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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1922
Page
10
Gibson's Pharmacy the Prescription Drug Store Athens Ohio Fountain Pharmacy Nelsonville Ohio read as an OCR fragment listing drugstores in Ohio.
Billy Senior and Billy Junior visit Celoron for the Farmer’s Picnic. They tour the fairgrounds and seek a ride on the Ferris wheel amid crowds, with onlookers amused by goats seeking a thrill and an attendant surprised by the unexpected passengers.
A narrator recalls tea with Ted and the tea room owner Billy as she judges her past choices about love and work. She fears Alec will return and discovers her orchid missing from the hotel room, signaling more trouble to come.
Daniel Mike of Mann ington West Virginia entered the national longest beard contest by the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce for the days of 49 celebration. His beard measures thirteen and a half feet and is the longest reported in connection with the contest. The winner gets travel passes a gold medal and five dollars a day during the Sacramento celebration lasting a week.
Mobile resident Mary A. McLane, a hundred years old, registers and qualifies to vote while declaring she will not serve on juries. She celebrated by dining and receiving guests, recalling Georgia childhood and 1833 meteor events. Born near Gainsborough, Georgia, she later moved to Mobile.
In 1853 a woman recalls a wild place where a forest stood on the site of the Benevolent Home on Government Street. Indians roamed the area and after a strenuous day she retired happy with only a slight tired feeling and no ill effects from her protracted cell.
Mrs. C. J. Elliott and her three children June eight Arley five and Jessie one died from injuries after a five gallon kerosene can exploded in their one room home at Bus Springs five miles north of Olney Springs Colorado.
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