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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1919
Page
7
Columbus August 11 The Governor and Attorney General say they have struck pay dirt in the Ohio probe into profiteering and high living costs. Early this week arrests are planned to seize violators in court. The inquiry extends beyond food to coal prices and distribution with county prosecutors to provide definite coal information soon.
Mary A. Mosure wife of William H. Mosure of 102 Grosvenor Street died last evening at 7 20 from paralysis aged 73. She leaves two sons C F Mosure and BE L Mosure and one brother Lorain Coe of Athens. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM at her son C F Mosure’s home 84 Grosvenor Street with interment in Union Street Cemetery.
Baroness Clifton, daughter of the seventh Earl of Darnley, emerges as a leading peace debutante. She will make her bow to English society during the forthcoming winter, one of the few English peeresses holding rank in her own right.
About one hundred employees and families from the Athens and Nelsonville plants gathered at Carpenter farm on the Athens Canaanville pike for the Lostro Auto Sales annual picnic. A 30 by 60 tent housed a bountiful chicken dinner with ice cream and lemonade, plus sports events, swimming, races, and a drawn boxing match between Sam Siegel and John Bowers.
Mr and Mrs James Johnson hosted a fudge party for their daughter Flossies seventeenth birthday on August 8 in Nelsonville Ohio R F D 3. Guests included Helen Gleason Marie Wyskiver Rhoda Lonks Ruth Mills and many others with music games and remembrances.
Clarence Andrews Edward Levening Floyd McQuaid Ira Clark Shirley Lennay Raymond Humphrey Walter Wend Herman Bumgardner John Bumgardner Mrs. Scott and Mrs Hewett are listed among community figures in a readable notice fragment. No events or actions specified beyond identification of individuals.
In Albany Ohio 137 descendants of Thomas Dailey gathered at Dailey grove for the 13th annual reunion. Cars dominated arrivals with many elders and young children present. After a business meeting hymns were sung and a large picnic was served. Officers elected: C D Dailey president J T Dailey vice president Hart T Dailey secretary Frank Robinettreasurer.
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