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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1918
Page
2
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Columbus investors led by W. H. Miller meet with Mayors Shumaker and Williams to negotiate a purchase of the Pomeroy and Middleport water system. They seek meter based charges and a five to ten year horizon to recoup $10 000 to $12 000 in meters and improvements while discussing fire protection costs and future service upgrades.
Crowds unable to secure tickets for the Sun Flower Minstrels at Pomeroy Thursday are urged to consider another performance next week. Earnest Martin of Pomeroy, who recently had an appendectomy, continues to improve. Rev. W. G. Schmitz arrived today.
An old advertisement touts Olive Tablets as a successful substitute for various ailments. It claims benefits for digestion and energy and lists a price of 25 cents per box, with a call to try the product.
In Evansville Indiana on April 6 the cornerstone was laid for a memorial honoring James Bethel Gresham one of the first three U S soldiers killed in World War I. The memorial takes the form of a home for his mother Mrs Alice Gresham Dodd to be maintained by the city with Mrs Dodd to live there for life.
Mount Vernon and Tiffin report boards vote to discontinue German in public schools and to remove related textbooks. Greenville notes Ansonia residents burn German texts in a bonfire. McArthur adopts French and Spanish in place of German. Liberty Bonds bind you to your country and all it stands for.
Columbus officials refuse to use modern Germany pencils and seek a method to dispose of 20 dozen on hand. Inspectors warn destruction could trigger findings against the department which lacks an emergency fund. Secretary Fulton objects to keeping them. C O Myers sent a sample with a pointed note that the department is too patriotic to use them. The industrial commission approved the action and the note.
Miss Grace Chapman of Clarksburg W Va en route to Camp Sherman visited her parents here and was accompanied to Camp Sherman by her mother Mrs F W Chapman. Other residents and visitors from Athens Chauncey Berea and Columbus appear in this society note.
Pittsburg Pa April 6 This city marks the first war anniversary with a monster loyalty parade listing 25000 workers of foreign birth. German Soldiers Association veterans of the Franco Prussian war lead Teutonic marchers. Austrians Poles Slavs and Czechs join as bands provide music and banners urge Liberty Loan Thrift Stamps and economic cooperation.
Mack Swivers a 23 year old miner and Dora Riffles a 20 year old cigar-roller both of Nelsonville obtain a marriage license as recorded in local civil notices.
Chauncey notes Miss Agnes Davis of Clarksburg West Virginia a former resident visited Mrs C W Walker this week Miss Lucy Dorr will lead the Christian Endeavor meeting at the Christian Church Sunday at six with Bible reading and music Miss Ruth Wharton led a large meeting last Sunday All dues to treasurer Edw Minister Jr due Sunday evening Dave Hawk of Circle Hill injured in the mine is recovering well Dr W V Sprague reports no serious injury The patriotic school program at the Methodist church postponed Levi Burchfield funeral Saturday at two from his Chauncey home Survived by wife and several children Mr and Mrs Carl Shafer and children of Nelsonville visited Chauncey hosts.
Local residents visited kin and friends in nearby towns over Easter and returned home. Visitors include Alonzo Baker from Cincinnati. A J Gould from Sand Rock. Misses Marguerite Agan, Hazel Baker in Nelsonville. John Edwards buys a piano. the Canaanville Band raised funds for War Chest. Belgian sugar beet workers settle in Canada as beet production rises.
Mrs. James Goodfellow and daughter Mary of Haydenville spent Monday with Mrs. Thomas Goodfellow. The Burchfields mourn the death of Mr. L. D. Burchfield. Numerous relatives visited at Poston, Murray City, Athens and Nelsonville over the weekend including the Moores, Notashores, Shaffers, Slaters, Lyons, Calahune, and Ferris families.
Admiral Bachmann of Kiel declares a reward of 20000 marks for the capture of agents he says were sent by America and England to stir up strikes in Germany. He asserts the agents were dispatched to disrupt labor and public calm amid wartime tensions.
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