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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1935
Page
5
The National Youth Administration will help about 24 Athens area youths on relief attend high school for the current year. Eligible students ages 16 to 25 must show financial need and lack of essentials. aid averages six dollars monthly and provides work assignments to earn a living.
The amount cannot exceed six dollars per month and aid applications go to the school principal. Aid is in addition to other assistance enabling teens to attend high school. Work assignments exclude past citizen duties but may include clerical and library tasks. Payment mirrors standard school rates, with a maximum of ten hours per week and three hours per day based on need and merit.
Amos Holland age 81 died Tuesday at his son Earl's home in Akron. The body will be brought to Athens for funeral services Friday at 1 PM at Clarks Chapel Church conducted by Rev B H Pugh. Burial in adjoining cemetery. Survives include four sons George Clarence Wilfred Earl all of Akron and two daughters Mrs Blanche Frost Lodi Township and Mrs Gertrude Coen Akron. Japan does not decorate its soldiers for bravery in action.
Two hundred twenty five attendees at the Athens District dinner and sales meeting of Ohio Fuel Gas Company in Hotel Berry heard E. M. Tharp outline company reorganizations and a new Radiant heater campaign. Local leaders and 39 supervisors from multiple towns attended, with decor themed to a race track and guests in riding attire.
More than 100 people are expected at the Ohio Better Milk Association dinner meeting at Hotel Berry. Walter H. Hartung and James E. Bauman of Columbus will attend with others from Marietta Pomeroy Nelsonville Gallipolis Logan and Southeastern Ohio. After lunch an executive session will precede talks on Infectious Abortion in Cattle and in Man with dairy industry trends and an illustrated lecture on quality milk production.
Leo King and William Young, both about 25, of Flat Woods Meigs County, were seriously injured last Saturday when their motorcycle collided with a truck on leaving Cincinnati en route home from a West relatives visit. King suffered a crushed ankle broken ribs and head lacerations. Young has skull and shoulder fractures and leg injuries.
Forty Athens County youths will be enlisted in the Conservation Corps on October 1 under relief office orders. Changes in eligibility allow re enrollment for former CCC members with four months served and honorable discharge. Age limit is 17 to 28, with 1933 first enrollment exceptions. About 70 applicants studied. first 40 qualified will enter.
About 2200 students had registered at Ohio University by 10 A M Wednesday registrar Dr Frank B Dilley said registration would run to noon but might not finish. Fall classes to be short this afternoon with the semester starting Thursday after the registration hop in the Men's Gym. A half acre of garden can produce about $150 worth of food.
The Fourth District Court of Appeals convened in the Athens County Common Pleas Court for a two day session hearing five cases and passing four others while continuing one. Judges Blosser Middleton and McCurdy comprised the panel with other court officials.
John Barker, 32, pleaded not guilty to shooting Dana Lee Tom, 16, after an argument at his parents home. He was bound over to the Athens County Grand Jury under $1,000 bond and confessed to Prosecuting Attorney Harold Rose. Tom was wounded but improving at Sheltering Arms Hospital and expected to return home soon.
Judge W H Beck Jr of Griffin Georgia is considered the leading candidate for the National Exchange Clubs presidency at the annual Dallas Texas convention September 22 to 25. Beck currently serves as vice president of the organization.
Judge C. F. Rowland granted two divorces in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Tuesday. Orville Baughman won custody of their four daughters after a divorce from Emma Baughman for gross neglect of duty. Maggie Parron was granted a divorce from Porter Barron on wilful absence and gross neglect of duty.
National Brands Stores opened a New Orleans branch in Louisiana, announced by F. E. Dowler vice president of C. D. Shaffer Company and president of National Brands. The chain now exceeds 5,000 stores nationwide, originated in Athens and expanded after initial success locally.
An advertisement urges dieters to avoid fatty fish like salmon and mackerel and eat green vegetables while limiting fatty meats butter cream and sweets. It promotes Kruschen Salts with lemon juice each morning to improve digestion and organ function, claiming increased energy and no need for laxatives, sold by Athens Pharmacy and Ball Pharmacy among others.
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