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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1929
Page
12
A Shorthorn and Durham cow listed by EL Reading in The Messenger sold promptly as the paper’s classified ads reach nearly every reader. The column’s grouping and indexing encourage daily glances by those seeking livestock and other items. Call Athens 0243 or Nelsonville 412-21 to place an ad.
March 26 report details a broken water system and water shortage in the village. Schools face low supply for weeks and funding gaps stop repairs and new wells. An appeal to the state for a mill levy to fund repairs was reportedly denied. tax rate remains the highest in the county.
Ohio Fuel Co plans a shot at its No. 4 well on the Miller farm in Washington Township. Three tanks moved to the site to handle expected oil flow. the drillers report 34 feet of oil sand with no breaks. This is the ninth well on the Miller lease, with five producing.
Athens County officers raid a Glouster home after a tip about a whisky operation. They discover a 20-gallon still that proves to be an incubator housing hundreds of baby chicks. The owner, an Italian, tells deputies keep the chicks as dawn raid interrupts sleepy morning.
Harve Wartlett of Dean was arrested Monday by Deputy Wayne Wingett on assault and battery after allegedly beating his wife Marie Bartlett. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment and was bound over to the grand jury on $400 bond, with jail commitment in default. a second charge of intoxication awaits in the same court.
Vincent Ferguson, longtime manager at the U S Coal Pipe Foundry Company in Alabama, died Monday from meningitis after a monthlong illness. He served 20 years in retirement after heading the Hocking Vai plant.
Judge Harley M. Whitcraft orders the grand and petit juries drawn for the April term. Grand jurors report April 5 at 9 am. petit jurors report April 6 at 9 am. Names listed include Mrs. William James Murray City and Logan residents, plus Walter Reasoner and others. Indictments will lead to assignments later in the month.
Roscoe Hansel editor of The Democrat Sentinel recovered enough to return home Monday after four weeks in Cherrington Hospital for sleeping sickness. Miss Ethel Cooper and Joe Adcock also show improvement while receiving the same treatment. All three patients received serum sent from the Mayo clinics.
Jolly Stitchers Girls' Club presents The Spirit of 4-H Club Work as a school program in the New Marshfield High School building on Thursday. A dual achievement program will include the New Marshfield Boys' Handicraft Club with 31 members receiving certificates and prizes from county farm agent T. H. Johnson. Mrs. Harvey Whitlatch leads the girls, Ralph Barker the boys.
Corning March 26 large crowds attend revival at Corning Unit Brethren Church led by evangelist Mrs Laura Strawn. Passion Week features daily 7 pm services and 2 pm afternoon sessions except Monday and Saturday, with Friday children's service at 3 pm. Easter includes 6 30 to 3 am Holy Communion and early breakfast. Sunday School 9, worship 10 30, 2 pm mass meeting, 6 pm Christian Endeavor, 7 39 pm finale.
March 26 1930s wrestling card features John Pesek of Nebraska facing George Hills ex lumberjack a 230 pound Midwest native who recently beat Hang Steinke and heads into tomorrow night’s bout as a top heavy weight title contender in Columbus.
Dr Edwards promotes Olive Tablets as a calomel substitute for constipation and torpid liver. The product contains a healing vegetable laxative with olive oil and sugar coating, claimed to cleanse bowels and liver naturally without harsh action.
A pruning demonstration will be held at the W. D. Mosure orchard in Washington Township on April 2 with county extension agent Robert W. Lang announcing the event. D. R. McConnell of Columbiana County will conduct the pruning demonstration. The following Friday a tree planting demonstration will take place at the George Hengst farm southeast of Logan, conducted by F. W. Dean of the Ohio Experiment Station.
The will of the late Willoughby Huggins of Washington Township was offered for probate by James Brown of Falls Township who is named executor. A hearing was set for 1 o clock on April 1 with witnesses George Hengst and Eugene Wright.
Three Columbus area youths Charles Stewart Jr 27 Paul Wager 23 and Harold Gloyd 20 plus pilot John L Campion died when a Ryan cabin monoplane crashed at Mt Gretna Pennsylvania Monday noon. Stewart a Timken employee and former Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts student Gloyd nephew of Worthington undertaker and Wager Ohio State student.
Logan reports farmer and former Hock Ling County commissioner John L. Smith entered the old coins contest. His principal entry is an 1800 silver half dollar worn but date readable, with edge inscription Half a dollar fifty cents. He also shows a 1861 half dollar, 1836 nickel, 1817 three-cent piece, four pennies 1859 60 61 0, an 1864 Abe Lincoln shin plaster worth 25 cents, two 1842 two-cent pieces, a silver dollar 1851, and a 1901 Canadian penny. The 1800 half dollar has been kept 53 years.
Lloyd Nutter of Green Township faced Magistrate E E Bright on a charge of possessing property designed for liquor manufacture. He pled guilty, was fined $100 and costs, which he paid. A prior search of his home uncovered parts of a still and related equipment.
Harry Allen, a mechanic, left for Cincinnati Monday to attend a mechanical school. Dr. Don Kammerting of this city visited Columbus at the end of the week. Harry Miller of Bremen was a business visitor in Logan Monday. Ernest Krinn of Columbus stayed with his mother Mrs Elmer Krinn over the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Dowler and daughter of Nelsonville visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stracke on Sunday. William Cherry of New Plymouth was in Logan on business Monday.
Ohio State Chamber of Commerce held a two day convention in the Neil House Columbus to link state government university research with business groups. Delegates included C M Gill Athens Chamber secretary and A C Gubitz Ohio University economics professor who backs coordinated research. Wilbur Stout state geologist spoke at Saturday lunch about clays and coals survey in Southeastern Ohio.
Columbus city council voted four to three to remove parkways on East Broad Street from Fourth Street to Parsons Avenue, despite Mayor Thomas vetoing the measure.
The Eighty-eighth General Assembly winds down with long hours and busy committees. The election laws reform bill, a 153 page measure, aims to merge primaries and expand vote protections, with counties to fund machines and higher official pay. Ohio health and safety notes urge hygiene and outdoor activity as spring opens, and April is set as No Accident Month reflecting strong industry safety gains.
Police search for a stranger who collected $4 from a cashier at Vic Pierces restaurant on North High Street. He claimed the bottle of medicine was paid for by the proprietor who was absent Monday. The bottle supposedly contained water. Pierce formerly ran a restaurant in Athens.
Ohio coal operators will meet March 26 in Columbus with state director W. T. Blake and Mines Division chief FE. Smith to discuss increasing Ohio coal sales. Attending firms include New York Coal Company Sunday Creek Company Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal Company and Cambridge Collieries Company.
Hundreds of letters follow every broadcast at the institution as Monday evening programming draws crowds. The show airs on WAIU every Monday at 7:25 p m drawing steady mail response.
In New Lexington on March 26 orchard owners and farmers worry about a heavy freeze in the coming month as early fruit buds appear and risk severe damage.
The note presents a solved Letter Golf puzzle sequence from Snore through Awake, linking each pair by shared endings and sound patterns. It confirms the solution path for the daily wordplay.
The Athens League of Women Voters will stage three one-act plays in the High School Auditorium on Thursday night April 4. Two plays will feature League members and one from Ohio University dramatics classes. Special numbers and a brief discussion on city primaries and women entering the council race will follow between acts. A League meeting discussed Mayor Moore’s resignation and city council changes after E. C. Woodworth became mayor.
Walter Critchlow of Wheaton Illinois announces a patented device Va por Moisture Gas Saver and Carbon Eliminator for autos and engines. He claims New Fords reach 40 miles per gallon while Old Fords achieve 42. Other makes report 1 to 4 and a half miles gain per gallon. He offers to send demonstration and urges county and state agencies to adopt for substantial monthly revenue.
Three eight hour shifts of miners remove dirt and coal beneath New Straitsville High School as a furnace heat and spontaneous combustion threaten the building. A vigilant janitor alerted the school board who ordered wall inspections revealing a 49 by 9 foot coal vein under the structure. The fire, unlike the old mine blaze, is attributed to natural heat and is being fought with the furnace room cleared.
A vintage health ad warns that constipation dulls a child and urges mothers to use California Fig Syrup. It claims regular bowel movements restore energy, clear complexions, and steady growth, and advises checking for the California label to ensure genuineness.
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