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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1926
Page
3
Albert Dilcher the Y M C A physical director announced a sequence of events for the holiday weekend. A foul shooting contest is set for Wednesday at 1 30, a wrestling tournament on Thursday at 4 80, and New Year’s Eve open house and watch party Friday with games stunts and a basketball game from 7 30 to 11 30.
The Nelsonville Elks committee led by Co. H. Martin thanks many donors and participants for the Christmas charity program. The new method of dispensing cheer is credited with broader appreciation and greater food distribution. Burial for Harve Nixon took place at Greenlawn. he leaves parents two brothers and a sister.
Nelsonville reports a city court session with Walter Fenny fined ten dollars plus costs after a guilty plea to intoxication. James Colbert also paid ten dollars and costs for the same offense. Bill Green faced costs for operating without rights. Porter Barron and Peg Wallace pleaded not guilty to fighting and await a Thursday hearing. J P D Hubbard was fined twenty five dollars plus costs for a traffic law violation.
Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. today at the Nixon residence in Deanville for Warren V. Nixon the 18 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Nixon.
Mrs. Leland G. Devore was taken to Grant hospital in McLaughlin's ambulance Monday for treatment. The Nelsonville high school lecture course presents the comedy To the Ladies at the senior high auditorium Wednesday December 29 at 8 o'clock.
A Christmas gathering at the home of Daniel Smith with all his children present featured morning gifts and a 12 o'clock turkey dinner. Attendees included the Mann ingers McGinnises and their son Oscar, Thelma Wilson, Harold Smith, Ruth Kuhn of Lancaster, Clarence and William Wood with families of Nelsonville, and many others visiting from Columbus Zanesville Ravenswood Athens and Cincinnati.
Funeral services for William H. Burk formerly of Athens who died Friday at Canton will be held from Newsom and Walburn funeral home at 10 30 o clock Wednesday December 29. He died after pneumonia at his son Fred s home. A lifelong Athens resident he moved to Canton after his wife s death. He was in poor health for years and belonged to the Christian church and the K P. He leaves four brothers Samuel Columbus Charles Dayton Michael Stewart and Roy Canada and two grandchildren Lola and Charles. The funeral cortege will arrive in Athens today at 4 30.
Harold Montgomery Stewart faces trial in Probate court for allegedly selling whisky to a 16 year old. The incident involves Nel fie Woods of near Guysville, proprietor of a confectionary and restaurant, and the affidavit by prosecutor Rt. W. Finsterwald details the charge and location.
Margaret Jane Bolin Haining, 64, died at 12:30 this morning at her brother W. E. Bolin’s home near Bates church. Survived by sister Mrs. Mary E. Chamy of Meigs county, brother A. A. Bolin of Akron, and half-brother L. H. Jeffers of Alexander township. Funeral set for Bates chapel at 1 o’clock Thursday.
Dewey Barker, a bus driver, will be tried before Mayor Alex Moore on Monday for allegedly assaulting Paul Woodworth, son of Mrs. Maud Woodworth, in an incident Saturday.
Ohio State highway department faces uncertain funding for 1927 road work. County Prosecutor Maddox questions legislative appropriations and highway-law changes. With money limited to gasoline tax and tag fees, the department awaits an $8.49 million request for the next eighteen months, including $7 million for new construction and $1 million for grade crossing elimination.
In Philadelphia the American Association for the Advancement of Science convened as Prof. Michael Pupin, retiring president, forecast new electrical miracles within twenty five years. He said radio and telephony would pale beside future advances in an almost unexplored field.
Grand and petit juries for the January term are named by Thurman L. Morgan clerk of courts. Grand jury meets January 3 and includes H Z Carpenter Bern and Charles Brandeberry Troy among others. Petit jury report January 17 with twenty five members listed led by J H Allen and J H Dorsey. The major case is state v Jones Lines Dalton and Cady manslaughter of Lawrence Bolton during a dry raid in Athens County. Also note a historic remark about mistletoe medicinal belief.
A vintage advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a fast, pleasant alternative to cod liver oil for under nourished or frail children. It promises flesh gain, claims safety with a candy like take, and offers a 30 day money back guarantee with price at 60 tablets for 60 cents.
Three marriage licenses were issued in Probate court yesterday, bringing the two day total to fifteen as the office remained open. The couples include Vernon Leroy Tracey and Helen Opal Clemons with officiants Rev. Fowler and Rev. B H Peugh designated. Leo H Kennard and Anna E Hoak with officiant Rev. B H Peugh. and Charles Garlinger and Clara Conley with officiant Magistrate Pearl W Helwig.
John J. Esch was elected chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission and will assume office January 1, 1927. A former 22 year member of Congress from Wisconsin, Esch coauthored the Esch Cummins Transportation Act and was appointed to the commission by President Harding in 1921. he hails from LaCrosse Wisconsin.
Flea Richards petitions Common Pleas court for divorce from James W. Richards alleging willful absence for over three years. The couple wed in Coshocton on July 29, 1919 and have an eight year old child named James Paul Richards.
An armed posse in Montgomery pursues nine convicts who escaped Speigner prison after a fusillade of bullets in heavy rain. Tracking is hindered by the persistent downpour as the manhunt continues across the area near Montgomery.
Mrs. M. L. Kinney, pastor of the Sugar Creek mission, will assist at the revival meetings starting tonight at Greens Run.
In Urbana on December 28 a coal oil explosion in the Abraham Reams home fatally injured Mrs. Abra ham Reams 25 who died instantly and left Mrs. William Coleschott 17 of Bellefont Ind. mortally wounded and dying in Cham paign County Hospital.
Washington report states Grant on Miller Willard, who joined the postal service as a railway postal clerk thirty years ago, has been appointed chief post office inspector.
Harry Homan Jr. 16, a Glouster High sophomore, died Monday at Grant hospital Columbus after six weeks illness from typhoid fever and complications. He was taken there by ambulance Sunday. Funeral plans were not set.
The community Christmas tree on the depot square remained upright this morning, a focal point for local holiday activities and neighborhood residents.
Ten thousand dollars were used to create a temporary road from the Perry county line near Burr Oak to Corning over the new grade. The state contributed five thousand and Perry county matched with five thousand. A state worker will maintain the road through winter and federal funds will fund a hard surfaced Perry county road next July with a contract to be awarded then.
In Glouster on December 28 the Luckoff stores donated 27 pairs of shoes to the needy. Clerks returned Christmas morning to help fitting them. At the Chauncey store 21 pairs were given away.
At the meeting officers will be installed for the coming year and the regular routine of business acted. All members of the organization are requested to be present.
Thomas Williams Jr. spends the week with his parents Mr and Mrs P T Bechtel in Eckhart. Mrs Fred Jonas called to Kingwood WV for her ill father John Gribble. Mr and Mrs C F Jonas Swiss WV guests of relatives, with Mrs Jonas planning a Columbus trip this week. Miss Wahnetta Zimmer Cleveland visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Zimmer. Mrs Davis Scott returns to Porterville after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs William Kingell.
Mr and Mrs Jerome A Kline of 1071 View Avenue have donated 8000 dollars toward a new Brethren church in Enterprise. The total fund now stands at 16000 dollars, with construction set to begin soon. journalist note mentions Cornell experiments and a nearby town.
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