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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1929
Page
8
Journalists from Olith school supervised by Miss Anne Pickering present Athens High School news items written by students. Columns titled The Articles Ap pear as Written by the Students appear in these pages.
Bonnie Dundee and Lt Strawn investigate the death of Mrs. Hogarth at the Rhodes boarding house. Suspects include Emil Sevier, Henry Dowd, Cor a Barker, Norma Paige, Walter Styles, Bert Magnus, and Daisy Shepherd. Parrot clues and a torn diary page drive the inquiry toward Cora Barker and an earlier bandaged hand.
Cora Barker relates a tale of hidden diary entries and a planned robbery of Mrs. Hogarth. She describes Emil Sevier's pursuit of the farm woman’s wealth, a fatal night, and a careful cover up involving a torn diary page and a parrot bite. The detective then arrests her as a material witness in Sevier's murder case.
Sheldon Whitehouse of New York is nominated as Minister to Guatemala while Counselor to the American embassy in Madrid and State Department veteran may join. In Washington Senator Walter Edge of New Jersey meets Charles G. Dawes after Dawes’ return from serving as Ambassador to Great Britain as Edge prepares to serve as American Ambassador to France.
Dean E Voigt of Ohio University addressed the Girl Reserves on Wednesday afternoon urging intelligence choice responsibility and action as core standards. Delia Dorsey led several songs while Margaret Haskins played piano and Dorothy Ruth Holcombe led the Lords Prayer with all present.
A reader asks about so called Preaks of Nature beans that appear alive by jumping and rolling. The phenomenon is due to a fly laying eggs in the blossom. the larva grows inside the shell and causes the shell to move as the worm doubles and straightens.
The Girls Glee Club quartet was selected Wednesday November 6 by Miss Jettie J Denmark. Members are Mary Jones first soprano Jane Gill second soprano Bernice Davis contralto and Mary Helen Lee alto.
The 1925 Wall Festival results were announced on Monday November 11 with two plaques awarded for best managed booths in Junior High and Senior High. In Junior High the seventh grade girls won for best decorated booth and profits awards went to seventh grade girls. totals show $101 taken with $126.88 expenses and $274.12 net. The Fall Festival was a great success.
A. F. Hixson delivered an Armistice Day address to the high school assembly on Monday November 1 highlighting American policy of protection for the less fortunate and equality. The program included readings from Angeloarth and Co John McCrae and World War songs performed by twenty Girl Scouts with taps by Robert Shrigley.
A reader writes to Dear M'Talker seeking advice on winning a big blonde football player who also sings. She recalls he once loved another girl and asks how to get him to invite her to the football banquet. The reply suggests unconventional tactics and duet singing as options.
The Mathematics Club met Wednesday in Room 200 with president Gerald King presiding. Hale Pickett, high school mathematics instructor, spoke on the sextant and its use in navigation. New members were admitted and refreshments served.
Assistant Coach W J Trautwein of Ohio University speaks at the Hi Y Y Club meeting in Athens High School. He explains factors behind Ohio University's football success. The program includes songs, a brief business discussion, and an announcement of a Slam Gullion banquet next Tuesday noon.
Pattern notice from The Athens Messenger promotes a Two Piece Tweed Frock pattern with style number 1772. Readers urged to send NAME ADDRESS STYLE NUMBER and SIZE with coins or stamps, with a winter fashion book offered at ten cents when ordered with a pattern. The ad directs mail to Pattern Department 244 West 17th Street New York City.
An ad describes a versatile tailored frock with flared revers and buttoned bodice suited for wear with blouses. It lists fabrics such as tweed and wool crepe in colors brown beige navy and green, with sizes 16 through 42 and yardage per size.
A mixed set of short humorous lines and bossy banter features a store manager clerk and porter bantering about appearances. Wu Hop the Chinese laundry man jokes about naming his son One Long Hop. A note on lipstick poison hints at risky glamour. A party remark notes formal attire and stockings.
Henry Wilson a graduate of Osio University and former Athens Spanish instructor now teaches in South America. He sent the second year Spanish class the names and addresses of several Spanish girls and boys for an exchange of letters in English to foster an interesting correspondence between the classes.
The Girls' Athletic Association Council met last Monday to organize basketball by class with one team from each of three Senior High classes. A membership drive is under way with red and tack ribbons worn by current members to recruit more girls for points toward Varsity. Fifty points qualify a Senior High girl for G A M A membership.
The Manual Arts Club reorganizes for the school year and will meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays each month. J C Glover leads sessions with outside speakers on manual arts while members report on various topics. Experienced ninth to twelfth graders showcase projects including furniture refinishing and cedar chests, with several students constructing modern end tables and Tudor tables.
Class officers were elected at a meeting in the auditorium. Dick Hughes was named president, John Lee Mier the vice president, and Kenneth Smith the secretary-treasurer.
Kathleen Murphy delivers a town friendly note urging supporters to back the team next year and stay loyal through thick and thin as players strive to break limits and prove skeptics wrong.
Harley Schoonover of Marietta is jailed after being brought from Athens on charges linked to sheep thefts in western Washington County. Howard Sauer of Marietta and Lewis Bay of Circle Hill in Athens County are jailed there. Sauer reportedly confessed to stealing a house and clothing. three pure blood sheep were recovered and returned to owner S F Strader. Watch missing. Sauer on parole from Mansfield Reformatory and Bay on parole from Athens County Juvenile Court.
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