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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1928
Page
10
R Bruce Tom of the State Extension Department will visit Logan on November 14 for the second of three home talent play instruction classes. Nine organizations in Hocking County participate with two delegates each receiving instruction to relay to their groups. A third class date is not yet set.
A Nov. 6 incident at the White residence in Logan city involved a "flip" cigar lighter igniting in Mr. and Mrs. Joe White's coat. Mr. White found smoke after unובות placing his coat on a chair, discovering the coat was burning from the lighter ignition.
The illustrated lecture titled The Kingdom Must Be Built will be shown at St Pauls Episcopal Church at 7 PM Wednesday. Rev FE L Piclow announces the event and Rev B H Reinheimer arch deacon of South Ohio will give the lecture accompanying the motion picture.
Housewives in Southeastern Ohio applaud the Messenger Cooking School announced for four days next week at the Athens High School Auditorium. Lectures by Frances Northcross start Tuesday at 2 PM with doors opening at 1 PM for seating. A modern kitchen will be on stage to illustrate homemaking improvements and practical methods.
In Logan on Election Day many voters aged 91 and 92 tried to use absent voters provisions but were denied as the law does not cover those unable to reach polls within their precinct. Barney Stracke, Logan, was expected to become the oldest to vote today at ninety six.
Logan November 6 John Longley of the Masts Restaurants semi pro team played through a badly sprained right wrist against the Pagner Pirates Sunday afternoon. Longley first injured the wrist two weeks ago and re aggravated it in a game last week. He appeared for all four periods, often favoring the injury.
Mrs Northcross and the Cooking School tour Athens to teach thrifty menus and diet science for housewives. Lectures cover budgeting, fat and lean diets, and practical shortcuts while fun gifts and stage samples reward attendees. Blank questions collected for Mrs Northcross.
Chicago voters turned out in force under heavy guard to cast ballots in national state and city elections. Dozens of Boy Scouts assisted at polling places as bugles sounded the call to duty amid clear weather and widespread appeals to defeat machine rule.
November 6 report says the Poincare Cabinet quit as four radical socialist ministers had submitted their resignations to Premier Poincare earlier in the day. The full cabinet's departure follows the internal split over policy and party action in Paris.
Plans are under way for Virgil Moore Gibisonville Floyd Anthony Union Furnace Ruby Keister Green Township Jeannette Straus Laurelville and club leader Mrs Oakley Hysell to attend the 4 H Club Congress in Columbus November 13 to 23. Funds will come from the Hocking County Fair board.
Two unnamed Circleville residents were slightly injured when their car collided with William Durant’s auto on the New Straitsville pike two miles east of Logan. The crash happened at a curve Sunday evening. Durant and the other occupants escaped injury. the two men left the scene after moving their car from a ditch.
Cleo Jean Rogers sues Oscar Rogers in Common Pleas Court, seeking a divorce after a brief marriage begun September 8, alleging neglect and reliance on relatives for support. She asks to revert to her maiden name Cleo Jean Salyers.
Andrew Gretch, being brought from Johnstown Pennsylvania to Logan for arraignment on a non support charge, escaped from a railroad train at Dennison Friday. Traffic Officer Joe Farbearn reported custody entrusted at Johnstown. Gretch asked for water, then leapt from the moving train. A search and rearrest attempt is underway to return him to the county.
Harold Goldsberry a 24 year old truck driver from Circleville and Thelma Hines 21 born in Rockbridge daughter of Mr and Mrs James Hines were joined in marriage with Rev James Fields officiating.
Miss Genevieve Chase of Athens Presbyterian Church presented a paper on a religious training school for church workers at the Athens County Council of Churches meeting in Central Avenue M E Church. No action was taken. A peace declamation contest report was given. next meeting set for December 3 at Glouster M E Church.
Alexander Zoubkoff, 28, brother-in-law of the former Kaiser, signs with a French circus as a trick rider. He is described as a former Russian nobleman, accompanied by his wife Viktoria zu Schauburg-Lippe, aged 61.
Ninety entries for the Prince of Peace Declamation Contest, sponsored by the Ohio Council of Churches, have been received in Athens County. Churches must finish local contests before November 18 unless extended. Winners advance to county, district, and then state finals with medals awarded. state finals set for January in Columbus.
In Chevy Chase Maryland election officials noted a brown derby at the voting entrance three hours after polls opened. Voters surged with a 60 percent turnout increase as 417 people voted by 8:30 a.m., with more than half being women.
Rain on the West Coast might deter voters from reaching polls as election day proceeds in the region.
Yesterday in the Athens County Probate Court Myral Spicer 21 a barber of Philo wed Huldah Neal 19 at home Glouster Kenneth Powell 23 a clerk of The Plains married Margery Way 19 at home The Plains.
Harley O Beebe files in Athens County Common Pleas Court a petition against Columbiana County Mutual Insurance Company seeking payment of 1000 dollars for fire damage to a two story Chauncey building. Premium of 43 dollars was paid for coverage from August 3 1927 to August 3 1932. Building damaged by fire on June 19 1928 for 700 dollars. no payments have been made.
The Mount Etna lava flow in Vallonazzo Valley touched Puntalazza and Nuzziata and threatens Mascalli. The molten stream has destroyed vineyards and orchards as it advances toward the city, with two towns already in its path and a third at risk.
Operated by a 4 percent house-lighting socket this electric spraying unit offers convenient use for applying paints or lacquers and for disinfecting interiors. It is easy to clean and operate and suitable for amateur use.
E A Flemming spoke on Twenty Years Away From the Farm at the Farmers Institute session at The Plains High School. Grace R Miller spoke on Seeing We See Not while Joyce Smith presided. Music by Moore and son on violins and a quartet Briley Nelson Bryan Cowan performed. audience sang under Kennedy. Mrs Moats read. Morning session opened with singing and Miller on Womans Place in Community Organizations and Flemming on Managing the Laying Flock. Five minutes of fun directed by Johnson. Club premiums awarded and officers to be elected in afternoon session.
Chicago dateline reports the Weather Bureau forecast favorable conditions for voting across the middle and southwest today. Temperatures are expected moderate with generally fair skies, though areas near the Great Lakes may see some rain.
Musterole Laxative Cold Tablets offer prompt relief from head colds without a burning or buzzing sensation. Chocolate coated and easy to take, the remedy is available at all druggists or via direct postpaid from the Musterole Company in Cleveland Ohio.
A dynamite blast at a Cleveland soft drink shop in Little Italy reopened the bootleg war that followed the April 1928 murder of Dominici Farinacci. Police hold 20 year old Alfred Polizzi for questioning after the bombing and connect the case to earlier attacks on liquor smugglers John Schleimer and Paul Hackett.
A playful puzzle item lists a set of linked word clues DARK PARK PEAK PEAK PEAT PLAT PLOT. The sequence hints at a hidden theme where each term morphs by a single-letter change to reveal related geographic or thematic words. The fragment invites solving as a word ladder style exercise.
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