Magnificent Success of the Messenger Contest
The Messenger Printing Co in Athens announces winners Kathryn Leyden and Ned Wolf receiving diamond trophies and Grace Jewell and W C Hoodlet earning gold watches. Judges praise fairness of the five week voting, noting nearly five hundred thousand votes in final minutes and a record circulation impact.
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Messenger
Kathryn C. Leyden
Ned Wolf
Grace Jewell
W. C. Hoodlet
Athens
Mr Wolf
Mr. Wolf
Kathryn
Leyden
Miss Leyden
F. W. Bush
Messenger Printing Company
Ohio
Cook & Borders
Orville Cook
Messenger Awards Extra Prizes to Runner-up Candidates
The Messenger awards gold watches to four runners-up in its popular voting contest for their commendable finish. Recipients are Mrs. J. Howard Johnson, F. E. Goldsberry, Mrs. Roy Pilcher, and Frank Bellows, receiving prizes equal in value to the second trophy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Howard Johnson
Johnson
F. E. Goldsberry
Mr. Goldsberry
Goldsberry
Roy Pilcher
Frank Bellows
Athens Fourth of July Celebration Promises Prominent Speakers
The University of Athens plans a big Fourth program with speakers Freeman Eagle son of Cambridge Ohio House member William Frizell of Dayton and Warren Gard of Hamilton plus music. The Athens team will play Parkersburg in a double header with a noted pitching staff and a prior 1 to 0 victory. Police will curb noisy firecrackers as youths celebrate.
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Athens
Freeman T. Eagleson
Cambridge
Ohio House of Representatives
William G. Frizell
Dayton
Warren Gard
Hamilton
Butler County
Court of Common Pleas
Ellis
Parkersburg
Street Lights Again Glow In Glouster After Flood
Glouster reports arc street lights turned on Tuesday evening for the first time since a flood over three months earlier. The municipal light plant was inundated and damaged machinery, including the arc regulator, delayed restoration as a replacement regulator failed and was returned. The old regulator was repaired in Columbus and sent back at the start of the week.
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Glouster
Arc
Municipal Electric
Columbus
Death by Own Action at the State Hospital
A report notes a death by self-inflicted action at the State Hospital. Details remain limited in the readable fragments.
William Andrews Found Dead in Hollister Asylum Well
William Andrews 28 an inmate of the State Hospital at Hollister Ohio was found dead in the bottom of the asylum well near the pump house. He had been melancholy for several days and left no family. Officials suspect suicide though accidental fall possible. Coroner Lane of Nelsonville summoned.
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William Andrews
State Hospital
Hollister
Ohio
C. H. Andrews
Coultrap Brothers
The
Daily Messenger
Andrews
Lane
Nelgonville
Community Notes From Hockingport
Miss Erma White attends Parkersburg business college and visits her parents Mr and Mrs C White. Esther and Ethel Stewart, missionaries in Mississippi, spend summer with their parents Mr and Mrs James Stewart. The Methodist church is newly decorated. A July 4 lawn supper at E A Duttons supports the M E church with ice cream and cake. Mrs Susie Dutton Gunnell of Vas Sar Michigan visits her parents. Horace Knowles hosts Ben Knowles and his children from New York for the summer after Charles Dutton loses a cow.
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Erma White
Business
Parkersburg
W. Va
8. C. White
Esther Stewart
Ethel
Mississippi
James Stewart
E. A. Dutton
M. EB
Susie Dutton Gunnell
Vas Sar
Michigan
Charles Dutton
Ben Knowles
New York
Virginia
Horace Knowles
Memorial Service Planned by Eastern Star Chapters
The grand chapter designates tomorrow June 30 as Memorial Day across the state. The Athens chapter will hold services at 2 00 p m in the Masonic Hall with officers urging attendance of members and inviting friends.
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Order OF Eastern Star
Athens
Masonic Hall
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St. Paul's
Clerks’ Union
J. H. Johnson
Maccabees
M. E. Church
Daegj
C. M. Copeland
B. A. Headley
J. C. Campbell Frank
Roach
H. C. O'Bleness
Committee of Judges
J. C. Campbell
Frank S. Roach
H. C. O’bleness
the Messenger
W. C. Hoodler
Mr. Hoodlet
Hoodlet
Miss Grace Jewell
Miss Jewell
Ners
Mrs
Mr. Bellows
Bellows
Assembly Club
Masonic Lodge
J. O
Porter Six
Eagles
Joseph Hindle
C. O
R. E. Bonifield
ELKS
Jasper Carsey
Wolf’s Plains
Rose Ferguson
Norma
Chauncey
Lydia Beachout
Hugh Wrgger
Lancaster
H. M. Barker
Hamley Run
Fred Fulton
Graham's Chapel
William Reed
Alonzo Polley
West Virginia
Methodist Church
Hockingport
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