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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1922
Page
3
A meeting of the Womens Auxiliary of the Glenford Dugan Post will be held Monday at 7 PM in the new American Legion hall. All members are urged to attend and bring pennies.
Funeral services were held for Opal Sherman aged 11 months at the Sherman home in Kimberly at 10 A M Rev Paul Kemper officiated Burial followed at New Marshfield Cause of death was whooping cough The Sherman family now has nine children.
Mrs Ivan Kinney and son Billy return from Chilli cothe and Cedar Grove West Virginia. Mr Kinney plans to join them early next week to pack and ship household goods to Rock Island Minnesota their future home. Mrs B W Wien returns from a motor trip to Zanesville and Cambridge. John Welch visits brother Martin Welch who is seriously ill at Mt Carmel hospital Columbus.
The pastor will preach tomorrow morning at 10 30 and evening at 7 00 delivering sermons titled Men and Apes and The Eleventh Hour Man. He will be away the next two Sundays and readers are asked to watch the paper for announcements during his absence.
Paul E Kemper, pastor, lists Sunday school at 9 30 A M and morning worship at 10 30 with the sermon The Presence of the Unseen. An Epworth League class meets at 6 30 P M, led by Henry Crawford, followed by evening worship at 7 30 with Wearied in the Greatness of the Way. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 P M.
Mrs. Nancy C. Renaker widow of Leon Renaker known as turkey king denies insinuations that Scobee Hardman a 22 year old World War veteran now under arrest for murder had long been infatuated with her and that she hid information about the crime.
Marriage notices list William R. Wilson, 20, and Murray Kenney, 17, at home in Buchtel with consent from John A. Wilson and Erren Keeney. Arthur Shumway, 19, and Hazel Anderson, 18, at home in Orbiston with consent of Thomas B. Shumway. William H. Marshall, 20, and Mildred B. Dowler, 19, both in Athens with consent of John W. Marshall. Rev. H. C. Smith named.
Re routing of United States mails over the Southern Pacific was ordered after a Santa Fe railroad tie up, official at the post office department announced today.
A blaze swept the Fred Smith farm three miles north of Toledo causing about 30000 dollars in losses to barns and other buildings today. Fire crews fought the flames as the fire destroyed storage and livestock facilities on the property.
About 400 maintenance of way men at Columbus shops may strike Monday as local union officials allege guards at the yards threaten worker safety. They claim the federal railway labor board failed to begin a July 25 wage-crease hearing. Also noted is a remark that English women smoke more than Americans.
A parrot nicknamed Dumbbell became the only mascot to evade an order to rid ships of pets as the Atlantic Fleet arrived. The feathered mascot remained onboard and drew attention from crew and visitors.
Observations notes Nelsonville’s primary results with 1000 vote lead for one candidate and broad majorities for others. Absent voters and local emigration to Michigan are mentioned, alongside city weed trimming and gardening by Frank Moore and Ed Dean.
London reports Cork fell to free state troops with six irregulars killed and 20 wounded. Troops received a hero’s welcome as irregulars burned six barracks and three brigades. Forty prisoners were taken, and attempts to disrupt Dublin London telegraph resumed normal service. Local note mentions Bob Switzer.
Hardware store chatter notes Billy Lax seeking fine seed from Ed and Frank after harvest. A playful jab at Josh Sands’s Tuesday victory as Nelsonville’s consolation prize for a private county fair booth. Athens reports a Tuesday primary with 2400 votes and praise for Elizabeth McGrath’s political impact. Thurman Morgan wins the handicap race despite crutches, finishing far ahead of rivals.
Blanche Pierce of near Guysville files in Athens county common pleas for partition of the Park King estate, deceased intestate. The suit names 29 heirs and details shares in 198 acres in Carthage township, plus $5,000 in personal property and $300 debts. G W Sewell is administrator. Pierce asserts a one fourth real estate share as Park King’s sister’s daughter. other heirs claim various fractions as children of Martha Caloway and Eliza Treasize, among others, with relatives listed across Ohio Indiana Montana and Kansas.
Elmer Dille of Lathrop files suit in Athens County cope mon pleas court against the Pederal Valley Railroad Co seeking 441.38 plus interest from August 14 1921 for 784 road ties supplied to the railroad. Anna Swartz petitions for divorce from Bre ery Swartz near Carsey Town in Athens County common pleas court alleging April 199% marriage and a child a 142 year old boy. She seeks divorce alimony and child costs.
London August 12. The illness of Lord Northcliffe the noted British publisher is described as pergu ently grave in a noon bulletin.
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