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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1929
Page
5
Chauncey Dover High School boys and girls teams will play the Alumni teams in Chauncey gym New Year’s night. Proceeds will help defray football season expenses, per coach Paul Theisen.
Chauncey December 31 The Sey Day Adventist Church presented a program for the Investment Fund featuring songs recitations dialogues and a violin solo. Twelve children staged a play titled The Harvest under the direction of Mrs Nellie Conaway with Mrs Hazel Hines supervising. Mr and Mrs Robert Mosely Nelsonville were guests of Mrs Mary Meinhart.
Society notes recount Mr. and Mrs. Matt Shuler hosting an oyster supper and card party on Shannon Ave with many friends and relatives attending. Several locals recover from operations and travel milestones are noted alongside other holiday gatherings and visits.
In Cleveland on December 31 federal prohibition agents raided and closed the Schwaben Club, a West Side drinking venue, marking an unexpected pre New Year crackdown. The action underscores ongoing enforcement against illegal alcohol sales.
Pratt Street Mission will hold watch services tonight at 7 o clock, inviting the community to attend.
Federal and local forces pressed a manhunt in Kentucky after the Bank of Oakland robbery and banker murder. Elmer Grayson, 21, captured early in the search, was moved to a Nashville jail for safety and is reported to have confessed. Grayson’s home is Indianapolis.
Athens County Board of Commissioners met at the Courthouse and approved 53 county bills for 1929 payments. Auditor J. Clyde Edmundson certified unpaid bills and funds were set aside from the general fund. The 1930 meeting is January 6, with J. H. Grosvenor A. Daugherty and J. W. Lax continuing in 1930.
Members of the Plains High School Junior Class and friends will be entertained tonight at the home of Superintendent and Mrs. Alexi Root. Refreshments will be served.
Lenora Wood of Athens visited Donne Shaffer on the Plains road last Friday and Saturday. Guests included Mr and Mrs Fieyd Sheaffer with Walter Martin and family and R B Garrison of Mansfield. Arthur Elis joined the Schuler family in Athens for a Saturday visit. The Burghfield and Barker households hosted, with Floyd Barker of Athens visiting. Harry Moore and sons Wendell and Melvin spent the weekend in Dayton with Darrel Moore’s family. Wendell extended his stay. Mrs Russell McHarg stayed in Athens with her mother Mrs Helrich.
Miss Marie Morgan of Lancaster visits Chauncey guests Arlyn Blauser of Lancaster. Wallace Six of Chauncey is seriously ill at his daughter’s home, Mrs. William Glass. Mrs. Homer Tucker visits her grandfather Wallace Six and her parents in Chauncey. Miss Mary Agin returns to Chauncey after Christmas with Mrs. Sarah Stalder in Rock Bridge. Mrs. Otto Russell of Ashland Ky attends Chauncey for uncle Amos H. England’s death. Frances Irene Rice of Columbus spends holidays with aunt Mrs. Ethel Russell in Millfield.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Millfield Church of Christ will meet Friday evening at the home of Mrs. Charles Robinett for the regular business meeting and monthly social.
Charles Goodrich of Haney Goodrich clothiers was taken to Grant Hospital in Columbus on Sunday for treatment. His condition was described as serious but hospital reports were encouraging today.
Homer Frazier of Hockingport was fined 25 dollars and costs after arraignment before Magistrate Carl H. Porter on intoxication charges. In default of payment he was jailed in Athens County Jail after arrest by Deputy Sheriff Wilson Ator Saturday night.
The Athens Messenger releases a booklet advising what to feed pets and how to care for them. It covers housing breeding bathing and health for cats dogs parrots goldfish pigeons canaries turtles rabbits tame mice and guinea pigs with training guidance. Our Washington Information Bureau compiled the booklet from government and other authorities and readers can obtain a copy via a coupon.
A brief notice from a respondent offering six cents in coin or stamps for a copy of the booklet titled Care of Pets. They provide a street address and request delivery to a city, state, and street.
Two automobiles plunged through a thin ice layer on Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay Island. Four men narrowly escaped death as they attempted to reach Middle Bass Island two miles away. Local reports detail the perilous crossing and the retrieval efforts.
A car driven by Herbster and Missen broke through thin ice but they escaped onto solid ice and were rescued. Soon after John Gardner and Sam Bleile attempted a relay over another path. the warm sun weakened the ice and their auto also went through. They likewise saved themselves.
Dec 31 report quotes Assistant Treasury Secretary Seymour Lowman saying three liquor smugglers who perished escaping Coast Guard custody have no one to blame but themselves. He cites Newport incident as unfortunate but avoidable and stresses U S laws must be upheld as smugglers defied officers and paid the price.
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