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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1928
Page
9
Rural ads list farm stock and hogs buyers, live stock routes, and car parts. Occupation notices include female housework help and general employment at local addresses with phone numbers. Retailers tout lamps, paint, linseed oil, refrigerators, and hardware cash sales with special discounts.
Funeral notices, cards of thanks, used car listings, car service ads, and merchant promotions from Nelsonville area papers. Includes funeral acknowledgments for Swingle and Beecher families, used car bargains from McFarland's Garage, and local business services such as tire, battery, ignitions, and electric irons. Also lists clairvoyant ad by Lelia M. Wright and various shop promotions for Mills Electric Shop and Home Bakery products.
Ordinance No. 547 enacts penalties for operating motor vehicles while intoxicated in Athens Ohio. First offense carries fines from 100 to 500 dollars, six months to one year license suspension, and potential jail time. second offenses raise fines to 100 to 1000 dollars, 10 to 60 days in jail, and longer suspensions.
Bids will be received by the Nelsonville Board of Education clerk until 12 noon on Tuesday August 21 1928 for furnishing good black No 6 m coal run over 1 1/2 inch 6 ft by 2 ft screen to school buildings in Nelsonville Ohio for the term 1928 1929. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Washburn Clerk Board of Education.
Prices shown for fruits and vegetables include Maryland cantaloupes at 2.50 per basket, Florida lemons at 7.25 to 8.50 per box, Georgia peaches at 1.35 to 2 per bushel, and potatoes at 1.50 per 100 pound sack. Other items list varied equivalents across crates, boxes, and baskets with regional origin notes.
Athens Messenger seeks a local sales representative to handle a new Dayton Ohio manufactured electric range. The position offers an unusual opportunity with many selling features and requires first class men with sales experience.
A silver loving cup was presented to the Kiwanis baseball team as winners of the Junior League tournament during a Kiwanis luncheon. B T Grover gave the trophy. The team, coached by Harold Wise, included Pearl Woodard and others, and had lost the district title 1 0 to Caldwell when rain halted the game. A Salvation Army fund campaign proposal was tabled for decision at the next meeting.
Louis Tracy, prolific author of detective stories and novels, died yesterday at his home near Ashford, Kent. Born in 1863, he was educated in Yorkshire and France and pursued journalism with travels in India and the United States.
Airplanes from Peshawar and Rasalpur were sent to warn natives in the Indus valley as a glacier break released a huge wall of water rushing toward the plains of British India near Simla.
Three new street lights by Southern Ohio Electric on East State Street between Morris Avenue and Carpenter Street were lit for the first time. The refractory type lights shine directly down, using three types from different companies to compare performance. Observers note better lighting of street and sidewalks versus the old system, though complaints linger about dense summer foliage reducing some visibility.
London reports 1 800 000 unemployed with roughly 20 000 more out of work weekly since May. The Sunday Times warns the issue could dominate Parliament and the 1929 election. The Industrial Transference Board notes coal and other industries cannot absorb the displaced workers. A 2 1/2 percent rail wage cut begins as workers accept shorter hours to spread work. Economists urge rapid reorganization and cooperative trading to combat the crisis.
Voting throughout the thirtieth district home to James T. Begg for governor Republican nomination was unusually heavy. Begg headquarters claim he will poll about 10,000 votes in Erie, Sandusky, Seneca, Huron, and Wood counties.
Cleveland records a fatal traffic toll rise to 131 after Walter Fliegel aged 6 is killed by a truck while he and playmate Edward Piockowski aged 7 bent over a catch basin for a lost ball. Howard is hospitalized in St Alexis with both legs broken.
Carl Alfred Powell 29 son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Powell of Delaware was found dead along the private right of way of the Columbus Delaware Marion Electric Traction company north of Worthington Coroner Joseph Murphy ruled death by own action a .22 caliber bullet wound was on the body and a gun was found nearby Powell was listed as a salesman but had not been employed.
Ohio university cast presents George Kelley's 1926 play Craig's Wife in Ewing auditorium at 8 pm. Harold Evans directs with Laverne Matthew, Victor Miller in leading roles and Beatrice Mellick assisting. Set designed by Edith Way with velour curtains and artist-built scenery.
A Nelsonville Athens traction car struck a passenger sedan at the second crossing beyond Courtney hill. The auto carrying Mrs E R Nelson and a large party from Columbus was pushed off the track but all aboard escaped unharmed. Both drivers claimed they did not see the other and the motorman said he sounded the whistle.
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