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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1928
Page
8
Framing the change as an incentive, GLOUSTER announces that starting Friday automobile owners may use the new 1929 license tags to prompt early purchases. Local registrar L E Munden urges buyers to avoid delays and ensure tags before year end to prevent January 1 tag shortages.
In La Paz Bolivia accepts Pan American Arbitration and Conciliation Conference good offices to settle Paraguayan Bolivian border incidents. Paraguay also accepts. Bolivia orders cease of all advances and attacks in the Chaco after League of Nations urging restraint.
The Ohio Power Company asked the Public Utilities Commission to authorize $13,303,900 in bonds and 44,326 shares of preferred stock to fund a planned expansion. The utility serves 270 municipalities and seeks 29,625,990 for a new 165,900 kilowatt turbo generator at Philo and a 132,000 KVA double circuit transmission line.
Safecrackers obtained $509 from the Enrico Caproni Restaurant early today in Cincinnati. Local police investigate the break in and review surveillance footage for leads.
Gaskalla, president of Council, says he was named as a special officer for one day to assist another appointee and has not been on duty since. Mayor Gormley had announced four extra officers and a secret service officer, but Monday no further appointments were made due to cost concerns. William Fischer remains the only extra officer on duty.
Mrs John Jurko age 52 of Hunterdon died Monday morning at her home after suffering a stroke around noon Sunday. Funeral plans are pending the arrival of distant relatives. She was married twice and leaves her husband two children from a former marriage and seven step children.
Judge L G Worstell in Athens County Common Pleas Court assigns Lucinda Shields one third of the Shields estate as dower and grants sale of the premises if indivisible. In William Shields vs Homer Shields the plaintiff is found to hold one fifth undivided of the premises. William Lonas ordered to pay eight dollars weekly for his five children after non support charge by wife Lucy Lonas.
Ben Wagener changed his plea from not guilty to guilty in a Gloucester court charged with polluting a stream. He was fined $10 plus costs.
The Athens Christian Science Society applied to encumber real estate by a declaration of trust to recover a loan of 4100 dollars for building purposes. The loan is for an indefinite period with no interest charged.
Gilbert C Bettman announces Gilbert H Gibbs of Urbana will serve as special counsel to the State Tax Commission appointed by Bettman as Attorney General Elect Gibbs will act in a legal advisory role for tax matters in Ohio Urbana is named as Gibbs hometown and Bettman confirms the appointment on December 18.
Washington reports 1927 marriages fell to 1,200,694 from 1,202,574 in 1926 while population rose by 1,498,000 between July 1926 and July 1927. Divorce courts issued 192,037 divorces in 1927 up from 180,853 in 1926.
Springfield NL reports rumors that John L. Lewis international president of the United Mine Workers may be named secretary of labor in Hoover's cabinet. Lewis was re elected UMW president without opposition and some Illinois political leaders back him. In 1916 he declined an offer to head the state Department of Labor.
Alden Swindel of Jacksonville was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Fred Heck for an old charge tied to the W. J. Johnston store robbery in Jacksonville months prior. Swindel was jailed in Glouster City Prison and then transferred to the Athens County Jail on Monday.
Mrs. Anna Timbrink, after months with relatives in this city, departed Tuesday for her Detroit home. Dwight Post returned to Columbus Tuesday after a stay at his city residence. he is enrolled in an embalming course at a Columbus school.
A birthday dinner was hosted at Mrs. John Jewitt's Trimble home Sunday evening in her fifty fourth year. Attending were Forrest Bobo, Dale Thompson and son Edwin of Athens, Mrs. John Skinner and Pauline, Mrs. Noah Brown and son Jack, Sanford Jewitt, Miss Jaanita and Erma Jewitt.
Ohio University freshmen women of the YWCA present the play Why The Chimes Rang under Dean Erma E Voigt in Ewing Auditorium Thursday night A second Girls Glee Club will perform an old cards program directed by Helen Hook Cast includes Lucille Walker Elizabeth Hughes Helen McLaughlin Margaret Vanden Bark Mildred Shore Louise Sargeant Kathryn Aler Helen Goos Margaret Bradfield Lillian Kittle Ludvne Essig ushers Katherine Hammer Edna Perrin
Delegates in Washington resume sessions after Paraguay and Bolivia accept the Pan American Conciliation and Arbitration Conference good offices to mediate their differences. The acceptance drew acclaim from State Department officials and Latin American diplomats.
Miss Irene Overmeyer of Athens appeared in a Lions Club program in Parkersburg last week. She and another West Penn Public Service Company employee presented a one act playlet titled Satisfying the Customer. Miss Overmeyer is the daughter of Mr and Mrs C A Overmeyer of 69 Stimpson Avenue. Her father is connected with the Home Furnishing Store.
Reports from Calcutta indicate that martial law has been imposed amid ongoing disorders. Journal accounts describe travelers from Peshawar on the Afghanistan frontier arriving with details of the unrest and authorities taking control measures.
Local breeder John C. Cornell advertised Poland China pigs for sale in the Messenger. The placard ad tamed the swine into a neat row and helped secure a profitable sale. For selling pigs, call 641 Athens or Nelsonville 412.w to reach an ad-taker.
Kabul establishes martial law amid outbreaks protesting Amanullah's westernization drive. Disorders erupted as opposition to the king's reforms surged nationwide.
Robert S. Soule, University of Ohio graduate and Parkersburg-Mari ett a division head, will transfer to Fairmont to oversee the educational department of Monongahela West Penn Public Service Company. Effective January 1 he moves with his family. Soule has earlier taught public speaking in Athens high school and Mountain State Business College, and has spent the last two years with West Penn.
In Chicago a nine year old crippled son A D A McCullough died in County Hospital from his father's blows. Arthur's mother who was expecting again died after James McCullough aged 89 beat her with a furnace shaker. Police think he killed himself after the attack as foreclosure worries and job loss weighed on him.
Orlando Reeves of Albany was fined $100 and costs after arraignment in Justice Carl Porter’s court on charges of possessing property designed for the manufacture of intoxicating liquors. The sheriff’s office made the arrest.
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