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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1935
Page
6
Gordon K Bush named as Publisher and General Manager while Charles H Harris designated as Managing Editor in a local newspaper leadership update. The duo assumes key roles shaping editorial direction and operations for the publication.
The House Appropriations Committee chair reports total Congress appropriations for the current year at 9.948 billion. If state and local expenditures rise in line with 1932 levels, plus existing federal funding, year outlay nears 18.8 billion at 126 million people. Per capita spending hits about 150, with national income around 376 per person. The article argues the cost equals roughly 40 percent of national income and warns of a looming federal sales tax if spending continues, decrying tax and debt trends.
The Forestry Division of the USDA proposes erecting warehouses ranger quarters and other buildings in Southern Ohio as part of soil erosion and reforestation work. They favor local clay products like tile brick pottery and sewer pipe for cost durability and fire safety while boosting Ohio labor and home product use.
In 1935 the district saw a remarkable revival of spiritual life as churches revived and religious workers offered unselfish service. Crowded meetings, families kept together, and renewed faith followed leadership that guided people through economic dissatisfaction. The Hocking Valley example highlighted the positive impact of organized religious leadership on troubled communities.
Noting a shift in tradition, celebrities increasingly decline or struggle to accept keys to cities in Florida, reflecting evolving publicity norms and local government expectations amid changing ceremonial practices.
In a quiet move the American Federation of Government Employees added a constitutional amendment to organize city county and state workers nationwide. If successful this could create a powerful group with potential direct influence on government. The AFGE and the National Federation of Federal Employees have competed for federal workers since 1932 and have yet to reach 10 percent coverage.
The article notes AFGE may expand from a federal focus to include all government workers local and national. A centralized, broad national body could become the era's largest white collar labor group, shaping policy for good or ill. The outcome depends on leadership and organizational success.
Europe sends tributes for General Pershing as he turns seventy five while at the War Department his office receives informal greetings. Messages arrive from mothers and admirers, many with small blue ribbons. Capt. George E. Adamson has managed the correspondence since 1916. More than 400 cards arrived this year.
A steady stream of letters from former soldiers floods the general, each claiming a share of glory from past battles such as the Umpty Umpth Division at Brest. Many request jobs or help, and the general laments limited ability to assist while receiving yellowed war clippings kept for 17 years in Captain Adamson’s scrapbooks.
The Paraguay government will convert army and navy arsenals into plow factories and distribute plows to farmers at cost to revive agriculture after the Gran Chaco conflict with Bolivia. The move is hailed as a hopeful example of turning swords into plowshares and peace.
A local update places liquor enforcement under Franklin Chase Hoyt a figure described by the source as a wary bootlegger hunter. The note casts Hoyt as the official overseeing liquor control, signaling tighter enforcement in the area without detailing specific actions or dates.
An Ohio college professor argues that Europeans contend the World War never ended and the African conflict could become a broader war to end war. The piece notes Ethiopians’ barefooted habit is irrelevant to shoe sales, mentions Italian liquid fire, and cites Laval’s desire to avoid naming the affair a war while comparing armaments of Italians and Ethiopians.
Sing Sing football squad prepares for the season opener with anticipation. The team aims to test its line and backfield strength against the opponent's guards, seeking an early scoring edge and team cohesion.
Interesting 1908 publication details Meigs County pioneer families found in Larkins History. Traces lineages from James Smith near Leading Creek in 1797 to descendants across Meigs, Gallia, and surrounding areas. Notables include Gaston, Johnson, Hysel, and Robe families with ties to Revolutionary era, early settlements, and the Marietta blockhouse.
Ten years ago News Your Dad Read reports several figures: L. G. Worstell served as literary secretary for the Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church. Genevieve Apgar joins Ohio University faculty from Teachers College St Louis. John Winder and Britt L. Hooper of F CC Stedman Co. embark on a ten day East business trip. Greta Lash departs for New York City to study post graduate courses at Columbia Teachers College.
John D. Rockefeller Jr. announced he would loan money to European countries to continue the war. University YMCA officers included W. A. Downing as president, A. Kerr as general secretary, and Robert Corner with Waldo H. Weik, Russell Herrold, Judson Stinchcomb, Grosvenor McKee, Robert Sanford, Clarence C. Liggett, Ralph Henry, Dayton Corner, Paul Pairan, Merril F. Conaway, and O. B. Conaway as board members.
At a double marriage in Parkersburg Edyth Roush wed Will Junod and Margaret Wallace wed Henry Frost. The residence of Mrs. Frank Hall on West Washington Street was struck by lightning for the second time in two years.
Kennel Crossen of 575 East 105th 8, Cleveland, Ohio objects to editorial focus on hitch hikers. He argues the vagabond class and unemployment drive the problem, blaming capitalism and energy use. He urges editors to write about basic economic evil and constitutional rights.
Poets Corner features verses from readers bearing name and address. The piece includes Song of the Wandering Violinist lines about wandering, doom, and search for a kindred soul. It notes authorship by Leda Sams of Athens Ohio and ends with a butterfly metaphor about caterpillar and ants.
On March 4 1831 Benjamin Gannett of Sharon Massachusetts received an unusual government pension for his wife Deborah Sampson who served in the Continental Army under the alias Robert Shurtleff from April 1781 to November 1783. She married Gannett after muster out and died in 1877.
Ruth Woodson, fleeing the storm to an aging house, becomes entangled with caretaker Bertha Gibbs and the nearby love interest John McNeill. Elaine Chalmers at Graycastle College pursues John while her uncle Duncan Hunter, escaped from an asylum, stirs danger in New York. Ruth and John deepen a budding romance as odd happenings and family tensions unfold in a tangled drama blending love, secrecy, and a haunted home.
Elaine Chalmers resists Teddy Van Harrington and contemplates a secret trip away from Graycastle. She plans a Worthville journey to gain time for a conquest of John McNeill, avoiding rail pass complications and staying past Monday. Ruth Woodson, seeking relief from worry, wanders the library garden in contemplative Sunday light.
Health experts praise twenty five years of advances in bacteriology vaccines and antitoxins. Insulin discovered in 1922 transformed diabetes care while endocrine research maps hormone effects from pituitary to parathyroid to brain. Vitamin D and radiation treatments sparked new medical uses, with psychology and infancy studies linking early life to later health outcomes.
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