Zanesville Signal, The (Newspaper) - January 1, 1926, Zanesville, Ohio fUti irest THE SIGNAL fells tibe Ti ZANESVILLE P FRIDAY EVENING JAN 1 1926 RY TO BE VERY BUSY MONTH FOR CHURCH ROEKEL IS CELEBRATING HIS GOLDEN JUBILEE IN Is at Central Baxter at ton and Rogue at Pilgrim m 1131 of the new year I revival among the of the activities There have meetings during the Central dent Special music will be and a sea food supper will be served Rev Dr Kelsey of Muskingum college New Concord will be the selected Plans are not yet com- but efforts are being made to secure speakers from out of the city J Quincy Biggs pastor of the Church of Christ and Russell MEW YORK CITY GREETS NEW YEAR WITH REVEL THAT IS GAY AND WET 50 Happy Business Activities ui speaker at the next meeting of the Granger president the Terrace Presbyterian church hood next banquet will Rev Dr Kelsey is a great be held at the church some time Hi Zanesville as he is in about the middle of January and his home town and home c that arrangements have not yet He served Central completed church pulpit for six months lowing of Rev Walter L Newark N J He has to I of Zanesville and to civic clubs ana is popular c Ity generally Rev Paul Stephens is pastor of race church Fred Johnson is president the Brotherhood Market Street Baptist Rev A Stokes Watson pastor and C M or the the January meeting I will be held at a date yet to bet Terrace Church of Christ also has a Brotherhood W B Heudershot is the pastor anil John is president or the Brotherhood The next meeting be heid the ond Monday in January the at the church This will be a and election of officers for the coming year w Ul take place It will not be a banquet meeting hut short talks will be given by members or the New Tork Jan New Tear was ushered in In New today with a ley of religion lln horns and church chimes of corks in Broadway cabarets and quiet home ties and the annual parade of shouting mobs in the principal thoroughfares It was without doubt one of the gayest and wettest reiels ever witnessed in the resorts along the gay white way Drunks zigzagged their iof night clubs and at S o'clock in the morning and Pr thereafter to after a wild An spree men and women clinging to each other Foster prohibition to make it a dry New eve but there was dence galore inside and out- side the cabarets that they did not While the celebrants got well lit up there was an absence of disorder and few arrests made I The celebration grot under way fervor and enthusiasm de- the issuance of an injunction U S District Attorney rner restraining and all em- nine of the most ex- supper clubs from selling Fifty years ago today Henry Roekel a mere slip of a youth came to Zanesville and began working with his father August in the little plumbing and heating con- shop on Main street near Today he Is president of The Rocket wholesalers of plumbing and heating supplies and is brating the fiftieth anniversary of his advent Into the local business field Early in December 1875 August Roekel came to Zanesville and his plumbing shop in the room adjoining the File Works operated by an elder Henry Roekel on the site now ness on Main street for about three years August Hoekel ed one of first apartment buildings ever constructed in Zanesville on South Sixth street The Roekel shop was then moved into the ground floor ot this building it remained until 1909 Thirty-three years ago the elder Mr Roekel retired from the ness and left tt to his son Henry 772 BORN AND 510 DIE BUT FEWER WED DURING YEAR THAT HAS PASSED away liquor Announcement j the was made i by John A administrator v on f Basing assumption on statistics experts on prognostications have I been endeavoring to announce for certainty the period of time re- quired for Zanesville to become a City of Women With the I ent ratio of births as furnished Zanesville two I females are ushered into the one of Us i Hon at its be deliver his Lincoln ad- nearness ot er- m been tno honor during tiie existence occasion members of hla The proportion is 60 females and 40 males for the past year and it was said that this age bad prevailed for more than three years With girl outnumbering males it almost a and social cies to call a coin of storks and propose a ical change in the law of statistics No official or accepted cause for the preponderance of daughters in i Zanesville homes has been by health municipal military social or economic authorities I Some say It is due to the fact that I the Muskingum and Licking rivers merge here that people forget watch the traffic signal lights or that the old Seventh ward went on a bender and voted for the organization According to estimates issued on the last day of the vear the tal number of births in Zanesville People going to their business in the found them choked with sodden men huddled in corners or even sprawled on the ting over the big A brave bond of 130 prohibition agents where among the thousands participating in parties in the night clubs striving indicating that the bootleggers supply of denatured liquor uill be materially lessened during 1926 It was estimated fiat were In the parades that wove in of Broadway ing the height revelry last night There was the usual blowing of horns Ing of confetti and the of intricate ing devices YEAR REVEL WHITE month later the about one younger Henry came to Zanesville from New Tork and began for his father on New Tear's day continued In to operate The Roekel Co continued to flourish under the management of Henry Roekel as a plumbing and heating contracting company and in 1909 was removed to Third street in the building now occupied by G H Longwell Co follow tag the flood In 1913 Mr changed the policy oT Ills firm and began ting as of and supplies His business grew by such and bounds In central and 650 were 112 colored the there is r tendency city OUT WITH THE OLD AND IN WITH THE NEW AND CITY HAS A NEW MAYOR southern Ohio that 1 mill supplies were to the company sto accessary In 1920 moved into Ala new t street anil i quarters shops aria were erected also arranged Jama of all With each recurring New political economic and cial changes appear on the zon of the but the eventful to many Zanesville was the relinquishing of the ol the city Attorney William be sworn In as judge of municipal court Attorney I P jphrey The official change will be made Saturday In Evening Dress and Mrs i Greet will be w banner one in charge of captain Rev the president of meeting Monday Donahey asks Ohioans to re- 5 is cord in bold letters on the first of their 1026 book the four j i following an S will by precept and the safety of men t will endeavor to obey the laws or my state and mil Ion whether I am in sympathy with them or not I will be temperate and erant in all things will put a little of the into my life and V t predicted will will If these purposes are re- 1 and observed by the people of Ohio Prospects for Ohio declared are full of promise in agricultural iio said is in the right The menace from rection sic and ad- Bringed by the of which er for the Theron Leo Ing of t church i a fri Ppo of i IIP use a them a me and literally hemls He hi Kov or of on Many of Them Drunk deaths in While one I or more may be added to this Mass Jan ure by late reports nevertheless it Is clearly evident that the births gay Low On To Greet Them Mayor G C- Webster The transfer the offices A honary titles became ally effective this morning as Mayor Slater went out with the and MaTor Webster Washington Jan 1 It might are far in the lead and that Year's morning carnival said that today the cat creased population is a beautiful Mansion Inn in I Tils inalienable prerogative of The deaths were 483 whites 27 colored was turned into a One reported from the shooting and coholic This death Probably fatally wounding of In- cured In December and was due Arthur A Blake of to canned to gazing upon the shambles her husband also a New police reports it ville is destined to come under female domination and supremacy in the distant ture by reason of the present birth rate nevertheless the marriage is holding its own and almost on a par with other years A slight falling off in the number of marriage permits issued from the office bate Judge Graham was re- ported during the year over the proceeding year The number of licenses issued in 1325 was 629 Tho number in 1924 was 542 This was of only 13 and as this number is con- unlucky it doesn't count and Chelsea police department Six hundred men and women most of them la evening dress and many of them intoxicated engaged in a wild battle dinner coats torn from their shoulders fought one another and with evening gowns hanging from the shoulders entered the mad battle At first those lighting had been stirred to action bv the shooting Then it became a scramble to get out of the big State and local police had surrounded the place and the 600 guests gave up the Or in other words President Mrs Coolidge held their annual New day reception at the White House a function to the public was invited without discrimination racial or otherwise The great unwashed came with the spick and span Sold braid and fi the bluebook came arranged schedule first by pre- But after permits issued during was considerably less than for 1924 nevertheless it was predicted that the new year will witness the diplomatic official and social elite had filed historic blue room and grasped briefly the respective right hands of Mr and Mrs Coolidge the same privilege was extended to the government clerk the stenographer the vant girl and the laborer i It was a very democratic sion House mat for a two-hour period bore e Come one come all Private citizens desirous of pn sofas and even on the floors fing the mud of the workaday While the rf building Tell asleep in chairs The shooting culminated a wild New Tear's morning carnival fic mishaps can bo remedied only people themselves T til coo smashing of many come to the inn from provement projects and the far and wide and at Rational or bank the remodeling of 2 Watson building Fifth and Alain streets for the First Trust Havings Co the improvement the Sturtz building adjacent to the Bon-Ton for the George Aitken de- store and other new structures and remodeling Huring the past year 468 building issued The value of structures was and for remodels Building permits for 1923 showed a loss ot over Tho average however was not on a par with ing years seated at tables when the first shot rang out Just before the shooting there was a free for all fight in the private dining room Women screamed and as it of shots rang out and Blake fell blood streaming from a wound in his several fainted Tony I Orlando also fell wounded Aa 1C an electric switch has been j thrown the gay party at the inn i was turned from in- to a scene of wildest confusion The battle was on There was a rush at -a man with world off their boots onto the rugs ot the executive sion began lining up at the outer northwest gate shortly before 10 fact their turn was not to arrive un- past four years Mayo Slater has capably and efficiently served the people of and retires with the confidence of even those who may differ with him politically and were- instrumental in his defeat for re-election He inaugurated and with the aid of his city council ried to successful completion many Important projects and municipal improvements His administration was marked with the enactment of legislation to suburban the of n every line of the public utilities system other plans of a sub- stantial character While some of his policies were not brought a successful conclusion this was due to the limit of rather than of action or effort With of or will necessarily follow the re- of their posts by members of Ills cabinet com- prising the city solicitor and health commissioner Harry Garrett will be ed as by James til three hours later The brisk atrice weather deferred them not it was their day in court and they Other making it Meanwhile Inside the real pomp and ceremony was on Any White House function of necessity demands color The marine band in bright scarlet uniforms and the diplomatic corns in full court braid decorations and this First came the cabinet prompt y at o'clock Mr Coolidge sees 1 I M McKinney Samuel Mils takes the place of C as Attorney A A ter gives way to Attorney Thad Thompson as city solicitor and Dr J M Evans succeeds Dr Be- in tne personnel of council at the early in the Three new members their They are C C ton Virgil Connar Lovell lee Member W A Combs failed of re-election F Scott and W were not candidates for re-election Schofield whose term Jan 1 was re-elected elected in November were ton Connar Henslee Schofield TO RETIRE Announcement was made Friday hat C O Stewart had resigned his as secretary of tho elter China Co He had been The today and i dividends distribution to Mr of Mr Henty with the about 15 months company r for r Stewart's resignation will ome effective 9 He las made no decision as to his ure plans Mr Stewart has been connected the industrial and commercial fe of Zanesville for a number of ears He is well known in this section of the state DEALS CLOSED FOR OF RESIDENCES Hagen as health estate deal was Thursday when Mrs Mary A changos been an- among the personnel of the office forces in the various branches of the ment as a result of the election of Donald of road bought tho 10 room house ing to Mrs Edith Barbee 428 South street Mrs in- tends to use the property as a Mayor Webster at the polls last rooming house Mrs Barbee is November Clerkships will leaving soon for Detroit Con- with the advent of the new ad- sideration was A been pre A A Powell Maysville pike dieted that the has disposed of his six room supporters and bungalow to Harry B ers of the elective candidates willl Lewis manager of the Singer company Lewis or a month has just returned from fo twe a revolver and another rush by his friends to surround him his official family twice a week Post that Din McCamick holds as will occupy the property and individually several times ad- Janitor of the city prison was and general C Alfred Miedel to and C I Schooled treasurer i f the past eighteen risen from the company He la CA most capable and has been eaf very Roekel Co On Jan 12 leave with a friends he will spend vacation He and i ings In that his Attention time each High Honor is Conferred On Zanesville Woman By Democrats of Fairfield Co Intoxicated by sight of tho w aides a political honor both unusual has been conferred Mrs Bailey thin city by ho Club of county m consisting of more than 300 members This club 18 which Is tho for- birthday and in years past addressed ns At loo Hulson Cnx Newton and others almost ns ranks The i the Into dressed by Mrs Johnson and Hon Brooks Fletcher the eloquent ator who so greatly delighted two audiences one at tho Terrace Presbyterian church nnd the other at the exercises ot the local Lodge that Airs will lx woman to deliver a dress to tho members of on occasion Democrats fight men and women rushed I the dance floor and from tables to Join in the battle Men and women with faces j and clothing covered with blood stumbled out or the inn and Into automobiles and drove away Others continued he battle I lower floor dining room I was shut off in an effort to i keep the in Many of downstairs however joined the Those who witnessed the battle said it the wildcat scene ever singed In J however that he happy 1926 and all at the he saves himself quite a number of calls Then followed the diplomatic corps the supreme court nnd er branches of the judiciary ators and congressmen and navy officers above the rank of major and captain Still farther back were the subordinate officials of all federal departments nnd agencies j With officialdom out of the way I tho President and Mrs Coolidge turned their tireless right hands i to the greed n ss of Coincident with tho in the chief executive's office was Both deals were completed through th Dulmage Dulmage real estate agency Dawn of New Year Observed In Zanesville Without Din And Noise of Former Days a sentence Judge hu re Margat et borne on her int to learn thu so highly Hon M J Daii lent of the club thai it will SPLENDID RECORD Columbus Jar made by H E supervisor 01 hank closed during by his department GUESTS SAFE organized societies ranging from the who fought in 64 to the veterans of j By this time several scams In Mrs split and the President's hand needed slight renovation so a momentary halt was taken for rest and a lunch And then came the general for the occasion eve observations on With the exception of an late celebrant on the streets early I day morning the new year dawned a practically deserted business I district Many Xew Year's and celeb eve parties nt the dressed for and dressed been k i some other occasion for Rood hard The bars got his own Another these brought to n in morning hours ing to reports from operators the business on New Year's eve anil Friday morning the Inrs est in own fi uW of the In o advent of the new year but there was no display of fireworks or the creating a din of any tion Numerous social have been planned for New Year's and nnd social cluba will hold i open house and with business Entirely suspended the various will bo largely attended i and were and many persons from cities here to attend one more fx Mrs Trimble Iher marriage gene Trimble 19 TV horn she left the tho wedding 21 Cambridge n with whom Mrs December 6 tw costs by charge of con Columbu viewpoint o CO
