Nelsonville News Highlights Local Garden Crops and Travel
The city owns a thriving weed crop at the electric light and water works plant, with an engineer losing himself for nearly three hours in its jungle. Lax, the service director, can provide specimens for interested parties. Also, 25 Nelsonville residents joined the prophets of Achbar Grotto in Columbus Saturday. Our El Karnak baseball team, after a heroic contest, lost 11 to 1, blamed on limited offense by Captain Earl Campbell. Entertaining guests at the Hicken home were James Grant Fanny Shields Clinton Hick Avalon Hick and Mrs James Parker of Norfolk VA. Rev Cecil Mencer will lead Circle Hill services Tuesday night on The Shepherd and His Sheep. Hazel Dorst returns from visits to Springfield Dayton and Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lax
Nelsonville
Columbus
el Karnak
Earl Campbell
William Hick
James Grant
Fanny Shields
Clinton Hick
James Parker
Avalon Hick
Norfolk
Joyful Nelsonville salutes coal strike settlement
Nelsonville residents celebrated the coal strike ending with parades and a return to mine operations across the region expected within a week. Miners from Kimberly properties led a joy-filled street march while operators prepared to restart cleaned up mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Kimberly
Star car to be marketed nationwide by Durant group
Lostro Auto Sales Co of Durant territory receives telegram naming Starr Motors Inc as Athens branch holder to market Star line cars. Durant plants prepare for large production with high demand and broad territory allotments. Star features include Red Seal Motor and Timken bearings, multiple body types, and strong fuel efficiency. Heliogabalus note follows as miscellaneous trivia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lostro Auto Sales Co
Durant
Carroll Downes
Star Motors, Inc
Athens
Star Motor Company of Ohio
Star
Downes
W. C. Durant
General Motors
Durant Motors
Detroit
Spicer
Stewart
Washington
New York
Broadway
J. R. Lostro
Lostro
Durant Selling
The State Fair Deposits at Buckeye Building & Loan
The Buckeye State Building and Loan Co invites deposits from farmers and residents. It offers 5 percent interest and accepts personal checks or other remittances. All transactions are confidential. Located at Jokin Building 22 West Gay Street Columbus Ohio. Resources exceed 22 million dollars.
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The
Buckeye State Building & Loan Co
Jokin Bldg
West Gay Street
Columbus, Ohio
Mining contracts advance as Ohio mines reopen
Ohio mining resumes after reports show New York Coal Co. set to sign with United Mine Workers. Pittsburg Mining Co. remains opposed. W Mckinney notes most operators have signed. In Washington, Huddleston denounces Harding strike message as an unwarranted attack on labor unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Coal Company
Hocking Valley
Hall
Pittsburg Mining Company
Pittsburg Company
United Mine Workers
W. D. McKinney
Columbus
Southern Ohio Coal Exchange
The
Exchange
Washington
Congress
Harding
House
Representative Huddleston
Alabama
Serious Labor Troubles Start in Budapest
London August 21 reports from Vienna indicate serious labor troubles in Budapest with the government short of troops to quell an uprising, according to advices received by the Daily News.
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London
Budapest
Vienna
The
Daily News
Battery Howe Fier Triet Ware AP Battery Howe Fier
The 134th Light Artillery of the Ohio National Guard arrived in Athens after 24 hours on the road from Camp Knox Kentucky. Sixty three soldiers and four officers trained at Union Station and fired 300 rounds at the camp, the Athens unit recording the most rounds in the regiment and using high explosive shells. Lieutenants James A. Lafferty and K P Klinger, attached since June, proved their fitness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio National Guard
Athens
Camp Knox
Union Station
Loulaville
Cincinnati
James A. Lafferty
K. P. Klinger
Athens men fined for drunkenness after carnival arrest
Tedrow and Roy McCollins both of Athens were arrested Saturday night at the Richland ave carnival grounds on drunkenness charges. They were jailed until Sunday morning and appeared before Meeitrate Medwig, who fined each 10 dollars plus costs, which they paid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cash Tedrow
Roy McCollins
Athens
Richland Avenue
Meeitrate Medwig
Steamer Lake Stryman Ablaze Off North Carolina Coast
The steamship Lake Stryman bound for Charleston caught fire twenty five miles northeast of Frying Pan light as the City of Montgomery stood by the burning vessel. No injuries reported and rescue procedures underway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Shipping Board
Lake Stryman
Charleston
D. C
Frying Pan Light
North Carolina
City of
Montgomery
Resigned Mount Zion Pastor to Lead Kimball Field
Rev. T. Lloyd Hickman of Athens will resign Sept 1 as pastor of the Mount Zion Baptist church. He will move to Kimball West Virginia to lead the local church there, teach at the district high school, and coach football. He formerly taught at Virginia Union University and starred as All-Ohio Fullback at Denison University.
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T. Lloyd Hickman
Mount Zion Baptist Church of
Athens
West Virginia
McDowell County
Hickman
Virginia Union University
Richmond
Woman Pleads for Life of Man She Shot
Mrs. Sarah Berlin tearfully prayed for the life of Moses Schneider after shooting him when he refused to give his name to her five months old baby. She had earlier sacrificed her husband and two sons for Schneider and faced possible prison term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Sarah Berlin
Moses Schneider
Schneider
Pioneer Found Mead at Home in Tragic Week
Coroner Kenorton investigated the death of 77 year old Charles Coates found at 6 39 am Monday on Richland avenue by Arthur Vore. Coates died of heart failure after seven to eight hours of death. He was a bachelor and descendant of Athens territory settlers. Funeral arrangements pending with survivors including Mrs Joe Higgins in the area.
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Kenorton
Charles Coates
Richland Avenue
Arthur Vore
Coaten
Kempton
Scott Tipple
Herbert Byard
Thethens State Hospital
Mechanicsburg
Arthur Coates
Joe Higgins
Second Arrest Made in Bern Duel Case
Harry Jackson of Broadwell, wounded in a Big Run gun duel on August 2, pleads not guilty to shooting Marl Nice with intent to kill. A preliminary hearing is set for Thursday at 9 am. bond is $1900. Nice, also charged, pled not guilty and is bound over to the grand jury on a $1500 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Jackson
Broadwell
Big Run
Helwig
Marl Nice
Jackson
Bartels
Parker
Nice
Road Condition Bulletin No 1 Guides Ohio Travel
Autoists planning trips can check the Road Condition Bulletin No 1 for highway statuses. Compiled August 18, it lists 16 routes from Columbus to various cities and others from Cleveland. Access at the Chamber of Commerce or State Highway Department in Athens National Bank building.
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Chamber of Commerce
Staite Highway Department
Athens National Bank
Ohio
Columbus
Cleveland
Division of Highways
Women Named to Athens County Democratic Executive Committee
Athens county Democratic central committee met in the common pleas courtroom to organize for the fall campaign. Joe Richards was elected chairman and Michael Collins Jr. secretary, with an executive committee of 17 men and seven women led by Hugh Gormley. The seven women will select ten more women to round out an 84 member committee, including 17 men and 17 women.
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Athens County
Democratic Central Committee
Athens County Common Pleas Court Room
Joe Richards
Glouster
Michael Collins, Jr
Athens
Hugh Gormley
C. C. Shields
Chauncey
Michael Collins
FP. R. Gross
Athena
Hugh Mulligan
Lodi Township
Irvin Nanna
Waterloo
W. H. Coakley
Ruehtel
Pierce Spencer
Neksonville
James McNabb
the Plains
Ira Andrews
W. J. Rice
C. F. Davis
Jacksonville
C. D. Brewer
Carbondale
Frank Lowther
Alexander
Thomas Day
Amesville
Warren Koons
Chaunce
Democratic County Executive Committee
Transfusion Saves Newborn Baby in Watertown Case
A historic blood transfusion into a newborn infant's veins was performed the first time on record. The child is the infant son of Professor W. Hewitt, of Watertown High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watertown
N. Y
W. &. Hewitt
Watertown High School
Case Dismissed in Speeding Case Against Nichols
The case of P. O. Nichols who was fined five dollars and costs for speeding was dismissed by Squire S. FE. Hedges for lack of evidence. Nichols was fined without hearing the motor cop H. 2D. Nice, and the dismissal followed on that ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. O. Nichols
Ing
Squire S. FE. Hedges
Mr. Nichols
H. 2D. Nice
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C. H. Bartlett and Son
Mac
Chesterhill
W. R. C. Woman's Relief Corps
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Robt. Hoch
Bellaire
Kathleen Pidcock
France
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Margaret Vore
Toledo
C. E. Weltzheimer
Columbus Unday
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John Hanley
Tena Schmackenburg
Ofincinnati
C.) . Roudebush
Frank Jackson
Leonard Cooley
Harley-Davidson
JD Electric
Milwaukee
Wis
A. D. Farrow
Dali
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Heliogabalus
Babe Ruth
Mrs. Babe
the State Fair
Central Ohio
Hocking
New Pittsburg Company
Lee Hall
Ohio Mine Workers
HOWE
Kentucky
Rev. Hickman
Kimball, r.Va
Mead
Richland
Bern
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Maine
Madagascar
Star Car
Chace In
WVHA
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the Star Motor Company OF
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Court and
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Nelsonville Branch
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Mia
Woith Rockefeller McCormick
Harold McCormick
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Chicago
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