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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1919
Page
8
Local updates list residents visiting relatives and attending events in Athens County. Wesley Baughman erects a silo with workmen Harvey Ms Austin and Balis aiding. Several locals and visitors travel between New Marshfield, Circle Hill, and Athens for family, business, and leisure.
The War Department asks Congress to authorize about 8 million dollars for new construction and for buying real estate at army camps to be kept as part of the peacetime organization. A separate note mentions an inventor's engine compression test gauge designed to screw into spark plug openings to test auto engine pressure.
Captain Merriman of the A F C lands after a skirmish and is prevented from taking off as a crowd of beautiful bathing girls surround and seize the seaplane’s pontoons. He politely asks them to step aside so he can resume his flight at Blackpool England.
Gilley buys Cincinnati business and will serve old customers by mail. Maple Hill mine resumes coal output after weeks idle. Athens County residents discuss farming fish ponds as a low cost food source. A revenue inspector visits Sugar Creek to lecture on federal tax laws. Ice cream at eleven cents and stamps ordered for medicine bottles. Visits by Mrs. Molly Penner and Mrs. Molly Bruce. family ties renewed after nineteen years. Florence Evaline Bruce marks her first birthday with family at Sugar Creek.
Charles M. Ball contests Fred Hafer for mayoral council president in Canton Ohio alleging in one precinct Hafer received 38 votes while only 36 Republican ballots were cast. A stray, nonpolitical note about a dog muzzle follows the item.
American Poles clashed with German troops in two engagements at Sessnitz in Silesia last Saturday. Four Germans were killed and eight wounded. one American in General Haller's force was wounded. Sniping aerial bombing and machine gunfire continued along the Silesian Polish frontier.
The community mourns the death of Mrs. John Glass on August 21 with funeral services at Hebbardsville and burial in the adjoining cemetery. Family and friends, including Gladwin French and Oberholzer, Hooper and Carbaugh relatives, plus local residents, share visits and greetings at various homes. Uncle Jeff Robinson has been ill, and Budd Hibbs of Grafton, West Virginia, is visiting local friends this week.
Misses Winnie and Anna Martin and Mrs Aristien Carbaugh attended the teachers institute at Athens last week with Mrs Fred Oberholzer also mentioned among attendees.
Mrs Ralph Burdette and children visit C E Burdette family in Albany. Alfred Haning spent Sunday in Columbus with sister in law Mrs Theodore Heffken who had an appendicitis operation at Grant Hospital and is improving. J W McDaniel and children of Hoopers Ridge were guests of Celia Simons and family. Miss Garnett Daniels and Carrie Smith from O U visited home. Leona Lemoine of Taylor Ridge stayed with sister Mrs Harry Leake. Several from here attended the Ath.
John Lestock received an honorable discharge after overseas service and returned home Sunday. Miss Bessie Leake visited Glouster on Tuesday with Mrs. W. J. Kinney. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Daft, formerly of the area now in Peoria Ohio, greeted friends Monday. Mrs. Paul Haning and companions visited Columbus Monday and the Grant Hospital with Mrs. Theodore Heffken. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leake hosted a supper Monday for Garnett Ada and Ray Leake, J. C. Daft of Peoria Ohio.
An ice cream social will be held at Hebbardsville Presbyterian Church on August 30 1919 with all residents invited to attend.
In a Baltimore legal report the German execution of Edith Cavell is described as in accord with so called civilized warfare. A minority report urges abolition of the death penalty for women convicted under military law, with support from Judge Wm. P. Bynum.
Mediation stalled as 100000 union carpenters and construction workers refuse federal arbiter offers. Carpenters demand $1 an hour, while employers proposed 92 1/2 cents. The standstill follows the night vote rejecting the proposals.
Revival services begin Friday at 7 30 pm at the Apostolic Holiness church corner West Washington and Congress streets with Rev R A Shank and wife from Cincinnati leading songs and Rev Bona Fleming of Ashland Kentucky preaching. Athens residents invited.
Washington August 28 the senate today passed the Gore resolution providing for an investigation of the war risk insurance bureau.
Lucas county prosecutor expects to file in appellate court for the right to seize 351000 pounds of green pork stored in Toledo charged to the Cleveland branch of Swift and Company. If seized, the meat would be sold under court orders.
The Athens Home Defense League condemns the gas companys push for higher prices under the banner of conservation. It argues the plan shifts costs to consumers, overstates coal and gas costs, and risks limiting gas to the affluent, urging fair pricing and public interest in Athens.
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