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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1921
Page
5
Fourteen NC seaplanes depart San Diego for Balboa via Mexican and Central American coasts. The fleet, led by NC Nos. 5 and 6, faces stormy seas with supply ships along the route. Total flight time estimated at fifty hours, with Balboa arrival targeted January 18 after rest and refueling stops.
Miss Corda Laughlin leaves for a two week visit in Chilli cothe with relatives and friends. Justice of the Peace P. W. Hei rs'in Columbus on a few days business trip. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Inman of one host guests at New car's Day of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stewart in Maplewood Drive. The W C T U meets with Mrs. A O Sloane 59 South Court street Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Miss Elizabeth Horn returns Saturday from a visit in itegmene guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Austin.
Mr. Fred Brown of Sand Ridge spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of his aunt Mrs J A Wise Man on 68 North Court Street.
Mrs. Mary Hibbard and her son Donald have returned home after visiting Mr. Albert Hibbard and family in Huntington West Virginia.
The Standard Bearers will meet this evening at 7 o'clock with Miss Janice Battin of 85 University Ter.
Miss Jolia Murphy visits sister Mrs. C H Horn at 12 Sunny side Drive. Mr and Mrs Curtis Shellman announce birth of son Paul Curtis on Wednesday Dec 29. Hobson Study Circle meets Tuesday at 7 pm with Mrs P G Hibbard. Social Literary club hosted by Mrs C L Jones Tuesday at 2 30 pm. Womans Benefit Association of the Maccabees meets tonight at 7 with special work. Miss Catherine Coe hosted by Miss Doris Orr. Atty Charles Miller and Miss Emily Brown guests of Mrs E Selby.
Miss Georgia Hackman and guests Mrs Willard Bartoe and son Willard Mrs Charles Welchamer and children of Nelsonville visited Sunday. Athens Council No 128 Daughters of America to install officers Tuesday at 7 PM.Miss Margaret Snow returned from Columbus where she spent a school vacation week with Miss Alice Jennings. Mr and Mrs W O Jones and daughter Dorothy arrived home from holiday travels with friends in Cuyahoga Akron and Columbus.
Mrs J C Brown and her children return to Croton from a holiday visit with Mr and Mrs A L Johnson at 23 Morris Avenue.
A stream of neighborhood tidbits notes Mr. and Mrs. J H Pitzer returning from Cincinnati after New Year with relatives, Prof and Mrs J B Lineburg visiting Woodsfield, and others from Columbus Loveland Chillicothe and Johnstown dropping by. Social calls include a Tuesday club event at 32 Franklin avenue on religion in China and a Masonic meeting Oyster supper at the lodge.
Mr and Mrs James Musser were asked to come to Canton this morning as their daughter Miss Mabel Musser faces a surgical operation for appendicitis on Tuesday. Mr Musser will travel tonight. his wife cannot accompany him. Miss Musser, a Canton fourth grade teacher, had just returned to work Saturday after holiday visit. She fell ill in church Sunday evening but was apparently in good health beforehand.
The Athens Alumni club of Delta Tau Delta hosted a dinner at The Colonial to welcome New Year. Covers were set for 20 guests including out of town alumni such as Arthur H. Carpenter of Chicago and Horace Palmer of Quantico.
Mr. Robert Warren and Miss Dorothea Hall of Nelsonville wed at noon today at the First M. E. parsonage with Rev. C. L. Strecker officiating. Attendant was Wade Hall, father of the bride. The couple plans to reside near Nelsonville where Warren is a farmer.
Plates were set for 82 at the New Year’s Day dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Beasley at 123 Morris avenue. Yuletide colors of red and green appeared in table decorations with red roses. Out of town guests included E. E. Stevens and family from Cincinnati, plus Elliott and Briggs families from Toledo and Columbus, and Beasley relatives from Nelsonville.
Cleveland officials weigh emergency measure to add 500 policemen after a violent start to the year. Slayings of Wilfred Sly and George Fanner, and multiple robberies including a Miles Theatre cashier theft and other holdups, mark a surge in crime as authorities pursue suspects. Witness L. W. Woods identifies a suspect in the Sly Fanner case.
The Senate passed the finance bill over President Wilson’s veto, voting 63 to 6. The measure would revive the war finance corporation, with critics saying it could raise taxes through more treasury borrowings and hurt agriculture and exports. Names noted include Elkins Keys Sutherland Gerry and Thomas.
The U S Supreme Court issued its first broad interpretation of the Clayton act aimed at protecting unions from injunctions, ruling unfavorably to labor in a case between the Duplex Printing Press Co of Bellaire Creek Michigan and the International Association of Machinists. Justice Brandeis dissented, calling the ruling a futile effort to place employers and employees on equal footing before the law. The dispute involved an open shop, a strike, and a request for an injunction under the Sherman act claiming conspiracy in restraint of interstate commerce, while unions argued exemptions under the Clayton act.
Kansas City employers begin an open shop push as Schooley Stationery Company tells printers they may keep their jobs as citizens but must resign from the International Typographical Union. The move marks the first step in making Kansas City an open shop town.
J B Jones a Cubrun Kentucky druggist says he has used Chamberlains Cough Remedy in his family for seven years and finds it the best cough medicine he has ever known.
Mr Duni of Cherry Valley Pa reports starting Don Sung in January kept 23 hens busy in cold weather and produced 4 to 6 eggs daily in five days, 10 to 12 in three weeks, and 15 in five weeks. Trial costs nothing with money-back guarantee. Burrett-Dugger Co Indianapolis sells the tonic by mail or through dealers.
Topeka activists defend the anti cigarette law while veterans push to repeal it. Dr W A McKeever of Kansas University invites debates with any opponent, accusing veterans of kowtowing to tobacco interests as the American Legion calls for repeal and Governor Allen to remove him from payroll.
A delegation of high trades union officials arrived in Washington on January 8 to press Congress to investigate the textile industry. John Golden of Newark led the textile unions and met with Samuel Gompers of the AFL to seek backing for demands to probe factory closures and wage cuts tied to wartime price controls.
The advertisement lists New Year prices: flour 1.40 per sack, bulk coffee 25c, dried peaches 25c, laundry soap 6c, toilet soap 6c and 10c, oats 7c per lb, hominy 7c and 8c and 5c per lb, pineapple 45c, canned peas 16c, salmon 20c, matches 250 for four boxes, coal oil 25c, gas mantles 12 of, and brooms 60c and 75c.
In Erie on New Year’s night a man loitered outside a club watching members enter and exit. He used a split overcoat to reveal a bulge, stole the bottle, and vanished into an alley.
A new apparatus records the work performed by farm implements hauled by tractors, enabling automatic measurement of effort and output. The device promises to provide precise data on implement usage and efficiency for farmers.
Governor Cox in his final message to the Ohio legislature reviews accomplishments and presents 25 specific recommendations. He highlights reforms in the judicial system, rural school code, and compulsory workers compensation, plus changes to education, probation, prisons, and state administration.
Attendance at Sunday school totaled 657 at the First M. B. A. Church. The report shows 16 officers and teachers, seven visitors, and 634 scholars in attendance.
Fragmentary text shows class and names with figures 218 178 17 and 14. It lists a total of $26.87 with partial splits Ci 11.75 and Class. Follow-up needed for full summary and entities.
An oddly garbled report from Canton outlines a state tax plan change prescribed by Superintendent Ja, noting a rush of ness and an unexpected levy. Details are unclear due to damaged text, but the piece mentions ten parts of a levy and previously unoccupied areas.
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