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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1918
Page
5
An advertisement offers an all leather foot appliance to support a misplaced bone and relieve foot ache. Mr. Benning, a trained foot expert, promises examination at no charge and claims service under SHOES THAT FIT in The Saturday Evening Post.
The fragmentary report from Athens Ohio notes a conflict involving a local group named The Seers and a pursuit of a route or pathway. Details are unreadable, but the piece signals a public or legal action connected to planning or governance in the city.
Social items report visits and travels of local residents and relatives. Fred Laughlin travels to Mari to visit a sister while F K Carpenter visits Albany, and Mrs. W W Robinson visits Athens. Mary Fulton plans Gallipolis weekend with Miss Helen Mauck. Charles McVickers party visits Columbus for the State Fair with Frieda Mae Carpenter. Mildred Mills Cox leaves for Akron for a week with her husband. Zella Foster arrives from Lima for a visit with E R Lash. John F Butts receives overseas arrival notice for Lieut Clarence R Butts of the Butchery Company 324 at Camp Jackson Florida. Bert Riley returns from Chicago with links to a munition factory chief, and reports thousands of soldiers leaving from the plant for South Carolina and the Coast.
Katherine and James Sisler of Piedmont visit Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Sisler in town. Mrs. Charles Mitchell and Mrs. Harry Mitchell with Charlies guest Nelsonville. Elma Starr returns from Columbus Yellow Springs Dayton Wright Field. Burch Rhoads of Camp Sherman Chillicothe visits Forest Harper. former B. and O. ticket agent. Lieutenant Oscar Fulton, Camp Meade, promoted to first lieutenant. Mrs. C. H. Harris and Esther visit Union County relatives. Ralph Williams travels with them. C. G. Tucker of McConnelsville visits Alice Cline family and relatives.
Mrs Edward Cullums and her son Edward Jr return to Crestline after visiting sister Mrs J L Edmundson and Mrs Carl Neff and other relatives. Miss Alice Henry departs for Warren to attend institute before beginning her new art department instructor post as public schools open in September.
Sheriff Lowry recovered two nearly new Fords stolen from Columbus and sold by How ard Brashear of Coolville for 400 dollars each. Lefty Russell and Harriet Turner identified the cars and returned them to owners Lou Humphrey and another near Coolville. Brashear remains jailed in Zanesville as authorities note he sold cars as new.
Henry Hazlett drew six dollars and costs and Arthur Blake drew ten dollars and costs before Mayor Woodworth today. Both were taken up on drunk charges by the police. The costs in each case amounted to one dollar.
Washington August 30 Hearings of the Senate Finance Committee on the revenue bill chaired by Simmons will be postponed due to delay in presentation to the House. A new date will be set after the committee determines when to begin.
Washington announces that all men aged 18 to 45 may be drafted under the new law and must determine their exact ages before registration. Provost Marshal General Crowder notes a near date for registration with possible days September 10 11 or 12 and warns noncompliance risks a misdemeanor and up to a year in prison.
United States Senator James Hamilton Lewis spoke at the American Luncheon Club in London denying rumors of an pending England America alliance and opposing most allied war aims while endorsing only general terms.
Washington reports jubilant prohibitionists as Congress backs a bone dry amendment to the food stimulation act. The Senate and House push a plan barring malt and spirituous liquors during the war with limited medical uses and sacramental exceptions, aiming to last until army mobilization and postwar periods.
A Petrograd dispatch reports Kiev’s population starving as a resolute struggle against White Guards continues, with a Moscow wire confirming the clash in the city.
Steam driven engines added to the Venice fire department equipment. Petroleum propelled motor boats now form part of the fleet, expanding the department's capacity for aquatic emergencies.
Washington reports the Anti-Saloon League plans a November 19 conference in Columbus to launch a world wide prohibition movement with prominent leaders from several countries. Wayne B. Wheeler calls the Columbus meeting one of the most momentous in history and says it follows passage of national war prohibition.
Private Charles A. Quritz of Scioto Ohio, serving at the base hospital, was sentenced to 26 years at Fort Leavenworth for disobeying an order to return to duty. American troops and French forces near Soissons repelled a German cavalry assault as they push toward St Quentin.
Vladivostok reports a large enemy attack along the Usauri line last Saturday with heavy losses. Allies including Japanese forces repelled the assault. Americans did not take part. The Japanese seized two armored trains and field guns as patrols later disarmed Russian volunteers who aligned with Horvath in eastern Siberia.
Canadian forces in France support a British drive in the Scrape river sector as Scottish troops report capturing three trenches of the Hindenburg system. Within two hours, the offensive effort brings the sector under Allied control. Among prisoners are several hundred Alsatians, with a German officer taunting Canadians to push to Berlin.
Reports from Berne state Czecho Slovak sailors on Austrian Adriatic vessels have revolted. Czech Deputy Soukup is said to have left Prague for Cattaro to defend the mutineers before a court martial.
Ex Governor Frank B Willis spoke to a large audience at the Coolville Camp meeting praising patriotism and supporting the President's conduct of the war. He urged unified support beyond party lines and noted the airplane affair as his sole criticism while highlighting his father's Civil War service.
American artillery pounds the Juvigny Chavigny sector with heavy fire squeezing Boche machine gun nests and cave entrances. Two German divisions face the American lines as patrols advance beyond the railway positions.
German troops battled about 1 200 Ukrainian peasants in Dymera district in a siege situation. Reinforcements arrived from Kiev aboard two steamers and the peasants, armed with ten machine guns, repelled the German attack. Heavy losses were reported on both sides.
London experts estimate German casualties in killed exceed two million and may approach three million after reviewing published tables of German and Allied losses.
In Helena the tally of 1,004 of 1,403 precincts showed Dr. O M Landstrum 16,566 votes to Misa Jeannette Rankin's 13,893 for the Republican nomination to United States Senate. Rankin's brother says she will run in November even if not renominated.
Cincinnati markets show receipts of 2,600 cattle with steady shipments, calves steady to $18.75, hogs 6,000 head strong to higher with good packers and butchers at $20, sheep 30 head steady with extras $11.60 to $11.75, lambs slow to lower with extra $17.76 to $18.00.
Commodities quoted for corn oats and pork futures with August September and October contracts. Corn at 1.64 and 1.56, oats in mid sixes and pork futures around 48.20 for September and 43.70 for October.
Gib and Guloy report closing prices for August 30 with Corn at 1.45 cash Oats at 0.70 cash Rye at 1.64 cash Clover Oct at 18.65 Dec at 18.50 Aleike Oct 15.45 Dec 1.56 Timothy 4.66 Sept 4.95 Oct and Dec 4.90.
Cattle receipts light at Pittsburg market with choice 17.26 to 18, good 16 to 17, fair 14 to 15, calves 18.60 to 19. Sheep and lambs receipts light with prime wethers 11.60 to 12.60, good 10 to 11, fair 9 to 12, lambs 10 to 17.50. Hoge receipts 20 cars, market lower. prime heavy 20 to 20.26, mediums 20.76 to 20.90, heavy workers 20.76 to 20.90, light workers 20.76 to 20.90, pigs 19.76 to 20, roughs 16.50 to 17.60, stock 1013.60.
Aug 30 hay prices show No 1 timothy in bales 26 dollars No 2 timothy 21 No 3 timothy 13 60 per 15 No 1 clover mixed 20 oats stray 9 rye straw 10 per ton or unit as listed
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