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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1921
Page
1
The Lancaster Country Club invites Athens golfers for a Thursday match play on the Lancaster course. About twenty five players will travel by auto around 8 am and return that evening. Luncheon and dinner will be served at the Lancaster club.
Chicago reports that sixty thousand railroad employees will meet Sunday to discuss wage difficulties with the roads. Bert M. Jewell, president of the railroad department of the American Federation of Labor, will address the gathering but declined to reveal his speech. The meeting follows shop workers nationwide voting strongly against the July 1 wage cut.
Reed's Orchestra of Parkersburg will play at Lamborns Pavilion in Glouster on Wednesday September 14 from 9 to 12.2.
Washington reports that tax dodgers cost the treasury more than 1 billion dollars yearly. Officials say changes in law are needed to seal leaks from tax free securities and other schemes. MPs cite illegal deductions gifts and small merchant evasions as key factors in the losses.
George Washington Hatfield, kin of Devil Anse Hatfield, settles on an Ohio River shanty boat near Sistersville with wife, a full-blooded Indian. The 76-year-old recalls Sid Hatfield and claims possible paternity while vowing to lawfully avenge bloodshed. He preserves a 100-year-old rifle and a violin said to date from 1314.
A Santiago report from September 13 describes a raging smallpox outbreak with one thousand cases isolated in already crowded city hospitals, signaling a severe public health crisis.
A disputed coroner race heats up as the rise in automobile ownership appears to complicate voter turnout and influence the contest. Key figures weigh in on policy angles and local turnout implications.
The Senate finance committee decided on January 1, 1922 as the effective date for the tax cuts on surplus incomes and the repeal of the excess profits tax. It also indicated the repeal could be retroactive to the same date.
Paris dispatch reports Trotsky has resigned as Soviet war commissioner and may have travelled to the Ukraine in relation to the Soviet declaration of a state of war in Bessarabia. The wireless transmission from Moscow via Riga gave the notice today.
Vernon M. Reigels head of the state board of censors planned talks with the attorney general to bar Arbuckle films in Ohio. Mrs. Evelyn F. Snow, the film censor, led the initiative as Reigels said he favored such action and would act if legally possible.
Williamson W Va September 13 jurors in the second Matewan murder trial visited the mining town to view sites tied to the May 1920 gun battle. Reece Chambers and Fred Burgraff are on trial for the murder of detective J W Ferguson as witnesses testify Ferguson claimed he had been shot and surrendered before being killed.
Roscoe Arbuckle faced the grand jury over the Virginia Rappe death but was not indicted for first degree murder after six hours of deliberation. The jury will reconvene when Brady presents further evidence. a preliminary hearing is set for Friday. The coroner's inquest proceeds alongside, with witnesses detailing events at the Hotel St Francis.
Ohio Collieries Company officials and mine workers plan a meeting in Glouster to resolve the shutdown at Sugar Creek No. 209. Hocking district miners warn that if No. 209 is not restarted, all Hocking mines and then all Ohio mines may close as workers protest wage and contract terms. Nos. 210 and 211 remain idle.
Two Sinn Fein couriers bearing De Valera's reply to the British invitation to attend the conference arrived in Inverness and proceeded to Geloch where the Irish note was handed to Prime Minister Lloyd George.
Two suspects were held today in the death of Edward J. Fahey 27 former secretary of the state board of pardons. Fahey was shot in his cousin’s home last night after a brawl police said.
Athens Boy Scouts Troop Two invites boys aged 12 to 14 to join after a moonlit hike and weiner roast led by Scout Master Dupler at Roush farm near Rock Riffle. About twelve youths attended. a few vacancies remain.
Columbus officials search for Joseph Andy a life term inmate from Stark county after his escape last night. Andy a trusty serving a second degree murder sentence fled from the penitentiary and is missing.
Experts tracking the Kilbane Frush featherweight title bout in Cleveland say Kilbane must win early in Saturdays fight to keep the crown. Analysis from camps of both boxers weights already predict caution and early pressure.
Dublin papers express optimism that Ireland will join a conference at Inverness on September 20 after the Dail Eireann dispatched a note to Scotland. De Valera and cabinet prepare to name plenipotentiaries, while some reports say talks may start without a set agenda.
Witnesses recall Miss X in Arbuckle suite with others, mentions she was topless briefly and that Arbuckle warned he would drop her if helpers did not assist. Dr Olaf Klarboe testified he was summoned to attend. Arbuckle claimed the woman had too much to drink.
Brady says Mrs Zey Prevon has reversed her story to grand jury about Arbuckle wild party. Miss Alice Blake is missing and cannot be found, along with another witness. Dr Rumwell’s handling of Miss Rappe is called highly unsatisfactory. He cites wealth and influence as corrupting factors and vows to uncover the truth and punish the guilty.
Miss Preyvon told Brady and Detective Captain Methson that Arbuckle caused her injuries, then recanted before the grand jury. Brady noted they had not decided on perjury charges against Miss Pryvon as the panel had not indicted Arbuckle for first degree murder, and the grand jury’s turmoil ended after Brady urged adjournment.
In Berlin on September 13 United Press reports fears that the German mark would collapse like Austria and Holland unless Allied reparations payment methods are changed. Officials say Chancellor Wirth and Rathenau believe the Entente must alter Germanys payment method to avert a complete debacle.
A reflective line notes that enemies can be valuable in certain situations while friends remain valuable at all times, suggesting a nuanced view of alliances and utility in relationships.
A compact historical note lists September 18 milestones: Rear Admiral Merril Miller born in Bellefontaine, the 1859 Oberlin arrest of a enslaved man rescued at Wellington, the 1874 Dalzel National Soldiers' Reunion call in Caldwell, and the 1915 death of former Governor Andrew L. Harris in Eaton. Harris hailed from Butler County, born November 17, 1836.
President Harding and party sail from Brooklyn on the Mayflower to Glencove Long Island for a round of golf at Piping Rock. The plan includes another golf outing tomorrow before returning to Washington. Five notable attendees join the party, including Weeks Sawyer Frelinghuysen Ely and Rep Logie.
In New York on September 13, women vote for the first time as primary race intensifies. With 2,734 polling places open from 3 to 9 p m, the four cornered Republican fight heightens effort to mobilize female voters while Mayor John F Hylan seeks the Democratic nomination amid Republican uncertainty.
Harold D. Jacobs reports plans for a new liberal political party launched by the committee of forty eight independent of other groups. The aim is to appeal to independent voters, avoid farm labor or socialist alliances, and test strength in the 1922 congressional elections with a national conference and state organizations forming this fall.
Dayton residents won a court ruling that upheld a new gas rate schedule for the Dayton company, stopping the challengers from voiding the ordinance. The old rate was 34.5 cents per thousand feet, while the new sliding plan starts at 50 cents and rises to 1.00 dollar for twenty thousand feet or more.
Government bulletin offers expert laundry guidance from the Department of Agriculture. Free Home Laundry Bulletin available by mail with two cents for return postage. requestor to send name and address to Frederic J. Hankin in Washington, D. C.
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