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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1918
Page
5
Beta Chapter invites to a dancing party at the Masonic Temple Saturday evening April 20. Social guests from Delta Tau Delta and campus fraternities are expected to attend in a lighthearted spring social.
Members gathered at Mrs. Herbert A. Junod’s home for a surprise birthday tribute. Havaland china was presented to the honored guest as friends enjoyed music, social talk, and a guest-provided picnic supper.
Mrs. Sam Sommer entertained at 40 West Union Street with a luncheon for her mother Mrs. Threse Hass and sister Miss Hass of Cincinnati. Twenty two guests were served at pink and white decorated tables with hand painted place cards.
Miss Lenna Wiesser of Jackson and Mr. Elias Thompson of this city wed Friday at 8:30 pm in the First M E parsonage with Rev. R. G. Bowden officiating. Thompson a miner. They plan to live in the Ullom Block on Court street.
The patronesses of Alpha Delta Pi host an informal dance at Dalton's Academy to support active members and pledges. Various residents travel for visits and family matters. Mrs E D Sayre leaves for Cleveland. Dr Alston Ellis attends a School Masters Club meeting in Cincinnati. Miss Clara Bowser arrives for a weekend visit. Mrs Sid Sherrard travels to Nelsonville due to ill relatives. J Maurice Hyde remains in Marietta hospital with intestinal grip. Corporal Herbert Richardson departs Camp Taylor, Ky after 10 days leave. Mrs Thomas Watkins and daughter Henrietta return from New Straitsville. Pearl J Leighty, grandson to Mr and Mrs George Leighty, writes home from Columbus Barracks and heads to Fort Adams, Rhode Island. Leighty previously lived at 10 Fern Street and attended Athens High before enlisting in the Coast Artillery.
James Robert Sherman died at the family home on Grosvenor street after a brief illness. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at the tome with burial in Union Street Cemetery. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Edward Sherman and grandson of Mr and Mrs Jacob Sherman, leaving two other children.
Glouster Ohio April 13 curfew in Jacksonville discontinued for reasons including noisy hour reminders to visitors and residents. Hotel Campbell owner denies motive but remarks prompt local debate. Opera House Vivian Martin Sunset Trail and Stolen Honors show. local mines operate except Congo 3021. San Toy reports smallpox cases. overall business at standstill.
Tonight at the Original Theater features The Sign of the Scarf and three big features. The Pride of New York, a patriotic picture, comes Wednesday April 17, depicting a working man and a millionaire called by the draft serving Uncle Sam with scenes from the trench.
The Flanders front across twenty miles is described as broadly quiet with wings holding while the center yields. Liable pressure shifts north toward Ypres and south toward Picardy as British retire via Hollebeke Labassee with Vimy Ridge still firmly in Allied hands aiding delayed German advances.
The page notes an advertisement for a George Walsh film showtimes at 5 15, 6 80, 7 45, and 9 00 PM. It also lists a Mothers Club gathering at Mr and Mrs Bert Angle and Mr and Mrs Wilber Balderson with numerous attendees. The Rothwell Club held a camouflage party at Mrs M M LeFavor home with various hosts guests, a piano piece, songs, S questions and answers, a lunch, camouflaged pies and prizes. A burglary at McCarty Bros. plumbing shop reports tire thefts.
Denver March 13 Governor Julius I Gunther announced he would not permit the Jesse Willard Fred Fulton championship fight to be staged in Colorado and suggested Berlin as a possible battleground for the bout.
In Columbus Delaine wool prices range washed 78 unwashed 65 with various combing grades. Chicago receipts show Hege consignments and cattle, pigs, and sheep with prices from 10.60 to 21.00 for Western lambs and 13.00 to 16.90 for ewes.
CINCINNATI April 18 cattle receipts 620 and market unchanged. Calves bring 14.25 to 14.50 while hogs receipts 6054 show good choice packers and butchers around 18.00.
Pittsburg Pa April 13 cattle market unchanged sheep and lambs market unchanged hogs receipts light market unchanged
Toledo Ohio April 13. Grain prices show cash bids for wheat at 2.20 per bushel corn 1.60 oats 0.93 and one half cents rye 2.60. Clover 18.00 Oct 14.00 Alsike 15.25 Timothy 3.60 per 100 pounds.
Chicago grain market update shows May corn at 1.27 dollars, April oats at 0.88, and May pork at 0.65 dollars. Prices reflect spot and futures trading in Chicago on April 18.
On April 13 1918 a male figure appeared on Court street in a straw hat amid snow but a Wisconsin inventor has patented skis with pivoted footpieces that propel a wearer along snow or ice as toes press against the runners.
A concise proclamation from the U S Food Administration urging collective action to save food. It frames food saving as a service to humanity and the nation, essential for government aims and the common good.
It is not easy to cure chronic constipation but Chamberlain's Tablets can help in most cases when the printed directions on the package are followed.
A local performance titled My Country First plays at the Grand Theatre tonight starring featured actor A and directed by B. The show runs with matinee and evening performances for theatergoers in the city.
Hunnemannia, the Mexican tulip poppy, ranks among the finest in its family for garden ornament and as a cut flower.
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