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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1927
Page
5
Society notes report informal housewarming of the Men’s Faculty club of Ohio University at the new East Union street clubhouse last night. Dr W B Gammertsfelder presides as president. many faculty members attended and guests from several areas were listed.
Athens safety director F L Woodworth to study a novel red flashing light to mark stop streets and danger points. Athens Automobile Club secretary K N Burgett shows council a warning signal paired with a black and yellow sign. Merchants may buy and city provide power. donor name to appear on each sign. Council defer to Woodworth for next meeting.
Dover to Paris is a grand swim yet Letter Golf claims seven pencil strokes suffice to change one word to another. The par solution is printed on the last page. Each step changes one letter with a complete common word, without reordering letters.
Alumni entertained the Chi Omega patronesses active chapter and pledges at a Monday night dinner at the sorority house on Park Place. Sixty attended with roses and chrysanthemums as decorations. Following the meal pledges presented a skit while actives performed dances and songs.
A student aviator and his instructor were killed when their airplane crashed after falling 2,000 feet late yesterday near Memphis Missouri. The accident details remain limited with no further names disclosed.
The university will stage performances featuring Frederick Cranch James King Virginia Caldwell Alvin Jones Glenn Gilmore Louis Young Lewis Gettings Edith Lange Dale Mansperger Arville Blaine Everette Shimp Elizabeth Montague Hattie Campbell Marie Leeper Edith Pepper Caroline Gerlach Margaret Webb Irene Park and Adda Wolf.
Approximately 100 faculty members attended the opening and house warming of the Men’s Faculty Clubhouse last evening. Eligible members include both Ohio University and high school faculty. Officers listed: President H. S. Scott, Vice President W. S. Gamertsfelder, Secretary C. E. Cooper, Treasurer G. F. E. McLaughlin. Council members include Raymer MacQuiston, J. St. Patterson, A. A. Atkinson. Committees cover house, library, membership, furnishings and decorations chaired by C. N. MacKinnon, H. Rh. Wilson, J. B. Porter, and V. D. Hill.
Judge L G Worstell of Athens County Common Pleas will sit in New Lexington Perry County Court on Friday to hear the arraignments of those indicted by the recent grand jury. He fills in due to the continued absence of Judge T D Price.
Washington December 6 Farm bloc senators largely oppose the plan to encourage cooperative marketing through loans as inadequate for farmers needs Senator McNary Oregon says it does not go far enough Senator Fess Ohio Republican endorses the plan noting its permanence and economic soundness amid calls for stabilization and avoidance of subsidies
Workington England. Michael Connor jailed after refusing to support his wife, who married a widow with four grown sons. He described his home as a den of lions.
The Wesley players from the First M. E. church present two one act plays The Finger of God and The Potboiler followed by a three act drama The Two Masters at Athens State hospital this evening. The troupe, composed largely of local talent, aims to bring entertainment to patients and staff alike.
Publicity man Walter Hyams testified in a New York Supreme Court suit claiming King Edward VII gambled away large sums at Baccarat and borrowed 2,060,000 from a Jewish pawnbroker whom he allegedly knighted. He tied England’s royal line to the broker’s family via marriage, linking Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten to the broker’s kin.
Ernest Nash pleaded guilty to contributing to the dependency of minor children in Athens county probate court. He was sentenced to six months in Athens county jail but the sentence was suspended on condition he pay six dollars weekly to the court for his children's support and education.
Clyde Irwin Stafford 2 Canton school teacher and Frances Marguerite Smith 23 Athens student received licenses on Saturday. Owen Jerome Carmichael 23 Athens baker and Marian Frazier 22 Athens stenographer also secured licenses with Rev Mrs Gill S Wilson to perform. Rexford Lowers 21 Nelsonville miner and Auldean Ruth Keplar 17 Nelsonville obtained a probate court license with consent from William Keplar and Mrs Mary Keplar for a ceremony by Rev Courtney.
Bird was named president for the ensuing year at the weekly Athens Kiwanis Club meeting where officers for the year were elected.
A vintage advertisement urged women with ovarian pains and related ailments to write Mrs. Ellen Lovell in Kansas City for a free home method. The copy claimed many women had quick relief and reported feeling like a new woman with no pains, insisting the advice is free and noncommercial.
The Athens Kiwanis Club met at Hotel Berry last night electing C. Bird president, Fred McKay vice president, and RB. M. Covert financial secretary and treasurer. A new board of directors named includes M. Johnson Whaley Kircher Woodworth Good Hughes and Beasley. The board will pick a recording secretary. current office holder is R. H. White.
Aroused by an epidemic of hold ups in Cleveland the police today began a major offensive against crime.
Benjamin Karr, 68, longtime Cleveland editorial writer and author of Events and Comments in the Cleveland News, died of heart trouble in Cleveland. He had spent 45 years in the newspaper business.
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