in Nelsonville and a church meeting in Athens.
On Chestnut, Allen entertained guests following a Birch Hollow picnic with two tables of play. First prize went to Helen Verity and second to Spencer Steenrod. Mrs. A l d refreshed attendees afterward.
Nelsonville schools report opening day enrollment of 1,313 across West 102 East 253 Central 355 High 603, down from last year’s two week total of 1,428. Administration expects numbers to rise as rolls are checked and notes two years ago opening enrollment was 1,874 with West 102 East 258 Central 365 Saint 649.
Nelsonville notice says Odd Fellows hold a special meeting at the hall on Wednesday night September 20 with many visitors expected and the grand master of the Ohio grand lodge in attendance.
In Murray City on September 19 two twilight league games were played after a delay for football practice. South beat North 8 to 6 marking its first win of the season while East fell to West 6 to 12.
Mrs. Walter Floto of Steubenville visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. Vern Vorhes. Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Jewett of Cleveland stay with Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Shafer. The Shaafers spend the weekend in Huntington W Va as guests of L. B. Moore.
In Nelsonville on September 17 the Presbyterian Young People's Society began a new meeting series. Conference delegates Harold McCray and Jack Hoffner led scripture reading and talks on conference topics, with Clara Galvin also speaking. Elizabeth Backus offered the closing prayer.
Carl Bitcher of Happy Hollow was seized by pleurisy while working at Lick Run Mine Monday afternoon and was transported home by Stout's ambulance.
Nelsonville leaders in Religious Education of the Presbyterian Church will meet Wednesday at 7 pm in the church social rooms. All officers of the Sunday School and Young People's Society and teachers from Nelsonville Sand Run Greendale Deanville and Kimberly will attend to coordinate church educational work.
Three men were injured in a collision of two Wheeling and Lake Erie freights at Sherrodsville Ohio. Five cars and an engine derailed. the injured were described as vagrants and remained unidentified. No trainmen were hurt though the engine was hurled across the tracks. The car carrying the men was reduced to kindling.
In Wolfseg near the German border Austrian Nazis clashed with gendarmes. Three Nazis were killed and five wounded when the Nazis attacked police raiding a restaurant to arrest Nazi leaders, after beating two Heimwehr members.
Charles A. Lindbergh and Mrs. Lindbergh postponed their Baltic crossing from Karls Krona Naval Base after a South Sweden visit. The planned 600 mile flight toward Leningrad Russia now awaits further decision with possible further delay into tomorrow.
Frank W. Phillips presented a paper read by L. Z. Herron detailing how local state and federal taxes add fifty two and a half cents per month per consumer for gas. The per year per customer levies include property 3.22 state 1.69 federal 1.39 and ten taxes in all. Utilities cannot raise rates without municipal approval. A survey traced government growth from 1789 to 1938 and noted taxation aims for equity across business and individuals.
Athens Kiwanians learned facts about the U.S. Constitution from Marian Bush Snyder of the Daughters of the American Revolution. They heard it was drafted quickly, required travel by statesmen, tested for 146 years, and praised by Gladstone as masterful. The talk noted the United States is older than many South American republics and older than several European nations.
A horse fell into a 30 foot well on Will Shelton’s Rio Grande farm and was rescued Monday by a tractor and 25 men. The animal remained in the well for about two hours and was unharmed.
Willard A Grow, aged in the sixties, died this morning at the County Farm where he had been in poor health for years. A son of George B Grow, he supported himself as a newspaper subscription solicitor across the county. The Grow family, once prominent in Pomeroy Bend, traces back to early pioneers. Burial will be in the family plot at Beech Grove Cemetery.
Eunice Hart 44 wife of Glenn Hart of Bedford Township died Monday night at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after arriving by ambulance. Death due to complications. Survived by husband three children William Merrill Ardith mother sister Nellie Columbus four brothers Earl Columbus Howard Nelsonville Jesse Melvin Athens. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p m Burlingham church.
Earl Dilcher Lawrence Dilcher Ernest Hudnall and Ray Haning, all of Scipio Township, appeared in Justice Earl Titus' court after a collision that wrecked Miss Winnie Martin's car in Chase. They were fined $5 plus $9 costs each totaling $14. Dilcher must pay repair costs for the teacher's wrecked car and faces a prior charge of driving while intoxicated.
Coach Ray Farnum led the first practice with 36 candidates responding. Last year's letter-men Klees Kindle Thorn ton Casci Keiser and Russell return, while Eddie Ginther is out. The coach says team strength is unsure and the opener at Chesapeake is set for next Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Stanley traveled to Columbus last night and Mrs Stanley went on to Los Angeles this morning to visit until Christmas with Mr and Mrs Harry Hoover formerly of this place.
D. R. Lantz, state excise tax inspector for eight counties in southeast Ohio, announced a change in the beverage and malt tax law requiring all beverage dealers to obtain licenses regardless of tax status. The deadline to secure licenses expired September 15, and dealers who have not yet procured one should do so immediately. Lantz also urged dealers who sold malt and other beverages since September 1 to obtain stamps, cancel them, and have them ready for inspection.
McArthur, Sept 19 Bert Myers aged 57 was killed near McArthur Monday when kicked by a mule he was attempting to shoe. The incident occurred in the rural area outside the town with Myers a local resident.
Athens County Probate Judge 8 M Johnson rules Estate of Doris V Wilhite not subject to inheritance tax. The estate is valued at 3844.30 dollars.
Fall term grand jurors must report October 2 instead of October 9 as previously announced. Athens County Prosecutor John W. Bolin confirmed the update.
Harry Dalton announced today a fresh supply of hunting licenses from the Izaak Walton League, after last week’s rush exhausted stock. Licenses available at Wheaton and Kerr Hardware Stores Jones Novelty Store Strawn Plumbing Co and from Harry Dalton.
Gallipolis, Sept. 19. Charles R. Simms, 62, Crown City merchant, files for divorce from Sarah Simms alleging his wife attacked him with pieces of meat and bacon at their home on Sept. 13. The couple married in 1931.
Albert DeGiacomo and Margaret Popovich are listed as applicants. William J. Jass and Lula Smith, both from Chauncey, appear as applicants. Melville McCune and Marguerite E. Antle, both from Trimble, are shown as applicants.
Mrs. David Wynne, mother in law of Congressman Thomas A. Jenkins, died Sunday in Ironton. She was the daughter of a Rio Grande doctor and burial took place at Thurman cemetery this afternoon.
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