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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1930
Page
10
The indictment targets Daugherty after the Peoples and Drovers Bank collapse and the later Daugherty bank failure. Prosecutor Paxson pushed for high bond, while Daugherty admitted inability to meet 76000 in notes. Townspeople known Mal and Harry Daugherty face possible further indictments.
Athens plans another Kiwanis sponsored Hallowe'en celebration on Halloween night announced by the Athens club at Hotel Berry. The annual event features a Court Street parade with prizes for best dressed marchers drawing large crowds and masqueraders. Details will be released by the organizing committee.
A Columbus committee from the Ohio State Automobile Association urged the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes park conference to make park areas accessible via state owned and state maintained roads. They called for diverting annual funds from gasoline and license taxes to improve and maintain these roads. The group asked for laws to place roads within state systems to relieve counties and townships of construction and maintenance duties.
Albany October 14 Mr and Mrs Arthur Goodwin entertained many friends and relatives for his birthday anniversary. A noon lawn dinner followed by a large cake decorated with 88 candles served as the centerpiece. Attendees included the Wood family Duckler Buck Reeves Goodwin relations and several others from New Marshfield Pratteville Alban Pleasanton and Athens.
The Hocking County Drought Relief Committee met Monday afternoon at the Extension Service Office to consider farmers seeking state highway work. About 30 farmer applications were checked for qualification while many mine and carshop workers’ applications were filed for potential relief, with no action on those cases yet.
Emil Floyd of Columbus was found beside the Laurelville highway nine miles west of Logan after being tossed from a vehicle. Deputy Joe Farbearn learned Floyd was intoxicated. he was uninjured and pleaded guilty to intoxication, fined five dollars and costs. Floyd could not explain how he came to be lying on the road. companions were not identified.
Mrs. John Oblinger of Hit by car as she crossed Mulberry and Hunter Street intersection. She suffered injuries to one hand and bruises about the body. The unidentified driver fled after the collision, crashing into M. & Brown’s stopped auto. Brown secured the license number and gave it to police.
Miss Margaret Lutz executive secretary of the Hocking County Red Cross was named to the Executive Committee of the Ohio Welfare Department at the fortieth annual Toledo conference attended by more than 1 000 delegates. She was accompanied by Mrs Edward Hockman county visitor. The next conference will be held in Akron.
Logan report states William Rutter son of Mr and Mrs Isaac Rutter of Marion Township fell from a tree while gathering chestnuts and fractured his leg. He was taken to a local physician for treatment.
Mrs. Jennie Pickett faced arraignment on concealing stolen property with a not guilty plea and $2800 bond. Elmer Hamilton and Ronald Guess also entered not guilty pleas with bonds set at $1500 and $800 respectively. Judge Whitcraft scheduled trials from October 20 for eight defendants, with one secret indictment awaiting later action.
Dr A K Smith leaves for a four week vacation in Hot Springs Arkansas. His son Dr Robert K Smith arrives to take charge of the practice. Robert, a Medical College of the University of Cincinnati graduate, interned at City Hospital and served as house physician at Cincinnati Hospital for two years. He recently returned from a European trip as personal physician to Mr and Mrs Season good of Cincinnati.
Louis M. Seidenfeld of Murray City sailed from New York on Saturday for Bermuda with a group of American Legion members. The trip was arranged for those at the Legion annual convention in Boston. Seidenfeld represents Ohio's Eighth District. Mr. and Mrs. Ewald Schmitter, also at the convention, returned home.
Dwight Edward Thompson four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Maynard Thompson died at home from infantile paralysis after a weeklong illness. In Logan on October 14 health officials report first death in Hocking County from the disease amid several cases under care. Quarantines imposed and sixteen contacts isolated as Dr Morton W Bland coordinates investigation.
Logan deputies and acting police chief pursue robbers after a Nelsonville holdup. A car matching the bandits description was reported traveling through Union Furnace and South Bloomingville after leaving the main highway north of Nelsonville.
Logan police report a spike in petty thefts across the city with milk stolen almost nightly and vegetables and other foodstuffs taken from porches. Gasoline has also been taken from a truck on three occasions during the night.
Firemen responded to a gasoline stove explosion at the Charles F. Barker residence in South Logan on Monday morning. Flames were extinguished with little damage reported by the firefighters.
Mrs. Anna Burns, near 105, battles a slight cold at St Anthony's Hospital in Columbus. On the eve of her birthday, she dresses with help, goes to the yard for a photo, recalling her 1825 birth in Rand County Ireland and immigration to America at age 11.
From Dayton comes news that Mrs. A. M. Sparks of Bradenton Florida is recuperating at a sister's home after influenza followed by pneumonia. She and her husband spent the summer in Logan.
A third robbery attempt was found Monday at the Lumber Supply Company in Logan. Workers reported the cash drawer was tampered with while the safe remained unlocked and untouched, following a break years ago by yeggs who learned the safe was open after blasting.
Funeral services were held at St. John's Catholic Church at 9 o'clock Monday morning for Mrs. Sophia Miller, widow of North Walnut Street, who died Friday. Burial followed in Oak Grove Cemetery. She leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ambrose Schrader, and three sons, Phillip, Lewis and Leo Miller, all of Logan.
Milwaukee brewers anticipate repeal of Prohibition and prepare to resume production. Reports say several firms have installed new equipment and expanded capacity as 1931 approaches. Frederick Gettelman and Fred Pabst publicly express optimism that beer will be legalized and factories will be ready.
Towanda Pennsylvania woman Mrs C B Johnson recalls severe fatigue and low weight after silk mill work. She says after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she gained health and had two sons, the younger weighing 37 pounds, now healthy.
Mrs B F Wade returns to Logan after a two and a half month stay in Stanford Connecticut with her son Edward Steinhoff and family.
Six deaths from alcohol poisoning occurred Sunday night and Monday in Newark, with fifteen more treated for alcohol poisoning at City Hospital. Five of the latest victims were negroes.
WASHINGTON C H Oct 14 Daugherty president of the defunct Ohio State Bank and brother of former Attorney General Harry Daugherty was indicted by the Fayette County grand jury on embezzlement and misappropriation charges. The 57 counts relate to the bank closures that froze funds of more than 4000 deposits. The jury also indicted Virgil Vincent on perjury charges.
The Pabst Corporation imported new machinery from Germany that could be used to produce either malt syrup or beer. The context suggests potential diversification of production.
Marietta reports the Wylie Farm Oil Company drilled its No 13 on the Whalley field in Athens County and found oil from the Berea Sand estimated at five barrels. The shot occurred Saturday and the well began pumping. Local interested parties include H O Bode War Burns J A Bode F W Bode B P Bode and H B Goddard.
K R O a leading American exterminator announces a poison free solution that kills rats and mice but harms no dogs cats or poultry. The product uses squill per government guidance and reportedly destroyed 573 rats at the Arkansas State Farm. It is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee.
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