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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
2
Walter Porter announces a spring vacation kite tournament in Athens playgrounds open to high and grammar school students. Events include largest smallest most artistic ugliest strongest puller highest flyer and most unique design with three judges. March 26 to April 4 school break fuels kite making and entries limited to one kite per person.
Scioto county Deputy Sheriff Harry Dunham visited the city for a few hours on Thursday to transfer several patients from Portsmouth to the Athens State Hospital.
A stroll up the Carbon dale branch of Raccoon reveals the familiar scenery and small town details tucked along the waterway with quiet, everyday observations.
William Shingler of Mineral leads a crew installing a switch and opening a mine about one mile above Mineral. Guy Lowry Marion Welch Fin ley Pidcock and Charles Nagle start coal extraction on the Ben Beckler farm near Carbondale to the east. Carbondale houses are being repaired and gardens prepared for plow.
Public notice and health column extol drinking water to ease kidney pain and promote flushing of wastes. Advertisement touts Jad Salts as a safe, cheap remedy and explains its grape lemon lithia base. Local social notes list visits and church attendance among residents including the Daugherty and Dunfee families.
Ireland Mr and Mrs W J Frost have returned home after a few days with Mr and Mrs Floyd Shafer of Athens. Mr and Mrs Reuben Ridenour and children of Continental spent Sunday with Mrs Ida Cubbison. Mr and Mrs Adam Brandeberry were Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs Everett Bingman. Alfred Rogers spent over Sunday in Cincinnati. Mr and Mrs Earl Clark and son Roger and Mrs Helen Rogers spent.
Angel Ridge residents announce an Easter entertainment at the Angel Ridge school house on Sunday evening March 27. The community invites all locals to attend after a day of visiting guests from Athens and nearby towns.
Funeral services for D G Phillips will be held Friday morning at 11 o clock at McDougal Amesville Ohio.
The G A R announces a regular meeting on Saturday March 26 1921 at 1 oclock at the armory ELI ROUSH P C is listed as the contact or organizer for the gathering.
Cecil Jewell of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and shop laborers filed a federal suit in Columbus seeking an injunction against wage reductions planned by the T and O C R R set for April 1. The petition argues the action violates federal railroad labor board orders.
Government reports show amateur brew masters are diluting the Prohibition era law by producing about 200 million gallons of real beer each year. In basements they boil and ferment as they seek to skirt restrictions. Ralph F. Couch reports from Washington.
A customer letter from Erie Pa praises Peterson's Ointment healing a leg sore in three weeks. Advert copy touts relief for eczema chafing burns and piles with mail orders via Peterson's Ointment Co Inc Buffalo N Y and claims a 35 cent box.
Frank W. Burgett age 22 is found guilty of attempting to abduct Miss Mabel Heiner age 20 in Norwalk and is sentenced to six months in the Toledo workhouse.
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