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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1928
Page
5
Higley Circle held a Christmas party at 94 North Congress Street with a gift tree, readings by Mrs. Anna K. Price, and a silver offering for charity. Refreshments were served by a committee including Mrs. W L Gard and Mrs. L B Job.
Washington reports 15 year old John Doe Harron of Athens County Ohio raised 120 marketable farm products on 80 acres earning a prize book Farm Economics Management and Distribution signed by President Coolidge. Products include ginseng gourds tobacco honey wild grapes and persimmons.
Principal F. E. Harshman of Athens High School leaves for Chicago as one of three state delegates to a national athletics convention. He will join H. R. Townsend and Mr. Swain of Columbus. Harshman is to speak on the Objective of Athletics and plans to return Saturday.
A brief note invites readers to try letter golf a seven line poem form. It mentions poetry writing is easy and hints a solution appears on the last page today. The item reads as a playful newspaper brief about a literary puzzle.
The article explains letter golf where one word changes by one letter per stroke to reach a target word in a fixed number of steps. It requires valid common-usage words with letters in fixed order, no slang or abbreviations. A sample change from COW to HEN is illustrated and a solution appears on the last page.
Athens County Probate Court issued licenses and orders including Nile Sanders and Olive Heiney marriage license. sale of Cyrus M. Higgins estate property. Her man Barich convicted for non support fined and jailed. wills of William and George Lock and John Eddy admitted. executors and appraisers named. inheritance tax calculations show a net value for Fernando Connor estate and tax allocations among heirs with a separate tax for Ollie Kiner.
In Towanda Pennsylvania a 63 year old widow Mrs Samuel Jones was found nude amid torn clothing in her home. Police say she was beaten to death sometime yesterday and suspect a religious fanatic or degenerate robber.
A six month old baby found in a trunk in Columbus has been declared unsolved as police question several people who were released. The infant’s body lay in the trunk for two years before discovery.
Ohio University Cosmpolitan Club and French Department stage a 1926 League of Nations assembly replica Friday at 7 pm in Ewing Auditorium. Paderewski Ta gore Mrs Woodrow Wilson Stresemann Briand and many celebrities participate as speakers voters and audience in Geneva assembly style.
Alterations to the Grim property addition at 90 West Union Street form the Salvation Army Home. Contractors altered plans in Cincinnati for district officers review. Captain Richard Benton expects quick approval so construction may begin soon.
Dean Irma Voigt shared experiences from England with Ohio University women at Ewing Hall. She recalled tea with Lady Nancy Astor, meeting George Bernard Shaw, favorable views on London weather, and impressions of Parliament tea and a reception at 10 Downing Street.
Dean Voigt praises rural England for its calm landscapes that evoke antiquity. He says cathedrals at Winchester Salisbury and Canterbury outshine Westminster and notes Stratford upon Avon and Anne Hathaway's cottage feel like old friends.
A Carthage Township Education Committee met with the County Board of Education in Athens to discuss transporting 31 students to Coolville, four to Stewart, and three to Guysville. Policy allows payments for pupils over four miles to their school, capped at 50 cents daily. actual costs under that are paid. The board urged settling transportation accounts before January 1 if funds exist. otherwise settlement waits until year end.
Mrs Ada Talbert, 44, was found dead here today from poison police say she self-administered. Friends described her as despondent.
The Salvation Army begins its Christmas drive Saturday with kettles on main streets. Despite better field prosperity, miners still face hardship and relief work is needed. Funds from the drive will buy food baskets for the needy on December 24 and support a Christmas tree program for children that evening.
The Ohio University debate squad gears up for a major intercollegiate season debating the abolition of trial by jury. Prominent Athens attorneys will join in discussions as the team schedules contests with Wisconsin and others in Delaware Oxford Cincinnati and Athens with further dual meets, dates pending.
Head colds vanish overnight with Musterole Laxative Cold Tab. Chocolate coated and easy to take with no gripping or head ringing. Prompt relief from the Musterole Company in Cleveland Ohio. Available at druggists or direct postpaid for 35 cents.
Funeral services for William M Cray will be held at 1 30 Friday afternoon at the Christian Church. Burial is planned at West Union Street Cemetery. Friends may visit his home at 78 West State Street anytime before the service.
Mrs Maude Kitchen 36 and Canfield 40 of Columbus are in serious condition from gunshot wounds inflicted by her husband Louis Kitchen 40 formerly of Cincinnati. The incident occurred at the same place where the couple remarried three years ago after both were past 21.
Neglecting autumn colds risks pneumonia but doctors in Athens advise Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for quick relief. Edith Dennis used the remedy and reported instant relief with congestion easing within hours and a return toward normal by the next day.
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