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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1918
Page
7
Havana reports President Mencal will send Pedro Osorio, secretary of the Cuban food administration, to Washington to negotiate with U.S. authorities. The goal is to arrange the purchase of shoes for resale in Cuba due to current excessive local prices.
Miss Annie Ehrie Pou daughter of Congressman Edward Pou of North Carolina will wed Thomas Anthony Wooden of Madison Wisconsin late this month. Pou is noted in congressional circles and has served as secretary to her father since her brother held the post before enlisting in the U S Navy.
Dr. B. D. Evans learned by telephone this dawn that his son, First Lieutenant Arthur Dr. Evans, of the Rainbow 11, is on a seven day furlough after a year away. He served in France with the 167th Infantry and British army corps, then joined the American army in the Toul sector. He entered the Chateau Thierry fight with 60 men, only 11 returned. The rest were killed, wounded, or missing.
Mrs. Margaret Gabriel of The Plains received a letter from her son Thomas Gabriel a machinist in the Aviation Corps in France. He describes travel across the ocean, long days, and early darkness, notes French kindness and language puzzles, and mentions being near a major French city in the wine belt. He reports high spirits and plans to play the Star Spangled Banner before a German palace while troops advance. He observes two wheeled carts and local work, urging hope for home.
Washington announces a government cap on new titles from October 1 directing publishers of trade books copyright reprints juvenile toy and non-copyright works to produce only 25 percent of the average annual new titles of the previous three years. The War Industries Board enforces the rule by restricting paper supplies with protests due by September 1. Exemptions include research books under subsidy and war service books for the U S or Allied governments.
In a France letter from John G. Frazier of Athens county, he says he is well with a touch of homesickness, enjoys rustic quarters in a French village, and is learning French. He mentions old stone buildings, a 1200 monastery, meals and band rehearsals, lost music but soon replaced, and hopes to reach Berlin after the big drive. He longs to be home.
Mrs. Jesse Collins of Trimble receives a note from her brother Private Henry Hahn in the American Expeditionary Forces in France. He writes he likes the country, enjoys a French teacher, and that he is well and gaining weight. He asks family not to worry and mentions seeing Carl who tended bar at Skinner's. He signs as Private Henry Kahn, Co A 325th Md G B N A P O 762 ABEF via New York.
A British textile engineering firm manager who invented a paper sack for potatoes received six months' exemption from army service. Germany has produced paper sacks for years.
Ohio Republicans at the state convention adopted a dry prohibition plank and endorsed the federal woman suffrage amendment. The platform pledges financial relief for cities and schools, supports old age pensions, workmen’s compensation expansion, a wartime victory, and a protective tariff while denouncing socialism. Mayor Harry L. Davis led a brief local fight securing city relief language.
A Reader letters column laments wage gains for coal miners followed by price hikes by grocers. The writer mocks the groceryman for profiting from higher miner wages, noting miners will share half with the government but resist sharing with shopkeepers. The piece closes with signature Paddy Chauncey, August 28, 1918.
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