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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1928
Page
10
New York December 11 stockholders approved an amendment to General Motors charter to raise authorized shares to 75 million par ten dollars and issue 43.5 million new shares for the 17.4 million old shares with two and one half new for one old share exchangeable after January 7.
Emma Kienzle 17 and Doroth Shuai 16, injured in the Sunday night automobile crash that killed George Ford Sr., left Cherrington Hospital. William Carmen, Lancaster vulcanizer charged with manslaughter, posted bond and was released. Ford's body went to his daughter’s home for funeral arrangements, to be held at the Eby home with Rev. James R. Fields officiating and Oak Grove burial planned.
Miss Geraldine Elinger daughter of Mrs A R Kelch of Warner Avenue and Rolland Canan of Columbus were married Saturday evening at the United Brethren parsonage by Rev E H Daily. The couple were attended by Mr and Mrs A D Graft. Mrs Canan has served as deputy county recorder for three years and plans to move to Columbus in February to establish a home.
The Foreign Relations Committee reopened Kellogg Anti War Treaty debate as Reed touts a possible reservation. Brookhart calls first meeting on Southern patronage affidavits while Couzens plans unemployment data collection and Hoover backs action. Boulder Dam talks drag, Austrian debt settlement advances, Greek settlement passed by House.
Logan December reports show multiple wells poised to begin drilling before year end. Hartzell lease in Washington Township yields a good 100 barrel daily producer while Harden Company’s Rebecca Harden farm well nears sand. Other sites on Wright farm and nearby leases prepare for drilling amid gasser findings and rising rigging activity.
Logan December 11 Jasper Tatman Benton Township pleads guilty to assault and battery Judge Har ley M Whitcraft fines 100 dollars and costs and imposes 60 days in Hocking County Jail. Witness testimony described a fight on August 6 with L C Daugherty leading to a knife wound on the face.
Senators Glass of Virginia Swanson of Virginia and King of Utah, previously cited as dissatisfied with the treaty, told United Press they would vote for ratification.
Lima authorities report Angelo Taggi, 19, confessed to blackhand notes demanding 17000 from two Ohio Steel Foundry executives. A decoy package placed in City Park led police to the suspect after he claimed responsibility.
Buenos Aires reports little hope for an immediate amicable settlement of the border clash at Fort Van Guardia between Paraguay and Bolivia. The dispute centers on sovereignty of the Chaco region along their frontier, with both sides blaming the other.
Dixon Stump confessed to stealing poultry from Harley Punchen and James Pierson, with losses totaling over 50 dollars. He named trips to two farms and said he sold poultry to a Lancaster firm, while authorities date the thefts around November 20. He is jailed awaiting arraignment. A separate note reports the Kings Daughters held a Christmas meeting at the Methodist Episcopal Church with a white offering, gifts under the tree, and reports from district mission societies.
President Coolidge sent to the Senate the nomination of Samuel H. West to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio. The action comes from the White House in Washington December 11.
Mrs Elsie Myers of Bowen Street received a radiogram from her son Jack Myers in Peking with the Marines. The message from Tientsen China to Ft McKinley then San Jose Calif says he is well and getting along fine. He has served in China 20 months and will complete half his four year enlistment in January. He trained in radio telegraphy and now guards the Peking legation.
The Rev. C. R. Douglass, former pastor of First Presbyterian Logan, spoke in Wooster on Sunday then went to Logan to visit friends before returning home to Iowa City. He notes his wife and family are well and mentions his move to the University of Iowa as student pastor over a year ago.
The solution lists six words in a chain: Cruel, Cruel, Crust, Crest, Chest, Cheat. It reflects the letter transformation theme of the puzzle and leads to a final word sequence.
At the American Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Chicago the final session focused on taxation and livestock, tobacco, and cotton issues. Speakers urged farmers to put their own houses in order, explain cooperative marketing advances, and describe a national order-buying agency serving thirteen markets to distribute receipts to processors.
The report notes 19 football fatalities in the nation this season with only six involving college players. The rest were high school or informal sand lot players. It also mentions Vice-President-elect Charles C. Curtis as a horse enthusiast and former licensed jockey who rode to fund his law studies in the West.
In Lugano on December 11 Aristide Briand the French foreign minister and League of Nations president said to cable Paraguay and Bolivia urging settlement aligned with their treaties of arbitration and conciliation.
Court records list Leander Durst 23 coal miner of Greendale and Daisy Crumley 21 of Greendale as a couple officiated by Magister J. P. Miller. Also listed are Howard Wiseman 22 laborer of Wellston and Lena Evans 19 of Carbon Hill with Rev. J. R. Fields. E. H. Rhoads 50 laborer of Logan and Florence Trease 47 house-keeper of Logan with Rev. J. R. Fields. Rolland Canan 22 inspector of Columbus and Geraldine Ellinger 21 of Logan. Amos Withem 21 miner of New Pittsburgh and Maxine Kinnison 18 of Jobs. Each entry notes parents and residences.
West Virginia averaged six and twelve hundredths yards per carry in ten games this season improving the offense.
Ohio State University at Columbus seeks 1 513 195 to pay bills for the next two years. Dr G W Rights mire president submitted the budget to Governor Donahey showing a 17 percent rise from two years earlier. Enrollment grew 15 percent from 12 085 to 13 9 for 1927 28.
An old ad touts Lava-Pirk as a remedy for colds and grippe with rapid relief after the first dose. It claims Laxa-Piriry contains aspirin and laxatives and benefits headache neuralgia lumbago and other pains, urging insistence on genuine product.
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