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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1922
Page
2
Washington reports the Republican congressional campaign committee shows receipts of 197,069.47 and expenditures of 103,699.12 to defend a House majority, while Democratic figures are around 100,000 in receipts with unspecified spending.
Instructions were sent to the Mexican envoy in Washington to close the consul general’s office in New York City if a New York court order attaching Mexican government funds for Oliver Trading Corp. remains enforceable. Jitneys first appeared in Los Angeles in 1914.
A lively column details daily chores at 1 A M and quirky household duties, local gossip, and humorous notices. It notes received clothing gifts, a boots bootlegger marriage tease, local visitors, and playful deflations of public figures, ending with a folkloric rhyme about Mack Sauer and his flour-sack savings.
The Plains residents report visitors and errands. Elmer and Dot Guseman have rented upstairs rooms for Mrs. W. J. Hawk and will begin housekeeping. Charles Harrison traveled to Middleport, while Walter Oakley underwent a hip X-ray in Athens after a Beaumont mine injury. Merwin Stauffer suffered tonsillitis. Ed Burdette of Athens visited his winter home. Mrs. Frank Smith hosted Wilma and Liz Guess and other locals traveled to Nelsonville. The community thanks Watchdog for coverage of a red clay road. Residents from Mansfield and Shawnee visited or stayed with locals, including Mrs. John Gabriel Sr and Mrs. D. P. Davis, with several Athens and New Pittsburg names listed among recent visitors.
President Harding urged nationwide tributes to honor Theodore Roosevelt on his birthday. In a letter to W B Matthews of Los Angeles, he endorsed public assemblies as “schools in patriotism” and urged the nation to express rev erence for Roosevelt’s memory.
Washington county election board members found mail applications for President Warren G. Harding and his wife to vote absentee misdelivered. Enclosed were George B. Christian and two Ohioans. A postal error mixed Marion and Marietta addresses, sending the parcel to the wrong bag.
Berlin reports the former Kaiser and Princess Hermine of Reuss will sign a prenuptial agreement in which each party keeps property. The arrangement prevents future disputes with imperial heirs and shields Hohenzollern estates in Silesia from possible confiscation.
Carbon Hill High School held a fall festival supervised by teachers Mr. Dixon Miss Morgan and Miss Wilson. The event raised a large sum to be used for building a playground for the school children.
The Southeastern Ohio Teachers Association opened its annual convention at Ewing hall after a Southeast Ohio Schoolmasters' club meeting. Prof. A I Myers and Dean Thomas McCracken spoke on teacher training and education, followed by officer elections and a round table on education matters. A resolution urged defeating three constitutional amendments and pushing progressive school legislation. The next meeting will be in Marietta or Gallipolis.
An old advertisement touts a tonic claimed to cure malaria colds constipation biliousness and headaches. The language emphasizes broad health benefits and suggests restorative properties typical of period patent medicines.
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