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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1918
Page
2
An ad claims Vinol restores strength and vitality using ingredients like Liver and Beef Peptones Iron and BY Peptonates and other minerals. It asserts doctors support its elements, offers money-back guarantees, and lists McKee Drug Co. and local druggists as sellers.
A claim offers a simple four ounce bottle of liquid medicine to remove dandruff completely with nightly applications. The remedy allegedly stops scalp itching, leaves hair fluffy and lustrous, and requires four applications to destroy every trace of dandruff. Sold at drug stores as inexpensive Staudo or a similar liquid.
A vintage ad promotes Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle remedy for chronic constipation and torpid liver. It claims the tablets soothe and support normal bowel and liver function without calomel, noting pleasant olive color and nighttime use for best results.
Mr and Mrs Tod McKnight welcomed a fine son. Rhoda Gibson suffers from French measles. Del Jewell improves his house with paint. Rev Beckett and wife return from visit with the pastor's mother. Mrs Martha Warren of Columbus visits her father Dell Jewell. Mrs Jane Boring hosts Mrs Heskett and Mrs Marve Reeves. Del Jewells visit Albany. Ladies Aid meets at Dianthy Gibson's. many women clean homes. Several attend Harrisonville high School Commencement. Artie Stanley and mother move to northern state.
Sunday guests and local residents gathered for Community Day events at the high school. The program featured a graduation sermon, a banquet after commencement, a service flag dedication with 29 stars, marble tablet in memory of Ernest Ray Windsor, and student exhibits in manual training and domestic science.
Torch ne news notes several move ins and outs with Mr and Mrs J A Dye relocating Torch. Elma Scarlett departs for Parkersburg to attend Mountain State Business College. Torch Model School commencement May 2 at 8 PM in M BE church with six graduates led by Prof B K Mardis.
Memphis, Tenn. R. W. Patterson of the United States Millington Aviation field was killed today after a 1000 foot fall as his airplane broke its struts during a looping maneuver.
An early 20th century advertisement extols Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound to darken gray hair naturally and restore gloss. It promotes by applying a dampened brush through strands, claims to erase grays by morning, and urges use for a youthful appearance. Also promotes Dr Pierce tonics for spring fatigue and nerve relief.
Chauncey and surrounding communities report guests from Colum bus and Groveport in Ohio. Mrs Wyckoff’s sister in Wellston faces surgery in Columbus. A seven year old Morris girl from Chauncey died in Converse street. Funeral services were held at the residence and burial followed at Green Lawn cemetery. Local workers Clell and Donald Cunningham are recovering from mining injuries. L M Wilson, formerly of Chauncey now in Camp Merritt New Jersey, has been reassigned from Chattanooga Tennessee.
About thirty five friends gathered at Mrs Clark Southerton’s Mill Street home last Friday evening to honor her birthday with a surprise party. The gathering was sociable and concluded with refreshments of ice cream and cake.
The Chauncey K of P and I O O F lodges will jointly attend the funeral of Walter Lowery Wednesday afternoon at Plains church with burial at Green Lawn cemetery. Lowery belonged to both orders.
Mrs Rose Phetteplace travels to Wellston for a week with her mother. Frank VanDyke made a Sunday visit in Athens. Miss French of Mineral visits sister Miss Fern French and attends the last day of school at Music Run. Henry Marquis of Sugar Creek visits sister Mrs S J Davis. Isaac Potter family and Roy Davis of Canaanville visit KR Hughes and grandparents Orson Lewis. School closes Friday with a debate on whether music benefits humanity more than oratory and a children’s program.
Buchtel Messenger Special Correspondence reports Mr L H Cohen and Mat Miles visiting in Nelsonville. Mr and Mrs Mac Byron also visited in Nelsonville Monday. Mr and Mrs John McMullen visited in Columbus Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ervin Kenney and Agnes were with relatives in Givaster Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ben Wagner and family visited their parents Sunday. Mrs Grant Vernon was a Nelsonville business visitor Monday. Mr and Mrs Clarence Lafollette and family visited their parents Sunday.
Michael Stevens ages 2 and Gladys Ankrom age 18 are listed as residents of South Bloomingville and Deanville respectively, both born in Hungary alongside miner Mike Lonas 48 and widow Mrs. Mary Marks 67 of Hollister. Also noted are potter H. M. Snodgrass 21 of Cambridge and Blodwen Williams 18 of Glou ster, with Williams identified as Welsh-born.
Dr J L Henry learns his nephew Harold Henry 18 has reached France after enlisting in Athens. The youth is son of Dr L Henry, formerly a surgeon in the regular army now at Fort Russell Wyoming. He joined the regulars less than two months before deployment and serves in the 18th Field Artillery as a first class private.
Kys Emerecht a foreign worker in Athens from Canaanville sustained a compound fracture of the right leg after about half a ton of slate fell at his workplace. Dr Henry treated him and he was taken to Athens by Dowler ambulance, then moved to Logan hospital for care.
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