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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1932
Page
3
Nelsonville reports the death of 15 month old James Leroy Mount of Mt. Zion from apple lodged in his windpipe. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Kella Mount tried to dislodge it while en route to medical aid. funeral set for Mt. Zion Church Tuesday at 10 with burial at Haydenville cemetery. The family has 12 other children.
Charles West aged 77 died Sunday at his home on West Washington Street after a long illness. Funeral services by Reverend Sayre will be Tuesday at 2 PM at the M E Church, with burial at Greenlawn. He is survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters.
Elvira A. Campbell, 91, longtime Nelsonville resident, says she is old fashioned and does not approve of equal suffrage for women. Born in 1841 in Canaan Township, she married twice and has 10 grandchildren along with many great and great great grandchildren. She attends the Baptist Church and retains a keen memory despite eye trouble.
Fred Steenrod died after a long illness at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Austin Chutes in Logan. He was born in Nelsonville about 45 years ago and is survived by his parents Parker and Mrs Steenrod, formerly of Nelsonville now in Detroit, and four brothers Vance Hilburn Donald Ralph. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 PM at the Chutes home in Logan with burial in Dawley Cemetery near Sand Run.
Nelsonville defeated Murray City 7 to 5 after seven runs were scored in the last four innings. Eddie Stewart led with two doubles and a single, while Campbell added a triple and a single for Murray City. The game featured eight and nine hits for each side and seven errors by Nelsonville.
In Nelsonville on September 19 athletic coach Julian Yantis spoke to 50 Young People Society members at the Presbyterian Church about not delaying school tasks and completing work on time. The talk closed with the reminder that students get out of school what they put in.
Automobiles with men head to mines resuming under Governor White’s plan. High activity at Mine 267 Hunterdon, the company’s only active operation, with many applications at the Ohio Collieries Co office. Labor train status between Corning Mine 255 and Chauncey remains unsettled. past reopenings traced to Millfield and Chauncey routes.
Maurice Maschke former Ohio Republican national committeeman and five co defendants go on trial in Cleveland Criminal Court on embezzlement charges from the county treasury Judge John P Dempsey will oversee jury selection expected to last a week observers say the case could be one of Ohio’s most spectacular.
In Manchester Kentucky authorities probe a Civil War era feud tied to the killings of two men including a commonwealth attorney and the wounding of two others. Twenty five National Guardsmen patrol the town as Clay County violence linked to the Baker Howard White Bailey Phillipot feud escalates.
Mrs Thos Mulligan and family are cited as kin. Ed Fisk in Lancaster Hospital in critical condition after a fall at a water softener construction site. He suffered a fractured knee and multiple injuries. Howard Fisk and Ed Fisk recently moved from Nelsonville to Lancaster. Ohio University enrollment updates include Mary E Kessinger, Marjorie Vorhes, Mary Lou Hudson, Virginia Lou Eberle, and Ruth Eberle Hall for fall term. Dr Evans Hudson of Mt Vernon visited family here. John Webster, son of Frank Webster and Mrs Webster, Bellfontaine, entered Ohio University this week.
Sand delivery by freight enables brick laying to finish the curve at Trimble by noon. Detours route traffic via Congress Run Road and Walnut Hill to Gilcuster Front Street while the Trimble segment is completed. A new bakery will move to a new building after razing the old site on Main Street Urbancrest.
The golden wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Vaughn was celebrated at their Hollister home with a noon dinner last Friday. The couple, natives of England, married there and moved to Hollister 42 years ago. Their children include Mrs. Max von Scheele, Mrs. Alex Saylor, and several Vaughn offspring, with 13 grandchildren and one great grandchild reported in attendance.
Glouster officials announce the first P T A meeting of the term at the high school at 7 30 pm. Supt. Thomas W Figley will speak, Mrs M B Rogers presents a musical reading, and Hartford Dunnett with Paul Killingsworth perform tap dancing. Parents urged to attend.
The P T A will stage a charity dance at the K of P Hall in Jacksonville on Tuesday night to raise funds for school children. Admission is one pound of food.
The Crooksville coal district joins the latest Public Utilities Commission order cutting transportation rates for bituminous coal to Cleveland Akron Lorain Huron and other Northern Ohio points. The original order targeted Hocking and Cambridge districts and rail lines New York Central Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroads. The effectiveness date extends from September 27 to September 29.
At Chauncey crossing Sunday morning two men reported being stoned with one claiming a missile hit. National Guard observers arrested Ernest Smith and Dallan Glass, then Henry Poling and Carl Poling were taken into custody after a shooting report in Mason City Hill. A windshield was broken and a bullet found in a car. gun recovered from a house. Observers will oversee mine complaints under a governor peace plan as troops gradually withdraw.
The incident flared anew around Secretary of War Patrick Hurley after his speech at the American Legion convention denying Army orders to torch the bonus camp shacks. An affidavit from Private Thomas K. Davis claims he was ordered to set fires, while Lieutenant George M. Kernan says Davis and others fired huts not already ablaze in the B E F rout. Tin Plate Company boosts operating schedule to 10 percent capacity for the first time in over two years as 1,800 workers in the sheet and tin mills return to work in the district this week.
Youngstown district steel plants raised tin plate output to meet fall canning needs. Major manufacturers released heavy shipments as demand from can makers surged, signaling strong activity in the local canning season and steel sector.
Funeral services were set for Cuff Rose 55 city council member and off station operator killed while hunting at Cedar Mill Adams County. Rose and his father James Rose were with James Curtis when a mistaken motion led the father to fire striking Rose in the head.
The Department of Agriculture says active Japanese beetle presence for this summer is over and that certificates will not be required on fruits and vegetables from regulated areas after Friday September 16. Restrictions on interstate movement of cut flowers and peony parts remain until October and nursery stock plants stay restricted year round.
John McGowan M1 of Cleveland died at South Side Hospital in Youngstown from injuries after his car ran into a ditch to avoid a cat last Wednesday. The vehicle overturned as a result of the mishap.
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