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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1931
Page
6
Seventy five couples welcomed the new year at a Wednesday night dance at the Athens Country Club. The event, praised as one of the club’s most successful social occasions, featured music by the Varsity Six of Columbus and holiday decorations with horns and paper hats as favors.
Mra Mothel Ralph at 11 University Terrace returns home for a short visit with daughter Mrs Juda Chase and granddaughter Mary Jo of Columbus. Miss Katherine Morrison of Fort Thomas Kentucky visits Ruth Miller in Gallipolis. Fred Weber and John Edwards visit Washington DC. Billy Burt returns from Wapakoneta after accompanying his uncle Don Burt who runs bakeries there and in Delphos.
Marcelline Jmi aria sal becomes engaged to Arthur J Klein a wealthy Los Angeles businessman. Miss Day announced the engagement and said the wedding would occur not too soon and not too late.
Miss Lecta McCoy hosted 46 Athens youths at Carol Hope’s Hope Dairy Farm Grosvenor Crossing watch party last night chaperoned by Grace Cochran with games and refreshments served at 11:20. Mr John W Bolin moves to 62 Franklin Ave. he will soon become Athens County prosecuting attorney and ends stint as city solicitor.
A funeral yesterday at the home of Mr and Mrs R M Meley 43 North Lancaster Street drew relatives from several cities including C F Figiey Chicago A E Ayres and Dorothy Wilmington W E Edgell Mt Vernon Ohio M B Edgell and Lillian Lancaster C H Patton and James Haydenville among others as mourners in a mid nineteenth century notice.
Mrs Clarence Russell Chauncey and Mrs J H Martin The Fiains led a funeral with many locals from Nelsonville and Logan attending. The burial occurred at Green Lawn Cemetery near Nelsonville. A Friday meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society at First Methodist Church will discuss Physicians and Nurses with Mrs J H Berry leading.
Frankfort report says U Theodore Turner a 38 year old former major league pitcher and John Daugherty alias Callahan and Donovan Kentucky convicts escaped from the reformatory by scaling a wall. Turner serving life sentence under habitual criminal laws and tied to robberies and safe cracking charges.
Three 17 year old Convoy youths Morris Kreicher Bill Burley and Ward Mc Daniels were killed when their car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad train at the Main Street crossing. No witnesses. it was believed the barred crossing failed to sight the train. The wreckage was thrown far from the impact.
Walter Williams, age 66, who founded the first journalism school and never earned a college degree, is named president of the University of Missouri in Columbia after serving as dean of journalism.
Six firemen were overcome by smoke as flames swept the Boston Department Store and three adjoining shops causing 66 000 dollars in damage. A blinding snow storm hampered efforts as crews fought the blaze for over an hour before control.
At the White House on January 1 a broad mix of guests including Supreme Court Justices and urban youths attended the annual New Year reception. President and Mrs Hoover greeted more than four handshake partners. a program limited them to ten minutes of handshakes then two minutes of rest, running from 11 a.m. to about 4 p.m.
A Great Eastern stage coach No. 133 on the Cleveland to Pittsburgh route skidded and fell into a ditch near Lisbon. A score of passengers were severely shaken up but none were injured.
Deputy sheriff thwarted escape of Toledo prisoner Cadillac Joe Kucisski en route to Ohio Penitentiary. The bank robber, sentenced 10 to 15 years, tried to unlock handcuffs with a key between Union Station in Columbus and the penitentiary. suspicious actions spotted, thwarting the attempt.
Fresno dispatch reports C Todd Clark, newly elected Assemblyman from California, received two telegrams in as many days asking him to change seats in the capitol. He replied by wire to seat him where there is a seat, and offered to bring a milk stool if seats run short.
Akron senior Cecil Moyer of Miami University told friends in Oxford that he wed Marian Thompson of Toronto last summer. Moyer plays guard for the Miami basketball team.
Kansas City January 1. A prewritten regret card offers penitent guests full instructions to apologize for festive excesses at a New Year party. “Humonly craves pardon” blanks for offender name and lists offenses such as striking the host with a bottle, spanking guests, throwing food, upsetting the goldfish bowl, imitating the canary, weeping, and losing balance.
Eight story Yuster Building at Fourth and Broad Streets in Columbus sold to Edward G. Schultz and associates of Cincinnati Ohio from M L Yuster. Announcement made Wednesday.
Edward Kennedy, former Niles police lieutenant, was acquitted in Warren on a charge of taking protection money from Niles bootleggers and gamblers. The common pleas court jury deliberated from 11:20 a m until 2:30 p m after a prior hung jury in a first trial.
A 1928 Chevrolet coupe with 1931 license plates belonging to E. E. Hawk was reported stolen in Athens at midnight. Patrolman Wilson Co. Ator recovered the car at 12:45 a.m. on the New Marshfield Road, marking the year’s first theft and return.
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