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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
5
Girl Scout Troop 1 held a Monday evening picnic supper replacing their regular meeting. A short program followed with a one act play and readings by Marcia Scott, Marion Morse, Mary Stalder, Freida Sutton, and Doris Day, plus a comic feature by Marion Morse.
The Missionary Society of the Christian Church holds its regular monthly meeting at the church on Thursday evening May 13 at 7 30. The program includes song invocations devotional talk on Latin America piano solo and a story. All women and men of the church invited to attend.
The Sunnyside School held its annual May Festival on Tuesday at 2 o clock on the east lawn with a large audience of parents and friends. Children showcased trained work under Miss Bridgeman, whose leadership earned praise for the well staged program and colorful costumes against a spring setting.
Program and cast for a May Day event featuring Margaret Sprague as May Queen Frances Pickering Maid of the May Norris Beasley Lord of the May Dorothy Roe and Melba Vercoe with Flower Girls. Activities include a flag drill first grade dances second grade dances seventh and eighth grade Swedish dance and a Maypole chorus and dance. The program ends with The Review Before The Queen.
Mr P G Moler leaves for Huntington to conduct business. Mrs T J Davis returns from Cincinnati after visiting her father J D Brown. Mr and Mrs Rupert from Jackson Michigan visit Bode Starkey in Guysville. Hiram Frost and family return from Hebbardsville via Middleport with relatives. Merrill Covert and son Win accompany them. Relatives attend funeral of Mrs Kate Orr Scully in Reynoldsburg. Scully died Sunday of cancer. Joseph McKibben of Zaleski visits Athens. learns of brother Lewis McKibben's death in Dayton. Lewis, a Civil War veteran, had been at a soldiers' home. body to be shipped to Zaleski for Oak Grove cemetery burial.
A general rule advises a diet suited to age and occupation and keeping bowels regular. If you feel overfull or constipated, take one Chamberlain's Tablet.
One dead, five injured and several thousand dollars in property damage reported after a tornado that brushed Paris Texas late yesterday. Authorities assessed the scene and warned residents as storm cleanup began.
Athens high school alumni association officers plan the annual banquet for Friday evening June 11 at 6 30 to close the 1920 commencement. Commencement week runs June 6 to 10 with baccalaureate address June 6, senior play June 8 9 and class day June 9. An open meeting May 17 will draft a charter and organize the alumni network with about 500 names already listed.
Charles Cephus of La throp was brought to Athens by Deputy Sheriff McKinley and arraigned before Justice Helwig on assault with intent to kill. The affidavit by prosecutor Bartels led to Cephus pleading not guilty and waiving examination, held to the next grand jury under $500 bond.
Cephus claims Goins on a bicycle in the road ahead. he says he warned with his horn and did not leave the road after the collision. Witnesses allege Cephas veered off the road to strike Goins and did not stop. Goins had recently been arrested for cutting Cephas’s son but was not indicted by the last grand jury.
Columbus May 12 The only margins allowed by the justice department are one cent per pound for wholesalers and ten cents for retailers. Attorney General Palmer reversed a prior order enabling fair price commissioners to set margins by state conditions. Pfeifer plans trips to Cleveland and Cincinnati to organize commissions, with advisory members to be named for Hamilton and Middletown counties.
London commentary warned US intervention in Mexico could embitter Latin America and influence the 1916 US presidential race. It noted repeated revolutions during presidential years and the US oil interests possibly colluding with Mexican revolutionaries, while European interference seemed unlikely.
A seven passenger touring car crashed into a tree in Columbus on May 12, uprooting the tree. Driver William Winder 27 of Raleigh North Carolina sustained severe head and body cuts and possible internal injuries. Passengers DeWitt Aleta Evans 22 Mary Bishop 24 and Mary Evans all of Columbus were injured with Evans cut about hips and limbs and Mrs Bishop's left eye nearly torn from its socket. DeWitt suffered only minor injuries.
Funeral services were held at the church of the Ascension for William Dean Howells known as the dean of American literature who died Monday at his New York home. Scores of friends attended and Harpers Company colleagues joined the service. The body will be moved to Cambridge Massachusetts for burial with his daughter Mildred and son William Meade Howells accompanying.
A. E. Falloon of the state highway department directs repairs on the Chauncey Glouster pike. Work includes rock removal in Narrows Millfield to widen the roadway and filling chuck holes between Jacksonville and Chauncey. Money comes from the maintenance fund from auto taxes for resurfacing Dover township line to Jacksonville and improving town roads.
Pittsburg on May 12 reported a 74 percent drop in coal production due to car shortages and railroad disruptions. R W Gardiner of the Pittsburg Coal Producers Association said no famine is imminent because demand has fallen with the railroad strike. Most coal shipments move by water and many mines are closed. the district normally yields 500 million tons annually, now about 26 percent is mined.
Four children were operated on at Copeland Howe hospital Athens on Tuesday for removal of tonsils and adenoids. They include Charles Faye and Gay McCutcheon of this city and Chas Veres of The Plains. All four are recovering well.
Thomas Kane, a former soldier and cabaret singer, faced disorderly conduct charges in Chicago. He sang an old Irish lullaby in court, and the judge granted him freedom.
The Dowler ambulance transported Mr. Hill to Columbus on Tuesday for hospital care after a surgical procedure to treat appendicitis. His sister Miss Maude Hill accompanied him during the journey.
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