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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1920
Page
1
Warren G. Harding plans a packed week with adviser sessions in Marion. General Leonard Wood arrives for a conference while Will Hays spends Sunday with Harding. Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Indiana loom as pivotal states in the race with strategy aimed at stopping Cox and winning key Western and dry states.
Dayton reports Democratic nominee Cox plans to urge President Wilson to back two reservations to the League of Nations covenant. One keeps war entry decisions with Congress, the other restricts the league's purpose to preventing wars, aiming to satisfy critics while preserving the Versailles framework.
The coming week will heat the state primary battle with Democrats showing little activity in campaigning. Auditor Donahey faces no opposition for governor, while Republicans Ralph D. Cole travels northwest Ohio and rivals Harry L. Davis and Roscoe C. McCullouch campaign. The Senate race also gains steam with Wanamaker, Walter F. Brown and Frank B. Willis increasing activity.
William M. Johnston and William Tilden II of the United States defeated Andre Gobert and William H. Laurentz of France in the opening doubles match at Eastbourne. The Americans won in straight sets 6 2 and 6 3.
Fred Gunther, chief driller and owner of the White Hall rig, says the Niggemeyer farm well will be shot Monday morning. Oil showed after the gasser was capped, and owners expect the blast to improve production if enough oil seeped into the hole.
The senate committee investigating campaign expenditures ended its hearing in St. Louis. Four witnesses testified on Democratic expenditures in Missouri. Senator Pomerene will visit St. Louis to take Edward F. Goltra’s testimony on the Missouri national committeeman.
Detroit announces the sale of the Henry Ford Interests of the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad, the line linking with Ohio and Kentucky coalfields. The purchase broadens Henry Ford affiliated holdings and midwest rail connections.
A Stockholm dispatch reports the Russian Soviet government accepting the British peace plan. The note says it agrees to an armistice and hopes it may lead to definite peace while denying any attack on the British empire or possessions. It is signed by M. Tchitcherin, Bolshevik foreign affairs commissary.
Funeral services for the late Martin T Walsh who died Friday at his home in Glouster will be held there Monday morning. The funeral party will come to Athens at 11 40. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery on Lancaster street. Walsh long worked in business with Bart Foley in both towns and managed the Elk Hotel in Athens for years. He was widely known and respected in the region.
Marble for the new Bank of Athens banking room began arriving today to finish the marble finish. The project had been delayed by late arrivals but the remodel progresses with the old room in use during completion.
Police investigated after a parrot in a Somerville home repeatedly uttered “How dry I am” revealing a phonograph packed with 47 bottles of Jamaica high proof liquor hidden inside the machine.
Samuel Wenger 76, father-in law of Prof J H Comstock of Race Street, was struck by the 6 39 east bound B and O accommodation train Friday evening at the Race Street crossing. He suffered cuts and bruises to the left arm and shoulder and was shaken but not seriously injured. A boy named Moore tried to help and was knocked down with minor injuries.
A $25 reward has been raised by local neighbors and Rev. T D Murch to aid in finding nine year old Edwin Biggs who drowned in the Hocking river last Monday. The fund, collected through a city canvass, is offered for the recovery of the body and may be expanded with further contributions.
COOLVILLE July 10 An enjoyable meeting at the home of Mrs. Stella Arnold gathered community members to discuss home sanitation. Plans were made to organize a parent-teacher association to aid teachers in helping children and to later address child welfare and convenient kitchens.
Dayton, July 10. Thomas B. Sword sues Walter Kuntz for $10,000 claiming dandelion wine caused him job loss and impaired health. He says he paid 25 cents per drink and that what he believed was a dangerous beverage was spiked with wood ale, costing him sight and earnings.
Former candidate Cox plans to start in agricultural regions to win farmers support. He will campaign from Ohio with campaigns planned in New York Washington the South and the West. Cox and Roosevelt facing close scrutiny as Ohio serves as key reconnoitering ground.
CHICAGO July 10 The nerve of Doc Scott earned a place in the city phrase book after Dr Orlando F Scott operated on himself without anesthesia tearing twelve square inches from his own thigh and transplanting them to his wife who had a leg fracture in five places and gangrene. They recover in adjacent wards.
London July 10 The Russian soviet government is ready to recognize the independence of Armenia and has agreed to sign a document to that effect according to a wireless dispatch from the Armenian delegation at Moscow received by the Armenian bureau.
Four Bolshevik warships have landed troops in Meshed-I-Ser, a Persian town in Mazanderan on the Caspian Sea, according to a telegram from Teheran dated today.
About 100 hunters have received licenses from Athens County Clerk of Courts Morgan with many more from ship officials nationwide. Squirrels will be the first legal game in Ohio, opening August 20 for a 30 day season. Up to five squirrels may be killed per hunter per day, no sales allowed.
Cleveland police investigated a late yesterday robbery at Isaac Miller old gold dealer. Three bandits looted a safe valued at ten thousand dollars, beat Miller and tied him to a chair, then released a female assistant before vanishing into the downtown arcade crowds.
Dr. Wilcox delivers the second historical sermon to summer school students on Sunday morning. The subject is The Scotch Irish in America, exploring their role in early American history.
The U S Department of Agriculture based on a farm home survey in thirty three states warns that wasting of woman power threatens rural America. The report urges labor saving equipment for wives to keep young women on farms and reduce daily toil especially in kitchens and homes.
William Jennings Bryan calls Governor Cox's Democratic convention nomination a tragedy and argues it would turn the White House over to those who defy the Government. He says there is no chance of Cox's election if nominated and questions why Democrats would support him.
Callie Smith, colored, arrested by Sheriff Parker and arraigned before Justice Helwig on a criminal charge of mistreating a colored girl aged thirteen. He pleaded not guilty, waived preliminary examination, and is held to the November grand jury under a $1000 bond. He was returned to county jail and may post bond.
CHICAGO July 10 The appointment of Senator Harry S New Indiana to head the Republican speakers bureau was announced today by Will Hays chairman of the national committee New will be assisted by Congressman Thomas Miller Delaware in charge of New York headquarters and Congressman J W Good Iowa in charge of Chicago headquarters New will be stationed here.
Allied and German representatives reached an agreement to arbitrate German coal deliveries avoiding a coal fuel crisis. Lloyd George pressed Germany to recognize Allied priority and a permanent coal commission in Berlin. Germany indicated possible acceptance though disputes over reparations and war crimes trials linger.
Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher admiral of the fleet and former first sea lord died at 7:15 am in London. born January 26, 1841 he became first baron of Silverstone in 1909 and advocated oil burning for warships. his letters to the London Times stirred interest and criticism of naval administration.
Chicago July 10 delegates from ex Bull Moose ex Populists Single Taxers Farmers Alliance and other groups meet at the Morrison Hotel to form a comprehensive platform for a potential third party. Four conventions were planned including forty-eighters labor single taxers and constitutional party with talks of a united ticket.
The 48-member national convention committee gathered at Hotel Morrison in Chicago for an 11:48 a.m. session chaired by National Chairman J. A. H. Hopkins. Around 1,200 attendees filled the hall, with 20 percent women, as Rev. Noble Elderkin opened with invocation. McCurdy attacked the Esch-Cummins bill and war profiteering, denouncing the Democratic party and Wall Street dominance.
Allen McCurdy of New York denounces major parties as agents of Wall Street in a keynote at Chicago. He declares abolition of privilege the central issue, attacks Republican and Democratic platforms, and urges a new party built on economic action to address the nation’s distress.
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