Preacher Draws Crowd With Bold Street Sermon in Nelsonville
An itinerant preacher sparked excitement by delivering a street sermon on the Public Square despite mayoral cautions. Police interrupted briefly to address doctrinal overreach, then the speaker adjusted his message and drew a larger following for a future gathering led by Clint Patton and a lineup of speakers. Local residents and visitors attended events, while notices included hospitalization for tests, and the birth of a nine pound son to Mr and Mrs Arlie Rider.
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Nelsonville
Pearson
Jack
James Bexfield Fined for Intoxication After Plea
James Bexfield appeared before the mayor yesterday and pleaded guilty to intoxication. He was assessed a fine of 10 dollars plus costs.
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James Bexfield
Mrs Gladys Carey Withdraws Assault Charge
Mrs Gladys Carey withdrew the affidavit charging her husband Frank Carey with assault and battery. The charge against Carey was dropped after his arrest and release on bond for appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladys Carey
Frank Carey
Carey
Hallett Pleads Guilty to Intoxication in Mayor's Court
Cleber Hallett pleaded guilty to a charge of intoxication yesterday in mayor's court and was fined $100 and costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleber Hallett
Cleo Douglas Bond Set For Grand Jury Appearance
Cleo Douglas was released from the city jail after arranging bond for the next grand jury. Bond totals include 500 on each of two mayor's court charges and 1000 in Squire Donley's court.
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Cleo Douglas
Squire Donley
Good Service Coming at the Christian Church
A brief notice invites attendees to a forthcoming service at the Christian church promising a clean, uplifting experience and welcoming guests seeking spiritual refreshment.
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Christian Church
Montgomery guests share with local hosts
Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hill and Mrs. Emory Champ of Montgomery West Virginia are guests of Mr. and Mrs John Hill and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Bell.
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Benjamin Hill
Emory Champ
Montgomery W. Va
John Hill
E. E. Bell
Scouts Return From Sugar Grove Camp
After ten days the Scouts broke camp at Sugar Grove and returned to their city homes. Dilcher of the Y M C A directed the camp throughout. Local families visited the group and admired the daily programs. Harry Kelly visited the camp and provided five gallons of ice cream. He stayed the night after being impressed with the outing. Parents praise Mr. Dilcher's leadership.
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Sugar Grove
Dilcher
Harry Kelly
Kelly
Visit of Wilson Family to Morris Wilson at 305 Church Street
Mr and Mrs William Wilson and their two daughters Billy and Dorothy plus young Junior were Thursday guests of Mr and Mrs Morris Wilson of 305 Church Street. An elaborate chicken dinner was served and the visitors plan to depart for Marion Sunday morning.
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William Wilson
Billy
Dorothy
Junior
Morris Wilson
Church Street
Marion
East Side Wins Championship In Three Game Series
The East Side clinched the title by winning two of three games against the West Side. Thursday’s decisive 13 to 12 game remained in doubt until the final inning. A future East vs West ladies game is being planned for a Thursday afternoon. Frank Galbraith of Germania, W Va, visited with his mother Mrs Albin Galbraith of Sharpsburg. they’ll move to West Virginia after his father’s recent death.
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West Side Ladies
Frank Galbraith
Germania
W. Va
Albin Galbraith
Sharpsburg
Mr. Galbraith
West Virginia
City Council to Meet This Evening for Routine Business
A regular city council meeting is scheduled for this evening at 7 o clock. Officials expect only routine business to be addressed during the session.
Noon Family Returns from Toledo Visit
Tom Noon came back Thursday from Toledo where he and his family stayed with Mrs. Noon's parents Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Booth. Mrs. Noon and son Edward stayed longer and likely will return to the city the last of next week.
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Tom Noon
Toledo
Visit Ends as Master Charles Sanders Returns Home
Master Charles Sanders concludes a several week stay with grandparents Mr and Mrs J F Higgins and returns to his Columbus home yesterday.
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Charles Sanders
J. F. Higgins
Columbus
Miss Jennie Thomas and Caro Line Pico Visit Columbus Guests
Miss Jennie Thomas and Caro Line Pico are guests of friends in Columbus, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dennison listed as hosts or companions in the arrangement.
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Jennie Thomas
Caroline Pico
Columbus
Mrs
Robert Dennison
Millionaire's Home Becomes Harding's Summer White House
President and Mrs. Harding will occupy Edward Is McLean's palatial Washington home as a summer White House. The estate offers golf tennis and horseback riding in seclusion, a few miles from the real White House. The Hardings will spend most of the summer there per reports.
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White House
Harding
Edward Is McLean
Washington
Hardings
Edward B. McLean
Relative Visit to Akron Suppressed in Text
A brief note states someone visited Akron on Thursday to stay with relatives for a couple of weeks.
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Akron
Mrs Don R Martindill and Edna Morris Visit Columbus Friends
Mrs Don R Martindill also known as Lucille Bryson and Miss Edna Morris traveled to Columbus this morning to spend a couple of days with friends.
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Don R. Martindill
Lucille Bryson
Edna Morris
Columbus
Achauer Outing at Lakeside Park Cottage
Mrs. B. F. Achauer and her daughter Miss Vera enjoy a leisure outing at the Achauer cottage located in Lakeside Park as the day offers pleasant weather and family time by the lake.
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B. F. Achauer
Vera
Achauer
Lakeside Park
Fawcett Family Leaves for New Vienna Visit
G. C. Fawcett and two children Madaline and Jack of Delaware left this morning after a brief stay with friends to join Mrs Fawcett and her son Bobby at the home of Mrs. J. L. Arthur in New Vienna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. C. Fawcett
Madaline
Jack
Delaware
New Vienna
Fawcett
Bobby
Henshaws and Kempton Return From Utica Visit
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Henshaw and Raymond Kempton have returned after a several day visit with Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bricker at Utica.
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J. H. Henshaw
Raymond Kempton
J. F. Bricker
Utica
Trimble Couples Visit Mount Vernon for Treatment
Mr and Mrs R A Antle Mr and Mrs Isaac Vaughn and Mr and Mrs Will Maynard from Trimble motored to Mount Vernon Tuesday. Mr Maynard remained at Mount Vernon Sanitarium for tuberculosis treatment.
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R. A. Antle
Isaac Vaughn
Will Maynard
Trimble
Mount Vernon
Maynard
Mr. Vernon Sanitarium
A Fine Way to Spend Six Seconds Joke
A playful line about digging up 18 cents and saying Blue Devil please to a grocer. Dated 7 17 19 21, it captures a quirky shopping quip from a past era.
Deaths Funerals Mahala McGwigan 97
Mahala McGwigan 97 died Thursday evening at 5 30 at the home of her niece Mrs Harvey M Roach with whom she had lived seven years. Burial will be in Beverly Saturday. Born in Virginia she lived in Washington County before moving to Stewart then to Athens after her sister Mary Anne Scott died. The two sisters’ deaths mark the last of the MecGwigan family.
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Mahala McGwigan
Harvey M. Roach
Beverly
Virginia
Washington County
Stewart
Mary Anne Scott
Roach
Athens
Whiskey Boat Is Robbed Off the Coast of Florida
Coast guards search for motor boat pirates who attacked the auxiliary schooner William H. Albury off Florida. Captain Edge Combe was killed. the raiders fled in a motorboat named Falcol. The Albury ferried liquor between the Florida Keys and the British Bahamas.
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Florida
Miami
Fla
William H. Albury
Edge Combe
Falcol
Albury
Florida Keys
British Bahamas
Denby Escapes Plane Crash Unharmed Over Great Wall
Secretary of the Navy Denby reports a forced landing of an airplane over the Great Wall of China with no injuries. Roosevelt inquired for details of the accident and Denby was reported to have barely escaped serious harm.
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Washington
Denby
Navy
Roosevelt
Great Wall of China
Athens county teachers institute to meet at Ohio University
The annual Athens county teachers institute meets August 14 18 in Ewing hall Ohio University with speeches by EF Bryan A L Hall Quest R L Morton and Miss Augusta M Goddard. Sessions run 8:30 to noon and 12 46 to 3 daily with music devotionals and sectional meetings as over 300 teachers expected.
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Athens County Teachers’ Institute
Ewing Hall
Ohio University
EF. B. Bryan
A. L Hall-Quest
University of Cincinnati
R. L. Morton
State Normal College
Augusta M. Goddard
Guy Dinsmoor
Lucy B. Evans
Ferne Syx
Guy
State Department of Education
Mae Stanton
Anna Mae Evans
F. B. Clark
Athens County Board of Education
C. D. Henry
Amesville
J. Howard Cline
Albany
O. O. Bryson
Stewart
O. C. Porter
Plains
George W. Rose
Glouster
Merchants and Farmers clash in county plantation parade day
The article notes a baseball score with Merchants edging the Farmers with six runs to four and details a parade featuring floats, prizes, and a strong display by the American Legion band and farm bureau units. Parade judges Fred W. Bush P. G. Coe John Lax and G. B. Whipple awarded prizes to Canaan township Amesville and pig and calf clubs. Grand Pointer won the pacing and Marion Ormond trotted to honors. Youth contests, a horse show by the Athens Riding Club, and various races and events closed the day.
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Batinose
Vine Kake
Goa
Heber Henry
A. H. Mooney
Morgan
American Legion
Farm Bureau
Fred W. Bush
P. G. Coe
John Lax
G. B. Whipple
Canaan Township
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Parent- Teachers’ Association
Canaan
Amesville
Athens Retail Merchants’ Association
Grand Pointer
Saa Creas Eee
Oy Cs Cass
Marion Ormong Saccsa
George
Mary Roog Vinci
Thor Olson
Ohio University
Carthage
Feld
Pearl Johnson
Athens
The Hope of the World and Mother's Health Promise
The piece frames the 1914 war as devastating to nations and calls for the rising generation to restore homes industries and peace and to give every baby a healthy start. It promotes Lydie E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a long used remedy for non surgical female diseases supporting mothers and future mothers.
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Lydie E. Pinkham
Officer Boniot Killed In Accident At Field Range
First Lieut. John P. Boniot, stationed at Michtell Field, was accidentally shot and killed on the pistol range this afternoon by another officer.
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Mineola
L. L
John P. Boniot
Michtell Field
Athens seeks bids for Maple Street improvement bonds
Sealed bids for 2 814,000 in Maple Street improvement bonds due 1932 10 years from March 1 1822 payable semi annually 6 percent interest will be received at the Auditor's office Athens Ohio until noon August 1932. Bonds sell at par plus accrued interest with bidder to furnish a 2 percent certified check and city may reject any bid. G H Evans Auditor.
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Athens
State of
Ohio
Gaid
Maple Street
Washington Street
Brard Street
Maine Street
Byard Street
Appointment of Administrators De Bonis Non of Isaac Nice Estate
Hartey EF Nice and Henry JD Nice have been appointed and qualified as Administrators de bons non of the estate of Isaac Nice, late of Athens County Ohio, deceased. Dated July 7, 1933. S. M. Johnson, Probate Judge.
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Minnie T. Blumenberge
R. Blumenberg
Athens County
Ohio
M. Johnson
Hartey EF. Nice
Henry JD Nice
de Bouts
Isaac Nice
S. M. Johnson
Said County
Ruth appointed administrator of Knowles estate in Athens County
John M. Ruth is appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Jannette Knowles, late of Ollie in Athens County, deceased. Dated July 7, 1932. 8. M. Johnson, T-TI0tw.
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John M. Ruth
Jannette Knowles
Athens County
Ollie
A. D
M. Johnson
Said County
Balloon travels 320 miles from Cincinnati to Cookeville
A July 4 release of a street corner toy balloon by Clifford Usinger carried by illuminated gas traveled 320 miles to Cookeville Tennessee in 18 hours. It was found by Gilbert Hatfield a nineteen year old farmer who had one of many balloons sent by Usinger with his name and address attached.
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Cincinnati
Clifford Usinger
Cookeville
Tenn
Gilbert Hatfield
Balloon sightings noted near Hatfield claim
A report states that one balloon was sighted by an individual while prowling corn near his home. The other nineteen balloons have not been reported.
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Hatfield
Day to campaign by air as Ohio GOP candidate
Senator Arthur H. Day of Cleveland will become the first Ohio candidate to use an airplane for campaigning. His campaign headquarters announced the plan as he seeks the Republican nomination for governor.
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Cleveland
Arthur H. Day
Ohio
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Nelsonville News
Clint Patton
As& Hammond
R. J. Howe
W. M. Mitchell
Robert Secaur
Homer McManaway
Ed Wallace
T. J. Davis
Amos Goddard
Barnett
Gene Shafer
Arlie Rider
Harley-Davidson
A. D. Farrow
Nelsonville, Ohio
The
Lostro Auto Sales Co
Nelson Ville
Littler
Enuf
Phone 182 Bakery
Kaelin
John McCormick
Kaelin’s Jewelry Store
Nelsonville, Q
Butch” Grove
Merchants
Grover
Billy Williams
Thurman Morgan
Mansfield
Bobo
Hutchinson
Robison
Marion Ormond
G. H. Evans
Ohio Bay
Elizabeth Slaueon
Norwalk
Cash Shoe
Tatty
S. Court St
Isaac Wilson
Chauncey, O
Lugkoff
Charles W. Juniper
U.S
Circuit
Mayor’s, Magistrates, Common Pleas
Supreme Courts
Swanson Furniture Co
Aluminum
N. Court St
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