Carthage Mud Hole Memoir Sparks Local Turmoil
A fragment recalls a heated dispute over a muddy Carthage site and a Messenger article. The speaker claims others read the paper, vows secrecy, and hints at a growing gang forming after the issue.
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1921
Page
5
Carthage Mud and Rail Troubles Rival Election Talk
The letter describes a muddy Sunday in Carthage with rutted carts, seeds, and mules, blaming poor road work and high taxes while vowing to elect women trustees. It notes a failed plan to close roads, mentions a $9.75 Sunday earnings, and ends with talking about rural roads and local politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Carthage
Harmony Hill Visitors and Surprises
Harmony Hill residents visit Parkersburg last week with Mrs. T J Foster surprised as Mr. O C Glidden from Shade arrives in his new Ford for a brief, friendly chat marking a rare encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
8. H. Noland
Parkersburg
T. J. Foster
O. C. Glidden
Shade
Local Families Gather for Visits and Ball Game
The report lists numerous local residents visiting relatives in nearby towns including Perry Russell with ties to Albany. Attendees from here joined a ball game at Little Hocking Sunday, where the local team defeated Hockingport. Other items note travel to Parkersburg, supper with relatives in Little Hocking, and health updates for Mrs Conley and Mr Wilcoxon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Russell
Albany
G. K. Thorpe
Carrie
Charlie
Harris
Helen
Little Hocking
T. J. Foster
W. V. Hill
Hockingport
Ray Crow
James Carpenter
J. C. Coggeshall
R. R. Hueston
Parkersburg
James Conley
William Wilcoxon
Social Gatherings and Train Crossing Accident Near Coolville
Ireland Mrs Ruth Bingman and daughter Vivian visited Chauncey with Mr and Mrs Osborne. Earl Clark hosted a party for local young people with many attendees. A freight train struck a car at Coolville crossing, narrowly missing serious injury to Mrs C E Brandeberry and her mother Mrs Gill, who were in the vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Bingman
Vivian
Osborne
Chauncey
Earl Clark
Lela
Wilma Dunfee
Myrtle
Mildred Hornsby
Martha Wildman
Sylvia Cubbison
Mildred Shanks
Bernice Root
Irma Russell
Leeda Sleeth
Nina Jaskina
Irene
Fileen
Hiram Root
Bookhart
Belpre
C. FE. Brandeberry
Gill
Coolville Station
Kerker Remedy Cures Hay Fever Says Dresden Woman
Mrs. Fred Newton of Dresden Ohio says Kerker Asthma and Hay Fever preparation cured her hay fever after 11 years of suffering. She took three bottles last summer and has had no symptoms since, noting prior failures with other medicines and doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Newton
Kerker
Dresden
Ohio
Atlantic trade returns to prewar patterns says National City Bank
The National City Bank of New York reports that Atlantic, Gulf and Pacific port shares are near prewar levels in imports and exports. In 1921 Atlantic frontages still show reduced New York import shares from 55 percent in 1914 to about 42 percent, while Pacific ports rise to 21 percent. European demand wanes, New York export share falls from 49 percent in 1917 to 39 percent in 1921, and overall Atlantic trade stabilizes as North and South American and Asia-Oceania trade grow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National City Bank of New York
Atlantic
Pacific
United Staes
Nw York
New York
Gulf and Pacific
Canada
Europe
Gulf
North
South America
Asia
Oceania
Village Blacksmith Harvey McHaffie Celebrated
Rutland’s Harvey McHaffie, a village blacksmith, marked forty nine years at the forge. News spread from Athens Messenger to Meigs County papers and the Cleveland Press, drawing congratulations and requests for portraits. He contemplates handling the flood of inquiries and may hire a stenographer while weighing the best course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland
Athens Messenger
Harvey McHaffie
Meigs County
Cleveland Press
McHaffiffie
Athens
Parmelee Leaves for Denison University
The seventeenth child of Mr and Mrs Richard Warner died at about two years of age last week. Mrs Cora Swearingen who has been in Pennsylvania for three years visits Lark Spires and her sister Mrs Thomas Musser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asahel Parmelee
Denison University
Richard Warner
Cora Swearingen
Pennsylvania
Lark Spires
Thomas Musser
Enrollments and Openings Spur Wide Teacher List
Ninety one students enroll in the high school as schools opened with a long list of teachers. The district names include Rutland Village Rutland Joint High School Rutland Township Pleasant Valley Dyesville Columbia Township Harrisonville Scipio Township and others. A teachers conference will be held Saturday September 24 at Dyesville at 9 A M and at Rutland at 1 P M. AIMI teachers are expected to attend one of these meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rutland Village
F. G. Mutchler
Rhoda Wood
Bernice McCormick
Anna Rees
Althea Bryan
Rutland Joint High
Bernard Higley
John Welch
C. O. Chapman
Miss Cross
Rutland Township
Higley
D. A. Benedict
Pleasant Valley
Flora B. Merritt
Lima
Harley Musser
Side Hill
Mystle Saxton
Beech Grove
Carrie Kennedy
Zion
Ray Wilson
Parker
Lettie Grate
Wright
Flora Ward
Stout
J. O. Miller
Buckhorn
Clara Kennedy
Grass Run
Seth Nicholson
Halsie Rupe
Mutchler
Madge Sleeth
Dexter
Roy A. Davis
Ethel Russell
Salem Township
Bessie Bolen
Old Salem
Miles Nelson
Fairplay
R. H. Williams
Danville
Hazel Swan
Salem Center
Carol Halliday
Fair Oak
Roy Ogdin
Parker Run
Edith Davis
Ledlie
Mabel Lyle
Dyesville Blanche
Woodyard
Dyesville High School
Osa W. Cooper
Pageville
Howard Hull
Scipio Township
Wilson
Sadie Warner
White Oak
Hazel Clark
Welch
Lena Turmer
Dyesville
Rutland
Aimi
Merchants’ and Manufacturers
Athens
Ohio
Berry
Hire Women Musicians St Louis Theatres
Women will supplant men in the orchestra pits at the Garrick and Gayety theatres this fall due to labor trouble between operators and unions in other cities. Both houses operate under the Columbia Wheel circuit headquartered in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Garrick
Gayety
By The Way Notes Planes and Homes in The Plains
John Martin of The Plains suffers injuries when his machine collides with a telephone pole during a central Ohio tour. He can move about despite the accident. The Plains will gain two new residences with Fred Nida’s five room home and tell Douglas’s six room house under construction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Martin
The
Plains
Ohio
Fred Nida
Douglas
Roadwork at The Plains and near Union Church
A force of workers is laying gravel on the main road through The Plains. Another crew is tarring and top dressing the road near Union Church with limestone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Church
Gas in the Stomach Warns of Acid Indigestion
An old health note warns that gas and bloating signal excessive stomach acid causing acid indigestion and gastritis. It advocates Bisulated Magnesia as a safe, inexpensive remedy to neutralize acid and relieve gas after meals.
Congress Opens International Sex Forum in Berlin
Berlin hosts an international sex congress opening with experts from around the world to debate reform of divorce laws, Steinach rejuvenation theory, birth control, and the origin of the stork story, among other topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl D. Groat
United Press
Berlin
International Sex Congress
Conference discusses German divorce law and reform ideas
The text notes a conference debating easier divorce for women facing abusive or dangerous husbands, contrasted with easier divorce for men. It also covers the Steinach rejuvenation operation and Dr. Hirschfeld leading discussions on changing laws to treat sexual abnormalities as illnesses, amid anti Semitic attacks in Munich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steinach
Hirschfeld
Munich
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