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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1926
Page
8
Bert Davis of Nelsonville pled guilty before Magistrate J. P. Miller to a possession charge. He paid a $100 fine plus costs and was released. County officers and state inspectors had found a cache of beer near his home during a larger liquor-law probe. Davis admitted the liquor was his but denied ownership of the cache. Two other men in the township are wanted on liquor violations.
C. J. Morgan a well known horse dealer from Logan is hospitalized at Cherrington after developing blood poisoning from a left leg scratch last Tuesday and he remained there after being taken Saturday night.
Eighty lineal descendants of Levi Swan gathered at grandson J. C. Swan’s home in Athens on August 1 1926 for the annual reunion. The meeting elected A. F. Swan as president and listed a long roster of attendees from Ohio West Virginia Indiana and Connecticut.
Washington reports two of eight weekly broadcasting status changes likely to draw complaints. WRNY in New York moved from 258 meters to 374.5 meters and WBNY from 209.7 to 322.4 meters. Listeners in New York City warn the middle wave bands suffer bedlam due to the shifts.
Police captured two alleged safe crackers after a shootout with ten detectives in Toledo. Bullets heavily damaged the Brundage Brothers Wholesale office during the confrontation.
Don Logan Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson, underwent surgery at the hospital Sunday morning. Attaches report his condition to be serious at first but now favorable.
Miss Esther Hysel of Rochester Lytle store enjoys a summer break with friends at Wierton West Virginia. Mr and Mrs M F Weymueller of North Market announce the birth of a son Sunday morning. Mother and son are reported to be doing nicely. Grandparents are Dr and Mrs Gibson of Glouster and F W Weymueller of New Straitsville. The name given to the new son is Robert Gibson.
Logan correspondent notes H. O. Tom of Alexander Minn sends a card from August 2 recounting a vacation trip that has carried him through six states. He plans to visit North Dakota and South Dakota next, with good fishing and fine weather reported and no Ohio sightings.
Henry Coepe of Adams street Nelsonville pleaded guilty to possession of intoxicating liquor. He was fined 100 dollars and costs by Pearl Helwig justice of the peace Athens. Special officers Dalton and Stieber found a half pint of whisky during a Saturday home search.
O P Nietzel of the Farm Bureau Service company will deliver an address on Service For Farmers at Hebbardsville Presbyterian Church Thursday at 8 pm. Mrs Charles Mansfield discusses Our Boys and Girls. Paul Mansfield speaks on Four Years Club Work. Rev Howard Warner presents Community Building. N E Mills covers Our County Farm Bureau. John Lax presides. H P Dutton announces the program.
A blaze yesterday destroyed the Mountain Springs hotel at Greenwood Lake New Jersey injuring six people. Twenty four vacationers escaped unharmed as firefighters battled the flames and limited the spread of the fire.
Funeral services for Melvin D. Shaw, former state senator, are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon in Columbus. The longtime public figure served in the state senate and was known for his community work in the capital region.
Harry Nihiser of this city, attending the C. M. T. Co. at Fort Thomas Kentucky, has earned an Excellent pennant for his camp work. He is the only local group member to receive the honor so far. He also holds first place in the wrestling squad according to the message received by relatives.
A shipment of fifty ring necked pheasants arrived in Logan on Friday for distribution in Hocking County. Deputy Game Protector C. C. Higgins will oversee the release, part of a plan totaling 400 birds to be released this year, raised at the Roosevelt Game Farm in Scioto County.
Farmers auto insurance will receive attention at a Jacksonville rally and open Grange meeting at the Jacksonville school house on Thursday evening August 15. The program begins at 8 o'clock with remarks by E R Jacoby and talks by County Agent Johnson and H G Henry on Farm Bureau topics. Miss Estelle Goddard will speak on Farm Woman and the Farm Bureau and the boys and girls club program is featured. Ben Ball will preside.
Louise Cullums of 9 Franklin Avenue fell from a window seat during a rain storm injuring her left side. She was alone at the time.
Automobile license funds totaling 3029.02 were given to County Auditor Fred C. Cornwell in August and dispersed to cities villages and the county treasurer. Athens led with 738.20, Nelsonville 350.20, Gloucester 234.02, plus other allocations to Albany Amesville Buchtel Chauncey Coolville Jacksonville Trimble and Athens county. An equal August amount was sent to the state department for licenses sold through the automobile club.
Harry Buck of Guysville changed his plea from not guilty to intoxication this morning. Magistrate Pearl Helwig fined Buck 100 dollars with 90 suspended on good behavior. Buck had been arraigned Saturday for intoxication and tearing up a promissory note, with the latter case to go to Common Pleas court.
The C. D. Shafer Company, Athens, is the region’s largest grocery jobber serving eleven counties in Ohio and parts of West Virginia and central Ohio. It employs 50 plus workers with $8,000 monthly wages, runs 22 company cars plus sales autos, and operates wholesale houses in Nelsonville and storage at Parkersburg and Pomeroy. The modern plant uses a Dictaphone, pneumatic tubes, a cigar humidor, and a sprinkler system. It handles groceries and related goods, stocks in car load lots, and serves local retailers and residents from Athens and surrounding centers.
Two deadly grade crossing crashes claimed nine lives. In Delaware four people died when a car drove onto a Pennsy passenger train after waiting for a freight to pass. In North Carolina five girls were killed and another injured when a train struck their vehicle between Gastonia and Bessemer.
UREF A Miller and Harry Groschowski were held today in Toledo on suspicion in the beating death of Simeon Lee 68. Lee was found on his farm Sunday morning dying from injuries after a severe beating. a bloodstained club was found nearby. Lawrence Durham summoned authorities and Lee died at a hospital.
Washington reports that bootleggers and homebrewers, if caught, face heavy taxation by the treasury department under newly issued regulations. Assistant Secretary Andrews directs taxing stills and imposing a substantial penalty tax on diverted alcohol as part of the tax provisions.
The article notes that bootleggers failing to declare income invites further taxes. It quotes Andrem asserting that the new tax system will render the Treasury nearly self supporting and the Tax Service largely self funding.
London report says author Israel Zangwill died yesterday in a Midhurst Sussex nursing home at age 62. The notice notes his prominence as a writer and his death during the late summer.
Investors of all sizes can purchase THE BUCKEYE 5 Interest-from-date Certificates of Deposit across Ohio and distant U S regions. Transactions can be by mail with same courteous service and confidentiality. Remittances by registered mail draft check express or money order. Resources exceed $32,600,000 with $1,350,000 reserve and surplus.
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