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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1928
Page
12
Logan Sept 19 Old Man's Cave broke its daily attendance record with 1762 visitors reported by Ranger A Reichley up from prior highs nearly 800 more. Rock House also drew heavy crowds. road improvements near completion may bring the road to within a quarter mile of the cave by next summer.
Robert Hackworth, who escaped from the Lancaster Industrial School, was captured in Hocking County near Benna Vista by Deputies Hammond and Briley. He said his sister in Dayton is ill and he fled to visit her, injuring his right leg during the escape. He is held at Hocking County jail awaiting return to the institution.
The East Side School elected its Student Council and room officers. Richard Imes is president with Leslie Fultz as vice president and Betty Ricketts as secretary. Room posts include fourth grade Jack Fulton president and Evelyn Watkins secretary, fifth grade William Love, and sixth grade Parker Walker. A 3:30 pm meeting in Miss Smart’s fifth grade room will set conduct rules. A school wide clean-up contest and a no tardy drive aim to boost punctuality.
About 25 representatives from six counties attended the executive committee meeting at the Presbyterian Church in Athens. The session covered missionary programs in churches across Hocking, Athens, Gallia, Washington, and Meigs Counties with the luncheon held at noon.
Logan September 19 Judge Harley M Whitcraft addressed the Logan Rotary Club stressing that supporting the Constitution means upholding all its provisions. He called the U S Constitution the first symbol of church state separation and praised liberty tied to obedience to law. He noted early colonists and religious leaders shaped liberty across districts.
Deputy Sheriff Hammond asked Fairfield County officers to arrest a man seen traveling toward Lancaster after two boys were pursued in Haydenville early Monday evening. A description of the stranger was circulated, but no arrest was reported by late Tuesday afternoon.
Charles D. Earhart 23 and Freida E. Martin 23 were married with Rev. Henry L Geddes officiating in Huntington West Virginia. The couple are the daughter and son of Mr and Mrs Marvin C Martin.
New faculty members at Ohio University met Tuesday afternoon at the Men's Faculty Club. They toured the clubhouse and enjoyed the reading and billiard rooms while getting acquainted with older members.
Athens Mayor Alex M. Moore asks Ohio University students to follow traffic signals stop signs and crosswalk rules on Court Street as a condition of a cooperative program. He pledges city aid to students and traffic safety measures include closing streets for sleigh rides or parades with proper arrangements.
A note from N. W. Radford reports a sudden frost in Athens sixty years ago on September 19, killing all plants. Sweet corn barely at roasting stage was frozen and fell to the ground, Radford said this morning.
Members of the Franklin Kerr Guild enjoyed a dinner at six thirty Monday evening. The entertainment committee included Mrs. W. W. Prather Mrs. Lewis Mock Mrs. James Dougherty and Miss Florence Bort. After dinner a business meeting followed with a lesson study by Mrs. Phil Tschappat and a devotional led by Mrs. T. R. Walburn. A contest was offered at the close.
Mrs Edith Stule entertained with a party Monday afternoon in honor of her daughter Martha Ann on her sixth birthday. Children’s games were played, followed by refreshments. Attendants included Anna Lee Woltz, Charles Eaton, Joan Hood, Paul Woltz, Jean Eaton, James Stule, Bennie Kitchen, Melvin Kitchen, and Dorothy Nell Stule.
The McGuffey Readers Revue pageant staged by the Athens Branch of the American Association of University Women last spring will be repeated for the state convention of the Parent-Teacher Association on October 3. Dean Irma E. Voigt announced the plan and seat sales will follow once delegate numbers are known.
The item lists a sequence of anagrams including stock stack stark stars sears bears beads bends bonds, presented as the solution to today’s Letter Golf puzzle. The line ends with rd indicating a truncation or stray characters.
Mrs T A Miller of 1611 Adams Street Denver reports relief from night feelings and fear of falling after using Lydia E Pinkham's VegeTable Compound as a tonic through the Change of Life. She credits her mother’s prior use and recommends it to friends.
Melvin Heft, president of the Rail splitters Club, received a new ax handle from Joe M. Risley, former secretary and now a Federal postal inspector based in Petersburg, Virginia. The handle was addressed to D. M. Soliday and given to Heft immediately. Risley previously served many years as a Logan post office clerk.
Logan Sept 19 The Rev C M Bowman has located at Rockbridge and assumed active charge of the Rockbridge circuit United Brethren Church He came from Newark Christian Endeavor Memorial Church where he served as pastor A former serviceman he went overseas with the Eighty third Division later joining the Twenty sixth New England Division until war’s end
On Friday September 21 at 11 am the Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution will place a tablet to mark Fort Laurens the first revolutionary fort within present Ohio. The marker stands on state land one mile north of Bolivar Tuscarawas County with Mrs Herbert Backus presiding.
The Athens Rotary Club noon meeting at Hotel Berry featured a program by the club service committee under Attorney John J. Woolley. Participants included J. E. Bailey W. B. Lawrence and Roy Hawk with guests A. F. Hixon former Ironton Rotary president and Josh Williams a Fostoria newspaper man. Williams, uncle of author Ben Ames Williams, played on Ohio University football squads in 1397 98 99 and managed the team in 1899.
Residents in more than twenty towns along the Southern Ohio Public Service Company line from Columbus to Zanesville face possible loss of traction car service in weeks or months if the company gains consent to abandon its lines. The notice states an application will be filed.
James M. Butler, attorney for the company, announced last night that a request to abandon the line was made to the Public Utilities Commission within a week.
September report from Parkersburg lists Athens County registrants Virginia Harner Albany Selle Findling Coolville Laurence Bar ron New Marshfield Ruth Dye Torch Francis F Dye Athens and Nettle Brown Emaline Raber Trimble as enrolled in the Mountain State Business College.
Local entrant rules for the National Radio Audition sponsored by the Atwater Kent Foundation outlined by Joy Cutler of Ohio University. Ages 18 to 25, no professional experience, intent to pursue music, no conflicting contracts. Local contests, state and district rounds, and a New York final with substantial cash prizes.
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