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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 26, 1919

Page

5

Social notes from Nelsonville to Athens Ohio area

Miss Elsie Hodgeman of Nelsonville visits Mrs. Mary Carpenter Wilson. Numerous local residents travel to Columbus Cleveland Logan and Ashland for business visits fairs and family gatherings. A wedding anniversary is celebrated for Mr. and Mrs. Beverage at their Athens home.

Elsie Hodgeman Nelsonville Mary Carpenter Wilson Chris Lomax Columbus Cleveland Fred Beverage McKinley Avenue Beverage Butte City Montana Ohio Athens

Dinner at Colonial Local Theta Phi Alpha Event

Theta Phi Alpha members hosting a dinner at Colonial Local to raise funds and strengthen campus fellowship. Attendees include sisters and guests supporting chapter activities and community service initiatives.

Theta Phi Alpha

Delta sorority hosts dinner and reed lamp gift at Theta Phi Alpha

Sorority hostesses held a dinner Saturday evening at the Colonial with Catherine Spellacy Wellston Grace Addis Vincent and Mary Devlin alumnae sharing honors with patronesses Mrs Oliver Gutman Mrs W V Daggett Mrs Charles Walsh Mrs P L Shannon Mrs J R Sprague Mrs H T Mulligan and Mrs C P Kircher. Twenty covers included Mary Fulton Hamilton and Bertha Higgins Lancaster. After dinner guests went to Mrs Charles Walsh's home on Church Street for progressive games and a Mary Fulton solo dance. Theta Phi Alpha patrons presented a reed lamp for the chapter room at Manasseh Cutler Hall.

Catherine Spellacy Wellston Grace Addis Vincent Mary Devlin Delta Chapter Oliver Gutman W. V. Daggett Charles Walsh P. L. Shannon J. R. Sprague H. T. Mulligan C. P. Kircher Manasseh Cutler Hall

Glouster News Mixes Listings and Local Events

Property sale ad for a six room frame dwelling in Glouster with outbuildings and cistern. Charley Chaplin film Sunnyside at Glouster Opera House with 10 and 25 cent admissions. Obituary notes for Elizabeth Allen aged 91 from Urbancrest. Local baseball plans against Columbus Buckeyes and revival services at Church of Christ in Trimble. School janitors prepping for opening. social notes on visits and returns.

Charlie Chaplin Sunnyside Glouster Opera House Church of Christ At Trimble C. L. Johnson Nelsonville Frank C. Ransdell Athens

Miners Battle at Illinois Mine Ends in Death

An eleven year old boy was shot dead and a man wounded in the leg during a clash between insurgent miners and workers near Springfield Illinois. Revolver bricks and clubs were used as the fight ended after the youth fell. Two men were arrested as officials investigate. Conservatives fled back home after the incident. A recent miners convention voted to strike unless fines against strikers were remitted, a conservative faction refusing to abide.

Springfield Ills Here

Hooper Ridge Bible School Attendance Noted

Mr and Mrs J W McDaniel visited Celia Simmons of Greens Run on Sunday. About sixty attended Sunday Bible school. Mr Wilbur Easler called on his cousin Miss Myrth Morris Sunday.

J. W. McDaniel Celia Simmons Greens Run Bible School Wilbur Easler Myrth Morris Sun

Homecoming Planned for Sunday September 14 at Local Place

The community announces an annual homecoming to be held on Sunday, September 14 at a local venue. An update notes the birth of a girl to Mr. and Mrs. Pearly Keirns on August 21, with both mother and baby doing well. Attendees from the area visited the Athens Fair and enjoyed the refreshing showers.

Pearly Keirns Athens

Reds trip draw for football and boxing fans in Ohio

Fifteen coaches will travel by train from Marietta to Cincinnati to watch the Reds versus Pittsburgh at Redland Field on Sunday. Olson plans to meet champion Ray Carpenter in Lancaster after Labor Day, following Carpenter’s recent Ohio welterweight title win over Matsuda on July 4. County fans also plan to attend the boxing match in Cincinnati.

Glouster Columbus Buckeyes Buckeyes Geo. Morris Columbus Simpson Chauncey Cincinnati Reds Pittsburg Redland Field Marietta Athens Cincy Olson Ray Carpenter Lancaster Carpenter Ohio Matsuda Glassware

DeMolet Team Wins Thirteenth Game in Sequence

After a 13th straight victory at the O U gym in cool morning play local businessmen applauded the DeMolet outfit for trimming Olson and his unit. Olson’s group was surprised and Fos ter was noted as missed in these games.

Charles DeMolet Outfit Olson California O. U DeMolet Congressman Foster

Pittsburg Live Stock Market Report Reads

Cattle receipts light and market slow with prime prices $14.50 to $15.50 and veal calves $21.00 to $22.00. Sheep and lambs show light receipts and slow market with prime wethers $10.50 to $11.25 and good $9.50 to $10.25. Hogs are active with primes $21.75 to $23.00 and various weights from $18.00 to $23.00.

Chicago Produce Market Butter Creamery Prices

Butter Creamery market quotes include 538 percent quality levels with standards at 5144 cents a pound, firsts at 6144 cents, 52 cents, seconds at 44 to 49 cents per pound.

Chicago

Cincinnati Cattle Market Steady Despite Varied Receipts

Cattle receipts total 800 with market steady. choppers 11.50 to 15.00. Calves receipts steady with extras 20.50 to 21.00. Hogs receipts 3600 with market steady to 25 lower. good to choice packers and butchers 21.75. Sheep receipts 38000, market steady. good to choice 8.75 to 9.00. Lambs slow 50 cents to 1 lower. good to choice 16.00 to 16.50.

Cincinnati

Cincinnati Produce Prices For Eggs And Poultry

Cincinnati produce reports steady egg prices with fresh gathered extra firsts at 46c per dozen and firsts 43c ordinary firsts 40c and seconds 35c. Live poultry lists fowls over 4 lbs at 29c, under 4 lbs 26c, roosters 18c, broilers 1% lbs and over 34c, fryers over 2 lbs 82c.

Cincinnati

Liberty bonds rates for New York on August 26

Liberty bonds today show 316s at 99.82, First 4s at 94.20, Second 4s at 92.88, First 414s at 94.22, Second 414s at 92.98, Third 414s at 94.80, Fourth 414s at 93.14, Victory 31 4s at 99.56, and 4% at 99.52.

Liberty Bonds New York Victory

Toledo Grain Market Prices Narrow Range

Closing prices list grains and seeds in Toledo Ohio with No 3 corn at 2.03 dollars per bushel No 2 oats white old at 79 to 80 cents and new at 7 8 cents Barley No 2 at 1 41 Rye No 2 at 1 56 Clover seed cash 30.00 Oct 30.40 March 24.50 Alsike cash Oct and Dec 25.45 March 26.00 Timothy cash and cash 1917 1918 5.40 Sept 5.80 Oct 5.67 14 Dec 5.77 44 March 5.97

Toledo Alsike Timothy

Local residents visit in Albany and surrounding towns

A parade of visitors and travelers returns home or visits relatives across Albany, Elk City, Athens, Rutland, Cheshire, Mason, and Mt. Vernon. Notables include Mrs. W. R. Turner and Mrs. Mary Secrets from Elk City, Mrs. Julia Martin’s granddaughter Winnifred Switzer, and many Cline family members visiting from Athens and Ann Arbor.

W. R. Turner Mary Secrets Ross Secrets Elk City Nebraska Emily Swingholm Omaha A. E. Wilson Winnifred Switzer Gallipolis Julia Martin Harve Duffee Columbus Albany Clarence Dickson France Ell Rife Shade Mildred Welch Cheshire Ruth Welsh Athens Roy Cline LeRoy Thorn Carpenter Newark G. Dowd Vivian Marjorie R. D. Dowd Mt. Vernon J. E. Cline Everett Cline Columbus Lal

Bride and groom wed in sky high ceremony

It was heavenly, says the bride describing the first marriage under similar conditions. Lieut. George else the groom and Mary I Schaefer the bride married over Hazelhurst field during the New York police field day. They ascended in separate planes as a chaplain followed in another aircraft.

Hazelhurst Field New York George Else Ee Mary I . Schaefer Alexander Wouter George Burgess

Deaths-Funerals of Mary Frances Covert

Mary Frances Covert four months old died at 6 50 AM at the Goddard home near Amesville from spinal meningitis after flux. Funeral at 10 AM Thursday at the Goddard home with burial in West Union Street cemetery. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs B M Covert two siblings and a half brother Marlette Covert. a previous infant son and another sibling died earlier.

Mary Frances B. M. Covert Covert Joseph Marilla Marlette Covert

Danish Scientist Invents Night Earth Radiation Meter

A Danish scientist has invented an instrument to measure the radiation of heat from the earth during the night. The device estimates night-time heat loss and could advance studies of planetary heat balance.

Weybrecht Dead at Canton Home in Ohio Poisoned Poultry

Alliance Ohio Aug 26 Colonel C C Weybrecht World War veteran died from eating cold storage turkey at a Lakeside Country Club party. Helen Gabris Sebring Ohio also died and four others are seriously ill including Mr and Mrs John C Sharer and Mrs L B Sanford Alliance.

Alliance Ohio C. C. Weybrecht Helen Gabris Sebring John C. Sharer Allance L. B. Sanford Clem Bates Lakeside Country Club Canton Helen S. Gahris

Colonel Weybretch Led 146th in France and Armistice Roles

Colonel Weybrecht commanded the 146th in France and later oversaw the fort there. After the armistice he directed American movements through the port at Jerusalem before returning to the United States. He was 50. his father was John F. Weybrecht, a contractor.

France Jerdam United States Weyb John F. Weybrecht

Pastor Cole to Leave Church in August for Indianapolis

On August 24 Rev. Cole marked his final day at the church before his departure to Indianapolis. He spent the day with Mr and Mrs Eugene Wharton and was honored at a luncheon prepared by Mrs Wharton. Attending were Rev Cole and his sister Hazel, Miss Etta Woodard of Athens, Miss Aunice Grandy of Grimb le, and Mr and Mrs Wharton.

Orbiston, O Cole Indianapolis Eugene Wharton

Tin Coating Process Spins Articles in Molten Metal

A European invention coats small metal articles with tin by spinning them in a centrifugal machine that contains molten metal, producing a durable tin finish through rapid immersion and rotation.

Europe

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Social Eo News W. A. Carpenter L. F. Carpenter Logan J. H. Duffee T. W. Duffee J. O. Arhood Pleasanton Warren Border C. C. Hill Clyde Hill Ernest Gross Crooksville F. L. Thomas Gayla and Avanell G. R. Lawrence Mechanicsburg O. W. Robey Chillicothe Athens County J. W. Robey W. S. Murray Dixon and Herbert Lancaster Camp Grounds Izura Creamer Miss Grace Buckeye Lake Akron E. C. Burchfield Logari Charles Pickering Elkton, Ky H. D. Dycus Anna Dycus Harry White Hallenbeck Florence Nelson la Touraine Alex Nelson Elmwood Place R.E. Burson Flossie Doris Kathryn Pratts Fork Fred Kiltan Rosco Orr Mr. Burson Mrs. Burson B. F. Baker Buffalo N. Y G. H. Harper Dayton Baker Ella Carsey Harper Bertha Carsey J. N. Carsey West Union Street Hallmark Mr. Covert Glouster News P. O Opera House Marguerite Clark Elizabeth. Allen Urbancrest Pennsylvania John Allen A. A W. E. Allen J. G. Allen Peoria Allen Canada Church of Christ John B. Dickson Bishopville A. M. Brown Beulah Mary Elizabeth Plains John Martin Frank Clark Elmore Illinois Hooper Ridge Mary Frances Covert Weybrecht Wiliam Gahris Shyrer Camp Sheridan Tenth Ohio Infantry Eighth Ohio Infantry 146Th Infantry Big City Preston Bischoff, Cinti, O Nelsongville P. S W. Union Street O. 8. Fier Bough and L. B. Bean de Luxe Lash
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