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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 07, 1929

Page

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Ohio Prohibition Inspectors Crack Down in Athens County

State prohibition officers in Athens County, with Sheriff Williams, arrested multiple men April 1 and 3 on liquor violation charges. Andrew Koon, Pyam Bartlett, aka William Powell, and others face bonds or pleas. investigations span two months with arrestees connected to a pool hall operation.

Court of Justice of the Peace Carl H. Porter Bartett Powell Koon Bartlett Powel Athens County Common Pleas Court Nquor Pat Pritts Tmoanvile Aquor Pritts Yritta Porter

Judgment for $675 received in bus mishap

Logan April 6 Judgement for 675 dollars rendered in favor of Arthur Tickett administrator of Wilford Pickett estate against Central Ohio Transit Co. Trial by jury waived. Compensation covered hospital expenses physicians fees and personal injuries from a Nelsonville bus accident years ago in which Pickett died a week later. Police and court actions follow with multiple defendants cited for intoxicating liquor offenses and related charges.

Logan Judece Harley M. Whiteraft Iriday Arthur Tickett Wilford _ Pickett Central Ohio Transit Company Wilford Pickett Nelsonville

Season advances lure fruit in Ohio River region

Pears white as snow and cherries in promise mark early spring along the Ohio River with fires of optimism for a bumper crop. West Virginia hills across the river host thriving cherry orchards while sassafras roots wanderers remain a spring curiosity.

Turtle Ohio River C. A. Hartley Athens Pomeroy Ohio West Virginia Mason

Diphtheria Hope Tied to Parental Cooperation and Cardinal Hayes

New York health commissioner Tod ay Wynne says diphtheria could be wiped out with parental cooperation. Cardinal Hayes urges using scientific prevention, arranging parochial-school access to vaccines and toxin antidote, while public schools may follow suit. The piece notes Schick test and toxin–antitoxin treatment as safe options and mentions past prejudice against quinine.

Wyn Nee New York Cardinal Hayes Archibishop Schick Great Baeain

Henderson Grand Jury Convenes for April Term

Logan April 6 Staff Special Prosecuting Attorney Phil Henderson announced readiness for the grand jury to convene Monday morning for the April term. Ninety two witnesses have been summoned to testify in two cases. The jury is not expected to report before midweek. One case involves the murder of Earl Behrens at Brimstone Creek on February 17.

iConference of Educators Nears Final Session in Columbus

The Ome Educational Conference met in six divisions in Columbus to prepare for the final session. The groups covered adult education, attendance supervisors and school nurses, school business officials, county superintendents, and higher education.

Columbus Ome

Governor Signs Bill for State Office Building

Governor Myers Y. Cooper signed the Morgan Rohe state office building bill in Columbus. The measure creates a five member commission to select a site and finance the project, estimated near five million dollars, funded by a two tenths mill tax levy. The bill, formed from two earlier versions, passed both houses and aims to substitute law for war with rational world order.

Columbus Myers Y. Cooper Dien Walative Gilbert Morgan Cleveland Jer J. Shepard Ohio State Unit Robert Roce Tiversity College of Liberal Arts Fin Mil Bers Dean Shepard Roche Morgan

Tornado kills eight and injures over fifty across Minnesota

A powerful tornado ripped through southern Minnesota and Wisconsin, killing at least eight and injuring more than 50. The disaster touched Brooklyn Center, Mound View Township, Robbinsdale, and WrHM radio station in Minneapolis, with two schools destroyed and a garage lifted onto trolley wires.

Minneapolis Minn Minnesota Wisconsin Twin Cities Thomas Edwards WRHM Brooklyn Center Mound View Township Robe Binsdale

Too Many Moves Divorce Plea in Logan Court

Julia Rollings seeks a divorce from Okey Hollins in common pleas court here alleging neglect and cruelty. She cites thirteen moves in six years, and says on March 22 he slept with a rifle at the head of the bed. She left for Logan to stay with her mother the next day. They were married September 29, 1905 and have four children aged ten to twenty-two.

Logan Julia Rollings Okey Hollins Common Pleas

Rebel attack at Naco prompts US forces response

United States cavalryman John Finezze was wounded as rebels fired across the international line at Naco. A house on the American side burned when a rebel bombing plane dropped a bomb on U S soil. Mexican and American troops repulsed the raid as air and ground units were ordered to border posts from Dodd Field Fort Crockett and Fort Huachuca.

Jacques D'Armand United Press Naco Sonora Mexico URA United States Naco Garrizon John Finezze Waco Arizona Anid Vinezee San Antonio Dox U.R Dodd Field Fort Crockett Huachuca Fort Huachuca

Passengers Escape Death in Explosion on Santa Fe Train

In Houston on April 1, passengers aboard the Ranger limited escaped serious harm when a blast in the lavatory of the smoking car between Pendleton and Moody, Texas, wrecked it. Trainmen credited car construction for preventing a harsher wreck as investigators probe whether a bomb or dynamite caused the explosion. Notably, a separate note reports 18 month old Tess Velamy suffered a two story fall and survived unharmed.

Houston Texas Ranger Southwestern Santa Fe Limited Pendleton Moody

Tax bill on chain stores halted by attorney general

Columbus April 6 The General Assembly’s plan to tax chain stores is blocked after Attorney General Bettman calls it unconstitutional The measure would tax stores based on ownership or operation and was deemed class legislation violating the Fifteenth Amendment A separate item reports a nationwide kidnapping case ending with the safe recovery of 12 year old Alice Yahutis in Charlotte North Carolina following an arrest of the suspected kidnapper Curtis Devonshire

Columbus General Assembly Beuse Bettman John Budden Cleveland Hadden Tnen Cota Shome Philadelphia Alice Yahutis Charlotte N. C Curtis & Devonshire DHE Senate Committee On Judiciary

Prosecution of Dry Raid Death in a Muddle

Geneva April 6 Pending decision of naming a prosecutor the Aurerg dry raid killing of Mig De King was muddled today as Attorney General Oscar E Carlstrom refused to take over prosecution of Rev Smith deputy sheriff who shot Mrs De King and Eugene Boyd Fairchild who is on bond after perjury charges related to the search warrant used in the case Robert Milroy representing the De King family said he would ask Judge John K Nehall on Monday for a special prosecutor to be named

Geneva Til Aurerg Mig Lillita de King Oscar E. Carlslrom Rev Smith de King Eugene Boyd Fairchild Carlstromm Tran George B. Corbery Eral Robert Milroy de King Familly John K. Nehall

Japanese Doll For First Lady

The Japanese Jolt presented to Mrs. Herbert Hoover by Japanese girls is shown. Dolls are seen as ambassadors of goodwill in Japan and the Nippon girls aim to strengthen friendship between Japan and the United States with this gesture.

Japan Herbert Hoover Nippon United States

Orchardists urged to spray at proper pre blossom time

Southeastern Ohio growers receive advisory from county extension agent T H Johnson on pre blossom spraying for apple scab control. The note warns that early wet weather followed by cold rain creates need for two sprays, with specifics on oil and dormant sprays, dust and lime sulphur mixes, and timing to wait for guidance from the office.

Ohio T. H.jletter Johnson Ap Senate Farmerasro Dehacon

Logan Woman Found Dead by Own Action

Despondency from ill health is believed to have caused Mrs. Carl Yochum 46 to hang herself at home 55 West Hunter Logan April 6. She was wife of Prof Yochum principal of Logan High School. he found her after midnight and collapsed from shock. Coroner Miller to rule death as self inflicted. Body prepared for burial with arrangements pending.

Yoehum Miller Yeeham Logan West Jefferson Nora Porter Columbrs

Three Garden Booklets From Athens Messenger

The Athens Messenger Information Garden Bureau offers three booklets on Chrysanthemums Irises and Dahlias. Each booklet costs four cents or all three for ten cents. Send ten cents with order to Frederick Ayskin Director Athens Messenger Information Garden, Washington DC.

Athens Mess Irtsek Washington Information Bureau Bere Frederick Ayskin Athens Messenger Gurden Washington DC

Shortest Time: Decade for GHD Assembly Passes 163 Bills

Columbus April 6 Eighty-Eighth General Assembly ends session with 163 bills passed and a record $123,006,000 two year appropriation. Speed limits set 45 rural, 28 congested. debate over rural limit abolition continues. Several measures killed or stalled, including osteopath practice limits and chiropractic licensing.

Columbus Eighty-Eighth General Assembly Senate Hound F of Representatives Deaate House Aha

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