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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1920
Page
3
Term 12 lessons cost $9 starting Saturday June 26 by Eleanor Scott at 73 Franklin St Bell 726. Also a beautiful silk quilt for sale taken first premium at State Fair call Bell 879.
Six Athens county children including three Burson sisters Catherine Mary and Adena underwent tonsil and adenoid removal at Copeland-Howe hospital this morning. Other patients were Othmar and Hildagard Isselstein, Robert Swindell, and Gladys Elaine Jones. A heat insulated handle enables a new electric frying pan to be held while cooking.
The postoffice prepares for a six week spike as Athens welcomes a summer term expansion. Mail volume rises with 2 000 new residents to locate and many letters arrive without addresses. Local businesses face busier deliveries and express parcel traffic as students send items for laundry and shipping.
Police prep to arrest B and O conductor for holding No 2 on Union street crossing for about sixteen minutes. Mayor told. also, new city schools chief C E Stailey to move from Portsmouth July 1 and oversee summer planning. Deputy McKinley returns with subpoena in Bill Breaker auto theft case. divorce case widens with alimony claim from Frances A Biehl.
Benjamin F. Little, 74, and his wife, 76, died 12 hours apart and were buried together at Prospect Cemetery. He died of tuberculosis and she of pneumonia.
Dispatches from Boulogne report that neither Premier Millerand nor Italian Foreign Minister Count Sforsa will modify the treaty provisions. Turks must reply to the allies by Saturday under the original schedule. The sole agreed settlement among the conferees is Germany must cut its army to 100 000 by July 10.
William H. Smith age 65 a laborer for Frank Anderson was found crushed to death in a corn field between a breaker and seats after failing to return to supper. The incident occurred near Circleville on June 22.
Miss Elly Hope Anderson, 22, a va concertist, testified in Minneapolis that she was with Victor Von Schlegell the night whist expert Joseph Bowne Elwell was murdered at the Ritz Carlton. She said Von Schlegell claimed no enmity toward Elwell and described their movements from the Ritz to her apartment on East 61st Street.
London reports a general Irish railway strike or government lockout looms as authorities act to contain a Clough Jordan clash near Limerick where workers refused to move a train carrying twelve policemen. Troops seized the engineer for trial in Dublin as the government seeks to test its firmness. A separate note mentions Chinese horned stags raised for native medicines.
Robert Bottle of Alliance files a Stark county suit against Margaret Bottle of Glouster Athens county alleging desertion after a brief marriage begun November 1917. He claims she left him after five months with $200 in clothing and a set of false teeth, and that she took all his money and stayed away.
Dr Burris Jenkins in Kansas City said he has not yet decided whether to proceed with his scheduled speech nominating William G McAdoo. He will decide after arriving in San Francisco. John King had planned to ignore McAdoo withdrawal, prompted by a wire from McAdoo. Thomas Love of Texas urged McAdoo support among delegates.
San Salvador Martino A. Lomi named minister of state and led a revised cabinet for Mexico’s provisional government. The list includes Miguel Cervantes Covarrubias as Foreign Relations minister, Salvador Alvarado as Finance General, Pasqual Ortiz Rubio as Communications and Public Works, Elias Calles as War, Antonio I Villareal as Agriculture, and Jacinto B. Trevino as Industry and Commerce.
June 22 War ren G Harding Republican nominee declines to urge governors to call special sessions to ratify the suffrage amendment. He says he hopes for early adoption but cannot wield a club over state authorities. Discovery of Devonshire raw materials to spur glass manufacture in Ireland follows.
John Barton Payne, interior secretary and acting director general of railroads, met railroad brotherhood leaders to review the labor dispute. Payne drafted a report for President Wilson, to be presented at the cabinet meeting as the situation reportedly clears. Separately, Japan reports profits from seaweed pulp manufacture.
Dispatches report authorities plan to question Viola Kraus, widow of Von Schlegel, about the night before the incident. The case centers on the whist expert’s murder and a dinner party invitation that may hold key details.
The United States maintains its stance on key questions from Boulogne despite allied moves. Ambassadors to Berlin will have no immediate effect on US relations, and war status remains until senate approves peace treaties. State Department continues to oppose Red Russia trade talks despite broad approval of negotiations.
City Manager W. J. Laub announced plans to establish a municipal coal yard to operate next winter. The yard will store coal purchased on the open market and sell it to consumers at cost plus delivery.
Akron Miss Clara Marr, 21, was not sent to prison for stabbing her newborn baby to death last August. Common Pleas Judge Ahern suspended sentence, paroling her for three years to Mrs. Leah Baldwin of Hudson, after ruling she was not in sound mental condition. The plea of guilty to manslaughter was accepted.
Ohio coal shortage remedy through mandamus suit fails as the Supreme Court dismisses the case brought by George H. Phelps of Findlay to compel Attorney General Price to initiate action against coal firms not operating mines. The decision leaves the shortage unresolved.
Walker Link, 11, son of Mrs. Louise Link, died instantly after touching a broken high tension wire. A 2300 volt current passed through his body in Norfolk on June 22.
Dave Bancroft has swapped uniforms for the first time in his major league career. He was obtained by the Giants from the Phillies in a recent trade, marking another move in McGraw’s yearly effort to buy a pennant.
Columbus June 23 stock belonging to foreign corporations or Ohio residents, bequeathed to Ohio residents, falls under the Ohio inheritance tax. The Attorney General Price ruled that stock in corporations organized outside Ohio is taxed where formed if more than Ohio tax. only the difference may be collected in Ohio.
Danville KentuckyJune 22 authorities report an organized band robbed freight cars in Danville and surrounding yards looting merchandise valued at 86,000 dollars. The incident was announced by local authorities and is under investigation.
The State Auditor is rebuked for not certifying the one mill school levy, with Attorney General Price stating the levy is a mandatory state tax. In New York, Bank of Montreal confirms receipt of 4 million dollars in gold from Canada, denying links to the Anglo French loan due next October.
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