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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1921
Page
1
Thirty-five people are known dead from the Colorado flood with thirty-one bodies in Pueblo morgues and four in nearby towns. Hundreds are missing while property losses reach fifty thousand dollars and officials expect a long casualty count as searches continue.
Police guards surrounded the danger zone in the Platte River bottoms as floodwaters threatened railroad yards. Residents were told to be ready to evacuate on short notice if the river and Cherry Creek remain at bank full levels for a third day.
Pueblo faces renewed flood peril as a dam break on the Arkansas sends a five foot wall rushing toward the city. About thirty lives lost earlier and vast property damage, with relief efforts hampered by washed roads, power and water outages, and militia patrols guarding flooded districts.
As night fell rumors swirl about the death toll from a devastating cloudburst. The flood damaged Peuble and many farmsteads along swollen streams, with warnings of widespread casualties and reports of life confined to the town.
The Supreme Court fixed December 5, 1921 as the date to hear arguments in suits by Ohio and Pennsylvania challenging West Virginia for alleged discrimination in gas distribution to other states.
Governor Shoup described Pueblo's situation as improving after his return by treacherous roads. He said martial law under Col. Hamerock and Maj. Newton would be maintained indefinitely and noted very little looting.
Columbus June 6 Thousands of state employees were gloomy as the 83rd general assembly ended. The assembly refused to continue the $10 and $20 monthly bonuses except for board of administration employees. A lump sum was provided to the board for extra pay to institution employees earning under $1,000 annually.
The saying notes that nerves are misread as drive and restless energy as task mastery. It contrasts surface fussiness with genuine effort, urging clearer judgment of what people actually accomplish rather than how they appear.
Trial of 25 men and women accused in what authorities call the largest postoffice robbery case in U.S. history began in federal court in Toledo. The heist on February 17 involved bonds and cash worth about 1 million dollars with agents tracing loot across 30 states and 500 cities. Harry Fisher, a Toledo business man, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and others are expected to follow.
Funeral services were set for today and tomorrow for four Norwood men killed when an automobile at Schenk Station near Hamilton was struck by a Cincinnati Indiana polis and Western train. The Norwood Christian church flag flew at half mast as the 78 member party, from the Middletown Bible class supper, mourns the loss.
Regular meeting of Chapter R. A. M. is scheduled for tonight. J. R. Morton serves as High Priest, with Jas. A. Palmer as Secretary.
The American Rifle and Revolver Club will meet at Wheaton Hardware Store at 7 o clock on Tuesday June 7. Members are urged to be present.
No. 25 F. and A. M. will hold a special meeting Tuesday June 7 at 6 P M. Work in the First Degree. Fred M. McKay W M A Palmer Secy.
Pueblo endures major flood with no telephones gas electricity or water. A newborn arrives at the courthouse as a Mexican woman wades to safety. Relief efforts flood the city as Elks Club serves coffee and sandwiches while ice runs scarce and residents endure improvised living conditions.
Williamson West Virginia June 6 investigation opened into Saturday night attack on an automobile carrying two state police officers. Forty three Lick Creek tent colony residents were arrested. Officers fired after bullets struck the car. no one injured reported. Earlier a raid by state police and citizen volunteers arrested 48 men without resistance under martial law orders.
Aviation experts study the wreckage of a Canadian plane that carried Laura Bromwell, 26, holder of the woman’s loop the loop record, to her death at Garden Ogee field yesterday. The crash occurred nose down into a roadway as the craft tangled with gear during the descent. Bromwell, fiancée of George Davis, had planned to give up flying after marriage. She was related to Jacobwell, former judge of Cincinnati’s common pleas court. she once dived from the Cincinnati suspension bridge into the Ohio River.
Heavy blaze in Pittsburgh on Wood Street destroyed the Pittsburgh Office Equipment Company premises and damaged an adjacent structure. Loss estimated at $200,000. Fire crews battled the flames Monday, with authorities investigating the cause.
At Camp Perry Ohio on Monday 576 selected riflemen from the First and Fourth infantry regiments and cavalry troops B and D started qualifying rounds on the ranges as preliminary target practice began.
Frederick H. Gillett and Mrs. Gillett announce the marriage on June 15 of their daughter Miss Frances H. Hear Foster to Charles Foster of Be. Massachusetts paves the groom’s path to the ceremony.
President Harding leaves Valley Forge at 7 30 a m to reach Washington by noon for a scheduled engagement. Senator Penrose and Governor Sproul were guests at a luncheon that fueled rumors of political clashes with opponents. Reports say Penrose sought patronage and expected political gains from the president's visit.
The Messenger states that Miss Merle Wagner and Miss Louise Martin were not applicants for teaching positions in Jacksonville schools as previously reported. Wagner will attend Columbia University next year on a scholarship.
The state city free employment office reports Akron has 12,815 unemployed. An English inventor claims a patent for a process that more than doubles electroplating bath output, notably in silver plating.
Shanghai report from H D Hayes and J W Hall of the United International Famine Relief Society details a string of earthquakes starting December 16 in Kan si province. Over 200 000 killed, villages buried under loose soil, landslides block streams, and new floods threaten survivors as dams break and valleys flood.
The regular City Federation meeting is set for Tuesday June 7 at 3 p m in Chamber of Commerce rooms. Judge Phillips opens the citizenship class lecture on The Duties and Opportunities of Athens Women Toward Our Boys and Girls. Prof A B Mackie speaks on The Benefit of Our Public Playground. All members urged to attend.
The court decided that executors may deduct federal estate taxes from income tax returns, affecting estates over 50 000 dollars and making much of those taxes refundable. Separately the government dropped its antitrust suit against American Can Company, a major trust case.
H. T. Wise, long time Athens photographer, purchases the D. Zenner Parking Machine Music Shop and will take possession around July 1. His son is taken over by Ed N. Gully, a former Athens boy, and Wise plans to expand into a general music store with a broader musical focus.
The text notes that Athens Columbus passed the 11,800 square units in the 1920 census and entered the quad annual registration class 1. It states Price, the Attorney General, has issued a ruling on their first general registration of electors in the 1924 presidential year.
President Harding told Lincoln Memorial School students in Oxford that education is the solution to the problem and prayed there shall never be another spectacle like the Tulsa race riots in this country.
Dr Royal S Copeland, New York City health commissioner, will write a daily series in The Messenger on Your Health starting today. He will share vital information for all ages and answer reader questions in the Daily Department of Health.
Frederic J. Haskin, director of The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington DC, oversees the coupon filing instructions for readers requesting information by mail.
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