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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1925
Page
3
The Nelsonville Kiwanis club and ladies held All Kiwanis Night at the Y M C A with about fifty attendees. The program opened at 8 50 with songs America and God Save the King, reading of the International President address by Dr C E Welch, Mrs Rice at the piano, solos by Mrs Emmett Preston and Mrs Earl McCune, followed by an ice cream social. The meeting closed until the first Wednesday in September.
Nelsonville is set for a Thursday afternoon speech by Mrs. Boles of Columbus. She will address a meeting in the Klan hall at 2 30 o clock with the topic Americanism.
Richard and Lawrence Ball of Buchtel pleaded not guilty at arraignment before Mayor Lax on charges of liquor possession and possessing equipment for creating intoxicants. Each was held on $2000 bond for trial next Saturday after Sunday arrest during a Buchtel raid linked to a dynamite blast as Prohibition officers entered the mine.
Mr. and Mrs 8S S Steenrod and daughter Barbara spend a few days in Columbus. Mr and Mrs W W Kelly Jr enjoy the week at Lake Conneaut Pa. Miss Tessie Erwin returns to Columbus to resume duties at Grant hospital after a visit with her parents Mr and Mrs Ed Erwin. Misses Ona and Mabel Hayden also mentioned.
Mr and Mrs Robert Clark and two children Bobby and Rex Mrs Jennie Clark and Miss Lena and Miss Mabel Hayden drove to Columbus Sunday returning home in Cleveland after a two week visit with relatives and friends.
Final plans by Junior Order for an excursion from Nelsonville to Tiffin next Sunday. They will keep lodge rooms open all night for members. departure from Nelsonville is set for 2 0 clock in the morning with many locals expected to attend.
Nelsonville timetable notes a weekly gains trend with soft coal output for the week ended June 13 at 8,616,000 net tons, up about 3 percent from the prior week. West Virginia and Ohio totals rise, with lake shipments totaling 471,000 tons for the week ended June 14 and soft coal forwarded past 6.29 million tons for the season.
Nelsonville June 28 The fifty seventh Shafer family reunion gathered eighty two descendants and twenty visitors at Athens fair grounds on June 21. Mrs Martha Shafer initiated the annual gathering in 1850 with the aim of uniting the family now numbering eleven original children. Attendees included Mrs Martha Wilds 84 Mrs Claretta Martin 83 Peter Shafer 75 and Mrs Emma Vore 72. Della Coe 74 could not attend. A picnic followed by a family portrait completed the day.
Prohibition agents raided the Perry residence last night and recovered a jar of mash, signaling enforcement action during the ongoing crackdown. Local authorities did not report any arrests.
George Dunn pleaded guilty to intoxication in Nelsonville. Mayor Lax fined him $50 plus costs on Monday.
Nelsonville reports 135 students enrolled in the daily vacation Bible school opening at 9 am Monday. Similar schools started at Murray City and Haydenville with Murray City enrollment reaching 150. Haydenville's total not reported. The programs run for five weeks.
Nelsonville June 28 Whatco's of Haydenville will play the Buck eyes in a game cancelled from last week. Next Monday Phi Sigma Chi meets the 18 year olds from the YMCA. All games start at 6 o'clock. managers should call C A Dilcher at the YMCA.
Mr. Colt, safety director for the Hocking Valley Railroad, spoke at the Presbyterian Church and Sunday school in Nelsonville on Sunday. His talk focused on accidents and methods to prevent them.
Frank Keys is spending a week at Conneaut Lake in Pennsylvania enjoying the lakeside retreat and local scenery.
About 250 miners and families gathered on the Na mal Fire Proofing grounds in Haydenville for a daylong picnic. Clergy guests from Nelsonville Logandale and the Haydenville circuit spoke, with Judge Pettit present. A vacation Bible school will start Monday under Mr Tribble, admired by local children. Croquet, horseshoes and music by local groups filled the day as workers backed the event.
A cryptic note claims the Prince of Wales is not bothered by a wiesbok during a safari in Africa and urges the animal to leave him alone.
Albany tops the county Pomona Grange contest by initiating 27 new members in the fourth quarter. Athens follows with 20, Stewart 14. event held in Jackson with guests from Amesville Albany Coolville New Marshfield Trimble and Stewart. Master O. O. Bryson presided. Frances Nichols led a program. noon dinner served. Next fifth degree team meeting set for Albany July 14.
In Columbus on June 23 the Southern Ohio Federal Judicial district team led by U S Attorney Haroth E M and assistants began drafting applications to padlock more than twenty properties where investigations indicate liquor sales.
Hundreds of delegates from across Ohio assemble in Canton for the opening of the Christian Endeavor union forty first annual convention at the city auditorium today and tonight.
A Sheffield man chose the epitaph Poor Willie for his tombstone and left an estate near $75,000. The story notes the surprising sum attached to the late man’s legacy and his memorial line.
Talbot W. Chambers pleaded not guilty before Justice Ford in the New York supreme court on a statutory crime linked to testimony in the divorce suit of Thomas H. Symington, a New York Baltimore and Rochester railroad supplies dealer.
Editorial suggests installing clear signs in places where actions are allowed rather than where they are restricted. The piece argues better guidance could reduce confusion and conflict for pedestrians drivers and officials.
June 23 in Chicago reports a police conference to craft a drastic plan against the crime wave. Detectives hunt the underworld for bandits who yesterday killed a fifth policeman in sixteen days.
Official statistics claim every person suffers about 3.7 colds annually in Washington. In Paris the Chamber of Deputies saw disorders marked by fist fights during an afternoon session.
In Petersfield England a fox chased by hounds ran into a green house and vanished up a chimney. Smoke did not force it out and when the chimney was torn down four live rabbits were found with the fox concealed inside.
In Concordia Kansas a sensational blackmail plot ends with a confession by Charles B Davies secretary of Ellis and til he was drained. Davies admits paying 2960 to Kansas gangsters to kill a target date October 14 1924. County attorney Leo W Lundist says the case centers on a $5000 bond and a dramatic confession.
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