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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1920
Page
8
Mrs. John Hammon visited Columbus with relatives. Mrs. Harry Yontz stayed in Logan with her parents. Rabbit hunting parties led by Ad Ulrich and others postponed trips due to a snow storm. Hocking county rabbit season began at near zero temperatures.
Mr Webb Hardy of Maxville in Perry county was a Logan business visitor on Tuesday.
Mrs. C. W. McKinney of Columbus is spending the week in the city as the guest of her daughter Miss Helen McKinney a home economics teacher at Logan high school.
The Owens Manufacturing Company, once Snider Manufacturing, laid off about eighty furniture factory employees due to reduced orders and weak trade in the furniture line, as the firm continues its high grade line.
Mrs. Lizzie Congrove of Locust Grove Vinton county traveled to Logan on Wednesday to attend to business matters.
Miss Martha Bell Thomas toll operator at the Logan Home Telephone office spends the week in Westerville as the guest of her sister Miss M Thomas.
Mrs John Allen of East Second Street acted as hostess for the Idaho Club gathering held at her home on Tuesday evening. A picnic supper was served and the full membership attended, enjoying a most pleasant time.
Mrs. Dr. Busby and her young son of Washington, D. C., are guests of her cousins Misses May and Louise Stedem in West Front Street, according to a local society note.
Miss Elizabeth Rempel is spending this week in Columbus as the guest of her sister Mrs. Harry Q. Wasson.
Mrs James Montgomery of Parkersburg West Virginia visits in the city as the guest of her sister Miss Anna Weitzell on North Mulberry Street.
Druggist Johnny Kreigis of Columbus will attend the Scottish Rite reunion and is set to take the 32 degree in that branch of Masonry.
The storm lasted from Tuesday morning into Wednesday afternoon with five inches of snow in the county. Businesses slowed to a crawl, trains ran late, and rural and city carriers faced delivery difficulties. Locals call it the worst November snowfall in memory.
W. J. Huffman of Freedom, Pennsylvania, an oil well contractor, traveled to Logan on a house buying trip but failed to find a suitable home. He then went to Bremen where he bought property for his family to move into.
Manager John G. Collins of Logan Home Telephone attended the Athens district meeting in Columbus Thursday. Zanesville and Chillicothe districts met the same day. Managers digested all yearly telephone business topics, with December set for the annual State Telephone meeting. A banquet at the Hartmann was held Wednesday evening.
In Toledo Ohio on November 18 Rose Marot three and her brother Tony five died from burns after a huge kettle of boiling water toppled onto them in their home. Parents were in the yard at the time.
Mr and Mrs T J Kelly relocate from Pomeroy and take rooms in the Karns property on Ellis Avenue, Chauncey.
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper A. Drake returned to Chauncey from a six weeks trip through Iowa and Kansas visiting Blockado in Kansas and Newton Grinelle and Des Moines in Iowa. Mrs. E. M. Daugherty also returned to Chauncey after a week with her ill sister Mrs. Fleming in Portsmouth.
Mrs. Edward Minister and family of Chauncey joined Mr. and Mrs. I. N. McHarg at their Athens area home for a Sunday dinner honoring newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Patterson.
The men’s Bible class of the First Christian Sunday school holds an important business meeting at the church. Friday evening president Charles Fiske will preside and all members are urged to attend.
A daughter was born this week to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Blackford. Granddaughter to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Blackford and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cline of Chauncey.
Bing Johnson of Chauncey was taken to a Columbus hospital Monday morning and underwent a successful appendicitis operation. He was accompanied by his wife and mother, Mrs. Alex Johnson.
Family Day observed in the First Christian Sunday school last Sunday drew full families. Attendance reached 171 with Rev. Courtney serving in both morning and evening services. Mrs. J. A. Long and her children from Mt. Vernon visited Chauncey.
The addition to Edward Minister's store building in Chauncey is finished creating one of the largest and most up to date business houses in the city. Mr and Mrs Charles Sweeney of this city who were injured last Sunday when their machine skidded and struck a telephone pole north of town are recovering nicely with Mrs Sweeney suffering head face and shoulder injuries.
Mrs. Ervin Pidcock of Beaumont is in Columbus to undergo a goitre operation at a city hospital on Friday. Mrs. Henry Osborne has returned home from Coolville after visiting her daughter Mrs. Everett Bingman and family.
Harold D. Jacobs reports on Martin J. Gillen’s plan for stabilizing American business through immediate settlement of interdepartmental war claims, privatizing the merchant marine at market rate, preserving vessels for 15 percent of exports, ending government tasks suitable for private hands, repealing the La Follette seamen’s act, and establishing a protective tariff to secure an American market.
Ohio grown apples rot on trees as Pacific coast apples fetch $18 a barrel in Ohio. The issue to be discussed at the American Pomological Society meeting in Columbus from December 1–3 includes grading Ohio’s crop and cooperative marketing, plus affiliation with the American Farm Bureau Federation and state growers associations.
Omaha dispatch reports Council Bluffs clash over a Burlington Railway robbery totaling 3.5 million dollars. Four teens were arrested with three alleged to confess. over one million dollars of loot recovered. Merle Phil and others named in sources.
Orville Phillips surrendered claiming his brother Merle, arrested earlier, had nothing to do with the crime. Merle confessed to shield Orville. Officers believe both are implicated. Securities recovered from a lake in Council Bluffs and police continue to drag the lake to recover more loot.
Winter approaches and rheumatism cases rise due to a germ in the blood. S.S.S. is promoted as a blood remedy that drives out the germ, with readers urged to begin taking it and to write for free medical advice to Chief Medical Adviser at 151 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga.
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