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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1928
Page
3
Typhoid cases have been reported in the flooded Sunday Creek district of Trimble Township. Health Commissioner J M Higgins says the disease is not epidemic and precautions are in place to regulate water supply and immunize a large number of residents.
Captain Claude Rhodes of Columbus has recovered from serious injuries suffered in an automobile accident on the McArthur road and has resumed duties with the National Guard unit in Nelsonville district.
At Nelsonville last night local pickups surged from behind to beat the Buckeyes 6 to 4 after holding a 4 to 1 lead through six innings. Walker had 17 strikeouts for the Buckeyes before his club’s late collapse as a large crowd watched at the city playgrounds.
Mrs. Albert Smith returned to her home after two weeks with her daughter in Cleveland. Miss Mary Broucher went home to Columbus after a week with Mr. and Mrs. Liss McLaughlin. Miss Flossie McCombes came home after visiting relatives in Chillicothe. Mrs. Will Bland and Mrs. James Bland spent the end of the week at West Salem with Will and James Bland joining them for a short visit. Clark Spring visits Cincinnati as a business guest. Father Eugene Owens visited Columbus today.
Interest grows as Huntington officials withdraw hosting for the Cordill to Gallipolis race. The winner of the Chris Greene and Senator Cordill clash will receive a silver trophy from Huntington, though race start shifts to Gallipolis with Pom eroy as a likely finish.
Three masked men robbed the Dayton View branch of Dayton Savings & Trust today escaping in an automobile. Manager G Marlett and assistant Jessie Dimm were inside with a youth employee when forced to lie on the floor. He estimated the branch held about 8 000 dollars but doubts more than half was taken.
Columbus July 31 U R The State highway department will award contracts for state road work valued at over 2 000 000 benefiting thirty one counties.
Charles W. Cartwright eight year old son of Mr and Mrs Carey Cartwright of Columbus died after injuries from a horse kick at his grandfather's farm in Washington District of Columbia.
In Nelsonville and the valley petitions circulate to reinstate Oral Daugherty as president of the miners union sub-district. The papers will be presented by a miner committee at a Columbus meeting Thursday following filings last week with the district board.
A. J. Walker of Detroit visits home folk with wife and son, Martha Sheppard stays with Margaret Weltzheimer at Buckeye Lake, Miss Grace Verity of Athens visits Miss Beth Verity, Paul Weaver of Columbus visits the Sheppards, Seidenfelds and Mary Seidenfeld vacation at Petoskey, Frank Houston and wife travel to Columbus for hospital treatment, Buckeye and Cooley families spend weekends in Buckeye and Columbus, T. S. Bush and C. L. Pensyle visit Leesburg.
A Union Sunday school pageant at the Downington Methodist church drew the largest crowd ever, with full seating an hour before start and many outside. Directed by Selah Weatherby, the event featured a male chorus led by Jed Dixon, organist Diantha Gibson, and performances by children and a missionary play with Chinese girls in native dress.
The United States Potters association designated the Chalfonte hotel in Atlantic City New Jersey as the meeting place and Tuesday August 14 as the opening day for the biennial wage conference with the national brotherhood of operative potters in a statement from East Liverpool dated July 31.
Funeral services for 69 year old Winfield Oxley who died at Columbus state hospital were held at noon yesterday at Bates church Carbon Hill. Oxley formerly farmed at Pleasant Hill and his wife Laura Kuzier of Pleasant Hill had died seven years earlier. He was a brother of Mrs. Mary FE Saylor of Columbus.
Coal loaded for the first time since the strike began at the Nelsonville and Murray Coal company mine in New Pittsburg yesterday. About 40 men are at work cleaning up after two weeks of operations. A large group from several towns enjoyed an all day picnic outing near Coshocton.
In New Bedford Massachusetts on July 31 about 386 defendants, including 256 taken into custody after police broke up picket lines at Whitman and Kilburn mills, were arraigned in a historic court scene. Many sang and shouted as 130 continued cases joined them. Most defendants received two months in jail.
Ohio State Penitentiary officials question guards and convicts after an attempted four man escape from the Columbus prison. Warren P. E. Thomas says the inmates from company K had outside help and may have been aided in the delivery plan.
President Coolidge, speaking at a daily press conference in Superior, Wis, says no tariff revision action is expected in the short December session. He believes any action requires cross party agreement unlikely due to ongoing presidential campaign activities.
Toledo residents will decide November 6 on a new city charter adopting a city manager plan and a small, at large council under proportional representation.
Ruth McCullough of Toledo fractured both bones in her right arm just above the wrist while playing on the grounds at the East school building in Nelsonville. Doctors J M Hyde and W H Hyde reduced the fracture yesterday after her visit to her grandmother Mrs Walter Hitchings.
Richard Dale of this city employed at the Lick Run mine was injured yesterday when a heavy timber fell on his right leg. The knee was sprained and the leg badly mashed and bruised. He will be confined to home for two or three weeks.
The Nelsonville Retail Merchants association will hold its monthly meeting on Wednesday evening August 1 at 6 15 at the YMCA. The session opens with a picnic. Also noted are social visits by local residents to Pomeroy and Point Pleasant W Va and a return from two weeks in Carrollton with Virginia Riley.
City councilman Frank Lowery must appear before Mayor Alex M. Moore at 7:30 tonight to answer a fighting charge. Affidavit by W. D. Robinson alleges Lowery assaulted him near the Security Bank building on South Court Street late Saturday. Rosecoe Reading fined $1 for overtime parking by Traffic Officer James Lewis.
Funeral services for Forrest McGurk were held at 11 this morning in Dayton. He died in a Narragansett Bay air crash near Providence last Friday. He was the son of Dr Daniel McGurk former pastor of the First M E church in Athens and Mrs McGurk now living in Portsmouth.
Herbert Hoover will hold a series of conferences with mid western farm leaders on August 22 and 23, as announced by James W. Good, the western Republican manager. Senator Heflin of Alabama weighs party loyalty amid governor Alfred E. Smith campaigning in the South.
Gallipolis July 31 U R Safe Way Transit company operating a bus line between Gallipolis Huntington Pomeroy and Parkersburg on the Atlantic and Pacific scenic highway along the Ohio river was sold today to the Midland Trail company of Charleston West Virginia at a price reported to be $10 000
Joseph Anthony McGuinness, 25, of Parkersburg, drowned in the Ohio River while bathing at Walker Landing near Washington Bottom Sunday afternoon. He belonged to a camping party and was a victim of cramps.
The Schooner Viking, sailed by Detroit Yacht Club entry, crossed the finish line shortly after four a.m. today to win the annual 240 mile Bayview Yacht Club race that began Saturday from Port Huron in Mackinac Island Michigan.
Columbus July 31. Cities opposing proposed Logan Gas rate increases will file briefs with the state utilities commission tomorrow. Grant E. Mouser Jr. acting as solicitor for Marion reports the action.
George E. Brennan prominent Illinois Democratic national committeeman lies near death in a Chicago hospital. He had last rites from the Catholic Church as his family stays at his bedside.
George Brown of Millfield and Joe Morris of Athens were arraigned before Justice Carl H. Porter on concealed weapons charges. Brown waived examination, bound over to the grand jury under 500 dollars bond after officers found a .38 Colt pistol with six shells near Mine No. 255. Morris pleaded not guilty, waived examination, and also bonded 500 dollars. Accused were arrested by Traffic Officer Wilson Ator and Constable Harry Dalton on affidavits filed by John Wisecup and Dalton yesterday near Mine No. 255.
Worbes Field, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is noted as a ballpark where fluke home runs are not easily achieved, highlighting its tough boundaries and distinctive dimensions.
Dr. J. M. Higgins gave a verbal report on the county health department’s July work and the present health situation. The board discussed ongoing duties as George Rose of Glouster chairs with Dr. E. I. Stanley Albany, Dr. Paul R. McLaughlin Guysville, C. H. Bryson Trimble township, W. W. Whitlatch York township, and Higgins as county health commissioner.
Four licenses granted in Athens County Probate Court yesterday include Pearl Lantz 21 of Barberton factory worker with Vivian Gladys Sweazy 19 of Murray City at home. Walter Preston 23 of Rutland miner with Ida Singer 17 of Gloucester at home. Ralph M. Henry 35 of Nelsonville salesman widower with Helen M. Verity of Nelsonville bookkeeper. James Hale 44 of Athens miner divorced with Lillian Grant 30 of Buchtel maid. Officiants named: Rev. Coulter and Rev. McCorkle and Rev. B R Smith.
The state utilities commission approved the sale of the Athens Parkerburg Pomeroy bus line from P. R. McLaughlin to Safeway Transportation for seven thousand dollars. The decision was announced today in Columbus.
About 200 persons invited to a dinner at Hotel Berry at 7 o'clock tomorrow night to meet Myers Y Cooper, Republican candidate for governor from Cincinnati, before his campaign speech at the courthouse. Cooper headquarters representatives and Ohio University Cooper for Governor club plans the event with local officials and band participation.
Kiwanis members decided at a Hotel Berry yesterday to host an annual picnic for members and their families. The event will be held Monday at 4 PM at the county fair grounds with Prof. T. N. Hoover and B. T. Grover heading the entertainment and house committees. Lunch will feature Kiwanis Junior baseball players on Monday, July 18.
One child was killed and 25 persons injured in automobile crashes around the end of the week in Youngstown.
An old patent medicine ad touts Phillips' Milk of Magnesia as the neutralizer of excess stomach acid. It claims quick relief within five minutes and promotes a harmless dose in water. The ad notes 60 years of physician use and U S registered trademark status.
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