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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1920
Page
3
The Nelsonville chamber schedules its first fall meeting for Thursday evening with supper at 6 14 and urges all members to attend and bring a visitor. Local social notes include visits and guests from Columbus Amesville Philadelphia Norfolk and Lancaster.
There will be a stated convocation of St Bernard Chapter tonight at seven o'clock. The Mark Mason Degree will be conferred. A large attendance are PRESON, H. P. IVAN KINNEY. Sec.
The Harding Republican club assembles this evening at 7 o clock in the Y M C A auditorium to perfect the organization and launch a membership campaign. All Republican men and women are urged to attend. Speaker will be Mr J P Wood president of the Harding Coolidge Club of Athens county.
This note invites readers to a 7 o'clock meeting at the club room over Cox brothers grocery on Washington street. It promises a fine time and mentions inviting a person or place named Paradise Lake to attend.
The pastor attends the fall Presbytery meeting at Amesville. A midweek prayer gathering is held Wednesday. Friday at 7 pm a brief congregational business meeting elects an elder and a treasurer to replace C. C. Sharp. The building committee’s note will be burned at a social. Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, guests of honor, will soon depart for California. Sunday the church will be rededicated free of debt with Dr. C. B. Taylor and Dr. A. Y. Wilcox hoped to attend for a notable day.
Johnny Cunningham age ten son of Mr and Mrs Walter Cunningham dies at the family home near Carbon Hill after a four month heart trouble illness. Funeral arrangements pending local services expected.
A Nelsonville notice row lists a stolen gun claim with reward at Factory No 2 and a Ford Touring Car overhaul and price. Additional items include a Red Men's hall dance, sale of furniture, and a Buick Six touring car offered by Wm. Hazelton. Also a debt disclaimer for Lucela Erb.
The obituary notes burial at Buchtel after a 10 o clock Tuesday service at the residence. The bereaved include sorrowing parents and two brothers and two sisters. Also listed is Melvin Orville Mounty, age 1, son of Geo Mounty, who died at the family residence near Haydenville. Funeral services are set for Haydenville church Wednesday with burial there.
A Republican committee of men and women schedules a 7 pm Tuesday meeting at the YMCA with a Athens speaker outlining campaign work. All women willing to canvass house to house are urged to attend. The Eastern Star also meets Tuesday evening and desires good turnout.
H E Reading president of the United Enginemen s Association says outlaws across the country are voting on whether to stay out or return to work. Chicago tabulations show outlaws favored finishing fight while bit enders led conservatives by about 1000 votes. Final decision due Wednesday.
Richard Russell of Buchtel presided at a mass meeting in Glouster to concur with the Buchtel action on the miners' contract. William Robinett of Jacksonville outlined current limits on opening the contract for wage increases and noted possible improvements when lake traffic resumes.
A Columbus financial notice from The Buckeye State Building Loan Co invites readers to save money. The Rankin Building location at 22 West Gay Street is presented as central Ohio headquarters for savings accounts and time deposits. Conservation of funds is urged as a life lesson.
A Buchtel convention motion passed to call a special district of Ohio mine workers convention. Mrs. Mary J. Palmer celebrated her 73rd birthday with a family reunion in Trimble. Glouster split results with Murray 5 0 and Millfield 3 6 in weekend baseball. Community tips include local Republican gathering and weekly specials at W Brooks store.
New York voters head to the polls for the primary with Senator James Wadsworth Jr facing George H. Payne and Ella A. Boole in a three way Republican contest fought over suffrage and prohibition. On the Democratic side George Lunn opposes Lieutenant Governor Harry C. Walker amid protests against Tammany control.
Large audiences filled morning and afternoon sessions at the Athens County Farm Bureau meeting. County Agent Raymond praised turnout and outlined aims to lower production costs and shorten producer to consumer distance. Fifty new members brought total to 551 as officers and township heads were elected for the upcoming year.
Seventeen Irish hunger strikers in Cork are reported to be near collapse after 34 days without food. A dispatch notes seven casualties and one man thought to be dying. Dublin tramways paused two hours as carmen attend services for Lord Mayor MacSwiney.
In Toledo, a Lucas county fair price commission hearing was set for today to probe landlords accused of exorbitant rents. Chairman C W Waggoner warned several cases may lead to prose cution as tenants from upscale and poorer districts report steep increases including a barn remodel rent jump from 30 to 37 50 dollars.
Reports on ancient mounds at The Plains reveal copper beads and a stone tube amid bones and ashes. Niagara Falls proves a wonder at the Meigs county fair as rain-drenched Athens county folks witness a dramatic improvised waterfall formation. The county commissioners display a sign urging order with one talk at a time.
The college weekly at Ohio University announces Morrison will serve as editor and the business manager role was filled by another appointee by the board of control last semester. Other notes include a blind street musician near the courthouse, bridge work on the I and O line near Guysville, a detour between Tedrow Gap, and local weather and river conditions after heavy rains.
Over the weekend four men and two others were cited for drunkenness by local police. Clay Smith of Glouster pleaded guilty Saturday at Union Depot and paid 5 dollars. Earl Auduburt of Marietta fined 5 dollars plus 6.55 costs on Lancaster street Sunday. Howard Russell and Jesse Marquis pleaded guilty Monday in the mayor's court and were fined 10 dollars each. Harry Spaulding of Peach Ridge paid 5 dollars for leaving his car tail light off on Court street.
Essex county grand jury will begin an investigation tomorrow into the activities of Charles Ponsi's securities exchange company after summoning twenty five witnesses to appear. A separate note states glass can be toughened by heating in a weak salt solution then cooling gradually.
State Prohibition Director Shearer may investigate a Columbus trend where weak hearts and debility appear on physician stub books. Reports note many waivers, tonics, insomnia cures, and whiskey prescriptions with limits of two pints per ten days. Seventy five Franklin County physicians hold permits. licenses are revoked when not properly used.
A Saturday night tornado and cloudburst hit Stoutsville and nearby Ross County driving an auto off a road, drowning two occupants, unroofing houses, uprooting trees, and leveling hundreds of acres of corn. Damage around Stoutsville is expected to reach thousands of dollars.
Dalton Ma September 13 Dr Bruce W Paddock announced W Murray's patient had another comfortable day Sunday and is slowly gaining strength.
J. W. Wolfe who runs the hospital piggery raised about 300 tobacco plants on hospital grounds with patients. White Burley leaves averaged three feet by five inches to twenty inches wide and Bradley’s Broadleaf measured two feet eleven inches by twenty inches. Wolfe plans to enlarge the crop next season.
A proposed amendment by Norway Denmark and Sweden to the League covenant aims to grant smaller members equal council representation. The plan would rotate four non permanent seats yearly with limited re election, strengthening assembly authority and clarifying articles on international obligations.
Local shopkeepers promote Chamberlain's Cough for years for reliable relief. The ad touts its effectiveness for common cold symptoms and persistent coughing.
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