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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1927
Page
5
A collage of vacation notes and social visits across Athens includes Rolland Jones leaving for a Chicago trip after earning a BA, Alice Edwards receiving a degree at Ohio University, and numerous family and friend gatherings at homes, cottages, and colleges. The piece lists many trips, reunions, weddings, and hospital updates, with names such as Peters, Edwards, Hopkins, and Poston woven through Athens society.
Questions ask who wrote Over There and who popularized Alexander s Ragtime Band. Other items include lyrics lines about river in Russia theme for a film, composers for The Chocolate Soldier and Sweetheart, Ain t she sweet punch line, southern city blues, a barbershop classic, Yankee Doodle origins, and My Old Kentucky Home author.
Eight airplanes qualified for the Dole flight to Hawaii scheduled to start tomorrow at Oakland Airport California with a ninth aircraft awaiting final clearance as preparations advance for the long Pacific hop.
Trant will stage qualifying flights today with all planes prepared. The Dallas Spirit piloted by Capt William Erwin is excluded from qualification. Erwin plans a morning test flight in which he hopes to circle the world aloft. The airfield is disciplined with gaudy aircraft out early and engines ready after hours of work. Some pilots plan short flights today.
Boston authorities report defense lawyers may file a new appeal to Governor Fuller if all other efforts fail to save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti from the electric chair. The move would hinge on allegedly new evidence as the seven year legal fight continues.
The author and conservationist James Oliver Curwood dies after a week long illness. His funeral will be held Tuesday afternoon at the First Congregational church in Owosso, with burial beside his parents in the local graveyard.
The Pittsburgh and West Virginia railway filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to acquire control of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway by purchasing capital stock.
Columbus Aug 15. C J West, statistician for the bureau of agricultural economics, predicts a bountiful Ohio crop this season with some fluctuations. Corn may reach 164 million bushels, barley up about one third to 4 825 000 bushels, oats steady in the north with delays in the southeast, and potatoes up by one million bushels. Apple yields fall short due to forest losses while grapes rise about 10 percent.
National Guardsmen aided in the search for the body of Robert Eighner 22 after a Wil low Beath windstorm capsized two small boats. Three other Detroit residents Mary Bookstein Seymour Whale and Samuel Eighner were rescued when their boat upset near shore.
A narrator debates how to handle a suspicious social world around Miss Lincoln at The Larches. The mother-in-law warns against dropping the acquaintance, fearing exposure of a hidden gang, while urging continued social access with care and guards.
Chauncey residents Dr Bernard C Syx and Dr Darrel W Withem pass the Ohio State Board exam in Columbus. Both are Cincinnati Dental School graduates and Chauncey High School alumni, Syx class of 1923 and Withem class of 1917, with Syx practicing in Toledo.
Inclement Sunday morning weather reduced attendance at local Sunday schools and churches in Chauncey. First Christian church reports 110 in Sunday school with morning and evening services led by Rev. H. H. Wien and Rev. V. Ahlbrand. Lauretta Fielder led the Christian Endeavor service. A business congregational meeting is announced. Mr. and Mrs. Nile Dew and children visited Corning for a birthday dinner.
Miss Alice Dew of this city spends a week in Lancaster visiting cousin Louisa Moody. Mrs. Catharine Johnston of Columbus visits Chauncey with her sons Earl and Burg Johnston and families. Theron Goodson, employed in Pontiac Michigan, visits relatives in Chauncey. Rollie Figgins, Columbus employee, spent Sunday here. Clyde Fewell and Curtis Locke, Columbus workers, end week in Chauncey with their parents. Mr and Mrs Eldon Sapp return.
In August 16 report from Rapid City South Dakota Democrats fear how to handle the Al Smith presidential surge. They plan a September meeting to map strategy and determine how their 10 votes will align at the next Democratic national convention chaired by F W Bilger of the state committee.
The speaker issued a call for a statewide Democratic gathering inviting all county chairmen and the state central committee, totaling 64, to discuss prospects of Democratic action. The meeting aims to debate strategy amid tensions between pro-M McAdoo and anti-Smith factions following the last convention.
Butler college coach Patsy Clark is regarded as the greatest quarterback in Illinois history, widely recognized for his standout play and lasting impact on the state's gridiron legacy.
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