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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1928
Page
5
In Glouster on March 20 the Moose Building room and barber shop operated by John Burns was robbed during the night Sunday. About $12 in cash and cigars were stolen along with five dollars in change and pennies from a box. Entry came via a rear window with the thief later closing the window.
Trimble high school debaters swept Friday night contests in Glouster. The affirmative team of Anna Edzikoski Thelma Grandy and Virginia Weimer defeated Lodi Seniors, while the negative team Evelyn Anderson Juanita Anderson and Mary Sayre defeated New Marshfield. Alternates Beatrice Hixson and Delores Compton assisted with rebuttals.
Glouster March 20 Dr A J Crawford traveled to Columbus to undergo a cataract removal on his left eye if deemed advisable The operation will take place within two weeks and in his absence Dr C von Scheele of Jacksonville will handle his practice
The Athens high school PTA met last night with student performances by junior and senior departments. A chorus from Peggy the Pirate was sung. Alpha Xi Delta initiated several members in Athens. Births announced include two notable sons to local families.
Tau Kappa Epsilon held an initiation banquet at Windsor room with professors Porter and Gamertsfelder as advisers. Ohio State’s Omicron chapter members Fisher and Booker attended as guests, with Carl Reese toastmaster and Carlson Fuller, Baird, Brink, Brown, and Faber named new initiates. Local residents and visitors, including families of Varney, Murphey, Russi, Nye, and Cullums, spent time in Athens for meetings, visits, and travel.
The last session of the women’s bridge tournament for Ohio University faculty will be held tonight at the Faculty Women’s club rooms. Eighteen teams started and after three rounds there are no eliminations. The top scorers are Mrs C C Robinson with Miss Margaret Lax, Mrs Margaret Benedict with Miss Constance McLeod, and Miss Lena Allen with Miss Mary Antoinette. Regular Woman’s Music Club meeting moved from Monday March 26 to Monday April 2 due to the Denison exchange concert on that date.
Alpha Tau Chapter Theta Chi held a Monday meeting welcoming sixteen new initiates, largest class in history. Initiation ceremonies began Saturday at Knights of Pythias hall and banquet followed Sunday at Varsity Inn. The toastmaster was S. Robert Bobenmyer, with remarks by Snodgrass George Lasher. Names include Paynter Berrett Blue Brammer Hart Patterson George Hamer Hartley Leake Ward Rowland Russ Schreiber Veon. Florence Penquite of Cincinnati, returning to millinery work in Athens, resides with Mrs. J. H. Blackwood.
Kiwanis members and guests gathered at Hotel Berry for a bridge dinner with seating for seventy five. Roses adorned tables and honored guests Mrs A F E Whaley and Mrs L W Roberts were unable to attend due to illness. Bridge competition followed dinner with fourteen tables in play. Mrs Victor Pierce won high score, Mrs R J Studer took second, and Mrs W E Moler finished third.
In Columbus on March 19 the Ohio Hoover-For-President women’s division formed. Mrs. Nettie Loughead praised Secretary Hoover as Ohio women’s favorite candidate and Mrs. Hugh Clark urged loyalty, noting her two World War II era sons’ service and Hoover’s European service.
Past Noble Grands club gathers at the I O O F hall in Glouster for a social afternoon. Mrs Phelps presides, nine members attend with poems from McGuffey readers, readings and contests follow, prizes go to Mrs Morris and Mrs Dodson, candy served by Mrs Darling. Next meeting set for March 29 hosted by Mrs Ora Jones.
Glouster on March 20 reports former Mayor A. Park has become second engineer at the Mt. Vernon tubercular sanitarium and will start work Saturday. If mines do not reopen soon he may relocate his family to Mt. Vernon.
Dean Irma Voigt explained the Skit Show seat price rise from 75 cents to 1.99 as a concession to Majestic Theater management for courtesy shown in turning the venue over to the university on two top nights. Future prices at Alumni Memorial auditorium will match previous years. The Skit Show funds the undergraduate loan fund, with $5,300 now, possibly $5,700, and only source of revenue for scholarships managed by YWCA and the Women’s League. Twenty organizations participate, each appearing once every four years, with five skits this year plus a specialty act.
One hundred twenty registrations with the Ohio University Bureau of Appointments were completed as the secretary closed yesterday afternoon. The total is expected to reach 800 with later applications, says Miss Lillian M. Barbour, secretary of the bureau. Placements for teachers for next fall have begun and students should have complete credentials on file for immediate reference.
Plans for a three day Mothers Day celebration at the Ohio university include an artful program with a piano recital by Mrs. Dorothy Larber at the Majestic theater, a gymnastic exhibition, a Skit Show by five sororities, and serenades by Delta Tau Delta and Theta Chi fraternities. The Girls Glee Club performs in Music Hall, mothers touring Athens, and a floral Florist Shop one–act played in the Majestic. Teas, receptions, and vesper services cap the festivities across sorority houses and union venues.
Edna Wallace Hooper extols hair care stressing its role in attractiveness. She advocates weekly washing with a preferred shampoo to cleanse follicles and enhance natural coloring, offering Fruity Shampoo at her toilet counter for 60 cents.
Council began legislation to build Storm Sewer No 3 on Stewart Street with Ohio University aid. State provided 3000 dollars last year to drain land behind the Agriculture Building, covering more than half the project cost. City will cover 20 percent of the remainder, about 10 percent to the property owners across 100+ lots. Sewer will run under Stewart Street railroad tracks to the Hocking river.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle substitute for calomel for cleansing blood, bowels, and liver. It claims pimples, bad breath, and dull mood improve after a week of use and notes vegetable composition in olive oil with prices of 10c, 25c, and 60c.
An ordinance includes the rear area of the university campus in a drainage project. Notices will be served on property owners beginning soon to proceed with the takings.
Eva Dugan is sentenced to hang at Florence June 1 for the murder of elderly rancher A. J. Mathis. Judge Gerald Jones imposed the sentence after denying a motion for a new trial. Dugan, once employed by Mathis, was jailed on an auto theft charge when Mathis’s body was found buried on the ranch. If carried out, she would be the first woman executed in Arizona for murder.
Thirty six will attend the annual banquet for the New Marshfield basketball team at the high school. The event honors team members and supporters with a program and meal.
Musterole is an easy to apply white ointment made from oil of mustard and home simples. It is marketed as effective for sore throat chest colds rheumatism lumbago pleurisy bronchitis and many pains with a milder Children’s Musterole version for babies and small children.
Tom Johnson of the county extension will speak at the banquet with KKBD Barker in charge of arrangements and furnish details for the Thursday night event.
Singing and study of grange work are on the program for the Junior Grange meeting to be held Saturday night in the Chamber of Commerce room at 7 30. T H Johnson county extension will have charge of the meeting.
An advertorial warns against kidney strain from rich foods and overwork. It touts Jad Salts, an acid grape and lemon lithia drink, to flush kidneys, neutralize acids, and prevent backache, urinary issues, rheumatic pain, and general ill health. One to two doses daily suggested.
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