Ohio to Redraw School Map Eliminating One Room Schools
At Cedar Point the Ohio State Teachers’ Association education council urged major reform including replacing 1 650 rural districts with 88 county districts abolishing the 2 65 mill levy and adopting county unit taxation. Opponents warn most counties would lose funding while favoring fifty to seventy five counties.
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Cedar Point
U.P
Ohio State Teachers’ Association
Association Education Council
Joint Legislative Committee On Taxation
Little Red
Ohio
Jerome Hull
Mahoning County
Speeding Motorist Sentenced 15 Days in Columbus Workhouse
Mrs. Elizabeth Riddle of Columbus was fined and ordered to serve fifteen days in the workhouse for speeding through a residential area at forty eight miles per hour. The court refused to grant leniency.
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Columbus
Elizabeth Riddle
Riddle
Prison Escape Sparks Search For Two Convicts
Newark police continued to hunt for Frank Poadhan and Patrick McKay after they battered through a wall at the city jail and fled. Both men were jailed on liquor law convictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Frank Poadhan
Patrick McKay
Ie City
Bell Official Robert Pate Dies in Cleveland
Robert G. Pate aged 57, assistant to the president of Ohio Bell, died in Cleveland from heart disease. He had a twenty five year affiliation with the company and his death was sudden.
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BELL
Cleveland
Robert G. Pate
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Pate
The
Ohio Bell
Zion National Park draws visitors to new national site
The article celebrates Zion National Park as the latest addition to the National Park System. It highlights the park's rugged canyons, crags, and peaks and notes a forty page illustrated booklet with forty-three pictures. A coupon is offered to obtain the booklet.
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Zion National Park
Nine Days Hold No Trace Of Missing Perry County Girl
Elizabeth Burns a 12 year old from Sawyerwood near Akron vanished Monday afternoon. Nine days of searches by Athens county and city officials yielded no clue. Relatives fear she is held in a lakeside cottage. she may have left with a man on Springfield road. She is described as 5 feet 6 inches, 100 pounds, light bobbed hair, orange dress with white stripes, blue hat and mustard coat.
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Elizabeth Burns
Tritt Street
Sawyerwood
Akron
Athens County
Henry Burns
Charles Brooks
Corning
Glouster
Athens
Elizabeth
Columbus
H. Snowden
Springfield Road
Patrick Burns
John
George Burns
Robert Hailes
Lancaster Street
Pomeroy Vacation Bible School Opens With 40 Enrolled
The Church of Christ in Pomeroy opens a five week daily vacation Bible school under Pastor Rev. Charles A. Fowler with 40 enrollees. Sessions run 9 to 11:30. Teachers assisting include Mrs. H. J. Heysell and others. A picnic is planned after the term ends.
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Pomeroy Vacation Bible School
Pomeroy
Church of Christ
Charles A. Fowler
Mr. Fowler
H. J. Heysell
Charles Gregg
Frances Roush
Fowler
Virginia Gregg
Mary Farmer
V. Gregg
Delegates Named for State Bar Meeting by Athens County Bar
Delegates from the Athens county Bar association were appointed in a morning meeting. R. W. Finsterwald Emmett Keenan and M. Johnson were chosen to attend Cedar Point July 6 7 and 8. The group endorsed T. L. Morgan for clerk of the Athens county courts on the Republican ticket at the August 10 primaries.
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Athens County Bar Association
State Bar Association
R. W. Finsterwald
Emmett Keenan
M. Johnson
Cedar Point
T. L. Morgan
Athens County
Mother claims missing evangelist Aimee McPherson found alive
Mrs Minnie Kennedy, mother of Aimee Semple McPherson, says a woman in Douglas Arizona identified as McPherson told her of childhood incidents and kidnapping by two men and a woman. McPherson vanished May 18 during a swim at Ocean Park and reportedly escaped captors in Mexico before reaching a U.S. camp. Ransom of half a million dollars rumored.
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Los Angeles
Minnie Kennedy
Aimee Semple McPherson
Douglas
Ariz
Kennedy
Mexico
Heart Breaker Caught On Eve Of Ottawa Wedding
Lieut Col Leonard Hughes Jones was jailed in Ottawa on a fraud charge as he faced extradition to Detroit. He was to marry Miss Anne Smillie daughter of a prominent Ottawa family in a high profile social event that would have dominated the local season. Officers say Jones claimed to work for the British consulate in Detroit.
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Ottawa
Ont
U.P
Leonard Hughes Jones
Anne Smillie
James W. Robinson
Ann Arbor
Mich
Jones
Detroit
Tragic Death by Self Embrace Ends Mrs Sylvia Smith Life
Coroner reports Mrs Sylvia Smith, 22, wife of Special Agent C. C. A. Smith of the Michigan Central, died by her own hand after he had spoken with her moments earlier. The motive remains undisclosed as the couple conversed before the fatal shot.
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Tnoledo
Sylvia Smith
CC. A. Smith
Michigan Central Railroad
Smith
Donahey Names Probes Into State Institution Site Bid
Governor A V Donahey asks prosecutors in Huron and Portage counties to convene grand jury investigations into graft and corruption tied to the bid to purchase a site for a new state institution for the see me minded.
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Columbus
A. V. Donahey
Huron
Portage Counties
Wednesday's Five Best Radio Features Listed
Radio listings show WJND Mooseheart 7 30 to 8 p m Central daylight a banquet to the Swedish crown prince WSAT Cincinnati 10 30 p m Central daylight WSAI string quartet WTAM Cleveland 8 39 to 8 p m Eastern standard auditorium program WEAF 10 p m Eastern daylight light opera Masco tte WRC Washington 5 69 p m Eastern standard U S Marine band
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WJND
Mooseheart
WSAT
Cincinnati
WSAI
WTAM
Cleveland
WEAF
Work Increases N. E. Mills Relieved of Office Duty
Athens county farm bureau adopts a new program to expand service. N E Mills remains service manager but gains full time field duties with Miss Alverna Koch as bookkeeper and stenographer. Hockingport’s H P Dutton joins as full time assistant service manager to support youth clubs and home and farm projects. Plans foresee growth and emphasis on efficient service.
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Athens County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau Rooms
W. S. Kempf
Cooville
Farm Bureau
N. E. Mills
Alverna Koch
Ohio University
Johnson
Athens
What did you see yesterday in the Messenger
A reader asks for reader submissions about events seen yesterday in the Messenger. One note mentions a man thrown from a back seat of a Ford coupe and in another, a Friday Twilight league game with a brisk play by play.
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Messenger
the Messenger
Anon
Snake interrupts sewing with 43 inch house snake
Mrs Hut chins of The Plains tried to sew on a machine Monday evening when a house snake emerged from the wheel. The serpent measured 43 inches long, causing startled reactions and a halt to sewing.
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Joe Hutchins
the Plains
Joa
Reed to Withhold Witness Names in Keystone Vote Probe
Senator Reed declares the Senate committee will not reveal witness names until served. The move comes after difficulties locating Thomas W. Cunningham and Francis X. OConnor for testimony in the Pennsylvania primary investigation and amid concerns over unreliable accounts and vanished witnesses.
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Reed
Keystone State
Paul BR. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Senate Committee
Pennsylvania
Heed
Thomas W. Cunningham
Pennsylvania Republican State Committee
Francis X. O'Connor
Philadelphia
Millfield Lad Struck by Auto. 7-Year-Old Injured
Chauncey, June 23. William Edgar Milliron, 7, son of Jphiram G. Milliron, was struck by a car driven by Fred Kempton of Jacksonville near L. W. Sanders home in Millfield. He suffered head and body bruises but no broken bones. transported to Chauncey for treatment, then returned home. Witnesses say he darted across as his father spoke with Bart Pettit. Kempton, a longtime driver, reported no prior accidents.
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Charlys Bradfield, JR
Chauncey
William Edgar Milliron
Jphiram G. Milliron
Millfield
Fred Kempton
Jacksonville
L. W. Sanders
Mill
Warren V. Sprague
Capitol climber Grover Allridge survives high-risk swing
Grover Allridge climbs Des Moines Iowa State Capitol cupola to feel safer aloft. Tim Ponurko, angered by perceived attention to his wife, shoots Allridge. bullets remain lodged in his body.
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Grover Allridge
Iowa State Capitol
Des Moines
Tim Ponurko
Whisky Sale Sparks Fight at Church Social in Whitfield
In Whitfield on June 23 a man was arrested for selling liquor at a Valley school church social in Monroe county. Oscar Yaeger of Clarington was accused of selling liquor. Ray Richie Charles Hodgekins and William Wick of Duffy were charged with assault and disturbing a religious meeting after an argument over price led to a melee. Several attendees intervened and were beaten.
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Methodist Episcopal Church of
Crash victim may recover after leg amputation
Dan Kovatch, struck by a Hocking Valley passenger train at the Patton crossing in Haydenville, withstood amputation of his right leg. Doctors report the condition serious but improving and hopes remain for eventual recovery.
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Logan
Dan Kovatch
Hocking Valley
Patton Crossing
Haydenville
State board reconvenes to pick site for new institution
The state board of control reconvened in Columbus on June 23 to decide the site for the new state institution for the feeble-minded.
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Columbus
U.P
State Board of Control
Earl Oglebay Dies After Illness at 77
Earl Oglebay founder of the Oglbay company a leading iron ore producer in the state died in Cleveland after a lengthy illness Death came suddenly late Tuesday with his passing noted by industry circles in the region
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Cleveland
Earl Oglebay
The
Oglbay Company
Baltimore and Ohio shops to move to Willard Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad shops now at Garnett Indiana will be moved to Willard Ohio officials announced today the move will bring several hundred workers to the city through the transition period given no exact date.
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Willard
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Garnett
Ind
Starving John Middleton Stands Firm in Danville Penitentiary
A prisoner named John Middleton in Danville Kentucky is on a hunger strike after being imprisoned for chicken theft. He reports having served time in the penitentiary before and refuses food, washing, shaving, or changing clothes on the 16th day of his fast.
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John Middleton
Danville
Farm relief bill amended to win passage in Senate
Senators from the agricultural West pushed final changes to the Dawes McNary Haugen bill aiming for a vote. They cut the equalization fund from 250 million to 150 million and added an amendment to guarantee 75 million for cotton if needed. The measure now excludes cattle, leaving cotton, corn, wheat and hogs affected.
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Washington
Agricultural West
Dawes-McNary- Haugen
Bankruptcy action filed by Sunday Creek Coal against coal firms
Sunday Creek Coal filed in Federal court seeking bankruptcy adjudications against Big Bailey Mining Carr Run Coal and North Hill Coal of Nelsonville. It cites royalties owed totaling 14000 on Ath ens county lands, 5657.69 from Carr Run, labor and rental debts including 600 for land rental. Guy Smith and Andrew McLenney joined in the suit against North Hill.
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Columbus
U.P
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Big Bailey Mining Company
Carr Run Coal Company
North Hill Coal Company
Nelsonville
Big Bailey Company
Sunday Creek Company
Athens County
Carr Run Company
Franklin County Common Pleas Court
North Hill Company
Guy Smith
Andrew Mclenney
Medicine Man Burns In Shack At Martins Ferry
The charred body of J. F. Glover, 0, a former recluse known as a medicine man, was found in the ruins of his sheet-iron hut near Martins Ferry. He had lived nearby for many years and practiced herb-based treatments for rheumatism in the makeshift shack.
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Martins Ferry
U.P
J. F
Glover
Caillaux Returns to Power Demands Abnormal Authority
Paris reports Joseph Caillaux resumes office with conditions to grant him extraordinary powers to push the Briand program. He forces out Raymond Poincare ally, while Briand pledges rigorous economy and strong measures to meet debt and domestic finance. Both men push for a two consul style strong government amid cabinet reshuffle uncertainties.
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A. L. Bradford
United Press
Paris
Joseph Catis Iaux
United States
Nance
Briand Jolinet
Briand
Caillaux
Cai
Raymondcare
Poincare i
Doumergue
M. Caillaux
Unite Press
Napoleon
Westcott Suicide Shocks San Francisco Club
Philip N. Westcott a 42 year old noted golfer and hunter died by self inflicted gunshot in his club room today. A Williams College graduate and son of the late Edward Noyes Westcott NY banker author of David Harum, he was found deceased in his room.
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Phil Westcott
Kilis
San Francisco
Philip N. Westcott
Williams College
Williamston
Mass
Edward Noyes Westcott
New York
David Harum
Countess Charges Fisher Toonist With Abuse
The Countess De Beaumont accuses H C Bud Fisher of using cartoon tactics in real life claiming he struck her on the jaw and abused her. The New York report cites alleged acts linked to his cartoons.
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Bud” Fisher
New York
Countess de Beaumont
H. C
Bud) Fisher
Scott Murder Trial Resumes in Chicago
The June 23 session in Chicago reopened the trial of Russell Scott, a convicted murderer who has escaped the noose three times, as prosecutors seek a final conviction and the death penalty.
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Scott
Chicago
Russell Scott
Ill Health Ends Life of William Buxton in East Liverpool
William Buxton aged 65, a pottery warehouse worker, died here from a self administered stab wound. He had been despondent due to ill health.
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Liverpool
William Buxton
Pottery Warehouse
Buxton
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St. Louis
Chas. A. Fowler
Pacific Coast
Depew
State Organization Department
Arthur Weed
H. P. Dutton
C. W. Hayes
Benjamin Ball
Julian Gift
H. J. Hoskinson
A. E. Potter
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Millfield Lad
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Poland
America
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