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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1922
Page
5
The April meeting of the East Side Parent-Teacher Association is set for Tuesday at 3 PM at the East Side building. Miss Irma Stanfield will speak on relief work. mothers urged to attend. Meeting date changed to Tuesday afternoon.
Four hundred strikers led by about a dozen women armed with clubs stones pokers and pepper marched on the Amond Coal Company New Condor mine in Uniontown Pa early today attempting to turn back workers. The women fought and hurled rocks and pepper at miners and guards. Superintendent W J Klingensmith was temporarily blinded by pepper. Two women were arrested.
An aerial wedding will take place today above Times Square with vows heard at 2 pm. Miss Sarah Cockefair of Brooklyn and Albert Schlafke, athletic director at a veterans camp on Tupper Lake, will wed as Belvin W. Maynard performs the ceremony and Louise Webb serves as flower girl. Afterward the plane will fly to Schenectady and Syracuse then Tupper Lake for their honeymoon.
Ten prisoners confined in the Athens county jail celebrate Ohio University colors after interior repainting and plaster repairs. The cellblocks now feature green and white, matching the university emblem, with the renovation recently completed.
Three investigations proceed to determine cause and responsibility for the derailment of Ohio and Lillie Kanawha passenger train No. 44 at Kriegbaums Crossing near Philo. Engineer Elmer Prestin of Parkersburg West Virginia was killed. 11 others slightly injured. Authorities consider loose earth dragged onto the crossing by road workers may have created gaps between planking and rails.
Bullets fly in St Louis as two automobile bandits rob Rudolph Kohn secretary of a grocery chain in the West End. They seize a bag of store collections and fire on pursuers. Kohn, shot at, pursued them in his car but had not returned by last report. Incendiary fire threatens a church in Akron amid church faction disputes. In Belfast fighting resumes with one death.
Washington April 24 Justice Bailey of the district of Columbia supreme court ruled the alien property custodian may keep $750,000 in property from Grover Cleveland Bergdoll if he is convicted of desertion and deemed a fugitive. Bergdoll, brother of draft dodger Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, is jailed in Leavenworth for draft law noncompliance.
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