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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1920
Page
5
The article argues that improving farm living with electric light running water modern bathrooms and labor saving devices reduces the appeal of city life for farm boys. It notes sons stay home when farms provide conveniences and that several farmers have found this payoff in keeping their sons from leaving for the city.
Miss Iva Mable Nash of Nelsonville and Mr. Robert Hawk of The Plains were married in Athens by Rev. Rhibrand at his Curran Drive home. The couple will live at The Plains where Hawk works as a miner, and Nash has been a stenographer for J. W. Fenton Coal in Nelsonville.
The White Shrine holds its regular meeting Monday evening at 7 30 o clock. Members are urged to attend the session and discuss scheduled agenda items.
A long list of residents and visitors are noted traveling to and from Columbus Akron Cambridge and Athens. Names include Miss Mary Wallace Miss Ethel Riley Mr and Mrs Frank L Maxton Mr and Mrs Charles Kircher Mr Eugene Cable and many others visiting relatives friends or attending events across Ohio and Michigan with multiple dates and places.
The text describes how Margarets Creek drains Athens, Waterloo, Alexander and Lee townships with extensive surface drainage and many tributaries. It notes most land is semitable and water is absorbed or evaporates before reaching the Hocking, with heavy rains causing slow runoff and little mineral wealth in table and flat lands. The Hocking valley originates from the Waverly group and flows into the Ohio river through lower coal measures.
The county auditor's office gathers data on Athens county finances and works to tighten tax returns. Increases will appear in both lines of the reports, but substantial tax avoidance remains. A fair duplicate appraisal and updated realty values could provide ample funds without extra levies.
Heat spurs ice cream makers and retailers to boost output and sales, turning hot weather into a profitable season for sweet treats.
Reports from the Sunday Creek valley indicate several thousand miners did not report for work from Chauncey to Perry and Hocking counties. Despite warnings, many unions demanded a Saturday holiday causing scant coal output as loaders and day men were in short supply and only limited shifts operated.
Rural Carrier Al O. Sloane reports a doubled sales total for Wet Savings Stamps this spring and summer, earning a free trip on the Great Lakes. He notes buyers in 1920 purchase stamps as investment and hold them, not cashing in for luxuries.
The supervising nurse arranged sending James Seiple of Mechanicsburg to the Franklin County Tuber Culosis Sanitarium. Seiple has a wife and several young children. Under Athens county health program such cases will be given attention and efforts made to restore health.
Athens endured a blistering 24 hours with a hot Friday and a sizzler night. An incoming cooling breeze signaled a forthcoming storm in the region as overcast skies settled by dawn.
The article notes teachers in Athens county may gain a living wage if proposed levies pass. It cites a young Athena high school teacher earning 160 dollars monthly next year in another city, contrasting with a mother who taught 35 years ago at 45 dollars a month, highlighting rising living costs.
Postmaster Harry Mc Kinstry and Dr J N Brown set out on their annual back to nature expedition to Camp Rest by Raccoon Creek. They plan to live off nature with June berries blackberries roots herbs fish and game and return Monday with jiggers and berries.
The marriage of Miss Delpha Carsey and Mr. Shirley Lemay, both of Nelsonville, occurred at 9 30 this morning at the office of Justice Pearl Helwig in the Cline building. The couple will reside in Nelsonville.
The census report lists Upper Sandusky with 3,708, Dennison 5,524, and Cuyahoga Falls 10,200. It notes increases since 1910 of 1,516 for Dennison (37.8 percent) and 6,180 for Cuyahoga Falls (153.7 percent), while Upper Sandusky shows a decrease of 71.9 percent.
Czechoslovakia was the only European nation last year to produce more sugar than its domestic needs, enabling it to export a surplus to foreign markets.
In Columbus on July 24 Republican candidates vie for the gubernatorial nomination with two weeks to go. McCulloch rises like Harding as Cole and Davis rally to counter him, while Democrats wait for Cox to be notified on August 7 as Vic Donahey secures the Democratic nod without opposition and eyes the general election.
Mrs Olive Carpenter age 78 fractured her right hip after slipping on a cement back porch at her Harmony home Thursday night. Dowler ambulance transported her to Athens on Friday night to live with her daughter Mrs William Edgar on May Avenue. Her condition is listed as very serious. Mrs Lewis Graham of Mill Street is another daughter.
Bill Brennan aims for another title try against Jack Dempsey as bids from several cities move forward. Dempsey defeated Brennan two years ago in a seventh round of a scheduled ten round bout.
The Federal Trade Commission refused an application from the Western Association of Roll Steel Consumers for a formal complaint against United Steel Corporation over price fixing f o b the mill at Pittsburg. The decision leaves Pittsburg as the base rate point and no change in practice.
Handwriting on a candy wrap linked to a death plot at the Central Hospital for the Insane in Nashville. A box of poisoned candy caused one death and four serious illnesses. the wrap’s return address was fictitious and police will probe relatives for handwriting identification. Partial candy analysis showed strychnine. victim Lizzie Brooks died within 30 minutes.
In reprisal for Sinn Fein attacks a motor truck carried police to Kilmalloch near Limerick where many Sinn Fein homes were set ablaze. Police fired on people in town streets, burning at least five houses and wounding unknown numbers while smashing shop windows and stopping traffic.
Memphis, Tennessee July 24 wholesalers report a sharp fall in food prices due to growing supply. Potatoes dropped from $7 to $3.75 per hundredweight, cabbage from $5.50 to $3.50, onions from $4 to $2.50, lemons from $5.50 to $3.75 per crate, and fancy oranges from $7.50 to $5 per crate.
The Farmers Carpenter Co announces a field meeting at the Southeastern Test Farm on Tuesday August 3. Farmers from several counties are urged to attend for farm inspection and guidance from college representatives on agriculture topics. The program includes cropping system comparisons, demonstrations of rotations, and 1919 orchard and field results.
Senator Warren G. Harding states there is no doubt Progressive Republicans will commit to the Republican cause this year. He pledges to restore party government and make the party expressive of the best thought of its members and the American citizenry.
Federal agents seized the largest whisky haul in this state region, value 267560 dollars, on a Lang railroad siding near Toledo. 14 000 quarts tied to Montreal firm Voevin & Wilson Co. and shipped by W F E Haines Distilleries of Glen Creek Kentucky, lacking a permit. Cases 1285, 12 quarts per case, 12 dollars per quart. Seized liquor to be sold to Toledo hospitals for 1 50 per gallon.
A tornado struck the Alamedia Sask district late yesterday, killing five people. Seven homes were destroyed and farm property damaged as communication lines were disrupted.
Babe Ruth hit his 34th home run in the fourth inning as the Yankees faced off with the Indians. Pitcher Bagby gave up the blast with no runners on base at the time.
Robert E Poindexter of St Joseph Missouri brother of Max Poindexter arrived in Chicago to press for a complete investigation of a hotel murder. Poindexter said the shooting happened while he occupied a room next to Ora Walter his secretary.
Five unmasked bandits in a Hudson super six robbed L. J. Ashwind payroll master at El Bell Manufacturing in Mulberry Road Canton. They seized $4,798.07 and fled after a gunsearch of Ashwind and officer William Linton. One hundred-dollar fractions and a $500 currency holdover were missed.
A Wilmington party of revelers drifted at sea after a night of carousing unable to reach shore. In daylight an anchor overboard showed they had circled near land, a close call reported from Wilmington.
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