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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1927
Page
4
Ohio River at Dam 24 showed 44.3 feet with a forecast rise of about 10 feet. An icy flow was expected this afternoon or tonight and reached Parker sburg early Saturday. The ice disrupted river traffic and merchants moved goods from basements and first floors as stores faced flooding.
Pom ery reports Friday and Saturday events including death of Frank Wil Mamy 71 burial at Pratts Fork cemetery. Mrs Gil bert Weeks to undergo goiter operation in Columbus. George M Morris visits Middleport high for inspection. Local council passes bills and budget. bridge club and K of C events noted. Many brief notices on residents, appointments, and travel in Meigs and Gallia counties.
The Third Ward Fire department has purchased a truck chassis to build a fire hose wagon. Assembly is by A Tracy, former deputy sheriff, and upon completion the ward will boast the town’s most model firefighting equipment.
Elizabeth Kirby of Middleport accuses Joseph Kirby of cruelty and infidelity in Neies county Common Pleas Court. A temporary injunction halted disposal of jointly owned property. she seeks alimony, share of real estate, household goods, and an automobile. they married in 1889 at Point Pleasant and have one daughter.
The Citizens Telephone Company of Hulland versus the Home Telephone Company of Athens was continued Thursday before the Public Utilities Commission. An investigation will be made to determine if the commission has proper jurisdiction over the case. The P M Telephone Company of Pomeroy has discontinued its service at Rutland.
One hundred dollars vanished from the Martin repair shop in Middleport on Saturday morning. Police investigation began immediately but no clues have emerged. In Pomeroy Bil Estep and Walter Reibel were fined after pleading guilty to fighting.
A county jail report says inmates concealed saws in a pair of shoes to attempt an escape. The incident prompted lockdown and search procedures as officers recovered the improvised tools.
The Citizens Telephone Company of Meigs County petitioned the Ohio Public Utilities Commission to compel the Athens Home Telephone Company's Albany exchange to serve Meigs County. At Thursday's hearing the Commission ruled Citizens Telephone was not a public utility and thus not under its jurisdiction.
Bits of wreckage and a name plate from the Steamer John Tracy were recovered ten days overdue from Norfolk Virginia casting doubt on the fate of its twenty seven members. Captsling wreckage and a life raft were found off Capsling while references to a Pekingese show in New York appear in the same dispatch.
Paris note cited by Moscow objects to the Franco-Romanian treaty and claims France pledged aid to Romania. The Soviet government says it will strive to regain the vast territory of Bessarabia incorporated into Romania after the war.
A Daily Mail dispatch reports thousands of Caspian fishermen froze to death at Astrakhan with hundreds of homeless perishing in Crimean and Ukrainian cities amid one of Russia’s coldest winters. Trains are snowbound and passengers arrive with frozen hands and feet.
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