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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1920
Page
8
Wanted carrier boys for messenger routes in Pomeroy at Kerrs Run Naylors Run and Sugar Run Also carrier for Mason City Apply or contact L H R Foulk Pomeroy Phone or mail by November 8 1913
A brief memorial notes the death of Judge Hiram L. Sibley at his Marietta home after a three month illness ending with an embolism in July. The obituary outlines his 60 plus year career from shoemaker to clerk, lawyer, judge in Gallia Meigs Athens and Washington districts, circuit judge, codifying Ohio code work, and writings on Nash's Practice and Right to Action.
Della Barnett, a colored woman, was found guilty of shooting with intent to kill and given an indeterminate state pen term. She attempted suicide in the county jail by hanging with a sheet, but Sheriff Hartenbach cut her down. She recovered enough to be moved to a penal institution.
In Chicago a heavy man on the operating table loses over sixty pounds of fat from his large body. The ad promotes Marmola Prescription Tablets as a simple, harmless weight loss method claiming rapid weekly losses of two to four pounds. It instructs purchases and direct mailing from Detroit Michigan.
Probate court records show three couples securing marriage licenses on Saturday. George E. Hinkle and Vivian Guinn wed in the courtroom. Dalas A. Roush and Kathryn Greathouse married by Rev. F G Fethersoll and planned to settle in Columbus. Wilbur Beaver and Sadie Egnon obtained a license after a staffer made a special trip to the office.
Frank Gloeckner was tried in common pleas court before Judge A P Miller on threats against his sister in law Ida Baker Gloeckner. The jury returned a verdict of guilty after about ten minutes, the first local conviction for Gloeckner, with Prosecutor Peoples expressing approval.
W. A. Welker of Lincoln Hill collapsed downtown Friday evening due to a high blood pressure episode and was carried home after the incident on Court Street near Main.
Five pastors from local churches met at Peace Evangelical church and established a Ministerial Association. Rev. L. L. Cherrington of Simpson M. E. church was named President and Rev. W. M. Hyde of First Presbyterian church Secretary. The group plans monthly meetings on the first Monday afternoon to discuss topics of community interest.
A survey and line crews have mapped a new railroad from Forest Run on Hocking Valley tracks toward Portland via Nease Settlement and Cross Mill Pond. The aim is to access thousands of acres of undeveloped coal in the region, amid undisclosed railroad plans.
The Pomeroy wharfboat sank in the Ohio River at Court street Thursday night. It remains in the same position, about half underwater and tilted, with no attempts made to raise it.
Mrs. Peter Lehew of Mason City is reported quite ill at her daughter Mrs. Jake Harten bach's home Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Darst visit at the home of his sister Mrs. William Hetzel. The Finsterwald and Cooper couples trip to Columbus and back by motor on Saturday. D Curtis Reed and family attend the big football game in Columbus Saturday. Marie Miller travels to Olis ayee and Mrs. sital there. Donald Turnbull travels to Columbus Friday to visit brother F Edward and to see Saturday's football game. Dir and Mrs John Ackley depart.
George Parker visited Gallipolis on Saturday. Mrs Catherine Reinhart left Friday for Columbus to spend the winter with her children. Miss Blanche Zipperich of Chester left Saturday to visit friends in Cleveland Ohio. August Conde went to Gallipolis Saturday to visit his wife in a hospital there. Mrs F L Johnson and daughter Catherine went to Logan last week to visit the former's sister Mrs Carl Brown.
In Louisville on November 8, William J. James, a merchant jailed for killing Joseph Lowe, plunged a knife into his heart as his wife and attorney left his cell. He announced he had stabbed himself, showed the wound, then died within an hour.
The British board of trade creates a national seed testing institute enabling home testing of British seed rather than sending samples to Switzerland as done before.
Frank Fischback aged 15 from Cleveland and Louis Scheckel age 14 also of Cleveland ran away seeking travel fun. They told detective chief Emmett D. Kirgan they wanted to see the world but ran out of money and grew hungry. Scheckel worked in a restaurant in Cincinnati, Fischback was in a telegraph office awaiting parental funds.
Public health notice touts S S S as a blood purifier claimed to cleanse the blood and prevent disorders such as rheumatism eczema and general debility. It notes the remedy has been in use for over fifty years and offers free literature and medical advice from a Chief Medical Adviser in Atlanta.
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