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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1906
Page
1
Labor Day crowd plans in Athens focus onPresident John Mitchell of the UMWA. Letter confirms Mitchell will arrive Monday morning via train connections and dine with Congressman Grosvenor, addressing miners and laborers at the event.
The 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry old regiment reunion for Athens and Chillicothe is set for Thursday and Friday. Captain Lowrey coordinates Co B members, with travel by B and O railroad and autos. A grand reception for Spanish American War veterans is planned Thursday and the main events Friday.
Hon Albert Douglas of Chilli cothe and Judge O W H Wright of Logan will address the people next Saturday September 1 at the annual bean dinner in Wilkesville Ohio.
Charlies Stafford for General Amusement Company promotes a Queen contest among Athens young women. The winner will receive a diamond ring or gold watch and be presented Thursday evening at the carnival. Voting runs from Saturday 10 am to Thursday evening.
The thirty fourth annual convention of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal church in the Marietta District Ohio Conference will be held in the M E church tomorrow and Friday. Program includes devotions, addresses, roll call, committee appointments, reports from auxiliaries, music, and sermons.
In Nelsonville on August 28, Harrison Pounds and Ike Perkins, both colored, were taken to the Columbus workhouse by Officer Shaner. Pounds was fined five dollars plus 24.80 costs for provoking a breach of the peace by Louis Clark and will serve two months. Perkins was fined five dollars plus 25 dollars costs for carrying concealed weapons and given a 30 day workhouse sentence for pointing and discharging firearms. total fines and costs reach 72 dollars and he faces five or six months in custody.
The Athenian Cooking Club was entertained Tuesday evening by Mrs. W. R. Hearst at her North Congress Street home. A regular club supper was served. Miss Lula Fulton won a granite dishpan in the guessing contest, with Mrs. Harvey Wilson taking a tiny skillet as consolation. Mrs. M. J. Duffy attended as the guest for the evening.
Official abstract of votes shows a misprint in precinct two Nelsonville where S B Hill was listed with 111 votes instead of 11. The error appears in the Nelsonville section of the Republican primary tally published Tuesday. The corrected figure is 11 for S B Hill.
Labor Day caused the regular Eastern Star meeting to move from Monday evening September 3 to Friday evening August 21. The change affects all members and the time remains at the usual venue.
The Miners Arrangement Committee invites Athens merchants to prepare floats for the Labor Day parade. With 8 000 to 10 000 people expected, local business publicity could be substantial. Report to Grand Marshal Chas. C. Moore for parade positions and participate to showcase firms.
About a hundred Nelsonville fans traveled to Buchtel for a Sunday baseball game. The Columbus team defeated Buchtel 5 to 4. Pennybaker pitched for Buchtel while Townsend and Parfitt played for Columbus.
The contract for the fourth shaft in Sunday Creek district was let and work will begin once materials arrive. located about one and a half miles above the previous mine, shaft 212 will be the largest in Ohio with four cages instead of two.
Messrs. J. B. Coffinberry & Co announce that all but six lots in the Sycamore Heights Addition are sold. Demand is steady and the remaining lots are expected to vanish within 24 hours. Most buyers intend to improve the property with new houses, with speculation only a minority.
Lancaster management and players praised Athens ball field calling it the fastest they have played on and the best in the Hocking Valley. Manager Elston suggested Athens could support an O P league team, noting a strong crowd and the winter as a good time to discuss. Lancaster won a doubleheader against Newark. Geyer and Upp pitched well.
Ec C Merwin resigns as superintendent of the Athens Municipal Light plant to take an electrical engineer post with S B Handy Electrical Contract in Sewickley Pa. A R Bell will run both light and water departments with Bert Hooper as head engineer. the board experiments with one supervisor.
Lee Jewell and his father suffered injuries when their team of horses spooked by dogs bolted at Sugar Creek Tuesday. The elder Jewell was thrown and badly bruised and skinned. he received care at Tim Mahaffey's boarding house.
Nelsonville August 28 Carl Frazee of Murray City and John Simpson of Columbus were arrested this fore noon by Chief Warner charged with jumping and riding a coal train. Chief Warner spotted them on the train and nabbed them as they jumped off near the depot. They were locked up to await arraignment this afternoon before Mayor Sharp.
Nelsonville August 28 Mrs John Panke of Deanville was shot in the left shoulder by her four and a half year old son with a loaded revolver. The child warned I am going to shoot you then pulled the trigger. The wound was treated by Dr Hanning and the mother is expected to fully recover. The incident raises questions about a toddler pulling a trigger with such a weapon.
Cruelty cited in the action for divorce. The case appears among several civil actions listed including money claims by The Midland Grocery Company against Augustus E Moore and Charles L Hamilton doing business as the Hocking Store Company. Additional money claims involve The Farmers Nursery Company against H C Morris and Benjamin T Peck against John L Hindle.
A terse adage asserts the Messenger as the source of truth in local chatter. The item emphasizes trust in the newspaper's reporting as definitive for community matters.
Officer Lauderbeck faced a disturbing the peace charge for abusive language, pleaded guilty before Mayor Sharp, and paid $3 and costs. Corvin allegedly hurled abusive language at Mrs Myra Heavener and was struck with bricks causing wounds. Heavener struck back, crowd gathered as Corvin sought medical aid. Corvin filed no affidavit.
A sequence of games is planned for next week with Lahing vs Congo on Monday and Athens venue sought for Tuesday. An Athens crowd is expected to peak with about one thousand spectators as Labor Day crowds gather. Congo brings eleven hundred rooters and a band of thirty, promising lively rooting at the big event.
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