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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1929
Page
6
A Kansas City doctor, Dr. E. E. Paddock, claims many gallstone cases can be treated medically without surgery. He argues the knife should be used only in emergencies and offers his booklet The Liver and Gall Bladder free by mail to readers seeking guidance on recognizing and treating gallbladder symptoms.
A number of Glouster merchants plan Thursday afternoon closures during July and August. Grocery stores will stay open. Closed shops include Glouster Furniture Exchange Tra sin Brothers Richards Dry Cleaners Carpenter Hardware Co Richardson Furniture Lincoln Department Boston Store Wair Store Clark's Shoe Eddy Hardware T W Sanders Luckof Cornwell's Jewelry Atlas Melligan Hon Ton Millinery Bernstein Achauer Ginderbain McCarty's Tin Howard Young and ly Dry Cleaners. Both banks also close Thursday afternoons year round.
GLOUSTER June 24 Foundations for the filtration and water softening plant tanks at the city water works were completed. An installing engineer arrived to supervise remaining work amid a delayed July 4 target, with soft water expected by late August. Three more deep well pumps were added, totaling four to boost output while reducing electricity use.
Glouster Reds were defeated 7 to 4 by the Columbia Cement Team at East Fultenham on Sunday afternoon in a second extra inning game this season. The locals previously dropped a game to the Murray City Tigers.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Gibson and their daughter Mary of Athens, with Dr. BEF Danford, depart Glouster by motor for a two week visit to Metuchen New Jersey as guests of I A Danford and family. En route they will stop at Uniontown Ta to visit Culver and family and plan to sight see in the national capital.
The street carnival from Athens reached GLOUBTER and is stopped along the carnival route near Murphy Willing Station. It is planned to open tonight as organizers confirm the schedule and location.
Sunday school will start Sunday morning at 9 o'clock at Circle Hill, Chauncey.
June 24 report notes a calm weekend with no arrests. The usual Saturday night crowd appeared well behaved, and a young man was briefly seen intoxicated before friends escorted him out of town to avoid police contact.
Lightning struck the steeple of the First Methodist Church during a severe storm early Sunday morning. Bricks and stones showered onto house tops and through windows. decorations on the steeple were torn off. A window at 6 Church Street, the home of J B Rose, was shattered by flying stone and nearby houses were shaken.
Chauncey June 11. Dr and Mrs Clarence Nile Bandera Sanders returned Sunday from a wedding trip after marrying June 11 in the Indianolan Church of Christ in Columbus. They attended the Toledo wedding of Dr R Allen Eyestone and Miss Helen Baldwin where Dr Sanders was best man.
Carl Newman received a $199 fine plus costs and 60 days in Athens County Jail after being found guilty of non-support of minor children. Other probate cases include Anna Oake Matheny and Tob Oakem pleading not guilty and hearings set for June 29.
New Lexington announces T. R. B. Schrieber of Akron, formerly with The Akron Times Press, as editor of the Tribune. He succeeds Stanley B. Hart, who has resigned.
A father and son will march in the Tusway parade. Stanley Dew of Nelsonville, rejected twice for medical reasons by the Seventeenth Ohio National Guard at Athens, later served with Company 1 Fourth Ohio NG in Porto Rico. His son Wheeler Dew enlisted in 1917 with Company L Seventh Ohio NG at Athens, served in France, was wounded, and rose to Captain of Company Tr. Seventh Regiment NG, with both tracing long guard service across wars.
Chauncey residents complain about motorists using open cutouts at night. Mayor W D Hines says an ordinance bans the practice and violators will be arrested. Also on June 24 Loyal Womans Division of Chauners Church of Christ plans a Wednesday meeting at Mrs. John Shaffer’s home with Mrs. Charles Sweeney leading.
Mrs Earl Thompson and family visit Chauncey with Mary Meinhart and Adda H Young while Adda travels from Charleston West Virginia. The Plains folk visit Floyd Nye and Ernest Smith relatives in McConnelsville Ohio to see Wood Higgins. George Harvey Nye attends Harvey family reunion in Barlow Ohio. William McBride visits Columbus from Millfield.
Friends from Athens and Pike counties attended the funeral of Thurman L. Morgan longtime Athens County clerk of courts and court stenographer. Services were held at the family home on Carpenter Street with burial in Union Street Cemetery. Members of the Athens County Bar Association served as honorary pallbearers. Athens Lodge of Elks gave grave side services.
Announcement states the double occasion with Clarice Daugherty of Chauncey and EK L Gibbs of Athens wed Saturday in Athens Church of Christ parsonage. Rev. M. E. Chaney officiated. Clarice is daughter of Superintendent and Mrs. Bert Daugherty. She taught in Chauncey and recently in Columbus schools.
Early Sunday a beer bottle was hurled through a front plate glass window in the Chauncey home of Guy E. Osborne on Converse Street. The window was broken near 1 am before the storm. Mr and Mrs Frank Millington and son Jack of Chauncey visited Columbus and returned with Wilfred Millington who had stayed in the city.
The Church of Christ Chauncey hosted an eight piece orchestra and Bible School children performing songs dialogues and recitations for Children’s Day. Mrs Gladys Williamson recited the Last Hymn Wyona Gardner sang The Chauncey trio and Trimble quartet performed musical numbers. The Rev W Ahlbrand led prayer and organizers invited inmates at the County Home to Wednesday’s repeat performance. Representatives George Evener and Opal Shields visited Doanville Saturday.
Health Commissioner J. M. Higgins orders residents to clear all injurious weeds from vacant lots within 10 days. Under city ordinance, police and health departments will arrest violators. An investigation links hay fever cases to abundant weed growth.
The Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Orphan Home Band of Xenia, aged 11 to 18, directed by Professor Harold F. Seall, performed at Ohio University on opening night of the United Spanish War Veterans encampment. The 40 member group, from the 600-student Xenia home, wore gray and white uniforms and played The Booster March, Songs of the Nation, Americans We, Sunshine of Your Smile, The Thunderer, and Stars and Stripes Forever, earning enthusiastic applause from a large audience.
The article notes Jesse Davis a southern baritone linked to the Hagenbeck Wallace circus band in 1915 1916 and his earlier accolades in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. It also details ongoing Athens County riot damages suits against the Board of County Commissioners with a Morgan County jury panel hearing seven cases seeking about 19 500 in damages for injuries during a union mine strike era.
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