Nelsonville Council Plans Protest Over Gas Rate Hike
Nelsonville Mayor L J Eberle calls a special council meeting for Wednesday at 1 pm to oppose the proposed Ohio Fuel Gas rate increase before the Public Utilities Commission. The plan includes a meter charge of 1 and a 5 cent per 1000 cubic feet rise. Also on the agenda is Jefferson Street repair.
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Nelsonville
L. J. Eberle
Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Jefferson Street
Carbondale men plead guilty to tire theft in Nelsonville
Clarence Fuller and Wilbur Williams charged with stealing an automobile tire and rim pleaded guilty before Mayor L. J. Eberle. They were fined 25 dollars plus costs each and given suspended 30 day county jail sentences.
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Nelsonville
Charles Dodds
Clarence Fuller
Wilbur Williams
Carbondale
Clarence Heft
L. J. Eberle
Chicken Dinner at M. E. Church Wednesday
Nelsonville residents are invited to a chicken dinner at the M E church on Wednesday from 11 a m to 1 p m. Proceeds support church activities.
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Nelsonville
M. E
Emma Johnson Returns Home After Visit
Miss Emma Johnson returns home after a ten day visit with her aunt Mrs. O G McCain of Springfield.
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Emma Johnson
O. G. McCain
Springfield
I. H. T. Club Members Attend Betts Home Party
Mrs. Donald Betts and Miss Florence Cook hosted I. H. T. club at West Washington street Monday evening. Names were drawn for the Christmas party gift exchange and a two course luncheon was served. Attendees included Mia Malvern Wilson Mrs. Will Barrows Elsie Hodgeman Wanda Walters Ruth Cook May Linton Gladys Bowers Julia Brunelle Fern Parry Leah Reynolds.
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Donald Betts
Florence Cook
I. H. T. Club
West Washington Street
Mia
Malvern Wilson
Will Barrows
Elsie Hodgeman
Wanda Walters
Ruth Cook
May Linton
Gladys Bowers
Julia Brunelle
Fern Parry
Leah Reynolds
Surprise Birthday Honor for T. R. Potts on Kentner Street
Friends and relatives hosted a Sunday birthday surprise for T. R. Potts of Kentner Street. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Chartes ous Logan, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. "ids, Fred Drayer, Mr. and Mrs. James Nissley Columbus, O G McCain Springfield, Mrs. Jennie Sweeney and son John Akron, J. H. Sands Cincinnati, and Mr. Gene Inboden Akron city residents.
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Loren North
George Schwenke
Logan
Will Parry
Gerald Maffin
Raceland
Verna Hand
Adeline Ray
Columbus
Vivian Dowler
Circleville
Delbert Davis
Paul
Dow Bowers, Jr
T. R. Potts
Kentner Street
Chartesous
H. B
Fred Drayer
James Nissley
O. G. McCain
Sprinfield
Jennie Sweeney
John
Eddie
Akron
J. H. Sands
Cincinnati
Gene Inboden
The
City
Rainbow church group to hold masquerade at Madison Street home
The Rainbow class of the Christian church will be entertained Friday evening at the Verity home 431 Madison Street with Mrs Spencer Steenrod and Miss Pauline Donley assisting hostesses. The Pythian Sisters plan their annual masquerade and birthday party Thursday at the hall with a pot luck dinner.
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Rainbow
The
Christian Church
Verity
Madison Street
Spencer Steenrod
Pauline Donley
Community notices from a rural Ohio region social calendar
Various local residents attend family gatherings funerals and visits. Elizabeth Smith will visit Cleveland while many couples and family groups spend weekends with relatives in Newark Zanesville Columbus Wellston and Pleasantview Avenue. A church chicken dinner is planned for Thursday noon.
Poster Contest Open to All Local Pupils
Ohio State University extension service runs two state contests for poster making, one for grade school and one for high school pupils. Three hundred dollars total prizes, with $150 per contest, reward originality, neatness, and advertising value for posters advertising the local institute.
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Farm Institute
Extension Service
Ohio State University
Farmers’ Institutes, Extension Service
Not Guilty Plea in Cutting Case Leads to Jail
Monroe Walker of Athens appeared before Mayor Walker and pleaded not guilty to cutting Owen Scott. Bondsman unavailable, Walker remained in county jail awaiting January grand jury. Police allege two back wounds and two arm wounds after an altercation at Lizzie Kinney’s Currier street home during a spaghetti party.
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Owen Scott
Monroe Walker
Athens
Walker
Scott
Lizzie Kinney
Currier Street
Open Meeting On Marshall Bill At First Methodist Church
An open meeting to discuss the Marshall bill will be held Thursday night at 7 o'clock in the First Methodist church. Carl Porter, Athens county attendance officer, says the principal address will be given by H. B. Pilchard. The ladies' octet will provide church music. The meeting, under the auspices of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, is of county wide interest and the public is invited.
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First Methodist
Carl Porter
Athens County
H. B. Pilchard
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Porter
Hope of Settling Colorado's Coal Strike Foreseen
Denver reports a mediation path to end the I W W coal strike as leaders plan to meet Governor Adams to present their case. Officials expect the governor to arbitrate and end the production paralysis across Colorado.
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Colorado
Denver
Colo
U.P
Governo
William H. Adams
Blood Clinic Head Faces Manslaughter Charge
Dr. Horace D. Reynolds, bound on 19000 dollars, faces arrest as police report another patient death linked to his blood serum clinic. Three deaths have been attributed to the clinic, closed after a raid for suspected illegal practices. Police say the serum was 300 times normal strength and caused mercurial poisoning. Reynolds, son of a former Zanesville school superintendent, is suspected of similar work in Chicago and Buffalo.
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Cleveland
Liberty
Horace D. Reynolds
Reynold
Reynolds
Zanesville
Chicago
Buffalo
Farmer Ed win Condit dies in home blaze near Pataskala
Ed win Condit, 65, a farmer from near Pataskala, was fatally burned early today while searching for his wife as their house burned. His wife Mrs. Fanny Condit was seriously injured after leaping from a second story window. Three children and Miss Catherine Taylor escaped unharmed.
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Columbus
U.P
Edwin Condit
Pataskala
Fanny Condit
Catherine Taylor
Condit
Sunday games barred in Wolverhampton municipal parks
In Wolverhampton England officials announce a ban on Sunday games in municipal parks effective immediately. The move affects local leagues and park users amid enforcement by city authorities.
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Wolverhampton
Eng
Marriage Licenses Granted in Probate Court
Marriage licenses issued to Nerman Wendell Engle and Clarice Orinda Burroughs in Mount Pleasant and Athens pairs. Raymond Butterworth and Cora Cookley in Nelsonville. Albert Klarman and Wreda Akerberg in Logan. Clergy listed for ceremonies. Probate court also recorded estate actions including accounts, sales orders, inventories, appraisals, and executor filings for Violet Brooks, John Young, Almedia Young, John Morris, Lucetta Dean, and related notices.
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Nerman Wendell Engle
Henry Engle
Mount Pleasant
Clarice Orinda Burroughs
George Burroughs
Athens
Raymond Butterworth
Charles William Butterworth
Nelsonville
Cora Cookley
Samuel Silvester Cookley
E. Hedges
Albert FE. Klarman
John Klarman
Logan
Wreda Akerberg
Red Akerberg
Co. M. Coulter
Charles H. Brooks
Violet Brooks
Athens Township School Hosts Hallowe'en Party
The Athens township school at Factory invites all to a general Hallowe'en party on Thursday evening October 26 at the school.
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Athens Township School
Factory
Bandit Crocco Finishes Memoirs in Palermo
Carmine Crocco, the famed Sicilian bandit, completes writing his memoirs while serving 65 years of a life term. He is 95 years old.
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Palermo
Carmine Crocco
Pre Election Meet Planned in Athens for November 3
The League of Women Voters executive committee schedules a public pre election meeting at Athens high school on Thursday evening November 3. Speakers will argue for and against the Marshall bill on justices of the peace and the chiropractor licensing board. Mayor Alex Moore and Charles Williams have accepted invitations to speak, with informal receptions for all city candidates to follow.
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Athens High School
League of Women Voters
Justices of Peace
State Department
Alex Moore
Charles Williams
W. L. Gard
Walter Ludwig
Mary Noss
Stolen Ford Sedan Traced to Mansfield
A Ford sedan stolen from John Rorick of New Marshfield was located in Mansfield Saturday by the Athens County Automobile Club in cooperation with the state association. Rorick received a letter of identification from the local club secretary. Mansfield police turned the car over without charge.
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John Rorick
New Marshfield
Mansfield
Athens County Automobile Club
Rorick
Cast set for Mer ton of the Movies at Ohio University
Professor W H Cooper posts tryout results for the college play Mer ton of the Movies at Ohio University. The cast includes Merton Gill Tom Battin Amos Gashwiller John Alden Sigmond Rosenblatt Tessie Kearns Virginia Lynch and Sara Linville among others while George Caswell Harold Parmalee and John Russ lead as cameramen and crew. In Cleveland Russell Hartnett the 11 year old son of a policeman is exonerated in the death of Edwin Fischer who was fatally wounded by a police revolver during playtime.
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John Russ
Jeff Baird
Don Dowd
Mr. Walbury
Willard Brugler
Max
Robert Young
Tessie Kearns
Virginia Lynch
Helen Beeman
Beulah
Baxter
Pauline Swanson
Sara Linville
Mariel Mercer
Helen Rupp
Patterson
Margaret Laverty
Cleveland
Russell _Hartnett
Edwin Fischer
Fischer
Ruth Elder and Haldeman Arrive in Lisbon from Azores
Ruth Elder and co pilot George Haldeman landed in Lisbon aboard the Lima at 4 PM. They planned to meet the American minister soon and finalize their plans. Crowds cheered as they disembarked at 4 30 PM from the slow mail steamer from the Azores.
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Lisbon
Portugal
Ruth Eldermerican
Lima
George Haldeman
Miss Elder
Haldeman
Azores
Dr E B Bryan Lectures Begin at Nazareth Institute
Dr E B Bryan president of Ohio University lectures for four days at a Nazareth Pennsylvania teachers institute this week. He will also deliver an address in Brockton Massachusetts before Plymouth County teachers on Friday.
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E. B. Bryan
Ohio University
Nazareth
Children bitten by rabid dog near New Floodwood
Two children of Mr and Mrs Call New Floodwood received anti rabid treatment after a rabid dog bit them last Wednesday. The same day the dog showed signs of rabies and the incident was reported to the county health department Monday morning. Health Commissioner J M Higgins ordered all dogs bitten by the rabid animal killed and all other dogs within one mile kept tied or safely detained for sixty days.
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Call
New Floodwood
Warren Sprague
Chauncey
County Health Department
Country Health
J. M. Higgins
Chief of Nation's Dry Investigators Faces Suspension
William B. Robinson aged 50, chief of the nation's prohibition investigators, faces suspension while pending charges allege offense against a 9 year old girl. Bail set at 5000 dollars. Elmer Ivey of the internal revenue bureau travels to Maryland to probe. Robinson previously worked for the post office in Columbus Ohio.
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Washington
U.R
William B. Robinson
Prohibition
Robinson
Takoma Park
Elmer Ivey
Internal Revenue Bureau
Maryland
All Athens County Schools Close Friday For Meeting
All Athens County schools will dismiss Friday to allow teachers to attend the Southeastern Ohio Teachers association meeting. County Superintendent H. R. McVay announced the plan. The convention opens Thursday evening with a banquet at Hotel Berry for the Schoolmasters club and men teachers in Southeastern Ohio. Reservations should be made with Superintendents McVay or Patterson. The Women Teachers club dinner follows at 6:30 at the Methodist church dining room. notify Mrs. Anna K. Price if attending.
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Athens County
Southeastern Ohio Teachers’ Association
H. R. McVay
Hotel Berry
Schoolmasters' Club
Southeastern Ohio
John Patterson
Women Teachers’ Club
The
Methodist Church
Anna K. Price
Wall Street Eyes U.S. Steel Quarterly Meeting Mood
New York Oct 25 Wall Street awaited the quarterly meeting of United States Steel Corp with mixed expectations. Investors anticipated reports on earnings prospects and strategic guidance amid market fluctuations and industry shifts.
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New York
U.R
Wall Street
United States Steel Corporation
Weather highs and lows from the last day
The daily report records a low of 45 degrees at 8:00 this morning and a high of 79 degrees yesterday at 4:00 PM. Temperature readings show 72 and 61 degrees in the afternoon and evening, with Tuesday values including 48, 48, 45, 52, and 68 degrees at listed times.
Trotsky Faces Total Eclipse at Communist Convention
Moscow October 25 Trotsky once co ruler of Soviet Russia lost all power and standing. He was dismissed from the party and government and hissed and booed as he attempted a final speech at the Communist Executive Convention.
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Moscow
U.P
Leon Trotsky
Russia
Soviet
Communist Party
Trotsky
Communist Executive
Corporate chairmanship rumor after Gary death
After the market close, the firm plans to issue its quarterly earnings statement. Gossip suggests a successor may be chosen to fill the chair left vacant by the death of Judge Elbert H. Gary.
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Elbert H. Gary
Five City and Township Races On Athens Ballot
Athens voters will decide five tickets in the November election. The slate includes two amendments to the state constitution the Marshall bill and a State License Board for Chiropractics. Township trustees clerk and constables, board of education members, justices of the peace and city offices including mayor and council seats will be on the ballot.
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Athens
David Johnson
Athens County Board of Elections
Board of Education
Justices of the Peace
Johnson
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P. R. Potts
Esther
Elizabeth Smith
Pauline Price
Frank Bean
Ollie Seibert
Stewart
Ben Coakley
Newark
Dunkle
J. Warrington
Maggie Gilbert
Sites
J. W. Johnson
Charles Hitchings
Walter Hitchings
John Barrows
Mervin Henshaw
James Barrows
Henry Verity
Beth
Lucille Verity
Dow Bowers
Benson Adams
Charles Scott
William
Cable Gibson
Anna Nelson
Philena Nelson
Dean Nelson
Florida
Gerald Nelson
Pleasantview Avenue
Lincoln Murphy
Baltimore
Myrtle Moore
Marion
Z. A. Courtney
Blanche Verity
the Plains
Marshall Bill
Costes
le Brix
Dieudonne Costes
Joseph le Brix
le Bourget
Paris
St. Louis
Senegal
South Atlantic
Pernambuco
Buenos Aires
South America
Blood Clinic
Farmer
J. K. Robinson
Secretary of the Interior
Albert B. Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Winifred Goodin
John Young
Almedia Young
John F. Morris
Sarah Morris
John Morris
Lucetta Dean
Elza Dean
Hallowe'en Party
Bandit
Athens County Auto Club
Tilson
Ruth Elder
DR. Bryan Speaking
Coolidge
Pittsburgh
Andrew Mellon
Old Fort Pitt
George Washington
Mellon
James J. Davis
R. B. Mellon
Samuel Harden Church
Carnegie Foundation
Carroll
Rip van Winkle
Atlanta
Marl Carroll
Mrs. Carroll
Nation
Gary
Richardson
Glouster
Coca-Cola Bottling Works
City of Athens
Ohio
Albert F. Snell
Snell
Athens, Ohio
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