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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1929
Page
5
The Plains Parent-Teacher Association meeting scheduled for this evening is postponed to Tuesday evening January 22. President Mrs. John Lopez is reported ill and the postponement is attributed to widespread sickness.
Chauncey Dover High School boys and girls teams will play The Plains High at The Plains gymnasium Friday night at 7 30.
Chauncey reports improved influenza conditions with fewer new cases. Many residents recover as school attendance improves and inmates at the County Home show health gains after the general epidemic.
Two Kilpatrick children celebrate January 14 birthdays with pink and white parties at 72 East Mulberry Street. Athens hosts announce Nell June Burritt and Ray Vergstresser wed in Denver and now reside in Athens. Also reported are eye surgery for Harry C O Bleness in Los Angeles and births and gatherings from the Gleaners class and local clubs.
In Athens County Common Pleas Court seven of twelve bondees have posted bonds and been released from the Athens County Jail. George Ludden, facing second degree murder in the Lent case, is expected to be released today once his sureties are completed. Bonds posted include Rat Campbell for shooting with intent to kill 200 dollars. Henry Kempton 3000. Homer Mecum 2000. Jess Gilmore 3000. Mack McClutchens 3000. Lew Mingus 3000. Alonzo Walters 1000.
Benjamin Duke, founder of the Duke tobacco interests, died January 8 at 73. His will, filed in New York, leaves the bulk of his estate to his daughter Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle, reflecting his lifelong gifts to schools and philanthropy.
Mrs 8S H Bing delivers lectures this week at the Farmers Institute in Ashtabula County and plans a follow up engagement in Jefferson County next week.
Mr and Mrs E D Foley and their daughter Betty Jane arrive in Athens from Sarnia Ontario to reside. They visit Bea trice Sams and C C Sams at 64 West Carpenter Street, meeting Bea trice’s parents during the stay.
The Friendly Society of the Presbyterian Church delayed its Friday gathering by one week. Mr. R H White returned from Cumberland after attending the funeral of Mr and Mrs Spooner who died within days of each other from influenza. They were parents of Miss Luella Spooner a two year graduate from Ohio University and member of Chi Omega Sorority.
County Surveyor J. W. Wilson announced ongoing improvements on five highways. The Hope Dairy to Armitage road is being graded and treated with cinders. Limestone will be used on the Kimberly road, and 20 carloads of cinders will be applied on the Peach Ridge road. After current work, improvements will start on the Airline road from Mineral toward Albany and on the Carbaugh road in Alexander Township.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Millfield Church of Christ held its weekly quilting in the church followed by a business session and social hour at the home of Mrs. Henry Heffkin. Luncheon was served. Members present included Celia Boudinot Bessie Pettit Mabel Mingus Lottie Cannon Ida Hill Edith McDaniel Lucy Howard Nellie Russell Viola Howard Bertha Sanders Susie Bell and host Mrs. Heffkin.
The Friendship Bible Class of the Church of Christ changes its monthly meeting from Wednesday to Thursday evening. It will be held at the home of Miss Leota Blackford in Fourth?
Worth Dicken traveled to Logan on Sunday to see his mother who is critically ill. The Rev Guss Graham Chauncey filled the Zion Church pulpit Sunday. Mrs Maggie Smith of Athens spent the day with her sister Mrs William Bryan. Mrs Russell McHarg visits her mother Mrs W E Helrich in Athens. Mr and Mrs G L Williamson visited in Athens with Mr and Mrs Floyd Barker.
General W Bramwell Booth, confined by illness, refused to resign as supreme head of the Salvation Army after the High Council demanded his ouster. The exact reply was not disclosed, but reports say he denied the council’s authority.
Margaret Landis aged 16 of Athens High School died after influenza with complications shortly after 1 AM at 7 North High Street. Stricken around December 15 she had been bedridden three days before death. funeral arrangements to be announced. Her father Fred Landis, an Athens coal dealer, and her brothers Elmo and Robert survive. she was born in Athens and widely known among local youth and teachers.
The Industrial Arts Club of Ohio University will meet Wednesday night at 8 o clock in the Men's Union.
Doctors endorse Najol as a pure natural substance that aids regular system function without causing exhaustion. It is not a laxative or cathartic and is taken nightly to maintain first class condition and resistance to colds flu and circulating diseases. Users are advised to use it freely as a safety measure.
In Zanesville on January 15, authorities prep ar e for the arraignment of Harold Smith a State Penitentiary convict and Thelma Bonifant 25 indicted for the murder of W S S Walbrown a Ravenswood West Virginia mine guard whose bullet ridden body was found near Norval Park after a party at Charles White s home The two men known as Chuck and Eddie were indicted last fall and the other suspect remains unnamed.
In Kewanee Illinois on January 16 the will of E merit Baker probated here bequeaths one million dollars to support the plodder and the city’s poor and orphan children. Baker a millionaire manufacturer writes I have a great deal of faith in the plodder but very little in the genius.
In Meriden Connecticut Mrs Forester aged 17 was charged with manslaughter for allegedly stabbing her husband Fred Forester 21 to death during a quarrel at a local hospital yesterday. Police report states the couple clashed over an argument and she used a knife resulting in fatal stab wounds.
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