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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1927
Page
5
Readers are urged to take the Messenger along on trips from a week to a month. The paper promises daily delivery during absence with a simple phone call to the circulation department to arrange service.
Miss Mildred Cary, June graduate of Ohio University, married E. Clyde Tobin Saturday in Columbus at the Cary home. Fifty guests attended as Rev. D. H. Cramer officiated. The couple will honeymoon in Washington, D. C., then live in Columbus. The wedding party included maid of honor Miss Mabel Cary and best man Mr. Emerson Thomas. The bride wore white taffeta with tulle and rose trim.
A nature quiz lists ten questions including whether flies eat solid food and if frogs croak. It asks differences between rabbits and hares, rattlesnake striking range, states that housed the District of Columbia land, Mt. Vernon location, the gold mint value, and the least densely populated state, with answers on the last page.
Ohio State University will broadcast its summer lecture program from WEAO to 3,000 teachers and summer students. The first talk airs Wednesday at 4 PM. Visitors include Lucy Ailson, Fritz Karson, George F. Zook, T A Gosling, Helen Parkhurst, George Melcher, and several OSU faculty.
In Bellaire on June 27 the body of John E. Hersch aged 42, mine superintendent at the Warnock mine, was recovered. He was killed by a gas explosion yesterday while inspecting the plant, which had been idle since April 1 after a prior gas pocket incident.
Pastor Coulter of the First Methodist Church says the Kingdom of God appears in godly character expressed in human lives. Christian life blends repentence, activity, obedience, service, devotion, and trust. growth is slow and governed by fixed divine laws. Only divine forces yield true Christly character gradually developing with limitless possibilities.
The Athens County commissioners postponed their next regular meeting from Monday July 4 to Tuesday July 5. The move allows delegations planning to discuss township road matters to adjust their schedules for the new date.
Moscow June 27 The central control committee of the communist party recommends expulsion from the party of Leon Trotsky and Gregory Zinoviev once Soviet leaders. The resolution says they violated their obligation to cease factional work by repeatedly opposing the party and attacking the Soviet internal situation and Chinese revolution.
A duck seized a gull at West Loch Argyllshire and held it under water until the bird drowned in a rare animal encounter reported from Glasgow. The incident highlights unusual interspecies aggression observed by local residents.
In Stockholm Sir Alan Anderson warned at the fourth biennial congress of the International Chamber of Commerce that postwar tariffs and inflated currency blighted world trade. He blamed big business for driving nationalist fear that barred foreign competition and sank trade, noting the foreigner was barred and the ship of trade turned bottom upward.
Powell aged 18 and his bride Crawford were jailed in Cincinnati after two months of police pursuit on charges of grand larceny and related clothing thefts stemming from indictments in Dayton.
June 27. Deie Hatch Wilkins dean of arts literature and science at University of Chicago is not yet in official circles here but is probably the successor to Henry Churchill King as president of Oberlin College.
Report states a coffin containing Mia Aenes Keren was dislodged from a hearse near Highland Park during a crash. Investigators address the mishap and locate the shattered container, confirming death on scene.
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