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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1926
Page
1
State office officials release official primary totals showing Cooper with a lead of 14 957 votes over the nearest opponent. Lieutenant governor hopefuls trail Mills in the Republican race.
Official results from the August Republican primary show Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati leading Thad Brown by 14,957 votes with 172,553 to 167,696. Other statewide totals include J.O. Mills for lieutenant governor 134,486 and Clarence W. Brown for secretary of state 192,842.
Cyrus Bettis, injured in an August 23 crash near Bellefonte Pennsylvania, died at Walter Reed hospital from meningitis brought on by his injuries. He had been flown there by army ambulance after a fogbound crash on Jack's Mountain. He crawled from the wreck despite a fractured leg jaw fracture and other injuries before being found by two boys.
The body of an unidentified woman who died in a hospital after she collapsed on the street in Columbus remains unclaimed. Doctors attribute the death to heart disease.
Akron reports Goodyear Tire and Rubber company produced 1,060,000 tires and 1,950,000 tubes in August, likely breaking all prior production records.
The Dependable Oil company plant equipment and service stations are sold to Pure Oil company of Columbus for an estimated purchase price of 175000.
Young boys aged ten to twelve were sentenced by Judge Duncan to the Law Industrial School for involvement in a physician’s supply store theft case.
William S. David, former Ohio attorney general, has accepted appointment as law director of Lakewood, a suburb. The move positions him to oversee city legal affairs and counsel for the Lakewood administration.
In September, oysters awaken from winter dormancy and begin an eight month season. The first of the RR months signals the revival of oyster harvest and consumption across regions.
County attendance officer Carl H. Porter told the Athens county institute that irregular attendance wastes a half million dollars yearly and harms education. He urged teachers to report handicapped children and stressed social losses and lower classroom efficiency.
Three U S warships and a marine landing party guard American lives in Bluefields as factions in Nicaragua clash near El Bluff. Galveston remains offshore in Bluefields harbor with orders to stay neutral while protecting American interests.
California reelects Senator Samuel W. Shortridge as Coolidge forces secure a lead over Judge Robert M. Clarke. Partial returns from 3,185 of 8,282 precincts show a margin exceeding 10,000 votes despite a statewide anti-administration push led by Hiram Johnson.
United States Senator William B. McKinley of Illinois is in critical condition at a Martinsville sanitarium. He has been bedridden for a week with con gestion of the lunga, a serious illness.
Chicago’s 73 year old Grandpa Frank De Forest works as a baby minder for a South Side department store. For five years he minds neighborhood children, speaking lullabies in many languages. Last year he tended nearly ten thousand babies, offering free, courtesy service.
Thirty five members of the 108th Field Artillery National Guard were sent from Providence to reinforce 11 state police facing about 500 Manville strikers at the Manville Jenckes cotton mill. Police and troopers exchanged fire as rioters hurled stones and tear bombs. The situation remained tense overnight but was under control at dawn.
A quake in Horta Azores on Sept 1 left twelve dead about one hundred injured and hundreds homeless. Temporary lighting was set up near two parks as troops and firemen patrolled ruined streets, marking Horta as a city of the dead.
Cecil Allen, 27, is being held in Biggott Arkansas pending a postmortem on his wife’s body. Coroner’s jury recommended custody. Mrs Allen died unexpectedly yesterday. Two of the couple’s children had died suddenly in the weeks prior.
United States Senator E. D. Smith a Democrat and world court advocate was renominated in yesterday's primary. Returns from 1 267 precincts of 1 371 in the district indicate the result.
The Rev. I. I. Cherrington of McArthur officiated at a city wedding this afternoon uniting Professor Homer Cherrington of the Ohio University faculty and Miss Maria Grover of Athens as husband and wife at the First Methodist church.
Mrs. John Hedricks, wife of one of three men scheduled for Ohio's first triple execution, pleads for mercy with Governor Donahey. The trio, including John Bryant and Richard Rhodes, face the electric chair for the murder of James McCumber.
Somerville New Jersey September 1 Attention in the Hall Mills murder investigation shifted to Henry Stevens brother of Mrs Frances Stevens Hall Stevens was accused in an affidavit by authorities of threatening the life of the Rev Edward W Hall who with Mrs Eleanor Mills a choir singer was found murdered near New Brunswick on September 16 1922.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended until December 30 reduced rates on bituminous coal from West Virginia and Kentucky mine districts to Cincinnati and Covington Kentucky and nearby districts.
Wayne B Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League urged a bread and water diet for bootleggers after a Lincoln Nebraska high court ruling upheld such sentences. He said the plan could curb liquor during the prohibition era and commented on the state law involved.
TEKEMAP Neb September 1 Young farmers Ray Carson and Thomas Nelson begin a 60 day jail term for selling liquor at a country dance. They will endure twenty days on bread and water, twenty days on regular prison fare, then twenty more days of bread and water. Sheriff Smith promises ample bread and water throughout.
Witnesses subpoenaed for the Stark county grand jury in the Don R. Mellett murder probe failed to appear but their depositions have been reviewed. Prosecutor C B McClintock says investigators will continue to locate the missing witnesses including three Cleveland women linked to Patrick McDermott. Indictments may follow the grand jury report expected Friday or Saturday.
In Springfield Missouri on September 1 cheers greeted W R Leffler as murder charges were dropped on the prosecutor's recommendation after a preliminary hearing into the killing of evangelist Rev Edward Gillum. Evidence showed Gillum attempted to approach Leffler’s wife and sent threatening letters. Leffler confessed to killing Gillum with an Indian club after finding him in his home and said he struck after the preacher moved to draw a gun.
John W. Parker received a bushel of peaches from J. W. Stocklein the Glouster orchard man. The fruit is large and of rare flavor with ten peaches weighing a total of one hundred ounces an average of over half a pound each. Parker previously trimmed trees in Stocklein orchard.
Paris, Sept 1 The League of Nations stands as the surest guarantee of world peace Briand French foreign minister declares in a statement written for United Press before his Geneva departure He says defense of the league equals defense of peace and vows to lend his best efforts and integrity to its cause despite expected criticisms and obstacles
Chicago of the suit against Sir Maurice FitzGerald an Irish baronet for breach of promise Miss Harris 23 an actress says courts here are convenient easy to obtain service and thus she sues for 100000
Chicago on September first reports final plans to file the Tilina net referendum with the secretary of state in Springfield tomorrow. The petition signed by 400000 voters is led by George Brennan Democratic Senate candidate. Elihu Root allegedly helped draft it.
Oil well operations are active near Athens with three rigs in use. The Walker and Biddle groups are drilling on Walker property in the Fisher field, at about 700 feet with casing in place. A second well on C. O. Moore farm at White Hall was halted while fish for casing after a leakage incident at 750 feet. A Nelsonville company is drilling on Charles Pratt’s farm south of the Athens State hospital, at 500 feet. depth expected to 700 feet by Sunday and Berea grit production by mid next week.
A Soo Line passenger train struck an automobile at an unprotected grade crossing in Des Plaines killing a family of three. The incident occurred late last night with investigators detailing the crash as a tragic gateway accident.
A government publication promotes better floor choices in homes. Experts summarize durable materials and proper installation for various rooms. Readers can obtain the non-technical booklet by mailing a coupon with stamps for return postage.
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