Smallpox Reported in Modoc Area and Local Notices
Modoc area reports a virulent smallpox case in the neighborhood with suspected additional illnesses in Trimble Township. Mrs. Mike ghwikd of Modocks is ill, and a physician has been called for others believed to be infected. Nearby community activities include Ladies Aid meeting in Jacksonville and local Legion and club notes from Glouster with travel plans and funeral arrangements.
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Glouster
Mike
Modoc
Trimble
McLeish
Water Mains Expansion Planned For Athens City
Athens City Council discussed upgrading water mains and a larger North Hill to East State Street line to boost supply. A tunnel main to East State Street near Elmwood Place, costing about 10,000, will be funded by bonds. Street resurfacing and wider sidewalks on Richland Avenue tied to stadium traffic were also planned.
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Maton
Robert Wood
Yoo Neenges
Treasury
John Dowler
North Hill
East State Street
East Athens
Elmwood Place
City Alleva
John &. Collins
Anance
North Court Street
Tta
West State Street
Court
Lancaster
College Street
Carpenter Street
Mate
Baltimore & Ohio
County
Richland Avenue
State Hospital Gateway
Ohio University
Cumberland Mountaineers entertain at Mesecher home
Will Ist Mesecher hosted an afternoon gathering at his Jacksonville residence with musical entertainment by the Cumberland Mountaineers from station WIJAY Cleveland. The crowd included George Coleman Ohm Grubb Chester Patersie Arthur Strome Gare Strome Walter Tewell Otto Clerk family Mason Adamson T. B. Stewart Riley Morris Velma Sayre Alice Sayre Joe Antle and Mason Morris.
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Cumberland Mountaineers
Mesecher
Jacksonville
Willist Mesecher
WIJAY
Cleveland
Athans
Marecher
George Coleman
Ohm Grubb
Chester Patersie
Arthur Strome
Gare Strome
Walter Tewell
Otto Clerk
Wm. Mason
Newton Flussell
Wm. Adamson
T. BE. Stewart
Riley
Trimble 4-H Club Forms Reorganized for Active Year
Trimble 4-H Club reorganized at Mrs Leona Hall's home for the fourth year. County Agent T H Johnson supervised. Evelyn Joseph elected president and other officers chosen. Members planned a June 6 party. next meeting set for Thursday afternoon. Watt Brammer improving after illness. bed rest three weeks.
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Trimble
Leona Hall
T.H. Johnson
Evelyn Joseph
Eidith Johnson
Leona Wail
Medrith Rainey
Mary Belle Cole
Neva Lantz
Marie Vesa
Edith Johnson
Mary Cole
Nora Hall
Mrs. Hall
Beatrice Davis
T. H. Johnson
Batty
Rockefeller Maintains Wages in the West Amid Crash
Denver reports John D. Rockefeller Jr aided by the Celerade Fuel and Iron Co to resist wage cuts after the October crash. Arthur Roeder of Colorado Fuel and Iron urged the Colorado Industrial Commission to avoid wage reductions, noting the firm’s dominance in coal and steel and its status as Colorado’s largest employer.
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Denver
John DR. Rockefeller, Jr
Cele~rade Fuel and Iron Company
Hippi River
Colorado
Commission
Negro Wrote Love Letters Impersonating U S Marshal
Xenia Ohio June 2 authorities say a 61 year old Negro wrote love letters to 14 women in Ohio Indiana and Kentucky posing as the wealthy and lonely United States marshal for the federal district seeking companionship. He was arrested on a Newcastle Indiana woman's complaint and will likely undergo a mental examination. He faces impersonation charges as an officer.
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Xenia
R—Oacak
Wea Im
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
United States
Paul H. Creswell
Goiag
Golog
Newcastle
Ind
Wemana
Xemia
Oscer Golag
But He Accepted Them All, Anyhow
YORKVILLE June 2. B Harris leads multiple local groups including president roles at the bank board of trades lumber company official church board town council Med Cross unemployment committee Boy Beauts advisory Master of the Maxonic Lodge commander of the Knights of Pythias and Knights Templar. He criticizes Hoover and questions a second term.
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Yorkville
B. Harris
Woaver
Harris
Board of
Church
Med Cross
Boy Beauts
Maxonic Lodge
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Knights Templar Lodge
Seing
Hoover
Labor Opposes Personal Income and Nuisance Taxes in Ohio
Organized labor in Ohio rejected a personal income tax and other nuisance levies including tobacco and amusement taxes. The stance was announced after a State Federation of Labor meeting in Cleveland with railroad representatives. Lawmakers continued shaping the Classified Tangible Bill and intangibles measures with joint conference likely before adjournment.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Federation of Labor
Railroad Brotherhoods
Harery McLaughlinn
Cleveland
Houses
House
Senate
Minnesota Gay Law ruled unconstitutional by Supreme Court
The U S Supreme Court held Minnesota's so called Gay Law unconstitutional. J M Near publisher of The Saturday Press challenged the suppression of his scandalous Defamatory weekly. Chief Justice Hughes said the law imposed censorship despite freedom of the press.
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Washington
Minnesota
Supreme Court
J. M. Near
State Court
Saturday Press
Minneapolia
Nears Apperl
Hughes
Fall Likely To Escape Prison
Washington reports Judge Hughes denied Fall's review, leaving a one year sentence and $100,000 fine in place. Analysts say Fall may avoid jail due to his frail health and prior statements by Justice Hitz that probation or suspension could apply if executed today.
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Washington
Albert Bacod Fall
Secratary of Interior
Charles Evana Hughes
Fall
William Hitz
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Hitz
Open Meeting of Athens Grange Thursday Evening
Fifty members of Athens Grange will take part in an open meeting at Athena Grange Hall Fair grounds on Thursday evening June 4. A memorial program will be given in which living pictures will be portrayed. Leaders say the meeting is open to the public with many visitors from other granges of Athens County expected.
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Plana
Kant Athena
Athens
Provementa
Southern Oil Electric Company
Athens Grange
Athena Grange
Fairgrounds
Hving
Athens County
Odd Fellows Help Initiate New Marshfield Lodge Members
Sereno Lodge members joined New Marshfield Lodge for an initiation ceremony on Monday night. The Merge group from Carboniels Lodge also participated in the Knights of Odd Fellows event in New Marshfield.
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Odd Fellows
New Marshfield
Sereno Lodge
Lo.c.f
New Marshfeild Lodge
Ube Carboniels Lodge
Proveet
House Committee Pushes Investigation of Highway Dept
The Ohio House Highway Committee voted 13 to 8 to recommend a resolution by Rep. George M. Forney of Hancock County calling for an investigation of the State Highway Department. Forney cites alleged civil service disregard and patronage in hirings for party loyalists.
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House Committee
Highway Department
Columbus
U.P
House Highway Committees
George M. Forney
Hancock County
State Highway Department
Forney
Support of Wheat Prices By Government Is Ended
Columbus news reports the Grain Stabilization Corporation ended support for Chicago wheat prices, with no peg planned for this year's crop. Ohio crops are in good shape though lodging may reduce quality. yield estimates near 41,000,000 bushels for Ohio. Coarse grains remain low, corn and oats planted in large areas, and demand unlikely to raise prices soon.
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Columbus
ANS
Chicago
Grain Stabilization Corporation
C. W. Eberhard
Ohio Farm Bureau Grain Department
Ohio
Rainfall in Athens Area Shows Heavier May Totals
May rainfall in Athens and vicinity totaled 3.28 inches, more than triple May 1930's 0.82 inches, per weatherwoman Mrs. C N France. The report contrasts this May with last year and notes local readings across the region.
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Athens
Athena
C. N. France
Taxicab Owner Loses Appeal In Liquor Conviction
The Supreme Court denied Roy Myers of Charleston West Virginia a review of his conviction and three year sentence for selling liquor. The case relied partly on testimony from one of Myers drivers named Amos who allegedly did the selling. Electing Jury Jefferson D. June 2h. selection of jurors to decide if Juli Mawbe Lowther and her former lover Titty Smith will face the electric chair for the murder of his wife was expected to be completed today.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roy Myers
Charleston
T. Va
Myers
Ais
Amos
Jefferson
Juli
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