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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1929
Page
5
A note recalls a patcher in Chillicothe during 1890 who then spent nine years there as livialon superintendent detailing a career timeline and civic service.
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Marie Boehnker of Portsmouth to Lewis Cranmer, son of Mr and Mrs Morris Cranmer of Athens, at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Portsmouth. After a brief wedding trip they reside in Portsmouth. Cranmer works at Selby Shoe Co and belongs to Delta Sigma Pi. Attendants include Cranmer’s sisters and best man Mr Russell. Also mentions social visits, meetings of local societies, and church events with brief notes on attendees and activities.
Judge L G Worstel overruled two motions for new trials in Curtis Smathers Jr vs Charles C Sharpe and Sten V Lewis vs Herman Kuckoeff, both money damages cases. William Brothers partnership versus George Williams dismissed. appeal bond $200 set in George Parks vs Fred Cornwell with costs waived.
William Stolze aged 24 a miner from Jacksonville wed Agnes Barrett aged 23 at home in Jacksonville. The notice records the marriage license in probate court.
K Mardis, opponent of the tax limit amendment on the November ballot, will address the Chamber of Commerce noon luncheon next Wednesday. M Gill, secretary, announced the speech and related notes. A report from C L Jones, secretary-manager of the Athens Home Telephone Co, summarized a recent U S Chamber of Commerce meeting in Columbus.
Oliver Tippie twenty four was taken to the Ohio State Reformatory at Mansfield on Thursday morning. He pleaded guilty to non support charged by the October grand jury at arraignment and was sentenced to the reformatory until lawful discharge under Sheriff William Williams.
Federal and county investigators examine evidence of a daring swindle that likely emptied a Cleveland bank of funds totaling about $30,000.
Mrs H J Wheaton, en route between Rowland's Air Field and 49 Morris Ave, watched her shopping bag take flight carrying two purses and money. She placed a Lost and Found ad in The Messenger, and the bag landed back at her home the same day, as with many items that temporarily depart from their owners.
Girl Scout Troop 5 formerly led by Mrs Harold Moore will meet Friday at 4 pm at the Little House on Mill Street with Miss Louise Daggett. Mr and Mrs Arthur Wolfe, after summering in Athens, have returned to Ft Lauderdale Fla with their son Stacy Wolfe now in Ohio University.
Charles L. Ivanson of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association testified before the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee. He sat in executive sessions where tariff rates were secretly written and was paid 357.50 by the government, per Charles I. Pace.
Nineteen Akron residents were captured by 25 federal agents under Deputy Prohibition Administrator John I Wright and held at Central Police Station awaiting arraignment on liquor law charges.
U S tobacco grown is popular overseas with ninety percent of the 223 100 009 pounds exported in the first six months of the year shipped to Europe and Asia.
Cleveland Oct 17 The Van Sweringen plan to unite railroads moves forward with Hocking Valley absorption into Chesapeake & Ohio to enable through service from Newport News Virginia to Toledo Ohio. Directors approve, petitions to ICC filed, shareholder votes set for Nov and Dec. C and O directors approve stock increase to 360 million dollars to acquire Hocking Valley.
The Buenos Aires giant airliner of the New York Rio Buenos Aires Lines departed from the naval air station at 9:47 a.m. today bound for South America. Louis J. Heath of United Press was the sole newspaperman aboard.
Senator Borah of Idaho after a White House conference said the Senate would pass the pending Tariff bill in a form the President would sign. He spoke after Republican Leader Watson and other senators discussed the legislative situation at the White House.
President Hoover appoints James H. Garfield of Cleveland former interior secretary as chairman of the new Federal Commission on Conservation and Management of the Public Domain. Other members to be selected within ten days.
J Eh Scoville receives a 50 year service button in Baltimore on October 17 1929 marking his arrival at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on October 15 1879. He began as a telegraph operator at New Vienna and rose to dispatcher in Cincinnati and chief ... years of railroad service total 53.
At the Civil War Veterans Association of Athens County meeting in Nelsonville the same officers were re elected for the coming year with the president leading the slate and serving another term.
Vladimiro Gortan was executed by firing squad near the ambush site in Pola Italy for his role in the March 24 vote party attack. The dawn firing squad execution followed the crime near the crime scene.
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