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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1921
Page
2
An Ohio University report shows 30 percent of men in the arts college failed in at least one subject versus 11 percent of women, 35 percent of men in the normal college failed versus 20 percent of women, with about 813 women and 613 men enrolled. The article argues this proves women are wiser.
Mr. G. Linscott, Ames township native and Basil resident, head of maintenance of ways for the T and O C system division, told the Messenger in Athens that unions can concur with the railway labor board decision affecting shop and crafts workers. He said headlines mislead and that carriers and employees are obligated to abide by the board's ruling.
Military police aided by regular infantry and cavalry patrolled central Vienna streets after rioting that saw looting of hotels and shops. Four hundred people were arrested. The Bristol hotel hosting sixty Americans suffered about 206000 kronen in damage. no Americans were injured though much of their property was taken amid strikes over living costs.
Federal grand jury in Toledo indicted former deputy sheriffs Sam Zimmer man and Andrew Szmetke for involvement in the Labor Day escape of two alleged post office robbers, Joe Urbaytis and George Rogers, in Toledo.
Helen Drexler 25 explains to detectives she married or posed as wife to fifteen soldiers to obtain $15 monthly allotments. She says a three-year-old child from her second husband aided collecting $5 extra per month in each case. She faces arraignment before United States Commissioner Mason for alleged government fraud.
Mr Ed Carpenter brought a bunch of strawberries from his farm on the Canaan pike in Athens. His ever bearing plants produced abundant fruit through summer and fall and still in December with no protection. He notes picking began two months after setting out and vines show little sign of ending production despite winter weather.
Bold bandits entered Mayor H H Billinger's Hoytville office and stole bars and sledges before breaking into the B and O warehouse and the Eagle Grain Company elevator and taking a small amount of merchandise.
In a fierce encounter, two policemen were reported killed while seven attackers were captured during the battle. Details on location and motives remain unclear as officials investigate the prison-yard clash.
Knights of Pythias have inaugurated a movement to erect a $360,000 hotel on South Main street, to the south of Castle Hall for the use of members of the order exclusively. Smoke Judge Taft 5c. Cigar.
The Kansas attorney general Richard J. Hopkins filed a petition for hearings with the Kansas Industrial Court to intervene in the ordered strike of union employees at packing plants. He named seventy six corporations and labor representatives involved in the Monday strike action.
In Chicago on December 2 1930 thirty five thousand union workers are ordered to strike Monday to win union recognition and oppose wage cuts. C J Hayes international president says packers refuse to deal with union officials and formed company unions after agreeing to unsanctioned wage reductions.
Oranges and grapefruit offered at 75 cents per peck will be available tomorrow on the track opposite Union Station.
On December 2 in London the Sinn Fein peace delegation travels to Dublin to confer with Eamon De Valera and his cabinet on Ireland's fate amid mounting peace or war options.
Bandits cracked a Quiantance Pure Food Store safe in Bucyrus Ohio and fled with 500 dollars after an explosion. Witness Wesley Kalb reported slow police response to the theft. Also notices appoint Edward G Alden as administrator of Warren A Alden estate and Nettie Heiser as administratrix of John Heiser estate in Athens County probate records.
In pursuance of a November 22 1921 council resolution the Village of Albany will hold a special election on December 27 1921. Voters decide bonds exceeding one half percent of village assessed property amounting to four thousand dollars to fund electricity transmission and distribution works. Ballot options read For the issue of bonds or Against the issue of bonds. Mayor E K Carpenter presides.
Report from Londonderry says armed men attacked a jail at 3 a m. during a riot by prisoners who attempted an escape. Police defended the jail and repelled the attackers in the flare up marking the period’s gravest violence since the truce.
Glenn Plumb attorney for the Big Four railroads described the nation’s rail system as bankrupt financially physically mentally and normally at a railroad telegraphers meeting in Cleveland. The report notes McCune Tire Co and Lady Victoria Murray entering dairy farming ventures.
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