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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1929
Page
12
Classified notices in The Messenger reference circulation inquiries directed to D Y Milne at Logan 272.
New York reporters quoted T A T officials denying Colonel Charles A Lindbergh was on his way west to help search for the missing City of San Francisco. The airline said Lindbergh remained in the east and had no plan to join the fleet already seeking the plane.
John Stanley Hutchinson 48 dies suddenly from heart trouble at his Logan home. Funeral 10:30 a m Saturday at South Walnut Street home. Rev Amos L Heyde to officiate. Survived by widow Minnie and sisters Mrs Eugene Adyotte Columbus Mrs J B Young Worthington Ind Mrs C V Wright Logan Mrs George Thomas Bicknell Ind and Herbert Hutchinson Columbus. Burial Oak Grove cemetery.
Logan residents are told to report to the courthouse at nine oclock Monday morning for the April term petit jury service as Sheriff W R Lloyd announces a week of trial work ahead.
Political maneuvering in Washington delays deciding whether the 600 million tariff bill should slash duties to agricultural products. Democratic, farm bloc, and administration leaders back postponing rate debates to pursue administrative provisions and a tariff commission investigation.
Logan Sept 6 Hocking County expects a revival of the rural school fight as three more petitions join the county board race creating two complete candidate sets. New filings include Joe Locke Ward Township N F Nimon Starr Township and C H Reichley Benton Township plus returning contenders J M Lanner Starr Township Carl Poling Marion Township Irvin Kohler Laurelville and Forest Wolfe Laurelville who did not seek a second term. Information says others were approached before the final petitions.
Mrs. Mary J. Ucker died at 79 at her Logan home after a long illness. Wife of John J. Ucker she left ten children with three predeceased. A Catholic, pioneer Hocking County family member. Funeral at St John Catholic Church with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery.
Fire department was alerted at 11 30 a m when a sighting of smoke near the attic window of Joe Harden's North Mulberry Street home prompted a cautious building check. Firemen found no fire. Drivers reportedly ignored a new no parking within a block rule near the scene.
Logan Sept 6 Dr Morton W Bland health commissioner began physical exams for 30 Logan High School football players. Nineteen examined first day. rest to be checked before week end. First year health department provides this service and will keep a careful record of each player's physical condition.
Hannah Webb, injured in a September wreck on the New Straitsville Road near Logan ten days earlier, left Cherrington Hospital Thursday. She suffered two fractured ribs and bruises. The crash reportedly involved a car driven by Dewey Cox of Bremen, with Webb as a passenger in the car driven by her nephew John W. Lemon.
Bill Dickey has become the Yankees catcher and his 13 year old brother plays behind the bat for Little Rock Arkansas, highlighting a family baseball influence.
St Pauls parish elects L K Showalter and Robert Lee White as delegates to the Southern Ohio Diocese special conference to select a bishop co adjutor. Mrs Showalter and Mrs White named alternates. Rev B L Plelow will also represent the parish at the Calvary Church Clifton Cincinnati on November 6.
The Rev. J. H. Crouse presides as head of the church organization with Chicago headquarters. The Rev. Blanchard of Norton is expected to attend and address the conference. Other conference ministers will speak with services each evening beginning at eight o'clock.
Port Columbus used a public loudspeaker for the first time to announce ship arrivals and departures each evening. The system uses a microphone in the port superintendent’s office and horns in the tower control room. Officials consider a grand stand on the port edge for public convenience.
Henry J. Ruhl a structural iron worker fell 145 feet inside a Cleveland Milling Company smoke stack in Mansfield while painting it. The accident occurred today, his body was recovered by fellow workers, and he leaves a widow and five children.
William Sauer Jr a city champion sports fan celebrated his twenty first birthday with a cake from Frank Luke a candle for each year on top. As baseball winds down he prepares for the high school football season and remains a familiar wheelchair presence at city events and visits Columbus and Cincinnati for sports at traction.
Funeral services were conducted at Ebenezer Baptist Church near Maxville for Thomas Miller 79 a Perry County farmer who died at home Wednesday morning. Survived by widow Lydia and six children. burial in Ebenezer Cemetery.
Mrs Elizabeth Anthony 64, widow of W H Anthony, died at her home near Tresboro after a long illness. Her father L B Mills died last week. Funeral services will be held at Mt Pleasant church Friday afternoon with Rev H L Geddes of Logan presiding. Burial is in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Banking authorities and detectives pursue a forged credit fraud involving C. D. Waggoner of Telluride Colorado. A scheme used telegraphic orders from Denver to six New York banks to move 400000 dollars to Chase National Bank, allowing Waggoner to draw before the fraud was detected.
H N Burgett of the South East Ohio Motor Club reports Germany has liberalized its driving permit rules. Applicants may now obtain a license by presenting a foreign permit under one year old and one unmounted photo. The license is reportedly issued quickly after a brief oral exam on German traffic rules.
The telegram lists five corrections pointing out errors: capital city of Honolulu misspelled, the blackboard map actually shows Indiana, Massachusetts misspelled, North and South America transposed on the globe, and the scrambled word PERPENDICULAR to be corrected.
In Charlotte North Carolina on September 6 a murder trial of 16 mill workers continued with police testimony about a gun battle at a National Textile Workers Union strike HQ. Police Chief F Aderholt of Gastonia was fatally wounded and Tom Gilbert a Gastonia officer wounded described the volley. A J Roach who with Gilbert was wounded added details of strikers firing from knot holes in the building. The testimony drew parallels to frontier defense battles.
The liner American Legion struck the breakwater in the Montevideo harbor and became wedged in a marine angle, blocking the quay and prompting emergency operations today.
Charles BF Eliot of Delaware was appointed by the Ohio Industrial Commission as special Investigator for the division of safety and hygiene. A Ohio Wesleyan graduate, he will focus on construction safety to cut accidents, which last year accounted for 1266 percent of total incidents, though 7 percent of workers were in the field. He is son of the late Herbert Eliot and will assume duties immediately.
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