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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1928
Page
3
Nelsonville health commissioner says no new flu cases by late morning and experts believe the epidemic has peaked and is abating. One scarlet fever case reported, plus chickenpox and whooping cough among children as conditions look steadier than prior years.
A big basketball night in Yamga features Ditchers Tramps vs Y M C A team at the high school gym on New Years Eve. The Ditchers Tramps, a new strong squad with Longley Marshall Bircley Muir West and Crabtree, meet the YMCA lineup from current members Howell Sudson Bly Cook Campbell and Sibbat. A preliminary by Mellinger’s Community Orchestra precedes the game with a YMCA benefit note.
Gerald Felix Warburg, son of Felix M. Warburg, shown rehearsing for his first professional appearance as a cello soloist with the New York Philharmonic orchestra. The image highlights his entry into a major classical stage.
Neighbors and relatives from Reno Sparks Columbus Athens Zanesville Cleveland Detroit Ravenswood Steubenville and Philo visit and return home after Christmas. Names include Mrs J oudiper Elizabeth Evans Catherine Pauline Reynolds C J Bartels V Bartela Mrs Elizabeth Postal Joshua Spencer Ralph White and others. The Nelsonville Presbyterian Church choir plans to repeat cantata numbers during Sunday service with Edith Stiers and Earl McCune performing solos.
Tok io dispatch reports the Chinese Nationalist flag hoisted over Manchuria signaling a reunified China. The move marks the first full unification since the 1912 republic establishment, with Mongolia and Tibet still deemed outside territory.
The Nelsonville Rotary Club met on Friday due to Christmas, discussing business ethics via vocational service committees. No meeting next week because of New Year. On January 7 the club plans to join an inter city event arranged by the Kogan Club.
Police link a single axe to a grim crime in Gastonia North Carolina where five family members including J W Vanderberg and his son were found dead amid a burned farmhouse. A 17 year old Jacob Vanderberg survived after neighbors found him with a suitcase and a pistol.
WASHINGTON Dec 29 UP a major aviation group plans a new transcontinental system from Los Angeles to New York with a western mid point at St Louis or Kansas City. W Irving Glover assistant postmaster general in charge of air mail said the route could open about May 1 as passenger service then mail and express. The plan would fly via Albuquerque and Wichita Falls, then east through St Louis or Kansas City to Baltimore or Washington and New York.
Nelsonville area dealers report heavy pre year end tag sales with about 1100 tags processed before year end. Evans says 600 daily tags so far this December 29 but many owners delay until the grace period ends. Monday marks final day 1928 tags may be used without violation. sales require a certified bill of sale.
County traffic officer Wilson Ator ran more than two miles along railroad tracks below Coolville to arrest James Brandeberry of Little Ireland who had threatened barns and girls. Brandeberry was captured near Coolville and jailed in Athens awaiting formal charges.
Mrs Helen Bartovich of La Crosse Wisconsin offers to take a murder sentence for her former lover John Beler who is serving life for killing Bartovich's husband. Beler, who has already served eight years, was granted a five day leave to confront Bartovich and reveal the hoax plan. He confessed the feasibility of days out of prison and returned to Waupun.
Barnard Pierce, young prosecuting attorney of Ingham County Michigan, led the case for the state in the prosecution of Fred Palm known as Michigan’s pintot gin lifer and Mrs Etta Mae Miller the first woman convicted as an habitual criminal in Michigan. Miller was sentenced to life imprisonment for four felonies all of which were liquor violations.
Eber Gabriel a lifelong Athens resident and Civil War veteran died Friday night at Sheltering Arms hospital at age 60. He lived with his son William at 114 East Union Street and was survived by his wife of years. Doctors cited a fall and broken leg followed by heart trouble as causes. Funeral planned by Columbus Golden Post G A R with time to be announced.
Reclamation Commissioner Elswood Mead announced Ray mond Walters of Denver will have supervisory control of the Boulder Dam Colorado River Project. Walters will not be construction engineer. he will head a special staff under the Reclamation Service.
Var pene Aldridge obtained a divorce decree in Athens County Common Pleas Court Hollis. Her former husband Aldridge was arrested in Grove post and held in Columbus city jail awaiting arraignment. He was brought from Columbus by Deputy Sheriff Fred Heck. The Plains is his former wife's residence.
Probat court records show 269 licenses issued this year versus 218 last year. The county seeks ten marriages to reach last year’s total, with applications due Monday.
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