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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1921
Page
5
Society notes record Mr. Fred Graves at the Meigs county fair and many local residents visiting Buckeye Lake Columbus and Zanesville. Prominent figures including Sheriff Parker ex Sheriff Lowry and Mr. Beaton travel from Athens for social events and a famed Athens Home Coming dinner in 1904.
Mr. Harry Stewart and sister Miss Belle Stewart have returned to their home in Columbus after a several days visit with their cousin Mrs. Dean Stickney and family at 68 Maplewood Drive.
A taxi phone service is set at Front street corner with Glouster Citizens phone numbers. A Glouster Chamber of Commerce meeting formed a seven member board including A J Price and R G Webber to guide future work and consolidate fund solicitations through the chamber. A.M. Cunningham, C G Faires, H W Campbell aided a social afterward. Next meeting September 19. Mrs Tom Whitlatch taken to Columbus for appendicitis operation. The Buckeye Protestant pastors index lists Rev Mr Smith with 57 members in clergy. federation keeps three card indexes by county denomination and alphabet.
Officers will be installed at the Knights of Pythias lodge meeting Monday evening. Following the installation, refreshments will be served and all local Knights of Pythias are urged to attend. Mrs. H W Campbell Mrs M M LeFavor and Mrs C F Hyde attended the funeral of their step mother Mrs Mary L Campbell at New Lexington today.
Mr and Mrs David Lloyd and son Forest of Chicago visited this week as guests of Mr and Mrs Phil Lloyd and relatives. The Lloyds are former Glouster residents who left over twenty years ago.
Tomorrow midnight marks the filing deadline for township, corporation without a primary, and certain independent candidates to place names on the November ticket. Petitions may be filed with E. L. Jones or Ira Andrews, or with board members W. A. Carpenter, C. D. Brewer, or Frank Lowther in Alexander, as stated by the county board of elections.
The Daughters of Veterans convene at the Odd Fellow hall this evening at seven o clock. All members are urged to attend.
Columbus Ohio September 8 Ohio has more than 500 Protestant ministers and over two hundred may be addressed by eight family names Brown Davis Johnson Jones Miller Smith White and Williams according to lists from the Ohio Federation of Churches in Columbus.
The funeral services for Walter W. Ackley were conducted at his 19 Park Place home at 4 PM with remarks by Congressman I M Foster and Dr E W Chubb of Ohio University. The body will move Friday to Mrs Boyd’s home near Hiramsburg, then Saturday to Caldwell for services at the M E Church, with interment at Olive Cemetery. Addison Okey will give an address. pallbearers drawn from Caldwell friends. Charles B Johnson of Clarksburg, brother of Mrs Ackley, arrived last night.
Chief Ashworth of the customs service said federal agents are destroying a huge seizure of wines whiskey champagne and other liquors after attempts to sell it failed. He noted a weak market for imported liquor and that even under five dollars a case there were no buyers.
Interviews with local firms show hundreds of men in Athens and Athens county out of work. Grayson Manufacturing reports daily arrivals seeking work, often willing to take forty cents an hour. Lumber firms, Bardin and McBee, describe few experienced workers but many applicants. The college revenue helps but miners and distressed families face starvation.
Melion testified to the Senate Finance Committee detailing steps to raise sufficient revenues. He presented a plan in written form, highlighting measures requested to balance the budget and fund government obligations.
Mary Puchalski a 10 year old of 8109 Sowinski avenue Cleveland traveled from Cleveland to Columbus and Newark with 50 cents. A railroad detective turned her over to the juvenile court after she was put off a B and O train in Newark. She left home with 60 cents to buy beads but bought them for 10 cents and declined to pay 40 cents in Cleveland. The court seeks to reach her Cleveland parents.
Secretary Hoover announced that President Harding will convene an unemployment congress within the next fortnight. The event aims to address joblessness and economic strain nationwide amid ongoing recovery efforts.
Eshu Root held two long meetings with President Harding and Secretary Hughes in Washington and would not deny reports that he may join the American delegation at the arms limitation conference.
A compact note reports pulling free a device or item priced at 18 cents once, linked to a product named Blue Devil Cleanser. The terse line hints at a minor historical consumer item or ad copy. Identifiers suggest a catalog or shopping mention with dated context.
Henry Turner, a Denver plumber, left a repair job in December 1920 to get a drink of water and, after eight months and ten days, reappeared at Dr Lillian Pollock’s home claiming to complete the work. Doctors call his case amnesia and are puzzled how he recalls the pipe repair while forgetting most else.
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