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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1920
Page
3
Nelsonville crowds again enjoy the chautauqua program on Fort street tent. The Clark-French Company delighted listeners with four costume changes including black and white garb. Granville Jones spoke on being a 100 percent American, delivering simple, original remarks to afternoon and evening audiences.
Reed baby carriage bench wringer and dining room table for sale by C F E Taggart at 97 W Franklin St. Loost hand crank for Buick auto near Christian church and 977 Walnut St call Wl Dawson Bell Phone 287. Painters and decorators bid by July 26 for K of P building work. Lee McDowell Nelsonville Ohio. Dance at K of P Hall Friday night July 13.
Frame building suitable for warehouse feed and builders store with one railroad switch offered cheap. Properties include an eight room dwelling with office on Poplar street with two extra lots, a modern Fayette street eight room dwelling, a six room and a four room houses on High street, a three room Back street dwelling, a frame dwelling with store front on Poplar street, a Myers area brick and a West Franklin street double dwelling, a large centrally located building lot, and a 60 by 100 foot lot on High street.
Mr and Mrs. Fred Coakley hosted a 12 o clock dinner in Springfield for Mrs Lowell Kelley and her son Elmer Lynn. Mrs Sidney Cook attended as a guest. Kelley and son planned to visit Logan relatives before returning to Springfield. Lillian and Helen McLaughlin were visiting Hollister relatives for a week.
At M E Church Sunday school begins 9 36 a m and divine worship at 10 30 a m with the pastor preaching and new members to be received. No evening service. The Chautauqua program shifts to afternoon lectures on Idealism and evening Hymnology with The White Hosars providing sacred music both sessions open to all with an offering. aligns with Sabbath amusement restrictions.
The Presbyterian Church schedules 10 30 preaching on Nature rejoicing in redemption with 9 30 Sunday school and a lesson on David Spares Sauls Life Mrs Edward Juniper addresses the Endeavorers at 6 p m on Why people are unhappy The cure. Evening services will be held at the chautauqua tent.
International Holiness Church schedules services on July 18 with 10:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. An afternoon session aims to lift the church debt in full.
Episcopal church notes no regular service this date as the rector preaches elsewhere. Sunday school will meet at 9 30 in the morning with Miss Mabel Poston in charge.
Pastor C L Johnson leads Bible school at 9 30 with Bereans in the Chautauqua tent and a 10 30 sermon The Great Dynamic no evening service due to the chautauqua Christian Endeavor societies meet at the usual hour Guests Mrs P A Steffan and daughter of St Louis visit James Delph 94 Clinton St Frank R Haynes and Pearl Green vacationing at Buckeye Lake and Columbus
Surveyors work from Glouster corporation line toward the Perry county line outlining changes to the present route. A new bridge will span Sunday Creek near Rice mine and the road shifts aim to avoid railroad crossings south of the mine. George Shilling pled guilty to manufacturing liquor, fined 1000 dollars, may serve county jail time if unpaid.
New York July 17 The victory of Shamrock IV over Resolute in the first America's Cup race is called not a fluke but a result of superior sloop construction. Fog and light winds hid the clash as Shamrock edged ahead after Resolute’s main halyard failed. In stronger breeze Shamrock’s sturdier build and tack work secured a clear overtake.
The town council lacked a quorum and did not convene last night with only Lewis Jones and Isaac Jones in attendance. Fines will be spent as workhouse sentences allowing defendants to work off amounts rather than jail time. Warren Wires 79 Trimble dies Thursday. funeral Sunday at Trimble Methodist with interment Sands cemetery. Survived by wife and seven children. Frank Wires of Trimble among them. Ethel Sanders returns from Zanesville visit. Edna Morris weekend in Buckeye Lake. John Grannan of Columbus in town on business.
Federal Prohibition Commissioner Kramer reports Boston is the driest city in the nation and New York the wettest. He notes about 700 violations in New York and says saloons have fallen from 11,000 to far fewer, while praising enforcement progress and rising local cooperation with federal agents.
The United States railway board will begin hearings on July 27 for 70 000 railway express employees seeking wage increases. The demand is 20 cents per hour for most, with train service staff seeking boosts similar to those for railroad trainmen.
Flight expedition commander Captain St. Clair Street and mechanician Sergeant Edmund Henriques left Scranton at 8 10 am en route to Erie where three other army planes are being tuned. They will resume flying to Nome Alaska and back covering about 9000 miles.
The 1920 America's Cup second race at Sandy Hook will see Shamrock IV with a new bowsprit after a Thursday accident while Resolute retains its aluminum spar choices. Both vessels prepared at dawn as crowds gathered for the start.
Columbus reports Attorney General Price ruled that districts with no levy for interest, sinking funds, or other taxes beyond ten mills must vote additional school taxes up to 18 mills. Another ruling says school boards cannot terminate teacher contracts early. only resignation or for-cause cancellation allowed. An English invention features a vest pocket liquor flask the size of a cigarette case.
In New York on July 17 the ocean was the only wet element as Prohibition officers closed excursion boats aboard the Ward Line Orizaba after liquor sales were halted beyond the three mile limit during Thursday's race. Officials said they did not authorize liquor during the cruise.
Road officials report rapid progress despite inflation and reduced funding as state aid remains uncertain. Surveys on Pratts Fork and Sharpsburg roads proceed. Glouster Burr Oak work underway. Tarvia coating planned for several routes. lime binding and binder soon. Nelsonville Bechtel road ready for tar treatment.
Miss Florence Starcher of Orbiston and James Russell of Jacksonsville married in Athens with Justice Helwig officiating at 9 AM. The piece also notes the golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Mackin of Columbus, formerly Athens, and outlines local legal and civic updates including a revised squirrel hunting date, a new American Legion band formation, and debates over indigent care responsibilities between Athens city and townships.
The report notes growing global tea consumption while prices fluctuate. It mentions a farmer selling a case to the same town for $19.50 and observes that times are changing, with England compiling figures on tea use rising.
Fragmentary text indicates the Los Angeles Animal Commission faces future costs for dog meat to feed dogs. The note mentions past donations and implies a new dollar cost to be borne going forward. Further details are unreadable.
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