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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1927
Page
7
Plans are under way to start a strip mine on the Sullivan Maxwell farm about 1.5 miles northwest of McLeish. A company is formed with Maxwell and sons as stakeholders. A steam shovel, railroad switch, tipple, and two five ton trucks will move coal a mile to railroad cars. About 40 acres will be stripped with the rest mined by shaft or slope.
Glouster high school meets Chauncey high school on the local grounds Friday at 3 30 pm. Glouster enters the game riding a good season with a 7 0 win last week over McConnelsville on the McConnelsville field.
Eight year old James Nicholson, son of Mr and Mrs Fred Nicholson of Glouster, was taken to Grant Hospital at Columbus Tuesday afternoon for an operation.
The Willing Workers class of the M. Ph. church plans a Hallowe en party at Mrs. B. W. Hawk’s Spring street home on Friday night with a pot luck lunch served.
Young people of the Senior Christian Endeavor society in Glouster will lead the Hemlock church gathering tonight. Music and short talks will fill the evening program.
Amanda Thomas, daughter and aide to the warden, accurately deciphers a coded message and screens inmate mail at a Columbus prison. She notes phrases about kittens coincide with recent robberies linked to the same town. Other convicts have had mail halted due to her screening.
The Morris farm on state road a half mile east of Bartlett yielded a body found by family members after the act. Authorities were notified and Sheriff Way called in Squire B H McGrew of Bartlett to conduct an inquest.
Warden White said Washington ordered Forbes freed if the fine was paid. Colonel Forbes had been convicted in 1925 of conspiracy to defraud the government and sentenced to two years in prison plus a $10,000 fine.
Sherwood Anderson, noted writer and poet, seeks to own two Virginia weeklies to keep writing fun. He explains his goal is to ensure the work remains enjoyable.
Leavenworth Kans Oct 20 Colonel Charles R Forbes former director of the veterans bureau will be released Friday evening October 21 social at the White school near the federal penitentiary here a pie and candy social proceeds to go for the school 10000 fine to be paid before then
Marietta, Oct 20. News reaches Sadpe David H. Thomas of Selodter that his brother engineer Very A Thomas died after a collision between a New York Central passenger train and a freight train near Gallipolis on Saturday. Reports vary on the cause with one claim of a switch failure and another of a coal wagon opening a sideline. The Interstate Commerce Commission has ordered an investigation into the incident.
Rereading fragmentary notice notes Mrs. William Selzer a 44 year old mother involved in a hushroom belief. Further readable details are missing to determine event, location or outcome.
A note from physicians states that a husband and wife who were ill in their home after consuming toadstools caused by eating wild mushrooms led to a death report. The fragment mentions a 16 year old and unclear relation to the couple. Further details incomplete.
Marietta report states 68 year old DPD L Morris of Wesley Township hanged himself Wednesday morning, believed prompted by financial woes and fear of illness amid deranged mind. Event occurred near Bartlett, authorities note motive as mental distress.
Thelma Grubie slowly improves from the Sunday afternoon train accident in which her sister Beatrice was killed. Mrs. Alice Caldwell of this place has been called to Brice to nurse her mother Mrs. John Cook. The Tuesday night Jacksonville mine foremen class on poisonous gases is proving successful. The new home of Mrs. Hermo Stolz will be ready to occupy the old home burned recently.
An advertisement touts Petersons Ointment as a mighty healer for skin and scalp itching. It claims overnight relief and urges readers to buy a 35 cent box at any drug store.
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