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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1926
Page
2
State Examiner Walter L. Dean audited county records and found the contract for enlarging the courthouse to be illegal. Work was stopped, the contract canceled, then let for a smaller amount after legal advice. Dean commended County Clerk Ben as courteous and efficient.
Friends of Mrs T W Bengel held a surprise birthday gathering at her new Gravel Hill home on Monday evening. A pot luck dinner was served to guests including Mr and Mrs J S Hartenbach Mr and Mrs Harry Rice Mr and Mrs Morris Mr and Mrs A O Clarice Maag and Freda Sedford.
The ice that blocked river traffic for a week has thawed and boats have resumed operations. A dense fog has prevailed for the past few days, hampering visibility and navigation.
Columbus reports Professor Dabney Horton plans to appeal a Justice of the Peace ruling that fined him $800 for making and possessing intoxicating liquor. Horton, an Ohio State University English instructor, has been dismissed from the faculty.
Dr An n Besant, international head of theosophical society who has urged the coming of a new messiah, will undertake a three month secret tour in August to reach audiences in this entry.
Middleport on January 6. The Midd leport Literary club met at Mrs. Clint Welsh on Main Street for its first meeting of the year. Officials were elected as is customary for the initial gathering.
Funeral services for the infant of Mrs. Lena Rees of Coalport were held at Pomeroy Baptist church. Burial followed in Hill cemetery. The child was born without arms or legs, and the father Lee Rees died soon after the birth.
Call boy Uncle Billy Wise was taken to McMillian hospital in Middleport on Saturday with a very serious condition. The latest report says he is too weak for an operation.
Mrs Brisha Moore visits relatives in Point Pleasant. Maxine Smith is ill at her Second Street home. Mrs IL A Fulcher of Seventh Street taken to Holzer hospital Gallipolis for medical care. Herbert Chambers improving after illness. Tom and Mrs Davis return from Greenfield visit. Mr and Mrs Witton visit daughter Mrs Hilderbrand in Milwaukee. John Powell of Columbus visits relatives here. Willy Singers of Detroit came for the death of his sister Dorothy Singer. Mrs Ernest Grimes visits Columbus yesterday. Mrs A H Skidmore hosts Five Hundred club at Mary Jane Coffee Shop.
Paul Ebersbach left Monday for Yuma Arizona to visit relatives and expects a three month trip to California and other points. Rosener Zeiher is ill with tonsillitis at home on Main Street. Mrs. Ralph Henry of Nelsonville visits Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Vochary at their home on Tineen hill. Clarence Hamm cannot be at duties at Wolf clothing store due to illness.
Mrs. Ray Smith and Mrs. Lizzie Roush were summoned to Louisville Colorado yesterday due to the death of their niece Bess Williams in that city.
After 25 years as Vermillion C mayor, Harry Williams starts his thirteenth consecutive term. He jokes he is lazy, while residents credit his active leadership with steady city governance.
Chicago January 5 One of the era’s feverish manhunts may be over if John Redding, serving a San Quentin robbery sentence and nearing parole as Robert B Scott, is identified as the fugitive Robert Scott who for two years faced murder charges in the killing of Joseph Maurer a drug clerk during a holdup. Scotts brother Russell and family lobbied for him to confess.
S E Johnson and L J Ayers, former Cuyahoga Falls residents, were found dead in a Niles room last night from carbon monoxide poisoning. Two gas stoves were burning full tilt.
Three hold up men staged an auto wreck to rob John Butler a 59 year old district superintendent of a chain grocery store system of receipts totaling 3044 dollars from eighteen Bronx stores. Three other hold ups netted New York bandits about 26046 dollars.
President Coolidge faces a tariff commission feud that could trigger a congressional inquiry or tariff revision. The panel is divided by factional and personal disputes, complicating the selection of a new chairman as Thomas Marvin nears completion of his four year term.
Akron officials report M. J. Crooks aged 30 and John De iabo aged 38 died after suffocating in a sewer Monday. Crooks' body remained in the noxious vapors until a diver with a gas helmet retrieved it at around 9 am.
Washington speculation centers on Joseph B. Eastman of Massachusetts newly elected chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Though among the younger members, Eastman is known as the commission’s chief dissenter, having opposed the majority in several recent rulings. The question is what stance he will take on the Van Sweringen Dollar Dil llion railroad merger.
Horace Benton a 33 year old salesman for a Cleveland varnish company vanished after leaving Garfield Heights to drive to Vermillion last Wednesday. His abandoned car and sample case were found in downtown Cleveland. Police from northern Ohio urged aid as theories centered on murder or robbery following his disappearance.
In the past three years schools and universities largely failed to make radio work with many surrendering licenses to the Department of Commerce. In the last year over fifty broadcasting schools and universities quit, and twelve of twenty nine stations were deleted from the list in December.
The father McKenna appointed his son John E. McKenna as temporary successor and said he would file court action to secure reinstatement.
Washington January 6 Night sessions were ordered by the senate finance committee to speed up the 325 million tax reduction bill. Senator Smoot of Utah said it must be reported by January 20. Secretary Mellon testified defending treasury views including opposing a larger cut than 330 million. Progressive Republicans seek income tax publicity and higher surtax on large incomes to offset cuts for small earners.
In Parma Ohio an unusual conflict arises as both father and son contend for the same village Fire Chief job. The Parma village council recently dismissed Fire Chief Robert from his post amid the dispute.
New York report states Sergeant Frank Connell of the 18th A. S. Infantry was found dead in his room. A gas tube was discovered disconnected. The man had previously served as a captain in the A. E. F. air service.
A quip about luck and misfortune imagines a frying-sized chicken in Russia as a humorous worst-case scenario. The line uses hyperbole to reflect on luck, risk, and survival in a surreal setup.
Newark January 5 report quotes A W Fraser, production manager for a major hosiery firm, as saying American women's feet are enlarging with a shift toward size ten, based on his experience and expert input.
Firemen responding to an alarm found a doll house burning in Little Washington. Amid neighborhood cheers, a firefighter rescued the doll and returned it to its grateful owner.
Rome January 5 report states the long awaited papal bull proclaims the jubilee year will be observed globally in 1926. It outlines indulgence conditions for Catholics unable to make the Rome pilgrimage.
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