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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1920
Page
8
In Maclo Garett Kas a woman writes about using Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nervous trouble and fatigue. After an initial weak period she reads a booklet, tries the remedy, and reports relief after several doses and bottles, regaining the ability to manage housework.
Advertisement from B W Rose Co Cleveland Ohio promoting Zemo antiseptic liquid soap as soothing and healing for skin troubles. Claims ordinary soaps irritate and worsen conditions and asserts Zemo speeds recovery.
Mrs Luke Lehman visits in Logan returns to Columbus after ten days with sister Mrs Franklin Perry Starcher and brother Mr George Blosser. Local anglers catch hundreds of carp and mud cats at Rempel and White ponds due to low water from dry weather. John G Collins attends funeral of cousin Thomas G Kidwell in Athens county. Bob Wolfe gravely ill at home with acute stomach trouble. A golden wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs James Allen in South Culver street echoes the M E minister who united them fifty years ago. Henry and Carl Linton return from Detroit and Flint for a family visit while noting slow auto manufacturing and layoffs.
Logan High School's Dramatic Club staged Nothing But the Truth a three act farce Friday night in the auditorium. Miss Anna Cornell directed the comedy featuring a large cast including Bennett Schrader William Mutchmore Doran Byron Blair Chas Huls Dick Donelly Rudolph Kleinschmidt Helen Monahan Dorothy Smith Ob Oynd Os on Mary Montgomery Jane Ambrose Martha use a Mary Montgomery. It was the Romance Club’s first entertainment and pleased many auditors. Frances Toole resumes duties at the rest room after illness. Mrs Daniel Baird of Athens, guest of her sister Mrs James Allen, returned home.
K. Showalter and Russell Janes have purchased the confectionery business of Merritt Wonn on West Hunter Street. Janes resigns from Owens Mfg to run the new enterprise, with Wonn retiring to attend commercial school to train as an accountant. The shop is among Logan’s largest.
The Tourist club met Thursday afternoon with Miss Anna Weizell hosting at her North Mulberry Street home. The program featured Bret Harte with Mary McManigan presenting a paper on the author and H. R. Harrington reading Luck Of Roaring Camp.
Mrs John F White entertained the Afternoon Whist club on Thursday at her East Hunter street home. Badeau White of Rempel National bank leaves for Georgetown South Carolina for a month hunting with his father Hon J F White Sr who owns a plantation. Mrs Minnie Reynolds of Coshoc ton Ohio visits Logan as guest of Mesdames J F and H E White. Rob Burden barber is ill at his south Market street home. Will Gibbons of New Plymouth visits Logan Friday and Saturday staying with his aunt Mrs John Collins.
Hockingport residents Mr. and Mrs. E A Dutton and son Herbert visit the Lew Humphrey and James Palmer homes in Athens. Parkersburg guests Mr. and Mrs. H B Buckley spend time with Jenni Taylor and family. Vaughn Ruth of Washington WV surprised his sisters Jeanette Knowles and Jennie Taylor. F M Medley hosts a bridge party for his wife’s forty fifth birthday with a group of friends. Lew Humphrey from Athens visits his old home. Ill list includes M Snyder and grandson Wilbur and Gladys Randolph.
Fé Parker has gone to Canaan vile where he is employed. Misses Gladys Jesse and Ethel Parker of Parkersburg spent the weekend with their parents here.
Keith Collins a 23 year old former lieutenant and war hero is sought by federal officers as the mastermind of a 3 000 000 Burlington mail robbery in Council Bluffs last Saturday. Collins a Union Pacific fireman is believed to have escaped with a large amount of loot. Mrs Daly the only woman in the case was arrested for receiving stolen property and twenty thousand dollars of the loot has been recovered.
Washington dispatch reports nine railroads have filed applications with the Interstate Commerce Commission to issue notes and bonds totaling 34,687,000. Most offerings refinance maturing obligations while others fund improvements. Petitions include Kanawha and Michigan 256,900 and Toledo and Ohio Central 214,000.
An old advertisement urges readers to improve work performance by improving health. It touts Pepto Mangan by Gude as a blood tonic that purports to feed and purify blood, increase red cells, restore energy, and enhance daily output, available in liquid or tablet forms.
Surgeons in Poughkeepsie removed two table knives and three spoons from actress Miss Margaret Shayne 27 after she swallowed them while an inmate in an asylum. The operation addressed peritonitis and the coinscribed objects were located in her abdomen.
Mrs W J Nixon describes months of weakness and low appetite ending after taking Vinci. She says it restored strength and made work enjoyable again. The ad claims hundreds share her experience and promises druggist refunds if no benefit.
Frank Ruoff and William Hempel were held up by four bandits at their New York meat market and placed in a refrigerator. They said they took their hour in cold storage very coolly.
Robert Harris of Rossford Ohio says Tanlac helped digestion gas breathing and rheumatic pain after six months and four bottles he reports steady appetite and relief from fatigue lauded by multiple Ohio-area pharmacies including Cline's in Athens and Gem in Nelsonville with local distributors named.
A correspondent writes about family trouble from an elder sister's indecent act and a worried husband relation, seeking guidance. The adviser urges allowing the sister to face consequences, suggests telling the husband, and cautions against worry harming the writer. Other letters advise dropping a jealous boyfriend and clothing choices for a tall young woman.
About 400 people were arrested in Cleveland during a police clean up campaign. Since Mayor Fitzgerald ordered a city wide purge two weeks ago over 800 arrests have been made including nearly 100 blind pig operators.
At the closing of the farmers national council in Columbus a resolution passed to shift leadership of rural affairs to the American Farm Bureau Federation. The 40 year old Farmers' Congress will continue and expand activities to build the organization.
In Columbus Ohio on November 22, Dr A W Freeman state health commissioner plans to urge the next state legislature to pass two health measures. The bills would regulate water from open streams for emergency city supply and require bacteriological tests twice weekly in small towns and daily in cities.
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