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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1922
Page
3
About fifty W B A members and families enjoyed the annual picnic at Glen Ebon Grove. Attendees traveled by the 10 AM car and returned 8 PM with a noon picnic dinner and an evening feast.
Mrs George Darber of Harper street won the daily Golden Sun coffee prize from the Watch Dog. A new name appears in the Nelsonville want ads each day and the winner must present themselves at Ollinger and Wolfe stores to claim the coffee.
A chamber of health program invites residents to schedule chest exams August 2 at the High school in Nelsonville with Dr. C. C. Butt H Coe or Ruth Masters. Health officials stress patient cooperation and physician guidance, noting most TB cases arise at some life stage and proper treatment can arrest disease.
Bart McAdoo notes mood shifts as I Won't Work movement reaches town. He mocks twenty seven rule doctors and taunts a Joneses figure who may run against Thurman Morgan for Clerk of Courts.
An advertised Rochester New York dentist claims Moava Dental Cream cures pyorrhea or Riggs Disease by destroying germs and tightening loose teeth. The product is described as a concentrated antiseptic germicide not a ordinary toothpaste and comes with a money back guarantee via McKee Drug Co.
The piece recalls warm evenings at Patton's dam and the Hock-Hocking river, sharing nostalgia for summer swims, cornfield chases, and old fishing-hole memories. It notes a Watch Dog stunt giving away a pound of coffee daily in Nelsonville ads and muses on a prize of Gambrinus beer.
Mrs. Anna Niggemeyer died at her home in Anthony Ohio near St. John's church after seven months of poor health. Funeral services will be held July 31 at St. John's church with burial there. Luke H. Farmer son of Mrs. J M Higgins died at 4 15 this morning after an operation at Post Graduate hospital New York. He had been living in Panama at Bocas del Toro and worked as a railroad dispatcher for United Fruit Company. He is survived by his wife a native of St Paul Minnesota and their son Richard now three. He was a brother of Dr Alfred G Farmer of Dayton.
Rumors from Martinsburg say New York Giants manager John McGraw has waived Louis Wilson the Martinsburg outfielder and Blue Ridge League home run king who has hit 26 homers this season.
A burning cross on Kinney hill last night stirred fears of a Klux Klan branch forming in Glouster. The blaze appeared around 9 pm on a five foot wooden cross with burlap and oil. By dawn the fire was out and no culprit found. Local drunk arrests followed near Mast Branch with two men in a ditch and an empty liquor jar found in the car. Spero funeral set in Cleveland after fatal Canal Winchester crash.
Theodore Van Treese, owner of a Kansas City cigar store, fought two bandits in a desperate July 28 confrontation. A bullet pierced his heart, killing him instantly.
Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland campaigns for the Republican nomination for Governor and defends his labor record in Athens Ohio. He cites personal mining history and family ties to coal, notes his father and uncle’s mining deaths, and tours counties to address miners and local leaders. He plans further speeches in Columbus and Cleveland.
Search teams probe the Morganza and Hendersonville area for hidden machine gun nests amid the coal strike zone. Montour Mine No 4 reports renewed sniping as the first major union mine to resume operations under troop protection.
In New York at Grand Central Station 148 top railway executives will hear President Harding's proposals to end the great rail strike. Labor circles say striking workers will reject Daniel Willard's separate settlement plan.
Alfred Mattison of Poston visits Den and Gabriel family and their son Alfred. Various guests attend suppers, visits, and a fair in Wellston and Canaanville. Esther May Bryson born to D M Bryson and wife in Guynsville. Edward Ball returns from Lancaster after three weeks away. Multiple families host and visit in The Plains area.
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