Nelsonville News and Local Updates Lifted by Oddities and Sports
Nelsonville notes highlight a city weed crop at the electric light and water works plant and a lost engineer in the nearby jungle. The Grotto game reports El Karnak's baseball team losing 11 to 1 after a heroic effort at Buckeye Lake hospitality from local residents. Community guests include the Hickens hosting Columbus and Norfolk visitors. Rev Cecil Mender leads Circle Hill services with a Shepherd and His Sheep sermon. Hazel Dorst returns from a two week Springfield Dayton and Columbus trip.
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Electric Light and Water Works
Lax
Grotto
Nelsonville
Columbus
el Karnak
Harl Campbell
Circle Hill
Cecil Mender
Strike Settlement Brings Joy In Nelsonville
Joyful Nelsonville streets greet a coal strike settlement as mines prepare to reopen within a week. Kimberly miners parade in celebration. local families host gatherings and announcements follow including births, visits, and club meetings.
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Nelsonville
Kimberly
Star car to be marketed nationally by Durant group
Lostro Auto Sales Co of Durant distributors received word from Carroll Downes of Star Motors Inc that Athens will host the Star line in Ohio with full marketing control. The Star car, aimed at a low price, promises modern design, few parts, and efficient gas mileage.
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lLostro 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
Durant
Timken
Spicer
Stewart
Washington
New York
Broadway
J. R. Lostro
Lostro Auto Sales Co
Lostro
Durant Selling
Buckeye State Building & Loan ad emphasizes safe deposits
Ohio lender invites deposits from farmers and non residents with 5 percent interest and confidential transactions. Personal checks accepted. Located at 22 West Gay Street Columbus. Central Ohio's largest financial institution with resources over 22 million dollars.
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The
Buckeye State Building & Loan Co
Vumn
West Gay Street
Columbus
Ohio
Central Ohio
Mining contracts move as Ohio operators near deal
Ohio miners near renewed operations as New York Coal Co signs with United Mine Workers. Pittsburg Mining Co remains non committal. In Washington the first opposition to President Harding's strike message emerges as Rep Huddleston decries it as an attack on labor unions.
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Columbus
Ohio
Lee Hall
Ohio Mine Workers
New York Coal Company
Hocking Valley
Hall
Pittsburg Mining Company
Pittsburg Company
United Mine Workers
W. D. McKinney
Southern Ohio Coal Exchange
The
Exchange
Washington
Conkers
Harding
House
Representative Huddleston
Alabama
Serious Labor Troubles Start in Budapest
London dispatch reports serious labor troubles in Budapest with the government short of troops as authorities move to quell an uprising. Advices received from Vienna by the Daily News note unrest began recently and the situation remains tense.
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Budapest
London
Vienna
Dly
Battery EB of Ohio National Guard Arrives in Athens
The 184th Light Field Artillery battery arrived at Union station in Athens after a 24 hour road trip from Camp Knox Kentucky. Sixty three fired men and four officers trained at the camp firing 300 rounds from 75s and led the regiment in high explosive shell use and gunners squadron. Lieutenants James A Lafferty and K P Klinger proved fit for their staff posts.
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184Th Light Field Artillery
Ohio National Guard
Athens
Camp Knox
Union Station
Louisville
Cincinnati
James A. Lafferty
K. P. Klinger
Drunkenness arrests at Athens carnival two fined
Athens men Tedrow and Roy McCollins were arrested at the Richland avenue carnival grounds Saturday night. They appeared before Magistrate Helwig Sunday morning and each was fined ten dollars and costs.
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Cash Tedrow
Roy McCollins
Athens
Richland Avenue
Helwig
Steamer Lake Stryman Ablaze Off North Carolina Coast
The steamship Lake Stryman bound for Charleston caught fire 25 miles northeast of Frying Pan light. The ship City of Montgomery stood by to assist as the blaze broke out.
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Norfolk
Shipping Board
Lake Stryman
Charleston
D. C
Frying Pan Light
North Carolina
Montgomery
Pastor Rev T Lloyd Hickman resigns Athens post
Rev T Lloyd Hickman, pastor of Mount Zion Baptist church in Athens, resigns effective September 1 to lead Kimball West Virginia's church. He will teach at Kimball High School, coach football, and His family plans to join later. He attended Denison University and Rochester Theological Seminary and previously coached at Virginia Union University.
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T. Lloyd Hickman
Mount Zion Baptist Church of
Athens
West Virginia
McDowell County
Virginia Union University
Richmond
Woman Pleads For Life Of Man Shot In Jealous Rage
New York august 21 a tearful Mrs Sarah Berlin prayed for the life of Moses Schneider after she shot him over a dispute stemming from her five month old baby and the murder of her husband and two sons.
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New York
Sarah Berlin
Moses Schneider
Schneider
Pioneer Fung Head At Rome
Coroner Kempton was called three times in six days as Charlies Coates a 77 year old bachelor living on Richland avenue was found dead at 5 3 in the morning. The death was ruled heart failure and the body taken to Newsom Walburn undertaking establishment. Coates was a grandson of Athens first settler Arthur Coates whose homestead was near the hospital site. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and several nieces and nephews survive.
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Kempton
Charlies Coates
Riechland Avenue
Arthur Vore
Coates
Richland Avenue
Scott Tippie
Herbert Byard
Lucrie
Newsom Walburn Undertaking
Athens
Athens State Hospital
Mechanicsburg
Arthur Coates
Hospital
Joe Higginson
Second Arrest Made in Bern Duel Case
Harry Jackson of Broadwell, one of the two duel principals, pleaded not guilty to shooting Earl Nice of Big Run with intent to kill. A preliminary hearing was set for Thursday at 9 am. Jackson posted 1500 bond after being treated for two gunshot wounds. Nice also pleaded not guilty to a similar charge and was bound over to the grand jury on 1500 bond.
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Harry Jackson
Broadwell
Big Run
Helwig
Earl Nice
Jackson
Parker
Nice
Road Condition Bulletin No 1 Guides Auto Travel
Motorists can find road status at the Chamber of Commerce and the State Highway Department in the Athens National Bank building. The August 18 bulletin lists conditions and best routes, with 16 starts from Columbus to various cities in and beyond Ohio.
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Chamber of Commerce
State Highway Department
Athens National Bank
Ohio
Columbus
Cleveland
Division of Highways
Athens County Democrats organize for fall campaign
The Athens county Democratic central committee met in the common pleas court room to organize for the fall campaign. Joe Richards of Glouster was elected chairman and Michael Collins Jr of Athens named secretary. The 17 men and seven women on the executive committee include Hugh Gormley and C C Shields as leaders. The seven women will select ten more women to reach a total of 84, with 17 men and 17 women among the final membership.
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Athens County
Democratic Central Committee
Athens County Common Pleas
Joe Richards
Glouster
Michael Collins, Jr
Athens
Hugh Gormley
C. C. Shields
Chauncey
Michael Collins
R. Gross
Athena
Hough Mulligan
Lodi Township
Irvin Nanna
Waterloo
W. H. Coakley
Thachtel
Pierce Spencer
Nelsonville
James McNabb
the Plains
Ira Andrews
Democratic County Executive Committee
First successful newborn blood transfusion reported
In Watertown New York on August 21 1944 doctors disclosed the first recorded case of a blood transfusion into a newborn infant. The patient is the infant son of Professor W E Hewitt of the Watertown high school.
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Watertown
N. Y
W. BE. Hewitt
Watertown High School
Nichols Case Dismissed For Lack Of Evidence
The case of P. O. Nichols for speeding is dismissed by Squire S. B. Hedges for lack of evidence. Nichols was fined five dollars and costs without hearing the motor cop H. D. Nice, and that improper procedure led to dismissal.
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P. O. Nichols
Squire S. B. Hedges
Mr. Nichols
H. D. Nice
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Buckeye Lake
William Hick
James Grant
Fanny Shields
Clinton Hick
James Parker
Avalon Hick
Hazel Dorst
Springfield
Dayton
Walter Green
Ranklin Street
C. H. Bartlett and Son
Mac
Chesterhill
RC. Woman’s Relief Corps
Amelia Legion Hall
Robt, Hoch Andon
Bellaire
Hoch
Lacy Donley
Kathleen Pidcock
Mrs. France
Ellen Gladman
Columus
Gladysowers
Margaret Vore
Toledo
C. E. Weltzheimer
Paul Hudson
Paul Weltzeimer
John Hanley
Tena Schmackenburg
Incinnati
C . Roudebush
Frank Jackson
Leonard Cooley
Harley-Davidson
JD Electric
Milwaukee
Wis
A. D. Farrow
AMD
Heliogabalus
Babe Ruth
Babe
Cal
New Pittsburg Company
Li United Trip
GHP
Kentucky
Congress
Rev. Hickman
Kimball, W. Va
Fung Head
Rome
Charles Coates
Riechland
Bern
Texas
Maine
Madagascar
Star Car
Mich
the Star Motor Company OF
East Broad St
Court and Union Sts
Nelsonville Branch
Fayette Street
Mia
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Harold McCormick
Beasley
Keane
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