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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1928
Page
7
Ohio Chief Justice Carrington Marshall announced his Republican candidacy for the U S Senate to fill the late Frank Willis term. He said support from friends and an ambition for broader service prompted his decision.
Athens and surrounding area motorists can have brakes tested free this week as part of Better Brakes Week under the South East Ohio Motor club. A test site on Lorene avenue will measure braking distance for four and two wheel systems with 20 mph approach, sticker if passing, or a repair card if not.
Farm level advances as the farm price index climbs from 135 to 137 percent of the prewar level for February 15 to March 15. The 137 index is 11 points above the March 1926 figure.
Matthew Wright of near Hunterdon was arrested by Traffic Officer Fred Heck for driving without lights and driving while intoxicated. He pled not guilty, was found guilty on both charges, fined five dollars plus costs for no lights and one hundred dollars plus costs with six month license suspension, then jailed for inability to pay.
GLOUSTER April 23 report states council members obtained a dump ground from James Cavell. The site lies near old mine 2 with access near Cavell’s store close to the old light plant building on the Oakdale road.
Glouster chapter No. 280 Women of the Moose will hold an April birthday party Tuesday evening with a picnic supper. Members are asked to bring a favorite dish. Team practice after the lodge and a social time will follow.
The Department of Commerce announced amendments to air commerce rules effective June 1. Solo flight hours for instructors rise to 200, private pilots face extra tests, and 10 hours of solo flying required before licensing. Acrobatic maneuvers under 1,500 feet are forbidden and pilots cannot carry liquor or narcotics impaired passengers.
Baccalaureate services for Trimble high school were held at Trimble Christian church Sunday at 10:30 with music by the choirs directed by Miss Phyllis Sayre. Rev. L A Donnally gave the invocation, and Rev G B Courtney delivered the sermon on Essentials to a Successful Life. Commencement follows Friday at 7:30 in the Trimble MEF church.
Police seek Robert Lunsford after ten chickens stolen from Everett Holmes. Chickens found cooking on a stove at Lunsford home, with Holmes’ feather stubs identifying them. A warrant issued but Lunsford fled. Also: J F Pride 88 father of Drs W A and C A Pride died at Rockland area home. seven children survive. funeral set at Nichols home with Belpre cemetery burial.
Invitations are being received for the wedding of Miss Mildred Westfall and Paul Vale to be held Sunday April 29 at the bride’s Columbus home. Miss Westfall is praised as a fine young woman and Mr Vale, son of Eli Vale a mail clerk on the Hocking, is a promising Pomeroy attorney. They will start housekeeping in the Horton flat on East Main Street.
Mrs. Mary Park returns home Saturday after an early spring vacation of about a month with relatives and friends across the northern part of the state. Robert McKay, a junior at Ohio State University, visited Friday to end the week.
Dr A Y Wilcox urged First Presbyterian members to value ancestral heritage and traditions. He warned modernists against dismissing the past and cautioned against efforts to revive saloon era freedoms or resist government alcohol laws. He argued true liberty must honor inherited values and duties.
Historical note records the Betsy Ann voyage transferring ownership or passage from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati today, marking a regional maritime movement with implications for tied trade or local port activity.
A letter golf editor explains the puzzle where one word changes to another in a fixed number of strokes. Each step must be a full common word, with one letter changed at a time and no reordering. An example from yesterday shows rain to gain to grin to grip to drip to drop.
A speaker stressed that society should attach greater value to spiritual culture and urged every person to vow to help inspire the current generation to build a strong and noble life for the future centuries.
The Bird Man selected winners after a long deliberation. Joe Grubyk age 12 of Jacksonville won first prize in Class II, Rolland Bennett 11 of Athens second prize Class II, Lowell Miller 8 of Nelsonville first prize Class I, and Thomas Shelton 8 of Nelsonville second prize Class I. An honorable mention list includes Theresa Barrett and many others. teachers credited with perfect entries are listed.
The Ohio department of fish and game under Chief Thompson distributes mature Lake Erie fish to inland lakes including Buckeye Lake where two carloads of pickerel are sent for the first time. Breeding consignments go to twelve hatcheries and the Roosevelt game preserve receives a shipment by May 1. The move aims to open a ten day hunting season in Ohio in coming years.
Safety Director Edwin D. Barry opened an investigation into the disappearance of two alleged confidence men who had been arrested on a swindle charge. They were taken into custody at a downtown hotel Saturday after Columbus contractor George Seitz claimed they tried to defraud him of $13,000.
The Christian church choir aided by the Presbyterian choir repeated Shelley's cantata Our Lord Victorious in the Presbyterian church last night. Despite poor weather the main auditorium and the adjoining Sunday school room were comfortably filled with an estimated five hundred present.
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