Athens Presbyterial Officials Gather for Fall Session
The Athens Presbyterial executive committee met Wednesday at the Presbyterian Church for its regular fall session with 16 members from Vincent Logan Nelsonville Pomeroy Gallipolis Middleport Barlow Athens. President Mrs J Lloyd Evans of Nelsonville presided and lunch was served at the Colonial. The Athens District meets October 2 at the Alexander Church near Hebbardsville at 11 o'clock. district president is Mrs J T Merwin. The spring meeting of the Presbyterial is set for April 10, 1931 in Middleport.
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Athens
Middleport
Past Chiefs and Officers Hold Fairground Picnic
Pythian Sisters of the M and H Circle plan a Friday gathering at the Athens County Fairgrounds with a 3 PM business session, games, and a 6 PM picnic supper. Local residents and visitors, including Lucinda Shields and families from Akron Nelsonville and nearby towns, are mentioned along with several travel and schooling notes.
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M. and H. Circle
the Pythian Sisters
Athens County Fairgrounds
D A R Observation of the Constitution Birthday
Nabby Lee Ames Chapter D A R plans a 148th anniversary observance of the Constitution at 2:30 PM Saturday at Mrs H L Atkinson's home on North Lancaster Street. The executive board meets at 2:00 PM. The program paper discusses The D A R and Its Relation to the Constitution and Government.
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Nabby Lee Ames
Daughters of the American Revolution
H. L. Atkinson
Lancaster Street
Higley Study Circle Opens Year With Biography Theme
The Higley Study Circle launched its year with the theme American Life Through Biography in Recent Years at Mrs. S. Carpenter's home on North Congress Street. Two papers were presented, including How to Prepare a Club Paper by Mrs. J. R. Harvey read by Mrs. George Junod and The Doctor Looks at Biography by Mrs. C. K. Atkinson.
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Higley Study Circle
8S. S. Carpenter
North
Congress Street
J. R. Harvey
George Junod
C. K. Atkinson
Woman's Home Missionary Society meeting Friday at M E Church
The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First M E Church will meet Friday at 2 PM. Talks will cover schools and homes of the society, devotions led by Mrs. C M Coulter, with Mrs. C E Gorham’s group serving and special music highlighted.
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Woman's Home Missionary Society of the First M. IE
C. M. Coulter
C. FE. Gorham
Harmonie Club Officers Sentenced In Federal Case
In Cleveland on September 18 Judge Samuel H. West sentenced 11 officers directors and employees of the Har monie Club a German social organization. They pleaded guilty to charges of illegal possession of beer and maintaining a public nuisance with fines and jail terms imposed.
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Cleveland
U.P
Samuel H. West
Harmonie Club
One Dollar Clue He Passed to Pay Previous Debt
hardware dealer George Paine of Ashtabula received a crayon letter postmarked Michigan City with a $2 note claiming a debt from 17 years ago. The writer promised to pay when he found $2, invoking Diogenes like digger’s search and “the onest man.”
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Ashtabula
Diogenes
Michigan City
Ind
George Paine
Paine
George Pane
Former Pastor Reddick Sentenced in Blackmail Case
Bellefontaine Ohio September 18 Former pastor Reverend Frank El Reddick of the M S Church Huntsville Loran County pleaded guilty to blackmail in Common Pleas Court and was sentenced to one year in Ohio Penitentiary He was arrested last July for sending threats to brothers Frank and Charles Howard demanding money under threat of arson kidnapping and death
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Bellefontaine
Frank el. Reddick
M. S
Huntsville
Loran County
Common Pleas
Ohio
Reddick
Frank
Charles Howard
Woman dives into cistern to save baby
Mrs. Alvin Bosley of Farmington Center near Chardon leaps into a cistern at the Bosley home and rescues her one and a half month old son who had fallen into the water. After pulling the child to safety she climbs out, noting the board over the cistern had been moved.
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Maxine
Lydia E. Pinkham
Floyd Butcher
Gridley
Kansas
Chardon
U.P
Alvin Bosley
Farmington Center
Bosley
Howard Family Reunion at Mt Zion Church
The annual Howard family reunion was held Sunday at Mt Zion Church near the old homestead. About sixty people gathered from Ohio and other states for the event. A plentiful dinner was served.
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Howard
Mt. Zion Church
Ohio
Bettman Rules on School Transportation Rights
Columbus September 18 In an opinion to Prosecutor Mervin Day Gilbert Bettman attorney general held that a board of education may furnish transport for high school pupils but is not required to do so except in centralized districts with high schools and elementary transport. It also states that a pupil from a district without a high school may attend a nearby high school within three miles if contracts exist between boards and tuition may be waived in certain arrangements.
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Columbus
U.R
Mervin Day, Paulding
Gilbert Bettman
Board of Education
County Board of Education
Nurthermore
Peterson's Ointment touted for piles relief in ad
An old advertisement claims Peterson's Ointment soothes severe itching and burning from piles and other skin conditions. It cites a Missouri user and offers a box for 35 cents at any drugstore as a universal remedy for bruises rashes pimples and chafing.
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Peterson
G. R. Washington
Garuthersville
Woman Aims To Jump Record Parachute Drop
Mrs. Babe Smith of St. Joseph Missouri plans a parachute jump over 3.5 miles breaking the women's record. She and husband Sig Smith are professional parachute jumpers with a previous highest jump of 12 000 feet.
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Babe Smith
St. Joseph, Mo
Coal production dip in week ending September 18
The National Coal Association reports 9,350,000 net tons of bituminous coal mined in the United States for the week ended September 18, down about 1,500,000 tons from the 1929 week total of 10,863,000 net tons.
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Washington
United States
National Coal Association
Frees Man Whose Eight-Year Search Ended in Victory
Chicago housing robbery case ends as Arthur Cutten releases final suspect Casper Rosenberg who had been eluding arrest for years. Rosenberg surrendered July 25 but will not face trial after Cutten’s years long pursuit to convict the gang that robbed and nearly killed him and his family at Downers Grove.
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Chicago
U.P
Arthur Cutten
Cutten
Downers Grove
Casper Rosenberg
Rosenberg
Hatters Demand Action Against Bareheaded Trend
At the 52nd annual State Federation of Labor convention in Atlantic City on September 15, the Hatters Union proposed a resolution calling for a halt to the bareheaded craze. They argued the fashion has spread from students to the elderly and overweight and must be stopped.
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Atlantic City
N. J
U.P
Hatters’ Union
State Federation of Labor
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