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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1929
Page
2
Former Athens girl Miss Porter found shot to death in a parked car near Columbus early Wednesday. She was buried at West Union Street Cemetery from her parents home at 99 Franklin Avenue. A graduate of Ohio University.
A Southeast District Athens Foreign Missionary group meeting in Middleport featured Miss Tyler returned missionary as speaker. The event included devotional songs, a luncheon, and talks by Mrs. Irving Karr and other district officers. Local residents, visitors, and relatives attended, with services honoring the late Bishop Henderson and junior work presentations.
Meigs County officials set aside 600 dollars to pay 25 cents per crow head slain this year. Crow harvests rise as decoy sightings lure flocks, with a dozen or more men using tethered birds to trap others. Several youths reportedly earn good wages by this method.
The Meigs County treasurer auditor and County Board of Commissioners will travel to Columbus Tuesday with attorneys to begin hearings before the State Tax Commission on the Ebersbach Tax case. Local interest centers on the outcome and implications for the district.
Colonel Leonard P. Ayres of Cleveland warns that 1929 auto production may overshoot demand. He estimates 4 million units will be needed next year, with 7 million planned, risking a downturn unless manufacturers curb output.
Burt Wilson of Athens, a printer, was arrested on a drunkenness charge Thursday night on West Washington Street by Police Chief E. B. Finsterwald. He will have a hearing before Mayor E. Woodworth Friday night in the mayor’s office at the City Building.
The body of Jack Coffey who died in Marion will be brought to the home of Paul Shannon his brother in law 28 South Cemetery Street Monday night for burial on Tuesday in the Athens Catholic Cemetery
Charles Roberts a 13 year old ward of the Juvenile Court was detained in the jail detention department after skipping Dark Hollow School to fish Kerrs Run. Truant officer John Philips brought him in and he remains in custody pending school attendance. In other news a marriage license was issued in Pomeroy to Frank Farley and Diana Heitzer. Also, Frank McBride and Mrs Anna Scharf obtained a license in probate court and wed in Columbus with Father Schneider officiating.
County teachers' examinations will be held at Athens Junior High School on Saturday at 8 am under the State Department of Education. Examiners are Alex Root Oda Gillogly and County Superintendent H R McVay. Renewal rules require testing in four branches plus teaching principles.
A hillside near the Dabney farm above Middleport is cleared and tilled as a group effort. Farmers are planting potatoes and vegetables on individual tracts, though work was done collectively.
Three of four automobiles carried Evangeline Chapter members to Marietta for a day long school of instruction of Eastern Star work. The trip included attendees such as Mrs. E. M. Hurrah and Mrs. Otto Schmall among others from Middleport.
Mr. Jacob Rosenberger of Toledo credits Konjola with curing a long list of ailments from disordered stomach to nasal catarrh. He reports renewed appetite, better digestion, and relief after using Konjola. The product is sold at Me Kee Drug Store in Athens and by test druggists in the region.
Harry Milliron of East Union Street is bound over to Athens County Common Pleas Court on a third offense liquor charge. Bond set at 1500 dollars. magistrate Carl H Porter presided. Milliron’s mother Lillie Milliron Earl Millirom and Fred Dubeen also charged and bonded at 700 dollars after pleading guilty.
As students rush for last minute dates and borrow gowns, the campus hums with Prom Night energy. Frantic sorority house hopping and anxious looks mark the scene while committees ready the gymnasium for the juniors’ much heralded event.
April 8 bond posted by Earl Millican with his wife signing later. Cabeen not yet bound this morning but his wife expected to sign later. Arrests conducted by Sheriff William Williams and deputies Wayne Wingett and Fred Heck.
Governor Myers Y. Cooper signed the Marshall Bill restricting salary loan operations. The measure licenses lenders under the Department of Industrial Relations and caps charges at 30 percent per month on loans up to 300 dollars.
Columbus April 5. A supplementary appropriations bill would add seven National Guard armories if passed without amendments. Three armories would be funded in the adjutant general department for Toledo Berea and Westerville. Total departmental appropriation amounts to 170000. Of this 85000 funds the Toledo armory.
A sudden, fierce rainstorm trapped many residents in Crab Creek area near Youngstown. Firemen aided by boats rescued scores of people as the area was cut off before residents could flee.
In Toledo on April 5 Charles Haddad 65 and his cousin Ellis Haddad 45 proprietors of a grocery store were shot during a quarrel with a customer over a bottle of cream. Charles Haddad was in critical condition with abdominal wounds while Ellis Haddad was injured in the side and not considered gravely hurt.
A vintage ad touts Kellogg's ALL-BRAN as 100 percent effective for preventing constipation and improving health. It claims daily two tablespoon servings relieve symptoms and promotes use with milk or cream, with recipes on the pad and sale nationwide.
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