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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1922
Page
3
A short note from Nelsonville warns about steering gears being bad for tires. Readers urged to call or mail Bart the Printer with related information for the department.
Pocohontas club members hold a regular meeting at Red Men's hall on Wednesday night at the usual hour. Each attendee is asked to bring their favorite dish.
Mrs. Ona Wilson aged 36 died yesterday at her Buch tel home. She leaves a husband and four children.
W. N. Fleck attends the Grand Lodge of Masons in Columbus as it meets today and tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Young and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Young of Pomeroy visit relatives here on Sunday.
Chester McCulloch seven year old twin of Mr and Mrs George McCulloch is very ill with pneumonia at his parental home.
Regular meeting of Glenford Dugan Post set for tonight at 7 o’clock. Mrs. D A Ferree is visiting relatives in Blanchester and Norwood Ohio.
Mr and Mrs Charles Preston and family of Columbus spent Sunday in Fred Preston who had spent Saturday with them and accompanied them home.
C E Bennett attends the National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers convention in Cleveland this week to engage with industry peers and explore new production methods and dairy innovations.
The second October meeting of the chamber of commerce will meet at the Y rooms at 6 15 Thursday evening. Rev George E Tifft will speak and Architect Mills will present two rest room sketches by the Women s Community club. The nominating committee will be announced and several other items of business discussed.
Mrs. Sellover of Cleveland, state president, will visit for a weekend with the Hyperion club. She will speak at Presbyterian church at 2:30 to address federated club women from Cosmopolitan Woman's Club and three parent-teacher associations. A reception at Mrs. J. M. Hyde's home will follow for church attendees.
NEA Service reports Walter P Meals of the National Motorists Association warns motorists to pass by strangers seeking rides. He cites danger of legal liability and injury, notes two troublesome groups, and says drivers owe no obligation to offer lifts while praising cautious acts in emergencies.
The Bureau of Public Roads reports the lightest traffic on Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 2 and 3 am. Traffic rises from Wednesday to Saturday and peaks on Sunday, with 90 percent of daily traffic occurring between 7 am and 9 pm.
A small car owner can equip a premium safety light using a simple lamp and wire wired to the battery. A spring clip affixed to the door triggers the light automatically when the door opens.
Motor traffic into Canada jumped dramatically last year while Ponca City residents report high car ownership. Reports note automatic windshield rollers for rear seats and buses as feeder lines in Chicago.
London notes reveal Dr. F E Macdonald Decker questions oysters and fish as brain foods. The pamphlet argues oysters have little nourishment and fish lack phosphorus, while endorsing water intake and moderate coffee and tea for mental and bodily stimulation.
New York reports three cans of hootch seized in a raid at Daniel Cristi's Brooklyn establishment were dumped into the sewer in front of Brooklyn police headquarters. Police Reserve Captain Callahan warned the hootch had noises and a potential kick that could blow up the building.
Portland police official Miss Martha Randall of the women's protective division says seventeen year olds who get into trouble are now rare and usually far gone. She notes the average age has fallen to fifteen and asserts children are too smart for their parents.
A sanatorium offers patients a daily thirty minute airplane flight as a treatment for mental low mood. The program aims to lift spirits and improve mood through air travel experiences.
The program features Mrs Cornelius Selover and other speakers from Cincinnati Sidney and Dayton at Ewing auditorium Lindley Hall and the Athens state hospital. The Women’s Music Club twilight musicale starts at 4 pm and a reception and dinner follow. Friday includes a literature conference and varied talks on youth literacy home economics and more with tours and luncheon at Windsor.
London reports 7,000 year old ivory lions used by an ancient Egyptian gaming culture will be shipped to the United States. A single lion will be housed in Chicago. The British School of Archaeology unearthed over 2,000 prehistoric implements, including flint tools dating to about 5,000 B C showing early Egyptian big game hunting.
Dr W C Thompson president of Ohio State University criticizes the idea that colleges harbor idlers. He argues secondary schools should guide students to the fitting line of endeavor and asserts such charges apply to many walks of life, not just colleges.
The article notes money is scarce on Norfolk Island in the Pacific, with about 25 dollars handled by the entire population over a year. The glimpse highlights an unusually limited local currency flow and the community’s economic constraints.
The new organization in Columbus announces a private, voluntary group to gather and publish information on the Anti-Saloon League and its finances. Secretary John Kelly is named, with others unnamed, and funds will cover printing only. The league aims to influence political support for and against candidates tied to its cause.
John Hewitt of Valley District, one of West Virginia’s oldest men, died at his home aged 103 years and nine days. His funeral drew the largest crowd ever seen in the district. Hewitt was born in 1819, a year marked by Florida’s purchase, Alabama’s statehood, and Maine and Missouri’s entrance to the Union. He lived to witness Lafayette’s visits and Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo.
A fifteen year old page boy flying an air limo between London and Paris says he holds the world distance record, having logged more than 25 000 miles in flight.
Syracuse university will ban hazing when the college opens this month by order of the administration. Vice-Chancellor William P. Graham described the ban as protection for students after last year’s class warfare, which included a fatality.
DOCHESTER New Hampshire October 17 Judge Felker found two druggists guilty of selling intoxicating liquors by shipping alcohol rub for limb ailments. Each man paid a $25 fine plus costs after the verdict.
Gas produced from sewage is being used to run engines at the Birmingham England sewage disposal plant. The system converts waste gas into usable fuel, supporting plant operations and reducing waste.
John W. Prugh Ohio building and loan chief told a Lancaster meeting that farmers must cut auto use and work hard to avoid mortgage foreclosures. He noted central Ohio business conditions are improving as farmers recover from postwar financial strain.
A cherry tree owned by C. B. Henry in Bucyrus shows new leaves and blossoms after defoliation from a leaf blight last summer. The tree produced a couple of bushels of cherries before the attack.
Charleston report from the state department of education notes high mine wages pull workers from teaching across the state. Early this year a surplus of teachers became a shortage as coal industry pay lured staff away.
The Christadelphians have asked authorities to permit use of the public swimming pool in Erith for baptism ceremonies. The move pits religious practice against pool policy and local rules.
Melvin Kincade born September 8 1866 died October 15 1922 married to Elizabeth Willis November 23 1898 survived by brother Charles Kincade of Guysville Ohio sisters Mrs J Cross Bangor Michigan Mrs Charles Nichols Trimble Ohio Mrs PD Edwards Athens Ohio and many friends He belonged to Church of Christ of Glouster and to Athens Ohio I O F Our thanks to neighbors for kindness and flowers Rev Wilson Carpenter Jones and LO OLF for services and flowers Mrs M Kincade and family
Ten women were arraigned before Magistrate McGeehan in Yorkville court on disorderly conduct and intoxication charges. Police records show prior arrests for similar offenses. The group was arrested at night in St. Gabriel's Park after a spree while shopping for supper, carrying bread meat and groceries.
Cincinnati the public schools will reopen in September offering four hours a week of part time instruction in plumbing and gas fitting for apprentices during theIndenture period. The course includes mathematics drawing plan reading code study and English to prepare students for the trade.
Berlin reports the Soviet Government will permit vodka production for the first time since the war began. Factories may produce the Russian national drink but must limit alcohol content to no more than eight percent.
A guard flagman left a red fuse burning near a railroad, whose glow reflected in a window. A passerby mistook the signal for a house fire and alerted the Bellaire Fire Department, though no blaze existed.
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