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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1928
Page
3
Baron's Bakery in Nelsonville installs an Allison Century high speed mixer. It speeds dough mixing from 40 minutes to six minutes and handles 340 loaves every 15 minutes, marking the shop as among the most modernly equipped in southern Ohio.
Mrs O Mara and Mrs Spencer return home after a week at Lancaster campgrounds. Mr and Mrs Ira Ruscoe and their two sons Raymond and Forrest visited relatives on Sunday. The Sanders family and two Columbus children joined relatives here. Lesline and son William spent Sunday with Mrs Pete Lesline visiting her parents. Ed Love spends the week at Buckeye Lake with Mrs Barron and Miss Phoebe Clements. Harry Kelly and William Morgan joined Mr and Mrs McGovern in Columbus for a Sweet William club gathering.
Frequent clashes between election booth officials and challengers from the honest elections committee disrupted early balloting in Cleveland. Harley Doncaster, secretary, said booth judges and police ejected fifty five committee representatives from precincts in wards eight, eleven, twelve, seventeen, eighteen, twenty two, twenty five and thirty one.
Mrs. R. H. Burson of North Court Street suffered severe cuts to the head and arm when a new Dodge automobile crashed into the Fisher station bridge Sunday afternoon. Her husband, driving the car, was not familiar with the model and lost control during the demonstration ride.
Elizabeth Blake Mechem wife of A G Mechem a longtime Nelsonville resident died at home after seven weeks with colitis on the eve of her 21st wedding anniversary She was active in church groups and women’s temperance union Funeral Thursday at 2 p m at the West Washington Street residence conducted by Rev W Scott Cook burial Greenlawn She left husband three sons Walter Harold and Stanley, two sisters and a brother
Mr and Mrs Harry Hunter and family and Mr and Mrs George Hunter with children from Linden Heights Ohio visited here Saturday and Sunday. Also guests were Mr and Mrs Fred Seibert of Columbus Sunday of Mrs Leoline Seibert and Mr and Mrs E M Gilbert.
The governor admonished Sheriff Williams to cooperate with observers and maintain order while promising inquiry into affidavits of liquor law violations. Williams denied drinking, saying only reports were made to him regarding the observers and county affairs.
At turn near Fisher the driver pressed accelerator instead of brake and backed into a bridge. The impact punched the bridge through the car rear and severed Mrs. Burson’s head. Two other passengers escaped injury.
William Dailey of Athens pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined $10 plus costs and jailed until payment. Pat Pritts manager at a garage near Nelsonville pled not guilty to selling liquor to Ralph Taylor and awaits trial Thursday at 10. Emerson Ratliff of Richland Avenue changed a reckless driving plea to guilty, fined $19 and costs and released.
Mrs. Fred Snyder aged 70 died in Mansfield after being crushed between a car driven by Martin Heubner and a telephone pole. In Columbus Albert Smith nine was killed when struck by a falling center pole from a giant side swing at a South Side playground.
Deputy Sheriff Heck and Constable Blower answered a report of trouble near Mine No. 10 at Derthick Monday night. A Nelsonville man with two women had arrived and left before arrival. Two intoxicated men were found in a touring car on the Musselwhite bridge and arrested. names given as Sam B. Nicholson a Cleveland bond salesman and Rankin. They will be arraigned today. The car was towed to a local garage.
In Glouster Kosty and Modoc’s Adam Shafer pleaded guilty before Mayor Gormley to drunkenness and disturbance charges. Kosty fined 6 dollars and 6 costs for two charges and 25 dollars and costs for trespass, Shafer fined 5 dollars and costs. Kosty jailed in Athens after inability to pay. both men were arrested Sunday at Modoc and jailed in Glouster.
Aug 14 Chauncey Mine No. 25 set to resume operation as 60 workers rode the labor train from Glouster to Modoc mines, up from 49 Monday. National Guard officials attended, while Sunday Creek Coal Co arranged bus service meeting trains to haul workers to Mine No. 10 at Derthk, aiding Corning residents seeking southward jobs.
Mr and Mrs Gall Faires traveled to Erie Pennsylvania for the fifth annual New York Central lines track meet He and H H Mees from Pomeroy will represent the Hobson division in the horseshoe tournament at the event They expect to return to Glouster Thursday night
Ellis Earich Trimble, Mr. and Mrs. Harry McDonald, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Albright spent a week or weekend in Columbus as guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McDonald.
Mr and Mrs Emmett Learich hosted a Sunday chicken dinner at their Trimble residence. Attending were Mr and Mrs Seth Hannon and daughter Wisconsin, Mr and Mrs Frank Kirkendall of Circle Hill, and Mr and Mrs Reinhold Deh.
Mrs Julia Hayes of Nelsonville died last night at St Francis hospital Columbus where she had been taken for treatment Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10 am at the Pilgrim Holiness church Chestnut street She is survived by her husband Fred Hayes and several brothers and sisters
Walter Windle was fined 100 dollars plus costs and had his license suspended for six months after pleading guilty to operating an automobile while intoxicated. The incident occurred in Nelsonville on August 14, with Mayor I J Eberle imposing the penalty.
John F. Gleason, 30, allegedly intoxicated, climbs Park Street home to its ridgepole before neighbors and a crowd of over 200. Police coaxed him down and jailed him on intoxication charges awaiting mayoral court arraignment tonight.
A man with his daughters Rosemary and Grace and Mrs. Joe Jonas were aboard a Colum bus. The brief report lists the individuals involved and mentions the vehicle in a local transit incident.
Alfred E. Smith and Herbert Hoover prepare to duel on unemployment and prosperity, using or disputing Bureau of Labor statistics. Democrats accuse Republicans of rising unemployment while Hoover touts gains in phones radios and cars amid debates on tariffs and job security.
Ben Goldberg, after weeks of treatment at Grant hospital in Columbus, was discharged Sunday. He will stay in Cleveland for about three weeks before returning to Glouster.
Delegates from Columbus district of the Ohio conference set committees for the Sabina session August 21 to 27. The list includes ministerial delegates like Rev. Rice Cardington and Rev. Rosenberger Columbus, and lay delegates such as Rudolph Shira Butler and Glen Miles Columbus, covering education finance and missions.
Ohio briefs report a fatal injury when Harry Urbach, 29, was struck by an Erie passenger train in Cleveland. In Painesville, Maud Norton, 42, Perry, woke from a fourteen day coma after a staircase fall and is expected to fully recover.
In Cleveland on August 14 a prosecutor branch investigates the accidental shooting of William McKinzie, 32, killed by a shotgun in the hands of Anna Graham, 24, at the Graham residence. The victim, invited by the Grahams during a visit from McKinzie’s wife, was shot upstairs when Graham, thinking the gun unloaded, fired.
Thelma Cox, 17, died when an auto driven by Charles Thomas, 23, hit a chuck hole in a Heights street and overturned. Charles Thomas was charged with negligence as residents demand road repairs amid complaints to county commissioners and Garfield Heights officials.
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