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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1922
Page
11
A bargain four room cottage with toilet and both water types, gas and electric lights, hardwood floors and woodwork, slate roof, lawn, two porches on a paved street, recently painted, grape arbor, cellar and outbuildings. Price $2000. Also a one room and a two room cottage for ante. Barled. Mender 415 Poplar St Nelson titia.
Joseph M. Wood files suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County Ohio against The Triton Oil Company claiming ownership in fee simple to four described tracts totaling about 224.88 acres and seeking to quiet title and bar any interest by the defendant. The petition notes the defendant’s asserted claim and directs that no answer be required before June 10, 1922.
A. B. Saunders appointed and qualified as executor of the estate of Elizabeth H. Chutes in Athens County Ohio deceased. Dated this 80th day of March A D 1933. M. Johnson, Probate Judge of Said County.
A public auction will be held at the Athens County courthouse front door on Saturday April 1 1922 at 1 pm to sell Leoty Numbers One and Two in Verity Village Athens Township for cash. The property lies on the south side of Connett Road with Athens and Nelsonville road to the east and First Street to the south and is appraised at 1700.90 dollars. The sale is conducted under an order from the Court of Common Pleas Athens County Ohio and reserves all underlying coal. Sheriff Herb J Parker and Deputy Sheriff P H McKinley. Woolley and Rowland, Plaintiff Attorneys.
The Amesville village school district in Athena county Ohio schedules a bond issue vote on April 18 from 5 30 a m to 6 30 p m at the usual polling place to raise 15460 00 for a high school site and building with Ames township and Berne township per section 7669 of the general code.
Bern township rural school district in Athens County Ohio schedules an election at usual voting places from 5:20 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on April 18 1922 to consider a fifteen thousand four hundred fifty one dollar bond to build a high school jointly with Amesville village and Ames Township rural districts as provided by Ohio law. G Henry Clerk dates February 25 1922.
At 5 39 p m on a Sunday in April 1922 the district votes on submitting to electors the question of a forty six thousand dollar bond for buying a site and erecting a school building, by order of the board of education clerk A Tipton.
Non resident Mabel Taylor of Los Angeles is named a defendant in a common pleas case filed April 6 1922 in Athens County Ohio by James J. Newman demanding 1740 dollars with 8 percent interest from March 8 1922 plus lien and equitable relief. Edith Briggs attached funds due to Taylor. Taylor must answer by May 20 1922 through attorney C W Juniper.
Miss Olive Clark of Little Rock becomes the state’s first woman sheriff. She handles women prisoners, carries a gun, wears a sheriff badge, and makes arrests like other officers.
New Marshfield Ohio reports seventh month honor roll with Eleanor Wilson Erma Pierce Esta Tremain Lucile Jones Ferne Baughman Reba Hewitt Pearl Nice among honorees. Additional high achievers include Evelyn Llewellyn Virginia Rankin Elia Betts Flora Morgan Norma Nice Lillie Collins Mable Woods Mildred McVey Francis Robinson Richard Wilson Iva Dabritz Mildred Beverage. Outdoor basketball occurs in spring and fall. Upcoming events include eighth grade girls vs Canaanville and first and second boys teams vs Amesville. High school to stage an operetta and senior class a play soon.
Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio tells the senate Interstate Commerce Committee he resigned as federal manager in 1918 to avoid retiring the entire company. He denies McAdoo ousted him for inefficiency.
The first institution for the industrial education of young women in the United States was established at Columbus Mississippi in the early eighties.
Chicago market report shows hog receipts 22 000 with prices to 10 cents higher and cattle receipts 4500 with steady trade. Hogs range 9 10 to 16 60, cattle include prime 9 59, medium good 7 45 9 75, butcher cattle 4 50 8 15, veal calves 8 50 8 50, feeders 5 40 7 96, stocker cattle 1 00 5 50. Sheep receipts 800 with lambs at 16 25 for lambs under 150 pounds and ewes 7 25 10 50.
Cincinnati cattle market steady with receipts 650 hogs 800 calves 350 sheep 450 lambs. Prices range for cattle 7.25 to 8.00, calves 10.50 to 11.90, hogs 9.50 to 10.85, sheep 6.60 to 7.50, lambs 15.50 to 16.50.
Sheriff Herbert Minshall heads a pursuit near New Lexington Ohio to arrest Charles Brooks for operating a still. A posse joined by Captain Rodney W. Cullen and local guardsmen rides toward Rendville in an army truck with machine guns. Brooks’ gang is said to be ready to fight.
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