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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1918
Page
5
Mr Marion Jaynes of Columbus visits friends in Athens. Couples plan journeys to Eldorado and Columbus. Residents visit family in Columbus and Chillicothe. Attends dances at Masonic Temple. Aviation service transfers, military travels, and family trips frame a day of social motion in southeastern Ohio.
The Woman's Music Club was hosted by Mrs. T A Cotton with assistance from Mrs. A G Farmer and Miss Elizabeth Garber. The study focused on Kjerulf and Svendsen. Mrs. Harry G Stalder gave a paper on Ole Bull. Performances included piano duets, vocal solo, a Svendsen trio, and violinist Mrs W R Phillips, cellist, and pianist Mrs Ethel R West with works by Svendsen Kjerulf and related pieces.
Mrs. John Geary of Jacksonville Ohio credits Parker’s Treatment with immediate relief from chronic stomach cramps gas bloating and pains after eating She endorses the medicine for indigestion and constipation and mentions Parker’s Nerve Tonic and Liver Tablets as helpful companions Prepared by Geo B Parker M D Athens Ohio the products are sold by Cline’s Pharmacy and druggists
The notes cover a piano recital of Greig’s Sonata in E Minor by Mrs. West and a business meeting electing officers for the new calendar year. Officers reelected include Miss Mary Ness as president and Miss Helen Ullom as treasurer. A new choral director is Miss Helen McKay. Sigma Sigma Sigma hosted a Colonial dinner for patronesses. violet flowers and purple white colors dominated the decor.
Miss Grace Cook daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Cook of Mill Street married Mr Orville L Morrison of Charleston W Va in Columbus last night. The bride and groom will arrive home Sunday. Miss Cook will continue as a trimmer for Finsterwald Sisters Milliners this season and then join Morrison, a draftsman in Charleston.
About two hundred Chauncey and area residents rode the noon train to Camp Sherman Chillicothe to bid Chauncey’s four boys farewell Luther Romine Gilbert Courtney Alva Six and Fred Larsson. Rutledge Funeral Held Today at 2 PM at the Church of Christ Chauncey burial Nye Cemetery survived by wife several children and many Chauncey relatives.
On Thursday evening after Chauncey High School commencement, the Chauncey Maca bees hold their annual banquet for members and families. A short program includes music and recitations, with an address by Commander Young and other state workers, followed by a general feed.
Dover township and Chauncey schools closed Friday. Teachers from both nearby districts displayed work at the High School in the afternoon. The exhibit was praised but smaller than last year.
Two beds with springs priced at 2 and 4 dollars. One small dresser with a large mirror, two rocking chairs, a piano in fine shape. Sold on easy payments. Address 49 Morris Ave. Home phone 3671. Dated 4 27 3.
Two rooms furnished for light housekeeping available. vacant next Tuesday. No children. Call Home Phone 1353. 27-1.
Attend a patriotic fund dance hosted by the Women’s Benefit Association of Maccabees at Odd Fellow’s Hall on Monday April 29 at 8 o’clock. Admission 25 cents. Saxophone Orchestra performing.
A Gallatin county exemption board case centers on a married draft-age man who cannot read and to whom his wife writes a note seeking exemption. The wife’s letter urged the army to take him, claiming he is useless at home, drinks, and has seven children to feed, while noting he is good with squirrels and eating.
A large crowd at the Eagles lodge heard Dr. Carl G. Winters of Indianapolis deliver a forceful wake-up America talk on Prussian danger. Local officials and visiting officers attended as Camp Sherman prepares for heavy drafts and potential unit moves.
March 15 Aix les Bains notes American troops on leave in the resort town named for its springs and lake Bourget. Locals set fixed prices so Sammites know in advance what they will pay when shopping, echoing Roman times.
Leslie Halbirt of Canaanville has left Athens after a short visit en route home. He recently enlisted in aviation service and spent two months at Kelly Field Texas. He has been transferred to Dayton for special aviation related work.
Markets show eggs at 32 to 35 cents for various grades and sizes. Butter ranges 39 to 48 cents per pound, with creamery and dairy prints reported across regions. Live poultry prices list fowls roosters broilers fryers ducks and turkeys with regional variations and weight distinctions.
Chicago reports lighter receipts for hogs at 9000 and cattle at 1500 with market unchanged for some items. Hog prices ranged from 16.00 to 17.75, pigs to 17.35, sheep and lambs showed higher end quotes with lambs to 20.65 and ewes to 16.76.
Cattle receipts 876 slow market shippers unchanged calves 12.50 to 15.00 hogs receipts 3103 higher good choice packers and butchers 17.75 to 18.75 sheep receipts 134 extra unchanged lambs market weak weather conditions.
Pittsburg Pa April 27 cattle market unchanged sheep and lambs market unchanged hog receipts ten cars prime heavy 17.25 to 17.50 medium heavy and light workers pigs 18.25 to 18.40 roughs 15.00 to 16.00 stags 13.00 to 18.25.
Toledo daily prices list town cash values for wheat at 2.20, corn 1.65, oats 0.8612, rye 2.37, clover 18.40, Alsuke 15.25, and Timothy 3.85 per unit. The report reflects commodity quotes on April 27.
Chicago prices dated April 27 show corn May at 1.2738, July 1.4858. oats May 1, June 0.80, July 0.7312. pork May 47.20. The brief listing covers several contract months and the pork price in May.
Albany April 26 Crowder informs state authorities that newspaper employees in any capacity are not deferred from military service. He reverses a Syracuse exemption board decision which had deemed newspaper staff a necessary asset in a vital industry.
Police court business is looking up with three cases scheduled for today or Monday. Luther Clouse of Buchtel faces speeding charges after a pickup on the Nelsonville road. William Derry of Canaanville, 46, unmarried, detained on drunk and disorderly charges. C A Overmeyer to answer affidavit by C H Dupler accusing him of operating a car while intoxicated following a Thursday collision. Sheriff Lowry and Chief Porter aided in the search for Joe Barstow’s body near Hocking. four men worked but no trace found.
Ruth Allgood, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J W Allgood of near Carbondale, died Friday at 2 PM after two weeks of measles and pneumonia. Funeral at Carbondale M B Church Sunday 10 AM, Rev L O Davits in charge. Burial in New Marshfield cemetery. Parents mourn four children. father oversees Semi Wellston Coal Co near Carbondale.
Frank J. Cheney, senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo, swears the firm will pay ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for every case of catarrh that cannot be cured by Catarrh Medicine. The document notes the medicine is taken internally and acts through the blood to affect mucous surfaces.
The jury in the Max Eastman The Masses editors draft interference trial in New York could not reach a verdict after being out since 6 P M Thursday and was excused.
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