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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1921
Page
8
Tom Radford a Thomas Fork resident aged 55 died Friday from tuberculosis. He leaves a wife and several children and was from Salem Center. He was jailed and awaiting action on a delinquency charge.
The Pomeroy village fathers pressed Mr Price to trade back the bay team after a costly exchange. The reverse swap was driven by the heavy cash outlay, not fault in the new team, leaving the bay horses back in the fire department stalls.
Ed ward Morris born April 20, 1880 in the county, son of William and Mary Morris. He married Cora Ward on December 14, 1904 and had three children who survive with his wife. He belonged to the Christian church at Langeville, Modern Woodmen at Middleport, and R. of P. at Rutland. all participated in the funeral held in Langsville with burial at McKnight cemetery in Midway.
Delinquent youth Ferry Farley aged 15 was brought before officials on a local delinquency charge. Details remain sparse as the record notes only the boy’s name and age with no further action listed.
Esther Howell French born in Harrisonville Ohio spent about forty years there and celebrated her seventy ninth birthday at Ripley West Virginia on September 20. She can converse on current issues and reads extensively. She lives with her oldest daughter Emma Maysell Williams near Ripley and has twenty eight grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. Her youngest daughter Louisa French Kessel has three doctors among her sons. Dr Ray Kessel captained in the world war and now practices in Charleston. Dr Royal graduated from Jefferson College Philadelphia last June and teaches medicine at Morgantown. Runegell, age twenty one, is in a West Virginia medical school after two years college work.
Mrs Crooks of Mulberry Avenue enlarges her boarding house this spring foreshadowing a fall event. The article notes she anticipates entertaining a foreign manager linked to the fall festival and homecoming, described as a gentleman of notable equatorial measurements.
Mr and Mrs I W Young and son Ed return to Charleston after visiting Mrs Youngs parents on Hudson street Earl Middleton goes to Philadelphia for a two year business sojourn Mr and Mrs George Moore plan to move to Roseville D Mr and Mrs M J Hamilton and daughter Mrs Nuckles of Huntington travel with their auto to Indianapolis to visit Mr and Mrs James Hundley former Middleporters Capt B F Flesher remains very ill after a stroke but is expected to recover Mrs Jennie Outerbridge returns from the south where she sought admission for her son William to a naval preparatory school at Mar idon Alabama
Sheriff officers seized nine barrels of corn and rye mash and a 65 gallon still in a locust thicket above the Vulcan mine. Captured were John Ross Jim Hedricks and T J O'Brien. Ross had prior fines for similar offenses and faces harsher penalties.
Today and tomorrow afternoons the New Haven and Dam 27 base ball teams will clash at King's Park in Syracuse. Dam 27 has bowled over all comers and earned a strong reputation while New Haven, the champions, faces a stern test from the eastern upstarts.
Middleport residents celebrate a new Westminster chime clock installed last week by Mutual National Bank at their corner. The four dial timepiece, visible for blocks, is master-clock controlled and tunes the quarter, half, and full hours with Westminster chimes heard over the area.
Leander Chevalier of Reedsville leaves his residence to his widow as long as she remains unmarried. The will states $200 and directs the children to share equally in the remainder of the estate.
Promoters of the Fall Festival baby contest reported exactly 50 entries for the showdown held at the armory. Judges, harrowed and distraught, faced an award decision late last evening as spectators cheered from Bend area towns.
The narrative recounts joining Governor Brough’s Ohio regiment as a second lieutenant, guarding government supplies at Parkersburg, and moving via steamboat to Camp Piatt near Charles Town. It covers Winters in Summersville, command by Col George Crook, and later arrival at Meadow Bluffs and Lewisburg with reinforcement from the 44th Ohio Infantry. Greenbrier County figures in the Hawk family history.
In May 1862 near Lewisburg Ohio born Isaac Hawk migrated through Gallia and Vinton counties to Wilkesville then Lewisburg. Union Col Crook repelled Heath’s 4000 men at Greenbrier river and captured a bridge. Heath burned the ford delaying fords. Casualties numbered twelve dead on our side with many wounded. enemy losses far higher. Citizens fed Heath’s troops before the clash. A Co K 36th Regiment poetically memorialized the battle in song about Heath’s failed breakfast and Crook’s success, ending with a pledge to the Union.
Justice Department officials say Attorney General Daugherty will examine Klan activities to determine if the group threatens law and order. Reports from federal agents are arriving, and Daugherty and J. Edgar Hoover await further nationwide findings before releasing results.
The first body recovered from the ZR-2 disaster was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday. Lieutenant-Commander Valentine N. Bieg of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, was buried with full military honors.
Mrs. John Karich receives word of William Graham death in Cisco Texas. Native of Millfield, long connected to Athens area, 64 years old, unmarried, resided in Texas 19 years.
The latest photos of Sun Yat-sen, first president of the republic of South China, arrive in the country. Sun Yat-sen's wife is a graduate of Berkeley University and of Wellesley College.
Evan gelist Hakim will address the Guysville Presbyterian Church at 10 30 Sunday instead of 2 o clock as first announced. He will speak here, then after one more week in Carthage he travels to Erie Pennsylvania and then St Louis Missouri for further meetings.
The notes list Gen James M Tut tle born in Monroe County on September 24 1832 and died in Arizona October 24 1882. John Wilson Campbell born February 23 1782 Virginia served as U S district judge for Ohio and died at Delaware. Marcus Hanna born New Lisbon Icelandic? industrialist and U S senator died February 15 1904 in Washington D C. The Garfield burial arrived Cleveland in 1881 at Lake View Cemetery. In 1886 five Lima oil wells were set on fire by lightning.
Washington Sept 23 The anti beer bill drew Senate focus but made no headway. Senator Shields Democrat Tennessee spoke on the Anti Saloon League activities and federal prohibition agents in a three hour address. The chamber then fell into parliamentary tangles not resolved before adjournment until tomorrow.
One of the first patents awarded to a woman in the United States covers a toilet lotion devised by Miss Sophie Usher, highlighting early female inventor recognition.
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