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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1922
Page
3
Local visits include Mr and Mrs Tom Cline and Esther from Nelsonville to Portsmouth and gatherings with Collins and Grant families. School enrollment across East and Central structures lists many named teachers and grades, with a grand total of 165 121 70 1575 students. An event at Mrs Martha Davis’s home is described as a pretty affair.
Mrs. Davis entertained for Henry A Crawford and Conney C Crawford with music and games until 9 30. A two course lunch followed then a walk to Look Out Rock where a camp fire and ghost stories preceded departures at midnight. Twenty four guests attended. WILL OPEN STUDIO HERE Miss Bertha Higgins to open a studio in Nelsonville at 206 West Columbus street.
A Colchester area oyster from the River Blackwater has changed sex three times in twelve months. Dr J H Orton notes Oliver then Olivette now Olly has produced thousands of young, with environment driving the shifts. Olly is currently at Plymouth’s Marine Biological Laboratory for study.
The West End Parent Teacher Association will meet Friday at 2 p.m. in the West building to arrange the fall festival set for late September. All members are urged to attend. Mr and Mrs Oliver Crawford and others traveled to Delaware where Henry Crawford began his senior year at O W University.
Athens residents gathered at the fraterno hall to honor surviving charter members E. R. Lash and J. K. McCune, original founders of the Athens lodge in January 1877, with a supper, speeches, and musical entertainment. The event featured Dr. H. R. Wilson as chair, Rutland Entertainers, Miss Ferrel Strickland, and Ford G. Hunker, who invited the lodge to a September R of P celebration in Middleport. Lash and McCune received gold lockets with life membership certificates.
Belfast dispatch reports Irish Republican irregulars concentrating in Tyrone county with the clear aim of launching an attack against the Free State authorities. The movement signals rising tensions as security measures tighten across the province.
A mid aged mother Mrs I C Traum was lashed 190 times by a mob of women who decoyed her into the country and flogged her. Newspapers were told the whipping was done by the ladies of the invisible empire.
Columbus police seek solution to double homicide in which Frank W. Cook 55 proprietor of a cigar and soft drink shop was found dead at 365 North High Street with his skull fractured and his hands tied. A bottle used in the beating and an open empty cash register point to robbery as a motive. Andrew J. Empfield 56 night watchman at Humphrey and Johnson’s garage died after being shot in the abdomen in front of the garage following an argument with two unknown men.
In Brooklyn, three more casualties were listed as bootlegger gangs fought with revolvers near New York. Goodman Diamond a 16 year old messenger boy is dead and Leon Klota and Albert Camera are dying from bullet wounds. Salvatore Piazza was arrested and accused of shooting Diamond. Police hold another man as leaders clashed earlier, vows of vengeance aired as twenty shots were fired and two men were killed last week.
In Steubenville on September 13 police seized ten slot machines hidden in a city building near headquarters. The devices vanished in the past two days along with raisins from a liquor raid, though city officials claim no knowledge of the disappearance.
Bernard Baruch, New York financier, protests the cancellation of the $11,000,000,000 foreign debt to the United States in a Senate letter read today. He argues allied nations can repay and that convincing Americans they cannot be repaid will be difficult.
Four striking Pennsylvania railroad shopmen were arrested in Wilmington on charges of dynamiting the 14th street bridge of the Pennsylvania railroad on August 17 before a passenger express train. Detectives say the men confessed to dynamite outrages at railway workers homes and to plans to destroy Todd's Cut.
The soldier bonus bill agreed by Senate and House conferees was presented to the House today by Ways and Means Chairman Fordney. Action likely on the measure is expected tomorrow.
The Plains and surrounding area welfare updates include Leslie Davis buying a new Ford. Mr and Mrs Fred DeWees return to Mansfield after a week with George Gabriel Sr family. Mrs Gordon Phillips of Charleston WV visits her mother Mrs Fanny Ball and children for two weeks. John and Leslie Davis with Agnes visit Straitsville and Shawnee. Mary Kaufman leaves for Cleveland. Oscar Evans and daughter return to Russeltown PA after a week with Bob Howard and Joe Evans. The Plains road condition draws interest from travelers and calls for repairs.
Charles Perry aged 42 died at home in Luhrig after months with tuberculosis. He leaves a widow, four children, three brothers William Frank George, and sister Mrs Pearl Bolin. He was a member of Loyal Order of Moose No 1399, Athens. Funeral at home Thursday 10 am conducted by Rev Watkins. Burial in New Marshfield cemetery.
Detroit news reports Henry Ford issuing a formal statement criticizing the Interstate Commerce Commission for coal delivery failures. He warns of plant closures next Saturday and likens the commission to past failed policies, accusing profiteers of using regulations to fleece the public.
Washington September 13 General Joan J Pershing marked his sixty second birthday today. Four years earlier at age fifty eight he celebrated a different anniversary, the American army driving Germans from the St Mihiel salient and recapturing vast territory with thousands of German prisoners and few American losses.
The annual session of the Ohio Methodist Episcopal conference began at the First Methodist Church in Logan with about 100 clergymen present. Bishop William F. Anderson of Cincinnati presided as sessions proceed daily through September 18. A telegram was sent to President Harding to express condolences over Mrs. Harding’s illness.
Final preparations in Mansfield as the Northeast Ohio conference of the Methodist Episcopal church readies for its annual meeting opening Tuesday September 19 with local pastors handling arrangements.
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