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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1925
Page
10
Ceci Gamble, Charter candidate for Cincinnati City Council, urged placing high type individuals in city leadership at a Bloom School meeting. She argued form alone cannot ensure good government and that personnel must be efficient and service minded, pointing to Cincinnati voters' call for reform.
Charles P Taft III will headline three campaign speeches over Saturday and Sunday for nine City Charter candidates endorsed by the City Charter Committee. He will address a noon crowd at the Mercantile Library Building and speak at Melrose avenue and McMillan streets tonight and at Carmel Presbyterian Church Sunday evening. The events feature other Charter speakers and demonstrations of proportional representation by Walter Millard.
Citizens at Withrow High School heard Edward T. Dixon and Charter candidates urge support for nine Charter hopefuls to modernize Cincinnati. Murray Seasongood challenged Kellogg to speak on the same platform, noting gas rate changes were approved by the council under party responsibility. Other speakers included B H Kroger Charles O Rose and Judge Stanley Matthews outlining dedicated reform for city government.
Robert W. Pogue of the Pogue Company and Cincinnati Retail Merchants Association will address the Advertisers' Club on the impact of cut price houses on the retail merchant at the Business Men's Club next Wednesday. D C Keller of Dow Drug Company and U S Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas are slated as subsequent speakers.
Richard Croker, son of the former Tammany leader, was awarded $150,336 by the appellate division after a years long legal fight over money lent to his father.
Illinois led by Red Grange arrives in Philadelphia amid snow for the intersectional game with Penn at Franklin Field. Coach Zuppke’s squad, minus injured Stub Muhl, trains at the Manufacturers' Country Club while Penn prepares in Absecon New Jersey amid a large rally by students and alumni.
Ohio State Wooster highlight a busy Saturday slate as Denison Miami Wesleyan Wittenberg Kenyon St Xavier face strong tests. Oberlin Rochester John Carroll Detroit in action while several Ohio Conference games settle standings on slippery fields amid snow.
Michigan faces Navy in a key intersectional clash as Red Grange stars for Pennsylvania and Notre Dame travels to Georgia Tech. The Big Ten leaders hope to extend an undefeated run while Illinois seeks a rebound, and Wisconsin Minnesota, Purdue Chicago, and Indiana Northwestern also duel in conference games.
San Francisco Seals, Coast League champions, beat Louisville American Association champs 9 to 8 in the deciding nine game series. The slugfest featured multiple home runs, a late Seals rally in the second, and key hits by Ellison and Agnew to seal the victory. McWeeny earned the win with Cullop taking the loss as Williams allowed six runs in seven innings.
In Chicago at the six day race, at 10 PM the leading trio—Goosens McNamara, Walthour Spencer, and Bello Benezatto—each stood eight laps ahead. Walthour and Spencer led on points with 291, Bello Benezatto had 182, and Goosens McNamara 173. McNamara and Goosens joined the tie at 8:15 after lapping the field with Petri Schneider. Codtello and Bruski withdrew at 8:30.
The twenty fifth annual convention of the Ohio Newspaper Women's Association opened in Portsmouth with a silver anniversary supper led by Ruth Neely France of the Cincinnati Post, president of the association.
A six room brick Colonial will be built by Charles B. Bracke in Crestview Hills a new subdivision by the Frederick A. Schmidt Company on the Dixie Highway near Ft. Mitchell Ky The homes will cost 16000 exclusive of ground value The Cincinnati Architectural Society annual frolic set for Tuesday night November 3 at club HQ 527 Last Third Street committee named Dick Strong Nick Charleton Bill Ward Samuel Hannaford Marshall Martin Carl Gramme A meeting and dinner will precede the frolic
The list records numerous property transfers and leases in districts such as Central, Kennedy Heights, Delhi Township, and Avondale. Transactions include parcels on Race Street, Browning Avenue, and Reading Road with nominal 1 dollar deeds or small taxes, plus several leases with monthly or annual rents.
A long list of mortgage filings shows numerous borrowers including Katharina Baeumer and Catherine Spellbrink, with various lenders such as Cheviot B and L Co and Oakley Improved B L Co. Amounts range from 65 thousand to 1 thousand dollars, with many names and institutions cited.
Carl Jahnigan a 38 year old contractor from 3998 Gilmore Avenue was fined 35 dollars and costs and suspended from driving until November 1 by Judge William D. Alexander after testifying he had just returned from Florida where speed laws are laxer. Police cited 37 mph on Madison road. Others fined include William Carrol 43 dollars and costs with suspension to Thanksgiving, Lewis Ziegler 35 dollars and costs with suspension to November 13, Wade M. Wallace 33 dollars and costs with driving rights suspended to November 13. Alexander warned Frederick Schwier that failure to pay for vehicle damage by November 13 would send him to jail. Magistrate John Ryan heard three Smiths case. Cyril and Alvin Smith, truck drivers, were charged with operating over ten ton county-road trucks. case continued. Jesse Smith fined 10 dollars for 34 mph in Addyston. Louis Sandman fined 50 dollars for speeding in Silverton. Thomas Neff’s case continued to next Friday due to an accident en route to court.
In Surrogate's Court Mrs Mary Casey Thorne denies she visited a cabaret on September 6. Witnesses said she went to confession that evening. Relatives of the late banker oppose her guardianship of son Joel Wolfe Thorne. Banker's fortune and a series of hotel bills from 1916 to 1918 are noted, with most signatures hers.
Washington, Oct 30 Hearing on the Van Sweringen merger plan ended before the Interstate Commerce Commission. The proposal would join Nickel Plate with Erie Pere Marquette Chesapeake and Ohio and Hocking Valley Railroads in a single company with over 1 billion dollars capital. Attorneys were told to file briefs by Dec 10 and be ready for oral arguments in late December.
William M. Bowman aged 91, pioneer of the gold days, has spent eighteen years carving a tomb on a promontory in Eldorado County. A rock tomb with a coffin is enclosed by a death house and will be used when he senses death, signaling with a white flag to friends.
Robert Riley Covington 60 of 2024 Greenup Street, a Green Line conductor for 24 years, died yesterday at St Elizabeth Hospital from a gunshot wound to the head. Coroner’s verdict: suicide while mentally deranged. Wife Mrs Riley found him, son Elbert D Riley runs a local drug store. Funeral plans not yet set.
Five Cincinnati men John Thomas George Shaw Charles Prichet Dave Sacks and Fred Warren were sentenced to five days in jail by Judge Moore in Police Court for disorderly conduct tied to a Wednesday fight on the Fourth street bridge in Newport. Henry Davis 30 of 617 West Sixth Cincinnati was fatally struck by Jesse Stevenson of South gate Newport who claimed self defense after Davis allegedly attacked with a knife. Stevenson's case was moved to the County Court.
The Kenton County Red Cross chapter starts its annual roll call to November 11 with a 20000 member quota. Churches fraternal orders and civic groups aid the drive as Mayor O'Donovan appeals for generous citizen contributions to the cause.
Raymond Curry, 20, and Ralph Tucker, 22, both bridge carpenters at Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, fought at their 308 Elm Street boarding house over a letter from a girl. Curry was stabbed three times in the left side and taken to Speers Hospital Dayton Ky. Tucker was arrested for cutting with intent to kill.
Real estate transfers listed include Jank C Reeves to Mrs Bella M Reeves for a Dayton lot at 5500 dollars. William Bell to Ray Kaufman for a Cote Brillant lot at 1500 dollars. Ada Stickley to Albert Lampe for a Ft Thomas lot at 6500 dollars. Russel R Walker to J W Tarvin for a Woodlawn lot at 500 dollars. William G Parrot to Walter Overbeck for a Dayton lot at 6500 dollars.
Mrs Gertrude Klonaris of Clifton Kentucky was granted a divorce from James Klonaris by Judge Caldwell in Campbell County Circuit Court on abandonment The plaintiff said they wed in Cleveland in August 1917 and he left in December of that year Her maiden name Gertrude Moore was restored Ballot boxes for upcoming elections were ordered plated in voting booths by Sheriff Louis B Tieman
The Covington school bond issue of 525000 has won endorsements from nearly all city groups. A Republican mass meeting on Thursday night approved the bond by unanimous vote. Superintendent H. B. Cox reported unsolicited endorsements from City Commissioner candidates pledging no tax increase if the bond is approved by voters on November 3, 1925.
Wilbur B. Campbell of North Baltimore Ada M. Mansfield of Rudolph Charles Locky of Cincinnati Helen May Hunley of Cincinnati are listed for marriage licenses.
W J Wash aged 77 died in Huntington West Virginia after living with his sister Mrs Ivor Evans in Ft Mitchell and visiting another sister Mrs Rebecca Tate. He was a former general yardmaster for Kentucky Central in Covington and later for Southern Pacific in Tucson. Funeral services set for Monday at Mrs Evans home. Burial in Highland Cemetery. He leaves two sisters Mrs Evans and Mrs Tate and a third sister Mrs W W Bowen and nephew Frank R Evans of Covington.
The Kenton County Fiscal Court passed a resolution asking the State Highway Commission to accept the $88 534 41 bid for reinforced concrete to build the 3 1 2 mile Bracht Piner road six feet wide The county would fund the Walton Nicholson road similarly if the commission takes it over and constructs it If Walton Nicholson costs more than Bracht Piner the county pays half the excess A copy of the resolution will be sent to the Highway Commission.
The Dixie Highway property near Florence Ky ten miles south of Covington was burned. The vacant house and seventeen acres sold at auction Thursday to William Windhorn and Douglas Schmits for 14 100. Loss is insured for 12 000. Origin of the fire remains a mystery to firemen.
A $200000 steam pump at Covington Water Works Pumping Station in Ft Thomas broke when a valve stem failed. Superintendent John Kingsley said repairs would take hours. reservoirs remain full and supply is not affected. The campaign issue concerns a 6000 gallon electric pump proposal.
Police Chief Klumper ordered Captain John Putthoff to station fifteen extra patrolmen tonight to curb Halloween revelers. Officers will not interfere with celebrations unless property is damaged, and arrests will follow any destruction.
William Herring sues the Kentucky Jockey Club for 15000 dollars claiming three forcible ejectments from Latonia race track on September 22 October 8 and October 7 with five thousand dollars sought for each incident. Laura Crosby sues Mac and Mabel Emmons at 4450 Decoursey Avenue for 15000 dollars alleging false theft accusations and reputational harm tied to a rooster theft affidavit filed with Covington Police Court.
Joseph F Webb a retired farmer of Corinth Kentucky aged 93 died last night at his daughter Mrs L W Wood s home 322 Pike Street He was a Civil War veteran who served with Confederate forces Funeral services will be held at 8 o clock this evening at the Wood residence and the body will be taken to Williamstown for burial tomorrow morning
A plainclothes officer, Paul Bihl, 25, was attacked by six to seven suspects while crossing Yeatman alley and Sycamore street. Pepper spray blinded him as he was disarmed and beaten. six black suspects and one white man were later arrested on suspicion.
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