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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1929
Page
5
Society note lists Miss Martha Whipple and other locals departing for teaching posts in Cleveland and Akron. It recalls Mrs Dr. families, vacations, and brief travels among Niles, Trimble, Stewart, and Washington County, with a baby born in Sheltering Arms Hospital.
Former attorney general Harry M. Daugherty told reporters in Columbus he is ready to testify in the Washington Fall oil case next month. A subpoena was served on him and he asked the U.S. Marshal to report his acceptance. He noted he testified as a government witness in an earlier oil case and that the Supreme Court said he had no involvement with the condemned leases. He criticized a recent profile on Harding’s nomination and hinted at the fuller truth of Harding’s era.
Prof and Mrs Lester Hayman and daughter Alice leave Athens with the elder Bennett and Edmundson relatives for Morgantown West Virginia. West Virginia University professor Hayman and family were summer visitors. In Athens guests included Bert Kerr and daughter Callie Gean with Will Kerr Frances Irebus and two children of Columbus. Kerr family ties trace back to J H Kerr who moved from Columbus to Athens two years ago. Another son Floyd Georges, Hotel Berry laundryman, is ill at 202 West Washington Street.
Gastonia textile strike case returns to Charlotte where Judge M W Barnhill made his first airplane ride as relief from jury selection. The jurist and court personnel were photographed as they emerged from the plane after the flight.
Seventy eight lives were lost and massive damage traced to a typhoon that struck Albay on Luzon Island last week. Mayon Volcano mudslides killed many as floods swept away hundreds of homes and a severe water famine followed.
Ohio inspector reports a three fourths inch nut possibly caused the derailment of Pennsylvania Train No. 614 near Condit on August 18 injuring 234 passengers and crew. The nut found near the derailment shows wheel marks suggesting it was struck or run over by the front tank truck.
The advisory commission to the State Highway Department elected Walter G. Nickels of New Philadelphia as chairman and Charles C. Jaynes of Columbus as secretary. The commission will review the annual allotment of 200 additional miles to the state highway system.
Democratic state headquarters in Columbus assails Governor Myers Y. Cooper over officials failing to intervene in horse racing and betting at Beulah Park near the city.
Harvard University's A. KR. Erskine Bureau of Street Traffic Research reports that today’s motor car is four times as safe as the car of ten years ago, highlighting advances in vehicle safety and road design.
Treating of the Guysville Stewart road with tar and limestone began Thursday, per County Surveyor J. W. Wilson. The two miles of road will cost about 1200 to 1500 dollars per mile, with expected completion by Sunday.
Mrs Kate Pinkerton aged 76 77 died at the home of her son Ralph Pinkerton on Wolfe Street following a period of ill health. Funeral services set for 9 30 Sunday morning at the Church of God Hocking Street with burial at Canaanville. Survived by son Ralph two daughters Mrs John Ruth Jerseyville and Mrs Ray Burch Canaanville three step children Hoyt Richland Avenue Otto Dayton and Mrs Mary Thompson one brother Charles Mansfield of Canaan Township husband Joseph Pinkerton preceded her in death. The family home was in Harmony Canaan Township before moving to Athens about ten years ago.
Marriage licenses issued to Floyd McDonald 31 of Chillicothe and Nellie Searles 30 of Millfield at home. Lloyd Shutts 21 of Nelsonville and Bessie Graham 16 of Nelsonville at home. Clarence KE Humphrey administrator authorized to dispose of John W. Johnson estate property at private sale.
The pardon petition of Harry F Sinclair and Henry Mason Day, both imprisoned in DC Jail, faced the Justice Department today with three prosecuting official recommendations. Two more opinions from high Justice officials were expected to be added later.
Sand blasting of the Athens County Court House coating caused noise and dust that forced the Common Pleas Court to relocate from the courthouse to the Jury Room and then to the City Building. The move was temporary until work on the adjoining section finished.
The Justice Department withheld details of clemency recommendations while prosecutors and the trial judge reportedly favored mercy for two prisoners. With Attorney General Mitchell absent until October 1, acting officials may sign the submissions. The prisoners argue their sentences for criminal contempt were excessive.
The earliest engineered road, laid in 1650 between New York and Boston, used cobblestones and marked a pioneering transport milestone in colonial America.
GLOUSTER September 6 A large reunion marked the return of Robert Moody from Tulsa Oklahoma to Greens Run Ohio at his parents home Mr and Mrs William Moody with four generations and 42 attendees including Mr and Mrs Joe Moody and seven children Derthick Columbus Jacksonville and Glouster residents attended as well as Albert Moody Greens Run among others. illness kept one daughter Mrs Homer Banfield Springfield away.
Milo Bean and J. W. Skinner, both of Athens, were arrested on Union Street Thursday night by Police Chief E. Finsterwald and Officer Howard Gilson. They were lodged in the City Jail and will be arraigned this evening before Mayor K. C. Woodworth.
The body of 56 year old Charles Pfeister of Newport was found in weeds along a roadside in Uhrichville after a beating. Police say they detained Robert Saunders nearby and are probing reports of a quarrel between the men.
Norman Balser, son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Balser of Millersport area, suffered serious injuries Thursday morning after he ran behind a backing truck at his father’s farm.
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