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Newspaper
Anniston Evening Star
Location
Anniston, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1917
Page
11
Anniston area items include social notices, church announcements, and brief society news. Mentions Mcclellan family illness funeral plans, train schedule tweaks and local business ads. Names include Fred Blackmon Ross McClellan and various residents visiting Birmingham Montgomery and Rome.
Two men were jailed at Saskewa after a confrontation where Dodgers and deserters exchanged fire. No injuries reported as the terror ists escaped the scene.
Washington reports outline of draft resistance penalties with court martial and firing squad as options. Gen Crowder and the justice department monitor Oklahoma unrest as 38 men in district three report results. three fit without exemptions, 24 with exemptions, 11 physically deficient.
Gen. Crow der directs governors to have all states publish names of persons claiming exemptions or discharges and the grounds for them in newspapers. Classified ads note various sale and rental offers in Anniston area including restaurant for sale, Ford touring car wanted, 360 acre parcel, mule and wagon, furnished room for rent, 110 acres near Weaver, and a seven room house for sale or exchange in West Anniston.
The Central Labor Unions unit outlines a Labor Day program with a morning parade and athletic contests, a public speech, and an afternoon barbecue at Oxford Lake. A fund drive begins Monday to gather local merchant support for housing and rent concerns, with a mass meeting at the courthouse planned for Tuesday night.
White pique baby coat lost in Oxford on an off street car. Finder please return to Cater Kilby Hardware Co. and secure reward.
John O. Chisolm and Co. offer urgent government work at Camp McClellan Anniston Alabama. Tools furnished transportation paid good wages. Apply now May 1.
The Skinner ore bank swimming hole near Coletown proved deadly again as 18 year old Cunningham Wilson drowned on Saturday afternoon. Coroner Murphy noted a forehead gash from a possible stone impact in a risky dive. Pete Lindsay retrieved the body.
A hole about thirty five feet deep at the Anniston Steel Company yard filled with water after an explosion or discharge. Stevens and Wilson were involved as witnesses or workers near Times Street between Fourteenth and Fifteenth wards.
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