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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1927
Page
8
Work under the Green law will proceed on section 617 of the Maysville road with a contract to be sold April 22 by order of the commissioners. Gravel work is planned for the road from the concrete bridge one mile west of Logan to the Ball schoolhouse, with provisions made for placement.
A Falls grocery was entered and robbed after midnight Saturday. Robbers took ham crackers and candy valued dollars. Footprints and a glove pointed to hoboes, leading to Logan Clay Production. cake and cracker fragments were found along the path. Police followed clues but could not locate the suspects, believing they fled by freight out of town.
In Columbus police halted river search at daybreak when a 12 year old and his 10 year old brother reported seeing two men with a bundle in a pink blanket on the riverbank. Walter W. Peters said he carried the baby to his wife.
Two men, George Cohen and Joe Bloom, were killed and Frank Wright wounded in a Detroit apartment corridor as gunmen opened fire in a clash tied to an alleged gambling house dispute. Police say the trio sought the kidnaped employee of the gambling house.
A description of a man who cherishes special delivery letters and enjoys a thriving life. He owns a $6000 late model limousine, many friends, and a beautiful home. Tom will be on the air from WAIU Monday night 8 to 8:30 p.m.
Logan March 28. Commissioners in regular session vote to vacate the Goodwin-Funk road in Starr township near Union Fur and the old Ornia road from South Bloomingville to Iville. County Engineer H W Nixon directed to proceed with Brimstone road improvement in Salt Creek township and high school building.
Logan March 238 G W Christman was high bidder at a sheriff’s sale of Edward Heffy’s West Main street property. The bid reached 319,500 after mortgages could not be satisfied and the building had been closed for weeks by order of Sheriff W R Lloyd. Personal property inside was sold last week.
At a Logan meeting the club announced the team to shoot against Portsmouth in the March 30 and 31 postal match. Nate Nill led with 472, Hoopes 463, Spencer 459. Leech’s team trailed by 100 points at the end against Showalter’s captained squad.
Herbert Edgell a 21 year old miner of Carbon Hill married Blanche McDonald a 23 year old housekeeper of New Pittsburg. Magistrate J P Miller officiated the ceremony.
Neighbors and friends hosted a party for Mr. and Mrs. Reichley of South Bloomingville on Thursday to mark their fortieth anniversary. The Rev Garden spoke as part of the celebration. The couple are parents to seven children, six living.
Former Otterbein College students residing in Logan attended a Friday evening program at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Hansel on West Hunter Street. The Otterbein Glee Club’s broadcast was featured with greetings from Dr. Walter G. Clippinger, college president, followed by a social hour and refreshments. Participants included Rev. and Mr. T. C. Harper, George Roberts, and many Hansel and Monks family members.
The Hip Sing and On Leong tong leaders renewed their two year truce that expired three days ago, but violence escalated with the death toll reaching ten. The ongoing conflict in New York intensified as protracted tensions between the rival factions continued to claim lives.
Eight people were injured in a head on crash between a Rock Island passenger train and a Rock Island freight near Oklahoma City. None are believed to be in critical condition.
Cantonese nationalist troops and British sailors clashed on the Yangtze above Kiukiang as Chinese forces seized a British river steamer. A British destroyer engaged, routing the Chinese and recapturing the vessel.
Clyde J Bailey, 34, and Katherine Miller, 25, both of Huntington West Virginia, are to be arraigned before U S Commissioner Hugh K Martin this afternoon on a Mann Act violation charge.
The Home Oil company struck a second oil well on the Athens County Children’s Home farm producing between two and three barrels daily. A nearby well yields about four barrels daily. The second well, about 1160 feet deep, was shut today with expectations of higher output. The company has 179 acres leased, room for fifty wells. Will Coe, a stockholder, commented.
Charles A. Lewis, 78, born in Lynchburg Virginia, died at his Sugar Creek home from paralysis after a month of illness. Funeral services set for Tuesday at 10 AM at the M E church Poston with burial in Rendville. Survived by a widow two daughters Gertie Miller Pinehurst NC Anna Chitton Rendville and stepchildren Marvin Hunt Rouse Colorado D W Hunt Zanesville and Ethel Ginn Pomeroy.
Veteran in France with American Army shares a French prescription for rheumatism and neuritis treatment. He claims it has produced wonderful results for thousands and costs him nothing. He offers to mail it to any reader who sends their address via a postal note.
Smiling Postman of Athens plans a radio performance tonight after snatching bits of sleep between trains. He says the light sleep has not harmed his health and demonstrates by his steady routine and calm demeanor as he prepares to sing on air.
Tom, a college trained tenor with a praised voice, sang in Athens churches and surrounding cities, supervised music in Conneaut Ohio schools, and toured with a quartet in fourteen central states. Despite tempting concert offers, he remains at home with his wife and three sons, providing music at funerals, weddings, and community events.
Today the quiz on page five lists 1 Alexander Kerensky 2 The White House is undergoing extensive repairs 8 England Japan France and Italy 4 Mexican ambassador to the United States 5 John Risko 6 Senator William F Borah of Idaho 7 Sinclair Lewis 8 American composer whose opera The Kings Henchman has just been produced by the Metropolitan Opera Co of New York 9 Johnny Mostil of the Chicago White Sox 10 Stanley Baldwin
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