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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1930
Page
2
Brief ad notes Cel W. 5S Koester and phone 322L for classified circulars distribution. Includes contact method and designated circulation details.
Emmett Hysell 40, a former Meigs County resident and World War veteran, died at the Dayton Soldiers' Home. He married a Chillicothe woman after the war. his wife died two years ago, leaving two children. He will be buried beside his late wife in Chillicothe as his father attends.
Mrs. Herbert Fink is seriously ill for several days. Sylvia McMaster of Columbus visits Mrs. A J Beaver and relatives. Patricia Sherman and Pauley Anna Kincaid are ill with chickenpox and measles. Several residents travel to Huntington and Ripley for visits. Vance Stewart remains seriously ill after a train injury. Rev F C Kreager returns to Columbus then to services. Mrs Zerkle, 76, ill after paralysis. attends Grand Army auxiliary events.
Sunday evening David Stowe living near Thomas Fork reported raiding of his coop. He woke Monday to find four hens and a setting hen missing, leaving only the brooder behind as evidence of the theft.
POMEROY April 15 All crash victims at the mouth of Kerri Run are improving except Yolanda Dilgard 12 whose head injury required a Columbus specialist. Mrs Edna Cooper took her to Columbus. Mrs Clara Dilgard had a minor facial cut. Others escaped minor injuries as police name Fr Scott the driver at fault. Scott’s prior shooting by Jacob Wright was noted.
Four year old daughter of Mr. Mattox on Lower Front Street was bitten by a dog owned by Charles Lambert. The dog was killed and Dr. McCullough treated the child. A warning was issued as other vicious dogs in the area are to be destroyed if not confined. Additionally two Athens County dogs raided Charles Bobo’s sheep in Columbia Township. one dog was killed and the other held in custody.
In Middleport on Sunday two men were arrested on suspicion. They claimed to be John Scotchhall, 40, and Harry Scotchhall, 38, brothers from Tyrone New York. Sheriff Willock fingerprinted them and will hold them for a Bureau of Identification report.
Jack Covert has been ill and absent from school for a week or more, prompting concern from teachers and family. The note records his absence and ongoing illness with no further details provided.
The Ohio University Fine Arts Building hosts its second stained glass exhibit in the art gallery. Prof. Frank J. Roos announces the display runs daily from 9 AM to 4 PM until Monday April 21, inviting public attendance from the east steps of the building.
Ohio University's band will accompany Lieut. Gov. John T. Brown representing Gov. Myers Y. Cooper at the Pomeroy Bend Apple Blossom Festival this Wednesday. Curtis W. Janssen, band director, announced the band will have a prominent program part and members of the Athens Kiwanis Club will provide transportation.
Fifteen Meigs County youths have enrolled for the Citizen's Training Camp at Fort Thomas Kentucky. Enrollees include Owen J. Campbell Harold J. Fisher from Pomeroy Lewis I. Johnson Frederick W. Kanouse Don E. Mourning from Middleport William Betz Lester L. Clark Oren R. Nease William D. Stewart and Charles Bowers from Racine Marvin Roberts Lawrence Sellers and Herbert Zicher from Syracuse Bart Harden Rolandus and Carl Biddle from Long Bottom.
April 15 report that veteran traveling salesman C. Fisher resumes duties with his firm after more than a month off for an eye operation. He will work until recalled to the hospital for surgery on his other eye.
April 15 report lists several prominent residents in poor health. Cc Reed back from Florida and ill with neuritis, Raymond Pullins son of Prof J M Pullins ill with pneumonia, T W Bengel clerk of courts homebound with cold relapse, Prosecuting Attorney D H Peoples sick and absent from duties, W H Smith 77 near Pomeroy seriously ill with heart and kidney trouble.
The front of Mrs. Adda MacCombs’s sedan on West Union Street was smashed when a parked truck owned by Theodore Sinclair rolled from an alley onto West Union Street. The truck tires and axle were damaged after the brakes allegedly loosened causing it to roll, collide with the MacCombs vehicle and injure the street lawn.
A telegram from Charleston informs that Governor Cooper will miss the Apple Blossom Festival in Pomeroy due to a prior engagement in Cincinnati. Lieutenant Governor John Brown will attend in his stead as West Virginia’s Governor Conley extended an official invitation to Ohio’s chief executive.
Dr and Mrs Leland Welch of Gassaway West Virginia announce the birth of a daughter on Monday April 14. She is the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs C J Welch of Middleport and Mr and Mrs Jacob Sherman of Athens.
Miss Elizabeth Steen of California leaves for Bananal Island to study the Chavantes and Jehovah Indians in the savage Brazilian jungles. She is joined by Lieut Col. Fernandes D Acosta and an interpreter and plans to search central Brazil for a tribe unseen by white explorers.
Applications for government markers for the slaves of war veterans must be secured from Mrs. John Finsterwald before April 25 so they can be sent with April applications. If not filed by April 25 they cannot be filed before September. Markers are available for graves of veterans from any of the five wars in which the United States has participated.
Elyria Chronicle Telegram challenged by Common Pleas Judge A R Webber over publishing witness statements in a libel trial involving William Peer versus David Gobson and Samuel Horwitz. The court faced contempt-of-court questions as the paper defied a warning to refrain from printing.
Youngstown April 15 Indicted on a charge of operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent in the theft of an airplane from Bernard Airport February 11 John B Purnell an aviator will be tried before Judge C S Turnbaugh tomorrow This is the first Ohio case under this statute for taking an airplane Purnell formerly worked at Bernard Airport He took the plane up and crashed causing about 3000 in damages Purnell says a mechanic at the airport gave him permission to use the plane
Police in Cleveland used mounted officers to disperse a crowd of Communists and spectators. Several people sustained slight bruises and cuts during the scuffle on April 15.
A crowd at Public Square became disorderly after a soap box speaker pulled a cloth from his pocket and shouted down with that flag and with this one. Mounted officers dispersed the crowd. No arrests and no serious injuries were reported.
Three former superintendents of the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphans’ Home at Xenia are sharply criticized in a report filed with State Auditor Tracy by Examiner F. M. Hoppengarner. The audit covers accounts for June 25, 1925, to June 10, 1929.
A millinery department unveils 150 new spring hats in AUN colors. Styles for all head sizes offered at unusually low prices across three price groups.
A special purchase offers men’s felt hats in light and dark colors with all new spring patterns in all sizes and prices up to 4.00.
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