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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1929
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Henry Bardain hosted at Adams Street on Sunday with guests including Mr and Mrs John Hay and family and Edgar Racer of Shelby along with Mrs John Fisk and Miss Bernice Wend.
The Connett Sunday School sponsors a lawn fete to be held Thursday evening August 8 on the church lawn. Earlier dates were canceled due to rain.
Mrs. Cecil Shafer entertained with three tables of bridge on Friday evening at her home. Out-of-town guests included Mrs. J. W. Von Free and Mrs. Eugene Shafer from Columbus, Mrs. Frank Freer and Mrs. Fred Edington from Madison, West Virginia, and Miss Ruby Le Vier of Athens. Edington won the guest prize, Kelly top score, and Eugene Shafer had the low score.
Herman B. Finney aged 79 died yesterday at the home of his son W A Finney in The Plains. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 PM at the son's residence. Burial will follow in Athens Cemetery beside his wife who passed away six weeks earlier.
At the Hague reparations conference Briand and Stresemann urged good will and fraternal action. Briand spoke of a difficult task and nations learning interdependence for peace, while Stresemann noted politics beyond economics will shape deliberations.
Nelsonville city officials approve Ordinance No. 717 redefining police and fire roles. The police department will consist of a chief and one patrolman, with salaries set at 1890 and 1500 dollars respectively and bonds at 1000 and 506 dollars. Special police will be paid four dollars daily.
Ordinance No. 718 fixes the Fire Chief salary at 1400 per year with monthly pay and a 1000 bond. The chief gains weighmaster and janitor duties plus free residence and two weeks paid vacation. Six volunteers earn 4 per annum plus 1 per fire and 0.50 per drill. The city budget for 1930 totals 91560.46 with allocations to sinking fund general water works and other departments. Mayor Eb erle reports June and July fines totaling 206.20.
Mrs Stanley Dew hosted a Thursday evening bridge party in Columbus honoring guest Mrs J W Von Flee. Three tables played with Mrs Cecil Shafer winning the high score trophy and Mrs Walter Mechem lew assisting. A luncheon followed the play.
Mr and Mrs James Hartman entertained at dinner Sunday evening in honor of Mrs Susie Streets and Mr and Mrs Ray Simms and family of Steubenville. Other guests included Mrs George Goden swagger and sons Cleveland Mrs Irene Green Columbus Mrs Lawrence Lines Mrs Nettie Cook and Mrs Joe Tignor.
Aug 6 report says Superintendent and Mrs H E K Uther and family left yesterday to spend two weeks fishing in Canada. Their destination is Lake Timagami, 500 miles north of Toronto, with travel by way of Niagara Falls.
New York August 6. Less than two hours after U S Attorney Charles H Tuttle warned tones here a Chinese laundry owner Chin Lee was shot to death. He was struck by three bullets and two men were seen fleeing the scene. A .38 pistol was found near Lee and another pistol was found nearby.
Miss Enai Nelson clerk of the Athens County Common Pleas Court is recuperating in Charleston West Virginia after an illness. Attendants say she became ill more than a week ago and she may return within the next week.
Nelsonville Twileht league All Stars topple Buckeyes 6 to 1 with John Longley besting F Woodson. Buckeyes score in sixth. G Smith makes standout catch. Next, All-Stars travel to Murray City on Sunday August 11.
The Chauncey Coal Company baseball team Big Bailey Run defeated Kimberly Sun day 10 to 9 in eleven innings. Jim Thompson turned in a double play as the key feature of the game.
A Columbus packer ship ment arrived at White Front Grocery and Meat Market in Neelsonville on Saturday and was inspected by the City Board of Health at the store owner's request. The meat was spoiled and none was sold locally, with the shipment returned to Columbus.
A euchre party is announced for this evening at St Patrick's Parish Hall in Buchtel. The welcome is extended to all attendees.
William La Varre, a young South Carolina and Georgia newspaper publisher, sues International Paper & Power Company seeking 2 500 000 damages. He alleges the firm agreed to loan 876 060 to buy southern newspapers but then sought control of publications he already owned.
Eddie Smith, a Negro, was assessed a fine of 663 and costs in Glouster court after pleading guilty to intoxicating liquor. Ambrose Gibbs promised to cover 116.30 in August and 100 in September. Smith was arrested Sunday by deputies after liquor was traced to several suspects in a Saturday automobile tragedy. He was jailed in Athens and arraigned Monday in Glouster.
Aug 6 Ralph Ducky Drake and Samuel Woods, former Redtown residents working in Dayton, were arraigned before Mayor Gaskalla. Drake pled guilty to drunkenness and driving while intoxicated, receiving fines of 25 and 100 dollars plus costs. Woods also pled guilty to drunkenness, fined 25 dollars plus costs totaling 33.80 after his father paid. Both arrested Sunday evening as they drove through Glouster. prior report to mayor prompted action.
Lefty Webb former local pitcher for Philo pitched a one hit game against Middleport on Philo grounds. Webb struck out 19 and won 2 0 in Sunday’s matchup while aiding Philo in a strong season showing. Webb is the son in law of Marshal and Mrs Henry Williams of this town.
GLOUSTER Aug. 6 Funeral services for Mr and Mrs Lenzie Smith who died from injuries after an automobile collision near Jacksonville will be held at the M E Church in Jacksonville Wednesday afternoon at o'clock. Burial follows in the Taylor Ridge cemetery. The bodies were moved from C F Wallace funeral home to their home in Jacksonville. A daughter Mrs Charles Peterson of Longacre W Va arrived Monday.
With Mrs W. W. Leadbetter as counsellor a group of Glouster Standard Beares girls are spending the week at the Lancaster Campgrounds.
The Alvesenger Classified Ads highlight a 1926 Ford roadster offered for sale as a bargain if sold quickly after a recent overhaul. It also mentions a farm hand needed, a team of 2 and 3 year old colts, and cattle or cows accepted in exchange. Coal delivered at $8 per ton with orders this month.
Milton Bronner reports from London on a German weekly Das Tagebuch critique of the Versailles treaty. The piece notes German monarchist and Junker critics complain of Allied retribution while admitting the treaty is severe, yet foresee worse terms from German leaders if the Allies had won. It cites Helfferich and Count Roon proposals of postwar German dominance and redrawn borders across Europe.
Athens County agricultural agents report the corn borer detected on a Rome Township farm. K B Oltman notes entomologists in Toledo confirmed the finding. Scouts say infestations extend to Good Hope Township Hocking Perry and MeConnelsville area wi th 66 federal agents in Eastern Ohio and ten in Athens County.
The editor cites a 1917 note showing Hindenburg and Ludendorff's proposals for postwar borders and occupations. They advocate permanent German control of iron and coal regions in Lorraine, occupation of Belgium and Holland under German influence, a Poland as a German Austro-Hungarian tutelage, and displacement of French citizens from ceded territories.
A quarantine will ban movement of infected corn into non infected zones. Officials outline a line from Belmont to Monroe and Nobte to Guernsey, through Perry, Fayette Green counties, north through Montgomery, to Darke County near Indiana. VT Heald directs borers spouta operations from New Lexington with headquarters at Meaconnelaville and frequent section visits.
Funer al services for Miss Amanda Selly, who died at her home near Sharp sburg, are scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the home. Burial will take place in Mt. Hermon Cemetery.
The City Manning Commission will convene in the Council Chamber at City Building tonight to discuss proposed changes to the Athens map. The alterations divide districts into industrial, commercial, or residential zones, require Cornell approval, and will lead to an ordinance once final authorizations are received.
A grant of voting rights was issued yesterday to Laura Ash of Pittsburgh. The document mentions Ash, former pastor of the Methodist Protestant Church at Uhrichsville, in a probate or legal context.
William Tump of Rockbridge, 61, remained in serious condition after a tree he was cutting fell on him. The incident occurred as he worked near Lancaster, with authorities investigating the workplace mishap.
At a Monday night board meeting of the Athens Country Club Dr. Covert resigned as chairman of the Membership Committee and from club membership. M. Kerr was elected to succeed him as chairman of the committee.
The W. Brown Contracting Company of Chillicothe won a county bid for about two miles of new road from the New York Central railroad crossing on Main Street in New Lexington running south. The bid of $48,910.06 calls for a concrete base and finish by December 1.
Relatives of Treary Reichen urge Sheriff Clifford Wilson to reopen the Ban Toy store killing case after the coroner's ruling of a heart stroke as the cause. They allege foul play and seek a new investigation.
Farmers in the north end of Perry county report average yields near a bushel of wheat per cere and insist the crop is unusually good.
For the second day in a row the Cunard Liner Mauretania set new one day speed records in a bid to beat the Bremen's four days 17 hours 42 minutes crossing from Cherbourg to New York.
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