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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1927
Page
13
Nyda Lomax reveals she married Eddie Banning under pressure. T Q Curtis forgives and arranges departure for the couple. Clay admits love for Billy and contemplates a future in New York as they brace for Cal’s arrival with a dinner date at the Marquette Hotel.
Will C Merritt, long time educator and former Rockbridge schools leader, was elected principal of New Marshfield High School by the local school board on Tuesday night. Two grade teachers were appointed Ella Shannon becomes seventh and eighth grade teacher and principal at New Marshfield grade schools Opal McWhorter teaches grades five and six.
Charles Breinig 47 owner of Sheltering Arms hospital and partner in Frum and Breinig, was injured Tuesday when stepping from a flat car at Athens Lumber planing mill. He misjudged the distance and struck his left side on a protruding board. his condition was reported improved this morning.
A letter from the Ohio Library Association warns that Governor Donahey’s veto of a 126000 state library appropriation would strike a blow to education and progress. It notes the library’s 175000 volumes serve local and statewide needs, with 40 000 of 66 000 1925 1926 circulations to libraries beyond Columbus. It urges Ohio residents to lobby legislators to override the veto.
Clyde Haskins seeks 11200 in damages from Hisylvania Coal in Trimble for a greenhouse and surrounding property damage. Witnesses described mining under the greenhouse and inadequate pillars and stumps causing harm to the greenhouse home water reservoir and plant beds as jurors toured the site. The jury and counsel visited the property yesterday and the panel was chosen without challenges.
Mrs Viola Bolton Sisson dies at midnight at her son J L Sisson's home in Albany. She would have turned 53 on Friday after a three year battle with Mart disease affecting her shin.
Funeral services will be held at the Temple M E church at 2 oclock Saturday afternoon. Burial will be in the cemetery adjoining the church. Mrs Sisson leaves one son J L Sisson one grandchild Kenneth Sisson Albany a foster daughter Miss Jessie Wander Columbus three brothers Jerry Bolton Monroe Bolton Wales Mill Arthur Bolton and a sister Mrs Mamie Aples Groveport.
The chamber of commerce in Athens will review budgets for city school and taxing districts led by J. D. Martin. Members aim to keep tax rates low and authorized a protest to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce against a 3 percent statewide tax on out of state insurance. A fire prevention talk is planned for the next noon meeting at Hotel Berry.
Judge L C Worstell in Common Pleas court ruled the 1925 tax for Jay Oil and Gas in Carthage township at 546 dollars. Athens county treasurer Rafael Johnson was enjoined from collecting more than that amount from the company. The original assessed figure was 992.55. Trials and hearings on several partition suits and a civil matter were scheduled or continued with dates noted. The Freeport Fuel Mining receiver James W. Pritchard was granted permission to return 50 powder kegs.
The Ohio university Chi Omega sorority rents the ten room two bath house at 35 Park Place to house sixteen girls next September with Ida Brown as matron. The move ends the policy of no sorority houses and follows reports that at least three other Ohio university sororities plan houses next year or the year after. Ellen Higgen Botham, local chapter president, says dormitory rules will be followed and a house fund supported by the national sorority aids the project. Nonmembers will live there first semester, and pledge freshmen may reside if not enrolled in dormitories.
Columbus received a morning air lift as seven airplanes arrived carrying passengers mail and freight. The event marks a significant aviation milestone for the city with rapid transport and logistics improvements evident in the influx.
The Athens county board answers Ella Marsh of Ross county in a $25,000 claim for injuries from a November 30, 1924, ice bridge accident near Nelsonville. Defenses: bridge work by the state highways division, no detour knowledge, and alleged excessive speed by another driver despite detour signs.
The temperature reached 1 degree at noon and likely exceeded the 1904 record 83 later today. The 1891 low record of 31 stood, with a two hour temperature table showing afternoon readings around 66 to 77 and morning values from 68 to 78.
Toledo officials hunted a bootlegger who sold liquor to 65 year old John Goss. Coroner J. Henzler ruled acute alcoholic poisoning the cause of death and said the alcohol appeared to be a denatured product used for body rub.
At the Rochester conference of the Association of the Study of Internal Secretions Dr. A M Snall and Dr L G Rountree warned that drinking five to six gallons of water daily can cause a water jag resembling drunkenness. They described the gradual intoxication from excessive water intake as a cautionary finding.
Bridge over Raccoon Creek at Vinton near Gallipolis collapsed trapping workers but they escaped with near miss injuries. The 1838 structure, partly burned in 1863 by Morgan’s men, saved Gallipolis and its military post from pillage by delaying Confederates.
Suits for damages were filed today by David Kiger and Fillmore Cartwright former undercover men against Tom Ross Albert and Anthony Pecchio Frank Naples and Mary Agnone charging assault while they were attempting to obtain evidence of liquor law violation.
A May 19 storm in Bethany Ohio became a twister, destroying two barns on Bush Rice property and uprooting trees and outbuildings according to residents.
In Columbus on May 19, 111 bus and truck certificates were revoked for failure to pay taxes under the Collister-Freeman law.
The destroyer Sea Wolf was ordered to search the Irish and Cornish coasts for wreckage of the White Bird, the aircraft that carried Captains Nungesser and Colt from Paris a week ago Sunday toward New York.
Memory damaged by an automobile crash left Joseph Hassett of Mount Vernon unable to attend his church wedding. A jury in White Plains awarded Hassett six thousand dollars in damages for the incident.
In Barrington Illinois, James Calder and his son and daughter were involved in eight separate auto wrecks on the same day. All drivers were uninjured.
Burton-on-Trent couple Mr William Holland and his wife celebrate their diamond wedding noting they have never quarreled. The event marks sixty years of marriage and community happiness.
NY FAMILY entitled to credit may buy a GM car and pay over time under the GMAC Plan. GMAC rates have long been low and the latest reduction is said to have saved GM customers more than $12,000,600. The GM line promises a car for every purse and purpose with payments that fit income and a fair financing charge.
A vintage GMAC car ad invites readers to clip and mail a coupon to receive full information about affordable GM cars. It promotes General Motors quality, volume production economies, and a fair low-cost payment plan mailed to inquirers. The ad urges immediate action to receive details on a car that fits the buyer’s purse.
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