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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1929
Page
7
The Athens parade features a black witch on a broom signaling Court Street decorations as crowds fill downtown for Halloween festivities. The Athens High School band leads the march with prizes awarded for best costumes among groups and individuals.
Anna Mae Dyer and Bobby Hegs won prizes for age and best dressed under 12 as judges from Ohio University presented each winner with a $2.50 gold piece. After the parade the orchestra arrived and Court Street became a grand ballroom lit with red lights and confetti filled the air. Midnight ended the gala as the witch broomed away and Court Street sighed for another Hallowe'en.
Milwaukee dispatch reports Lake Michigan disasters claim three lives in eleven days. The Marquette collided with the S S Senator 20 miles from Port Washington, sinking with about 19 crew lost and 18 rescued. Further north near Kenosha the Milwaukee ferry perished with about 50 men, and the liner Wisconsin later went down with 13 or more dead.
In Bucyrus on November 1, Mrs. Edna Nelson and her sister Mrs. Eleanor Blake both of Crestline were freed on bond after arrest on an indictment alleging irregularities in the August primary election. Nelson served as precinct judge and Blake as a worker with ballot alteration charged. Meanwhile in Akron a Halloween patrol of six county boys resulted in a fatal traffic crash near Johns Corners and an Akron University graduate was killed in a separate crash near Rootstown.
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce estimates 4,446,000 vehicles produced in the first eight months of 1929, a 27 percent rise from the same period a year earlier.
A six room modern flat in Athens was rented in three days through a Messenger classified ad for Miss L Shafer of Fayette Street Nelsonville. Five applicants sought the flat and Miss Shafer praised the quick result and strong interest.
Premier Ramsay MacDonald, back in England from his historic visit to the United States and Canada, says his meetings with President Hoover and other leaders have drawn Britain and the United States closer, improved mutual understanding, and paved the way for broader co operation among powers to maintain world peace. He believes the mission has fulfilled its purpose and clears the way for further steps.
The Public Utilities Commission authorized the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to dismantle depot buildings at nine Ohio stations including Roads and Byers Jackson County Windsor and Cozzadale Warren County Cuba and Farmers Clinton County Luhrig Athens County Hills Clermont County and Remington Hamilton County.
William O Malley of Cleveland, hero of the Junction City Brick Plant fire in November 1928, is paroled from the Ohio Penitentiary with 42 other prisoners. His sentence was commuted by Governor Cooper on December 3, 1928, for his alertness in opening a door and aiding several escapes.
Four members of the Creole steamer crew were arrested upon docking in New Orleans from New York and ordered held as material witnesses in the death of young writer Jack Kraft.
Nova Scotia voters reject prohibition and back government liquor sales by a large margin. The referendum asked to retain the temperance act or move to government controlled sale, with results showing a ~25,000 vote lead for government control.
Three diphtheria cases at Luhrig were reported to county health commissioner Dr J M Higgins. The affected are convalescing. Throat cultures from Luhrig school attendance were sent to the State Board of Health and returned negative, suggesting no new cases.
Richard Silsby, captured rum runner, remained silent about the names of his employers after attempting to elude a Coast Guard cutter by swimming from his speed boat near the shore in Cleveland.
Dr. Fred A. Moss of George Washington University tested problem solving before and after an automobile ride. Results showed mental multiplication speed dropped about 19 percent and accuracy by about 18 percent following the ride.
The National Automobile Chamber of Commerce reports the average yearly tax on trucks exceeds 50 dollars while passenger automobiles pay about 22 dollars in the United States.
In a last effort to locate wreckage of the craft believed to have sunk with George Buck and Will Myers aboard, two Toledo Fish Company boats began dragging a seven-thousand-foot chain across Maumee Bay today.
Reader endorses a 15 mill tax limit but opposes constitutional placement. He notes favoring BI 196 to allow up to three mills outside the limit for state aid districts and argues for education boards to levy within safeguards to save costs. He criticizes inserting 15 mills in the Constitution to hamper legislative changes.
In a letter from Athens dated Oct 30, K Mardi critiques state tax policy and the push for uniform classification. He questions Dyer and allies about exemptions under Section 2 of Article VI, warns against lobby-driven changes, and argues for constitutional fixes to stabilize rates and prevent relocation.
Former State Treasurer Bert B Buckley is to surrender Nov 9 for commitment to Atlanta Federal Penitentiary after being convicted of attempté bribery and violation of prohibition laws. He had planned to surrender Nov 9 but changed his mind.
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