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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1924
Page
2
A new discovery by Dr Andrews promises a painless rupture cure using a small elastic belt without pads or steel bands. The method, claimed to liberate users from trusses, is offered on free trial to any reader of the Messenger.
Mrs. Lovella Eskew 22 wife of Gale Eskew of Lancaster died at her mother Mrs. Jessie Ruble’s home Saturday about noon. Heart trouble and complications blamed. She had been ill for months. Survived by husband a daughter mother and two brothers. Funeral arrangements pending. Body prepared by L. C. Yooum company.
The Depot Hotel changed hands Saturday, now owned by Ralph Moore and his father George Moore. Purchase price not disclosed. A. J. Ulrich had run the hotel for 11 years with success and, after a period with John Wangler, Moore and his father will take full control and continue the established management. George Moore is linked to the Kachelmacher estate. Ulrich will pursue other ventures.
Hocking county commissioners approved paving and improvement plans Friday. A survey of Laurel road in Starr township was ordered alongside work on Maysville road in Green township. One mile on Pleasant Valley roads in Falls township will be repaired, and a stretch at Hites Mill in Marion township will be put in passable condition. The session also paid several bills.
Mrs Nancy Beam and Miss Mi nerva White hosted the Saturday club at Mrs Amy Kasterling's home. Bell call featured quotations from Shakespeare. Mrs Robert Longstreth discussed Denmark and the Dane while Mrs Walter Brehm spoke on Hemriet the At the end a six o'clock dinner followed. A number of guests attended beyond club members.
Street grading continues on Front street with Barthiow and Son contracting firm using a steam shovel to remove dirt. North side work includes notable dirt points and significant cuts as better weather arrives for progress.
Rev C R Douglass announces daily Passion Week services at 7 30 each evening with topics The Disappointed Christ Thirty Pieces of Silver Over to the Uttermost The Veil of the Temple Special music featured each night Benj F Paus preaches Tuesday night
Ohio suffers a setback as LLE claims the cup in a decisive victory. Details incomplete in text.
A large new resort hall is planned at Wat Aga to accommodate up to five thousand attendees. The project aims to create a major summer retreat with extensive seating and event facilities.
A sheet in the Congressional Library displays in parallel four extant versions of Lincoln's Gettysburg address along with stenographic reports. The Library notes the four copies include the Executive Mansion and Gettysburg drafts, the fair copies, and sales drafts once linked to Keyes and Bliss, with Robert Todd Lincoln's gift enriching the collection.
Allen G. Smith of the University Extension Division says radio will partly replace lectures for extensions students in remote northern areas. He asserts Cowboys on the prairie plains and lumberjacks can attend university lectures by radio as readily as urban students.
In Mansfield common pleas court Judge J. W. Galbraith ruled the RH and O railroad is relieved of constructing four bridges at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. The decision finds the railroad embankment not responsible for Chippewa valley floods.
Vernon M. Riegel state director of education says highway improvements to link rural schools in Ohio will ease economic and educational problems by reducing absenteeism amid roads now under construction or authorized.
Cadiz Ohio notes veteran cobbler David Hillegas celebrated his 75th birthday. He has spent six decades at the cobbler's last, building a long career in shoe repairs.
Nearly 1000 visitors on a soil testing and limestone exhibit car toured Columbus area. In Perry county five hundred forty soil samples were tested for acidity. farmers mapped fields and numbered sample sites to guide future liming. A $50 cash prize contest drew enterprising guesses on sour soils.
Syracuse minister Rev. John F. Miles argues ministers and all fathers must be present at home to guide their children. He stresses a strong father son bond, noting his own son as example, and urges mothers to involve daughters to prevent troubled outcomes. He asserts neglect leads to wayward youth.
Prof George A. Wilson of Syracuse University argues parents must curb daily conduct of both boys and girls to prevent youth from going wrong. He notes that ministers and well to do families are not exempt and urges early parental guidance to teach right from wrong.
Mothers are urged to give Mother Gray's Sweet Powders to children showing headache fever stomach troubles or irregular bowels. The advertisement promises easy pleasant dosing and effective relief and notes druggists everywhere carry the product.
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