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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1929
Page
3
In Nelsonville on December 24 Santa Claus arrived with a prancing gray horse and sleigh amid a crowd of children. He climbed onto a truck and handed out candy and popcorn balls as carols were sung and a bright Christmas tree gleamed under a searchlight from the Hyde Building.
Announcements received of a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Wallace in Laredo Texas on December 17. The baby named Johnnie Irena is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walker of Nelsonville. The mother Ethel Walker was a former public health nurse here. Floyd Rosser and Martin Ohlinger families visit over the holidays.
Tom Curran aged 19, captain of the Nelsonville High School 1928 football team, died Monday night at his grandmother’s home in McConnelsville after a yearlong illness. He was son of Mrs. Margaret Curran and sister to Catherine. The Nelsonville family had lived there for years and he was a well known local athlete. Funeral services are planned for Thursday morning in McConnelsville.
Fern Bay, seriously hurt in a recent automobile wreck, has been moved from a Council Bluff Iowa hospital to his parents home in Nelsonville. He is reported to be slowly recovering with his wife accompanying him.
Toledo police were asked by John Stege to compare fingerprints of an unidentified man found in Clyde Ohio on December 21 with those of Fred Burke, the Chicago gangster sought for multiple murders and robberies.
The text notes Coolidge’s first contract with industrialism at a young age and his early wage earning, then shifts to a murder in St Joseph Michigan on December 14. Police puzzle over a Clyde Ohio escapee who died by his own hand on December 18, a day before the St Joseph officer was killed.
The only Christmas service in Athens tomorrow morning will be at First Presbyterian Church led by Dr A Y Wilcox. St Paul Catholic Church will hold its usual Christmas morning service. The Presbyterian service, a long standing tradition, lasts one hour from 10 to 11 o'clock.
The service will include a talk by Rev. Wilcox Thompkins and Miss Marianna Hing performing a Christmas selection while Prof. Charles Ginugne sings Silent Night. In Columbus a state survey was announced to aid nominating and electing legislative candidates skilled in tax legislation.
In Cleveland on December 14 two gunmen held up three shoppers at the Hanover Shoe Store in a daylight robbery. They escaped with 871 dollars as thousands of commuters passed by on their way to work.
Bandits drive to Ci W Stamper’s store in Vanceburg Kentucky and load the entire stock onto trucks before fleeing. The(value) stock is estimated at 15.0 million dollars.
Jury acquits Councilman Willam F Potter and City Clerk Fred W Thomas of charges alleging legal interest in land sale. Court action ends the scandal at Cleveland's city playground project.
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