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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1921
Page
3
July 30 report says a clash between striking workers at Jobe and police injured about 40 people, eight strikers and twenty police among the wounded. A mob of about 13,000 then dispersed as police charged with drawn swords.
Mrs. Albert Milligan hosted the Missionary Society of the Richland Avenue church for the regular monthly gathering with 25 members present. A program of music readings and speaking followed devotionals, ending with light refreshments. Also noted, Fred Cornwell, county auditor, is ill with acute appendicitis at his home and may need surgery. Monroes Brown travel to Cincinnati to pursue a school position this fall. The Womans Benefit Association of the Maccabees plans a meeting Monday at 7 30 with initiation and refreshments.
Mrs Warren Border has returned home after visiting friends in Parkersburg and Belpre. The City Federation will meet Monday afternoon at 2 30 at the Chamber of Commerce. Dr and Mrs J T Merwin with daughter Miss Margaret and Miss Blanche Tullis have left on a radiation trip through the East. Miss Beatrice Burch travels to Columbus to spend vacation with her mother Mrs Guy Love and sister Lillian.
Mrs. L. W. Roberts and daughter Esther have left for the Lancaster camp grounds to remain until September. Mr. Roberts will join his family later for his vacation.
Charles Lloyd of Murray returned home today after a week with cousin George Kilpatrick in Columbus. Mrs Arch Williams ends a June visit with her Schuler parents in Columbus and leaves for Tulsa. Mr and Mrs J E Sherlock and son Harold come home from a stay with the Chappelears in Columbus. Mrs T M Pickering returns from Columbus where daughter Nelle is convalescing. Ena Nelson plans a Sunday departure for Washington then Orange Virginia for a vacation houseguest stint. Mantz and guests set out for Columbus Newark and New Philadelphia with a two week lake trip from Cleveland to Buffalo Niagara Falls and Detroit.
Mr and Mrs Charles McKinley and their son Leonard Wood of Logan returned home after visiting friends in Athens. Mr McKinley went back several days earlier than Mrs McKinley and the baby.
Miss Mary Zimmerman of Bainbridge returned home yesterday after a visit with her brother Earl Zimmerman a student at Ohio University this summer. While there she was a guest at the W E Moler home.
Mr and Mrs Earl T Dailey and daughters Dorothy and Christine left today by motor for Gallipolis to visit Dr and Mrs J S Biddle Mrs Biddle sister of Mrs Dailey Mr Dailey will return the first of the week and his family will remain for a longer period.
Mr and Mrs John Roller of Columbus spent Thursday and Friday as guests of Mrs Harriet Carr at 28 North Lancaster. Mrs Roller formerly Miss Nelle Nowell of Columbus and a girlhood friend of Mrs Carr. Rollers were joined by niece Miss Blanche Nye and Lorraine Clendenin returned home to Mineral after visiting cousin Miss Mabel Clendenin of Walker Street.
Glouster will meet Millfield tomorrow afternoon at 2 30 on the local grounds. The Glouster lineup will be changed under new management. A court case against Mrs Geo Thompson for profane language was dismissed by Mayor Wallace after witnesses were absent delaying the hearing from Monday. Both parties live on Front street.
Probation Officer N. K. Alderman of Athens stopped in Gloucester today during an official visit to review caseloads and meet with local officials.
Geo A Shust of near Hunterdon was here this morning en route to Columbus to spend the day on business.
Mrs. G. C. Fawcett and her children depart next week for a new home in Delaware. Mr. Fawcett will stay behind temporarily to attend to business interests.
Mr and Mrs E E Pedicord returned yesterday from Columbus where Mr Pedicord underwent an operation for the removal of tonsils and adenoids.
Dr. H. G. Gibson is adding a second story to his Main Street residence. The house now has a newly completed basement, and construction continues with the upper level under way.
Local mine unions in the valley convene tonight at the mayor’s office to coordinate arrangements for the Labor Day event organized by the Sunday Creek Valley Central Labor Union.
J. D. Thomas of Columbus came back yesterday after being summoned by the death of his sister Mrs. John Jarvis. Mrs. Thomas accompanied him to Glouster and is staying a few weeks with Mr. Thomas' mother Mrs. Sarah Williams.
The next W. C. T. U. meeting is scheduled at Mrs. Frances Kempton’s residence in Urbancrest on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Homer C. Smith, pastor, invites attendees to Sunday school at 9 15 A M and a devotional at 10 15 A M on Monday. An union evangelistic service at 7 30 P M features Rev Mr Wilson of the Christian church delivering the evening message.
The note urges merchants to ensure fertilizer blends meet a minimum total of 14 percent combined N P2O5 and K2O. It highlights that high analysis compounds command premium prices and stresses proper labeling.
Musty Freeburn and Sam Beethan, aged 19 and 20 and son of the Ohio House speaker, passed through Athens on their way home to Columbus after wandering through West Virginia. They left last Monday with pack and blankets, spent a week there, and expected to reach Columbus tomorrow. They said they carried their necessities and had not stayed in a hotel during the trip.
Dayton on July 30 reports W C Barber resigns as city manager effective tomorrow. Barber, earning 12000 dollars annually, cites a mistake in bringing in an outsider for the post after a dispute with the city commission over strike settlement. He leaves Joliet Illinois, where he will reside for now, ceding the role to former service director F O Eichelberger at 8400 dollars per year.
Delegates at the Alpha Pi high school alumni fraternity convention in Cedar Point plan legislation to enable federal aid for the poor man’s son to cover college expenses. The secret sessions mark a first in years for the resort gathering.
Delbert Jacobs, 26, on the eve of marriage, drowns alongside two companions in the Ohio River near Paden City. Miss Hazel Vancamp, 26, and J. B. Smith, 22, perish while Jacobs’ fiancé, Mrs. Bessie Bennet, is saved by Smith before he himself sinks. The trio were swept by an undertow at a sand bar edge. Jacobs and Miss Vancamp are recovered.
A Columbus bus transfer party of nine: four women and five men, all residents of Columbus, were injured when their motor truck left a road near Newark Ohio. The vehicle jumped a ten foot embankment while returning from blueberry picking near Hanover. Police say the driver fell asleep on a dangerous curve.
Baltimore July 30 Mrs Margarite Harrison of Baltimore was released from a Soviet prison through intervention by Senator Jos S France. The Sun reports the Soviet authorities resisted but consented after mediation. Harrison, a 1919 Poland voyage correspondent, had been imprisoned in Russia and is noted as Governor Richie of Maryland’s sister-in-law.
Paul Bolegik of Castalia paid his second $1,000 fine in a week after his auto was confiscated by Sheriff Taylor and a pint of liquor found inside. The case occurred in Sandusky Ohio on July 30.
Frank Bryson died at Athens State hospital this morning at 6 o clock after six months there. The body was sent to Portsmouth for burial by Undertaker Dowler, accompanied home by Mrs. Bryson.
A. M. Rinehart of Trimble township died at his Kansas home on July 13 1921. He left Ohio at 15 to settle in Kansas where he built a druggist enterprise then retired five years ago. A Mason he left a widow and one son. lifelong friend W B Johnson relays the notice of his passing.
Relatives report the death of L. C. Burnham at his Columbus home after a hospital operation. He had suffered poor health for a year. His widow is Mrs. Jennie Blackstone formerly Miss Jennie Blackstone, daughter of Hester Blackstone. Funeral Monday at 10 in Columbus. Mrs. D. M. Burchfield and nephew Will R. Cable will travel Sunday evening. Mrs. Blackstone cannot attend.
Nearly 100 000 women seek new lines and to maintain existing systems in the U S railroads. The Interstate Commerce Commission notes women made about five percent of the 1920 railway workforce of 27 million and a new census for 1921 is under preparation. Women perform duties from engine cleaning to telegraph work and even heavy shop tasks.
Charles Wood of Athens Ice and Storage lost control of a downhill truck on Church Street. The vehicle overturned at the embankment, wrecking the bed and wheels, with damage around 600 pounds and a large ice cake tearing a henhouse at the hill’s base.
Tokyo reports 16 000 lepers in Japan with only about 1508 in asylums. Government considers a model city to gather and care for lepers, providing modern urban amenities while preventing disease spread. The note ends with a proverb about minding one’s own business.
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