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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1921
Page
7
Drs. Copeland and Howe lease the second floor of the Athens National Bank building to create a private hospital with ten beds and room for five or six more. A new X Ray machine, the Victor Snook type, enables accurate diagnosis and treatment, aiding fracture reduction and internal condition checks.
A motor vehicle struck a six year old boy of Rob Tipton in Murray City. He was rushed to Columbus Hospital where doctors diagnosed a skull fracture and the child remained in serious condition. Town residents offered sympathy to the family.
Mr and Mrs Tom Castell spent Monday in Logan Rev S J Bishop was a business visitor in Carrol Monday Quite a number of Murray people spent Decoration Day at Green lawn cemetery Twilight services were held in the Murray M B church Sunday evening The interior of the church is being painted and papered The new electric light system has not been completed Before the regular evening services was twilight services Mrs Meggle of Columbus is visiting friends in Murray The Holiness church people are having a very interesting meeting All are cordially invited to attend these meetings The W H M Society of the W U B church will hold their regular monthly meeting at the home of Maud Wilson Thursday evening of this week at 7 PM Mrs Ed Snyder of Hackstreet who has been ill is getting along nicely
Mrs. Bryan of Nelsonville, guest of her son Frank Bryant, returned home last Saturday. Children’s Day services will be held in the U. B. church Sunday evening, June 5.
The senior class raised three hundred sixty dollars from two showings of the class play A Man's Man. After production costs, three hundred fifty dollars remains to fund a memorial at Athens High School.
Henderson Richardson born February 16 1836 in Steubenville Ohio died May 20 1921 in Salem Ohio. He married Malissa Ryan in 1856 and had seven children four living. He served in the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry during the Civil War and endured Andersonville imprisonment. He spent years at the Dayton National Military Home and later with his youngest son. He was blind for eight years and survived by 4 living children and 17 grandchildren plus 11 great grandchildren.
Card of thanks expresses heartfelt gratitude for kindness and sympathy after a father's death. The second item mentions an English inventor claiming advantages of a three wheel farm tractor used in driving.
An unidentified man driving an auto across Union Street railroad tracks Friday evening May 27 was H H Brown of Athens Lumber Co. He reported his name and car number to the watchman and foreman and said the gate arm broke his car and would be billed. Prof Frederick Treadley of Ohio University will speak at 2 30 P M and the Richland Avenue M P Church quartet will sing. Rev Genheimer will hold his last Bates church service Sunday afternoon.
Memorial services at Bates Church will be held Sunday in June. The event honors departed community members with a brief ceremony and family tributes. Officials request attendees arrive early for seating.
Relatives and friends of Athens high school graduates receive engraved invitations to the commencement exercises on Friday June 10 at the First Methodist church. G F Morgan former Athens school superintendent will arrive June 10 to deliver the commencement address.
A new speedometer designed for nighttime visibility is mounted directly on the steering wheel, allowing the driver to read speed in the dark. The feature aims to improve safety by keeping attention on the road.
The Supreme Court ruled today that federal laws regulating liquor traffic passed before national Prohibition that conflict with the Volstead Act were repealed by its passage. The decision is a setback for prohibitionists and marks the first such ruling since Prohibition took effect.
Scott P. Bone formerly of Seattle was named governor of Alaska by President Harding today. The announcement comes from the Republican National Committee director of publicity.
In Columbus on June 1, Dick Howell of Canton, a murderer, was sentenced to be electrocuted early tomorrow morning but remained hopeful for a last minute stay of execution.
Common Pleas Judge Homer C. Powell postponed the cases of William H. McGannon attorney A A Cartwright Edward J Allen and Charles H A Burke to June 18 after a conference with Special Prosecutor William L Dawid in Cleveland Ohio.
Five men held up two bank messengers at the Millers and Traders Bank in Minneapolis as they were delivering money. They escaped in a touring car with $16,000.
Six year old Anna Catherine Wagner was burned when a candle at the altar of the Virgin Mary in St. Joseph's church, Canton, set her dress aflame during morning exercises.
William J. Warrener came home from a three week rest with his daughter Mrs. H. F. Hartley in Maben West Virginia. He reports improved health after the stay in mountainous Wyoming county near the Tug River border with Kentucky where fighting occurred last month. Warrener’s party heard that inmates used machine guns seized from soldiers and that a Charleston store lost weapons and ammunition during the same period.
The inventor patents a small electric light for fishing rods to illuminate a fish when it bites, enabling night or low light angling and easier strike detection.
Readable fragments describe aboard deck areas and disturbed activity. Mentions Beatie Verdick and a front area, with references to food and water tasks. Lacking clear events or outcomes, the snippet hints at routine shipboard work and disruptions without a specific incident.
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