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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1930
Page
12
John Helber of South Perry faced arraignment before Magistrate E. E. Bright on a charge of stealing mink pelts. He pled not guilty and was bound over to the grand jury in $500 bond after Deputy Hammond arrested him following Noah Carpenter of Rockbridge reporting two mink hides stolen December 22. Helber admitted taking the pelts to Laurelville to sell to a local buyer.
The Athens Messenger Pattern Dept advertises a pajama pattern for sizes 14 through 40 with a sleeve less overblouse and fitted yoke trousers. Materials include cotton or silk options in bright and pastel prints, with patterns for percale broadcloth pongee or rayon and yardage listed for each size. Patterns cost 15¢, 10¢ with a pattern, plus a Winter Fashion Book 15¢ or 10¢ with pattern, order to The Athens Messenger, 248 West 17th Street, New York City.
Mrs. Sadie Van Veen was to be arraigned in police court today on charges of conducting a parade without a permit. The protest involved about 200 unemployed men who demonstrated at the State City Employment Bureau at City Hall yesterday.
A vintage ad promotes Pinex 2% solution as a home remedy for severe coughs and chest colds. It explains mixing Pinex with a pint of sugar syrup or honey, claiming strong relief, fast action, and cost savings versus store-bought medicine. The ad touts creosote as the active agent and warns against substitutes.
A car driven by Lester Brown collided with parked vehicle owned by Arthur Dollmatsch along the Nelsonville highway two miles south of Logan early Monday. Passenger Clendell Reid suffered a forehead laceration. both cars damaged. Dollmatsch had stopped at Tony Brown’s home en route to Natco plant in Haydenville.
The annual meeting moves to 7 o clock Thursday at the Courthouse Auditorium replacing February 23. All members are urged to attend the business session and those enrolled in the recent roll call are invited to participate.
Mr and Mrs C IX Aurand entertained the Midnight Spongers Club at their home on Saturday evening with rock as the main diversion. Refreshments were served by the hostess after play. Meetings will be held by the club twice weekly during the rest of the winter season.
Mrs. Clayton W. Scheide hosted the Modern Bridge Club at her East Second Street home Friday evening with Mrs. Hattie Lindley present as a substitute player.
Milton Mowery visits his seriously ill mother Mrs. Sylvia Mowery in Zanesville Avenue. Bert Horn travels from Ilesboro on business to Logan. Howard White from the city departs on a western states trip. W I Krieg and William Martin Logan visit relatives in Nelsonville. Lewis R. Barbee returns from Wayne and visits his daughter Miss Mabel Barbee in a Toledo hospital. Mae Johnson resumes duties after two month absence and appendicitis surgery in Columbus. Judge A M Ellinger and family attend funeral of Mrs Frank Miller in Marion Township. Frank W Harden attends an American Legion meeting in Middleport as district chairman for Southeastern Ohio.
Logan authorities report Robert Heine four years old, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Heine of Bowen Street, seriously burned on the shoulders and neck when he pulled a skillet of hot grease from the stove, spilling it over his upper body.
Funeral services were held at Heinlein Brothers Chapel at 2 p m for Mrs Mary Elizabeth Stivison widow of Elmer Stivison 66 who died at Athens State Hospital after several months illness She leaves a son Russell Stivison of Columbus The Rev B C Peters officiated Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery near Enterprise
Mr and Mrs Frank Burberry hosted a Sunday dinner at their Midland Place home for Mr and Mrs W P Heft and their guest Mrs Elizabeth Welty. Mrs Burberry was assisted by her daughter Miss Anna Louise in serving.
John K E Mallard 26 mortician of Columbus wed to Mary G Mutchmore 25 nurse of Logan in a ceremony officiated by Rev Henry L Geddes. Also Grant Allaways 60 engineer of New Straitaville and Mealy Codagen 58 housekeeper of Oreville united in marriage with Rev Ernest Seymour presiding.
Ad blurb requests circulation details for The Messengee with contact at Logan 272 and a phone line for inquiries and listings.
Weasley Clark, a machinist at the Hocking Valley Brick plant in Logan, has created a left-hand monkey wrench by reversing the threads on the standard tool. The invention is noted as a local change affecting workers starting new jobs.
Announcement from Logan on January 21 says the Presbyterian Church Men’s Club will postpone its meeting next Friday to align with the Nelsonville Club seeking a speaker. Dr. Harry Eastman, president, says the new meeting date will be announced once arrangements are set.
Mrs. Robert Lee White hosted the Satur day Club at Mount Street for a 1 pm luncheon. Miss Anna Wellman and Miss Kathleen Pettit assisted. A program followed with Mrs. Emerson Poston speaking on Norse Mythology and a roll call discussion. Mrs. H V Adams performed Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg. Guests included Mrs. Adams Mrs. A K Smith Mrs. C O Allen Mrs. John Wellman and Miss Mary Blasins. Mrs. T I D Brown will host the club February 1 at the Easterling club house.
Logan January 21 Mary Nell Brooks six year old daughter of Frank and Mrs Brooks of West Front Street suffered a broken arm Friday while at school. She was accidentally pushed by another student and fell to the basement concrete floor. Two doctors attended her.
Nel lie Kuhn of Columbus files for divorce from Earl Kuhn in Common Pleas Court citing neglect and cruelty. In another case Judge Harley M. Whitcraft grants Roy Deible divorce from Ida Deible on adultery grounds with costs against the plaintiff. Peter Summel of Maxville visited the city on Monday.
In Winchester Kentucky on January 21 a 50 pound red timber wolf killed sheep valued at seven thousand dollars since 1922. The hunter from Texas Ralph Haverthin had spent three months trying to trap it. The wolf escaped the trap but was shot by Shelby Lisle as farmers trelled it toward town.
Mrs Eva Foraker wife of C M Foraker former county auditor and Foraker Oil Company president died after a Columbus hospital operation funeral set for Wednesday at the M E Church in Lexington necrology notes her civic role and leadership in local business authorities.
Logan Jan 21 Judge Whitcraft granted a temporary restraining order in the divorce case of William McGrady against Ora McGrady. The order was issued without bond.
A man claimed he has never been bedridden a day for illness. He journeyed with younger boys to Somerset eight miles away to bell L. A. Paxton, a game warden who had been married the prior week.
Pearl Nutter a miner from Dixie was injured in a Pike Mine accident and taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Zanesville for treatment.
Columbus officials consider raising street car cash fare from six cents and five tickets for 35 cents as of today. The proposal aims to adjust transit pricing and revenue.
Cadiz January 21 40 p m fire destroyed Cadiz Elementary School leaving about 400 children without a place to attend classes as local authorities investigate the blaze.
Keller, a chemist in Mechanic, Ohio, reports two years of testing Singing Hen T. S. a product to enlarge hen reproductive organs. He claims it increases fertility and prolongs laying, with one drop daily per hen, priced to feed 60 hens for 30 days at zero cents from Keller Laboratory or McKee Drug Store.
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