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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1927
Page
5
Ohio University seniors and juniors gathered for an informal tea hosted by Dean Irma E Voigt at her Lawrence apartments. More than 100 guests attended as Cresset and Voigt continue the yearly tradition with the junior class tea planned for the near future.
Mr. Percy L. People hosted by guests after services at First Methodist as part of the Young Married Peoples class. Lantern visits include Virgil Davis, T. Ro, John or, and Forest Meighen family visiting Chillicothe. D. A. R. Nabby Lee Ames chapter held a local interests program at 115 South Court Street with reports on the American Legion and naturalization cases.
Elmer Poling of Millfield employed at mine No. 119 was seriously injured when five cars allegedly cut loose on the tipple and rolled to the bottom. He was caught between cars, saved a broken left arm, and sustained multiple injuries to the head and body. He was treated by Dr. Warren V. Sprague and taken to Sheltering Arms hospital in Athens in critical condition. Poling is married with a family.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Bryan of Chauncey traveled to Columbus on Sunday for their daughter Miss Colm Bryan to receive an operation for goiter at White Cross hospital.
Chauncey Ohio January 17 Mrs Susan Knox 80 died Sunday morning at her country home near Athens after a period of failing health She was widely known in Chauncey and was a sister of Mrs Ezra J Karns of Chauncey Her passing leaves many relatives including several brothers and sisters and J M Tippie of Peach Ridge among the family.
The piece lists ten questions about a photo, a recent Stanford Alabama game score, Shakespeare, a film director, Senator Capper’s state, Darrow and Prohibition, Illinois capital, the easternmost Great Lake, the American Museum of Natural History, and Calvin Coolidge’s birthplace.
Miss Dorothy J Minister of the high school visits Chauncey from Friday to Sunday at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Edward Minister Elis Avenue. Norman Trainer of Columbus stays with Earl and Burg Johnson in Chauncey. Mrs Forest Allen returns to Akron after visiting Chauncey with Mrs Elizabeth Phillips and Elmer Phillips and sister Mrs Roy Andrews. Mrs W D Hines shows improvement after illness. Miss Lucille Bradfield visits Columbus to see cousin Miss Kathleen Bradfield who is seriously ill. Lena and Edith Wilson return to Chauncey from Cincinnati and Columbus. Walter Martin of Columbus visits Chauncey at Lettie Hintz home and at his aunt Mrs Isabelle Coe in Sheltering Arms hospital in Athens. Mrs Coe recovers from a broken hip from a stair accident at her home near Chauncey.
Chauncey Parent Teacher Association members will present the program at the regular meeting this Wednesday evening in the high school auditorium. Mrs. Charles Org is chairman of the program committee.
Mrs Mildred Pendergrass will open the association meeting with a business session before the planned entertainment.
Members of the Christian Endeavor society of the First Christian church will meet Thursday evening at the Misses Gertrude and Esther Fewell home on High Street for a monthly business and social gathering. The meeting will be led by president Miss Florence Brewer. A pot luck supper will be served.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Seventh Day Adventist church in Chauncey has postponed its Wednesday meeting due to the death of Mrs. Susan Knox. The delay reflects a period of mourning and rescheduling will be announced.
The Rev. A. Y. Wilcox, pastor of the Presbyterian church, urged in a sermon that Americans demand political and religious change from China too quickly. He argued Christians must carry the gospel respectfully to India and other oriental nations, noting India desires Christ without Western Christianity and warning Protestantism would bear disgrace if missions fail in India.
Two bills led by state Senator George H. Bender and the Cleveland Automobile Club seek to cap the auto license tax at one dollar and set a two cent gas tax maximum. One measure urges a referendum on a constitutional amendment and calls for abolishing the personal property tax on automobiles.
Washington January 17 wholesale prices in December show a general downward trend with fuels leading the decline. The Labor Department index of 404 commodities fell to 147.2 from 148.1 in November, a drop of over one half of one percent and below December 1925 by around 5 percent.
The Rev J Frank Norris preacher of Fort Worth faces murder charges in Austin as defense seeks to undermine the state's case. Witness L H Nutt testified Chipps advanced shouting I ll kill you. Defense portraits Chipps as drunken and abusive while Norris vows to continue gospel work after the trial ends.
Farm leaders in Congress plan delaying House action on the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill until the Senate acts. They argue passage in the House improves after Senate approval, noting the Senate defeated it last session by four votes but now expected to approve. The House agriculture committee likely to report the measure today.
Bert Ralston an American musician and leader of the Havana jazz band died of accidental gunshot wounds sustained during a hunting expedition in the Hunyani district Capetown reports.
Glouster fire department rushed to Redtown Sunday evening to find a four room cottage owned by Charles Palmer destroyed by fire. Palmer’s other house was badly scorched. Investigators suspect a stove caused the blaze. Insurance covered about half the loss. Residents Fritz Mackenstine Edward Booth and Edward Russell were in the home serving as temporary workers in Ohio mines.
Delegates from this locality will attend the miners district convention in Columbus this week including William Brown Hart Penn J H Cobb Hal lam William Morgan Jr Rabbit Morris and others They also plan to represent locals at the international convention in Indianapolis next week Oral Daugherty is president Robert Bell vice president and Conrad Wein secretary treasurer will attend.
Local report notes a January meeting in Glouster where officers will be installed. The unsigned item outlines procedural steps and attendees expected to participate in the ceremony.
Chickamauga Tribe No. 44 Improved Order of Redmen will meet Tuesday night for installation and other important business.
Sir Alfred W. Soward of Aberdeenshire sails 1800 miles in a 6 ton motor boat with only his two nieces as crew. The journey marks a remarkable family voyage reported from Scotland.
Funeral services for Melvena Wilson 23 daughter of Mrs. Fred Wilson Derthick are set for 1 30 this afternoon at Bethel Ridge cemetery. She died Friday near Canal Winchester while en route to a Columbus hospital for burns suffered January 9. Her father Fred Wilson died last August leaving the mother and three other children.
Mrs Jank Souders spends the day in Zanesville. Riley Morris from Louisville Kentucky visited his home near Trimble and the city on business. Mrs Emmett Rogers of Corning stayed with her mother Mrs Sarah Vernon. Mrs Lews Triplett and two children returned to Middleport after a week with Mr and Mrs Robert Ley.
Enrique Blanco, assistant professor of Spanish at Ohio University, told Cosmo politan club listeners that peoples of South America and Central America reject United States policy as imperialistic and seek to self determine their future after travels in the region. He cited rising antagonism to U S protective actions as he traveled northward.
An ad touts Aver's Cherry Pectoral as a fast, dependable remedy for colds coughs and bronchial irritation. It promises soothing warmth relief from head cold chest tightness and bronchitis with a pleasant taste and available sizes 60c and 1.00.
A Spanish professor told city members that Argentina is highly developed and its people are progressive and language minded. He compared the University of Buenos Aires favorably to Harvard and Yale, noting Argentine students' strong intellect but fewer extracurriculars than American colleges.
New catalogues Delaware January 17 Miss Dora Moore resigns as the last six head cataloguer at Ohio Wesleyan University library to take a similar post at Ohio University Athens. Miss Mildred McElroy will act as head cataloguer. Moore begins new duties in February at the start of the second semester.
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