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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1921
Page
3
The Nelsonville Scottish Rite Club will hold an important meeting at the Masonic Temple at 7 o clock tonight. All members should attend.
Mrs. C A Hooper of Athens visits this city today to attend the funeral of Mrs Edna Mechem Dundas and to see her parents Mr and Mrs Henry Verity. Mr Corwin Andrews was a Logan business visitor Tuesday. Mr J B Parsons of Pittsburg Pa is a business visitor today. Mrs Joe Verity hosted guests including her sister Mrs H I Robison and Frances of Vincennes Ind Mrs Virgil Moore of Wellston and Mrs Fred Brown of Haydenville.
Mr and Mrs Jack Byron and guests including Mr and Mrs W E Edgell Miss Clara Mulligan and Miss Catherine Collins Messrs John Cox Ony Stedam and Norwood Blair spent a recent picnic at Murray City amid pleasant weather and socializing.
Miss Lucile Fisk of Fulton street entertained a group of friends Monday evening. Her guests included Miss Fern Parry, Miss Helen Verity, Miss Lucile Verity, Mr. Floyd Clark of Pittsburg, and Messrs Ray Cook, Guy Butts, and Harvey LaFollette.
Mr and Mrs Tom Joyce of Madison street announce the birth of a son at their home on Tuesday April 12 Floyd Clark returns home to Pittsburg after visiting Mr and Mrs Henry Verity Mrs A B Lane returns from Hiram with her daughter Miss Mary of Ann Arbor Michigan Mrs S S Steenrod and her daughter Barbara were Athens visitors on Tuesday
A spelling bee is announced for the East school building on Monday evening April 18. Admission is ten cents.
Arrangements are ready for a big street cleaning event Thursday afternoon as workers on several streets prepared Wednesday morning. The city signals a coordinated effort to improve cleanliness and curb litter.
A meeting of the committee is held tonight to review the plan and organize details. About 150 workers are expected at city hall at 1 PM. The special street cleaning assessment is available but short of annual needs. If volunteers perform well Thursday, the regular street cleaning crew will continue, promising the cleanest streets yet.
A new Hocking Valley Baseball League is organized with eight teams Chauncey Nelsonville The Plains Buchtel Floodwood Nelsonville Greys Doanville and Poston. The season runs May 7 to September 24 with all games on Saturdays and a loving cup awarded to the team with the highest batting average. Opening games feature Nelsonville W C S at Doanville Chauncey at The Plains Floodwood at Poston and Buchtel at Nelsonville.
Thomas Mulligan of Division 34 retires from active service after nearly fifty years with the Hocking Valley Railway at Nelsonville. Born April 11, 1848, he began as a fireman in 1868, rose to engineer, served under M. S. Connors, never had a serious accident, and joins the Brotherhood.
The community celebrates the seventy third birthday of Mr. Mulligan at his Myers street home. He has served in Division 4 since 1890 and remains a respected longtime Nelsonville resident. He ended his railroad career two years after the official retirement age, in good health.
The junior class hosted a party Friday evening April 8 at the Elks hall to honor the N H S senior class and faculty. Frank Tedrow gave the welcome, with entertainments by Miss Emish and Miss Nelson, a mock wedding, a mock faculty meeting, contests, and Miss Louise Kennard singing a solo. Decorations featured junior and senior colors, red bud branches, and a late lunch for about eighty guests. The event closed with the senior motto B, B4 but always Be.
Mr and Mrs Will Edgell Mrs Gibson Miss Louise Wilson Ruth Shafer and Cable Gibson of Columbus were over Sunday guests of Mr and Mrs W W Gibson Edward Love Jr was the guest of friends in Columbus the first of the week Max Lowden of Columbus visited relatives and friends here over Sunday Miss Florence Mulligan spent the weekend with friends in Columbus.
Mrs J W Vance announces she will continue managing Cornwell Jewelry in Nelsonville after a 18 month tenure. She thanks past patrons for their business and invites the public to visit the same store and receive courteous service.
Congress moves to advance the enlarged emergency tariff bill in the House while the Senate Finance Committee prepares hearings on sales tax and tax reform. Leaders plan to merge the emergency tariff and anti dumping bills with foreign exchange adjustment, affecting Italy Germany Austria and Central Europe. The measure would raise import duties from three to five times due to exchange disparities.
Four by four and heavier billets fall from 58.50 to 37.00 per gross ton and slabs from 42 to 38 per gross ton. Sheet bars and small billets drop from 41 to 39 per gross ton. plates 2.65 to 2.20 per 100 pounds. structural 2.45 to 2.20 per 100 pounds. wire rods 57 to 48 per e ton. Tin plate 7 to 6.25 per base box. Prices are f o b Pittsburgh. cuts follow Gary’s western trip amid difficult conditions with leading men.
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