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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1922
Page
2
Attorney General opinion deems Sections 5364 and 5365 1 unconstitutional. Lodge and fraternal organization equipment must be listed on personal property returns. The ruling applies to current and future returns but is not retroactive, so past taxes are not collected.
Labor leaders warn of sporadic outlaw strikes across varied industries, chiefly railroads, as a nationwide coal strike nears April 1. Erie workers in Scranton and Dunmore Pennsylvania and Hornell New York have walked off to protest private contracting of shop work. An outbreak of railroad outlaw strikes could worsen the coal stoppage and halt lake shipments through coal country hubs.
Charles C. Janes of Columbus secretary of the Ohio State Automobile Association will speak at the Athens Chamber of Commerce lunch at noon Wednesday. He will discuss automobile clubs their organization and value to the community and membership. Lunch is served at 12 o’clock.
A Fordson tractor sales note highlights a shortage of Fordson tractors in the United States. It promotes a $395 price and $425 delivered, touting large potential savings in wheat, corn, and oats through efficient soil preparation, planting, cultivation, and harvesting.
A western cement company near Riverside California set off fifty one tons of dynamite and black powder in a single blast. The solid rock mountain was torn down into six workable boulders and the blast covered more than a mile and a quarter.
The Athens county common pleas court draws 25 talesmen from 11 townships for the January term. Names include M. M. Munn Harley A Cook Rome township and others from Trimble Carthage Waterloo Alexander Bern Trop Ames York Lee and Canaan. Some townships lack representatives.
Major Tittman, renowned bass singer, appeared between acts of The Art of Being Bored at the university auditorium. He performed two songs to a large crowd and is scheduled for a special program at Ewing Hall Tuesday evening.
Uhrichsville Ohio hosts its annual banquet on March 27 with Hion W B Stevens and Simeon D Fess addressing members at 8 PM The speeches will be broadcast by Station WTA on 460 meters via radio.
The family expresses sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and death of wife and mother Minnie M Luddyth. They thank Reverend Timmons and organizations Pocahontas Macabees Junior Order of Master Mechanics and the Red Men for floral offerings. The Husband and Children.
U S government provided textbooks and charts for naturalization candidates in Athens County have arrived from Washington. Evening classes will be conducted by local school teachers led by Rev. A H Marshall who has handed duties to teachers. Applicants must arrange to attend and request books from listed local distributors.
A supreme and final effort to avert a strike in the anthracite coal fields is underway this afternoon. Operators and miners convene at 2 o'clock at the Union League Club with the understanding a general strike would be declared if negotiations fail.
There are more than a thousand potato varieties, but only a small number are worthwhile for cultivation. The text contrasts diversity with practical farming value and hints at selection criteria for growers.
The tentative schedule for the Madalynne Obenchain murder retrial places the trial in June 65 in Superior Judge Sidney N. Reeve's Los Angeles court.
The body of William H. Finley former Democratic state chairman died from cerebral hemorrhages yesterday at McMillan Sanitarium near Columbus. He will be shipped to Cincinnati tomorrow morning for burial.
Coaches Julie Finsterwald and Butch Grover meet in Columbus to lay out the 1922-23 schedule. They plan an equitable process to ensure all conference teams are treated fairly during the session.
Washington March 21 President Harding rejects proposals to amend the Constitution to allow Senate majority ratification of treaties. The president’s stance emphasizes preserving existing treaty ratification requirements and notes no support for widening the Senate’s power.
Secretary of State Hughes declared in a letter to Senator Lodge that the United States and Great Britain have no secret understandings or agreements regarding the four power treaty or any other matter. He called the Senate charge absolutely false. The remarks come amid discussions of the Washington conference and Japan relations.
Frank J Creamer age 90 died in Jerseyville after a long life as a Civil War veteran and landowner. Funeral services set for Thursday at 11 AM at the M E church with interment in the local cemetery. He and wife Lucinda Wilson celebrated their sixty eighth anniversary Christmas Day.
Washington dispatch reports the American government has sent its reply to allied governments regarding the 241 million dollar bill for maintaining American troops on the Rhine. In Chicago an aged woman, Mary Jade aged 71, was found strangled in her rooming house today.
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