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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1930
Page
6
A condemned political prisoner is paraded through streets of Peking in a tumbril under guard. He shouts defiance as a poster above his head outlines his crime and the punishment he faces at the execution site.
Athens March report says Democratic Central Committee to meet in Athens courtroom late next week per secretary Joseph Richards Sr. Critics in Nelsonville say last week's meeting was illegal for late notice, single-signer call, and quorum failures. Endorsement for a Board of Elections seat is expected, with Frank Beeson and Robert Huenefeld as candidates and Gryson as potential opponent.
Henry Clelland, an Ohio veteran, barely weighed 68 pounds after four months in 1864 at Andersonville. He crawled on his stomach for food, recovered with Sherman's march, and later settled in Ohio. Enlisted at age 12, he served in the 75th Ohio Infantry and fought at Bull Run and Chancellorsville. He survived multiple wounds and shared family ties to the war, including two marriages and several children.
Ohio records show 22 213 divorce suits and 62 787 marriage licenses in 1929, a rate of about one divorce per 2.82 marriages. Officials note long term trends, with 1863 at one divorce per 26 marriages and 1939 at about one per 4.2.
Mr and Mrs Girard Blower of Wooster announce the birth Sunday morning of a son in a Wooster hospital The mother is formerly Miss Sarah Stiff daughter of Mr and Mrs John B Stiff of Glouster This is a 744 pound baby birth record from Glouster Ohio March 24.
The Trimble High School P T A organized at a meeting in Trimble with Mrs Elma Leadinghaus as president and Mrs Eliza Guinter as secretary treasurer An exhibit of each school department will run Friday from 2 PM through the afternoon and evening A banquet and school play at Jacksonville and Trimble raised about 85 dollars with Mrs Bernice Carter directing the program and cast praised for its staging
Funeral services were held for Barbara Leslie three months old, daughter of Mr and Mrs Russel Leslie of Hartleyville at Beech Grove Church. Burial followed in Beech Grove Cemetery after a brief illness ending Friday morning at 2 30.
In 1929 Ohio saw 238 percent as many divorces as marriages. Six counties filed over 1,000 cases: Cuyahoga 6152 Franklin 2908 Lucas 680 Summit 1659 Hamilton 1580 Montgomery 1378. Thirteen other counties ranged 209 to 872, while Monroe and Noble tied for the fewest with eight each. Women secured about 75 percent of divorces granted.
An investigation cites spreading rails as the cause of a Mansfield to Toledo passenger train wreck seven miles west of Mansfield. Engineer Charles Bell, 28, died after staying at the throttle. Fireman Paul Jensen, 38, jumped and survived with injuries.
Eight youths, four boys and four girls, were killed in a collision near Auburn New York yesterday. Police labored to identify the four unidentified girls as rescuers tended to the injured. The crash involved a gasoline truck and resulted in multiple fatalities among the youth party.
Income tax collections through March 21 totaled 491,296.84 dollars, down 34,388,000 from the same period last year, according to the treasury daily statement issued in Washington.
Washington March 24 Major changes in the tariff bill as it will be passed by the Senate follow The note compares Senate House and present law duties for bricks cement pig iron automobiles aluminum silver soft wood lumber shingles flooring sugar milk cattle cotton wool hides shoes and more The table shows the differences in rates for each item with the Senate rate as first figure and House rate as second.
One man was critically injured and four others were recovering from gas fumes that saturated an apartment house in Cleveland on Sunday.
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