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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1924
Page
2
Rena Combe age 65 wife of Walter Combe died suddenly at home in the Dicken addition while tending a kitchen stove fire. She previously helped operate a store after moving from thens county. A daughter, Mrs Ed Riser, survives. The couple had moved to the city years ago and were active in local business.
Logan briefs Julian Woodworth of Cleveland visiting over Sunday with his grandmother Mrs Lucy Warner. Earl Roberts Bruce Brandt Joe Od Rudolph Brandt and Roy Uble formed a party that went to Columbus Saturday for the Ohio ate Chicago game.
Reverend Ralph W. Owen, board member of Christian Education, will address the local Presbyterian church Sunday at public worship hour. He will present information about the board and its role in state universities.
Eighty Logan Scouts and leaders traveled by Logan Supply Co. truck to Old Man's Cave arriving without incident and camping on Mr Baners farm. They earned several Second Class tests, cooked by fire, and enjoyed a campfire program before rest. Two youths stole a car for a west trip but were captured in Chillicothe. a yard tent went missing and was later found.
Mrs Weymueller aged 76 died at her son's home in Nelsonville Friday. Funeral services were conducted at Hunter Street Lutheran Church at 2 PM Monday with Rev G F Lauer in charge. Delegations from Eastern Star and Rebekahs attended. Burial followed in the family lot beside her late husband Frederick Weymueller, who died weeks earlier, by Harden Undertaking Co.
Paul Beda Jr. 21 and Elizabeth Yeager 18 apply for marriage permit in Murray. Murray Fawin Harris 21 and Gladys Galletin 24 reside at Longstreth seek marriage license.
A Saturday evening crash near the Adcock farm on the Nelsonville pike was caused by lights failing to work. Miss Doris Flerce of this city was among those injured in the collision.
Miss Fierce, riding with Clem McClurg who drove the vehicle, sustained painful cuts and bruises to the head and face when lights failed and the car plunged into a deep ditch. A flashlight proved useless, McClurg escaped injury, and Miss Fierce was taken to Cherrington hospital for treatment.
The Ladies of the Maccabees host a masquerade social Thursday evening at Clerk's Hall. Refreshments fortune telling and other Halloween season amusements will be available for attendees.
Charles Howdysheloft suffered a fracture in his right arm when a Ford engine backfired Sunday evening near Oroville. He was taken to the local hospital and the fracture was reduced.
A historical notice reports that arsenic has been successfully employed as a fertilizer in France, marking a controversial agronomic development with potential environmental and health implications.
The Ohio State Supreme Court ruled that a 1920 legislative act increasing Common Pleas judges salaries applies to judges serving when the amendment took effect. The decision involved eight Cuyahoga County judges who challenged Prosecuting Attorney Stan ton over back pay granted from the measure’s start until an injunction in April 1921.
The campaign winding up before polls ends in a storm of hatred as Tory press today denounces Premier MacDonald. The Daily Herald pounds on alleged machinations of a plot by the Press of England.
The Little Hocking packing plant in its second year shipped seventeen carloads this season averaging over 168 barrels per car and totaling over 2900 bushels. Most fruit was Rome Beauties of high color and quality from four area orchards. Inspector Jean Gribble and manager H. P. Dutton led the operation, with all fruit graded Aa.
Life notes a paradox: a harder counterfeit bill helps, but the real need is a dollar bill easier to earn honestly, underscoring trust and integrity in currency.
General Charles G. Dawes Republican vice presidential candidate opened his New York campaign with a speech praising President Coolidge. He declared Coolidge is the man the people want as an overflow crowd greeted him at the Albany capital theatre.
Caldwell Ohio October 28 a man arrested here yesterday is tied to a string of robberies targeting railroad mail cars in the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul routes. The suspect had been targeting Noble county homes prior to his arrest and is believed to help clarify the Rondout incident from last June.
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