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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1923
Page
3
The notice records burial at Chauncey Cemetery following services at Chauncey M. E. Church. It notes interment at the local graveyard.
The funeral for Margery Barber daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Barber was held at the family residence Wednesday at 2 pm led by Rev C L Johnson. Interment followed at Greenlawn.
The Jr. O U A M plans initiation and a meal at Moose Hall on Friday evening October 26. Members are urged to attend and all transient members are welcome.
Fire department units responded to a Tuesday afternoon alarm at the Hitchings residence where a fence caught fire. The fire caused slight property damage with no injuries reported.
All Endeavor of Christian church invites members to a big Halloween party in the social room Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. Attendees are urged to come masked in their favorite costume.
Mr and Mrs William Morgan returned from Michigan where they attended the Ann Arbor State game. Over Sunday they were guests of their son Vance at Detroit.
The Nelsonville Kennel of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Yellow Dogs elected officers after balloting. R. B. Stuart becomes Grand Cur, O. A. Rider Grand Howl, W. H. Estes Grand Pup, Donald Lowden Turpentiner, J. B. Preston Secretary, Coo Bartlett Treasurer, S. S. Steenrod Inner Pup. A grand rally next Monday will admit new candidates.
In regular services last Sunday the Christian church announced F C Lake will preach tonight. The entire membership is urged to attend as he reviews the field as a potential location for the church.
Athens readers receive a letter from Mrs William May describing a motor trip westward with her husband and siblings. They climbed Pike's Peak in nine and a half hours then toured Colorado Springs Salt Lake City Yellowstone National Park and met diverse travelers along the way.
The narrative describes a river journey with a dog and 21 bantam hens. Outside Denver they encounter a soldier pushing a wheelbarrow from Philadelphia to California to win a $4,000 bet. At Salt Lake City they meet a girl hiking from Chicago to Los Angeles as Mrs May and party plan to winter in Southern California, expected to reach soon.
Cincinnati reports a police act in aiding William Hartin a Dayton Black man who sought refuge in a garage while two assailants fought over a $31 he carried. The attackers stripped his clothing leaving him in rags as they pursued the money.
Stanley Robard and Walter Roting, drivers for the Red Star Bus line, were bound over to the common pleas court by Magistrate Helwig on Wednesday morning for alleged violations of motor vehicle passenger seating laws. Officer Peter Barrows filed the charge several weeks ago, alleging the drivers carried passengers in front seats when other seating space existed.
A Cincinnati woman facing a liquor charge was released after pleading that her arrest would break up her home. Her escort and the bartender at the establishment were charged with possession.
William F. Whitey Doering and David Wetman were sentenced to 30 and 25 years respectively after a federal jury convicted them on eight counts for robbing a U S mail truck in St Louis on April 2 of securities valued at 2.49 million dollars.
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