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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1927
Page
1
A local school reports that six hundred twenty five eighth grade students completed the term and joined the district’s graduation programs. Teachers praised the class for attendance and achievement as families gathered for the ceremony.
Superintendent McVay speaks on the evolution of public education at the Athens teachers’ institute as 625 eighth graders receive diplomas. He links free popular education to constitutional aims, cites Franklin Washington Adams Monroe Madison Jefferson, and urges teachers to mold moral, intelligent citizens for the state.
Thirty six mothers were granted pensions this morning by the court on order of Judge 8. M. Johnson of Athens County Probate Court. The widows with dependent children were found worthy of charity and will receive from ten to thirty six dollars a month, totaling about five hundred ninety dollars monthly.
A. J. McKee, fireman on a B. and O. coal train, was killed when the engine was fired upon while passing Lafferty Ohio. The train, coming from West Virginia mining fields, prompted authorities to suspect union vs non union tensions. Several shots were fired according to reports.
New Lexington report says three union brickworkers were slightly injured in fist fights during a demonstration at the Ohio White Brick Company. Attorney S Druggan sought an injunction to keep union men from interfering with plant operations. Judge Price refused. Sheriff McNabb was urged to protect non union workers but no deputies were appointed.
Okey McDaniel, 37, of near Guysville on George Jeffers farm, was struck by a flying limb when a tree he had cut fell. He was Trepanned at a Parkersburg hospital and may lose sight in his right eye but is expected to recover. His brother Carl assisted and he regained consciousness en route to Parkersburg.
About 700 miners from Perry and Athens counties moved through Zanesville on September 1 en route to Coshocton county and other eastern Ohio mine fields in search of jobs. They said no demonstration was planned, just a need for employment not found at home.
Perry county health officer reports eight typhoid and five scarlet fever cases in five towns. Rev. Harry B. Welsh moves from New Lexington to Portsmouth Second United Brethren church. Rev. J. B. Migmery shifts from Newark to Crooksville United Brethren Church. Marion County voters to decide courthouse improvements at November election.
At the 55th annual WCTU convention in Minneapolis Mrs. Harriet G. Wheeler of Tecumseh Michigan, 100, was honored as the oldest active temperance worker in the world. She joined the society fifty years ago.
About 150 members of 4-H clubs will showcase displays at the Meigs Fair. Boys and girls will present projects and crafts as part of the event.
Meigs County prepares for a major 4-H fair display with over 150 members. Potato club shows 30 exhibits, food club 10, clothing club 140, each member presenting cost and time records.
Logan report says Judge Harley M. Whitcraft declares law must be kept as three Nelsonville men are convicted after a grotto grounds arrest by Officer Joe Farbearn. Taylor pays 250 for possession and 500 for transportation plus costs. Rosser 250 plus costs. Woods 150 plus costs.
Andrew Andrews killed himself by igniting 15 sticks of dynamite at the Braeholm clubhouse in Logan West Virginia. The blast wrecked part of the building and ended in a fatal act of self harm.
Upon arrival at the hospital trephining was advised and another skull operation is planned in about three days. Mr. McDaniel is a brother of Mrs. Charles Wood of 66 N. Cemetery Street, Athens.
The body of Ben McLean who died from gunshot wounds at Springfield Til arrived in Athens at 4 o'clock last evening over the Hocking Valley railroad. Burial was in West Union Street Cemetery.
Mrs. Alice Edwards 40 wife of O. J. Edwards died at home west of Harrisonville after several months illness. Ten children, many small, are left motherless. Funeral from the Methodist church at 2 pm Thursday, burial in White Oak cemetery.
William F. Bort aged 70 died at his Logan residence after a two year illness. The death followed a heart attack while relatives were present. Funeral plans were not immediately disclosed.
William F. Bart 70 of this city died at 6 15 pm after a two year decline in health and a heart attack while relatives were present He was the last of a large family and had worked as a book keeper and in various posts in Nelsonville Haydenville and Columbus He leaves a son Donald a daughter Florence a niece Mrs W H McCormick of Columbus and was active in many fraternal orders including the Elks Masons Knights Templar and Grotto Burial is planned in Oak Grove with funeral arrangements pending.
Robert M. Kendall was jailed in Washington on September 1 charged with beating his wife striking his mother in law breaking a policeman s arm and inciting a small riot in the capital city.
His mother Mrs Frederick Redfern of Rochester New York fears for Paul R Redfern a Georgia to Brazil flyer after days without word and declares Paul is gone predicting his death amid lingering hope grounded in a mother's plea.
POMEROY Sept 1 Judge C E Peoples announces he does not choose to return to the Meigs County bench to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Judge A P Miller. Gov Donahey is flooded with telegrams urging acceptance of Miller’s resignation while Miller says his mind is made up and will not reconsider.
Rushville at last has a physician. Dr. E. L. Miller of Columbus, a graduate of Ohio State University medical school, has opened an office there. For months the village offered a house and rent free to attract a doctor and establish the town as his headquarters.
Edward F. Brock and William Schlee of Detroit, attempting a world flight, hoped to reach Aleppo andBagdad from Constantinople today but failed to obtain Turkish overflight permission. They left Croydon for Constantinople three and a half days earlier, covering 1 584 miles, racing to stay on schedule. Brock denied bigamy rumors and explained his marital history.
Baltimore Md Sept 1 Leslie G Beall 39 of Clarksburg West Virginia slept at the wheel of an car with his nine year old son Rude while traveling Frederick road near North Bend road. Police report says both were later taken to a hospital after awakening.
The Fokker monoplane Saint Raphael carrying Princess Anne of Lowenstein Wertheim and two British aviators was en route from Upavon to Ottawa. Weather, fuel for 43 hours, and winds were factors as St. Johns Newfoundland awaited news of the mission.
Sweeney a 43 year old man from near Goshen and Leaning 41 his wife and mother of two children were arraigned in the Mont county jail on a medicine related charge after a week of illness.
Sept 1 report from Zanesville states J sell Marple of Zanesville served as state master councillor of the Order of Demplay at the session marking its third annual convention. Columbus was chosen as the 1928 convention city.
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