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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1924
Page
5
Mrs. O N Townsend a leading Meth odism figure will speak at the First M E Church Sunday morning at 7 30 giving the Thank Offering address for the Foreign Missionary Society.
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First M E church will meet Friday at 2 PM in the church parlors. Mrs. Daniel McGurk will lead the study book and Mrs. J W Dixon will speak on The Kindergarten.
A picnic dinner and quilting party was held Wednesday at Mrs. W. Ahlbrand's home 14 North Cemetery Street by West Side M E church women and guests. Attendees included Mrs. George Shafer Mrs. Ewin Pidcock Miss Alma Bricker Beaumont Mrs. Chapman and others.
The event will begin at 7 35 tonight at the Country Club. The arranging committee promises a most enjoyable affair.
In Columbus Ohio a chauffeur Earl Anderson was arrested for speeding while driving Jack Brown Athens to a doctor for emergency care. He says Motorcycle Officer Evans forced him to return to the mayor’s home for immediate hearing as Brown suffered a badly injured eye. Testimony claimed 42 mph, Anderson denied exceeding 27 mph. A fine was assessed and allowed to proceed.
William Burdette 49, of Athens county origin now Columbus, died suddenly Wednesday aboard an ambulance en route to a hospital. Heart trouble suspected. He was active in business in Albany and Debordsville, then lived in Columbus three years. Survived by wife, daughter Ruth, three sons Forbes Roy Veryl, three sisters and two brothers. Funeral 1:30 Saturday at Mt Vernon Ave Methodist. burial Greenlawn Cemetery Columbus.
Kansas City police hunt for two suspects in the strangled death of Dr Zoe Wilkins, a prominent divorce lawyer. A mutilated body was found at her home last Tuesday night, and investigators describe one suspect as driving a large motor car and the other as a Greek restaurant owner.
Joseph Sneider a 33 year old suspected ringleader of a New York based counterfeiting ring was arrested at Union Station Baltimore. Police found $20000 in twenty dollar bills stamped counterfeit on his person at headquarters.
The report notes a group of American blue jackets arriving in Washington on March 20. Details on purpose or destination are limited in the readable text.
Yale University spent an average 3356 dollars per student for 1922 24 and received 267 dollars per student. Expenditures show 39.4 percent for instruction and 19.6 percent for upkeep of properties while 39.4 percent of income funded instruction and tuition accounted for 26.6 percent of total income. Forestry students paid far less than average causing high costs due to field trips to Louisiana and Milford Pennsylvania.
In Honduras a column of American volunteers arrived safely to assist the United States forces beleaguered by the revolution, marching across the country to reach the aid line.
The St Anne's and St James' licensing justices granted Chong Choy a cafe license with permission to sell wine and beer and required facilities for water. This ruling may set a precedent, potentially making Chong Choy's the only London restaurant famed for its "drunken water."
Secretary Andrew W. Mellon headed a party of federal officials touring Pittsburgh to inspect the recently completed Mellon National Bank building. The officials spoke for themselves when asked about the Teapot Dome and Daugherty investigations.
On March 20 a Ford touring car left the road at a railroad crossing near Mill Field as a coal train passed. A bystander said a man may be under the car. The wrecked vehicle was lifted and a man crawled out unharmed and asked to move the car back to the road. both wheels were crushed and the train crew left with the men present.
President Coolidge accepted the honorary chairmanship of National Boys Week observed nationwide from April 27 to May in a White House visit with William Lewis Butcher of York leading the drive. Butcher and several boys reported the news, noting the President urged boys to “Work hard, end themselves.”
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