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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1930
Page
6
Mr Everett Cline announces the engagement of Hazel Cline to Darrell Moore of 89 North College Street. The wedding, to be held September 3 at the bride’s father’s home in Albany, will be quiet due to the death of Hazel’s sister Faye.
The Athens City Council met to review street resurfacing, water mains, and a new air compressor at the waterworks. A bid of about 2700 dollars for the compressor and motor was cited, with the city planning to install it for permanent use. Proposals included funding shares from College Street property owners for resurfacing and extending water mains into East Athens.
Miss Edith James of Milwaukee arrives for ten days with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. James in Athens. Dr. and Mrs. Dana Garen of Chicago tour from the East while visiting relatives. Local residents host guests from Morral, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and New Martinsville on weekend and longer trips.
Thomas Jones, 23, admitted attacking Miss Mary Holland, 77, of Bloomfield, and attempting to rob her home. He was arrested in Woodsfield by Sheriff Riemenschneider and is jailed in Washington County awaiting further proceedings.
State highway crews are active in Athens County applying tar and oil to roads. H. G. Brown, county maintenance director, oversees work on several miles of Route 31 south of Morrison Hill and a section of Route 50 North near Amesville. John Dowler directs county construction projects with four under way at Coolville Trimble Guysville and Amesville.
Hartford dispatch reports featherweight champion Battalino won a ten round decision over Bud Taylor of Terre Haute in a non-title fight. Battalino weighed 129 pounds and Taylor 128.
Billy Townsend the Canadian lightweight champion defeated Joe Glick in a ten round decision. Both fighters weighed 146 pounds. The bout took place in Toronto on August 19.
Mrs Howard Whiston of Steubenville arrives for a two week visit with her parents Mr and Mrs J L Tritipo at 281 East State Street. Mr Whiston returns home after accompanying her to Athens. Mr and Mrs John Price spend the week with the former’s mother Mrs Anna K Price at 25 Elmwood Price. Dr Sumner Price of New York City will come Wednesday to spend the rest of the week, then depart with his mother for a trip to Canada Boston and New York.
Mrs J W Hudson returned from Cincinnati where she spent Sunday and Monday with Mr and Mrs W C Hudson former Athens residents posing a light social note in the society column.
Mrs. H J Brown and Miss Catherine Whelan of St Clairsville are spending the week in Athens visiting relatives. Mrs Brown stays with her son and daughter in law at 1 May Avenue while Miss Whelan rooms with Mr and Mrs K R Walker at 78 North Congress Street. Mr Claude Jacobs of Kansas City visits his parents on Richland Avenue.
The Ohio Fire Marshal announced renewed undercover inquiries into the Easter Monday Ohio Penitentiary blaze. Two convicts suspected of involvement remained jailed in Columbus, with no confession acknowledged. Premature publication by newspapers impeded the investigation, which may take weeks or months to identify arsonists.
Thomas Halek aged 24 from Fairport died in Cleveland from knife wounds. He said the injuries came from a fight on August 11 when he attempted to stop two men from robbing an intoxicated man.
Two naval flyers and their student pilots spotted a yacht fire ten miles off Lake Michigan. Lieut. K. E. Johansen and Ensign Victor Randecker saved Herman A. Brassert and two youths as the yacht sank, signaling the Roosevelt steamer for aid and bringing others to safety.
Evanston police chief William Freeman confessed to accepting 400 from gang leader Jack Zuta as investigators pursue alleged ties between Chicago gangs and city officials. Zuta allegedly kept ledgers showing how profits were shared with officials for protection.
Double funeral services planned in Mentor for James G. Slusser 85 and Lewis W. Jacks last surviving GAR Garfield Post veterans. Jacks died a day after his son Gilbert’s death leaving the two old comrades together in death.
Authorities investigate a death ruled as self-inflicted by Barney Weisberg, 58, a suspect in a hijacking case involving a truckload of poultry two weeks earlier in Cleveland.
Captain W F Meyer of the Matson liner Ventura earned a hero’s welcome at Pago Pago Samoa after racing 700 miles to save 261 survivors from the British steamer Tahiti which sank nose first in the South Seas. The Ventura sped to port to honor Meyer and his crew who rafted the perilous rescue as bulkheads gave way and holds filled.
Edward Schneider, 18 year old from Westfield New Jersey, set a new junior transcontinental record of 29 hours 41 minutes. He prepared for a return flight hoping to extend his achievement by breaking the west east record.
In Cleveland on August 19 Frank Alessi 87 an alleged gunman was shot and wounded as detectives arrest Frank Bracato a reported gangster tied to the Lonardo dynasty Alessi identifies Bracato as his attacker and a suspect in last year’s Leonardo murder
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