Life of Councilman a Harried Figure in Hot Days
By Leroy Pope the piece portrays Athens city councilmen as underpaid and overworked. It mocks ward priorities and petty complaints about paving, police, dogs, and sewers, noting endless meetings and limited time for other duties.
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Leroy Pope
Aldermen’s Union
Athens
East Blooey Street
Blooey Street
Bill Jones
Mrs. Jones
Henry Zingfuddle
Frank Cheesecloth
Mr. Cheesecloth
Chautauqua Opens Saturday With Star Lineup
Beginning Saturday June 27 the Columbian Girls Quartet and humorist Ralph Parlette will headline a week of attractions for the community. Two popular comedies from the past two seasons are among the offerings, including So This is London and Not So Fast. Faust the opera will be staged Monday June 29 at 3 pm with Henry Thompson, a former leading tenor of the Royal Opera House, London.
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Columbian Girls’ Quartet
Ralph Yparlette
eAdpath Chautauquau Company
London
New York City
Faust
Redpath
Henry Thompson
Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Nickel Plate System consolidation challenged before ICC
A motion to define issues and limit the inquiry in the Van Sweringen Bros. plan to merge five railroads into a single Nickel Plate System was argued today before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington.
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Washington
van Sweringen Bros
Interstate Commerce Commission
Weather Prophet Bird Warns of Incoming Storm
In Tasmania a black magpie is noted as an omen of stormy weather. The bird’s flocks cry and flap for a day or two before a storm, signaling approaching unsettled conditions.
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Sydney
Australia
Catch Fish in Parlor in Winter Igloo
Montreal residents describe a winter practice where Birftfin Bay Eskimos drop a hole in the ice floor of their igloo to fish from the parlor, illustrating Arctic adaptation to cold months.
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Parlor
Montreal
Biaftfin Bay
Hamden Residents Noted in Daily Notices
Obituary notes for Susan Winters of Hamden after pneumonia at niece Alice Nelsons home in Lesmil. G D Winters, B&O agent, survives. Funeral at Methodist church Hamden and burial in Hamden cemetery. Also local incidents include Ss W Monahan’s leg injury while fishing, Art Needle club picnic at Mrs Paine’s home, and a list of residents with illnesses and social visits.
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Susan Winters
Alice Nelson
Lesmil
Hamden
Ss. W. Monahan
Bethel
Art Needle Club
Alice Paine
H. R. Foose
Buffalo Street
Ben Scott
A. F. Robbins
Ixdna
George Scott
Frances
Celia Scott
Alex Scott
Lovenia Clark
McArthur
Edith Jackman
Columbus
Holtzer Hospital
Gallipolis
M. E
Benners’ Lake
Dundas
Charles Sprague
Frank Chatfield
Max Howell
Scott Evans
Joe Francis
Ray
Harry Dickman
Paul Miller Bagley
Arthur Sprague
Carl Huhn
Robert Ogier
Ed Smith
Franklin
Oakley
Clark
Joe Howell
Chillicothe
Howel
Sadie Harbarger
Addie Harbarger
Harry Bagby
G. L. Kemp
Dorothy
Nancy
Jackson
Henry Webster
Margaret Smith
John Smith
South Main Street
Clover Leaf Club Presents A Cabin Court Ship Play
The Clover Leaf Clothing club will stage a play titled A Cabin Court ship at Canaanville high school on Thursday and Friday evenings June 25 and 26.
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Clover Leaf Clothing Club
Canaanville High School
Athens Grange Hosts 18 Pomona Last Saturday
Pomona Grange of Athens County held a successful meeting with Athens Grange as host at Jackville schoolhouse last Saturday. Albany Grange earned the banner for the next quarter with twenty-seven new members since the last Pomona meeting, part of seventy four new members countywide in the last quarter. After dinner a program featured lectures on Grange benefits, social and educational topics, music, and recitations. A committee will meet the county auditor on reappraisement. county Grange to hold a picnic at the fairgrounds with Dean Alfred Vivian as principal speaker. Next regular meeting set with Coolville Grange in September and a practice with Albany Grange on July 14. Sixty three new Pomona members this year.
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Pomona Grange
Athens County
Athens Grange
Jackville
Trey
Amesville
Albany Grange
Pomona
Frances Nichols
L. H. Efaw
A. E F. Potter
Floyd Fought
Della Shaw
Goldie Dondinot
Harry Jacoby
Summit Grange
O. Q. Bryson
Amos Driggs
Grange
Fairgrounds
Alfred Vivian
Ohio State University
Coolville Grange
Killers Sent to Prison for Life
Marietta June 24 Robert Cornette and William Young were sentenced by Judge Thomas to life imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary for the murder of Harrison L Boyd. The two men were moved to the state prison that evening after commitments were drawn.
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Marietta
Robert Cornette
William Young
Harrison L. Boyd
Thomas
Hardishee
Ohio Penitentiary
Cornette
Young
State Prison
Columban
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