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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1920
Page
3
Floyd Barlow received a May hearing before c. Barrows and was fined 100 dollars plus costs for bootlegging. He paid the fine and was released. Local social notes report visits from Marion relatives during Labor Day and a Labor Day guest list. Onlookers noted J W Starkey’s yard apple tree bloom.
On Labor Day there is no meeting. The next meeting will be September 13 at 7 o clock in the new club rooms. We expect all land leases signed as Hibbard will be up this week and Lee Cor will attend.
The Needle Craft Club held its annual picnic on a New York farm with a bountiful dinner and a later business session electing officers Mrs J W Stanley president Mrs E W Allen secretary and Martha Davis treasurer. Harvey Supplee of Zanesville visits relatives while locals host guests from Akron Cleveland and Bellaire during Labor Day weekend. Carl Lovett returns from an extended stay in New York City and Mae Starrett returns to Cleveland after a visit.
The D A ladies hosted a kitchen shower for Mrs. J W Stanley at her Fairview Street home. A two course luncheon was served.
Nelsonville hosts a community dance at Deanville Saturday night September 11. Classifieds list for sale items including a roll top desk thirty dollars and a sewing machine fifteen dollars both in good condition. Rentals offer two large front rooms for office or living use. A six to seven room modern house is wanted with basement. A four room house at 258 St John Street is offered cheap. Lost automobile crank south of Nelsonville. Dances at Red Men's Hall with Saxophone Stone Friday September 10. Also for sale two invalid chairs in good condition.
Article recalls the遇 first Athens county mail route in 1802 from Marietta to Hockingport, later a post office in Athens, and carriers crossing wilderness with 6 to 10 dollars monthly pay. It notes wartime dispatches, bill of lading confusion, and a 4 to 3 Labor Day baseball game between Gloucester and Jacksonville. Also mentions local M E ministers at the six day conference in Delaware and the Lostro band’s Parkersburg Fair trip.
Eight thousand delegates from across the nation gather in Columbus Ohio for the 40th annual Negro National Baptist Association convention. Rev Edward P Jones of Evanston Ill presides as general sessions open. Delegates plan to visit Senator Harding at Marion and attend Friday’s march to the Coliseum at the State Fair grounds where Harding is expected to speak.
The article describes unusual ship mascots aboard U S Navy vessels including the battleship Alabama with a Panama sugar bear on the shoulder and the U S Michigan featuring a parakeet. It notes goats among the mascots and suggests other quirky figures aboard the fleet.
Washington reports the department of agriculture lowered the spring wheat harvest forecast to 237 000 000 bushels based on September 1 reports, with a 64.1 percent normal condition and 12.2 bushels per acre. Total wheat forecast at 770 000 000, down from 795 000 000.
The rear right wheel of the Ford owned by W. A. Casley of Millview Place was torn off after a Tuesday morning collision with an Oldsmobile driven by Dr. Howe. Casley was on State street near High street when struck. the impact spun his car and pushed it to the roadside.
The John Hancock high school will begin work with the college Monday September 13. Registration lasts the first morning and classes start no later than Tuesday. Open to non residents of Athens. Registration fee set at 7.50 per semester. students who do not pay must notify their education board clerk.
Two cases heard in common pleas court scheduled for Thursday September 16 before Judge L G Worstell. The Ohio Consolidated Company versus Joseph A Isselstein is listed along with the divorce Olive North versus Fred North.
Washington reports measures to end the unauthorized coal strike in the anthracite field will be recommended to President Wilson. If miners return to work, operators may reopen wage awards from the anthracite commissions report. In Wilkes-Barre more miners returned to work as insurgent actions persist.
Ohio Attorney General Price ruled that the inheritance tax applies to the succession of stock in a corporation consolidated under Ohio and other state laws and based in another state. Probate courts in the county of the company's principal office or where the company owns property have jurisdiction to determine the tax. The ruling was sought by the state tax commission.
Mrs Susan Wright age 86 died at her New England home last evening at 5 30. Funeral services will be Thursday at 3 at the residence with interment in New England cemetery. She leaves two sons Pearley New England and William Cananville and Myrtle at home. Her husband died four years ago. Selma Davis 76 dies at Federal Creek
Boston Sept 8 Former Senator Crane remains seriously ill at home with circulatory system involvement. Wm Crane Jr says condition is unchanged and not considered alarming.
John Black aged 33 of East Sparta died in a Canton hospital from burns received when he tore the fuse cap from a device and threw it into a can of powdery substance during a mine accident. He crawled from the debris but succumbed to injuries.
Traveling salesmen from across the country will converge on Marion on September 25 as Senator Harding delivers a front porch address prepared for ambassadors of business. K M Ferguson, president of the Harding Coolidge traveling men league, announced special trains will run from Columbus Chicago New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Cleveland and Detroit. Ferguson predicted Marion will see its largest crowd since the notification day exercises.
Local residents praise Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy in Caseville and Caseyville Michigan. Mrs A H Hall says it saved her baby's life this summer and Mrs Mary Carrington reports long use with prompt relief.
Columbus, Sept. 8 A proclamation from Governor Cox urges teaching gas conservation in public schools to combat a threatened winter shortage. The document was prepared before his Western tour departure. A new wash tub hanger hook aids wringing clothes.
Senator Warren G. Harding leaves the old front porch for a campaign swing to St. Paul Minnesota with his bride. The trip marks a return to the city where they honeymooned twenty nine years ago as part of his bid to win votes.
Locked-out metal workers in Italy are deserting factories as production stalls. Moderate unions seek a dignified exit while extremists’ influence fades. Government forces reinforce garrisons and claim confidence in quashing the movement, though unrest concentrates in high-cost industrial centers.
In New York on September 8 Esther Light, noting a lengthy name, changed her name to Esther Holmes upon marrying Daniel Holmes of Purcaeee New York. He weighs a large amount, highlighting the unusual wedding detail in a brief notice.
September report states the British cabinet is reconsidering its prior decision not to free Lord Mayor MacSwiney amid strong public pressure.
Want service for all Wheeling and Lake Erie through trains between Wheeling and Cleveland. Martins Ferry Kiwanis will ask other Kiwanis clubs to aid in the effort.
U S officials weigh whether to recognize Mexico’s Obregon amid ongoing disputes over Or ranza’s confiscatory oil decrees. Washington doubts assurance of fair treatment for American oilmen can be given without Mexico’s authorities losing popularity. Informal oil protest with Mexico is not a formal response expected from State Department.
James E Breen of Ashtabula was principal speaker at the opening business session of the Elks Convention in Lima Ohio. He announced the 1920 state membership goal of 100000 and attributed a 6000 increase to lodge war work. He urged lodges to stress anti radical and anti bolshevik measures during Flag Day and memorial services.
The Athens county Farm Bureau annual meeting Saturday September 11 will discuss forming a cooperative live stock shipping association. F G Ketner Sales Director of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation will explain organization methods and benefits. A P Sandles former Secretary of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture will also speak.
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