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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1927
Page
3
Nelsonville Elks announce their annual charity ball at the lodge on Hocking Street Friday night with a good orchestra. Proceeds fund Christmas charity. a Christmas Day dinner for children will be served in the lodge dining rooms, following last year’s popular first dinner.
Tolliver of Buchtel pleaded guilty to operating an automobile while intoxicated and was fined 100 dollars. He received 30 days in jail and a six month license suspension. Tolliver, with Forest Young, was taken to Athens by Chief Jack Pearson after an accident involving a Ford sedan on the Athens road near Coe Hollow. No one was injured.
Roy Birtcher and Leonard Hill of Nelsonville were fined ten dollars and costs each by Mayor L. J. Eberle after pleading guilty to charges of quarreling yesterday.
State Prohibition Inspectors H A Lines and J C Yates with sheriffs of Hocking Gallia and Meigs counties report October and November actions. Arrests 49, convictions 37, cases lost 2, pending 10. Destroyed 85 barrels mash and 13 stills. Fines total $5 625.
The men's brotherhood of a Presbyterian church will meet Friday at 6 15 p m in the church basement. Attorney J P Wood of Athens will discuss Old Testament phases and share his study results. Newly elected officers will take charge. Nelsonville York Grange No 2436 will hold its regular meeting at Oak Grove school Thursday evening with officer installation and lunch.
Nelsonville reports two men facing fines after intoxication pleas. Young pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined 100 dollars and costs, then jailed until paid. He also pleaded not guilty to operating an automobile while intoxicated and was held to the grand jury. William Perkins Jr. was fined 10 dollars and costs on a guilty intoxication plea.
The Elizabeth Evans Circle of Westminster Guild will meet in the Presbyterian church parlors Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock. Mrs. E. B. Acomb and Miss Irene McDowell are patronesses and Mrs. Lloyd Evans will lead the meeting.
Members of the Woman's Home missionary society of the Methodist church prepare an annual Christmas package for Wal lace Wiggins in a Southern Missionary home. Boxes must be started by December 15 and items should be sent immediately.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Huenefeld and son Robert Jr. and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Irvin motored to Columbus Sunday and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Chapman. Don Bowers of Columbus spent Sunday with his parents here.
The Esther class teachers with officers invite members to a musical and literary program at the church Thursday evening December 15. Every member is requested to attend.
G A Daum of Kenton, a hay dealer, was held for investigation into the death of Mrs. Margaret Bulliss a 44 Findlay. Mrs Bulliss died when her car struck Daums parked truck on the highway.
Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Stage McCathran 80 lifelong Chauncey resident were held at Little Zion Church Lower Plains led by Rev Guss Graham. Burial followed in the church cemetery with flower bearers present and surviving relatives listed including daughter Grace Burchfield and granddaughter Darrel Moore Jr.
Chauncey Dover girls beat Canaanville 10 to 8 at Chauncey high gym. Mary Guerras guarded well while Carter led Chauncey and Hill starred for Canaanville. In the boys game Chauncey won after an extra five minutes with Omen scoring 27. Smith and Mansfield led the visitors.
The Chauncey-Dover high school Glee club directed by Mrs Christine Courtney Brown will present a Christian Vesper service at the high school auditorium next Sunday December 18. The program includes solo and duet numbers with chorus.
Glouster reports results from Form 1 Seaton-Pressey English tests taken by grades 7 through 12, noting most schools below average with only one or two exceptions. A spring follow up test will measure progress and target improvements.
Cincinnati December deadline reports the Remus bootlegger trial entering its fifth week as the state lists Dayton and Troy inmates as witnesses to counter defense claims Remus was unstable before he killed his wife. George Conners testified about Remus raving and being uncontrollable in jail.
Miss Agnes Davis a 24 year old lyric soprano from Denver Colorado and Wilbur W Evans a 22 year old bass baritone from West Philadelphia Pennsylvania won first prize in the Atwater Kent national radio audition held last night. They received 5000 dollars a gold decoration and two years tuition in a conservatory of music.
Chauncey Dover high school's freshman class staged a broadcasting style literary program at the literary society meeting. The C H D 8 station carried dialogues solos news poems readings and songs with students including Richard Hutchinson Harold Syckes Pauline Keck Helen Patton and others. Superintendent Wesley Walburn offered a closing remark.
Mrs. Charles Sweeney to lead a special program and annual Christmas party for women with an exchange of gifts. Mrs. Fiske will run the business session preceding the program. Colombia weighs importing 10 000 agricultural workers from Dresden Germany.
Ethel E. Smith sues Errett Smith for divorce in Columbus Franklin County Court and asks to resume her maiden name Ethel Kasler. She previously pursued Morgan County divorce but was denied after evidence. She now lives in Columbus while Smith stays in Bishopville.
A state survey cites 115000 Americans killed and 3.5 million injured in five years from auto crashes. Secretary Clarence J. Brown argues for a license law to curb drunk driving, and notes Ohio supports a penitentiary offense for intoxicated driving. He warns reckless driving endangers all on the roads.
The Pattern for a dress named a stylish gown in velvet satin crepe and cashmere states six bust sizes 34 36 38 40 42 and 44 inches. A 38 inch size needs 4 yards of 40 inch material and the low er edge width is 214 yards. Pattern sent to any address on receipt of 15 cents.
The new Gallipolis loose-leaf tobacco warehouse opened Saturday with 75 000 pounds of Burley on sale. Prices ranged from 2 to 38 cents a pound. Tobacco men expect Gallipolis Huntington and Hurricane warehouses to sell 6 000 000 pounds of Burley this season.
A Baltimore and Ohio Detroit Limited wreck near Guffey's station east of Pittsburgh killed one man and injured six. Officials report bolts were removed from the angle bar and spikes removed from ties on the curve, suggesting malicious interference. Baltimore & Ohio police opened an investigation with the missing bolts and spikes as the principal clue.
Susan Teeters, 14, wife of Virgil Teeters of Mile Run, is at the county infirmary with authorities unsure what to do. The girl, married last January in New Martinsville, W V, ran away to Pennsylvania where she fell ill. Pennsylvania officials brought her to Marietta this week. Judge Fleming, Prosecutor Metcalf, and infirmary superintendent D F Masters conferred with the husband, who refuses to take his wife home. She is too young for the infirmary and marriage prevents sending her to the children's home.
Geneva Dec. 12 The League of Nations council adjourned until March after mediating a seven year Poland Lithuania dispute over Vilna. The council ended the technical state of war and ordered restoration of normal communication while Vilna’s ultimate possession remains to be settled politically.
Ewing auditorium welcomed delighted children for Tony Sarg's marionette performance of Treasure Island Arabian Nights Don Quixote and Rip Van Winkle. Athens and The Plains grade schools were dismissed to attend. Puppets will reprise Ala Baba and the Forty Thieves and repeat scenes tonight.
An ad extols Creomulsion a creosote based emulsion that soothes inflamed membranes and inhibits germ growth. It claims two fold action by delivering creosote to the stomach for absorption, stopping irritation, and aiding recovery from coughs colds bronchitis and related respiratory diseases with a money back guarantee if symptoms persist.
George Remus former bootleg king on trial in Cincinnati for his wife murder petitioned the State Supreme court to hamper Charles Taft and his Hamilton prosecutors from molesting actual or prospective defense witnesses in the case.
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