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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1919
Page
5
Social news notes the W C T U gathering postponed to the first week in September. Various locals travel, visit, and attend family and community events including visits from Beloit and Logans residents, and a funeral in Athens.
A woman will leave Friday for Carbondale to visit her mother Mrs Henry Frank before returning to duties. Neighbors in Shelby Iowa Hiram Watkins and G W Ickes, Civil War comrades, attended the G A R national encampment in Columbus and then visited Mrs Jesse Watkins near Athens with other Watkins relatives.
The Athens post office will continue selling government surplus army food until the local supply runs out. Assistant Postmaster McKinstry said only 26 orders had been received by Thursday morning totaling 343.33 dollars. Officials lament low local interest and urged early orders to secure goods at reduced prices.
Washington August 21 Dr Singman Rhee provisional president of Korea denounced Japan's reforms in Korea as empty gestures. He said reforms replace one set of rulers with another and cannot arise from Japanese control, which he described as self serving and not initiated for Korea's benefit.
Mrs Helen Cain testified she threw a quart bottle of milk at Mrs Grace Costello after she was called names. The admission came during a Chicago court hearing with both women cited in the complaint.
Akron letter notes Hugh Palmer Ohio champion horseshoe pitcher will play a series against two Cleveland rivals at Gordon Park Sunday morning. Palmer contests each opponent in best three of five games to twenty one points. He recently defeated national champion William Brust in Akron.
In Pleasanton on August 17 a third annual picnic honored Mrs. Woolley’s seventy fourth birthday. About seventy five friends and relatives gathered in H. B. Ruth’s grove, shared a large cafeteria style dinner, and presented gifts. Attendees included O. E. Woolley and family, O. F. Rowland, J. J. Woolley, Ruth family members, Ames township residents, and numerous relatives from nearby towns.
The weekly Ohio weather and crop report notes favorable conditions for growth, completion of thrashing and harvest, some corn damage in the northwest from drought, and improvements after rain. Also reports George Riley returning to lead the Wheaton and Crooks garage service department, Athens county soldiers overseas uniforms, a correction by George W. Williams, Scouts in Indian costumes at the fair, and other community notes.
Pattern illustration indicates a 4 size girls dress 8 10 12 14 with 34 yards of 44 inch material for size 12 and one yard for plaston. Pattern matted to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or 1c 2c stamps.
Advertised health tonic claims to offer clear labeling and simple ingredients with no habit forming drugs. The ad touts Earle's Hypo-Cod as a reliable tonic containing cod liver oil iron malt manganese hyphosphites lime quinine and wild cherry bark with a dash of sherry, priced at $1.25 including tax, available from McKee Drug Co in Athens Ohio and other druggists.
An advertisement touts Dash Balm for tired swollen feet with quick action benefits. Directions urge light application twice daily, plus optional cash antiseptic powder for between toes and in socks. Sold by Allan J. Cash Manufacturing Co of Olean New York with mail order details.
New York and Chicago report growing strike impact as leading playwrights fail to reach a settlement. Actors refuse closed shop demand while management blocks negotiations. Stagehands and musicians join the walkout threatening further theater closures across cities.
Miss Georgia Lee Medlock, described as Indian, reports sickness in New York where she says people do not speak to one another and plans to return west where she believes friendliness exists.
Roland Bassett, Iea's first aerial drummer, earned about 10 000 dollars in orders for overalls during a four hour Hudson River tour stopping at four cities from 83rd Street to Poughkeepsie. He flew a route aboard his aerial act.
Police report two 13 year old girls Sophie Schiff and Sarah Schmutz were abducted from a Chicago area cinema. They were found later three blocks from home with disheveled hair and distress.
Indiana militia units move to Hammond to guard Standard Steel Car Co after strikers reject all settlement proposals. Eleven companies dispatched to Lake County on sheriff and mayor notice. In Ohio a large moonshine operation near Fullerton is busted with four men arrested and 350 gallons seized.
Theodore Leonard Jr of Leonard Poultry Company pleaded not guilty in Municipal Judge Osborn's court to selling poultry stored fourteen and a half months. State law limits cold storage to ten months. The case opens a series of trials on hoarding foodstuffs.
The seizure of 4,500,000 pounds of sugar from terminal wharf and railroad warehouses in Charlestown may be released for public use as of today in Boston Massachusetts.
Federal authorities say the sugar will be sold as part of efforts to combat high living costs.
An ad asserts catarrh is a constitutional illness cured by internal remedies and blood circulation, touts Hall's pills for constipation, and offers a reward for proof of cure by a Toledo, Ohio company and J Cheney.
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