Resignation Accepted and O F Rowland Elected New Member
Mystery surrounds former mayor Alex M Moore of Athens as resignation is accepted and O F Rowland is chosen to fill the vacancy. Settlement actions follow legal filings, receivership for Square Deal Grocery, and a probe into Moore finances amid missing letters and a halted audit.
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O. F. Rowland
Alex M. Moore
Athens
Parkersburg
Moore
J. L. Henry
Vinton County
More
Square Deal
F. J. Beasley Milling and Grocery Company
Athens County Common Pleas' Court
Hunter
Brown
L. G. Worstell
H. B. Wilson
B. J. Moriarty
George A. Coe
Beasley Company
Merchants Exposition Opens At Athens Men’s Gym
The second annual Merchants Exposition opens tonight at the Athens Men's Gymnasium with 36 merchant booths. Exhibits include radios, stoves, refrigerators, bicycles and office equipment. Attendance last year topped 6,000. this year organizers expect even more. Local Kiwanis clubs will send delegations, with Prof. T. N. Hoover as official host.
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Merchants’ Exposition
Russ Marple
Messenger
Athens
T. N. Hoover
Anothe
Southern Ohio Electric Company
McHenry and Sisler
Athens Girl in Boy's Attire Seeks Adventure Returns Home
An Athens girl disguised in boy's clothes left home seeking romance, rode with a traveling man toward Columbus, was questioned in Logan, and returned to Athens after police in two cities intervened. Parents had been inquiries as to her whereabouts.
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Nelsonville
Athens
George Bateman
Columbus
Logan
Sheriff's Office
Nelsonvill
Bateman
Bescoe posts bond to secure fine payment release
George Bescoe of Athens posted bond today in Justice of the Peace Carl H. Porter’s court to secure the payment of 302.90 after pleading guilty to possessing intoxicating liquor. He had been jailed since March 12. Rose Porter of Brown Avenue was released after her charge was dismissed following her own guilty plea to liquor ownership.
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George Bescoe
Athens
Bescoe
Rose Porter
Brown Avenue
Roscoe
Kendall Pleads Not Guilty and Bond Set in Copper Wire Theft
Kendall Pleads not guilty and is held on a $500 bond after arraignment for stealing copper wire from Kimberly Coal Company. Don Kendall released from Athens County Jail. Ifred Harper remains jailed without bond. Both were arrested in Monroe Michigan and brought to Athens for trial setting. Trial dates depend on prosecution readiness.
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Don Kendall
Athens County
Kendall
Ifred Harper
Kimberly Coal Company
Harper
Monroe
Mich
Athens
Wayne Wingett
Peter Barrows
O. F. Sachs
Arthur Brisbane Today feature resumes in The Messenger
The Messenger announces the Arthur Brisbane Today feature will continue in daily issues after a period of missed train connections. Readers who follow Mr Brisbane are informed the feature returns as part of the paper’s regular offerings.
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the Messenger
Arthur Brisbane
The
Messenger
Mr. Brisbane
Ohio Bar Association Proposal Before Senate Today
The Morgan-Roche Bill reached final stage as it goes to the Senate after House amendments. Governor’s signature anticipated by nightfall. Radio broadcast covered House proceedings and education efforts. The Ackerman measure to allow university condemnations passed the House 723 to 48 and moves to the Senate. Also approved without opposition a Toledo proposal allowing villages and townships to contract with cities for fire protection.
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Columbus
U.P
Morgan-Roche
House
WLW
School of the Air
State Department of Education
Joseph Ackerman
Cleveland
Senate
Fred Myers
Toledo
Ohio Senate Advances Blue Sky Law Recodification Proposal
The Ohio Senate debated bills including Senator Paul M. Herbert’s blue sky law recodification to protect investors and deter fraud. Senator William Clark proposed barring aliens from public work jobs. The chamber approved measures for American Legion representation on soldiers' relief county commissions and farm lessors liens on leased crops. The Elections Committee moves on a large elections recodification bill. Governor Cooper indicates interest in action.
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Ohio State Bar Association
Senate
Paul M. Herbert
Columbus
William Clark
Campaign County
Herbert
American Legion
Soldiers’ Relief
Robert Rea
Madison County
Elections Committee
Cooper
Stuck With Needle, Girl Kidnaped in Ohio Park Trap
Melva Hussong a 20 year old Hamilton stenographer said three men ambushed her in a Hamilton park tied with a needle sting and she lost consciousness. She is in custody of Covington Police Matron Cassie Mayer as officers investigate the case.
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Covington
Melva Hussong
Hamilton
Ohio
Cassie Mayer
Just Another Quart Of Blood For A Cop
Toledo police patrolman Sam Oatley known as a star athlete and crack pistol shot donated a quart of his blood at 2 a m to help Mrs. Joseph R. Keegan survive an operation. He returned home at 4 30 a m slept an hour and reported for duty at 7 a m directing traffic.
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Toledo
O.R
Sam Oatley
Oatley
Joseph R. Keegan
Rebels Seek Asylum After Landing on U.S. Soil
Mexican rebels landing on American soil to escape federal troops will be granted asylum, according to high authority, in Washington on March 19.
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Washington
U.P
Boots at Athens Messenger booth at Merchants Exposition
The Athens Messenger shows original sketches of its comic strips including Out Our Way Salesman Sam Freckles and His Friends. The exhibit explains the complete reproduction process from original drawing to newspaper appearance over the next three days.
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Boots
Athens Messenger
Athens
Immediate Housing of Homeless in Flooded Alabama
Governor Bibb Graves said Alabama flood peak had passed and the urgent task was housing thousands made homeless. Estimates put Geneva Elba district homeless at 10000 and Brewton Flomaton at 5000, with other areas totaling 10000. Losses reach 30000000 and about 100 deaths.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
Bibb Graves
Geneva-Elba
Brewton- Flomaton
Georgia
Florida
W. E. Persons
Recent Bride Dies of Radium Poison in Waterbury
Mrs Mildred Cardow aged 22 and bride of six months died of radium poisoning contracted four years ago. She worked in a watch factory painting luminous watch faces, possibly through mouth contact. She was the third local death from the malady and showed a brief earlier chance of survival before her condition worsened.
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Waterbury, Conn
U.R
Mildred Cardow
Cardow
Three Byrd Party Members Missing Six Days
New York and St. Louis papers report Commander Richard E. Byrd preparing to search for three expedition members forced down on Antarctic ice during an aerial geologic trip. Larry Gould Bernt Balonen and Harold June were the geologist and pilots who had not reported since last Thursday. officials believed they were safe.
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New York
New York Times
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Richard E. Byrd
Larry Gould
Bernt Balonen
Harold June
Marshal Foch Weakens as Doctors Report Decline
Paris reports Marshal Ferdinand Foch growing weaker as physicians announce a steady decline in his strength today. The famous Allied commander remains under medical care with no change in treatment cited.
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Paris
Ferdinand Foch
Strike area guarded after riot at two Tennessee plants
Elizabeth Tennessee March 19. Sixty one National Guardsmen acting as deputy sheriffs were posted around entrances to the American Glanzstoff and American Bemberg textile plants after strikers stoned several workers. Both plants employing about 6000 people closed last night. Glanzstoff reopened with insufficient workers and Bemberg remaining workers walked out, leaving a partial shutdown. One guard and an official were injured last week.
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Bemberg
Aged Confederate Soldier Henry Collins Die. Funeral Held
Henry Collins, 4, a former Confederate Army soldier and county home inmate, died Monday after illness from influenza and asthma. He is survived by several stepchildren. Undertaker Stout prepared the body. Funeral services were held at Carbondale Church with burial at Asbury Ridge cemetery.
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Chauncey
Henry Collins
Stout
Carbondale
Asbury Ridge
Young World War Veteran Dies in Cleveland Hospital
Drexel A. Nicholas of Jacksonville died Saturday morning in Clinic Hospital Cleveland after brain tumor surgery. A WWI veteran he was 32, survived by a widow, one daughter Irma Jean one son Billy his parents and six sisters. Funeral Wednesday at 2 p.m. at M E Church Jacksonville burial Maplewood.
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Jacksonville
Drexel A. Nicholas
Clinic Hospital
Cleveland
Nicholas
Irma Jean
Billy
M. E
Maplewood
Hoover Plans Federal Education Advertising Campaign
The plan proposes a large scale plan advocating education funded by the federal government. The advertising drive is estimated to cost about 50 000 dollars and aims to follow wartime ideas.
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Hoover
Federal drive to enforce prohibition nears with vast funding
United Press reports a major federal push against liquor law violators as President Hoover elevates enforcement to a campaign cornerstone. About 60 million dollars this year plus 2.73 million for city enforcement expand numbers of prohibition agents to nearly 8000, with 370 extra agents drawn from veterans and police.
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Cecil Owen
United Press
Washington
Bng
Congress
Prohibition
Dry Bureau
Prohibition Commie
Sioner
James M. Doran
Portsmouth Man Is Made Division Head
State Highway Director Robert W. Waid announced Charles Noel of Portsmouth as division engineer of highway district No 9 effective immediately He replaces G Murray Andreas of Chillicothe who resigned Waid said headquarters would remain in Chillicothe
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Columbus
Robert W. Waid
Fice
Charles Noel
Portsmouth
G. Murray Anderas
Chillicothe
Booklet on Brick Homes From The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger promotes a booklet offering exterior views and floor plans for 60 brick houses. Send four cents for return information and write your name and address to Frederic J. Raskin, Director, Washington Bureau, Doak, for distribution and assistance in home selection.
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Washington Bureau
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