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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1923
Page
5
An old fashioned counter irritant Musterole is promoted to fight influenza grippe and pneumonia starting from a cold. The ad touts warmth and cooling relief, describes rubbing on with fingertips and claims emergency use and prevention benefits. Prices 5c and 65c in jars and tubes.
Thursday night events include a card party at the Country club and the Mesanic dance replacing Wednesday plans. Cousins of Prof and Mrs C H Growdon visit from Columbus and return home tonight. Mr and Mrs Watt Grover announce the birth of son J Watt Jr born March 3. Mrs Grover formerly Bess Donaldson. Dr and Mrs Emmett Murphey of Corning visit Athens for the weekend. their children attend Ohio University. Dr Murphey returns home today.
An important meeting of the Athens Kindergarten Mothers Club is set for Wednesday March 7 from 230 to 406 PM in the kindergarten rooms Ellis Hall south end. It includes the annual business meeting and officer elections for the coming year. Arrangements for the fourth annual Fathers Meeting on March 14 will be discussed. All mothers of kindergarten children are urged to attend.
Friday evening Dr and Mrs W W Lee hosted four tables of bridge at 165 University Terrace. Women’s high went to Mrs Clarence Roach and men’s to Homer C Clark, with a dainty collation to close. Also noting Miss Toutse Price visiting Athens before returning to New York City where she leads the National Girl Scouts camp department.
Mr Wolfe visited Columbus on Saturday to watch Frank Crumit perform Tangerine at the Hartman Theater. He traveled by motor and returned home on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Van Dyke and their young daughter, joined by Mrs. E. E. Van Dyke, drove to Columbus Saturday and saw the film Tangerine at the Hartman theater.
Mrs F J Beasley travels to Columbus for a week with her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs J C Briggs. Mr and Mrs Donald Hibbard of Youngstown arrived at H H Townsend's home in 22 Maplewood Drive. Hibbard returned today. Ric Townsend and Grace of Middleport over stayed for Sunday.
Mrs. Harry Raymond Pierce and son Raymond of Boston formerly of Athena are guests of Mrs. I. W. Bush. Raymond, with the Coit Alber lyceum bureau, fills engagements for his father Prof. Pierce detained in Boston for ill health. Raymond is an impersonator musician and crayon-pictures entertainer. They traveled from Cleveland and Chillicothe and are en route home.
The WIC T U will meet with Mrs A Sloane at 69 South Court Street Tuesday afternoon at 2 o clock.
The six month old child of Mr. and Mrs. William Pytes died at home in Millfield Sunday afternoon following a short illness. Several locals made short trips to Cleveland and Athens for visits and events, including Eleanor Hill as a guest in Millfield and Miss Christian Courtney.
Two elderly inmates died at the County Infirmary last week, Charles Drain formerly of Kimberly and Thomas Davis. Drain's body was sent to Pedigo cemetery. he left a son who is also an inmate. Davis was buried in Gloucester, his former home.
The funeral for the late Charles I E Burchfield was held at his May avenue home conducted by G B Courtney of the Christian Church. A trio sang selections. Burial followed in Nye cemetery under Undertaker Stout. Survived by widow and son Herman and four sisters in this city.
Chicago March 5 six people died in a South Chicago restaurant from a cyanide gas used in fumigation. O W Hall of the National Hygienic corporation is held pending inquest to determine criminal liability. Hall claimed Dunning asylum ties and oversaw gas mixing and sealing of openings. Victims named include William Kratzenburg 80 Mary Kratzenburg 64 John Kratzenburg 64 Laura Szymanski 38 Henry Szymanski 38 and Harold Szymanski 17.
The Chauncey Parent Teacher Association schedules a regular meeting in the high school auditorium Tuesday. A health play by fourth and fifth graders taught by Misses Jessie and Isabel Smart will precede the business session led by Mrs. Wharton.
Miss Elizabeth Erwin of Greenfield was the weekend guest of Miss Frances Cooksey at 106 Grosvenor Street. She came mainly for the basketball tournament and returned home Sunday.
The Missionary Society of the First Christian church will hold its regular monthly meeting at Mrs Arthur Swart’s Mill Street home Wednesday evening. All members are urged to attend and bring their dues.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Fulton travel to Portsmouth for the funeral of Dr. F F Williams who died Sunday in Cincinnati after a long illness. Williams practiced medicine in Portsmouth and was an uncle of Mrs. Fulton. He did Red Cross work in Jerusalem and Syria during World War I and later enlisted in Armenia before returning to the United States due to ill health.
Mrs. Tena Sweeney has returned from a week long visit in Akron. She visited friends and took part in local social events before traveling home.
Mr and Mrs M J Gardner hosted a birthday anniversary dinner at their home to honor their date of observance. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Gardner and daughter Wyona, Mr and Mrs Karl Gardner and children Ruth and Glenn, Mildred Lands Dorothy Nida, Clarence Hampton and two children, all from this city or nearby, along with the hosts.
Lady Rochester wife of the Earl of Carnarvon's heir led a prominent society group in the Nile valley viewing discoveries of the English sex. Her aide was Catherine Z. Wendel of New York.
The new Bastrop parish grand jury was impaneled at 10:15 AM to pass judgment on evidence related to hooded mob outrages in Morehouse Parish that ended with the deaths of Watt Daniel and Thomas J Richards on August 24 last year.
French troops established complete control of Karlsruhe harbor today after occupying it Saturday. Germans were forbidden to remove coal and coke products from the port.
President Harding departs Washington for his first real vacation in a year, ending a period of constant White House strain. This marks his first absence from Washington since returning from a Marion trip last July, signaling a respite from congressional worries and national duties.
President appears tired as he joins a notable exodus from Washington aboard the Condvalescents' Special train named for recovery. Mrs Harding in fragile health travels with the party along with Attorney General Daugherty and key officials including Weeks Lab or Davis and shipboard board chair A D Lasker.
Willis Casley of 274 North Court Street was arrested Sunday evening by Sheriff McKinley at the Josten Cigar Store on a charge of drunkenness. He will be arraigned before Magistrate Helwig on Monday evening.
Washington March 6. One of President Hardine's final acts before leaving for Morida was to instruct the civil service commission to broaden veteran preference in filling government vacancies. The move aims to ease job access for former service members across federal agencies.
Painesville Ohio March 5 Henry D Burns pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree for the death of his wife and was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary He is to spend two days each month in solitary confinement and three days each week in solitary confinement.
The family thanks neighbors and friends for kindness after the death of their brother Fred Norton and for support to Rev Gaote, the chair, and the local union he belonged to. Mrs Guy Hale and Mrs eMonroe Detson join in gratitude.
A local advertisement from The Puckeye State Building & Loan Company promotes savings accounts with a minimum opening of 61.00 at 22 West Gay Street Columbus Ohio It boasts resources of 24 000 000 00 and reserves of 718 000 06 and invites mail business while warning against feeding on poison.
The ad promotes lemon orange vanilla and other flavors for genuine fruit taste and high quality. It claims these are superior to ordinary flavors and emphasizes extreme purity.
Sealed proposals due by 11 20 A M central standard time March 29 1923 to furnish labor and materials for a water tube boiler at Ohio University Athens Ohio. Plans and specs by Robert B Har State Architect and Engineer available from the State Architect Columbus Ohio or Board of Trustees Athens Ohio. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
The Board of Trustees of Ohio University Athens Ohio invites bids at 11 40 oclock A M Central Standard time March 29 1928 for materials for Two Underfeed Stoker Ohio University Athens Ohio. Specifications prepared by Roberts Hare State Architect and Engineer are on file in the Auditors office Columbus Ohio or the State Building and Grounds Office Fourth and Main Streets Columbus. The board reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
Know all men that The J. H W. Gras son Mtg. Co. corporation organized under Ohio laws, doing business as The Curavnon Manufacturing Co. with principal office in Athens Ohio, has applied on February 28, 1926, to the Chief of Division of Securities of Ohio for a license to deal in commodities, naming J. T. Grayson Mfg. Co. Athens Ohio as agents.
Former Congressman Frank W. Mondello from Wyoming was sworn in at 10:30 this morning as a member of the War Finance Corporation.
President Harding issued an executive order transferring to the alien property custodian all powers formerly held by the president under the trading with the enemy act. This action expands the custodian's authority in matters of enemy property and related wartime controls.
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia University called Methodist ministers in Chicago intolerant un-American and un-Christian in a letter read Monday to the Chicago Methodist Ministers Association amid their ongoing controversy over prohibition.
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