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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1938
Page
3
Ohio University football coach Don Peden spoke to a near full Rotary Club meeting in Gallipolis with about 45 local high school players and officials in attendance. He focused his remarks mainly on football and held the audience's full attention.
Mr and Mrs J E Mahoney residents of Pomeroy are observation patients in Holzer Hospital formerly living in Gallipolis.
An old promotional note extols S.S.8 Tonic as a simple internal remedy for skin appearance, weight gain, energy, and nerves by increasing red blood cells. It claims generations of testing and scientific backing, urging readers to try the tonic for a natural skin glow and social praise. No ethical druggist would offer a substitute.
Gallipolis officials announced a multi day Fall Festival with exhibits Monday night on First Ave and river levee park. Tents will go up Sunday. A Kiddie Circus parade Tuesday night on Second Avenue park front. festival highlights include a Wednesday queen and attendants contest with 16 high school girls, and a Thursday night parade led by the High School Band with floats and crowning at the reviewing stand.
A baby contest will be held in the city park at 2 o'clock Friday followed by an amateur musical and vaudeville show for prizes at the same venue. Saturday night has no planned features due to expected large crowds. Entries across departments are welcomed with focus on Vocational Agriculture, Home Economics, Grange, and 4-H Club displays. Each entry receives $10 and winners earn ribbons.
Frank Ray of Maple Shade appeared in Justice Earl Moore's court on an assault with intent to kill charge filed by his wife. Ray is held to the grand jury under a $500 bond provided by his father Samuel Ray.
Relatives in Gallipolis learn that Mrs. Rose Watts Stiles is critically ill in a Dallas Texas hospital. She is the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Watts and sister of Mrs. Elias Wetherholt of Gallipolis.
Gallia County announces four new music instructors for rural districts. Lois Fasig lists new positions with Jeann e How ell teaching school music in Springfield Morgan and Harrison Townships. Norma Gamble in Walnut Greenfield and Perry Townships. Virginia Starkey in Huntington and Ohio Townships. Richard E. Southwick to give instrumental instruction in Rio Grande Centerville Vinton and Bidwell. Dorothy Titus heads Rio Grande vocal and piano, returns for Mercerville instrumental and Crown City vocal and instrumental. Evelyn Pierson heads Cheshire district vocal-instrumental in Cheshire Kyger, living in Middleport. Mary Syler returns to head Centerville vocal and Addison Township, adding Addison Township vocal and instrumental in Clay Township. Lois Fasig returns for vocal work at Mercerville and vocal and instrumental in Green Township. James Gordon reports a burglary at his Pine Street Cemetery-area restaurant with no valuables taken.
Gallia County W C T U announces a county wide rally at the Methodist Church Tuesday. The meeting runs from 10 a m with a noont luncheon and continues through the day. Out of town speakers include Miss Lillie DeLong of Jackson and Mrs Gracie Holden of Sydney Australia.
State Game and Conservation places a out of county warden and five assistants in Gallia to curb illegal hunting amid reports of a rich squirrel harvest. No arrests yet, but evidence is being gathered for court action. Local Sportsmen’s Club and county Democrat Executive Committee back Truman Burnett for the resident post.
Entrants in Gal lia County’s tall corn contest aim to outgrow Iowa rivals with stalks over 15 feet. Clark Thornton of Patriot displays a 15 foot 9 inch stalk as the longest on display. Contest closes Saturday with entries shown at the fall festival next week. R H Hughes of Gallipolis Ferry claims 21 foot corn and notes neighbors in Ohio River bottoms may top that.
Mrs. Harry Saxton hosted a birthday dinner Wednesday honoring her husband and his brother David of Middleport. Guests included James Young Beaver Falls PA Lewis Saxton Mrs W R Amos Mrs Orvetta Weaver Dexter F C Folden Parker Run and others. Occasional visits covered family from Dexter Pomeroy Rutland and Rock Springs Fair as Meigs County neighbors gathered for meals and events. A separate note reports a London area incident where a gas mask was traded for two goldfish by a seven year old.
Rio Grande College reports total enrollment of 172 with 100 freshmen. President W. A. Lewis notes a gain of 25 students from last year. The figure reflects steady growth in admissions at the Gallipolis campus.
Gallipolis officials report a large pool of string bands ready to compete for spots at the Pioneer Ball on October 10. Elimination contests are planned to select bands to perform for dancers in period costumes at Washington School auditorium. Boots will be barred to protect the floor. prizes will honor the best pioneer outfits.
Gallia County Agent E G Royer believes the hog cholera scare has been averted though several cases are reported in the northwest. He urges owners to burn hogs dead from the disease, immunize pigs where cholera appeared, and kill any sick animals to protect the herd.
Announcement states the Grace M. E. Church Woman's Home Missionary Society will meet Friday afternoon at the church. Study period led by Mrs. F Plymale and a tea will follow at 5 o'clock.
Louis Purney of Canton Ohio testifies after years of nervous indigestion. He says Vendol relieved constipation and stomach distress, with improvements in dizziness taste and back pains. He recommends Vendol to similar sufferers and notes Athens Pharmacy and Hickman's Drug Store carry it.
County Auditor E. D. Keeler urges the City Commission and County Board of Commissioners to apply for a federal grant of 200000 to fund a flood release road from State Street across the Chickamauga Bottoms to Chillicothe Avenue at Brand stetter Heights. WPA director L. C Gibson notes winter weather halting county road projects, arguing federal funds would create employment and build a beneficial highway.
Burial at Mound Hill Cemetery for Edward Shep ard Aleshire 67 native of Gallipolis who died at home in Charleston Tuesday night after weeks of illness. He was a son of Capt. and Mrs. E. S. Aleshire and survived by his wife and daughter Mrs. Robert Daniel Warde of Charleston. Condition is serious after Gallipolis operation in Holzer Hospital.
Attendees including Virgil Lewis C A Goetting Mrs Effie Owen Mrs John Cheney Mrs Albert Leaper and Miss Mildred Leaper have returned from Columbus after funeral services for Celia Pinney Riggs a Gallia County native born near Bidwell who later lived at Rodney before her marriage to Robert Riggs and removal from the county.
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