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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
3
Mr and Mrs Alva Daugherty entertained 16 guests at their Nelsonville home Tuesday night. Light refreshments were served late. Mr Frank Wolfe provided piano and singing with Mr Merkle Triplett assisting in the musical numbers.
The local school board asks for a $100,000 bond to relieve crowding and fund repairs across Nelsonville schools. Planned work includes new floors and stair steps, toilets, boilers, locks, painting, and room expansions at East End, High, Central, and West End buildings with estimated costs totaling several tens of thousands.
Record lists planned school repairs including toilets two drinking fountains chimney repair hall painting desks varnish woodwork and twelve new chairs with a total of 3777.35 dollars. The notice urges a bond vote in November to fund the work.
A large crowd attended the Athens county Dry Law Enforcement Convention held in the city at the Christian Auditorium. With the president absent, vice president Paul E. Kerger of Nelsonville presided. The meeting opened at 10 A M.
The Athens County Law Enforcement League met to discuss liquor and narcotics laws with speakers including Prof. ID A Ferree and Justice Pearl Helwig. Mayor Wallace urged active citizen reporting. Nelle Stratton pressed women’s civic participation. deputies and judges highlighted enforcement and taxation issues.
American relief workers rescue Russian children left to starve near Samara. The photo shows the babes in the woods receiving care amid a famine that has thousands starving in the region.
Deaths in Athens city Athens township and Canaan township totaled 17 last month, surpassing 16 births in the same area. It marks the first time this year deaths exceed births, after a period of population growth earlier in 1921 despite a majority of births in the immediate Athens region.
A pie social will be held at Robinet Ridge schoolhouse Friday evening October 7 for the benefit of the school. Everyone is invited to attend and bring pies as a good program has been prepared. In England under Charles II burial law required woolen shrouds.
Mr and Mrs Ray Pinnick and their children and the former's mother of Brooksville spent Sunday with Py M Miller and family on Chestnut street. Miss Fay James is at home recuperating from an appendicitis operation at Grant hospital Columbus. The little son born to Mr and Mrs Lloyd Duncan on Jefferson street has been named Donald James.
The Woman's Community Club urges Yuk township residents to donate to the Mational Victory Memorial in Washington. Hackerder firm and church plan a generous contribution in memory of local workers who joined the war effort.
The West End Parent Teacher Association holds a meeting Friday afternoon at 2 o clock.
Mrs. Alice Harman of Youngstown Ohio says her stomach problems and sleep loss improved after one month on Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery She reports better appetite and rest and plans continued use until full health is achieved The ad urges obtaining the product by tablet or liquid or sending 10 cents for a trial package to Buffalo New York.
Report shows daily attendance and enrollment across Central West High and elementary schools. Enrolment 1597 with 1478 present. 119 difference due to late enrollments. Notes adding one more high school room and teacher. Prohibition topics and local enforcement discussed by officials and Rev Evans.
The court notes a list of cases to be heard this term including Francis BE. Martin vs Aetna Life Insurance Amesville Creamery vs American Railway Express J W Finton Coal Co vs A L Clifford Wm Cohagen vs Benj Burk Hart Albert Werner vs Alpha Werner Wm Frey and Geneva Frey vs Bruce Chapman and Pollie Chapman Appeal Robert W Calvert vs Chas Winner Fred Laughlin Chas Rodehover trustees of Rome township State of Ohio for Quincey Maniss vs George Van Sickle and John Ketchinback in business as the M N Coal Co Hewitt Boden Co James H Boden president Melvin Grubb treasurer vs Dasa Boden Catherine Sommers John Tedrow vs State of Ohio Ohio Consolidated Coal Co vs
Court docket entries show Eben Gillespie and Pautha N Pratt versus Poston Consolidated Coal Co and Cleve Hallett versus the State of Ohio. Case names indicate civil litigation and a state action awaiting disposition. Proceedings likely in county or state court, with parties identified and dates pending.
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