Nelsonville Homecoming Week Features Prize Events
Nelsonville merchants sponsor a homecoming and agricultural fair October 8 13 with rallies exhibits and an eight hundred dollar prize pool. The schedule includes horse shoe pitching contests fiddlers contest an Athens and Hocking County auto industry show and five daily free acts. Jackson Brothers horse shoe champions appear October 11 12 with William Wolfe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelsonville
Hocking Valley
Athens
Hocking County
Athens County
Knights of Pythias Band of Logan
Jackson Brothers
William Wolfe
Hocking
Retail Merchants Association
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
D. A. R., Elks, American Legion
New World Map Offered Printed For Readers
The information bureau announces a full color 21 inch map on fine paper for readers. It highlights areas populations debts railroads and includes old and new place spellings. Each home and office may receive a copy with complete statistics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Girl Not Hurts After Fall At Old Man's Cave
Katherine Connett 12 Athens slipped on a wet step near Old Man's Cave and fell 70 feet. She survived with a dislocated knee and bruises, monitored for internal injuries at Cherrington Hospital. witnesses called the fall miraculous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Old Man's Cave
Katherine Connett
Athens
Dana Connett
Lancaster Street
Ald
Cherrington
Thea
Cody Bright
Clea’ S
Katherine
Clifford Young
Everett Moore
Ed Mourne
Nelsonville
British Foreign Secretary Visits California on World Tour
Sir Austen Chamberlain, the British foreign secretary, declined to discuss politics during a Southern California stop. He will be hosted by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, then travel to San Francisco Vancouver and Banff as part of his two day American visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
U.R
Austen Chamberlain
Dovglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
California
San Francisco
Vancouver
Banff
Isaak Walton League Meeting Planned for Tuesday Evening
The Isaak Walton League will hold a meeting at 7 30 in the City Building on Tuesday evening. The gathering is open to members and interested residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaak Walton League
Moving Day in New York Drives Van Rates Upward
One hundred thousand families in New York will move today as leases expire at the end of September. Moving van rates have surged to 14 dollars an hour, double the normal price, reflecting the annual migration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AN Diego
Calif
U.S
Edward Schlee
William Brock
California
Rockwell Field
Bellanca
Schlee
Brock
New York
U.R
Davey Challenged Over Campaign Spending Claims
Columbus October 1 Congressmen Martin L Davey Democratic nominee for governor faced a challenge from Marty Silver Republican state campaign manager to prove that Myers Y Cooper Republican nominee spent more in his primary than reported. Silver questioned Davey's accusation that Cooper spent 250000 in the primary and may be spending another 260000. He urged Davey to present evidence and take proper legal action and queried Davey's presidential campaign stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.P
Martin L. Davey
Marty D. Silver
Myers Y. Cooper
Silver
Davey
Cooper
al Smith
Teacher Threatened In Call Over Phone
Police and telephone officials investigated threats made to Mrs. Blanche Addison a Columbus school teacher. She received a directive to go to a South Sixth Street address under threat of death. The elderly couple at that address denied knowledge of the calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
Blanche Addison
M. E. Church Homecoming in Jerseyville on Sunday
Jerseyville residents and former residents are invited to a church homecoming on October 7. An interesting program is planned and a picnic dinner will be served on the lawn. Bring a picnic and enjoy a day together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Retail Merchants’ Association
Nelsonville
Farmers’ Committee
O. O. Bryson
E. M. Ward
A. Davis
Homer Warehime
L. E. Efaw
T. M. Johnson
J. W. Wood
Phil Miller
C. J. Bartels
Jerseyville
M. E
Hoover trims campaign plan for remaining speeches
Herbert Hoover has scaled back a broad tour and outlined five more speeches before election day. The schedule includes Elizabethton Tennessee October 6 New York City October 18 Boston October 25 and a midwest stop November 8 likely Minneapolis St Paul Kansas City or Omaha plus a California Palo Alto election eve broadcast. The plan may still change before official announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Elizabethton
Tenn
New York City
Boston
Midwest
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Kansa City
Omaha
Palo Alto
California
Hoover
New York
Wet Road Collision Near Coolville Injures No One
A wet road and sudden braking caused a Saturday noon crash on the Athens-Parkersburg road about one mile east of Coolville between a touring car driven by Mr. Burns of Coolville and a Pittsburgh driven coupe by William Schrenk. Both drivers escaped injury. The coupe was wrecked. it was towed to Athens and traded in on a new coach. The touring car suffered lighter damage and was sent to a garage for repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolville
Athens-Parkersburg
Burns
William Schrenk
Pittsburgh
Athens
Smith welcomed home as Democratic governor candidate
Rochester greeted Governor Alfred E. Smith with a parade and brass band as he returned from the West. He met state Democratic leaders to choose a gubernatorial candidate to face Albert Ottinger. Smith planned a national address and urged Democrats to rally behind him in New York and national issues. He waved his grey fedora to cheering crowds in the Republican stronghold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
N. Y
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Seneca
Smith
Albert Ottinger
Republcans
New York State
Monroe County
Parker Brothers Take Over Mike's Place in Lancaster
Clarence Parker and his brother Fred Parker have moved to Lancaster and assumed ownership of the restaurant Mike's Place located on East Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Parker
Lancaster
Fred Parker
Mike’s
East Main Street
Burn Ohio Coal Proclamation Urges Statewide Use
Governor Donahey calls on all agencies to promote burning Ohio coal to boost a winter a profitable for miners and operators. He notes coal mining has declined and argues Ohio coal will raise purchasing power in many counties and create new markets, aiding the state’s welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Donahey
Bombing at Clean Rite Cleaning sparks citywide probe
Colonel Shetler travels to Nelsonville for the mine district view as Cleveland reports a fourth bombing in three days. A dynamite charge ripped the Clean Rite Cleaning wall, menaced 4000 gallons of cleaning naphtha, and left blood stains while police seek a touring car license number for arrests. Authorities link the attacks to bootleg warfare and a cleaners dispute, with broader intimidation and blackmail motives suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shetler
Nelsonville
Cleveland
U.R
Clean, Rite Cleaning Company
Lakewood
Rocky River
West Side
John Vale Dies At Vinton Home
John Quincy Adams Vale 77 died about 11 o'clock this morning at Mt Carmel Hospital Columbus after a surgical operation two weeks earlier. He had been able to sit up yesterday when death came suddenly. His widow remains in Columbus with him. A daughter Mrs Lizzie Martin and granddaughters Marguerite and Madeline Martin are at home with him. He attended Ohio University in Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
John Quincy Adams Vale
Mt. Carmel Hospital
Columbus
Lizzie Martin
Marguerite and
Madeline Martin
Judenth
Ohio University
Ath
Robbery at Petrakos Restaurant Commons Safe Blast
A break in at Petrakos Restaurant in Youngstown today saw thiefs blow open a rear safe with high explosives. About $2800 in cash and $1500 in diamonds were stolen. The restaurant sits near the police station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Yegelmen
Petrakos
Scout Goes to Smiths Aid in Drunk Charge
New York report says Scout William J. Cuff, a friend of Governor Alfred E. Smith, defended him against whisper charges of intoxication. In a public letter, Cuff stated Smith was not in such condition and wrote to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt that there was nothing wrong with the Governor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
New York
U.R
Alfred E. Smith
Democratic National Committee
William J. Cuff
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Goodyear Dirigible Puritan Flies to New York
Small craft Puritan leaves Air Lakehurst New Jersey heading for Battery Park for a second landing attempt after winds thwarted a prior try. The flight aims to test the diminutive dirigible during its voyage to New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Lakehurst
N. J
New York
Battery Park
Student Hurt In Auto Crash Near Pomeroy
Horace Karr 19 son of County Commissioner Irving Karr Syracuse was seriously injured in a three car collision on a foggy Minersville road. He suffered a head wound and a leg fracture and is in Holzer Hospital Gallipolis in serious condition. He was returning from Middleport when the crash occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Karr
Holzer Hospital
Pomeroy
Minersville
Irving Karr
Syracuse
Gallipolis
Karr
Convicted Albany Escapee Identified in Dayton Shooting
Dayton reports fingerprint records identify the slain driver of a stolen car as Arthur L. Meeker, 82, an escaped convict from Albany New York. Meeker, one of three bandits who robbed three filling stations here two weeks earlier, was sentenced June 30, 1925 to five years for burglary and escaped September 22, 1925.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
U.P
Jess Metzger
Arthur L. Meeker
Albany
N. Y
Jury System Inaugurated In Japan For Modern Justice
TokIo observers report the jury system was inaugurated today as a key step in modernizing Japan’s administration of justice. The emperor personally inspected the proceedings and the new procedures in the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Supreme Court
Conductor Herman Berndt Dies After Fall From Engine
Delaware report states Herman Berndt aged 38 of Columbus, a conductor on a Hocking Valley train, died here ten hours after he fell beneath an engine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware
Herman Berndt
Columbus
Conditions in Hocking mining district called good
Columbus reports the Hocking mining district conditions as good with five officers to remain on duty through winter in Athens Perry Hocking and Morgan counties. About 2400 men are engaged in mining in the district and Nelsonville yard adds two more railroad crews as work resumes after suspension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
J. &. Shetler
Hocking
Nelsonville
Athens County
Shetler
Adjutant General's Department
Athens
Perry
Morgan Counties
Hocking Valley
Walbridge
Crewa
Sam Gilham
Alex Nelson
Lewis Courtney
Roy Grose
Three Outstanding Men To Broadcast Three Outstanding Men
Governor Smith will address the Rochester convention hall at 10 P M on an eastern NBC network. Senator William E Borah will speak coast to coast at 8 P M from Minneapolis. Governor Albert C Ritchie of Maryland will deliver the Monday night campaign talk on CBS via the Democratic national committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Smith
National Broadcasting Company
Rochester
N. Y
Minneapolis
William E. Borah
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Democratic National Committee
Columbia Broadcasting System
Squirrel Season Opens Early This Year
The county kicks off squirrel season ahead with guns oiled and gear ready. A total of 487 hunting licenses are issued for the fall, per T. L. Morgan, county clerk of courts. one license has been issued to a woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. Morgan
Burglar Uses Social Register in Cleveland Heist
Delmar Swick, homeless but bold, faces house breaking charges in police court after admitting he worked alone to steal more than $15,000 in money and jewelry from homes of Mrs. Charles A. Brayton and W. E. Richey using the social register as his guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Social Register
Delmar Swick
Emil Ziegler
Swick
Charles A. Brayton
W. E. Richey
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. W. Dunlap
Washington, D. C
Charles V. Truax
Harry Caton
Coshocton
Tussing
America
Martin Davey
Democrat
Hoover oLlots
Opeegh
WIM
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Faces Music
Clinton C. Carnes
Atlanta
Southern Baptist Home Mission Board
Carnes
Bertil Ye
Federal Penitentiar Y
Winnipeg
Orado
DERBY
Thomas L. Stokes
Story
John Vale
Vinton
Denies
Parent-Teacher Association
McGuffey
Athens High School
O. C. Bird
8. H. Bing
Dean Irma Voigt
Edith Wray
Middleport
Karl
Ohio State University
Japan
Counties
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!