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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1924
Page
1
Mrs. Elsie Sweetin, 32, widow, confessed to arsenic poisoning her husband Wilford on July 28 after a plotted scheme with Rev. Lawrence M. Hight to clear the way for marriage. The motive cited love, with Hight guiding the poison plot as deputies and the press watched a tense interrogation.
Six years after return from France Sergeant William Thomas Kennedy has endured fourteen amputations and twenty seven hospital stays. He visits hospitals to boost fellow soldiers with cheer and stories, spurning drugs and demanding his children finish high school. His dogged posture inspires doctors and veterans officials despite constant pain.
Six weeks remain before the November 4 election as the nation braces for a record turnout. Secretary of State Hughes opens Republican drive with a Marion speech, followed by Coolidge cabinet members and Dawes as the push widens to swing key states in the West and Midwest.
Hight announces a suspect’s impending statement and soon the woman breaks under pressure. She then pens a confession using the same pen Hight used hours earlier to write his third confession naming her as Wilford Sweetin's murderer.
This morning Carl Strange died, the second typhoid death in Wheeling traced to a suburban well. The outbreak has produced about a score of cases. the first death was Thomas Skillorn, mine superintendent, reported yesterday.
Heavy rains delay Logan road opening. Athens County Automobile Club secretary C H Bryson says work stalled and unlikely to open by next Sunday. If fair weather holds, completion may occur within a week or ten days.
President Coolidge recalls Secretary Wilbur to discuss the relative value of battleships and flying machines in war. The piece argues air defense and modernization, noting a dreadnought cost of forty five million dollars versus two thousand fighting airplanes for the same sum and questions a battleship’s chance against air attacks.
A newlywed Martin's Ferry husband returns late from a party and explains he bumped a lamp post to cover a bruise on his forehead. His wife admonishes him to avoid decking the staff, as she references drink and household safety in a humorous exchange.
Cleveland Sept 25 Former Ohio governor and Republican candidate Harry L Davis accuses Gov A V Donahey of accepting a valuable gift from Columbus contractor T D Van Camp during Donahey's term. Davis says Donahey admitted borrowing the horse and omits Van Camp’s identity while linking him to state contracts and a brick plant sale.
A playful account notes Autumn arriving in Athens at 2 59 in the morning just as the equinox marks days and nights nearly equal. Fall brings games and seasonal sights while frost and icy sidewalks loom in the coming months.
An inspection trip in Tiltonville suggests a revival of talks on the Wheeling & Lake Erie lines joining the Van Sweringen merger but railroad circles note Rockefeller interests are not listed in the merger details, casting doubt on the rumor.
Athens County Grangers and Amesville Grange met on September 20 in Amesville. E Tussing of Canal Winchester spoke on farm and grange work and organization. Resolutions backed Truth in Fabrics and property reappraisal. Rome Grange won banner for most initiates. one member died, Joseph Barker. Basket dinner served after meeting.
Columbus Ohio Sept 23 Final contracts for highway improvement in 1924 will be awarded October 8. Champaign and Henry counties each have three projects while Auglaize Highland Holmes and Summit counties each have one section benefiting. Total awards run about 500000 dollars.
Bridgette Snyder, 43, a Salvation Army worker and housemaid, is arraigned in Recorder's Court on felonious assault for striking barber Lee Conlan with a stone wrapped in a handkerchief. She says she did so after discovering her hair had been bobbed without consent.
Lawrence M. Hight of Ina IL confessed to killing his wife and Wilford Sweetin, a church member, as officials blame an old love triangle. The minister says he poisoned them while they were ill to end their sufferings.
James Brazier Jr and his brother Robert, aged 48, were killed instantly at Rankin near Pittsburgh when their motorcycle was struck by a westbound Washington to Pittsburgh express at the Fleet Street crossing of the Baltimore and Ohio line. They had paused to wait for an eastbound freight to pass before starting the bike.
A nephew of the late Czar, Prince Dimitry, is reported to be employed as an assistant to the manager in the foreign exchange department of the National American Bank in New York. He arrived in the United States after fleeing Soviet rule and hopes to someday aid Russia returning home. His mother is Grand Duchess Xenia, sister of the late Czar, and his father Grand Duke Alexander.
Tribes in the western section of the Spanish zone held a meeting to decide on a future policy as fears grew of more active participation in the revolt by Rift tribesmen.
Blaineville reports the highest value on an Eastern Ohio coal acre at 10 000 dollars as Evans Jenkins sues Aragon Coal Mining Co for 22 000 dollars for allegedly removing two acres of coal. He claims about 19 000 tons worth 2 dollars per ton per acre were taken.
Work on the Clinton street bridge safety report across the Maumee river remains unstarted two months after inspectors from the state engineers office completed the survey. Surveyor Henry F. Toberen said state highway officials in Columbus have not yet begun the analysis.
One hundred fifty men meet in the courthouse to form the Athens County La Follette-Wheeler club. John Wyckhoff chairs. Ike Willians is vice-chairman. Thurman Knox secretary. Joe Evans treasurer. Weekly meetings to secure campaign speakers. committee to obtain a hall named Herb Hunter, Chet Long, and Des Chapple.
Columbus police and juvenile court sought a 25 year old woman named Ethel Sutton of Toledo after she abandoned her three month old baby she said was Perry Orgie Sutton. She may have traveled from Toledo or Cleveland.
Nelsonville reports a New York Coal Co invite to local schoolchildren and families to tour Hamsey Run orchards. Over 1000 rode in 160 vehicles to view ripening fruit on fourteen year old soil, with Rotary and Kiwanis clubs arranging transport. The outing emphasized reclamation of Hocking land and showcased varieties like Ben Delicious Rome Beauty King. Food and safety were well managed. continued on Page Five.
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